“A remarkable accomplishment… it only gets better with time!” –USA Today From the ingenious humans at Pixar came the tender-hearted story of…a machine – imbued with so much feeling that it won over audiences in the year of its release,…
THE MATRIX (1999)
“One of the greatest science fiction films of all time… a dazzling combination of radical political messaging, kick-ass action sequences and a brilliant premise.” –Rolling Stone The Wachowskis’ mind-bending, bullet-dodging existentialist action movie posits that observable reality is really a…
THE ANIMATRIX (2003) — $7
“A+. THE ANIMATRIX is a keeper! it reaches the excitement of Spirited Away…a joy for the animation fan to watch” –The Anime Guide From the creators of The Matrix, this groundbreaking collection of nine short films from seven of the…
VHS NIGHT – Admission Price: One VHS Tape
We will be playing a mystery VHS tape, and it’s up to you what we’ll see! This month, you’re encouraged (though not required!) to bring a holiday tape! Bring in a VHS tape, and you’ll get in FREE! It can…
JUNK HEAD (2017) — a stop-motion sci-fi masterpiece 7 years in the making
“A stop-motion masterpiece over 7 years in the making…Stop what you’re doing and watch this beautiful passion project.” –Polygon Produced over the course of seven years by self-taught filmmaker Takahide Hori, JUNK HEAD is a lovingly crafted, painstakingly animated stop-motion…
SHINJUKU LOVE STORY (1987) presented by Fist City
Love conquers all in FIST CITY this month! It’s a tale as old as time…Boy meets Girl (and cat), Boy and Girl run afoul of two corrupt, sleazy cops, Boy and Girl also piss off the yakuza, Boy and Girl…
Yorgos Lanthimos’ THE LOBSTER (2015) w/ weird animal shorts @ 4 pm
“THE LOBSTER is often startlingly funny in the way it proposes its surreal conceits, and then upsettingly grim in the way it follows through on them. It’s not quite that suicide, mutilation and murder are treated as jokes, but more…
Giallo Double Feature: Dario Argento’s THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE (1970) + Lucio Fulci’s DON’T TORTURE A DUCKLING (1972), presented by Cinematic Void
This double feature is co-presented by Cinematic Void, which helps organize January Giallo screenings each year at cinemas around the country. This year, Arkadin pulls on its black gloves and joins the movement with two absolute essentials. See either film…
Stanley Kubrick’s A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)
“What our nightmares have accustomed us to see in dreams, Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange shows us in broad daylight. It is one of the most unsettling films in the whole of cinema.” –London Evening Standard Being the adventures of…
George Lucas’ debut dystopian sci-fi mind-bender THX 1138 (1971) w/ George Lucas Early Shorts @ 5 pm — $7
“THX 1138 feels like a hypnotic dreamscape, so luminously stark, from its white-on-white abstract sets to the wide-eyed, bald, near catatonic residents of this world.” -Washington Post A chilling exploration of the future is also a compelling examination of the present…