Starring: Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin, John Krasinski, Lake Bell, Rita Wilson

Jane (Meryl Streep), a successful restaurateur, has been divorced from Jake (Alec Baldwin) for many years, although they remain friends. When an innocent meal together turns into an affair, Jane finds that she is the other woman in the now-remarried Jake’s life. Meanwhile, Adam (Steve Martin), an architect hired to remodel her kitchen, is still stinging from his own divorce. He finds himself falling in love with Jane but soon realizes that he has become part of a triangle.

Starring: Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante

A Jewish-American princess, Judy Benjamin (Goldie Hawn), is devastated when her husband (Albert Brooks) drops dead on their wedding night. While she grieves a duplicitous recruiter for the Women’s Army Corps convinces her to enlist. Judy thinks her enlistment is like a vacation but Captain Lewis (Eileen Brennan) quickly dashes her hopes of an easy time. As Judy goes through basic training like any other grunt, she becomes a good soldier and develops a sense of self-esteem.

Starring: Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Rene Russo, Anders Holm, JoJo Kushner, Andrew Rannells

Starting a new job can be a difficult challenge, especially if you’re already retired. Looking to get back into the game, 70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker (Robert De Niro) seizes the opportunity to become a senior intern at an online fashion site. Ben soon becomes popular with his younger co-workers, including Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway), the boss and founder of the company. Whittaker’s charm, wisdom and sense of humor help him develop a special bond and growing friendship with Jules.

Starring: Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Kieran Culkin, George Newbern, Martin Short, B.D. Wong

George Banks (Steve Martin) and his wife, Nina (Diane Keaton), are the proud parents of Annie (Kimberly Williams), but when she returns from studying abroad and announces that she’s engaged, their whole world turns upside down, especially that of overprotective George. From meeting the in-laws to wedding plans with an over-the-top consultant (Martin Short) and his flamboyant assistant (B.D. Wong), it seems as if the troubles never end in this update of the classic Spencer Tracy comedy.

Starring: Marki Bey, Robert Quarry, Don Pedro Colley, Larry D. Johnson, Zara Cully

When nightclub owner Langston (Larry D. Johnson) refuses to sell out to local mob boss Morgan (Robert Quarry), he is beaten to death by a gang of hired thugs. His grief-stricken fiancee, Diana “Sugar” Hill (Marki Bey), vows revenge for his murder and turns to aged voodoo authority Mama Maitresse (Zara Cully). Together they conjure up the demonic spirit of Baron Samedi (Don Pedro Colley), who agrees to help Sugar. He raises an army of zombies and sets them upon Langston’s killers.

Starring: Reed Birney, Jim Carrington, John Fedinatz

Join The FOFIF for a special screening of Martha Coolidge’s restored and essential debut feature film, NOT A PRETTY PICTURE. Screening beforehand is the short film ALPHA KINGS by Faye Tsakas and Enrique Pedraza Botero. Introduction by The FOFIF. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

Blurring the line between documentary and storytelling, Martha Coolidge’s compelling meta-narrative examines her own sexual assault by a high-school classmate. Coolidge enlists actors to recreate the circumstances surrounding her rape and interviews her former roommate to illuminate the consequences and complexities of its aftermath. Hailed as “Brechtian” by critics, NOT A PRETTY PICTURE delves into the often-gendered psychology of rape, as well as Coolidge’s own struggle to understand how and why the assault occurred.

Digitally restored in 4K from original 16mm elements in 2022 by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation. Restoration funding was provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. A Janus Films release.

With ALPHA KINGS (2023)
Directed by Faye Tsakas and Enrique Pedraza Botero
From a rented mansion in suburban Texas, a group of young men sell a hyperbolic, alpha-male version of themselves on the internet. 15 min.

Starring: Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Raul Julia, Nastassja Kinski, Harry Dean Stanton

4K Restoration, supervised by Francis Ford Coppola, from the original negative

Hank (Frederic Forrest) and Frannie (Teri Garr) argue while celebrating their fifth anniversary. Yearning for a life of excitement and romance, Frannie fears that she is wasting her life on a man who shows no interest in her dreams of traveling to far-off places. The argument escalates and they break up. Heading in separate ways and taking to the streets, they both meet and spend the night with strangers. Hank with the seductive Leila (Nastassja Kinski), a runaway circus performer, and Frannie with Ray (Raul Julia), a handsome waiter who moonlights as a cocktail pianist and singer.

Warning: Images are not from the movies we’re showing. Trust us, you can’t imagine what we’re showing!

Once upon a time, a nice girl from Delaware went to Hong Kong and started kicking ass, becoming the biggest Western action star in Asia. Once upon a time, a scrappy five-year-old kid got sent to Chinese opera school, becoming an acrobatic genius and one of the biggest action stars in Asia. This month, we’re slamming them both together in this pitiless orgy of mayhem that sets the screen on fire with brutal beatdowns, savage storytelling, and some finishing moves that will make your spine shoot straight through your skull. Prepare to witness a pitch black, mid-80s classic of Hong Kong filmmaking on 35mm in a rowdy theater surrounded by a gobsmacked audience. Prepare to experience tooth-shattering, nerve-twisting, knuckle-shredding nirvana.

Starring: Jane Fonda, Maria Schneider, Ellen Burstyn, Jill Clayburgh, Anne Wiazemsky

Join The FOFIF for a special International Women’s Day screening of Delphine Seyrig’s infamous and essential documentary, BE PRETTY AND SHUT UP! / SOIS BELLE ET TAIS-TOI! To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

At the height of her acting fame and when she actively began challenging her image as an ethereal muse, Delphine Seyrig directed this sobering documentary about the male-dominated film industry and the pressures put upon women actors and the paucity of complex roles for them. Enlisting twenty-four American and French actresses, including Jane Fonda, Maria Schneider, Ellen Burstyn, Jill Clayburgh, Anne Wiazemsky and Juliet Berto, to engage in remarkably candid conversations about the obstacles and alienation they have faced, Seyrig tackled head-on, more than 40 years ago, much of the misogyny inherent in the field still being discussed today. Thus both visionary and before its time, yet sadly as relevant as ever, BE PRETTY AND SHUT UP! was an especially bold and brave endeavour for a screen icon whose image had been wrapped up in sensuality and male desire.

With a stark economy of means (filmed simply and directly on portable video in a casual portrait style by activist and filmmaker Carole Roussopoulos) and its focus on unadorned and powerful testimony, the film is very much about not shutting up; it’s about speaking out and being heard, not only as individual voices but also as a collective one. – Andréa Picard

Once again this year’s Music Driven program shows us that there are no lack of new and fresh ideas that defy convention but artists and stories in all genres of music that keep it continously vital. The individual visons and the excitement of watching a filmmaker and musicians creative collaboration unfold on screen show that we are still in a golden age of music videos and documentaries.

Q&A moderated by John Woods, Nitehawk Cinema

“Kandy” / Fever Ray
Martin Falk Sweden / 2022 / 4 min. / English
Martin Falck and Karin Dreijer’s collaboration on “Kandy” is strange and impeccable, tapping into uncomfortable emotions, simultaneously tender and unpleasant.

“Barley” / Water From Your Eyes
Rachel Brown / U.S. / 2023 / 4 min. / English
Music video for “Barley” the first single by Water From Your Eyes from their album “Everyone’s Crushed.”

“Wild Animals” / Liv.e
Liv.e
U.S. 2022 4 min. English Arresting visuals with a poignant narrative, a woman (Liv.e) explores the wild landscapes of both inner environment and outer relationships.

The Innocent Bystander
Sally Eckhoff / U.S. / 2023 / 6 min. / English
A moral tale from a most unusual source.

CORNERBOY
Kai Kurve / Germany / 2023 / 6 min. / English
A bad boy gets possessed by a fly, which confronts him with his own personality, his flaws and wrong doings.

“WILD AGAIN” / Nicole Marxen
Judd Myers / U.S. / 2021 – 2023 / 4 min. / English
A woman is created by unseen forces and set free on a post-human Earth.

“Shrieking Matter” / leor miller’s fear of her own desire
Alanna Floreck / U.S., New Zealand / 2023 / 3 min. / English
A nighttime collage of reflections, explosions of the new year, and other optical illusions.

Fanatic
Taran Killam / U.S. / 2023 / 16 min. / English
Charlie & Gerald revive their early 2000’s boyband, 2N1, for a competition with prize money that could remedy all of their financial woes. What could go wrong?

“One Glove” / Majorette
Paul DeSilva, Danielle Salomon / U.S. / 2023 / 2 min. / English
“One Glove” is a fantastical cautionary tale of the consequences of prioritizing present needs over future self.

“Bored, With You” / Klein Zage
Murdo Barker-Mill / U.S. / 2022 / 3 min. / English
In an after-hours diner, artist Klein Zage paints the aching emotions of a mundane romance.

“PEACE MANTRA” / Vango Jones
Vango Jones, Noel Spiva / U.S. / 2023 / 5 min. / English
A musical meditation for all the ways Vango Jones is welcoming peace into his life. The film was shot in Vango’s hometown, Saint Louis, MO USA.

“Favorite Ghost” / Matracia
Tyler Jensen / U.S. / 2024 / 4 min. / English
Grappling with the memory of an abusive relationship, one man confronts the lingering ghost he cannot shake.

“Sorry” / Domotic & the Lazours
James P. Gannon / U.S. / 2023 / 4 min. / English
Music video for the song “Sorry (for fooling you)” by Domotic & the Lazours from the album “A Brilliant Pairing”.

“Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl” / Chappell Roan
Jackie! Zhou / U.S. / 2023 / 3 min. / English
Our space alien girlie vlogs her first time in Los Angeles.

MnM
Twiggy Pucci Garçon / U.S. / 2023 / 15 min. / English
An exuberant portrait of chosen sisters Mermaid and Milan, two emerging runway divas in the drag ballroom community.