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Tonight! John Landis in the House with Richard Crouse |
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 There are still tickets at the door!! Celebrated filmmaker and reconteur John Landis joins Richard Crouse for an exclusive discussion and a special quote-along screening of The Blues Brothers!
Saturday, February 4 • 7:00 PM • Vic Theatre - Buy Tickets Now!
John Landis
Director, screenwriter, actor. Born on August 3, 1950, in Chicago, Illinois. A successful director, John Landis is best known for his comedies, that include National Lampoon’s Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Trading Places, the horror film An American Werewolf in London, and his most recent black comedy Burke and Hare. Landis also directed Michael Jackson’s Thriller video.
From a beginning in the mailroom at Twentieth Century Fox, he worked in Europe most notably on Kelly’s Heroes, a World War II comedy starring Clint Eastwood, Don Rickles, and Telly Savalas. An admirer of John Ford and Billy Wilder, Landis wanted to become a director. His first effort was the 1973 horror comedy Schlock, that he wrote, directed, and acted in.
Landis has created some of the most iconic films of our times and for that we celebrate his achievements.
 Richard Crouse is the regular film critic for CTV’s Canada AM and the 24 hour news source CTV News Channel. In 2011 he hosted In Short, a series of eight hour long show showcasing BravoFact’s best short films. He was the host of Reel to Real, Canada’s longest running television show about movies, from 1998 to 2008 and is a frequent guest on many national Canadian radio and television shows. His syndicated Saturday afternoon radio show, Entertainment Extra, originates on News Talk 1010 in Toronto. He is also the author of six books on pop culture history including Who Wrote the Book of Love, the best-selling The 100 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, its sequel The Son of the 100 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen and the upcoming Raising Hell: Ken Russell and the Unmaking of The Devils. He also writes two weekly columns for Metro newspaper.
Following the interview with John Landis, VFF presents: Quote-Along Blues Brothers. Get your best Jake and Elwood looks together it’s time for your “mission from God”.
 The Blues Brothers
Director: John Landis
USA • 1980 • 133 min
Expanding on their Saturday Night Live characters, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd star as Jake and Elwood Blues, two white boys with black soul. Sporting cool shades and look-alike suits, Jake and Elwood are dispatched on a “mission from God” by their former teacher, Sister Mary Stigmata (Kathleen Freeman).
Said mission is to raise $5000 to save an orphanage. In the course of their zany adventures, the Blues Brothers run afoul of neo-Nazi Henry Gibson, perform the theme from Rawhide before the most unruly bar crowd in written history, and lay waste to hundreds of cars on the streets and freeways of Chicago.
In case you aren’t swept up in the infectious nuttiness of the brothers Blue, you might have fun spotting film’s legion of guest stars, including James Brown, Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, John Candy, Carrie Fisher, Steve Lawrence, Twiggy, Paul Reubens (aka Pee- Wee Herman), Frank Oz, and Steven Spielberg.
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