#Monster Monday! Godzilla (2021 Restoration) 67th Anniversary Screening

#Monster Monday! Godzilla (2021 Restoration) 67th Anniversary Screening

6:30pm - Monday, Nov 29, 2021

This November, Janus Films and Japan's Toho International Inc. joined forces to celebrate the 67th Anniversary of the iconic franchise by presenting the world with a beautifully remastered, 4K restoration of director Ishirō Honda's original 1954 Kaiju classic GODZILLA (a.k.a. "Gojira").

GODZILLA is the undisputed roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It’s also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama, made in Japan at a time when the country was reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing in the Pacific. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire population’s fears, became a beloved international icon of destruction, spawning almost thirty sequels.
One of the longest-running series in film history began with Honda's grim, black-and-white allegory for the devastation wrought on Japan by the atomic bomb. As his visual metaphor, Honda uses a 400-foot-tall mutant dinosaur called Gojira, awakened from the depths of the sea as a rampaging nuclear nightmare, complete with glowing dorsal fins and fiery, radioactive breath. Crushing ships, villages, and buildings in his wake, Gojira marches toward Tokyo, bringing all of the country's worst nightmares back until an evil more terrible bomb -- capable of sucking all the oxygen from the sea -- returns the monster to its watery grave. The original 1954 film is chilling, despite some rather unconvincing man-in-a-suit special effects, and brimming with explicitly stated anti-American sentiment.

"Seen afresh in this cut, with Honda's pulp poetry restored, this ballad of destruction reveals itself as one of the most exciting, enjoyable and moving of them all." (Time Out)

#MonsterMonday, November 29
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm *Start time subject to change.
Advance tickets $15 | $15 at the door

GODZILLA "Gojira" (Ishiro Honda, 1954 / 96 mins / PG / Japanese with English subtitles) When a seemingly indestructible fire-breathing monster is created as a result of the testing of American nuclear weapons, the government takes help from a reclusive scientist to kill the monster.

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