The Hollywood Theatre’s bimonthly program
QUEER HORROR
celebrates a year of women-centric programming with a 25th
anniversary screening
BATMAN RETURNS
! Hosted by Portland’s premier drag clown
Carla Rossi, this 35mm holiday spectacle opens with a huge drag and burlesque preshow tribute to Catwoman in all her incarnations.
Directed by Tim Burton, 1992’s
BATMAN RETURNS
pits Batman (Michael Keaton) against an inexperienced shock politician (Danny DeVito) funded by a woman-murdering CEO (Christopher Walken). Meanwhile, as the men of Gotham squabble amongst themselves, the mysterious vigilante Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer) is born from beneath a swarm of alleycats and prowls the streets of Gotham in search of vengeance. Simultaneously the greatest and least-Batman film ever made,
BATMAN RETURNS
is the only gothic childhood Christmas classic featuring
Siouxsie and the Banshees
and an exaltation of the avenging, chaotic feminine led by the battle cry “I am Catwoman – hear me roar!”