Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Delphine Seyrig
Release Date: September 4, 1968
Jean-Pierre Léaud returns in the delightful Stolen Kisses, the third installment in the Antoine Doinel series. It is now 1968, and the mischievous and perpetually love-struck Doinel has been dishonorably discharged from the army and released onto the streets of Paris, where he stumbles into the unlikely profession of private detective and embarks on a series of misadventures. Whimsical, nostalgic, and irrepressibly romantic, STOLEN KISSES is Truffaut’s timeless ode to the passion and impetuosity of youth.
Starring: Trine Dyrholm, John Gordon Sinclair, Anamaria Marinca, Sandor Funtek, Thomas Trabacchi, Karina Fernandez, Calvin Demba, Francesco Colella
The new film NICO, 1988 follows the singer-songwriter, approaching 50, leading a solitary existence in Manchester, far from her 60s glam days as a Warhol superstar and celebrated vocalist for cult band The Velvet Underground. Her life and career on the fringes, Nico’s new manager Richard convinces her to hit the road again and tour Europe to promote her latest album. Struggling with her demons and the consequences of a muddled life, she longs to rebuild a relationship with her son, whose custody she lost long ago. A brave and uncompromising musician, Nico’s story is the story of a rebirth: of an artist, a mother, and the woman behind the icon.
Starring: Rachelle Vinberg, Jaden Smith, Dede Lovelace, Nina Moran, Ajani Russell, Kabrina Adams
In the first narrative feature from THE WOLFPACK director Crystal Moselle, Camille, an introverted teenage skateboarder from Long Island, meets and befriends an all-girl, New York City-based skateboarding crew called Skate Kitchen. She falls in with the in-crowd, has a falling-out with her mother, and falls for a mysterious skateboarder guy, but a relationship with him proves to be trickier to navigate than a kickflip.
Writer/director Crystal Moselle immersed herself in the lives of the skater girls and worked closely with them, resulting in the film’s authenticity, which combines poetic, atmospheric filmmaking and hypnotic skating sequences. SKATE KITCHEN precisely captures the experience of women in male-dominated spaces and tells a story of a girl who learns the importance of camaraderie and self-discovery.
Starring: Judy Lee Chia-ling, Peter Yang Kwan, Lee Ying
This August, THE DEUCE-Jockeys team up with our pal Grady Hendrix of Subway Cinema, for a trip to the Empire Theatre and Florence Yu’s QUEEN BOXER!!
“Shanghai,” the narrator intones. “Are the streets paved in gold, or do they run with blood?” In QUEEN BOXER, it’s mostly blood. One of the few Hong Kong action movies directed by a woman – it’s also the debut feature for Judy Lee, the only Bruce Lee impersonator who was actually female. Sold as Bruce Lee’s sister (a stunt thought up by the production company for which Lee eventually had to publicly apologize), Judy Lee dazzles as the deadly dame dealing with dastardly dickheads until she’s finally had it up to here with their asshole behavior and spends the entire last reel beating them to death with her bare hands…
Unleashed for the first time on film (after spending 11 years training in Peking Opera), Lee is an insanely physical actor, and the final punch-a-geddon is so epically brutal, it’s become legendary. Adding angel dust to this old school kung fu crack cocktail is the fact that this 18-day-quickie production is packed with off-kilter editing, insane camera angles, stolen music cues, plentiful gore, and pissed-off women tearing out eyeballs to the sweet, sweet sound of Isaac Hayes’ “Theme from Shaft” – making it the ultimate grindhouse experience!!
Starring: Kirsten Baker, Perry Lang, Leslie Cederquist
On July 12, THE DEUCE-Jockeys – along with their pal Chris Poggiali from TEMPLE OF SCHLOCK – spend a night at sleazy porn palace Victory Theatre for 1978’s TEEN LUST!
Written, produced and directed by busy and beloved character actor James Hong, this episodic, idiosyncratic bad-taste comedy about a group of high school newly-grads consistently surprises by giving equal time to their creepy parents, neighbors, clergymen, and local law enforcement…
Filmed in 1977 under the title SO LONG, COLUMBUS HIGH, but completed as THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, it failed to find an audience upon its release in 1978 under that title… and spent the next five years haunting drive-ins under yet another two titles… finally hitting The Deuce as TEEN LUST on September 9th, 1983: top-lining a triple bill at The Victory with GETTING IT ON and THE CREEPER…
“…authentically trashy….amounts to a John Waters movie made by a retarded midwesterner.” – Sleazoid Express
Starring: David Hyde Pierece, Janeane Garofalo, Marguerite Moreau, Michael Showalter, Paul Rudd, Christopher Meloni, Molly Shannon
The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It’s the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there’s still a summer’s worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who struggles to keep order while she falls in love with the local astrophysics professor. He is busy trying to save the camp from a deadly piece of NASA’s Skylab which is hurtling toward earth. All that, plus: a dangerous waterfall rescue, love triangles, misfits, cool kids, and talking vegetable cans. The questions will all be resolved, of course, at the big talent show at the end of the day.
Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Diane KEaton, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Talia Shire
Francis Ford Coppola’s epic masterpiece features Marlon Brando in his Oscar-winning role as the patriarch of the Corleone family. Director Coppola paints a chilling portrait of the Sicilian clan’s rise and near fall from power in America, masterfully balancing the story between the Corleone’s family life and the ugly crime business in which they are engaged. Based on Mario Puzo’s best-selling novel and featuring career-making performances by Al Pacino, James Cann and Robert Duvall, this searing and brilliant film garnered ten Academy Award nominations, and won three including Best Picture of 1972.
Starring: Elle Fanning, Alex Sharp, Nicole Kidman, and Ruth Wilson
Enn (Alex Sharp) is a shy suburban London teenager in 1977, sneaking out with his best friends to after-hours punk parties. One night they stumble upon a bizarre gathering of sexy teenagers who seem like they are from another planet. In fact, they are from another planet, visiting Earth to complete a mysterious rite of passage. That doesn’t stop Enn from falling madly in love with Zan (Elle Fanning), a beautiful and rebellious alien teenager who, despite her allegiance to her strange colony, is fascinated by Enn. Together they embark on a delirious adventure through the kinetic punk rock world of 1970s London, inadvertently setting off a series of events that will lead to the ultimate showdown of punks vs. aliens, and test the limits of how far each of them will go for true love.
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, Kim Cattrall, Chris Noth, Jessica Giesenkirchen, Jennifer Hudson
Four years after the earlier adventures of Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and her best gal pals, she and her intermittent lover, Big (Chris Noth), are in a committed relationship. Samantha (Kim Cattrall), having survived cancer, has a monogamous relationship with Smith Jerrod. Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and her husband live on Park Avenue, and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), now in Brooklyn, feels the pressure of family life.
Starring: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Albert Brooks, Steve Zahn
Meet Jack Foley, the most successful bank robber in the country. On the day he busts out of jail, he finds himself stealing something far more precious than money … Karen Sisco’s heart. She’s smart. She’s sexy, and unfortunately for Jack, she’s a Federal Marshal. Now, they’re willing to risk it all to find out if there’s more between them than just the law.
