4K Restoration with 7.1 mix 50 years ago, five youths on a weekend getaway in the Texas countryside fell prey to a butcher in a mask made of human skin and his cannibalistic family, and horror cinema would never be the same. Violent, confrontational, and shockingly realistic, director Tobe Hooper’s THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE […]
Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema: discover director Valentyn Vasyanovych’s Reflection and Atlantis In collaboration with FNC Deaf mute Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for deaf-and-dumb. In this new place, he needs to find his way through the hierarchy of the school’s network dealing with crime and prostitution, The Tribe. By taking part of several robberies, he […]
Elvira will go to any lengths to compete with her insanely beautiful stepsister, the enchanting Agnes, and is willing to use blood, sweat and tears to conquer the prince’s heart. In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira fights tooth and nail to become the belle of the ball. A sinister twist […]
New 4K restoration An angelically beautiful Catherine Deneuve was launched to stardom by this dazzling musical heart-tugger from Jacques Demy. She plays an umbrella-shop owner’s delicate daughter, glowing with first love for a handsome garage mechanic, played by Nino Castelnuovo. When the boy is shipped off to fight in Algeria, the two lovers must grow […]
Double bill presented with short intermission THE UNKNOWN – The most celebrated and exquisitely perverse of the many collaborations between Tod Browning and his legendary leading man Lon Chaney, The Unknown features a wrenchingly physical performance from “the Man of a Thousand Faces” as the armless Spanish knife thrower Alonzo (he flings daggers with his […]
Palme d’Or Favorites – Cannes Film Festival In a village in Protestant northern Germany, on the eve of World War I, the children of a church and school run by the village schoolteacher and their families experience a series of bizarre incidents that inexplicably assume the characteristics of a punishment ritual. Who could be responsible […]
Set in the suburbs of Boulogne-Sur-Mer in northern France, The Worst Ones captures a film within a film as it follows the production of a feature whose director turns to the local Cité Picasso housing project for casting. Eager to capture performances of gritty authenticity, the director selects four working class teenagers to act in […]
Julie, 30, flirted with psychology and photography before settling on writing. She has a serious boyfriend named Aksel, a graphic novelist 10 years her senior. Their chemistry is undeniable . . . until she meets Elvind and falls madly in love. Through 12 chapters by turns playful and serious, Joachim Trier offers a journey through […]
New 4K Restoration Thelma and Louise – a bored housewife and a straight-laced waitress at a coffee shop – are best friends who are sick of what they’ve settled for. Deciding to escape the tedium of their everyday lives, the pair sneak off in Louise’s ’66 T-bird convertible for a three-day fishing trip with no […]