Calling All Tom Waits Fans

Hey, Tom and Kathleen's movie Big Time is playing at the Rafael ONE NIGHT, Thursday the 17th. There's also a "5-minute compilation of rare videos and promos that director Chris Blum created with Tom Waits in support of Rain Dogs and Franks Wild Years. "

I'm SO going. If you want to join me, you can get tix on their site or chance it and get one the night of..

"Long unavailable on film and video since its original release in 1988, Tom Waits’ legendary musical receives a single celebratory screening of the only 35mm print in existence! Directed by Chris Blum from an original stage show conceived by Kathleen Brennan and Tom Waits, it is much more than a concert film. In this surreal cabaret, Waits portrays a rogues’ gallery of characters tangled in the pipe dream of show business success. As director Blum says, “With Tom, there’s a combination of so many styles—there’s vaudeville, burlesque, minstrel man, lounge performer, soulful balladeer, there’s some mime, there’s even some kabuki.” Staged at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco and the Wiltern in Los Angeles, the film draws its songs from the albums Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs and Franks Wild Years, with such classics as “Cold Cold Ground,” “Straight to the Top,” and “Innocent When You Dream.” Featured musicians performing with Waits are Michael Blair, Ralph Carney, Greg Cohen, Marc Ribot and Willie Schwarz. "