Starring: Sunita Mani, Tallie Medel, Eleanore Pienta
The first to arrive will receive a MUBI tote bag, and all attendees get 30 days of MUBI free at mubi.com/snowybingbongs.
The Daniels presents Cocoon Central Dance Team’s mini-epic Snowy Bing Bongs Across the North Star Combat Zone, along with other “beautiful & bonkers” shorts to celebrate Mubi’s re-release of the film. Free gift from Mubi included with ticket.
Cocoon Central Dance Team takes us on a journey through time and space, playing different characters in their wonky universe full of dancing, music and bare butts.
Cocoon is a choreographed dance-comedy act that combines a hyper-earnest talent show quality with character-driven performances to subvert expectations of both comedy and dance. The group is a fixture in the New York comedy scene, having performed at Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, MoMA PS1, Caroline’s on Broadway, Upright Citizens Brigade (NYC and LA), The People’s Improv Theatre, Bell House NYC, Triskelion Arts and Ars Nova.
Starring: Sheila McCarthy, Paule Baillargeon, Ann-Marie MacDonald
This charming, whimsical story about a waifish daydreamer with artistic aspirations is structured around a video-recorded confession. In Patricia Rozema’s fanciful character study, aspiring photographer Polly (comedian Sheila McCarthy) lands a job at a Toronto art gallery run by Gabrielle (Paule Baillargeon), who is also a painter. Polly is impressed with Gabrielle’s paintings, but as Polly gets to know her lover Mary (Ann-Marie MacDonald) and becomes entangled in their lives, she realizes Gabrielle isn’t exactly who she appears to be. The gauche absent-minded temp with spiky orange hair and the polished, bourgeois curator with a gift for gab are like night and day, yet a strong connection builds between these two women through their shared love of art, and their genuine curiosity and appetite for love. Winner of the Prix de la Jeunesse at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton, Cara Seymour, Brian Cox
Nicolas Cage is Charlie Kaufman, a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald (Nicolas Cage). While struggling to adapt “The Orchid Thief,” by Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep), Kaufman’s life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman, Orlean’s book, become strangely intertwined as each one’s search for passion collides with the others’.
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Sissy Spacek, Christopher Walken, Dave Foley
Adam Webber (Brendan Fraser) has lived his entire life in confinement in a fallout shelter in Pasadena, Calif. When the Webber family’s rations of food and supplies grow thin, Adam’s eccentric father, Calvin (Christopher Walken), sends him on a dangerous restocking mission. When Adam emerges from the Webber family’s subterranean refuge for the first time, he finds that rumors of a nuclear apocalypse were totally false — and meets gorgeous Eve Rustikov (Alicia Silverstone).
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler, Joe Mantegna, Chris Farley, Michael McKean, Judd Nelson, Ernie Hudson, Michael Richards, Amy Locane
Three aspiring rock musicians — Chazz (Brendan Fraser), Pip (Adam Sandler) and Rex (Steve Buscemi) — are determined to have their band’s demo tape played on the air. Out of desperation, they sneak into a Los Angeles radio station, but when the manager, Milo (Michael McKean), meets them with hostility, they resort to threatening him with realistic-looking water pistols. Soon the situation escalates, and the none-too-bright rockers get in over their heads.
Starring: Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave
Once a powerful Hollywood director best known for Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein, James Whale (Ian McKellen) is long since retired and in increasingly poor health. His stalwart housekeeper, Hanna (Lynn Redgrave), quietly disapproves of Whale’s faceless, nameless parade of young gay lovers, but when the director takes an interest in new gardener Clayton Boone, a former Marine and Korean War veteran, it seems to be for something more than his usual casual conquest.
New York premiere
The Jews and The Blues is a musical journey that along the way becomes something much more. Join documentary filmmaker, musician and talk show host Drew Stone as he follows his passion for music and adventure traveling to Israel to discover how the blues ties into this incredible mix of cultures. Arab, Ethiopian, Yemen and Moroccan, all Jewish, all Israeli, united through the universal tie that binds us together… music!
Hosted by Wyatt Cenac and Donwill, with a special guest. Come early for a DJ set by Donwill in Trees Lounge from 8-9pm.
Back in the days before live-tweeting, the only way to express your thoughts while watching a movie was to yell them out loud to the delight of your friends, and the disgust of some old people a few rows in front of you. Comedian Wyatt Cenac (HBO’s Problem Areas, Bob’s Burgers) and musician Donwill (Tanya Morgan, Adulting with Michelle Buteau & Jordan Carlos) invite you to join them as they recreate the kind of ridiculous, loud mouthed magic that is generally found in movie theaters owned by a guy named Magic.
Each show, Donwill, Wyatt and a guest will present a classic film from the wonderful world of 70’s era Blaxploitation and Black cult cinema. The hosts will be mic’ed up providing commentary, lovingly poking fun at some of these films’ more absurd and problematic moments while also celebrating an important bygone era of Black independent cinema, whether that’s sharing obscure trivia or creating drinking games to highlight a film’s surprisingly large number of wide brimmed hats.
So feel free to put on your own wide brimmed hat, grab a drink and settle in to experience moviegoing the old-fashioned, most hilarious way.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock, Zazie Beetz, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Joey King, Michael Shannon
An experienced assassin finds himself battling other professional killers while trying to retrieve a briefcase aboard a speeding bullet train.
This screening is to commemorate the release of Jim Ruland’s new book, Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records, which will be available for purchase after the movie.
A fly on the wall look at Southern California’s exploding hardcore punk scene in the early 1980’s. More like a xerox fanzine than a glossy MTV document, The Slog Movie is one of director David Markey’s early films, and is a baby brother to his film ten years later 1991 The Year Punk Broke. Like that film, The Slog Movie puts the viewer right there, in the middle of the madness, leaving them to draw their own conclusions, totally atypical of 99% of most rock docs.
Featuring Circle Jerks, Black Flag, Fear, Red Cross (before they became Redd Kross), TSOL, Sin 34 (Markey’s band), The Cheifs, Circle One, & Symbol 6.
