Starring: Ioana Iacob, Pola Geiger, Jörg Schüttauf
The Future of Film is Female presents a special preview screening of Natalia Sineinikova’s dystopian debut feature, WE MIGHT AS WELL BE DEAD. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.
With echoes of The Lobster, this razor sharp Tribeca winner follows security officer Anna and her 16-year old daughter who live peacefully in a high-rise at the edge of the woods famous for its carefully curated community. Until the day a dog disappears and an irrational fear spreads through this would-be utopia with a view. A stunning debut feature by Natalia Sineinikova that is a bleak, yet comedic, examination of society.
A Hope Runs High release in association with Aspect Ratio
Starring: Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Tomorô Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara
A “metal fetishist” (Shin’ya Tsukamoto), driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he’s made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman (Tomorowo Taguchi) and his girlfriend (Kei Fujiwara). The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.
Starring: Cheryl Dunye, Guinevere Turner, Valarie Walker, Lisa Marie Bronson
Cheryl, a twenty-something black lesbian, is struggling to make a documentary about beautiful and elusive 1930s film actress Fae Richards, popularly known as the “Watermelon Woman.” As Cheryl uncovers the meanings of the Watermelon Woman’s life, she experiences a total upheaval in her personal life.
Starring: Alex Grelle, Laura G, Glamhag, Joey C. Heyworth, Joyce Porter, Sarah Sherman
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A queer girl named Trinity huffs the contents of a magic aerosol can and develops the ability to talk to the dead.
Starring: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Wesley Addy
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Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) is an aging child star left to care for her wheelchair-bound sister Blanche (Joan Crawford), also a former child actress. Stuck living together in a mansion in old Hollywood, Blanche plots to get even with Jane for the car crash that left her crippled years earlier. But Jane is desperate to keep Blanche imprisoned as she plans a new rise to fame, and tries to hide Blanche’s existence from doctors, visitors and neighbors while she devises a way to get rid of her sister.
Starring: James Duval, Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech
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The Doom Generation, restored in 4K with scenes edited for it’s theatrical release in 1995, this version reflects the director’s cut, intended by Araki. The film has been completely re-timed and re-edited for today’s technological standards. The sound is remastered to compliment today’s new audio standards in a new 5.1 mix.
Headed home after a wild night at a Los Angeles club, young lovers Jordan White (James Duval) and Amy Blue (Rose McGowan) pick up a dangerously handsome drifter named Xavier Red (Johnathon Schaech). Jordan doesn’t see a problem with offering Xavier a quick ride, but his acid-tongued girlfriend thinks he’s a creep. When Xavier inadvertently kills a convenience store clerk, they are forced to go on the run, traversing a bizarre and ultra-violent America. Somehow, every random thug, drive-thru operator, and neo-Nazi they encounter seem to recognize Amy as a past fling or alter ego, adding to the already explosive sexual tension brimming among the renegade trio.
Starring: Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann, Eva Mattes, Gisela Fackeldey, Katrin Schaake
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Two women (Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann) form a sexual triangle with a fashion designer (Margit Carstensen) in her arty apartment.
Starring: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Cookie Mueller, Edith Massey
The travelling sideshow ‘Lady Divine’s Cavalcade of Perversions’ is actually a front for a group of psychotic kidnappers, with Lady Divine herself the most vicious and depraved of all, but her life changes after she gets raped by a 15-foot lobster.
Determined to keep his late-wife’s dream alive, Dick Wall becomes the unlikely spokesperson for her debut memoir and embarks on an unexpected cross-country promotional tour. He’s joined by his filmmaker son, who is torn between saving his mom’s first book and his concern for how his dad is coping with their new reality. The result is an intimate portrait of love and loss — an ode to the healing power of storytelling.
Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa, Masato Hagiwara
Cure is part atmospheric crime film and part philosophical meditation. Detective Takabe (Koji Yakusho) is tracking a series of identical murders, committed under the same bizarre circumstances. Nothing seems to connect the murders and Takabe becomes increasingly frustrated…
