Starring: Tomoko Kaneda, Rinko Kikuchi, Lu Ningjuan, Taro Yabe, Yûya Yagira
The seven short films making up Genius Party couldn’t be more diverse, linked only by a high standard of quality and inspiration.
Atsuko Fukushima’s intro piece is a fantastic abstraction to soak up with the eyes. Masaaki Yuasa, of Mind Game and Cat Soup fame, brings his distinctive and deceptively simple graphic style and dream-state logic to the table with Happy Machine, his spin on a child’s earliest year. Shinji Kimura’s spookier Deathtic 4, meanwhile, seems to tap into the creepier corners of a child’s imagination and open up a toybox full of dark delights. Hideki Futamura’s Limit Cycle conjures up a vision of virtual reality, while Yuji Fukuyama’s Doorbell and Baby Blue by Shinichiro Watanabe use understated realism for very surreal purposes. And Shoji Kawamori, with Shanghai Dragon, takes the tropes and conventions of traditional anime out for very fun joyride.
Starring: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Jaime King, Frankie Faison, Lochlyn Munro, John Heard
Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus (Marlon Wayans) and Kevin Copeland (Shawn Wayans), accidentally foil a drug bust. As punishment, they are forced to escort a pair of socialites (Anne Dudek, Rochelle Aytes) to the Hamptons, where they’re going to be used as bait for a kidnapper. But when the girls realize the FBI’s plan, they refuse to go. Left without options, Marcus and Kevin decide to pose as the sisters, transforming themselves from African-American men into a pair of blonde, white women.
Starring: Shintarô Sakamoto, Ren Komai, Tomoya Maeno, Tateto Serizawa, Kami Hiraiwa, Naoto Takenaka
When you’re a bored teenager looking for thrills, sometimes the only thing you can turn to is rock ‘n roll. Having no skill, money, or even a full set of drums, a feared trio of high school delinquents nevertheless decide they are destined for musical glory in a quest to impress their only friend Aya, avoid a rival gang, and – – most importantly — jam out. Animated almost entirely by director Kenji Iwaisawa, and featuring a lead performance by Japanese alt-rock legend Shintaro Sakamoto, On-Gaku: Our Sound brings its own sound and vision to the Hiroyuki Ohashi manga from which it was adapted. With pitch-perfect deadpan humor, the film presents a highly original take on the beloved slacker comedy: a lo-fi buddy film with a blaring musical finale that will leave you wanting an immediate encore.
The FOFIF presents an exclusive screening of Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan’s documentary Naked Gardens with Lucas in conversation after the film. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.
At a family naturist resort in Florida, residents aim to feel accepted and at home. It serves as a haven to a community of nudists that have chosen to leave their prior lives behind and settle down in an environment that fosters like-minded ideals and a commitment to treat each other without judgements. Morley, the elderly administrator, keeps the resort operating as smoothly as possible – with support from younger adults like Jeremy, a dutiful father who is often the de facto ‘handyman’ of the resort. Other residents – like Jamie and Gretchen – end up struggling with personal issues of their own, continually working to resolve past traumas or rise above grief and loss. They all strive to coexist with shared goals, all while working on their own problems and insecurities.
In Naked Gardens, directors Ivete Lucas & Patrick Bresnan (Pahokee) craft a patient and emotionally vulnerable story about empathy and the belief in pursuing a more perfect society. Lucas & Bresnan explore these nuanced mature topics with thoughtful moments of cheeky levity – their attentive lens always curiously observing the community of nudists, but never condescending to them. Watching Naked Gardens, the viewer’s own assumptions and biases about this nudist community shift as the ensemble stories progress. By the end, Lucas & Bresnan commandingly deliver a potent insight into the toxicity of judging others and spotlight a unified community sharing a constructive philosophy on life. – Tribeca
Screening on VHS! METAL!! 🤘
Recorded live on April 3, 1985 at Studio 54 in New York. Live footage and interviews with Slayer, Venom & Exodus. Venom’s live clips are from other videos because Mantas had chickenpox.
Followed by a panel discussion and an after party in Lo-Res with an all vinyl metal set by DJ Horror Boobs
Starring: James Glickenhaus. Starring: Robert Ginty, Samantha Eggar, Steve James, Christopher George
This July take a dark dive with The Deuce into the underbelly of America with THE EXTERMINATOR!! Best-buddy soldiers manage to survive ‘Nam – but can they survive being back in “The World” – as in 1979 NYC?? A flamethrower might help… Working-class stiffs get stiffed at every turn by corrupt bosses, piddling politicians, and “Ghetto Ghouls” – until it’s time to turn the table on the tormentors!
James Glickenhaus’s gloomy, doomy, grim exercise in vigilante ulta-violence shows a society soured and starving for saving… a world of gangsters, gutter trash, pedophiles, pushers… “chicken boys” and mom-muggers… where a meat-grinder and mercury-filled bullets make for obvious go-to solutions. With packed Lyric Theatre crowds of the same scuzzes being portrayed on the screen all caterwauling the cruel calamity – as though clamoring for their own due demise… the movie Roger Ebert called “… a small, unclean exercise in shame.” – THE EXTERMINATOR would be a big shame to miss!!
Starring: Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, Jeff Bridges, Season Hubley, Randy Quaid, Scott Wilson, Ed Lauter, Gary Busey
Join The Deuce this June as we celebrate Fathers AND Pride with LOLLY-MADONNA XXX! A buncha backwoods boys just tryin’ to do their moon-shinin’ pappies proud anyway they can… Tennessee hick-households headed by scenery and sandwich chewing Rod Steiger and tight-lipped taciturn-y Robert Ryan embroiled in a Hatfield-McCoy-type feud!
A prankishly-penned letter leads to mistaken-identity kidnapping and an escalation of already tenuous tensions! With some Elvis impersonating and crossdressing!! A try at hopping on the “hicksploitation” bandwagon from major-studio MGM with a script by Sue Grafton adapted from her own obscure early pot-boiler… the “XXX” of the title being not a rating but rather the sign-off of the previously mentioned prankishly-penned letter as in: “love and kisses”…
This hillbilly hogwash hijacked Manhattan’s “happening” E. 59th Street – premiering at the East 59th St I & II Theater where “we think seeing movies is one of the really great scenes in New York. And we intend to make that scene as exciting as possible…” Just like those dopes at The Deuce!!
Starring: Lenny Van Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, Maxwell Caulfield and Bud Cort’s voice as “Edgar!”
May all your dreams come true with The Deuce and the energetic tech-centric ELECTRIC DREAMS – “A Fairytale For Computers”!! It’s FOOOOR computers!! And aren’t we all?? A toe-tapping overly prescient pre-AI PC pop-packed love-triangle between doofus dude, the classy, sassy cellist upstairs, and doofus dude’s jealous computer!
Milquetoast-y architect Miles tries his tech-inept hands at getting organized by purchasing a brand-new PC to some preposterously disastrous results… ie: his self-named suddenly sentient computer “Edgar” has taken it upon “himself” to ruin his master’s romance with said sexy cellist and win her for “himself”!! Packed to the giga-bytes with a Giorgio Moroder score and some gloriously 80s tracks by the likes of Culture Club and Heaven 17!! With now-common technologies that must have seemed pure sci-fi speculation to the 1984 Movieland thick-heads! Melt your mind with ELECTRIC DREAMS!!
Starring: Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, Helena Rojo, Cecilia Rivera
Featuring a Live Sound Cinema score by Reel Orchestrette
Don Lope de Aguirre (Klaus Kinski), a ruthless Spanish conquistador, vies for power while part of an expedition in Peru to find El Dorado, the mythical seven cities of gold. Accompanied by his daughter, Flores (Cecilia Rivera), Aguirre faces off against his superior, Don Pedro de Ursua (Ruy Guerra), and grows increasingly volatile after seizing control of the group. As Aguirre presses deeper into the Amazonian jungle, he descends further into madness.
Starring: Florence Pugh, Morgan Freeman, Celeste O’Connor, Zoe Lister Jones, Molly Shannon, Chinaza Uche
Daniel (Morgan Freeman) is brought together with Allison (Florence Pugh), the once thriving young woman with a bright future who was involved in an unimaginable tragedy that took his daughter’s life. As grief-stricken Daniel navigates raising his teenage granddaughter and Allison seeks redemption, they discover that friendship, forgiveness, and hope can flourish in unlikely places.
