Starring: Ally Sheedy, Radha Mitchell, Patricia Clarkson

4K restoration

The Future of Film is Female continues its year-long celebration of 90s cinema with the sexy-sad classic HIGH ART. Happy Pride, this one’s for the girls. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

“Lucy knows about both sorts of high. She’s a junkie, joined at the crotch to fellow addict Greta, a German actress still heroically mourning the death of Rainer Fassbinder. Greta is also Lucy’s muse – the dazed centre of her “cutting edge” photography. But the arrival of straight-in-every-way Syd (she lives downstairs and only pops up to fix a leak) disturbs their equilibrium.” –Charlotte O’Sullivan, The Independent, April 8, 1999

Starring: Laurel Holloman, Nicole Ari Parker, Maggie Moore, Dale Dickey

The Future of Film is Female continues its year-long celebration of 90s cinema with the lesbian coming-of-age classic THE INCREDIBLY TRUE ADVENTURE OF TWO GIRLS IN LOVE. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

“As its blithe title suggests, The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love is a coming-of-age comedy, a polished movie that resembles a lesbian version of Risky Business. One of the heroines is Randy Dean (Laurel Holloman), who looks boyish and is the subject of pointed gossip by other girls at her high school. ‘Did you hear about her family?’ one of them asks. ‘They’re, like, all lesbians there!’ They are. The film loads its premise even more, with every possible racial, sexual and economic conflict.

“The first feature written and directed by Maria Maggenti, Two Girls exists in a place where almost everyone is gay or potentially gay, a mirror-world of most mainstream movies. But having established that world, Ms. Maggenti leaves politics behind. With great confidence, wit and charm, she builds a universal story about first love, adolescent rebellion and sexual awakening.” – Caryn James, The New York Times, June 16, 1995

Starring: Radhika Apte, Ashok Pathak, Chhaya Kadam, Smita Tambe

The Future of Film is Female presents a special screening of director Karan Kandhari’s SISTER MIDNIGHT, winner of Best Picture: Next Wave at Fantastic Fest 2024, with a pre-recorded intro by actor Radhika Apte. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

In SISTER MIDNIGHT, the audacious debut feature from London based Indian artist and filmmaker Karan Kandhari, rebellious small-town misfit Uma (acclaimed Indian actress Radhika Apte) arrives in Mumbai to find herself totally unsuited to life as a housewife. At odds with her prying neighbors and under the constant oppressive noise and heat of the city, she decides to break free from the shackles of domesticity and follow her own path in this bold, unpredictable, and darkly funny debut. Featuring an eclectic soundtrack (Interpol frontman Paul Banks makes his debut as composer) and singular visual aesthetic, the film world-premiered in Cannes’ Directors Fortnight and won the award for Best Film in the Next Wave section at Fantastic Fest.

Starring: Ella Rubin, Odessa A’zion, Michael Cimino, Ji-young Yoo

One year after her sister Melanie mysteriously disappeared, Clover and her friends head into the remote valley where she vanished in search of answers. Exploring an abandoned visitor center, they find themselves stalked by a masked killer and horrifically murdered one by one…only to wake up and find themselves back at the beginning of the same evening.

Starring: Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Virginia North, Terry-Thomas, Sean Bury, Susan Travers

In a desperate attempt to reach his ill wife, organist Anton Phibes (Vincent Price) is horrifically disfigured in a car accident and presumed dead. When he learns that his wife died during an operation, Phibes blames her surgeons and plots an elaborate revenge to punish them for their incompetence. With the help of a mute assistant (Virginia North), Phibes creates a mask resembling his own face and murders the surgeons one by one using bizarre methods inspired by the biblical plagues.

Starring: Brian Thompson, Oliver Reed, George Kennedy, José Ferrer, Michelle Moffett, Barbara Niven, Jordana Capra, Kendall Conrad, Kim Lonsdale, Jude Mussetter, Penelope Reed-Woods

Explosions that defy logic and gravity, fierce women in high heels brandishing machine guns, fashion that literally kills – all this and more await you in Hired to Kill!

Mercenary Frank Ryan (played by beefcake Brian Thompson, the lead villain in Cobra) goes undercover as a fashion photographer leading a team of deadly lady commandos posing as models on a mission to overthrow a dictator. It’s like America’s Next Top Model meets The Expendables, with just a dash of questionable geopolitics and featuring an outrageous cast of legends that includes Oliver Reed, George Kennedy and José Ferrer.

Starring: Susan Chardy, Elizabeth Chisela, Roy Chisha, Blessings Bhamjee

On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As the funeral unfolds, the cousins unveil the buried secrets of their Zambian family in a vibrant reckoning with the lies we tell ourselves.

Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris, William Hurt, Ashton Holmes

When a pair of petty criminals attempt to rob his small-town diner, Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) quickly and easily kills them both. In the flush of news coverage of Tom’s seemingly heroic actions, a threatening stranger named Carl Fogarty (Ed Harris) comes to town, fingering the unassuming family man as long-missing Philadelphia mobster Joey Cusack. To the horror of his wife, Edie (Maria Bello), and teenage son, Jack (Ashton Holmes), Tom finds he must confront his violent past.

Starring: Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Christopher Stone, Belinda Balaski, Kevin McCarthy, John Carradine, Slim Pickens

4K restoration, co-presented with Brooklyn Horror Society and The Twisted Spine

After a bizarre and near deadly encounter with a serial killer, a television newswoman is sent to a remote mountain resort whose residents may not be what they seem.

Sweeping scenes of New York City contrasted to the letters from the director’s mother in Brussels.