At 8 p.m., the Dryden will screen Barbarella (Roger Vadim, France/Italy 1968, 98 min., 35mm).

The year is 40000, and positronic ray ("all persons and objects in its path are deminimumized to the 4th level") inventor Dr. Durand Durand has disappeared. Jane Fonda is Barbarella, a cosmonaut in a capricious skintight space suit, in charge of bringing Durand Durand home safely. Crash landing on the planet Lythion, Barbarella meets a whole cast of unfamiliar creatures and contraptions, from dolls with deadly appetites to a blind angel named Pygar to an "Orgasmatron," designed to kill with extreme pleasure. And she's not afraid to use her many gifts to defy capture. . . . Adapted from the French comic book of the same name, this hypersexual psychedelic trip is full of camp, creativity, humor, and beauty. A critical and box office failure upon its release, Barbarella, with its emancipated, ass-kicking, space-traveling heroine, and cool, electronic score, has since become a cult hit, embodying the cultural and sexual liberation of the generation that spawned it.

[source: Dryden website, 2015-Apr-13]