Starring: Ice-T, Rutger Hauer, Charles S. Dutton, Gary Busey, F. Murray Abraham, John C. McGinley
Explosive special effects and high-caliber weapons make for the ultimate manhunt in this hard-hitting action-adventure. Ice-T is Jack Mason, a homeless man recruited by a band of wealthy hunters to lead an expedition into the Pacific Northwest. But on the first day of the hunt, he discovers a lethal surprise… he’s the prey. It’s gut-wrenching action from start to finish as the game begins and the hunters learn a deadly lesson: Never underestimate a man who’s got nothing to lose.
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Kathleen Turner
CHAPO TRAP HOUSE joins us live in Williamsburg to discuss the nefarious plot to redevelop Toon Town.
Down-on-his-luck private eye Eddie Valiant is hired by cartoon producer R.K. Maroon to investigate an adultery scandal involving Jessica Rabbit, the sultry wife of Maroon’s biggest star, Roger Rabbit. But when Marvin Acme, Jessica’s alleged paramour and the owner of Toontown, is found murdered, the villainous Judge Doom vows to catch and destroy Roger.
Starring: Jacqueline Andere, Jose Baviera, Silvia Pinal, Augusto Benedico, Antonio Bravo, Ofelia Montesco
In this jet black and surreal comedy, a formal dinner party starts out normally enough. After the sophisticated guests retire to the host’s exquisite music room, they find that they cannot leave. Hours pass and then days, and as the time plods by, disturbing changes in the formerly-genteel guests occur.
This film chronicles the bitter and violent struggle waged by coal miners during a strike in 1973 in Eastern Kentucky against the Eastover Mining Company. The documentary focuses on the miners and their families’ fight for decent living standards in an area where many still live in shacks with no indoor plumbing and work at jobs with little security and dangerous conditions.
Starring: Pamela Mendoza, Tommy Párraga, Lucio Rojas, Maykol Hernández, Ruth Armas
Peru, at the height of the political crisis of the 1980’s. Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets Pedro Campos, a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation. Based on a true story.
A short profile on legendary paranormal scientist Stanley Krippner’s Dream Telepathy lab at Brooklyn’s Maimonides Hospital.
Other Music was an influential and uncompromising New York City record store that was vital to the city’s early 2000s indie music scene. But when the store is forced to close its doors due to rent increases, the homogenization of urban culture, and the shift from CDs to downloadable and streaming music, a cultural landmark is lost. Through vibrant storytelling, the documentary captures the record store’s vital role in the musical and cultural life of the city, and highlights the artists whose careers it helped launch including Vampire Weekend, Animal Collective, Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, William Basinski, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sharon Van Etten, Yo La Tengo and TV On The Radio.
Starring: Nathanael Chadwick, Mickey Vos, Victoria Dunsmore
A special live musical pre-show by Morricone Youth starts at 7; the film starts at 7:30.
Wayne, a struggling method actor, inherits the city’s last porno cinema from his estranged father Al. Seeing this as an unconventional opportunity to reconcile with the father he barely knew, Wayne absorbs himself in the underworld of the adult cinema business.
Starring: Kelly O’Sullivan, Ramona Edith-Williams, Francis Guinan, Jim True-Frost
Flailing thirty-four-year-old Bridget (Kelly O’Sullivan) finally catches a break when she meets a nice guy and lands a much-needed job nannying six-year-old Frances (played by a scene-stealing Ramona Edith-Williams). But an unwanted pregnancy introduces an unexpected complication. To make matters worse, she clashes with the obstinate Frances and struggles to navigate a growing tension between Frances’s moms. Amidst her tempestuous personal relationships, a reluctant friendship with Frances emerges, and Bridget contends with the inevitable joys and shit-shows of becoming a part of someone else’s family.
Warning: this movie may be fifty years old, but it is full of uncompromised, uncensored rock and roll action – and a dirty title!
Cocksucker Blues is an unreleased documentary film directed by photographer Robert Frank chronicling The Rolling Stones American Tour 1972 in support of their album Exile on Main St., their first visit to the United States since the 1969 Altamont disaster documented in Gimme Shelter.
“Frank downplays the concert performances in favor of the backstage world, letting the everyday sounds of the tour give the film its feel: inconsequential conversations; a tiny music box; a sad, recurring piano theme; a scratchy record; and the ragged playing of rehearsal. Frank’s hypnotically rough camera and overlapping soundtrack immerse us in the reality of a very strange experience.” – San Francisco International Film Festival
After Party in the upstairs bar
Lifelong Stones fan and fan club member since 1982 John Scheaffer will be spinning his personal collection of Stones original LP’s and 45’s along with some bootleg rarities.
