Starring: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Cookie Mueller, Edith Massey
The travelling sideshow ‘Lady Divine’s Cavalcade of Perversions’ is actually a front for a group of psychotic kidnappers, with Lady Divine herself the most vicious and depraved of all, but her life changes after she gets raped by a 15-foot lobster.
Starring: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano, María Barranco, Rossy de Palma, Fernando Guillén Cuervo
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When Pepa Marcos’ (Carmen Maura) lover Ivan (Fernando Guillén) suddenly leaves her without any explanation, she embarks on a strange journey to discover why. On the way she meets a variety of eccentric characters, including Ivan’s son from a previous relationship (Antonio Banderas), his fiancee Marissa (Rossy de Palma) and a Shiite terrorist cell who have been secretly holding her best friend Candela (María Barranco) hostage. It’s a film noir take on the romantic comedy.
Starring: Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Bill Hunter
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When drag queen Anthony (Hugo Weaving) agrees to take his act on the road, he invites fellow cross-dresser Adam (Guy Pearce) and transsexual Bernadette (Terence Stamp) to come along. In their colorful bus, named Priscilla, the three performers travel across the Australian desert performing for enthusiastic crowds and homophobic locals. But when the other two performers learn the truth about why Anthony took the job, it threatens their act and their friendship.
Starring: Tim Curry, Richard O’Brien, Susan Sarandon, Meat Loaf, Barry Bostwick, Patricia Quinn, Nell Campbell, Peter Hinwood
In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon), stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker (Meat Loaf) and a creepy butler (Richard O’Brien). Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named “Rocky.”
Starring: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby
Ethan Hunt and the IMF team must track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity if it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than the mission — not even the lives of those he cares about most.
Starring: Sonny Carl Davis, Bruce Dern, Lorelei Linklater, Lee Eddy
New York premiere
A dreamlike portrait in the vein of Lucky meets Blaze. Buck is a dying, pain-killer-addicted relic from Austin, Texas’ “Cosmic Cowboy” music scene… and he is on his literal last leg. Told through his colorfully fragmented and musical point of view, his swan song unfolds as a visual ballad, capturing the humor and melancholy of a bad man’s final days. With his faithful dog Chester at his side, he gets one last goodbye to the friends and family who all wish they could have forgotten him already.
Starring: Catherine Mary Stewart, Vladek Sheybal, George Gilmour, Joss Ackland
Kick off the summer with ‘NYC’s Apple Super-Fan’ Joe Berger (The Deuce Film Series) and the staggeringly stupendous spectacle of The Apple… Raffle pre-show!! Disco after-party in Trees-Lounge!!
Disastrous misfire or self-aware masterpiece? Biblical allegory or hyper-exaggerated schlock n’ roll? Social commentary or salacious gratification?? The Apple will leave you incredulous, wondering, a la Showgirls, what the hell were they thinking??
Menahem Golan, who (along with cousin Yoram Globus) infected the world with truly tasteless films throughout the Eighties – thanks to their infamous (and now defunct) Cannon Films – writes and directs The Apple: a film which – only in hindsight – could be understood as a brilliantly surreal and extraordinarily entertaining satire on the decadent, debauched disco decade…responsible for Jesus Christ Superstar, Studio 54, Roger Daltry, Saturday Night Fever, and a little too much blow.
The Apple concerns Bibi (Catherine Mary Stewart) and Alphie (George Gilmour), two sweet kids trying, through folk music, to spread peace and harmony to a world tainted by narcissism and greed. They quickly prove no match to the evil Mr. Boogalow (Vladek Sheybal) and his monolithic BIM Empire, which holds a firm grasp over the world’s entertainment industry and – eventually – free will. Bibi simply can’t resist temptation and quickly signs her soul away, succumbing to a life of fast love, fast money, and fast music. She becomes a rock and roll Goddess, and Alphie is left to fight the injustices of an authoritarian society on his own. But will his integrity remain intact? Will he ever see the Bibi he once knew and loved again? Most importantly, will he see a world freed from the tight leather, teased hair, and hologram fashions made obligatory by the BIM??
A document of an era long past (pre-AIDS, pre-crack, pre-Reagan), The Apple paints a portrait of American (sub)culture post-Vietnam, seen through the eyes of a Polish, Israeli-born and raised madman. Dazzling direction, absurd art design, an unbelievably over-the-top score… The Apple will leave you satiated.
Glammed-up disco divas! Glittery queens! Bulging camel-toes! DO THE BIM!!
Starring: Sophie Wilde, Miranda Otto, Otis Dhanji, Alexandra Jensen, Joe Bird
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Betty Buckley, Ashlyn Sanchez, Spencer Breslin
When a wave of unexplained suicides causes people to flee New York City out of fear of a bio-terrorist attack, the fragile marriage of Elliott (Mark Wahlberg) and Alma (Zooey Deschanel) is put to the test. Questionable scientific theories and a love of mood rings may not be enough to get them to a safe and stable place.
Reviled by critics at a time when many were doubting the storytelling power of M. Night Shyamalan, The Happening has found some reappraisal as an effective thriller with just the right amount of idiosyncrasies to make it a signature Shyamalan creation.
Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett
The culmination of nearly 10 years’ work and conclusion to Peter Jackson’s epic trilogy based on the timeless J.R.R. Tolkien classic, “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” presents the final confrontation between the forces of good and evil fighting for control of the future of Middle-earth. Hobbits Frodo and Sam reach Mordor in their quest to destroy the `one ring’, while Aragorn leads the forces of good against Sauron’s evil army at the stone city of Minas Tirith.
