Starring: John Leguizamo, Nestor Serrano, Doug E. Doug, Mario Joyner
New Line Cinema began the 1990s as the studio known for urban, coming-of-age one-nighter tales, starting with 1990’s House Party and followed by the indie sleeper Hangin’ with the Homeboys, featuring rising talents and helmed by the late Joseph Vasquez.
Four Uptown friends—sweet supermarket clerk Johnny (Leguizamo), “Italian-passing” womanizer Fernando (Serrano), aspiring actor Tom (Joyner), and eager, wise activist Willie (Doug)—head downtown for a night out. When plans go awry, their evening forces them to question the bonds they took for granted.
Released during the decade’s indie boom, amid films increasingly fixated on urban plight and violence, Hangin’ with the Homeboys offered an antidote of sorts, recreating the rite-of-passage touchstones more often seen in films like Diner or American Graffiti. As Roger Ebert aptly put it: “Young urban males are often seen only in terms of the fears they inspire, instead of for who they really are. These are nice kids. Maybe that’s the message.”
Starring: Jack Waters, Sarah Schulman, Orran Farmer, Eamon Fahey, Mike Bailey-Gates
A radical revisitation. This updated version of Stephen Winter’s 2015 film unearths the ghosts of Jason and Shirley, restaging the volatile 12-hour shoot of the 1967 documentary Portrait of Jason—held at the Chelsea Hotel—which blurred the line between subject and storyteller.
Jason Holliday, a sharp-witted Black gay man, whose identity splits between personas–performer, hustler, muse, provocateur–is once again in the room with Shirley Clarke, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who insisted on framing his life. Now, with newly unearthed footage, the director returns 10 years later, not to resolve the contradictions, but to reopen them. What was once a document becomes a haunting, a conversation with what was left outside the frame. Time folds. Power shifts. And Jason, still impossible to contain, speaks back.
Before Jason and Shirley Revisited, we’ll be screening the short Birth of the Hive Queen, dir. Tempest Creation (8 min.)
Amina, a trans escort, gives birth from her anus.
Starring: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Alia Shawkat, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Joseph Ziegler, Amer Hlehel
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A vivacious Palestinian woman (Nisreen Faour) and her teenage son (Melkar Muallem) cope with culture clash and more as they try to build a new life in rural Illinois.
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve
A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Christian Convery, Maisy Stella
After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.
Starring: Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, Patrick Fischler, Sarah Sherman, Zach Cherry, Dylan Baker, Jack Haven, Eva Victor, Kevin McDonald
After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director (Hannah Einbinder) for resurrection. But when she visits the original movie’s star (Gillian Anderson), a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.
Starring: Christine Cavanaugh, Elizabeth Daily, Cheryl Chase, Tara Strong, Cree Summer, Kath Soucie, Jack Riley, Michael Bell, Susan Sarandon, Debbie Reynolds, John Lithgow
In the long-running animated series’ second feature film, the focus is on the show’s perennial second banana, Chuckie (Christine Cavanaugh). Dads Stu (Jack Riley) and Chaz (Michael Bell) are unexpectedly sent to Euro-Reptarland in Paris, where the animatronic dinosaurs they built for the amusement park are malfunctioning, much to the displeasure of manager Coco La Bouche (Susan Sarandon). When the dislikable Coco gets interested in the single Chaz, Chuckie and his friends swing into action.
Starring: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell
Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, the Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves, directed by Vittorio De Sica, defined an era in cinema. In poverty-stricken postwar Rome, a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope of salvation for his desperate family when his bicycle, which he needs for his work, is stolen. With his young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief. Simple in construction and profoundly rich in human insight, Bicycle Thieves embodies the greatest strengths of the Italian neorealist movement: emotional clarity, social rectitude and brutal honesty.
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The late Richard Pryor influenced a generation of comedians of all races, and his scathing brand of satire is offered in full bloom in a live concert performance taped in Southern California in the 1970s. Utilizing exaggerated facial expressions, numerous obscenities and keen observation, as well as his acting experience and razor-sharp comic timing, Pryor delivers monologues on race, sex, family and any number of other topics. This documentary also includes music by Patti LaBelle.
