Dumpster Raccoon Film Series celebrates the 25th Anniversary of one of the best Batman movies ever made -- BATMAN MASK OF THE PHANTASM -- preceded by a live drag queen act!
About the film
BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM
USA 1993 76min. PG
Directed by Eric Radomski, Bruce Timm
Featuring the voices of Kevin Conroy, Dana Delany, Stacy Keach, Mark Hamill
Join Dumpster Raccoon Cinema as it celebrates the 25th Anniversary of a forgotten cinematic masterpiece and one of the best Batman movies ever made -- BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM -- preceded by our signature #DumpsterRaccoon pre-show and a performance by Leeland Mitchell
In a thrilling film noir masterpiece, Batman is wrongly implicated in a series of grisly murders, he must confront the ghosts of his past and the possibility of a life without the bat.
In the mid-nineties, animation legend Bruce Timm rode the wave of batman-mania to craft one of the greatest cartoon series ever made, with groundbreaking animation that simultaneously paid dutiful homage to the Fleischer Superman cartoons of yore and insisted on a darkness both of palette and content unseen in children's entertainment. BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM is the apotheosis of Timm's vision, and a lost capstone of the DC universe.
About the series
In a recent interview with NOW Magazine, programmer Anthony Oliveira summed up the series: “Dumpster Raccoon is not just the name, it is my ethos,” he says. “It’s how I describe what I do when someone asks. I think my work as a writer or culture critic or whatever is that I compulsively forage through our culture trash to figure out what it is, how it works, why we discarded it, what it can teach us. Sharing pop culture has always been one of the main ways I express affection, and the series has grown out of that: ‘I love you; here’s some shiny garbage.’”
