Special Events and Series
16mm Centennial: A Year-Long Series
Throughout all of 2023, we’re celebrating the 100th anniversary of 16mm film. With specially curated programs featuring 16mm prints, plus 35mm and digital screenings of movies originally shot on 16mm, we’re highlighting the history and extraordinary impact of the humble format that transformed cinema.
MASKING RULES & GUIDELINES
- Masks remain required for weekend screenings before 6pm and for select special event screenings as noted.
- Masks are encouraged for all other screenings, but not required.
- Why are we doing this?
Our aim is to make seeing movies here safe and comfortable for everyone. In addition, the cinema is operated 100% by volunteers and we are trying to keep them healthy!
Now Playing
349688: 2023-12-07 19:30:00162640: 2023-12-08 18:45:00
350735: 2023-12-08 21:30:00
162640: 2023-12-09 16:00:00
350573: 2023-12-09 19:00:00
327730: 2023-12-09 21:15:00
162640: 2023-12-10 16:00:00
350735: 2023-12-10 19:30:00
162640: 2023-12-11 19:30:00
350788: 2023-12-12 19:00:00
350735: 2023-12-12 21:15:00
350735: 2023-12-13 19:00:00
350788: 2023-12-13 21:15:00
Coming Soon
349688: 2023-12-07 19:30:00162640: 2023-12-08 18:45:00
350735: 2023-12-08 21:30:00
162640: 2023-12-09 16:00:00
350573: 2023-12-09 19:00:00
327730: 2023-12-09 21:15:00
162640: 2023-12-10 16:00:00
350735: 2023-12-10 19:30:00
162640: 2023-12-11 19:30:00
350788: 2023-12-12 19:00:00
350735: 2023-12-12 21:15:00
350735: 2023-12-13 19:00:00
350788: 2023-12-13 21:15:00
162640: 2023-12-14 19:00:00
162640: 2023-12-15 18:45:00
350788: 2023-12-15 21:30:00
162640: 2023-12-16 15:00:00
350917: 2023-12-16 19:00:00
350915: 2023-12-16 19:00:00
352618: 2023-12-16 21:30:00
162640: 2023-12-17 15:00:00
162640: 2023-12-17 18:00:00
350788: 2023-12-17 21:00:00
350788: 2023-12-18 19:30:00
162640: 2023-12-19 19:00:00
162640: 2023-12-20 19:00:00
162640: 2023-12-21 19:00:00
162640: 2023-12-22 19:00:00
162640: 2023-12-23 16:00:00
162640: 2023-12-23 19:00:00
162640: 2023-12-24 15:00:00
162640: 2023-12-26 19:00:00
162640: 2023-12-27 19:00:00
162640: 2023-12-28 19:00:00
350904: 2023-12-29 19:30:00
350904: 2023-12-30 16:00:00
350904: 2023-12-30 19:00:00
327730: 2023-12-30 21:15:00
350904: 2023-12-31 16:00:00
350904: 2024-01-01 19:30:00
350904: 2024-01-02 19:30:00
350904: 2024-01-03 19:30:00
350904: 2024-01-04 19:30:00
352889: 2024-01-05 19:30:00
352889: 2024-01-06 16:30:00
352884: 2024-01-06 19:00:00
352889: 2024-01-07 14:00:00
352884: 2024-01-07 16:00:00
352889: 2024-01-07 19:30:00
352884: 2024-01-08 19:00:00
352889: 2024-01-09 19:30:00
352884: 2024-01-10 19:00:00
352889: 2024-01-11 19:30:00
Kooky Christmas Classics from the Something Weird Vault
Saturday, Dec 16: 7:00 pm
Ring in the Holiday Season with some of Something Weird's favorite vintage shorts and oddities, all presented on glorious 16mm film straight from the vault! And Santa's little helper, Something Weird's Lisa Petrucci, will be there to host this holiday extravaganza!
Celebrate Jesus’ birthday the way it was intended – with greedy kids clamoring for presents, creepy guys in bad Santa Claus suits, toys running amok, and a cacophony of weird and wonderful sights and sounds! Brace yourselves: there will be lots of puppets, stop-motion animation, cartoons, and other creaky old celluloid that exemplify this magical time of year. These Kooky Christmas Classics are sure to delight, disturb, and put you in a merry mood! Be there, or risk Santa leaving coal in your stocking!
Part of our 16mm Centennial Celebration Series!
VHS Uber Alles Dec ’23
Saturday, Dec 16: 9:30 pm
Three rad and witchy 80s teen girls botch their anti-Christmas candle ritual in the woods, awakening a long-dormant bloodthirsty elf. The Elf kicks off his murderous rampage by stomping on over to the local mall to kill Santa. Coincidentally, our three ladies are having an after-hours sexy sleepover party that night… The bloodbath continues! Brought back this year by popular demand, we can only hope this bonkers piece of only-available-on-VHS Christmas carnage becomes part of your holiday traditions.
“In addition to the wacky plot, this one has lots of profanity, lots of bad taste, lots of bad acting, lots of quotable terrible dialogue, lots of hideous 80s hair and clothes, a little gore and even some nudity…It’s all pretty awful, yet entertaining nonetheless.” Random 3/10 IMDb Reviewer
“Do you want to see a perverted department store Santa killed by a mutant elf who stabs him repeatedly in the genitalia? See this movie.” Random 9/10 IMDb Reviewer
“Twas the night before Christmas, And all through the town, Blood-thirsty Elves are about to get down!” Actual VHS Box Quote
NEVER RELEASED ON DVD! ONLY ON VHS! ONLY $3!
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Friday, Dec 29: 7:30 pm
Saturday, Dec 30: 4:00 pm, 7:00 pm
Sunday, Dec 31: 4:00 pm
Monday, Jan 1: 7:30 pm
Tuesday, Jan 2: 7:30 pm
Wednesday, Jan 3: 7:30 pm
Thursday, Jan 4: 7:30 pm
A lyrical, decades-spanning exploration across a woman’s life in Mississippi, the feature debut from award-winning poet, photographer and filmmaker Raven Jackson is a haunting and richly layered portrait, a beautiful ode to the generations of people and places that shape us.
“CRITIC’S PICK! Exquisite use of close-ups, fluid editing and a deeply observant sound design renders [protagonist] Mack’s story tactile but also poetic, making plain that the salt here is the stuff of tears, the stuff of sorrows and of joys.” Lisa Kennedy, New York Times
“All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is a treasure of community, a bold depiction of Black life, and a sumptuously crafted piece of personal storytelling.” Robert Daniels, The Playlist
Fallen Leaves
Friday, Jan 5: 7:30 pm
Saturday, Jan 6: 4:30 pm
Sunday, Jan 7: 2:00 pm, 7:30 pm
Tuesday, Jan 9: 7:30 pm
Thursday, Jan 11: 7:30 pm
Award-winning filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki (Le Havre, The Other Side of Hope) makes a masterful return with FALLEN LEAVES, a timeless, hopeful and ultimately satisfying love story about two lonely souls’ path to happiness – and the numerous hurdles they encounter along the way. Set in contemporary Helsinki, and shot through with Kaurismäki’s typically playful, idiosyncratic style and deadpan humor, this tender romantic tragicomedy is a timely reminder of the potency of movie-going from one of cinema’s living legends. Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
In Finnish with English subtitles.
“CRITIC’S PICK! Modestly scaled and tonally perfect, Fallen Leaves opens in a fluorescent hell-on-earth and ends with a vision of something like paradise.” Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
“Kaurismäki works magic with understatement, especially in Fallen Leaves, possibly his greatest film.” Stephanie Zacharek, TIME
The Abyss: Special Edition – 4K Restoration
Saturday, Jan 6: 7:00 pm
Sunday, Jan 7: 4:00 pm
Monday, Jan 8: 7:00 pm
Wednesday, Jan 10: 7:00 pm
Before he re-sank the RMS Titanic and staged grand naval battles in the oceans of Pandora, James Cameron stared into THE ABYSS in this film steeped in the frightful fascination of the world beneath the waves, about a civilian diving team led by Virgil "Bud" Brigman (Ed Harris) and estranged wife Lindsey (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) who, along with their Navy SEAL escort, come face to face with an alien undersea species while searching for a missing nuclear submarine. Pressured by studio brass to bring down his film’s runtime upon its initial release in 1989, Cameron would restore nearly a half hour of footage to the April 1993 LaserDisc release of THE ABYSS: SPECIAL EDITION, presented here in a new 4K restoration just over 30 years later.
“Colossally ambitious, this logistically boggling and technically brilliant film from writer-director James Cameron is a visual tour de force, featuring overall, the greatest underwater sequences ever seen on film.” Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter