Starring: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Robert Blake, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Gary Busey, Robert Loggia, Richard Pryor

4K restoration

For Valentine’s Day, The FOFIF honors the extraordinary life of David Lynch with a special screening of LOST HIGHWAY, edited by longtime collaborater Mary Sweeney. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

“’We’ve met before, haven’t we?’ A mesmerizing meditation on the mysterious nature of identity, Lost Highway, David Lynch’s seventh feature film, is one of the filmmaker’s most potent cinematic dreamscapes. Starring Patricia Arquette and Bill Pullman, the film expands the horizons of the medium, taking its audience on a journey through the unknown and the unknowable. As this postmodern noir detours into the realm of science fiction, it becomes apparent that the only certainty is uncertainty.” – Criterion

ABOUT MARY SWEENEY: Award winning filmmaker Mary Sweeney was a key collaborator with David Lynch as his producer, writer and editor for twenty years. She edited TWIN PEAKS TV, TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME, HOTEL ROOM, LOST HIGHWAY, THE STRAIGHT STORY, and MULHOLLAND DRIVE, for which she was awarded the 2001 British Academy Award for Best Editing. Sweeney wrote, produced and edited THE STRAIGHT STORY earning Richard Farnsworth an Academy Award nomination. Her producing credits include LOST HIGHWAY, THE STRAIGHT STORY, MULHOLLAND DRIVE, and INLAND EMPIRE, directed by Lynch, NADJA, and BARABOO, her directorial debut based on her original screenplay.

She was a Consulting Producer for Matthew Weiner’s series THE ROMANOFFS, , and writer of episode three, HOUSE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE. Sweeney teaches Graduate Feature Screenwriting Thesis and “Dreams, the Brain and Storytelling” in the John Wells Division of Writing for Screen and Television, and “Myth and Metaphors” in the Division of Media Arts + Practice.

Starring: Lucy Liu, Julia Fox, Chris Sullivan, Callina Liang, West Mulholland, Lucas Papaelias

A family becomes convinced they are not alone after moving into their new home in the suburbs.

Starring: Ben Whitehead, Peter Kay, Lauren Patel

Top dog Gromit springs into action to save his master when Wallace’s high-tech invention goes rogue and he’s framed for a series of suspicious crimes.

Starring: Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Rosie Perez, Armand Assante, Edward James Olmos

Two con-men (Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh) get hold of a map to the lost City of Gold, El Dorado. After stowing away onto one of the ships of the Spanish explorer Cortez, the pair escapes and eventually do find the city. There, a priest (Armand Assante) proclaims them to be gods in a scheme to win control of the city for himself. Meanwhile, they meet a beautiful girl (Rosie Perez) who helps them in their ruse.

Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Jack O’Connell, Hailee Steinfeld, Wunmi Mosaku, Delroy Lindo

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

Starring: Julia Garner, Christopher Abbott, Sam Jaeger, Matilda Firth

With his marriage fraying, Blake persuades his wife Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit his remote childhood home in rural Oregon. As they arrive at the farmhouse in the dead of night, they’re attacked by an unseen animal and barricade themselves inside the home as the creature prowls the perimeter. But as the night stretches on, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable.

Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community’s mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta, as soldiers destroy the homes of families – the largest single act of forced transfer ever carried out in the occupied West Bank. He crosses paths with Yuval, an Israeli journalist who joins his struggle, and for over half a decade they fight against the expulsion while growing closer. Their complex bond is haunted by the extreme inequality between them: Basel, living under a brutal military occupation, and Yuval, unrestricted and free. This film, by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists, was co-created during the darkest, most terrifying times in the region, as an act of creative resistance to Apartheid and a search for a path towards equality and justice.

Staring: Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Richard Libertini, Penny Peyser, Nancy Dussault, James Hong, Ed Begley Jr, Carmen Dragon

No foolin’ – it’s all funnin’ this April when The Deuce introduces you to the insanity of THE IN-LAWS!! A shower of silliness that blooms into a bush of bonkers… Comedy! Chaos!! Action!!! Adventure!!!! Comedic action! Chaotic comedy!! Adventuresome adventure!!! Don’t be a fool – come get some of all the above when THE IN-LAWS visit The Deuce!!

Uptighty dutiful dullard dentist Sheldon Kornpett (Arkin), with a dull house/dutiful family in the ‘burbs and a molar-removal practice in Manhattan, gets browbeaten into bonding with his daughter’s soon-to-be dad-in-law: the scattershoty, possibly psychotic, possible CIA operative Vince Ricardo (Falk)… who’s given to “regaling” his future extended family with tales of Guatemalan eagle-sized tsetse flies so furious they steal babies and the provisions of the “Guacamole Act of 1917″… to further bewilder the dutiful dentist – his future… brother-in-law?? Whatever the batty-brained possible CIA operative will upon their scion’s wedding be gets him embroiled in a possibly treasonous imbroglio that takes these mis-matched maniacs from a terrifying taxi-ride through the NYC midtown streets (and sidewalks… and public plazas… and..) to a Latin American dictatorship run by a despot with a Señor Wences complex and a curiously louche and gauche “art collection”… all in all… SERPENTINE!

Directed by Canadian (“they never stop talking”) transplant Hiller (between SILVER STREAK and (?!?) NIGHTWING) from a script by funny-man Andrew Bregman (between BLAZING SADDLES and (!!) SO FINE) – the two finding a rare balancing act of “Action Comedy” that doesn’t short-shrift either – and with a Falk/Arkin pairing that is pitch-perfect… with Arkin’s deadpanny near-panic thousand-yard stare playing off of Falk’s worldly wordy wack-a-doo swagger… their ease together seeming as though they’d duo’d a million movies already – but they hadn’t!!  And when drudgingly remade in 2003 (albeit with two perfectly fine likeable actors, Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks), Arkin couldn’t stop calling Falk to gloat over all the great reviews they retrospectively were getting in comparison!!

SEE: the movie that got Brando to agree to star in THE FRESHMAN – Marlon having been such a super-fan as to be able to imitate almost the whole of Arkin’s performance!  SEE: the movie that made Janet Maslin laugh so hard she…  forgot to take notes!! SEE: why the Beekman Theatre needed to steam-clean their seats in between showings!!! It’s April (golden) showers with The Deuce and THE IN-LAWS!

Martha Cooper is an unexpected icon of the street art movement – a tiny, grey-haired figure running alongside crews of masked graffiti artists.

In the 1970’s, as the boroughs of New York City burned, she worked as a photographer for the New York Post, seeking images of creativity and play where others saw crime and poverty. As a result, she captured some of the first images of New York graffiti, at a time when the city had declared war on this new culture. Martha and her co-author Henry Chalfant compiled these images into the book Subway Art. However, the commercial failure of the book forced Martha to leave graffiti behind, moving on to document many other hidden cultures of New York.

20 years later Martha discovers she has become a legend of the graffiti world – a culture that has now exploded into a global movement. Subway Art became one of the most sold – and stolen – art books of all time, photocopied and shared by graffiti artists for decades.

At 75 years of age, she finds herself navigating a culture vastly changed. The small community born from struggle and adversity, has grown into a commercial industry fuelled by the rise of social media. Now every new piece of street art is immediately uploaded, and crowds line up for selfies in front of popular works. Martha struggles to find her place in this new world, driven by a passion for capturing the creativity that helps people rise above their environment.

“1977, the Bronx was burning down. No one really wanted to write that graffiti was an interesting thing. But I don’t want to shoot something that’s done with permission. It’s an outlaw art. That’s what makes it thrilling.” – Martha Cooper

Warning: Images are not from the movies we’re showing. Trust us, you can’t imagine what we’re showing!

The most important Chinese fantasy film ever made, this mad whirl of whip-fast wirework, weaponized opticals, eye-melting make-up, opulent sets, and spectacular stunts has one purpose: to bring China’s maddest legend to life. Featuring a cast of Hong Kong’s biggest stars puppet-mastered by its most innovative director, it’s the kind of ground-breaking, earth-shaking, hand-made fantasy epic no one dares to even attempt anymore and it almost bankrupted the studio behind it. It also created (yes – created) the entire Hong Kong special effects industry. But more than a mere technical achievement, this movie is plea for the new generation to step up and take their place in a dying and corrupt world, and fight for the kind of justice that the older generations have abandoned.