Starring: Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs, Glen Gould, Brandon Oakes
The Future of Film is Female presents a special presentation of Rhymes for Young Ghouls as both a ten year anniversary screening of its premiere and a celebration in honor of the late Jeff Baraby who sadly passed away last year. This screening will include recorded introductions by casting director Rene Hayes (Killers of the Flower Moon) and K. Devery Jacobs (Rhymes for Young Ghouls, Reservation Dogs). To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.
One of the most important new voices to take up horror, Mi’kmaq filmmaker Jeff Barnaby was vocally committed to Indigenous, factually grounded storytelling. Over a mere two features and a handful of shorts, he proved his mastery of the genre film as a tool for highlighting the grievances and grief of his people. Starting from the real-life horror of Canada’s residential school system, Barnaby mixes elements of the supernatural with tragic family melodrama and an insider’s view of a blighted community. On a fictional Red Crow reservation, where Canadian First Nations people suffer under racist governmental control, a teenage girl organizes a posse of disillusioned friends to avenge their mistreatment by a sadistic white agent. Sadly, these wounds remain open: fresh revelations about the history of abuse that inspired the film were still breaking news in 2021. – Ron Magliozzi, Horror: Messaging the Monstrous (MoMA, 2022)
Starring: Megumi Ogata, Kotono Mitsuishi, Yuko Miyamura, Akira Ishida, Fumihiko Tachiki, Maaya Sakamoto
From legendary director Hideaki Anno, Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time is the fourth and final installment of the REBUILD OF EVANGELION films, bringing an epic conclusion to the story of Shinji and his fellow Eva pilots, with the stunning visuals and thought-provoking storytelling that has made EVANGELION a global pop culture phenomenon. Misato and her anti-NERV group Wille arrive at Paris, a city now red from core-ization. Crew from the flagship Wunder land on a containment tower. They only have 720 seconds to restore the city. When a horde of NERV Evas appear, Mari’s improved Eva Unit 8 must intercept. Meanwhile, Shinji, Asuka, and Rei (Provisional Name) wander about Japan.
Starring: Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody
American Fiction is Cord Jefferson’s hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish “Black” book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
Starring: Luca Padovan, Christian Bale, Dave Bautista, Gemma Chan, Willem Dafoe, Karen Fukuhara, Florence Pugh
A young boy named Mahito yearning for his mother ventures into a world shared by the living and the dead. There, death comes to an end, and life finds a new beginning. A semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, death, and creation, in tribute to friendship, from the mind of Hayao Miyazaki.
This documentary brings forward a popular era while unearthing many artists, photographers, and stories that you may not already know. The 1980s art scene is famous for break-out artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, but there were many other artists who made a powerful impact.
Make Me Famous is the story of the Lower East Side art movement through an unknown artist, fully allowing the creativity itself to take centerstage. Set during arguably the last great art explosion in American history, Make Me Famous tells the story of unknown painter, Edward Brezinski in his quest for fame. Our film gives an intimate portrait of what it was like to be an artist in N.Y.C. in the 1980s. It delves into the spirit of the artists themselves, what drove their generation and what they were up against.
Make Me Famous follows the talented Edward Brezinski as he famously eats a Donut from a Robert Gober sculpture at the Paula Cooper Gallery and all that follows. Through a real time investigation in the South of France, we unearth the truth about what happened to Brezinski and his mysterious death in the Côte d’Azur.
Starring: John Boyega, Jamie Foxx, Teyonah Parris, Kiefer Sutherland, David Alan Grier
Join artistic intellectual Amanda Seales in Brooklyn for Smart Funny & Black @ the movies: a screening and talk back series exploring comedic films as social commentary. Turning the theater into a classroom gather with Ms. Seales and fellow curious minds to exchange insights and interpretations of comedy’s unique role as a necessary tool of satire and subversive messaging through Black films.
A series of eerie events thrusts an unlikely trio (John Boyega, Jamie Foxx and Teyonah Parris) onto the trail of a nefarious government conspiracy in this pulpy mystery caper.
Starring: Stephen Dorff, Moises Arias, Jason Genao, Karrueche Tran, Mike O’Hearn, Emily Willis, Scott Bakula, Bella Thorne
Set in an otherworldly human existence, scientist Sterling Pierce dedicated his life to the quest for immortality, slowly creating the building blocks of a groundbreaking serum named “Divinity.” Jaxxon Pierce, his son, now controls and manufactures his father’s once-benevolent dream. Society on this barren planet has been entirely perverted by the supremacy of the drug, whose true origins are shrouded in mystery. Two mysterious brothers arrive with a plan to abduct the mogul, and with the help of a seductive woman named Nikita, they will be set on a path hurtling toward true immortality.
Starring: Aaron Jackson, Josh Sharp, Megan Mullally, Nathan Lane, Megan Thee Stallion, Bowen Yang
Please be advised: this movie will feature words to the musical numbers on screen and audience singing and participation will be allowed during the screening. Our usual no talking policy will not apply to audience participation during the sing-along screenings.
Two self-obsessed businessmen discover they’re long-lost identical twins and come together to plot the reunion of their eccentric divorced parents.
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Joel Grey, Ian Holm, Jeroen Krabbé, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Alec Guinness
The first ever U.S. screening of Steven Soderbergh’s Mr. Kneff! Before the film, ticketholders will receive one complimentary cocktail at the Trees Lounge bar, courtesy of Signani 63.
A writer guy in 1919 Prague uses his dead-end job as inspiration for his fantastical fiction.
Starring: Joey Lawrence, Bette Midler, Billy Joel, Cheech Marin, Richard Mulligan, Roscoe Lee Browne
In this animated update of the classic “Oliver Twist” tale, Oliver (Joey Lawrence) is an orphaned kitten taken in by a gang of thieving dogs, led by cavalier canine Dodger (Billy Joel) and owned by down-and-out pickpocket Fagin (Dom DeLuise). While pulling a job in the streets of New York City, Oliver winds up being adopted by a rich girl, Jenny (Natalie Gregory), and landing on easy street. But through a series of events, a loan shark threatens the peaceful new arrangement.
