Americatown

http://vimeo.com/7654273

NYC Theatrical Premiere, One Week Only!

AMERICATOWN is an inventive, energetic, unapologetically absurd new comedy from filmmaker Kenneth Price and the UCB-trained comic troupe known as the Superkiiids! (Jonathan Guggenheim and Cory Howard). The Best Feature Winner at the 2010 Atlanta Underground Film Festival makes its New York theatrical premiere with a week-long run, January 7 - 13.

Godspeed, and welcome to Americatown, home to Head Mountain, Letter Sign on the Hill, and Giant Gap in Earth. Celebrated for locally made aboveground cars, an almost infinite variety of breakfast cereals and unbridled, bald-faced greatness, this little burg of exactly 1,000 citizens is the only place worthy of you. That is, until a single spilled cup of coffee sets off a cataclysmic chain of events destined to test the town's gumption. Can the Americatonians pull together and weather the madness, or are they fated to crumble like so many tiny empires before it?

For their second feature, the Superkiiids! took just two thousand bone-doggies, four folks and a minivan to explore and exploit the fruited plains, purple mountains, mythology and culture (pop and otherwise) of the United States of America, vision-questing into existence its microcosmic, hyper-realistic stepbrother heretofore known as Americatown! Land of the free-radicools, home of the bad-to-the-bone... Get on the bus.

Also screening during the run is Kenneth Price's hilariously caffeinated 2008 debut, LIGHTNING SALAD MOVING PICTURE, a Superkiiids! origin story (of sorts) in which the boys are woken up each morning by groundbreaking filmmaker Robert Zemeckis to be briefed of their daily assignment. Today's mission? Write, direct, produce, cater and possibly star in Part IV of the epic $400 Billionmillion worldwide U.S. grossing, global-networking, time-shredding franchise of the BACK TO THE FUTURE films. Will they defy steam engines, budding romances, classically trained villains and Meankiiid's 'tude in order to create their life's work for the day?

78 minutes. In English. Presented in Blu-ray. Unrated.

AMERICATOWN Screenings: FRI 1/7 (7pm), SAT 1/8 (10pm), SUN 1/9 (7pm), MON 1/10 (10pm), TUE 1/11 (10pm), WED 1/12 (7pm), THU 1/13 (7pm, 10pm)

*** COME EARLY FOR LIQUOR & SNACKS!  Last call 5 minutes before showtime

*** SPECIAL GUESTS + Q&As at all screenings Jan 7 - 9

*** 2-FOR-1 DOUBLE FEATURES on Jan 7 - 9!  Come to the 7pm show, stay for the 10pm screening FREE (seats permitting)

"Manic comedic brainstorming! This mash-up of pop culture, tourist-shop Americana, and national mythology has the feel of an absurdist basement tape, or a children's TV show, as the comedians take a virtual road trip through a landscape of their own quirky imagining."
- Steve Dollar, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 

"Sometimes sublime, sometimes slapstick, sometimes puzzling but never dull. In the joy they take in performing, and the effortless way that they create gags out of physical comedy and the cinematic medium itself, they show the spirit... of Buster Keaton."
- David Fellerath, INDY WEEK

"I think I've found my favorite new American surrealist comedians in the team of writer/director Kenneth Price and writer/performers Cory Howard and Jonathan Guggenheim."
- Michael Tully, HAMMER TO NAIL

"Jaunty! An utterly different take on the American fantasy."
- Hank Sartin, TIME OUT CHICAGO

What's on Tap at reRun?

Jan. 14 - 20
BREAKING AND ENTERING

Jan. 17 @ 4pm
"Four Accordions and a Frog"
($5 benefit screening + live performance by the all-female, all-accordion Main Squeeze Orchestra) 

Jan. 21 - 27
GABI ON THE ROOF IN JULY

Jan. 24 @ 10pm
SANTA SANGRE
(Alejandro Jodorowsky's cult classic, FREE Blu-ray sneak preview courtesy of Severin Films)

Jan. 28 - Feb. 3
BLACKMAIL BOYS