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MOVIES WITH ROOTS IN HELL TONIGHT

Tonight Jack Stevenson is coming to Brooklyn to share his enormous stash of 16mm film clips at

Light Industry

. Jack's been studying drugs in film since the 80s, and has basically written the encyclopedia on the subject. He's like the unsober Roger Ebert. One of the books in the Stevenson canon is

Addicted: The Myth and Menace of Drugs in Film

. Published in 2000, it's the bible of drug flicks. Over the course of 256 pages Stevenson lists every snort, shot, OD, and trip to grace the silver screen from the teens to the 70s. Everything Stevenson curated for tonight's screening was either written about in

Addicted

, or, in some way inspired by it. Movies with Roots in Hell 177 Livingston St. 7:30 PM - $7