BRANDON LEE, SNOOP DOGG AND MORE IN OUR WEEKEND ROUND UP
Our picks for the weekend round up of classics on the big screen include a few unearthed gems including Lucio Fulci and a home video era rarity, gothic tales from The Crow and a ghostly Snoop Dogg lead revenge flick plus much more!
Fri 5/6th & Sat 5/7th Midnight: Brandon Lee's final performance haunts the gothic masterpiece of THE CROW (1994) screening at IFC Center, New York City. More info HERE.
Fri 5/6th Midnight: From Executive Producer Spike Lee comes the horror anthology gem set inside a funeral parlor as it's owner imparts four tales of terror on a group of drug dealers trapped inside. TALES FROM THE HOOD (1995) screens at The Coolidge Corner Theatre, Massachusetts. More info HERE.
Fri 5/6th 6:45pm: Luke, Leia, Han and Chewie take the fight for the freedom of the galaxy to the Empire's front door in the final installment of the original trilogy. STAR WARS EP. 6: RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983 / 1997 Re-issue) screens at The AFI Silver, Maryland. More info HERE.
Fri 5/6th 10pm: A mild mannered mouse discovers a secret society of highly-intelligent rats in her quest to save her family from a farmer, with Don Bluth's trademark stunning animation in THE SECRET OF NIMH (1982 / 35mm Print) screening at The American Cinematheque at Los Feliz. More info HERE.
Fri 6/6th & Sat 5/7th Midnight: The film that marked horror as being domesticated, Roman Polanski’s eerie thriller is the quintessential film about the devil. ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968) screens at The Nitehawk Cinema, Williamsburg NYC. More info HERE.
Fri 5/6th 9:15pm: A wildly ambitious, visually stunning relic of the home video era and a delicious secret known only to a handful of cult-film aficionados, a wild ride tackling the notions of surveillance society, and the nature of reality. SPLIT (1989 / 35mm Print) screens at The Roxie Cinema, San Francisco. Director Chris Shaw in attendance. More info HERE.
All Weekend: Life, art, and fantasy intermingle in Mai Zetterling’s sendup of gender relations in contemporary Sweden. THE GIRLS (1968) screens at Film Forum, New York City as part of their filmmaker retrospective. More info HERE.
All Weekend: Filmed entirely on 35mm in 1984, but abandoned during production. 35 years later, Vinegar Syndrome acquired the original unedited negative, painstakingly constructed & completed the film hiring voice talents of genre favorites. NEW YORK NINJA (1984 / 2021) screens at The Loft Cinema, Arizona. More info HERE.
All Weekend: A woman in trouble... thus the premise and execution of David Lynch's epic fever dream of Hollywood, lead by the incomparable Laura Dern, remains ambiguous and terrifying. INLAND EMPIRE (2006) at The Music Box Theatre, Chicago with a new, Director approved 4K remaster. More info HERE.
Sat 5/7th Midnight: Woe be unto him who opens one of the seven gateways to Hell, because through that gateway, evil will invade the world! Lucio Fulci's THE BEYOND (1981) screens at The New Beverly Cinema, Los Angeles with a restored 35mm Print. More info HERE.
Sat 5/7th Midnight: Snoop Dogg is Jimmy Bones, the neighborhood protector. When brutally murdered by a corrupt cop, Bones' elegant brownstone becomes his tomb. As his home becomes a ghetto, Jimmy returns as a ghost to get his revenge. BONES (2001) screens at The Coolidge Corner Theatre, Massachusetts. More info HERE.
Sat 5/7th 4:30pm: Made for $60k and grossing $248 million, this kick starter of the 'found footage' genre remains one of the most impressive runaway hits in all of American cinema. THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999 / 35mm Print) screens at The Museum of The Moving Image, New York City. More info HERE.
Sat 5/7th 8:30pm: Cult documentary about an aspiring filmmaker’s attempts to finance his dream project by finally completing the low-budget horror film he abandoned years before. AMERICAN MOVE (1999) at The Roxy Cinema, New York City. More info HERE.
Sun 5/8th 8pm: Hacker Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) is digitally abducted into the inner realm of the ENCOM computer, where he must compete in virtual gladiatorial games in order to survive. TRON (1982) in rare 70mm Print format screens at The American Cinematheque at The Aero Theatre. More info HERE.
Sun 5/8th 3:20pm: Trademark Stunning cinematography by the great Jack Cardiff abounds in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's British psychological drama BLACK NARCISSUS (1947), screening at The Prince Charles Cinema, London. More info HERE.
Sun 5/8th 11am: It's no accident when wealthy Charles (Henry Fonda) falls for Jean (Barbara Stanwyck). Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune! THE LADY EVE (1941 / 35mm Print) screens at The Music Box Theatre, Chicago. More info HERE.
Sun 5/8th 8:45pm: From the training of young Marine Corps recruits to their deployment to the Vietnam War, FULL METAL JACKET (1986) remains a terrifying look into the psychological terror of war on those that fight it. Screens at The French Cinematheque, Paris as part of their Stanley Kubrick retrospective. More info HERE.
Sun 5/8th 3:30pm: A Samurai classic. A wandering assassin for hire travels feudal Japan with his baby boy, chopping up those who need chopping and getting his just desserts.Kenji Misumi's LONE WOLF & CUB: SWORD OF VENGENACE (1972) screens at Braindead Studio, Los Angeles. More info HERE.
Sun 5/8th 7pm: Faye Dunaway is Joan Crawford, focusing on her downfall at MGM and the abuse inflicted on her daughter. MOMMIE DEAREST (1981) screens at The Hollywood Theatre, Portland for their twisted Mother's Day Special! More info HERE.
Sun 5/8th 7:45pm: Horror maestro Sam Raimi's underrated and devilish tale of a cursed young woman was the film makers spectacular return to form after the Spiderman trilogy. DRAG ME TO HELL (2009) screens at The Frida Cinema, Santa Ana. More info HERE.
Sun 5/8th 7:30pm: A Los Angeles themed double feature of Tom Cruise as hitman taking a cabbie on a killing spree, and Jack Nicholson uncovering corruption in the City of Angels' water supply in the 1930's. COLLATERAL (2004) + CHINATOWN (1974) screens at The Astor Theatre, Melbourne. More info HERE.
Sun 5/8th 9:30pm: The master of trash John Water's teams up again with Divine, as a housewife who’s subjected to relentless humiliations but believes for a brief moment she’s found redemption by way of a budding romance that leads to further degradation. Remarkably, this is all actually a comedy as only Waters can create. POLYESTER (1981 / 35mm Print) screens at The Metrograph, New York City. More info HERE.