5/1 May Day Essential Cinema: Inglorious Basterds

Get ready for some righteous revenge. Join us on Friday, May 1st at the historic Eureka Theater for a special edition of our Essential Cinema series. We are celebrating the labor holiday of May Day with a big screen presentation of Quentin Tarantino’s explosive WWII revenge fantasy, Inglourious Basterds. This is your chance to see Brad Pitt as Lt. Aldo Raine, the Tennessee-born leader of a Jewish-American squad of Nazi hunters known as the “Basterds.” He scalps, he carves swastikas, and he delivers the line “I think this just might be my masterpiece.” Meanwhile, a young Jewish cinema owner named Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) plots her own fiery vengeance. It is tense, it is violent, it is darkly funny, and it demands to be seen on the biggest screen possible. Part of our Essential Cinema series. Because some films are not just movies. They are experiences that demand a crowd, a dark theater, and a big screen. Doors Open at 7:00 PM Film Starts at 7:30 PM Tickets: $10 adults/$5 chioldren 12 and under About the Film In Nazi-occupied France, a young Jewish refugee watches her family executed by Colonel Hans Landa, the infamously cruel “Jew Hunter.” Years later, she runs a cinema and gets a second chance at revenge when the Nazi high command attends a premiere at her theater. At the same time, a squad of Jewish-American soldiers plans to do the same thing from the outside. Their paths collide in a bloody, cathartic, history-rewriting finale.   Come for the Basterds. Stay for the solidarity. Sponsored by The Building and Construction Trades Council of Humboldt and Del Norte Counties, Humboldt-Del Norte Central Labor Council, Humboldt County Democrats, Redwood Coast Energy Authority, and KEET TV.