Starring: Alex Hurt, Addison Timlin, Motell Gyn Foster, Joseph Castillo-Midyett, John Speredakos, Michael Buscemi, Joe Swanberg, Barbara Crampton, James Le Gros, Marshall Bell
NYC premiere
Tortured artist Charley (Alex Hurt) tries to numb the pain of his past with booze. As a string of grisly murders rocks his small town, he comes to the realization that he might be the culprit. After nights of heavy drinking, he finds unexplained gore—and manifests gruesome memory flashes through his artwork.
Blackout is the third in Fessenden’s artful take on the classic Universal Monsters, following Habit and Depraved. This film continues his theme of critiquing the monster inside all people and with beautiful practical effects to boot. —Caitlin Hughes
Starring: Olsen Fouéré, Gary Whelan, Nigel O’Neill, Simone Collins, Charlie Maher
East Coast premiere
As part of a secret society dedicated to the belief that modern alchemy can be uncovered through old folk songs, a young couple unwittingly enters a world of supernatural danger and otherworldly powers after they listen to the wrong song sung by the wrong person.
With its disorienting energy and fresh spin on Irish folk horror, writer-director Paul Duane’s first feature instantly casts a hypnotic and unsettling spell over you and never loosens its grip, leading to an unhinged finale that’s unlike anything else out there. —Matt Barone
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To celebrate the spooky season, Sundays on Fire presents a Grimm Confucian fairy tale, set in a haunted forest full of wolves with glowing eyes and dead beauties flitting through the treetops. This action-horror movie so iconic, so award-winning, and so groundbreaking that its images feel like they’re being branded onto your brain.
Starring one of cinema’s greatest onscreen couples (one of whom happens to be a ghost), this funny, earthy romance feels like nothing you’ve ever seen before. We won’t tell you the title until it appears onscreen, and there’s nothing about this movie that isn’t fun. Visually gorgeous, totally lunatic, even taking a time-out for a musical number based on a Taoist sutra, it’s also anchored by a strong undercurrent of melancholy.
Starring: Aaron Jackson, Josh Sharp, Megan Mullally, Nathan Lane, Megan Thee Stallion, Bowen Yang
Two self-obsessed businessmen discover they’re long-lost identical twins and come together to plot the reunion of their eccentric divorced parents.
A one-of-a-kind, never to be repeated journey through the histories of Pavement. Featuring a short film, clips, footage, songs and all that sort of thing.
Photos and phone use will be strictly prohibited during this screening; the bar in Trees Lounge will be open, but there will not be food & beverage service in the theater during this show
The cultural phenomenon continues on the big screen! Immerse yourself in this once-in-a-lifetime concert film experience with a breathtaking, cinematic view of the history-making Eras Tour concert, performed by the one and only Taylor Swift.
Starring: James Bond III, Kadeem Hardison, Cynthia Bond, Bill Nunn
Joel (James Bond III), a quiet divinity student from North Carolina, starts to question his faith. So he heads to New York to visit his friend K (Kadeem Hardison), a struggling actor, who takes him out bar-hopping. They meet a gorgeous seductress (Cynthia Bond) who turns out to be a succubus, a demon spirit luring black lotharios to their deaths. When she sets her eyes on Joel, K turns to the help of Dougie (Bill Nunn), a drunken cop who specializes in supernatural investigations.
Starring: Samantha Mathis, River Phoenix, Dermot Mulroney, Sandra Bullock, K.T. Oslin, Anthony Clark
Fresh off the bus from New York City, Miranda Presley (Samantha Mathis) lands in Nashville, just missing that day’s audition at the Bluebird Cafe, where aspiring country music songwriters put their hearts on the line in the hopes of making it in “Music City.” Planting shallow roots, she returns weekly, repeatedly shot down as not yet ready. Meanwhile she becomes romantically entangled with James Wright (River Phoenix) and Kyle Davidson (Dermot Mulroney), also songwriters trying to distinguish themselves – the amorous tumult fuels the creative fires.
An outlier from director Peter Bogdanovich, The Thing Called Love was one of the last films River Phoenix appeared in before his death. He wears the role well, clearly energized by performing music for the film, having written two songs especially.
Starring: Christine Lahti, River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Martha Plimpton, Jonas Abry
Arthur Pope (Judd Hirsch) and his wife, Annie (Christine Lahti), are fugitives, perpetually on the run from federal authorities due to their antiwar activity during the 1960s. The couple moves around the country with their two sons — young Harry (Jonas Abry) and his older teenage brother, Danny (River Phoenix). On the verge of adulthood, Danny longs to set out on his own and live a more stable life, but he knows this could mean permanent separation from his family.
Starring: Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, David Strathairn
Computer hacker Martin (Robert Redford) heads a group of specialists who test the security of various San Francisco companies. Martin is approached by two National Security Agency officers who ask him to steal a newly invented decoder. Martin and his team discover that the black box can crack any encryption code, posing a huge threat if it lands in the wrong hands. When Martin realizes the NSA men who approached him are rogue agents, they frame him for the murder of the device’s inventor.
