Drag City and the Music Box are crossing streams for a one night only screening of Dragonslayer, the award winning documentary from director Tristan Patterson and executive producer Christine Vachon. That’s a whole lotta trouble makers right there. But we couldn’t just slap a couple of moving images on the wall and be like, “Hey! Show up to this shit#!†So we’re gonna make an event of it: On January 18th the folks at Rodan in Wicker Park are letting us squat their place and throw a party from 7-10pm with some semi-talented people making music while we preview the film. Then the night of the screening Bitchin’ Bajas will perform with visual artist Olivia Wyatt as people gather in their seats. The organ player reduced to dust! Plus, since the dee-slayer is a certain shade of rock and roll, Mayor Daley will jam some tunes before the curtain opens on what may very well be the best documentary about skateboarding or the suburbs ever. To add just one more thing to make this event unforgettable, the director of the film, Tristan Patterson, will be answering questions via Skype after the movie is over!Directed by Tristan Patterson and executive produced by indie-maverick Christine Vachon (Boys Don’t Cry, Storytelling) Dragonslayer is the Grand Jury Prize Winner for Best Documentary at SXSW 2011 and the second feature film to be released theatrically by Drag City Film Distribution following Harmony Korine’s Trash Humpers. An intimate vérité portrait of the life and times of Josh “Skreech†Sandoval, a 23-year-old skate legend from the stagnant suburbs of Fullerton California, Dragonslayer takes the viewer through a golden SoCal haze of lost youth, broken homes and abandoned swimming pools, set to a soundtrack of Best Coast, Bipolar Bear, Children, Dungen, Jacuzzi Boys, Little Girls and The Soft Pack – as well as Death and Thee Oh Sees.
We’ll be selling tickets for the screening at Rodan and they’ll be available on the Music Box website for all to click through. If you wanna get down, email or call us and we can wax the cafeteria tables together.
“Alternately dreamy and abrasive, Dragonslayer is a submersion in an endless summer subculture…Patterson’s one-of-a-kind hybrid captures a socio-historical moment with the kind of charged authenticity that only comes from a willingness to embrace contradictions: It’s discursive and hypnotic, laconic and urgent.†– Karina Longworth, Village Voice
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 “Dragonslayer is the Donnie Darko of documentaries: cogent and atmospheric, charismatic and elliptical, shot with a beery, stale amber warmth.†– Paper Mag
“The measured vérité style of Frederick Wiseman meets the visual polish of Terrence Malick… Departing from the conventions of documentary portraiture, “Dragonslayer†delivers the cinematic equivalent of punk rock candy.†– Eric Kohn, indieWIRE
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 “Artists abound on all sides of the camera, painting on an incredibly intimate scale… I defy you to not end up wishing our film diet could be populated by other reciprocal minstrels and artists with the restraint, discipline, observation, and heart of Patterson.†– Ted Hope, HopeForFilm
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“A portrait of a generation swooping brilliantly through an empty swimming pool.â€
—The Boston Globe
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“There’s a high probability that it will be one of the most talked about documentaries of the year, like last year’s Catfish or Exit Through the Gift Shop… It’s much like The Wrestler only this is real life…Dragonslayer is practically flawless.â€Â —The Playlist
WATCH THE TRAILER:Â http://vimeo.com/27760664
Read the feature in THE NEW YORK TIMES:Â http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/movies/tristan- patterson-directs-pool- skating-film-dragonslayer.html
Read the feature in THE NEW YORK TIMES:Â http://www.nytimes.com/
LINK TO OFFICIAL DRAGONSLAYER WEBSITE:Â http://www.dragonslayermovie.com/
DRAG CITY:Â http://www.dragcity.com/artists/dragonslayerhttp:// www.dragcity.com/artists/ dragonslayer
MUSIC BOX THEATER:Â http://www.musicboxtheatre.com/
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