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Mississippi Masala

Starring: Sarita Choudhury, Roshan Seth, Denzel Washington

Join The FOFIF on election night to wait out the results together by enjoying the second feature film by Mira Nair (mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s mother), MISSISSIPPI MASALA. Wear your “I Voted” sticker and get a drink discount too! To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

The vibrant cultures of India, Uganda, and the American South are blended and simmered into a rich and fragrant fusion feast in Mira Nair’s luminous look at the complexities of love in the modern melting pot. Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, twentysomething Mina (Sarita Choudhury) finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It’s there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius (Denzel Washington) challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region’s Indian and African American communities. Tackling thorny issues of racism, colorism, culture clash, and displacement with big-hearted humor and keen insight, Nair serves up a sweet, sexy, and radical celebration of love’s power to break down the barriers between us.

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Unfriended

Starring: Heather Sossaman, Matthew Bohrer, Courtney Halverson, Shelley Hennig, Moses Storm, Will Peltz, Renee Olstead, Jacob Wysocki

One night, while teenagers Blaire, Mitch, Jess, Adam, Ken and Val take part in an online group chat session, they are suddenly joined by a user known only as “Billie227.” Thinking it’s just a technical glitch, the friends carry on their conversation… until Blaire begins receiving messages from someone claiming to be Laura Barns, a classmate who killed herself exactly one year prior. As Blaire tries to expose Billie’s identity, her friends are forced to confront their darkest secrets and lies.

Bugonia (35mm)

Starring: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Alicia Silverstone, Stavros Halkias, Aidan Delbis, Parvinder Shergill

Two conspiracy-obsessed men kidnap the CEO of a major company when they become convinced that she’s an alien who wants to destroy Earth.

The Doors: The Final Cut

Starring: Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan

4K restoration

Capturing the hedonistic chaos of the late ’60s, The Doors: The Final Cut follows the life and times of the band’s enigmatic and magnetic front man Jim Morrison (Val Kilmer) from cradle to grave. Stone’s powerful musical portrait, featuring an amazing soundtrack including over twenty-five songs from The Doors’ catalogue, charts Morrison’s turbulent relationship with his muse Pamela Courson (Meg Ryan), the formation of the band in Southern California, his experimentation with hallucinogens and the occult, and his tragic death at the age of 27 in Paris.

Spartan

Starring: Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy, Kristen Bell

When the president’s daughter, Laura Newton (Kristen Bell), is kidnapped by a human trafficking ring, high-ranking Secret Service agent Robert Scott (Val Kilmer) takes on the case. With the assistance of his protégé, Curtis (Derek Luke), Robert begins investigating, but the operation is called off when Laura is reported dead. However, Robert and Curtis, who have discovered evidence to the contrary, continue their search, and soon find evidence of an elaborate government cover-up.

B’Twixt Now and Sunrise

Starring: Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, Elle Fanning, Ben Chaplin

Hall Baltimore (Val Kilmer), a down-on-his-luck horror writer, finds himself embroiled in a mystery after a local sheriff (Bruce Dern) and ghostly teenager V (Elle Fanning) reveal a history of murder and vampirism in their town.

Nü Metal Horror Double Feature

2 FILMS ON BEAUTIFUL 35MM, 1 TICKET!

Hosted by Nitehawk Projectionist Chris Hampson

Voyage back to cinema’s deceptively earnest “Nü Metal” period, a blissful point on the timeline (1998-2003) in which the major studios seemed to be run by sentient energy drinks with tribal tattoos – an era of unbridled stupidity given maximum funding by an industry eager to get slackerfied-young düdes off the couch and into the multiplex.

The Horror Movie, ever the patient zero of cultural shifts in Hollywood, was particularly affected and produced no shortage of face-melting wonders. So confident are we in the inherent soul-saving power of the Nü Metal Horror film that we’re not even going to tell you what’s playing! Join us as we look at a set of films that took yesterday’s tired old ghouls and thoroughly X-tremified them before sending them back out to the cultural frontlines with Frosted Tips and a chain wallet fastened securely to their belts.

Movie #1
91mins, 35mm
Epitomizing the attitude of the era, yesterday’s innocent schlock comes roaring back to the land of the living with a production design budget unthinkable in today’s world and a decadent, glossy embrace of gratuitous nudity and violence. Highly underrated and under-seen!

10 minute intermission with the chance to take home some (stupid) prizes!

Movie #2
97 mins, 35mm
A tale of old souls at odds. Perhaps the most potent demonstration of the Nü Metal era’s investment in the dumbest, most juvenile dreams of the dearly departed 20th century.

No Other Choice

Starring: Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min, Yeom Hye-ran, Cha Seung-won

When a man is abruptly laid off by the paper company where he has worked tirelessly for many years, he grows increasingly desperate in his hunt.

Is This Thing On?

Starring: Will Arnett, Laura Dern, Andra Day, Bradley Cooper

As their marriage quietly unravels, Alex (Will Arnett) faces middle age and an impending divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene while Tess (Laura Dern) confronts the sacrifices she made for their family–forcing them to navigate co-parenting, identity and whether love can take a new form.

A House of Dynamite

Starring: Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Greta Lee

When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.