Free Members-Only Screening: TRAILER TRASH: SPY-FI

Trailer Trash: Spy-Fi

 

“THE BEST PARTS FROM ALL YOUR FAVOURITE SPY MOVIES.”

 

Join us April 16 at 9:30pm for the return of our FREE bi-monthly Members Only screening series TRAILER TRASH – curated by Revue Cinema’s in-house trailer editor, NATHAN BOONE. With special guest NATHALIE ATKINSON, culture journalist and Designing the Movies programmer.

 

It’s a 90-minute throwback spy movie trailer marathon – stuffed with all the SUAVE OPERATIVES, MYSTERIOUS VAMPS, DASTARDLY VILLAINS, SECRET LAIRS, GADGETRY, FALSE IDENTITIES, SABOTEURS, INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE, ELABORATE STUNTS, ENEMY AGENTS, CLOSE QUARTERS COMBAT, COVERT OPERATIVES, HIGH STAKES POKER, DUPLICITOUS DOUBLE-CROSSES AND SHAKEN MARTINIS you can handle!!

 

“Do you expect me to talk?”

“No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!”

 

From prestige pictures, paranoid political conspiracy and sleaze-soaked grindhouse to Bond classics, camp B-movies and comedic spy-fi that veers into parody—plus actual spy spoofs. Featuring more than 30 x 35mm scans of espionage-themed trailers + snipes, commercials, documentary shorts, and a classic 10-minute intermission.

 

Discover new movies to add to your watch list – or maybe even see at future Revue Cinema screenings! Full trailer list will be released on LETTERBOXD after the event.

 

Thursday April 16 at 9:30PM!

One night only – never to be screened again.

 

WE’VE GOT PRIZES!

We’ll also be giving away vintage 35mm trailers as prizes – generously donated by Denis-Carl Robidoux! https://www.youtube.com/@GugusseRoller check out his channel where you’ll be able to see an HD scan of the trailer you win!

 

WE’VE GOT MERCH!

Trailer Trash T-shirts + other new merch available for purchase at the event.

 

DOORS/PRE-SHOW AT 9:00PM

SHOW STARTS AT 9:30PM

Part A – 45 minutes

Intermission (10 minutes)

Part B – 45 minutes

Sponsored by CONTINUE

 

MEMBERS ONLY!

It’s the event that feels more like an extended pre-show after-party than a regular screening. Mingle and meet other Revue members at this informal, low-light exclusive hangout—lightly chat, take photos, get up and circulate. That’s right: Trailer Trash is the only Revue event where taking photos and quietly chatter during the movie is allowed!

 

 *In order to claim a FREE TICKET, you must be a current Revue Cinema Member (Loyalty, Individual or Family Cardholder). Remember to register for your free ticket with the name and email address you used when you signed up for your membership! Memberships will be checked at the door.

 

A BRIEF HISTORY OF SPY MOVIES!

Spy movies reflect their times. The earliest silent and talkies are rife with shadow games and World War I anxiety about moles and infiltration. By World War II and its aftermath it’s even darker, more realistic geopolitical tensions and noirish paranoid Cold War intrigue.

 

But the spy genre really came into its own in the 1960s. Since the 1962 premiere of Dr. No, Jamed Bond’s titillating, globe-trotting, action packed fantasies have been a pillar of the spy canon—an entertaining lifestyle manual of taste, manners, gadgetry, and vicarious exotic travel. It’s a boom that emerged from the wartime propaganda machine and rides the momentum of postwar consumerism, complete with acronymous organizations, real and imagined—the CIA, FBI, IMG, MI6, UNCLE, THEM and CONTROL. As the decade progresses espionage fare evolve to reflect the changing preoccupations, class tensions and racial unrest of a generation emerging from the Civil Rights era. The genre splinters into 007 copycats, cerebral intelligence thrillers and hybrid action movies with often ridiculous plots and aesthetics that blend espionage tropes with exploitation, martial arts and over-the-top violence, even space travel. Paranoid conspiracy especially thrives—one provocative 1970s spy movie was so politically radical that, under pressure from the FBI, the studio withdrew it from theatres.

 

In the waning years of the Cold War the genre gets sombre again, with the gritty realism of John le Carré adaptations. After the Berlin Wall comes down you can practically hear the espionage movie collectively exhale in relief. Which leads us into the Nineties and Naughts explosion of ironic remakes and tongue-in-cheek parodies nostalgic for the genre’s Sixties heyday. Shagadelic, baby! – Nathalie Atkinson