[FoRK] Adam Rifkin in Person! Live in LA 4/24 :)

[Rohit Khare]

http://www.americancinematheque.com/archive1999/2008/Aero/ 
OneNightEvents_March_April_2008.htm#DARK%20BACKWARD

Thursday, April 24 – 7:30 PM

Adam Rifkin In-Person! Double Feature:

THE DARK BACKWARD, 1991, New Line Cinema, 101 min. Dir. Adam Rifkin.  
Judd Nelson and Bill Paxton head up an eclectic cast (it also  
includes Rob Lowe, Wayne Newton, and James Caan) in this offbeat cult  
favorite. Nelson is Marty Malt, a garbage man who dreams of becoming  
the next Jay Leno; the only problem is, his very strange buddy  
(Paxton) is the only person who finds his jokes funny. When Marty  
grows an arm on his back, however, the new appendage works its way  
into his act and brings him a strange sort of comic success.

DETROIT ROCK CITY, 1999, New Line Cinema, 95 min. Adam Rifkin pays  
tribute to the teenage love of rock and roll in this ode to Kiss, the  
1970's, and ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL. Edward Furlong heads up a  
group of four boys who get more and more desperate to see their  
favorite band in concert every time someone or something tries to  
stop them. As they attempt to get to a Kiss show, they undergo  
various rites of passage, all to the tune of a killer rock  
soundtrack. Discussion in between films with director Adam Rifkin and  
Bill Paxton.