January 7 only
"Before ‘Quadrophenia,’ The Jam, Or The Sex Pistols There Was ‘Bronco Bullfrog" - Sasha Frere-Jones, Observer
Writer/ Director: Barney Platt-Mills
Cast: Del Walker, Anne Gooding, Sam Shephard
With appearance and introduction by Sasha Frere Jones.
Seventeen year old Del, with no money and nowhere to go, breaks into train cars with his cool, fresh out of borstal (reform school) pal Bronco Bullfrog. But one day he meets the lovely Irene, and despite an earful from his dad (and her mum), the two young lovers run away together… but to where?
Shot in London’s East End in 1969, cast with Doc Marten wearing “suedehead” locals, and set to a dynamic soundtrack by early 70s art rock band Audience, Bronco Bullfrog has been compared to the work of Mike Leigh and Ken Loach, but with a punk rock spirit. After a minuscule American release following its Edinburgh and Cannes premieres, this “lost gem” (Time Out) returns over 50 years later as a cult landmark of two teens in love, in black and white and cockney—with subtitles.
Tickets: $16 / Members $14
1hr 26 mins / NR
Sasha Frere-Jones is an American writer, music critic, and musician. His work has appeared in Slant, The New York Post, The Wire, The Village Voice, Slate, Spin, and The New York Times, and he was on the staff of The New Yorker from 2004 to 2015.
A raw and sensitive drama about working-class London teens facing formidable walls of social exclusion." -The New Yorker