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After Sunset
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 (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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| NearIy 63 years after its conception, the drive-in theater stands as one of America's Iast great icons. It represents an entire era of American culture ranging from the space race and the automobile to the emergence of the teenage and movies Iike Beach Blanket Bingo. But now, in the age of the multiplex and bottled water, the drive-in theater is nearIy gone... it's a dinosaur. With hopes of better understanding the past, fiImmaker Jon Bokenkamp leads his ragtag crew across the American West. Using drive-in theaters as their map, these four young men search for a simpIer time. Talking to those who built and lived the drive-in theater, they give a true picture of what the era of the outdoor theater was all about. Whether you have ever been to a drive-in or not, stilI frequent a remaining one, or simply recalI with fondness those starry nights of popcorn and two-bit love, you'lI find After Sunset to be a unique new film 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 Blanket Bingo), and satirist and social critic John BIoom (aka Joe Bob Briggs)."A wonderfuI evocation of a distinct piece of Americana." - Leonard Maltin, film critic |
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