BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW Midnight

Filmmaker Magazine recently named director Panos Cosmatos one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film,”” and this, his debut feature, makes it easy to see why. Suffused with a love for classic cinema, this audacious sci-fi film set in 1983 looks like it fell out of a time capsule, not like it was made in 2011 Intensely shaded and daringly structured, BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW is a one-of-a-kind film experience, daring the audience to look away Cosmatos’ intense visual style is complemented by a spacy and synthetic score composed entirely on analog synthesizers by Sinoia Caves’ Jeremy Schmidt Giving away the secret of t he BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW’s shadowy sinister experimental groups or of the surprising abilities of the residents in their facilities would ruin some of the impact of this experience. Just arrive a t the theater with a mind open to altered states.