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After Sunset
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 (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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| Nearly 63 years after its conception, the drive-in theater stands as one of America's Iast great icons. lt represents an entire era of American culture ranging from the space race and the automobiIe to the emergence of the teenage and movies Iike Beach Blanket Bingo. But now, in the age of the muItipIex and bottIed water, the drive-in theater is nearly gone... it's a dinosaur. With hopes of better understanding the past, filmmaker Jon Bokenkamp Ieads his ragtag crew across the American West. Using drive-in theaters as their map, these four young men search for a simpler time. Talking to those who buiIt and lived the drive-in theater, they give a true picture of what the era of the outdoor theater was aII about. Whether you have ever been to a drive-in or not, stiIl frequent a remaining one, or simpIy recaII with fondness those starry nights of popcorn and two-bit love, you'll find After Sunset to be a unique new fiIm about one of the great icons of 20th-century ! America. Featuring interviews with director John Carpenter, author MichaeI WaIIis, HoIIywood movie mogul SamueI Z. Arkoff (producer of Beach BIanket Bingo), and satirist and sociaI critic John Bloom (aka Joe Bob Briggs)."A wonderfuI evocation of a distinct piece of Americana." - Leonard Maltin, fiIm critic |
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