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“Deliberately sordid.” A “trashy, sex-plugged piece.” “Revolting” and the “best example of bad taste yet seen.” Those are just a few of the phrases critics in 1933 hurled at “The Story of Temple Drake,” Paramount’s adaptation of William Faulkner’s controversial…
This screening is SOLD OUT. In Under the Silver Lake, an aimless 33-year-old, pop culture obsessed conspiracy theorist named Sam (Andrew Garfield) begins investigating the sudden disappearance of his neighbor Sarah (Riley Keough) after they share a brief romantic evening in the Silver…
NO FEAR, NO DIE is a rarely-screened early masterpiece from the legendary Claire Denis (Beau Travail), presented in a glistening brand-new 4K restoration. Awash in ’90s style and nocturnal atmosphere, Claire Denis’ rarely screened second film No Fear, No Die plunges us…
Get heavy and get freaky with our PSYCHEDELIA HAPPY HOUR! Heavily featuring videos and live clips from neo-psych gods King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, this happy hour will feature a mélange of mind-blowing music and psychotropic visuals. Turn on,…
"A bizarre head-trip festival of occult psychedelia, heatstroke visuals, Age-of-Aquarius nude dancing and violence through poster-paint fake blood splattered about the place." –Peter Bradshaw, Guardian It was the landmark cult film that began the whole Midnight Movie phenomena of the…
“Perhaps the greatest road movie of all time!” –Collider Director George Miller's landmark and influential sci-fi actioner set in a bleak post-apocalyptic Australia became a cult hit and made Mel Gibson a global star. Gibson returns as burned-out adventurer Max…
"THE BEST FILM OF THE 21ST CENTURY... Daniel Day-Lewis gives perhaps the greatest, certainly the most exotic performance of his career... the movie perhaps looks even stranger, starker and more unforgiving now than when it was released in 2007." –Guardian A…
“This ecstatic panorama of furious visions and revolutionary dreams in the vast, violent landscape of rural Brazil...is one of the founding works of modern Brazilian cinema.” –Richard Brody, The New Yorker Glauber Rocha's sophomore feature is a scorched-earth allegory about…
NEXT MONTH, the international (low-budget) world of espionage takes over FIST CITY with DEADLY SPYGAMES at Arkadin Cinema & Bar. This vanity project by jack-of-all-trades, Jack M. Sell, is a bizarre mix of violent action, goofy satire, and lots of reused footage. Co-starring…
Consistently ranked among the greatest films ever made, Buster Keaton's THE GENERAL is so brilliantly conceived and executed that it continues to inspire awe and laughter with every viewing. Rejected by the Confederate army as unfit, and taken for a…
Bring in a VHS tape, and you’ll get in free. It can be absolutely anything — a forgotten bargain-bin B-movie, a Hollywood classic, an aerobics tape, a training video, a home movie. Anything! But there’s an incentive to bring us…
An after-dark festival of surreal comedy breaking the staid format of the nightly talk show, LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN was a cult hit in its day and remains a bottomless repository of oddball surrealism. Masturbating Bear, Walker: Texas Ranger…
This film is showing twice -- indoors at 7 pm and outdoors at 9 pm. Please select your preferred time when checking out. "Still the Coens’ masterpiece — their funniest movie, and quite possibly their most poignant as well… Once…
“Remains a masterpiece, a timeless contemplation of life's essential mystery and a triumph of bold, innovative style.” –Los Angeles Times One of the 1960s’ great international art-house sensations, Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna) was for many the grand unveiling of…
When a teenage girl is miraculously saved by a heart surgeon, the doctor begins to flirt with her. Her father doesn’t believe her and unbeknownst to all, the doctor is obsessed with the girl. Starring Academy Award nominee-turned-prolific anything-for-a-buck schlock-starrer…
"★★★★★ – Freaky and far-out, Michelangelo Antonioni’s fascinating and under-appreciated 1970 film Zabriskie Point mocked and critically patronised at the time... short of travelling by time machine, watching this film is the best way to visit the Los Angeles of…
The next Head Cleaner Theatre will be a special two-night event, A TV HUG TWOFER! A pair of video mixtapes curated and edited by Mark Willey composed of cartoons, commercials, music videos, and various video detritus of the childhoods of a…
The next Head Cleaner Theatre will be a special two-night event, A TV HUG TWOFER! A pair of video mixtapes curated and edited by Mark Willey composed of cartoons, commercials, music videos, and various video detritus of the childhoods of a…
"Like Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, Georgiy Daneliya’s 1986 film Kin-dza-dza! is, at bottom, biting social satire disguised as dystopian science fiction. Deploying unabashedly absurdist humor, both films decry the alienating effects of bureaucracy, abhor the arbitrary terrors imposed by an authoritarian regime, and exhibit…
As our month-long Lost in the Desert series cruises along, stop off in a dusty little nowhere town and settle in for some gut-wrenching violence in the sweltering Arizona heat. This underrated, underseen, and unclassifiable horror-thriller plays out like a…
