(1988, DCP, 106m, Dutch and French w/English subtitles) dir George Sluizer w/Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege. After his partner goes missing at a rest stop, Rex (Bervoets) searches for answers to her disappearance for years. The kidnapper lives out his days with quiet satisfaction until he’s compelled to finally meet Rex. At Perisphere, […]
Showings: Oct. 15 5:00, 7:00, Oct. 16 7:00, 9:00, Oct. 17 7:00, 9:00
(1989) One of the most disgusting, grotesque, and truly original satirical indictments of America’s class divide. It’s all about fitting in… 7:00 $5
(1992, DCP, 128m) dir Francis Ford Coppola w/Winona Ryder, Gary Oldman, Keanu Reeves. Jonathan Harker (Reeves) is tasked with visiting his client Count Dracula (Oldman) in Transylvania to arrange a relocation to London. Brilliant practical effects, outstanding costumes, and elaborate sets make Coppola’s version stand out among other tellings of this classic gothic tale. New […]
Showings: Oct. 20 7:00, 9:30, Oct. 21 7:00, 9:30, Oct. 22 3:00, 5:30
(1999, DCP, 81m) dir Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez w/Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard. Three film students travel into a Maryland forest to create a documentary on the Blair Witch, never to be seen or heard from again. A year later, footage from their documentary is found. At Perisphere, Chris Ryba-Tures suggests that The […]
Showings: Oct. 22 8:15, Oct. 23 7:00, 8:45, Oct. 24 7:00, 8:45
(1991, DCP, 118m) dir Jonathan Demme w/Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn. Decades later, there’s still comfort in not knowing what fava beans taste like. Hannibal (Hopkins) is all too happy to suggest pairings for human liver while Clarice (Foster) and the FBI request his help to track down serial killer Buffalo Bill. At Perisphere, […]
Showings: Oct. 27 7:00, 9:30, Oct. 28 7:00, 9:30, Oct. 29 3:00
(1977, 35mm, 88m, Japanese w/English subtitles) dir Nobuhiko Ôbayashi w/Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Kumiko Ôba. This cult masterpiece, which comprises bizarre set pieces, subtle humor, and surreal deaths, still feels fresh four decades after it was made. Join us for this Trylon Halloween tradition—for the first or the twenty-first time. At Perisphere, Mia McGill explores […]
Showings: Oct. 29 5:30, 7:15, 9:00, Oct. 30 7:00, 9:00, Oct. 31 7:00, 9:00
(1970, 35mm, 87m) dir Brian De Palma w/Robert De Niro, Allen Garfield, Lara Parker. Upon returning home, Vietnam vet Jon Rubin (De Niro) directs an avant-garde voyeuristic porno film and then joins an acting troupe of militant Black activists—at which point the film switches from comedy to scorching social commentary and features one of the […]
Showings: Nov. 3 7:00, 9:00, Nov. 4 7:00, 9:00, Nov. 5 3:00, 5:00
(1992, DCP, 107m) dir Bill Duke w/Larry Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Lira Angel, René Assa. Officer Russell Stevens (Fishburne) is recruited into undercover work for the DEA and battles against the seduction of power and money. Set against the backdrop of the war on drugs, Deep Cover features Fishburne in one of the great performances of […]
Showings: Nov. 5 7:00, Nov. 6 7:00, 9:15, Nov. 7 7:00, 9:15
(2023, USA, DCP, 81m) dir Dan Covert. You may not know his name, but his art is everywhere. It’s on your Apple Watch, splashed on the sides of buildings, exhibited in countless galleries around the world, in title designs for films by Sofia Coppola and Spike Jonze, and featured in collabs with Vans, Warby Parker, […]
(2023, USA, DCP, 90m) dir Jed I. Rosenberg. An up-close cinematic walkabout through the life of Gary Young, the original (and highly unlikely) drummer of indie rock royalty Pavement. His booze and drugs-fueled antics (on-stage handstands, gifting vegetables to fans) and haphazard production methods (accidentally helping launch the lo-fi aesthetic) were both a driving force […]
(2022, USA, DCP, 91m) dir Andy Brown & Brian Lindstrom. Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill is a feature documentary exploring the life, creativity and legacy of one of the least known but critically acclaimed artists to emerge from 1970’s LA music scene. Judee went from kicking heroin while in prison to the cover […]
(2023, USA, DCP, 78m) dir Chris Moukarbel. Winner of the 2023 Tribeca Festival U.S. Narrative Feature Award. Tierra Whack first gained recognition at the age of 15 when she stunned viewers with her slick poetry while rapping for a YouTube channel on a Philadelphia street. The video rapidly drew thousands of views and marked the […]
(2013, USA, DCP, 82m) dir Sini Anderson. Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the riot grrrl movement. She became one of the most famously outspoken feminist icons, a cultural lightning rod. Her critics wished […]
(1996, UK, DCP, 93m) dir Danny Boyle. Smart, funny, sickly and sometimes just plain unconscious, Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) is a hero of our times. Set in an underbelly of Edinburgh the city fathers never dreamed of, this is the story of Mark and his so-called friends–a bunch of losers, liars, psychos, thieves and junkies. […]
(2023, USA, DCP, 83m) dir Mike McGuff. Once upon a time, before our lives went fully digital, radio entertained, informed and dictated what was cool through theater of the mind – and with that Houston’s 101 KLOL played a big role in the lives of rock radio listeners. The forthcoming documentary Runaway Radio focuses on […]
(2023, USA, DCP, 95m) dir Katherine Propper. Sol (Sauve Sidle) is an aspiring young rapper living with his best friend Wesley (Siyanda Stillwell), whose family has embraced him as a brother. After a raucous night causes Wesley to overdose, Sol abandons him at a house party, and eventually chooses to leave home for good and […]
(2023, USA, DCP, 86m) dir Alex Rappoport. When filmmaker Alex Rappoport met then-79 year old abstract artist Peter Bradley in early 2020, Bradley hadn’t sold many paintings nor had a major show in over four decades – yet he still painted every day in a shipping container studio heated by a wood stove, no matter […]
(1979, DCP, 183m) dir Francis Ford Coppola w/Larry Fishburne, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Marlon Brando. Willard (Sheen) is assigned to track down and assassinate renegade Colonel Kurtz (Brando), who has lost his mind and created his own brutal regime. Shot over two years in the jungles of the Philippines, Coppola’s journey into the heart of […]
Showings: Nov. 11 7:00, Nov. 12 5:00, Nov. 13 7:00, Nov. 14 7:00
(1982, DCP, 98m) dir John Wintergate. Nothing can prepare you for BoardingHouse. Jim (director John Wintergate), a psychic-gigolo who wears a leopard-print thong, rents a haunted house to “beautiful women with no ties.” From there, this unworldly slasher transforms into a sleazy, hallucinogenic maelstrom of gore, sex, chainsaws, pie fights, killer refrigerators, jacuzzis, beds that […]
(1990, DCP, 115m, Hungarian w/English subtitles) dir György Fehér w/Péter Haumann, János Derzsi, Judit Pogány. After discovering the body of a young girl deep in a forest in the mountains, a homicide detective goes to extreme means to catch the killer responsible. Long unavailable, Twilight is an existential murder mystery and an expansive meditation on […]
Showings: Nov. 17 7:00, 9:15, Nov. 18 7:00, 9:15, Nov. 19 3:00, 5:15
(1991, DCP, 112m) dir John Singleton w/Larry Fishburne, Cuba Gooding Jr., Angela Bassett, Ice Cube. Three Black teenage boys in South Central Los Angeles confront violence, racism, and relationships in Singleton’s iconic film. Fishburne is outstanding in the role of father figure Furious Styles. SUN 7:30 MON/TUE 7:00 9:15
Showings: Nov. 19 7:30, Nov. 20 7:00, 9:15, Nov. 21 7:00, 9:15
(1987, DCP, 100m) dir Emile Ardolino w/Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach. In 1963, Baby (Grey) falls in love with a working-class dance instructor (Swayze) at a Catskills resort. If there is a person alive who cannot be charmed by Mr. Swayze, we have yet to meet them. Dancing his way into our hearts, Brogan […]
Showings: Nov. 24 7:00, Nov. 25 9:15, Nov. 26 3:00
(1984, DCP, 107m) dir Herbert Ross w/Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, John Lithgow. When Ren (Bacon) moves from Chicago to the small town of Bomont, he brings his sinful hips and shakes a leg with the preacher’s daughter (Singer). FRI 9:15 SAT 7:00 SUN 5:15
Showings: Nov. 24 9:15, Nov. 25 7:00, Nov. 26 5:15
(1990, DCP, 103m) dir Abel Ferrara w/Larry Fishburne, Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Wesley Snipes. Released from prison, Frank White (Walken) is set to retake leadership of the underworld, clean up the streets, and give back to the community. Ferrara at his most stylistic presents late-1980s New York as a deliriously violent, crime-ridden cesspool run by […]
Showings: Nov. 26 7:30, Nov. 27 7:00, 9:15, Nov. 28 7:00, 9:15
This screening has moved to The Heights Theater. More information and ticket link below. (1972, DCP, 107m, Arabic w/ English subtitles) dir Tewfik Saleh. No series on archiving Palestine would be complete without Tewfik Saleh’s 1972 classic, The Dupes (Al-Makhdu’un). Based on Ghassan Kanafani’s novella Men in the Sun and set in the 1950s, the […]
(2023, DCP, 106m) dir Filippo M. Prandi w/Eric Roberts, Carol Alt, Rico Simonini. New York City. Early 2020. Two men, both named Walter Stoyanov, watch their lives getting turned upside down, as one of them tests positive for COVID-19 and the other one is being investigated by FBI Special Agent John McCallany. 7:00 $14