Everybody has a movie from the 80s that they admit to, and a movie they love, but won’t cop to.

Anybody can fess up to knowing lines from “Purple Rain”, and this past week, we’ve heard a lot of people fess up to loving some John Hughes movies. But how “Duckie” are you, really? If someone asked you who Big Bootie was, would you be bold enough to correct them and say “boo-TAY”? If that’s you, and you’re in New York City tomorrow, Kevin Maher has you covered. Go to The UNDER ST. MARK’S SUMMER FILM FEST at 94 St. Mark’s Place, between 1st Ave and Avenue A, at 7pm, to witness the big screen madness that is…

W. D. Richter’s “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension”. What’s not to love about this movie? Jeff Goldblum in a cowboy outfit. Extraterrestrial dreads. Christopher Lloyd. John Lithgow. And Peter Weller, who plays Dr. Buckaroo Banzai, a top neurosurgeon, particle physicist, samurai, race car driver, rock star, and comic book hero. In this 1984 movie, Dr. Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers have to save the world by defeating a band of inter-dimensional aliens called Red Lectroids. And you thought he was weird as Robocop.

Kevin is host of The Sci-Fi Screening Room, and is presenting a series of movies that “made HBO”. And he’s right. When we first got HBO, we watched it for the really weird movies, not for Wuthering Heights.

It’s also got one of the most visually compelling end title sequences of 1984:

So GO! And have a retro good time.

Tomorrow, August 10, 7pm.

How to get there:
take the F/V trains to 2nd Ave, N/R/W train to 8th St, 6 train to Astor Pl.
94 Saint Mark’s Place.
How much: Just $5!!