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“A vicious satire that remains as sharp as ever” -Scott Tobias, Guardian In 1991, Bret Easton Ellis’ novel American Psycho took the literary world by storm with its shocking depiction of the excesses of the 1980s as told through the devious actions…
"A fourth-wall-shattering, stream-of-consciousness black comedy that mocks war, America, Hollywood, television, the music business and the Monkees themselves. These days, it is fondly remembered as one of the weirdest and best rock movies ever made." -Guardian Hey, hey, it’s the…
"This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels." -Roger…
"Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last film, from 1975, is also in a way the ultimate film: its representation of depravity may be unsurpassable... Pasolini suggests that the classical values of Western civilization and the ostensibly progressive modernity that’s based on them…
"Bold, inventive and buttocks-out bonkers!" -The Incredible Suit One of the most absolutely nutso films of the 21st century is also one of the best. Pushing the boundaries of cinematic logic, Leos Carax's surrealist comedy-musical-Lynchian psychodrama extravaganza is a hallucinatory epic…
"The Killing of a Sacred Deer is humane and satirical, horrifying and hilarious." -David Sims, The Atlantic In 2017, the godfather of Greek Weird Wave produced his darkest, strangest film, a horror film with the twisted logic of a Grimm's fairy…
"Problematic, troubling, dangerous even, but breathtakingly original, and absolutely true to the times. The cutting edge doesn't get any sharper than this." -Time Out Harmony Korine’s debut feature is an audacious, lyrical evocation of America’s rural underbelly, and an elegy…
“Unhinged even for Takashi Miike... bloody and ejaculate-stained... reveling in ultraviolence” -Slant Magazine Prepare to descend into the gritty and violent underworld of Takashi Miike’s cult classic, Ichi the Killer. This wild yakuza-horror hybrid has endured as one of the…
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this screening has been canceled. All ticket holders will be refunded. "Brian De Palma at his most extreme... a satire of media obsession and radicalism-as-fashion toys with sitcom hyperbole, on-the-street journalism and bracingly committed satire." -Willamette…
"Although the surrealists didn't consider themselves terrorists, they were constantly fighting a society they despised. Their principal weapon wasn't guns, of course; it was scandal." -Luis Buñuel UN CHIEN ANDALOU (1929)"A mysterious, free-associating accumulation of images of violence, beauty and…
“Funny, sophomoric, brilliant, obscene, disjointed, marvelous, unintelligible and relevant. If anybody tries to improve it, they should be sentenced.” -Vincent Canby, The New York Times Mad Men meets Mad Magazine meets complete and utter madness in PUTNEY SWOPE, Robert Downey…
"Still creepy, still menacing, still hypnotic, and it is still dedicated, in its freaky way, to the ideal of eroticism" -Guardian When it was first unleashed on unsuspecting audiences at Cannes some 30 years ago, Crash caused controversy. Why, you…
“Watching is like opening a door and walking into another dimension, where time has stopped and beauty has been unleashed” -Martin Scorsese A breathtaking fusion of poetry, ethnography, and cinema, Sergei Parajanov’s masterwork overflows with unforgettable images and sounds. In…
Get an early start on Spooky Season with a balls-out, bug-fuck, absolutely brain-destroying slice of pure uncut horror madness. An inexplicably weird mix of psychedelic imagery, gross-out scares and incomprehensible mythology, this is one of the most notorious works to…