“Nothing human loves forever.” Join us on January 8 as we tip our hat to David Bowie (on his birthday!) with a double bill featuring two iconic performances from films starring the “thin white Duke”: LABYRINTH and THE HUNGER. Released in 1983, Tony Scott‘s directorial debut THE HUNGER is an erotically-charged goth cult-classic vampire romance … Read more
Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group’s deepest fears are laid bare. The piercingly funny and haunting debut film from writer-director Stephen Karam, adapted from his … Read more
Join the Planning Institute of BC’s South Coast Chapter for a screening and discussion of The Human Scale. 50 % of the world’s population lives in urban areas. By 2050 this will increase to 80%. Life in a mega city is both enchanting and problematic. Today we face peak oil, climate change, loneliness and severe … Read more
From noted Dutch filmmaker Tom Six comes the “final sequence” of his landmark body horror trilogy, THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE. Starring Eric roberts, Robert LaSardo, Bree Olsen, Tom Six, Laurence R. Harvey, Dieter Laser. Wednesday, June 10 Doors 9:00 / Movie 9:30 Tickets $10 in advance / $12 at the door Advance tickets available HERE *Must … Read more
THE HOUSEMAID is a wildly entertaining thriller starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried, based on the best-selling book. From director Paul Feig (TV’s ‘Freaks and Geeks,’ ‘Bridesmaids‘), the film plunges audiences into a twisted world where perfection is an illusion, and nothing is as it seems. Trying to escape her past, Millie (Sweeney) accepts a … Read more
Boundary-pushing cinematic visionary Lars von Trier (ANTICHRIST, DANCER IN THE DARK, BREAKING THE WAVES) returns with one of his most daring, masterfully provocative works yet – the highly controversial THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. We are set to screen the controversial director’s cut of the film – the one that screened at Cannes. In five … Read more
The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, Chilean writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism in THE HOLY MOUNTAIN is a spiritual quest for enlightenment pitting illusion against truth. The Alchemist (Jodorowsky) assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. … Read more
The latest from acclaimed director Alexander Payne (THE DESCENDANTS, NEBRASKA, SIDEWAYS), THE HOLDOVERS follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti, in a Golden Globe winning performance) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an … Read more
From the World Series of Board Games on the Vegas strip and dating back to ancient Mesopotamia, THE HOBBY: TALES FROM THE TABLETOP is an affectionate, character-driven portrait of the massive and diverse subculture of board games. With a fascinating cast of charming subjects – including the “Roger Ebert of board games”, a rock-climbing board … Read more
Director Robert Harmon‘s criminally overlooked film THE HITCHER is a violent thrill-ride featuring strong performances from Rutger Hauer and C. Thomas Howell in a tense, cat-and-mouse gem that, “did for hitch-hiking what JAWS did for ocean swimmers.” In other words, this newly restored slice of 80s-era “cinema obscura” is perfect for inclusion in the Rio … Read more
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