Starring: Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John Benjamin Hickey, Parker Posey
In the next 24 hours, Joe (Alan Cumming) and Sally Therrian’s (Jennifer Jason Leigh) roller-coaster marriage will go through an unexpected transformation – witnessed and abetted by their closest friends at an anniversary party that will not soon be forgotten. As the party games grow serious, what becomes clear is that Joe and Sally stand on the precipice of change, asking the questions facing all modern relationships.
Starring: Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, David Chiang, Donnie Yen
Subway Cinema presents Once Upon a Time in China
Brand new 4K restorations of the movies that made Jet Li a star!
Less than a year after they unleashed Once Upon a Time in China, Tsui Hark, Yuen Wo-ping, and Jet Li reunited to deliver this sequel that is the Aliens to OUATIC 1’s Alien. Adding Donnie Yen (Ip Man) to the cast they swing for the fences and knock out a sequel that’s twice as dark, twice as powerful, and packed with twice as much action as the original. Jet Li and Co. travel to Canton and find themselves trapped in a city that’s literally on fire as the anti-Western White Lotus Cult tries to murder all foreigners and the Empress Dowager tears the streets apart hunting for the real-life revolutionary, Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Taking place over one long, dark night, burning arrows illuminate nightmarish imagery as a handful of good people try to hold back a flood of violence, ignorance, and authoritarian rule with nothing more than their bare hands. Breathless, tragic, and heart-stopping it might just be the greatest kung fu movie ever made.
Screened to celebrate the addition of Once Upon a Time in China 1 – 6 to the Criterion Collection, Subway Cinema will be introducing the film and giving out swanky Blu-ray prizes before the show.
Starring: Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Biao Yuen, Jacky Cheung, Kent Cheng
Subway Cinema presents Once Upon a Time in China
Brand new 4K restorations of the movies that made Jet Li a star!
When director Tsui Hark made Once Upon a Time in China, Jet Li was a B-list nobody, kung fu movies were dead, and making a flick about folk hero, Wong Fei-hung, seemed like something your grandparents might enjoy. Instead, Tsui Hark and action choreographer Yuen Wo-ping (The Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) delivered a movie so ferocious it punched holes in the screen and sent Jet Li supernova. Upright patriarch, Wong Fei-hung, had been the subject of over 86 movies before OUATIC turned him into a young martial artist trying to survive a changing world in this movie whose images are so iconic they feel branded on your brain, whose emotions are so primal they feel volcanic, and whose action is so epic it feels apocalyptic.
Screened to celebrate the addition of Once Upon a Time in China 1 – 6 to the Criterion Collection, Subway Cinema will be introducing the film and giving out swanky Blu-ray prizes before the show.
Starring: Rebecca De Mornay, Antonio Banderas, Dennis Miller, Len Cariou, Harry Dean Stanton
Co-hosted by filmmaker Drew Tobia
Criminal psychologist Sarah Taylor (Rebecca De Mornay), normally guarded emotionally, finds her walls coming down after a chance meeting with ponytailed babe Tony (Antonio Banderas). Vacillating between rebuffing his affection and literally sinking her teeth into his rear, she becomes further unhinged when she starts to receive anonymous threats. It’s a rogues’ gallery of potential perpetrators: horny neighbor Cliff (Dennis Miller), abusive father Henry (Len Cariou), potentially multiple personality serial killer Max (Harry Dean Stanton) – or is it possible Tony isn’t a random stranger after all? A movie that intercuts trust-falls with passionate sex, Never Talk to Strangers is a demented erotic thrillers gem in a Toronto-plays-NYC Christmas setting.
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Starring: Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Chadwick Boseman, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Mélanie Thierry
Four African American vets battle the forces of man and nature when they return to Vietnam seeking the remains of their fallen squad leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide.
Starring: Andy Samberg, Cristin Milioti, J.K. Simmons, Meredith Hagner, Camila Mendes, Tyler Hoechlin
Stuck in a time loop, two wedding guests develop a budding romance while living the same day over and over again.
Starring: Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Bradley Cooper, Benny Safdie
Licorice Pizza is the story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973. Written and Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, the film tracks the treacherous navigation of first love.
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jada Pinkett Smith, Neil Patrick Harris, Christina Ricci, Priyanka Chopra Jonas
Plagued by strange memories, Neo’s life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Willem Dafoe, Rooney Mara, Toni Collette, Richard Jenkins
In 1940s New York, down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle endears himself to a clairvoyant and her mentalist husband at a traveling carnival. Using newly acquired knowledge, Carlisle crafts a golden ticket to success by swindling the elite and wealthy. Hoping for a big score, he soon hatches a scheme to con a dangerous tycoon with help from a mysterious psychiatrist who might be his most formidable opponent yet.
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Thomasin McKenzie
Severe, pale-eyed, handsome, Phil Burbank is brutally beguiling. All of Phil’s romance, power and fragility is trapped in the past and in the land: He can castrate a bull calf with two swift slashes of his knife; he swims naked in the river, smearing his body with mud. He is a cowboy as raw as his hides. The year is 1925. The Burbank brothers are wealthy ranchers in Montana. At the Red Mill restaurant on their way to market, the brothers meet Rose, the widowed proprietress, and her impressionable son Peter. Phil behaves so cruelly he drives them both to tears, reveling in their hurt and rousing his fellow cowhands to laughter — all except his brother George, who comforts Rose then returns to marry her. As Phil swings between fury and cunning, his taunting of Rose takes an eerie form — he hovers at the edges of her vision, whistling a tune she can no longer play. His mockery of her son is more overt, amplified by the cheering of Phil’s cowhand disciples. Then Phil appears to take the boy under his wing. Is this latest gesture a softening that leaves Phil exposed, or a plot twisting further into menace?
