Weird Wednesday: SCHOOL DAYS

Rated R; 88min; Director:Michele Massimo Tarantini (1976)

Location: Alamo Downtown

SCHOOL DAYS
JUNE 24, MIDNIGHT, $1, DIR. M.M. TARANTINI, 1976, 35MM, 88 MIN, R
No bones about it. This Italian sexy schoolteacher farce is a stupid, stupid movie. The working-class Genovese and Milanese audiences this film and others of its type were aimed at were none too progressive or literate. But they loved going to the movies. So producers eagerly turned out dozens of these sexy schoolteacher/policewoman/widow comedies, all of which starred ludicrously attractive actresses who weren't all that particular about wearing clothes. The humor is of a very low type - a fart joke represents the pinnacle of sophistication in this world. But if you can turn off your mind (we can help you with this, by the way) and try to enjoy these movies on the level they were intended, you'll find your mood elevated even as your IQ is plunging. Starring brunette heartbreaker Lilli Carati as the pulse-quickening substitute teacher who dramatically lowers truancy rates. When this was released in the U.S. it tried to ride the coat-tails of the popular WELCOME BACK KOTTER TV series with the tagline "She's Hotter than Kotter - and We've Got Her!" (Lars)

Make it a Euro-Sex Double Feature: at 9:45pm we'll be showing Christina Lindberg in SWINGING COEDS as a benefit for Sinsations. Get your $2 tickets for that showing here.