Drive, He Said
Drive, He Said
Philadelphia, PA
Fresh off of his Five Easy Pieces success, Jack Nicholson mounted his enormously irreverent directorial debut. Based on the best-selling novel by Jeremy Larner, Drive, He Said, free-spirited and sobering by turns, is a sketch of the exploits of a disaffected college basketball player (William Teppe…
Friday, June 28 2024
3:00 PM
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5:00 PM
Blood and Black Lace
Blood and Black Lace
Philadelphia, PA
Before Dario Argento’s Deep Red, there was Mario Bava’s Blood and Black Lace. At the Cristiana Haute Couture fashion house, models and their boyfriends excel at the art of backstabbing, blackmail, and snorting cocaine. That is, until a faceless maniac embarks on a mission of death! After the one-tw…
Saturday, May 4 2024
7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
Vanishing Point
Vanishing Point
Philadelphia, PA
A road movie? A post-modern western? A countercultural statement fueled by drugs and adrenalin? Vanishing Point is all of these and more. While not a major success at the box office, Vanishing Point has since earned cult status from muscle car fanatics to cinephiles alike. The tale of ex-Vietnam ve…
Wednesday, May 29 2024
7:00 PM
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9:30 PM
Real Genius
Real Genius
Philadelphia, PA
At the prestigious university Pacific Tech, star student Chris Knight (Val Kilmer) is asked to mentor new student Mitch (Gabriel Jarret) as they work on a highly classified project. Chris’ campus hijinx threaten to derail the project but when it is revealed their work is being used for nefarious pu…
Friday, July 19 2024
3:00 PM
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5:00 PM
West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty
West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty
Philadelphia, PA
Mauritanian French director Med Hondo’s West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty proved a watershed event for African cinema—the continent’s first musical as well as a sui generis amalgam of historical epic, Broadway revue, Brechtian theater, and joyous agitprop. Using an enormous mock slave shi…
Saturday, May 11 2024
7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
The Linguini Incident
The Linguini Incident
Philadelphia, PA
Lucy (Rosanna Arquette) is an underpaid, underappreciated waitress at a terminally hip New York City restaurant called Dali. She’s also an aspiring escape artist desperately in need of cash in order to buy Harry Houdini’s wedding ring. Monte (David Bowie) is the shady but charming new bartender who…
Wednesday, July 10 2024
7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
Philadelphia, PA
A celebration of an artist’s life in the purest sense, Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus is the definitive swan song of one of the world’s greatest musicians. In late 2022, as a parting gift, Ryuichi Sakamoto mustered all of his energy to leave us with one final performance: a concert film featuring just him…
Thursday, May 2 2024
7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
The People's Joker
The People's Joker
Philadelphia, PA
This revolutionary DIY parody film and hilarious reimagining of the classic autobiographical coming-of-age story follows an unconfident, closeted trans girl as she moves to Gotham City to make it big as a comedian by joining the cast of UCB Live - a government-sanctioned late night sketch show in a…
Friday, May 3 2024
7:00 PM
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9:30 PM
Time of the Heathen
Time of the Heathen
Philadelphia, PA
Emerging from the void, mysterious drifter Gaunt (The Sting’s John Heffernan) wanders the upstate countryside in a daze with only his bible for company. But after happening upon the murder of a local female housekeeper at the hands of a rural deviant, Gaunt soon finds himself framed for the attack.…
Friday, May 10 2024
7:00 PM
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9:30 PM
The Freshman
The Freshman
Philadelphia, PA
Harold Lloyd’s biggest box-office hit was this silent comedy gem, featuring the befuddled everyman at his eager best as a new college student. Though he dreams of being a big man on campus, the freshman’s careful plans inevitably go hilariously awry, be it on the football field or at the Fall Froli…
Friday, May 31 2024
3:00 PM
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4:30 PM
