Brown Class Cinema

Overview

Gold Class is for suckers. Its tagline is "the same blockbuster movie that's showing everywhere, but more expensive." And in fine print: "food not included in the price *evil laugher*."

Brown Class is the antithesis of Gold Class, so it must be good. The film club that sounds like a depraved sex act focuses on the gems film distribution forgot and flicks with cult appeal. The Perth-based group organises both cinema events and (legal!) downloads.

Now they're expanding out to Sydney and Melbourne with a mini film festival that celebrates the '90s with its signature themes of video games, basketball, skateboarding, hiphop, wrestling and graffiti. Check out Doin' It in the Park (2012), a doco about the influential pick-up basketball scene in New York; Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters, which chronicles the various characters who quest for level 30; and How to Sell a Banksy (2012), an interesting companion piece to Exit Through the Gift Shop.

In Sydney, the films will screen at occasional microcinemas the Red Rattler, the Factory Theatre, and the AV Union, Leichhardt.

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