Let’s Go BOOM! on August 22
Join us for an exclusive showing of Boom! with an introduction by Festival Curator, David Kaplan. Enjoy the film as part of our 18th Season: Tennessee Williams Science Fiction and Fantasy.
BOOM!
Tuesday, August 22
11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Waters Edge Cinema 237 - Commercial Street – Provincetown
Tickets are $25 and include a reception with sandwiches and cookies provided by Far Land Provisions. Thanks also to the Provincetown Film Society and Waters Edge Cinema who are co-sponsoring this unique event.
Lazy, smug, willfully ignorant American critics reduced what Tennessee Williams wrote to psychology or concern for the oppressed.
Let’s take Williams at his word: in Boom!, Elizabeth Taylor IS a goddess, Noel Coward IS a vampire, Richard Burton IS the Angel of Death. None of this is symbolism: the film is a visionary myth, part of Williams’ lifelong effort to share a fantasy. The Festival’s entire September season of Sci-Fi Fantasy plays and stories by Williams is coded into this movie with beauty, with camp wit, and with courage. A vampire! A werewolf! The Angel of Death! A baby buggy from Mars! If the movie had come from Fellini it would have been acclaimed. Critics expecting the same old same old from a Williams film were angry at Boom!. Let’s enjoy it.
