The Grand Illusion

Part 3: Call for help.

Part 4: ...brings back some memories.

Join Scarecrow and the Grand Illusion for an extra-special November member screening of MIRACLE MILE (1988) and the short film TARZANA (1978)! We'll be joined the writer/director Steve De Jarnatt (and Evergreen Alumnus) for a conversation after the screening.

After 30 years of searching, Harry has finally met the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, before they even have a chance to go on their first date, Harry intercepts some chilling news: WWIII has begun and nuclear missiles will destroy Los Angeles in less than an hour!

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Part 5: Case files.

Part 6: Don’t die.

NOTE: We are promoting this as part of the TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN event, but ticket prices are set by Northwest Film Forum for this particular screening.

An avant-gutter psychedelic dream, ANYTHING THAT MOVES is the latest from Vinegar Syndrome Pictures and the second feature directed by Alex Phillips (ALL JACKED UP AND FULL OF WORMS). An erotically-charged, blood-soaked thriller set in the sticky corridors of Chicago and shot on fleshy Super 16mm, Phillips’ rust belt giallo continues on his trajectory of taboo-shattering horror cinema with this tense, funny, and absolutely twisted murder mystery.

The film follows nubile sex worker Liam who bikes with his girlfriend—his partner in both business and pleasure—through the city delivering snacks and divine satisfaction to his love-hungry clients. Meanwhile, a serial killer’s gory murders are piling up and all the evidence seems to point back to the lover’s bed.

Featuring supporting performances from erotic film legends Ginger Lynn and Nina Hartley, an original instrumental score by Chicago-based artists Cue Shop that calls to mind the lush orchestrations of Bruno Nicolai, and lurid visuals by acclaimed cinematographer Hunter Zimny, ANYTHING THAT MOVES provides an immersive throwback to 70s exploitation flicks.

Official selection: Fantasia Fest and Sitges Film Festival

Please note: Here-After is a 21 and over establishment. The entrance is via the alley in back of The Crocodile building. Get there early to order tasty beverages from the bar and delicious food from Tat’s Deli!

“…approaching the ribald anarchy of John Waters … Anything That Moves is chaotic, raunchy, and weirdly sweet for its bursts of violence. Sure, there’s a serial killer on the loose, but there’s also purity of heart in Liam’s embrace of sexual freedom, and the solidarity of those who join him on their kink-friendly journeys. And that’s something to be celebrated.” Clint Worthington, RogerEbert.com

COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT is a poignant and unexpectedly funny love story about poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley facing an incurable cancer diagnosis with joy, wit and an unshakable partnership. Through laughter and unwavering love, they transform pain into purpose, and mortality into a moving celebration of resilience.

Winner of the Festival Favorite Award at Sundance 2025.

“…deeply affecting … a tender look at two queer people in love and a celebration of the desire to live.” Drew Gregory, Autostraddle

“A bright spot of sapphic representation in recent documentary film, the partnership depicted in Come See Me in the Good Light suggests how you live your private life and love the people in it can be its own kind of artform.” Alison Foreman, IndieWire

Part 7: There's a body all right.

Part 8: Gotta light?

Additional showing added, November 30th, due to popular demand!

THE LAST CLASS is a nuanced and deeply personal portrait of master educator Robert Reich teaching his final course and reflecting on a period of immense transformation, personally and globally. It is a love letter to education. The former Secretary of Labor might be famous for his public service, best-selling books, and viral social media posts, but he always considered teaching his true calling. Now, after over 40 years and an extraordinary 40,000 students, Reich is preparing for his last class.

Over the course of the film, Reich confronts the impending finality, and his own aging, with increasing candor, introspection, and, ultimately, emotion. He displays a rawness of feeling he has never shared publicly before. Drawing on his lifetime in politics, he uses his class, “Wealth and Poverty,” to offer us all a deeper look at why inequalities of income and wealth have widened significantly since the late 1970s, and why this poses dangerous risks to our society.

One thousand students fill the biggest lecture hall on the UC Berkeley campus, the last class to receive Reich’s wisdom and exhortations not to accept that the world has to stay the way it is. His belief in the next generation’s ability to take on the fight is inspiring.

“Reich is an eloquent extemporaneous speaker who knows how to keep people’s interest while coming across as authentic. That makes him a perfect subject for a documentary… it’s heartening to hear a major figure in American political history talking about the future as if it might actually happen.” Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com

Part 9: This is the chair.

Part 10: Laura is the one.

Part 11: There’s fire where you are going.

Part 12: Let’s rock.

NOTE: We are promoting this as part of the TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN event, but ticket prices are set by Northwest Film Forum for these two screenings.

An X-Rated descent into demented comedy and maniacal horror, as a desperate mother drags an innocent stranger into an absurd, filthy nightmare beyond comprehension. An unflinchingly loyal adaptation of transgressive artist Johnny Ryan’s joyfully disgusting comic book. Adults only.

Only in theaters, never streaming! Official selection: TIFF, Fantastic Fest, Beyond Fest

Writer/director Todd Rohal in attendance for Q&As after each screening!

Exclusive Nude Blok/Perv-o-Vision reversible glasses will be for sale at the door (while supplies last).

“Five stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️” Sarah Squirm

Part 13: What story is that, Charlie?

Part 14: We are like The Dreamer.

Part 15: There’s some fear in letting go.

Part 16: No knock, no doorbell.

NOTE: We are promoting this as part of the TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN event, but ticket prices are set by Northwest Film Forum for this particular screening.

Part 17: The past dictates the future.

Part 18: What is your name?

Our 55th consecutive engagement of Frank Capra's holiday classic! We are still without a new home, so please join us for screenings at Northwest Film Forum. Pay-what-you-can and no one turned away for lack of funds at the Dec. 23 screening.

“It’s a great — really great — film, so densely well made that to watch any three minutes is to realize how paltry the vast majority of movies are by comparison.” Richard T. Jameson

“The epiphany of movie sentiment and a transcendent experience.” Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader