OUR BUILDING IS BEING SOLD
We learned on 1/19/23 that our building is up for sale. We're signing a two-year lease and after that—or whenever it's convenient for us to—we'll move. We doubt the building won't be demolished, but don't worry, we're determined to recreate the magic someplace new! Stay tuned!NEW MASK RULES STARTING 5/1/23
- Beginning 5/1/23, masks will be required only for weekend screenings before 6pm. 😷
- Masks will be 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!
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Showing Up
Friday, May 19: 7:30 pm
Saturday, May 20: 4:30 pm
Sunday, May 21: 7:30 pm
Monday, May 22: 7:30 pm
Wednesday, May 24: 7:30 pm
Thursday, May 25: 7:30 pm
Saturday, May 27: 3:00 pm
Sunday, May 28: 3:30 pm
Tuesday, May 30: 6:00 pm
Wednesday, May 31: 6:00 pm
In Kelly Reichardt’s vibrant and captivatingly funny portrait of art & craft, a sculptor (Michelle Williams) preparing to open a new show must balance her creative life with the daily dramas of family and friends.
Please note: The screening on Saturday, May 20 at 4:30 PM will be shown with open captions.
“Showing Up feels like a moment of release for the filmmaker, a knowing reflection on past work and artistic growth while leaning in to all the beautiful elements of sound, colour and texture that have come to be expected from her work.” Caitlin Quinlan, Little White Lies
“Quietly extraordinary… The on-the-surface modesty of Showing Up is a kind of sorcery. It’s in the days afterward, when you’ve left its spell and gone back to the world, that its essence is more likely to take shape—a shape you could almost trace with your thumb, as if it were made of clay and not images, air, and feeling.” Stephanie Zacharek, TIME
Carole King: Home Again – Live in Central Park
Friday, May 26: 6:00 pm
ONE NIGHT ONLY SCREENING, 50 YEARS TO THE DAY OF THIS LEGENDARY PERFORMANCE!
This brand new feature-length concert documentary presents musical icon Carole King’s triumphant May 26, 1973 homecoming concert on The Great Lawn of New York City’s Central Park before an estimated audience of 100,000. Directed by George Scott and produced by Lou Adler and John McDermott, the film presents the complete multi-camera 16mm footage filmed and recorded by Adler in 1973 but never before released.
Part of our 16mm Centennial Celebration Series!
Alongside the complete performance footage is the behind the scenes story of King’s remarkable transformation from an in-demand, staff songwriter beloved for such timeless Goffin and King classics as “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” and “Will You Love Me Tomorrow?” to an iconic artist in her own right. The May 1973 performance captured King at her critical and commercial peak, basking in the enormous popularity of her definitive album, Tapestry.
The Wrath of Becky
Friday, May 26: 8:00 pm
Saturday, May 27: 5:30 pm
Sunday, May 28: 8:00 pm
Monday, May 29: 8:00 pm
Tuesday, May 30: 8:30 pm
Wednesday, May 31: 8:30 pm
Thursday, Jun 1: 7:30 pm
Two years after she escaped a violent attack on her family, Becky (Lulu Wilson) attempts to rebuild her life in the care of an older woman - a kindred spirit named Elena. But when their home is broken into, and they are attacked by an extremist group known as the "Noble Men," Becky must return to her old ways to protect herself, her loved ones, and her country.
“There’s a charming simplicity to a genre film that can be introduced as ‘Let’s just kill some fascists!’ and [directors] Angel & Coote know how to pace and deliver this kind of gut punch of a movie.” Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com
“The Wrath of Becky is much more than a fantasy revenge tale about getting even with white trash nationalists and dumb-witted domestic terrorists.It’s an official coming out party for star-in-the-making Lulu Wilson.” Drew Tinnin, Dread Central
“An irreverently delightful time.” Meagan Navarro, Bloody Disgusting
The Heroic Trio – 4K Restoration
Saturday, May 27: 7:30 pm
Sunday, May 28: 6:00 pm
Monday, May 29: 6:00 pm
Someone's kidnapping babies from a hospital in Hong Kong! A figure known as The Evil Master has been looking for the child destined to become emperor. Police are overwhelmed and call for outside help. Wonder Woman (Anita Mui), the wife of a police officer who fights crime with her bladed weapons, Thief Catcher (Maggie Cheung), a motorcycle-riding bounty hunter who takes a liking to her shotgun, and the Invisible Woman (recent Academy Award-winner Michelle Yeoh), the troubled servant of the Evil Master, band together. Their goal: take down the Master and his decapitation-happy demon assassin Kau (Anthony Wong) before the structure of power in Hong Kong is overthrown by pure evil.
In Cantonese with English subtitles.
Saturday night’s showing will be presented by Kung Fu Clubhouse and will include a SECRET SECOND FEATURE along with an exclusive pre-show full of fun martial arts clips! Two movies for the price of one! The second feature involves a bank heist that goes sour in an impressive display of fast-paced action. Shot by a Taiwanese crew with martial artists in each main role and featuring an array of stunt performers who crash into everything breakable in sight. Essential DIY kung fu with a true star performance in a lead role. Don’t miss it!
“babies in birdcages covered in cobwebs; Maggie Cheung just straight launching guys with dynamite and being cute and funny; skeleton abductor; melodrama scientists and glass cages; sister tattoos; badass girl power baybee” Emalie Soderback, Scarecrow Video
“I don’t ask for much from a movie, only that three of the brightest stars of HK cinema share the screen as superheroes, there’s crazy awesome action throughout, Maggie Cheung rides a motorcycle wielding a shotgun, Anthony Wong shoots poison needles from his finger stumps, and a part where a bloody skeleton wraps around Michelle Yeoh and makes her do kung-fu against her friends. That’s all.” Kevin Clarke, Scarecrow Video
“It’s a movie that, perhaps literally, has everything. Family drama. The horrors of war. Bank heists. Martial arts tournaments. Teen love triangles (that the girl isn’t aware she’s in.) Redemption. Forgiveness. Breakin’. Rubber pizza slices. And gold.” Curtis on Letterboxd
Falcon Lake
Friday, Jun 2: 7:00 pm
Saturday, Jun 3: 4:30 pm
Sunday, Jun 4: 5:30 pm
Monday, Jun 5: 6:00 pm
Tuesday, Jun 6: 6:00 pm
Wednesday, Jun 7: 7:30 pm
Shy teenager Bastien experiences the joy and pain of young adulthood when he forges an unlikely bond with an older girl, Chloé, while on summer vacation with his family at a lake cabin in Quebec that is haunted by a ghostly legend. Shot on 16mm!
Part of our 16mm Centennial Celebration Series!
In English and French with English subtitles.
“Charlotte Le Bon’s exceptionally assured first directorial film is full of light mischief yet heavy with horror-movie mood.” Jessica Kiang, Variety
“Falcon Lake is effortlessly funny and sweet in a way that kids themselves just are sometimes, and yet the low-stakes narrative never condescends. In its own quiet and ruminative way, it’s a sweet and sharp elucidation of the agony and, well, inconsequentiality, of first love.” Steph Green, Little White Lies
Dr. Caligari – 4K Restoration
Friday, Jun 2: 9:15 pm
Saturday, Jun 3: 9:15 pm
Sunday, Jun 4: 8:00 pm
Sexually deranged and stylistically unhinged, this psychedelic surrealist neo-noir reworking of the 1920 German expressionist classic features Laura Albert as Mrs. Van Houten, a woman whose libido is dangerously out of control. There’s only one place for her: the Caligari Insane Asylum (CIA).
Madeleine Reynal plays Dr Caligari, the granddaughter of the original Doctor, whose own experiments in psychosexual therapy have led her to the brink of a radical treatment involving hormonal exchange. Having drugged and imprisoned Mrs. Van Houten’s sexually repressed husband, Caligari sets out to extract the brain fluid of an incurably nymphomaniac Mrs. Van Houten and inject it into the head of a cannibalistic serial killer (John Durbin) addicted to electroconvulsive therapy. What could possibly go wrong?
With eye-popping set design from Stephen Sayadian (NIGHT DREAMS, CAFÉ FLESH), a luscious synth score courtesy of Mitchell Froom, not to mention acid-tongued dialogue written by Jerry Stahl (PERMANENT MIDNIGHT), Dr Caligari drops a dirty bomb on Reagan era family values. Mining high art in bad taste, it parodies both mass media and pop culture through a roll call of staged citations and quotations as exquisitely framed as they are sexually charged.
“Part goofball sex-trip, part personalized art film… Persistently outrageous.” The Los Angeles Times
Twilight
Saturday, Jun 3: 7:00 pm
Sunday, Jun 4: 3:00 pm
Monday, Jun 5: 8:15 pm
Tuesday, Jun 6: 8:15 pm
After discovering the murdered body of a young girl deep in a mountainous forest, a hardened homicide detective pushes himself to increasingly obsessive ends in his quest to catch the serial killer — known only as “The Giant” — responsible for the crime. A much admired but long unavailable masterpiece by influential Hungarian auteur and regular Béla Tarr collaborator György Fehér, TWILIGHT (SZÜRKÜLET) is at once an existential murder mystery and an expansive meditation on time and space. Stunningly lensed in rich blacks and cascading grays by DP Miklós Gurbán (WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES) and never before released in the United States, TWILIGHT is presented in a brand new 4K restoration by the National Film Institute – Hungarian Film Archive and FilmLab, supervised by Gurbán.
Part of our …before the case cracks you film series.
In Hungarian with English subtitles.
“[Exhibits] a style so minimalist, it approaches maximalism — and this combination of pulp and precision creates an arresting and unique work of film noir.” Teo Bugbee, The New York Times
“The mood it builds is soul-shaking.” Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter
“It is an assured film, mature in its own right and poignant in its ruminations on madness, obsession, and futility.” Calan Panchoo, Film Threat
VHS Uber Alles June ’23
Saturday, Jun 17: 9:30 pm
"Dang! Can you imagine if that thing grew to be as big as us?"
Folks in the Louisiana bayou have their hands full after some scientists inject a nutria (basically, a swamp rat) with human hormones, resulting in NutriaMan... a terrifyingly human-sized nutria that is out to kill people. This low-rent creature feature has it all, including tons of CritterCam, greasy '80s mustaches, and the unfettered butchering of a wide variety of moonshine-swillin' bayou people.
“It’s ‘The Legend of Boggy Creek’ and ‘The Town That Dreaded Sundown’ meets ‘Creature From the Black Lagoon.'” 10/10 IMDb Review
“For lovers of Sasquatch cinema, um… only… not a Sasquatch. But who cares?” 6/10 IMDb Review
“6 nutrias out of 10” Humanoid of Flesh
ONLY ON VHS! ONLY $3!