T.J.

Element of Crime
Children of Men
In the Mood for Love
Funny Games
The Believer
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Thin Red Line
American Psycho
All the Real Girls
Man Bites Dog
Adam

Waking Life
Cinema Paradiso
Before Sunrise
Thin Red Line
Fourth World War
Seventh Seal
Gleaners and I
Dead Man
The Dancer Upstairs
The Cruise

Grant

Underground
All Over Me
Days of Heaven
Three Colors Trilogy (Blue, WhiteRed)
Spaceballs
Dead Man's Shoes
Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Lovers of the Arctic Circle
All the real girls
Cobra Verde

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

4 Year Bash Evening Intermission a la Frank's Pizza

If your looking for the ticket prebuy info, or afternoon film trailer, check out the last blog entry.

The evening program's intermission will be catered by Frank's Pizza. (www.frankspizzadm.com)

Food is included in price of evening/package ticket.
Vegetarian pizza will be an option!

We'd also like to thank Markey's Audio for presenting the afternoon film via their lcd projector equipment.

Saturday, November 10, 2007

UPDATED: Salton sea trailer and shirt preview

UPDATE:

THOSE WHO PREBUY

4 Year Anniversary Bash Tickets

Will be entered in a drawing to win

1st Prize
A copy of Criterion's 2-disc set of
Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused

2nd Prize
Wes Anderson's Royal Tenenbaums from Criterion

3rd Prize
Poster for Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times courtesy of Kino
$10 Mar's Cafe Giftcard

Winners will be announced at the event.

This is only a taste of the giveaways we'll hand out at the bash.

For full details on the 4 year bash, please refer to our website or the profile of our myspace page.



Trailer and praise for our Afternoon film.



"A Heartbreaking, sidesplitting parade of humanity"
-The Village Voice

"A funny and pognant new documentary"
-San Francisco Chronicle

"A hilarious and kindly ode to a fallen paradise"
-SF Weekly

"I don't know whether to laugh or cry. A must see."
-Kansas City Star
***

This is one of the UNUSED shirt sketches by our friend David Nietzke just to give you a taste, we weren't sure if everyone would get the 'Seven' reference here, but we didn't want it to go to waste. The idea we went with is great, and will be worth wearing.


Thursday, November 01, 2007

BPE turns 4! All day Bash! Tickets at BPE Now.

What: We turn 4 with 2 films, 2 bands, 1 director, a mess of giveaways, and all day festivities
When: Saturday Dec 08, 2007
at 4:00 PM and 8 PM depending on program
Where: The Varsity & Vaudeville Mews
25th and University (varsity) & 212 4th St (Mews)
Des Moines, IA 50311
United States

Click Here To View Event

BestPlaceEver turns 4!

Saturday, December 8th



An all day event of fun and film.





Over $1,000 in giveaways courtesy of Criterion, Zeitgeist, and Kino films.
Different giveaways at each event, so come to both!!!!


Afternoon Program @ The Varsity Theatre -- (map)



4 PM - "Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea"
+followed by Q and A w/director Chris Metzler

Narrated by John Waters, an epic western tale of fantastic real estate ventures and failed boomtowns, inner-city gangs fleeing to white small town America, Hair-raising and hilarious, part history lesson, part cautionary tale and part portrait of one of the strangest communities you've ever seen, this is the American Dream gone as stinky as a dead carp.


Evening Program @
The Vaudeville Mews

8 PM

Bands
The Autumn Project
Oh Possum


Intermission w/locally catered food



At Midnight - The Infamous, the one of a kind viewing experience, Battle ROYALE!!!!!!!!


Tickets available as a package deal or separately for each program.

Available from BestPlaceEver NOW!!

Tickets, particularly for the evening program or package deal SHOULD be bought prior to event so we know how much food to get (vegetarian option will be provided).


Courtesy of BATTLESHIP
POTEMKIN: TWO-DVD ULTIMATE EDITION
, Criterion, Zeitgeist
films, and Mars Cafe.


Plus a commemorative T-shirt sold only at this event designed by local artist David Neitzke.