Starring: Carmine Capobianco, Angela Nicholas

Horror Boobs and Vinegar Syndrome are proud to present the new 2k restoration of the ultimate date movie for lunatics… Psychos In Love!

Joe (Carmine Capobianco) runs a strip club and Kate (Debi Thibeault) is an attractive young manicurist. After bonding over their mutual dislike of grapes, they discover another commonality: both of them are bloodthirsty serial killers. As they begin to balance their obsession with murder and each other, they meet Herman (Frank Stewart), a cannibal who attempts to lure them into killing as a means to satisfy his craving for human flesh!

Starring: Brandon Polansky, Samantha Elisofon, Jessica Walter, Will Deaver, Nicky Gottlieb, Tibor Feldman

When aspiring filmmaker David is mandated by a judge to attend a social program at the Jewish Community Center, he is sure of one thing: he doesn’t belong there. But when he’s assigned to visit the Brooklyn Bridge with the vivacious Sarah, sparks fly and his convictions are tested. Their budding relationship must weather Sarah’s romantic past, David’s judgmental mother, and their own pre-conceptions of what love is supposed to look like.

Under the guise of an off-kilter New York romantic comedy, Keep the Change does something quite radical in offering a refreshingly honest portrait of a community seldom depicted on the big screen. Rarely has a romcom felt so deep and poignant. Thoroughly charming and quite funny, the film’s warmth and candor brings growth and transformation to the characters, and ultimately, to us.

Recorded at Copenhagen’s Royal Arena in October 2017, DISTANT SKY captures an extraordinary and triumphant live concert from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Performing new album Skeleton Tree’s exquisite compositions alongside their essential catalog, the band’s first shows in three years provoked an ecstatic response in fans, critics and band alike, renewing a profound and intimate relationship wherever they played. The band’s acclaimed tour started in Australia in January 2017 before tearing across the USA and ending in Europe, with some of the best reviews of their decorated career.

NoBudge is a movies club that presents a hand-picked selection of new indie movies daily. “One of the best places to sample what’s happening in low-budget cinema worldwide,” says Glenn Kenny of The New York Times. Its mission is to provide a supportive home for emerging indie filmmakers working with limited resources and without major industry connections, and to be a trusted discovery platform helping audiences find their new favorite movies and filmmakers.

The Movies:

JUST GETTING BY IS OK
Director Travis Wood present.
Experimental silent film about about a space mans first day in Brooklyn.
(3 minutes).

PRETTY IS
Director Alan Neal present.
After being turned down by a boy her age, sixteen-year-old Honey, the daughter of a religious family in a small Southern town, turns her interests to Leander, an older man who’s recently been saved at her church.
(16 minutes)

LILY
Director Mimi Jeffries present.
Bearing the weight of social obligation, Mel attends her baby shower.
(11 minutes)

MATERNAL
Directors Anamari Mesa and Kevin Rios present.
A young woman begins to have doubts while waiting to meet the adoptive parents of her unborn child.
(4 minutes)

HEADLESS  
Director Sebastian Sdaigui present.
A candid portrait of three hedonistic queer performers living in New York.
(7 minutes)

LANCE LIZARDI
Director Lance Lizardi present.
A young man takes his love for lizards to the extreme.
(9 minutes)

THE GOOD BOY
Director Will Kempner present.
Automation disrupts a father-son relationship.
(16 minutes)

SNEAKERS 
Writer/star Amy Zimmer present.
A guileless shoe designer is unwittingly determined to make her sneaker pitch a success.
(5 minutes)

THE MATRIX
Director Tynan DeLong present.
A group of friends try to remake “The Matrix” in a Brooklyn apartment.
(7 minutes).

THE PHOTOS OF ANA
Director Graham Mason present.
An artist is interviewed about her photos.
(7 minutes)

Starring: Steve Buscemi, Jeffery Tambor, Simon Russell Beale, Paddy Considine, Rupert Friend, Jason Isaacs, Olga Kurylenko, Michael Palin, Andread Riseborough

The one-liners fly as fast as political fortunes fall in this uproarious, wickedly irreverent satire from Armando Iannucci (Veep, In the Loop). Moscow, 1953: when tyrannical dictator Joseph Stalin drops dead, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to be the next Soviet leader. Among the contenders are the dweeby Georgy Malenkov (Jeffrey Tambor), the wily Nikita Khrushchev (Steve Buscemi), and the sadistic secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria (Simon Russell Beale). But as they bumble, brawl, and backstab their way to the top, just who is running the government? Combining palace intrigue with rapid-fire farce, this audacious comedy is a bitingly funny takedown of bureaucratic dysfunction performed to the hilt by a sparkling ensemble cast.

Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Olivia Cooke, Anton Yelchin

Childhood friends Lily and Amanda reconnect in suburban Connecticut after years of growing apart. Lily has turned into a polished, upper-class teenager, with a fancy boarding school on her transcript and a coveted internship on her resume; Amanda has developed a sharp wit and her own particular attitude, but all in the process of becoming a social outcast.

Though they initially seem completely at odds, the pair bond over Lily’s contempt for her oppressive stepfather, Mark, and as their friendship grows, they begin to bring out one another’s most destructive tendencies. Their ambitions lead them to hire a local hustler, Tim, and take matters into their own hands to set their lives straight.

Starring: Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon, Miyoko Akaza

Gory revenge is raised to the level of visual poetry in Toshiya Fujita’s stunning Lady Snowblood. A major inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill saga, this endlessly inventive film, set in late nineteenth-century Japan, charts the single-minded path of vengeance taken by a young woman (Meiko Kaji) whose parents were the unfortunate victims of a gang of brutal criminals. Fujita creates a wildly entertaining action film of remarkable craft, an effortless balancing act between beauty and violence.

A hard rain is about to fall on a small town in Southern China.

In a desperate attempt to find money to save his fiancée’s failed plastic surgery, Xiao Zhang, a mere driver, steals a bag containing 1 million from his boss.

News of the robbery spreads fast within the town and, over the course of one night, everyone starts looking for Xiao Zhang and his money…

Liu Jian delivers a whirlwind neo-noir, cementing his place as a pioneering force in independent Chinese animation.

Proceeds benefiting The Director’s List and their continued support of female filmmakers

PROGRAM

CALEB
Directed by Amanda Mesaikos & Susanne Aichele | 14 minutes, 40 seconds

To contend with the bullies at school, 9-year-old Caleb decides to 3D print himself. Back home there’s confusion, discord and reshuffled schedules…But maybe this is just what his family needs? With humor at its heart, CALEB is a fundamentally human story about family dynamics and the inevitability of moral dilemmas in the face of advancing technology.

YOYO
Directed by Nicole Delaney | 15 minutes

Caroline (Sophie von Haselberg) can’t stand that she is a virgin…and then the world ends. In post-apocalyptic LA, after a dust storm has wiped out the planet, she is convinced that Francis (Martin Starr) was sent as the man to pop her cherry. YOYO is a heartfelt, dark comedy about finding meaning in life, even when life ceases to exist.

BLOOD TIES
Directed by Simon Pannetrat, Marion Louw, Thomas Ricquier, and Sophie Kavouridis | 3 minutes, 34 seconds

Fears hit close to home as a young girl must find the strength to face the demon that haunts her.

SO YOU’VE GROWN ATTACHED
Directed by Kate Tsang | 15 minutes

An imaginary friend is forced to consider retirement when his creator starts to grow up.

THE GATE
Directed by Kellie Madison | 8 minutes, 33 seconds

As a spiritual war is brewing one woman must fight to save her sister’s soul.

STRANGE BEASTS
Directed by Magali Barbé | 5 minutes, 8 seconds

“Strange Beasts” is an augmented reality game. It allows you to create and grow your own virtual pet. How far can it go?

THE SWEETENING
Directed by Grace Rowe | 13 minutes, 7 seconds

A lonely woman falls for an avatar in an augmented reality program and it completely upends

GENGHIS KHAN CONQUERS THE MOON
Directed by Kerry Yang | 14 minutes, 45 seconds

In Genghis Khan’s last days, an encounter with a Wizard sends him to the Moon. Just as the Mediaeval anti-hero thinks he’s made his greatest conquest, he finds himself on a spiritual quest, realizing the absurd clash between one man’s need and the silence of the Universe.

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Starring: Shinobu Terajima, Josh Hartnett, Kaho Minami, Shiori Kutsuna, Kōji Yakusho

OH LUCY! follows Setsuko, (Shinobu Terajima in an Independent Spirit Award-nominated performance), a single, emotionally unfulfilled woman, seemingly stuck with a drab, meaningless life in Tokyo. At least until she’s convinced by her niece, Mika (Shioli Kutsuna, Deadpool 2), to enroll in an unorthodox English class that requires her to wear a blonde wig and take on an American alter ego named “Lucy.” The new identity awakens something dormant in Setsuko, and she quickly develops romantic feelings for her American instructor, John (Josh Hartnett, Showtime’s “Penny Dreadful”). When John suddenly disappears from class, Setsuko travels halfway around the world in search of him, and in the outskirts of Southern California, family ties and past lives are tested as she struggles to preserve the dream and promise of “Lucy.”