WEEKEND UPDATE: HONG KONG CINEMA, GODZILLA, MIDNIGHT SLASHERS, PULPY CULT CLASSICS AND MORE!
Whether it’s late night faves like Pamela Anderson’s legendary 90s cyberpunk pulp effort, golden era Godzilla, Kubrick in 35mm or sci-fi greats like Stargate and Last Man On Earth are your flavor, we invite you to venture out to experience our pick of classics on the big screen this weekend!
Fri 3/31st 6pm: Two of Hong Kong cinema’s most iconic leading men, Tony Leung and Andy Lau, face off in the breathtaking thriller that revitalized Hong Kong’s 21st century film industry, launched a blockbuster franchise, and inspired Martin Scorsese’s The Departed. The INFERNAL AFFAIRS TRILOGY (2002 - 2003 / New 4K Restorations) screens in one sitting at The Prince Charles Cinema, London. More info HERE
Fri 3/31st 7:30pm: The King of the Monsters reaches his peak as campy saurian superhero as two titanic terrors, Megalon and Gigan arrive to destroy the surface world in GODZILLA VS. MEGALON (1978) at The Museum Of The Moving Image, New York City. More info HERE.
Fri 3/31st 3:30pm: Claire Denis’ BEAU TRAVAIL (1999) is a breathtaking, sun-struck study of men (almost) without women, set in Djibouti amidst a French Foreign Legion detachment training endlessly for a martial challenge that will never come. Screens at The Metrograph, New York City. More info HERE.
Fri 3/31st & Sat 4/1st Midnight: Pamela Anderson Lee brings ass kicking, gun toting, bump and grinding cyberpunk mayhem in the pulpy cult fave action extravaganza BARB WIRE (1996) screens at IFC Center, New York City. More info HERE.
All Weekend: The one, the only, the original Godzilla is back to terrorize humanity all over again in the roaring, stomping, fire-breathing granddaddy of all monster movies and Japan’s biggest domestic box-office hit of the 1950s. GODZILLA (1954) screens at The Loft Cinema, Arizona. More info HERE.
Fri 3/31st & Sat 4/1st 8pm: As both a groundbreaking feat for the world of animation and an enjoyable crime comedy, WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988) still stands in a class all its own, a non cynical mash up of animated IP’s to prop up a stellar story. Screens at The Redford Theatre, Detroit. $5 Tickets. More info HERE.
Fri 3/31st 10pm & Sat 4/1st 10:15pm: Two childhood friends, played by Nas and DMX, form a criminal empire, but begin to deviate in beliefs; one toward crime, the other to religion. Loyalty is tested when one could be spared prison time; if they sell out the other. BELLY (1998 / 35mm Print) screens at The Roxy Cinema, New York City. Intro by Charles Bramesco whose new book focuses on color and tonal range on film to create a visual narrative. More info HERE.
Sat 4/1st & Sun 4/2nd 11:15am: In Mount Rose Minnesota, you win any way you can . . . or you die trying! The deeply dark, scathing comedy mockumentary of beauty pageant nastiness DROP DEAD GORGEOUS (1999 / 35mm Print) stars Kirsten Dunst, Ellen Barkin, Kirstie Alley, Allison Janney and Denise Richards (plus a wicked cameo from Adam West. Screens at Nitehawk Cinema, Brooklyn (Williamsburg Location). More info HERE.
Ongoing: A musical version of Fellini's Nights of Cabiria, starring Shirley MacLaine, features some of the greatest dance sequences in all musicals. Catch a New 4K Restoration of SWEET CHARITY (1969) at Film Forum, New York City. More info HERE.
Ongoing: Set against 19th-century China’s breathtaking landscape, Michelle Yeoh and Chow Fun Fat are stunning in this the action-packed, box office smash from acclaimed director Ang Lee with martial arts choreography by Yuen Wo Ping. CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (2000 / New 4K Restoration) screens at The Coolidge Corner Theatre, Massachusetts. More info HERE.
Sat 4/1st 7pm: Edward Furlong and Natasha Lyonne star in this lively, hard-rocking coming-of-age comedy about four boys desperate to attend a KISS concert in Detroit. Catch DETROIT ROCK CITY (1999 / 35mm Print) at The Texas Theatre, Dallas with Kiss Face Painting and post film KISS-aoke After Party! More info HERE.
Sat 4/1st Midnight: A satirical romantic-comedy about self-acceptance and love, Natasha Leone is sent to a "rehabilitation" camp by her straight-laced parents suspect she may be a lesbian. Co-starring Cathy Moriarty and RupPaul Charles. BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER (1999) screens at The Coolidge Corner Theatre, Massachusetts. More info HERE.
Sat 4/1st 12pm: A Triple Feature of rarely seen gorgeous French classics from the 1930s. THE NIGHT BEAUTY (1934) + THIRTEEN DAYS OF LOVE (1935) + AMOK (1934) screens at The Roxie Cinema, San Francisco. More info HERE.
Sat 4/1st Midnight: Take a trip through the Halls of Horror! A demented slasher sickie where an April Fool’s Day prank goes horribly wrong. When the perpetrators reunite to celebrate their 10-year high school reunion, they’ll discover their victim hasn’t forgotten! SLAUGHTER HIGH (1986 / 35mm Print) screens at The New Beverly Cinema, Los Angeles. More info HE
Sat 4/1st 5:30pm & Sat 4/2nd 7:30pm: An almost painfully meticulously crafted period drama, Stanley Kubrick’s frame evokes the sense of 18th century paintings, utilizing super fast lenses developed by NASA to brightly capture candle light on film. BARRY LYNDON (1975) screens with a gorgeous 35mm Print at The Belcourt Theatre, Nashville. More info HERE.
Sat 4/1st 4:30pm: Kurt Russell goes to the other side of the universe to mix it up with an alien civilization at war with a nasty ruler who travels in the most awesome traveling pyramid ever put on film. STARGATE (1994) screens at Braindead Studios, Los Angeles. More info HERE.
Sat 4/1st 1:30pm & 10pm: One of the original Universal Monster Movie classics, THE WOLF MAN (1941) stars Lon Chaney as a man who kills a werewolf (Bela Lugosi). The creatures mother curses him, dooming the man to spend his life transforming into one himself! Screens at The Plaza Theatre, Atlanta. More info HERE.
Sat 4/1st & Sun 4/2nd 3pm: A quintessential film noir classic, based on the essential crime novel, of a drifter who begins an affair with a Diner owner’s wife, both conspiring to murder the husband. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946 / 35mm Print) screens at The Hollywood Theatre, Portland. More info HERE.
Sun 4/2nd 3pm: The first of three adaptations of Richard Matheson’s ‘I Am Legend’ (the 2nd being 1973’s The Omega Man and the last being 2007’s I Am Legend) THE LAST MAN ON EARTH (1964) stars Vincent Price as a scientist leading a solitary life searching for the cure to the plague that wiped out all humans. Screens at ACMI, Melbourne, Australia. More info HERE.
Sun 4/2nd 2pm: Back to back beloved Disney animated classics with a Double Feature of SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937) + SLEEPING BEAUTY (1959) plus a rare Disney 35mm short: ‘Mickey Down Under’. Screens at The Astor Theatre, Melbourne, Australia. More info HERE.
Sun 4/2nd 3pm: An endlessly quotable script from Cameron Crowe, Amy Heckerling’s (Clueless) directional debut stars Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold and Phoebe Cates in all out stoner slacker hilarity. FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982 / 35mm Print) screens at The Paris Theatre, New York City with Amy Hecklerling in person for post film conversation. More info HERE
Sun 4/2nd 7:30pm: From the Director of Chariots of Fire. A fur trapper played by Al Pacino, becomes convinced to fight for the freedom of the Thirteen Colonies to avenge his son who was captured by the redcoats. REVOLUTION: DIRECTOR’S CUT (1985), with Al Pacino in person for Q&A, screens at The Aero Theatre x American Cinematheque, Santa Monica. More info HERE.
Sun 4/2nd 4:45pm & 6:45pm: With its eerie, coolly surreal cutout animation, brilliant psychedelic jazz score and wondrous creatures and landscapes, this Cannes-winning counterculture classic is a perennially compelling statement against conformity and violence. FANTASTIC PLANET (1973) screens at The Frida Cinema, Santa Ana, California. More info HERE.