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(1968, DCP, 89m, Japanese with English subtitles) dir Ishirô Honda w/Akira Kubo, Jun Tazaki, Yukiko Kobayashi. Originally planned as the final entry in the Godzilla franchise, this one’s got it all: alien invaders, sci-fi gimmickry, espionage, a Japanese moon base, and downtown Tokyo turned into a wrestling ring for an epic, no-holds-barred giant monster throw […]
(1985, 35mm, 105m, French w/English subtitles) dir Agnès Varda w/Sandrine Bonnaire, Macha Méril, Stéphane Freiss. Mona (Bonnaire) wanders the French countryside in the winter, hiding from the police and subsisting on help from others. Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and nominated for numerous Best Foreign Film Awards, Vagabond is essential. […]
The films produced by Djouhra Abouda and Alain Bonnamy pushed the purely formal boundaries of experimental cinema in a combination of avant-garde aesthetics and political activism. Working in the cinema department of the Centre Universitaire Expérimental de Vincennes in Paris, Abouda and Bonnamy made two experimental short films Algérie Couleurs (1972) and Ciné-Cité (1974) and […]
(1975, DCP, 83m, Japanese with English subtitles) dir Ishirô Honda w/Katsuhiko Sasaki, Tomoko Ai, Akihiko Hirata. Aliens from a dying solar system conspire with a disgraced scientist to construct Mechagodzilla, a 400-foot robot rival that can dispatch Godzilla and clear the way for an alien invasion. Who will survive the monster-vs.-cyborg showdown? Read more at […]
(1981, DCP, 64m, French and English w/English subtitles) dir Agnès Varda w/Sabine Mamou, Mathieu Demy, Lisa Blok-Linson. Preceded by UNCLE YANCO (1968, DCP, 19m). A sort of partner-picture with Mur murs that uses interconnected ideas and images, Documenteur stars Varda's son (Demy) in the role of Martin Cooper, as he and his mother Emilie (Mamou) […]
(1981, DCP, 80m, French and English w/English subtitles) dir Agnès Varda w/Juliet Berto, Agnès Varda, Judy Baca. Preceded by BLACK PANTHERS (1970, DCP, 28m). A preoccupation with California led Varda to make a collection of documentary films. This one, about the murals that adorn Los Angeles’s buildings, showcases her ability to draw out social commentary […]
Some drug side effects are tolerable, some even desirable, but sometimes the side effects are death, and not always your own... This month's movie falls into the strange category of film where someone is a drug-trial participant (usually not cognizantly), and atrocious side effects ensue. What kind of atrocities will this movie's drug unleash? Only one way to find […]
(1945, DCP, 77m) dir John Brahm w/Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, George Sanders. In early 1900s London, composer George Harvey Bone (Cregar) is writing a piano concerto but has strange gaps in his memory. Meanwhile, a man, the Ripper, is believed to be killing women across town. Hangover is an absolute noir triumph with the most […]
(1987, 35mm, 102m) dir Norman Jewison w/Nic Cage, Cher, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello. Bookkeeper Loretta (Cher) is engaged to marry Johnny (Aiello) but falls for his brother Ronny (Cage). Cher and Cage shine in this beloved romance penned by John Patrick Shanley. SUN 6:30 MON/TUE 7:00 9:15
(1980, DCP, 133m) dir Jack Hazan & David Mingay. Merging documentary and fiction, Rude Boy follows roughneck Ray Gange as he drops his Soho sex-shop job to roadie for The Clash—the most fiery, revolutionary rock ’n’ roll band of the era, seen in this film at the dizzying peak of their powers. Ray, a difficult, […]
(1984, DCP, 105m) dir Martin Brest w/Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Josh Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher. Detroit police officer Axel Foley (Murphy) chases his friend’s killer to Los Angeles. Murphy’s biggest hit was an absolute sensation upon release. FRI 7:00 SAT 9:00 SUN 3:00
(1982, DCP, 96m) dir Walter Hill w/Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte, Annette O’Toole, Frank McRae. Detective Jack Cates (Nolte) is a bigoted cop with a punchable face who enlists the help of charismatic convict Reggie Hammond (Murphy). FRI 9:15 SAT 7:00 SUN 5:15
(1999, DCP, 121m) dir Martin Scorsese w/Nic Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames. A burned-out EMT driver (Cage) struggles to save lives in the seedy streets of New York. Even with Paul Schrader’s screenwriting and Cage’s maniacal performance, this Scorsese picture continues to be unsung. SUN 7:15 MON/TUE 7:00 9:30
(2015, DVD, 75m) dir Derek Savage w/ Vivica A. Fox, Erik Estrada, and Derek Savage. Direct-to-video educational film about the dangers of guns and bullying directed by and starring former Playgirl model Derek Savage. 7:00 $5
(16mm, 60s/70s, 100-ish mins) In the future, traffic is murder! This 16mm mystery show features a treasury of fantastic short films followed by one of the great grindhouse science fiction features of the 1970s - all straight from the Cult Film Collective Archive. A Collective favorite, this is a program we've had in the works […]
(1986, DCP, 89m) dir David Byrne w/Byrne, John Goodman, Spalding Gray. Join a cowboy-hat-wearing Byrne on a tour of Virgil, Texas, as its residents prepare for a "Celebration of Specialness" and the big-hearted Louis Fyne (Goodman) goes looking for love. The 1980s’ oddest feel-good film, with music from Talking Heads. FRI/SAT 7:00 9:00 SUN 3:00 […]
(1997, 35mm, 138m) dir John Woo w/Nic Cage, John Travolta, Joan Allen, Gina Gershon. Travolta and Cage play off each other (as each other) in this boldly literal film about identity swapping. Brimming with slo-mo doves, speedboats, and carnage, Face/Off changed the game for action films that followed. SUN 7:00 MON/TUE 7:00 9:45
ISMYRNA (2016, DCP, 50m, Lebanon, French w/ English subtitles) dir Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige. Joana Hadjithomas met the artist and poet Etel Adnan at the end of the 1990s. They quickly grew close, bound by links to a city they had never been to: Smyrna formerly, known today as Izmir. Hadjithomas’s paternal Greek family were forced […]
(2003, 35mm, 80m, French w/English subtitles) dir Sylvain Chomet w/Michèle Caucheteux, Jean-Claude Donda, Michele Robin. When Tour de France rider Champion (Robin) is kidnapped, his grandmother enlists an eccentric jazz trio of triplets to help. Sylvain’s ode to Jacques Tati’s Jour de Fête is a charming and beautiful triumph of French animation. Presented in partnership […]
(1998, 35mm, 98m) dir Brian DePalma w/Nic Cage, Gary Sinise, John Heard, Carla Gugino. Ricky Santoro (Cage) is a dirty Atlantic City cop who becomes embroiled in a plot to assassinate the U.S. Secretary of Defense. Featuring one of the greatest opening tracking shots of all time. SUN 6:30 MON/TUE 7:00 9:00
(140m, DVD/BR) St. Paul filmmaker Digger Kohler presents three short films, “Why Marmarth” (featuring Willie Murphy and Cockroach Park); “Spider John Koerner at the Logging Camp Ranch,” and “John Beach.” Kohler’s films have been screened at several cities in the U.S., British Columbia, and at the Musicastrada Jazz Festival sites in Italy. In “Why Marmarth” Kohler […]
(2022, DCP, 85m) dir Brian Nowak w/Eric Roberts, Jack Pearson, Jamie Bernadette. Nerdy middle schooler Tommy is forced take care of a baby dinosaur after his cloned science fair project hatches early. He quickly begins to think of the creature not only as a pet, but also as a friend. But when the dino escapes on […]
(2006, 35mm, 95m) dir James Gunn w/Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Rooker. Before hitting the “big time” with superhero gigs like Guardians of the Galaxy and The Suicide Squad (yes, the good one), Gunn wrote and directed this loving homage to the gross-out films of his youth. It all starts when a flaming meteorite crashes […]
(1997, 35mm, 115m) dir Simon West w/Nic Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Ving Rhames. Cameron Poe (Cage), convicted of manslaughter, is heading home on a prisoner-transport plane that’s soon hijacked by a colorful cast of convicts. Cage is the calm eye of a storm of miscarried justice and untreated psychoses. SUN 7:00 MON/TUE 7:00 9:30