Wild Soviet Sci-Fi Comedy KIN-DZA-DZA! (1986) — New Restoration! w/ Soviet Sci-Fi Pre-Show @ 3 pm
"Like Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, Georgiy Daneliya’s 1986 film Kin-dza-dza! is, at bottom, biting social satire disguised as dystopian science fiction. Deploying unabashedly absurdist humor, both films decry the alienating effects of bureaucracy, abhor the arbitrary terrors imposed by an authoritarian regime, and exhibit…