Starring: Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas.. and Max Von Sydow
Join The Deuce this month as we proudly present the esteemed landmark documentary: The Sorrow And The Pity… Ahhh, take off, ya hosers… it’s April Fool’s, eh! Like we’re really gonna show a 4-hour French documentary about Nazis?? No way, eh – Nazis are KNOBS!! No – but really – we’re really excited to be showing The Sorrow And The Pity... except – it’s NOT a pity, we’re NOT!! We switched it, eh – like for something that’ll really get you thinking… about BEER! Yeh, ya hosers – The Deuce is pouring you some STRANGE BREW! Beauty, eh? Or aka, eh: THE ADVENTURES OF BOB & DOUG MCKENZIE: STRANGE BREW… Beauty, eh… like it’s got the names of who’s in it, right in the title… and brew.. the best part, eh?
Beer-loving brothers embark on a lark to bamboozle a life-load of said beloved beer and bumble into a bevy of bedevilment rife with ridiculousness… A brainwashing Brewmeister and the Galactic Border Patrol! A Fido that flies! Back-bacon and beer! Chicanery in the brewery! Or let’s just tell it like it is: it’s Hamlet meets the Hoseheads!! Oh! Canada
Brewed (beauty, eh?) from a snarky SCTV skit writ’ to satisfy a “Canadian Content Quota”… Re-writ and wrought by the triple-dipping duo – directors! writers (with some early-draft help from Cherry 2000‘s Steve De Jarnatt)!! stars!!!… Thomas and Moranis (how do you pronounce that?) – for the big screen and small IQs – (purportedly) for the sole purpose of pleasing 12-year-olds! And boy did those lucky-duckies at 42nd Street’s Harris leave the theatre feeling 12 years old again… Success!!
Beauty, eh?? So don’t be bummed we’re not showing The Sorrow And The Pity hosers – stop being a knob – kick back with The Deuce and slug down some bonafide STRANGE BREW that somehow manages to sneak in enough strange (and smart and sweet) to make your hoser head spin!!
Starring: Zahara Jaime, Alli Logout, Lila Doliner, Daria McKnight, Gregory Barnett
The FOFIF presents the New York premiere of Pavli Serenetsky’s sophomore feature, a queer coming-of-age ecologically conscious film, More Beautiful Perversions. It is the first of a series of screenings culminating in an Earth Day event. This screening includes the short film Gussy by Chris Osborn and a Q&A with Serenetsky moderated by actor Sadie Scott. We’ll also be partnering with Video Store.Age where you can get your own copy of MBP!
To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.
An eco-parable produced by the mutual aid collective Purpose Repair Shop, in collaboration with land stewards, underground music legends, and over 15 co-directors. Shot on 16mm and portions hand-processed with plants, this sophomore feature of filmmaker and environmental educator Pavli Serenetsky (winner of The Grand Jury Prize for their debut Firstness at Outfest 2021) reimagines “getting lost in the woods” as a queer coming of age to connect us closer with Earth.
A Future of Film is Female Release.
Gussy. 2022. USA. Directed by Chris Osborn. 19 min.
With Cole Doman, Tyler Knowles, Michael Patrick Nicholson, Christopher Riley.
As children, Miles and Rocky hunted a monster they thought they saw in the woods. Twenty years later, they’re still searching.
Starring: Warwick Davis, Jennifer Aniston, Ken Olandt
Sissy Fist Productions presents Nostalgia’s “Let’s Watch a Movie”—a campy collision of The Muppet Show, Elvira’s Movie Macabre, and Mystery Science Theater 3000! Hostess extraordinaire, Nostalgia, invites you to her screening of the 1993 cult classic, Leprechaun. Expect killer drag performances, scream-inducing live commentary, ye olde drinking games, prizes if you’re lucky, and audience antics fit for the St. Patrick’s Day Parade that’ll make this a screening to die for!
In the first of the infamous film franchise, Willow’s Warwick Davis play a super evil Leprechaun who’s come all the way from Ireland to South Dakota to get his gold back from thieving Dan O’Grady but winds up locked in a basement. Cut to ten years later and the new tenants (one of whom is Jennifer Aniston in her film debut) unknowingly let the sucker out. The killing spree and terrorizing that ensues can only be stopped by a four leaf clover. Whether these friends have the luck of the Irish or their luck runs out one this is for sure, never, ever steal a Leprechaun’s pot of gold.
CAST:
Nostalgia — (@nostalgiarama)
Reina NoBuena — (@reinanobuena)
Emi Grate — (@emigrate_drag)
Soraya Sis — (@agoodsis)
Starring: Vivian Wu, Haoyu Yang, Meng Li, Mason Lee, David Rysdahl, Zazie Beetz
The fates of an unlucky pig farmer, a feisty home-owner defending her property, a lovestruck busboy, a disenchanted rich girl and an American expat pursuing the Chinese Dream converge and collide as thousands of dead pigs are found floating down the Huangpu River, towards a modernizing Shanghai in Cathy Yan’s (Birds of Prey) debut feature.
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Jodie Comer, Bill Skarsgård, Murray Bartlett, Noah Jupe
Grappling with his past after a life of crime and murder, Robin Hood finds himself gravely injured after a battle he thought would be his last. In the hands of a mysterious woman, he is offered a chance at salvation.
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn, Adam Garcia, Brittany Murphy, James Woods, Lorraine Bracco, Rosie Perez, Sara Gilbert
The fresh, funny, touching and true story of writer Beverly Donofrio (Drew Barrymore) reveals her coming of age in the late 1960s and her whole life colored by an event that happened when she was 15. The events span more than two decades, as the young heroine experiences often-humorous, sometimes-irreverent, but certainly a unique personal journey to make something meaningful of her life.
Starring: Fumi Hirano, Toshio Furukawa, Akira Kamiya, Kazuko Sugiyama, Saeko Shimazu, Mayumi Tanaka, Shigeru Chiba
Before storming the globe with sci-fi blockbuster Ghost in the Shell, director Mamoru Oshii started off in the anime industry as chief director of romantic comedy series Urusei Yatsura, an adaptation of writer Rumiko Takahashi’s popular manga about a high school boy and his hot alien girlfriend.
Oshii thrived in the role, but the director longed for greater creative heights than a silly teenage romcom. When the chance finally came to direct the series’ second feature with complete creative control, Oshii ran wild. More Tarkovsky than Takahashi, Beautiful Dreamer marked a massive shift for the series, a loopy, visually formal meditation on time and consciousness that sets the series’ characters adrift in a dream that won’t end.
When it hit theaters in 1984, reception was chilly (fans sent Oshii razor blades in the mail), and Oshii lost his gig at the helm of the series. The movie lingered, though, and as it eventually made its way over to Western markets on home video, Beautiful Dreamer became quite a cult sensation. Today, fans reference the film as the high point for the series, and it frequently draws comparisons to Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind as a breakthrough for anime as a legitimate cinematic form.
Starring: Drew Connick
NoBudge Presents Teddy, Out of Tune (59 min), a hybrid documentary/fiction film about a nomadic musician who drives 2,000 miles north to Canada with a piano strapped to the back of his truck on an emotional mission to spread his mother’s ashes. Originally completed in 2020, the film was sidelined by the Covid pandemic before resurfacing in 2026 with a new Blu-ray and a series of special screenings. Director Daniel Freeman and lead actor Drew Connick will be in attendance for a Q&A.
Screening before the feature:
The Last Best Thing (22 min)
Following her friend’s unexpected death, a young woman travels to the mountains to deliver the news to her reclusive brother. Director Blake Hunter in attendance for a Q&A.
Turn on the Bright Lights (17 min)
Seeking refuge from their anxieties and menial problems that haunt them at home, two girls from Miami take a last minute surfing trip to Nicaragua. Juanita Umaña in attendance for a Q&A.
Starring: Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons, A$AP Rocky, Blake Anderson, Bruce Beatty
High-school senior Malcolm (Shameik Moore) and his friends Jib (Tony Revolori) and Diggy (Kiersey Clemons) bond over ’90s hip-hop culture, their studies and playing music in their own punk band. A chance encounter with a drug dealer named Dom lands Malcolm and company at the dealer’s nightclub birthday party; when the scene turns violent, they flee — with the Ecstasy that Dom secretly hid in Malcolm’s backpack. A wild adventure ensues as the youths try to evade armed thugs who want the stash.
A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home: these scenes and others are woven into Cameraperson, a tapestry of footage captured over the twenty-five-year career of documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson. Through a series of episodic juxtapositions, Johnson explores the relationships between image makers and their subjects, the tension between the objectivity and intervention of the camera, and the complex interaction of unfiltered reality and crafted narrative. A work that combines documentary, autobiography, and ethical inquiry, Cameraperson is both a moving glimpse into one filmmaker’s personal journey and a thoughtful examination of what it means to train a camera on the world.
