MS. 45 (1981)
Abel Ferrara
- 84 minutes
Friday Nov 15 - Saturday Nov 16 / 10pm
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Newly restored and UNCUT. Visionary filmmaker Abel Ferrara’s incendiary break-out feature blurs the thin line between exploitation sleaze and art house salvation. Taking place on the grimy New York streets of the early 1980s, MS 45 is a hauntingly surreal, furiously feminist, surprisingly smart and horrifically brutal journey of one woman’s retaliation. Zoë Lund’s unforgettable mute performance, Joe Delia’s no wave jazz score and Ferrara’s command of the medium make this low budget masterpiece essential cinema.
THE LIGHTHOUSE
Robert Eggers
- 110 minutes
Starts Friday November 22
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From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind modern horror masterpiece The Witch, comes this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers in the 1890s (portrayed by Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson) who start to lose their sanity when a storm hits the a remote and mysterious New England island. A gripping story brilliantly filmed and led by a pair of powerhouse performances, THE LIGHTHOUSE further establishes Robert Eggers as a filmmaker of exceptional talent.
ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL (1979)
Alan Arkush
- 94 minutes
Friday Nov 22 - Saturday Nov 23 / 10pm
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Well, you don't care about history? You'd better reconsider – because the 40th Anniversary of ROCK ’N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL is compulsory education for scholars of cult cinema! It’s1979 and Riff Randell (P.J. Soles) is the rockingest rebel at Vince Lombardi High. Ms. Togar (Mary Woronov) is the strict new principal with plans to rule the school like her own personal dictatorship. And the hottest band around, The Ramones are coming to town. Striking back against Togar's record burnings and iron-fisted discipline, Riff leads a revolt that rocks the roof right off the school'’s hallowed halls! Gabba Gabba Hey!
FANTASTIC FUNGI
Louie Schwartzberg
- 81 minutes
Coming Soon
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FANTASTIC FUNGI is a consciousness-shifting film that takes us on an immersive journey through time and scale into the magical earth beneath our feet, an underground network that can heal and save our planet. Through the eyes of renowned scientists and mycologists like Paul Stamets, best-selling authors Michael Pollan, Eugenia Bone, Andrew Weil and others, we become aware of the beauty, intelligence and solutions the fungi kingdom offer us in response to some of our most pressing medical, therapeutic, and environmental challenges.
Using time-lapse macro cinematography that is gorgeous, mesmerizing and often startling in the natural beauty it reveals, FANTASTIC FUNGI quickly proves to be one of the year’s most mind-blowing, soul-cleansing and yes, immensely entertaining triumphs as it offers nothing less than a model for planetary survival
CHOPPING MALL(1986)
Jim Wynorski
- 77 minutes
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Friday November 29 - 10pm
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Where shopping costs you an arm and a leg! A group of horny teens sneak into a mall. But they soon find themselves confronted with mall security: a team of blood-thirsty, high-tech Robots gone haywire. The greatest 1980’s anti-consumerist sci-fi horror killer robot cult classic of all time, CHOPPING MALL crams more slit-throats, lasers, and exploding robots into 77 minutes than most filmmakers can muster in an entire career.
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