Starring: Willeke van Ammelrooy, Els Dottermans, Mil Seghers, Jan Decleir

Co-hosted by programmer Shay Filmore

Antonia, an independent single mother, returns to her Dutch village after World War II to run her late mother’s farm. Once she and her daughter are settled, this “feminist fairytale” spins a multigenerational yarn about a community of strong women and local outsiders cultivated by Antonia. Written and directed by Marleen Gorris (A Question of Silence), the film is a big-hearted, fresh look at women brushing against patriarchal norms to find autonomy and pass those lessons on to the women who come after them. Gorris weaves a fantastical and sensitive tapestry about the highs and lows of life. Even in the face of tragedy, this Academy Award-winning poetic parable radiates whimsy and radical affirmation.

Print courtesy of the Yale Film Archive

Starring: Nell Tiger Free, Ralph Ineson, Sonia Braga, Tawfeek Barhom, Bill Nighy, Charles Dance

When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate.

Starring: Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Red Buttons, Megan Gallagher, Janine Turner, Eric Braeden

Print courtesy of The Academy Film Archive

Setting his sights on his latest prey on the busy sidewalks of Manhattan on lunch break, comic book artist and wannabe ladies’ man Josh (a magnificently mulleted Eric Roberts) is pulled down the rabbit hole when Cheryl (Janine Turner) collapses mid-come-on and is whisked away by an ambulance. As he sets out to find her, he quickly realizes something is amiss as no hospital knows of her and other people begin to vanish. Enlisting the help of skeptical cops Lieutenant Spencer (James Earl Jones) and Officer Malloy (Megan Gallagher), Josh’s entanglement deepens as he chases the mysterious ambulance around the city.

Writer/director Larry Cohen (The Stuff, It’s Alive) injects his signature oddball sense of humor into this conspiracy thriller, matched well with Eric Roberts’ own style of doing-it-all acting. It’s a buffet of absurdity that includes an unhinged performance by Red Buttons, and Stan Lee’s first cameo (as himself, in the Marvel Comics office where Josh works).

Starring: Dev Patel, Sharlto Copley, Pitobash, Sobhita Dhulipala

Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, an icon embodying strength and courage, Monkey Man stars Dev Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.

Starring: Sydney Sweeney, Simona Tabasco, Álvaro Morte, Benedetta Porcaroli

Sydney Sweeney stars as Cecilia, an American nun of devout faith, embarking on a new journey in a remote convent in the picturesque Italian countryside. Cecilia’s warm welcome quickly devolves into a nightmare as it becomes clear her new home harbors a sinister secret and unspeakable horrors.

Starring: Marisa Abela, Jack O’Connell, Eddie Marsan, Lesley Manville

The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame and the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black. Told from Amy’s perspective and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film follows the remarkable woman behind the phenomenon and the tumultuous relationship at the center of one of the most legendary albums of all time.

Starring: Dee Wallace, Danny Pintauro, Christopher Stone, Ed Lauter, Cujos!

This May, The Deuce has a mutha of a Mother’s Day movie in store with the Mothery-est Momma imaginable: DEE WALLACE!! Delivering the Mom goods goodly in CUJO!! Stephen King’s pulpy potboiler stripped down to a twisting tourniquet of tensiony terror!! Mom on the outs with money-hungry advertising exec hubby… a half-hearted affair with the local hunk… unhappy and plagued with constant Pinto car trouble… until crossing paths with previously loveable St. Bernard pooch, more recently bat-bitten and gone bat-shit with the rabies!! Trapped by rampaging rabid Cujo in said Pinto with 6-year-old son Tad for a grueling, sweat-soaked, bloody, dog-slobber-smeared, histrionic-filled WHOLE SECOND HALF OF THE RUNNING TIME stand-off!! That never lets up! Claustrophobic calamity… a white-knuckle ride in a car that won’t move!!

Director Lewis Teague eschews the novel’s more fantastical horrors in favor of a true-grittier portrait of a malaise-most-American – in the midst of the morass of the Reagan era and the “Nope, nothing wrong here” blind-eye turned towards it… EVERYTHING IS WRONG!! And it’s up to E.T.’s mom to put it right!!

Back at the well-frequented fave of the RKO National Twin – there was very probably nary a dry seat – um – eye – amongst the mother-love starved crowd of Times Square lonelies… Who’s yer Momma? The Deuce is yer Momma!

Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Riley Keough, Christophe Zajac-Denek

In the misty forests of North America, a family of Sasquatches–possibly the last of their enigmatic kind–embark on an absurdist, epic, hilarious, and ultimately poignant journey over the course of one year. These shaggy and noble giants fight for survival as they find themselves on a collision course with the ever-changing world around them. Starring Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg, acclaimed directors David and Nathan Zellner (Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter) bring you the greatest Bigfoot story ever told.

Starring: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Keenan Ivory Wayans, Helen Martin, Darrel Heath, Tracey Cherelle Jones

Print courtesy of the Sally Cruikshank and Jon Davison Collection at the Academy Film Archive

Innocent young Black man Ashtray (Shawn Wayans) is forced to move into a tough Los Angeles slum with his family, including his oddly streetwise, pot-smoking grandma (Helen Martin). Before long, Ashtray’s nuclear-armed gangster cousin Loc Dog (Marlon Wayans) introduces him to a bizarrely comic crime underworld. Luckily, Ashtray falls for urban poet Dashiki (Tracey Cherelle Jones), and she convinces him to go straight — but he must deal with her manic ex-boyfriend Toothpick (Darrel Heath).

Starring: Christopher Augustine, Jeannette Dilger, Dick Glass, Gayle Davis

Join The FOFIF for a screening of Grindhouse Releasing’s 4K restoration of HOLLYWOOD 90028! To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

Christina Hornisher’s only feature, HOLLYWOOD 90028, features Mark, a young photographer, who travels to Hollywood hoping to make it as a cameraman in the movie business. Unfortunately, the only jobs he can find are shooting porn “loops” for a sleazy producer. Depressed and increasingly delusional, he begins to take out his frustrations on pretty young women he meets–by strangling them.

HOLLYWOOD 90028 received limited release as an exploitation film after it was completed in 1973 and was later re-distributed under the titles THE HOLLYWOOD HILLSIDE STRANGLER, TWISTED THROATS, and INSANITY. This screening is the New York Premiere of the new 4K restoration from Grindhouse Releasing.