Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide was made over 11 years and features interviews and rare archival footage with Kenny Scharf, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Ed Ruscha, Dennis Hopper, Yoko Ono, Kaws, Marilyn Minter and Jeffrey Deitch. The documentary shows Scharf’s New York City arrival in the early 1980s where he quickly befriended Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. This trio, amongst the fervent creative bustle of a depressed downtown scene, would soon take the art world by storm.

While Basquiat and Haring both died tragically young, Scharf lived through cataclysmic shifts in New York City and the art world. Despite setbacks along the way, Scharf continues to follow his particular high-tone, technicolor artistic vision while growing public and critical appreciation for his earlier work has cemented his place as a pop art icon.

Starring: Ice Cube, Cedric The Entertainer, Eve, Anthony Anderson, Sean Patrick Thomas, Keith David

A smart comedy about a day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin (Ice Cube), who inherited the struggling business from his deceased father, views the shop as nothing but a burden and a waste of his time. After selling the shop to a local loan shark, Calvin slowly begins to see his father’s vision and legacy and struggles with the notion that he just sold it out.

Starring: Virginie Efira, Alexis Tonetti, Félix Lefebvre, Mathieu Demy

The Future of Film is Female presents ALL TO PLAY FOR, the feature debut by director Delphine Deloget, and the short film MIA, INDETERMINATE by Lili Peper. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

Single mother Sylvie (Cesar winner Virginie Efira, Benedetta) lives with her two young sons, Sofiane and Jean-Jacques. One night, Sofiane is injured while alone and child services removes him from their home. Sylvie is determined to bring her son back home, against the full weight of the French legal system in this searing Cannes official selection and winner at the 2024 Belgian Oscars. A Hope Runs High Release.

Preceded by:
MIA, INDETERMINATE
Lili Peper, 2023, 20 min
written by Shahira Kudsi, starring Suzanne Cryer, Olivia Scott Welch
Mia has recently taken in her mother, Bird, a charming but at times infuriating woman with a mental illness. A day in their life together reveals the importance of letting go of control and enjoying the time you have.

In the mid-‘70s, filmmaker James Szalapski documented the then-nascent country music movement that would become known as “outlaw country.” Inspired, in part, by newly-long-haired Willie Nelson’s embrace of hippie attitudes and audiences, a younger generation of artists including Townes Van Zandt, David Alan Coe, Steve Earle and Guy Clark popularized and developed the outlaw sound.

Starring: Maureen O’Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Virginia Field, Ralph Bellamy

Years before her comedic mugging in I Love Lucy, Lucille Ball shook her stuff as Bubbles in Dorothy Arzner’s Dance, Girl, Dance. Co-star Maureen O’Hara is Judy, a talented dancer with artistic ambitions who clashes with the flashy, fame-hungry Bubbles. Tensions rise as they not only compete for the spotlight, but also the affections of a wealthy suitor. But this isn’t a cat fight – instead the friendship of the two women is treated with complexity, and the film highlights the divide of commercially popular but artistically compromised performances versus work that forgoes the splashy in favor of creative integrity, while not judging the choices of either character.

Ginger Baker looks back on his musical career with Cream and Blind Faith; his introduction to Fela Kuti; his self-destructive patterns and losses of fortune; and his current life inside a fortified South African compound.

Starring: Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Williams Ostrander, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton

Sissy Fist Productions presents Nostalgia’s “Let’s Watch a Movie”—a campy collision of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Elvira’s Movie Macabre, and Mystery Science Theater 3000! Hostess extraordinaire, Nostalgia, invites you to a screening of the 1983 John Carpenter classic, Christine. Expect hot-rod drag performances, witty live commentary, communal drinking games, wicked prizes, and audience antics that’ll make this a ride to die for!

Unpopular nerd Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon) buys a 1958 Plymouth Fury, which he names Christine. Arnie develops an unhealthy obsession with the car, to the alarm of his jock friend, Dennis Guilder (John Stockwell). After bully Buddy Repperton (William Ostrander) defaces Christine, the auto restores itself to perfect condition and begins killing off Buddy and his friends. Determined to stop the deaths, Dennis and Arnie’s girlfriend, Leigh Cabot (Alexandra Paul), decide to destroy Christine.

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Starring: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Phyllis Povah, Mary Boland, Paulette Goddard

Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) can’t believe her husband’s having an affair with salesgirl Crystal (Joan Crawford). But when Sylvia (Rosalind Russell) and Edith (Phyllis Povah) deliver the gossip firsthand, Mary heads to Reno for a divorce. En route she meets Countess de Lave (Mary Boland) and Miriam (Paulette Goddard), who coincidentally is having an affair with Sylvia’s husband. Once in Reno, the Countess finds another beau, Sylvia shows up for a divorce and Mary plots to win back her man.

Starring: Anne Dorval, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément, Patrick Huard, Alexandre Goyette

A peculiar neighbor (Suzanne Clément) offers hope to a recent widow (Anne Dorval) who is struggling to raise a teenager (Antoine-Olivier Pilon) who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.

Starring: Anne Dorval, Xavier Dolan, François Arnaud, Suzanne Clément, Patricia Tulasne, Niels Schneider

Surly 16-year-old Hubert doesn’t make life easy for his mum, loudly contradicting or objecting to virtually all she says or does. Understandably, in return, she barely pays attention to his constant negative barrage.