The second annual Art House Theater Day features exclusive films shown in 150 of the best independent, local theaters across the country.
We have access to a re-release of the classic documentary TITICUT FOLLIES (1967), followed by an exclusive interview by Wes Anderson with the film’s director, Frederick Wiseman.
The Underground Cinema is, at its core, a community theater and was built by volunteers. Because that’s who we are, Art House Theater Day will include a little sprucing up! We are having a cleanup day where we do a little painting and light fixer-upper work like hanging stuff on the walls, etc. If you sign up to volunteer, there is no need to purchase a ticket, but if you are unable to volunteer, we welcome you to come and enjoy the film anyway.
TITICUT FOLLIES is a stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts. TITICUT FOLLIES documents the various ways the inmates are treated by the guards, social workers and psychiatrists.
“TITICUT FOLLIES is a documentary film that tells you more than you could possibly want to know — but no more than you should know — about life behind the walls of one of those institutions where we file and forget the criminal insane… A society’s treatment of the least of its citizens — and surely these are the least of ours — is perhaps the best measure of its civilization. The repulsive reality revealed in TITICUT FOLLIES forces us to contemplate our capacity for callousness.” –Richard Schickel, Life