The Ill Repute
Quirky rocker's bar with surf/Mexico on the mind!
The Ill Repute's a quirky rocker's bar making a name for itself in Old Market. With a unique music policy of rockabilly / surf / 2tone / garage rock from resident DJs and live bands, the 50s appropriate tiki-style decor's the perfect environment to enjoy some of the best Mexican food in town.
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Free entry! The switchboard’s lighting up and some breathy downtown weirdo wants to meet you RIGHT NOW. Nelson Lyon’s only feature The Telephone Book is a smutty, psychedelic crawl through early 70s New York where a phone-sex obsessed hippie searches for a faceless stranger through psychedelic delirium. Too arty for porno theatres, too grubby for arthouses, this one’s a true dirtbag original!
Biweekly screenings of cult films and cinematic oddities at The Ill Repute
Free entry! The title alone should be enough to get you to this softcore space oddity from master of sexploitation kitsch Doris Wishman. Nude on the Moon tells the (extremely loose) story of a pair of spacefaring scientists who stumble across a lunar community of naked telepathic aliens – absurd boob-packed shenanigans ensue. Artemis II could never!
Biweekly screenings of cult films and cinematic oddities at The Ill Repute
Free entry! The Gregg Araki revival continues with the first in his audacious Teenage Apocalypse trilogy. Totally F***ed Up is his arthouse imagining of a ‘queer John Hughes flick’, flipping 80s teen films tropes into a groundbreaking DIY portrait of adolescent alienation, makeshift-family dynamics, and the looming shadow of the AIDS crisis, charted through a patchwork of raw to-camera confessionals.
Biweekly screenings of cult films and cinematic oddities at The Ill Repute
Free entry! Must-watch revisionist western, initially reviled for its proto-feminist leads and OTT style that didn't fit anywhere in the studio genre rulebooks. Now bursting out of cult status with its histrionic script, lurid colours and a truly twisted Joan Crawford, Johnny Guitar easily stands as one of the most distinctive cowboy flicks of the 50s.
Biweekly screenings of classic Westerns at The Ill Repute
'Ever drive a hearse, Harold?' Life affirming, faintly horrifying, and initially brutally panned 70s black comedy Harold & Maude screens at The Ill Repute as blessed angels of the cozzie livs Be Kind Rewind continue to churn out a sickening line-up of free entry cult classics.
Biweekly screenings of cult films and cinematic oddities at The Ill Repute