Starring: Rachel Zegler, Gal Gadot, Patrick Page, Andrew Burnap, Ansu Kabia, Colin Michael Carmichael
A live-action musical reimagining of the classic 1937 film. The magical music adventure journeys back to the timeless story with beloved characters Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, and Sneezy.
Starring: Helena Zengel, Finn Wolfhard, Emily Watson, Willem Dafoe
A young girl learns to never go outside after dark because of reclusive forest creatures known as the ochi. However, when a baby ochi is left behind by its pack, she embarks on the adventure of a lifetime to reunite it with its family.
Starring: Pia Zadora, Craig Sheffer, Tom Nolan, Ruth Gordon, Michael Berryman
Alien ABCD (Tom Nolan) and his band land in a guitar-shaped spaceship and give a beach girl (Pia Zadora) a chance to sing.
Starring: Elizabeth Hartman, Peter Kastner, Geraldine Page, Rip Torn, Karen Black, Tony Bill, Julie Harris
Come swoon with The Deuce on a riotously rollicking romp around 1966-ish NYC for a fun-filled amour-fou Valentine to the City of Dreams and Dreamers – where the follies and foibles of frisky youth are free to be… until that fateful day when (metaphorically speaking): YOU’RE A BIG BOY NOW!!
Rollerskating circulation-stackboy at NYPL ‘s Main Branch – bespectacled übernerd “Bernard Chanticleer” – leaves his overbearing/overprotective/over-the-bridge parents’ Great Neck nest to breathe deep of the (then more breathable) air of Fun City… and fumble his way along to “finding himself” while (and more desperately) hoping to find love amongst the fumbling… tubby-ish bumbling boy meets brazen Bad Girl… bumbling boy meets boring-ish Good Girl… bumbling boy bumbles both! Fumbling and tubby-ishly bumbling his way amongst Discotheque dancers! Experimental theater in the Village! Times Square peep-galleries! Boardinghouse-bound chickens! An albino hypnotherapist! With real-life husband and wife Rip Torn and Geraldine Page as the titular twerp’s taciturn parents – and set to a swinging stick-in-your-head soundtrack courtesy of Jonathan Sebastian & The Lovin’ Spoonful (netting them a bona fide Billboard hit with “Darling Be Home Soon”)… Having a melange of sensibilities ranging from the screwbally comedies of the past to the then-hipness of French New Wave, Coppola’s “calling card” film is both a referential frenetic reverie to the cliched growing-pain-hurdles on the way to “manhood” wrought gloriously ridiculous, and a fever-dream love-letter to the kaleidoscopic crazy-quilt cacophony of NYC!!
After a time under the tutelage of Roger Corman, for whom he wrote and directed DEMENTIA 13 and did other odds-and-ends duties – and before graduating from UCLA – the then 27-year-old Coppola was given “carte-blanche” for BIG BOY – his first solo feature AND his MFA thesis… the filming of which brought the Queens-bred kid back East where BIG BOY was a Big Deal here in The City… garnering constant updates in local NYC newspapers of its production progress and location shooting before having its big upper-brow premiere (’60s-swingingly heralded in ads as “Happens Today”) at 59th & 3rd Ave’s Baronet Theatre before bouncing over to Times Square’s Selwyn… So… is it a date?? XOXO from The Deuce!
Starring: Carol Burnett, Amy Stryker, Desi Arnaz Jr., Geraldine Chaplin, Howard Duff, Mia Farrow, Lillian Gish
Friends and family of the bride (Amy Stryker) and groom (Desi Arnaz Jr.) carry on at a mansion before, during and after the ceremony.
A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood. Teaming up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird and a dog to navigate a boat in search of dry land, they must rely on trust, courage, and wits to survive the perils of a newly aquatic planet. From the boundless imagination of the award-winning Gints Zilbalodis (Away) comes a thrilling animated spectacle as well as a profound meditation on the fragility of the environment and the spirit of friendship and community. Steeped in the soaring possibilities of visual storytelling, Flow is a feast for the senses and a treasure for the heart.
Starring: Tim Allen, Eric Lloyd, Judge Reinhold, Wendy Crewson, Peter Boyle
Divorced dad Scott (Tim Allen) has custody of his son (Eric Lloyd) on Christmas Eve. After he accidentally kills a man in a Santa suit, they are magically transported to the North Pole, where an elf explains that Scott must take Santa’s place before the next Christmas arrives. Scott thinks he’s dreaming, but over the next several months he gains weight and grows an inexplicably white beard. Maybe that night at the North Pole wasn’t a dream after all — and maybe Scott has a lot of work to do.
Starring: Winona Ryder, Gabriel Byrne, Trini Alvarado, Samantha Mathis, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes, Christian Bale, Susan Sarandon
Celebrate the holidays with The FOFIF’s new favorite tradition: a special screening of Gillian Armstrong’s LITTLE WOMEN. Featuring a recorded introduction by Gillian Armstrong! To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.
Cozy, comforting, and a real tear-jerker, 1994’s Little Women is the adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s coming-of-age novel that originally defied box-office expectations and has since become a generational favorite. You know the story: With her husband off at war, Marmee is left alone to raise their four daughters. There is the spirited Jo, conservative Meg, fragile Beth, and romantic Amy. As the years pass, the sisters share some of the most cherished and painful memories of self-discovery, as Marmee and Aunt March guide them through issues of independence, romance and virtue.
The FOFIF screening will include giveaways, holiday candy treats and a recorded intro by director Gillian Armstrong.
Starring: Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston, Paul Dooley, Paul L. Smith
Print courtesy of the Robert Altman Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive
Looking for the father (Ray Walston) who deserted him as a baby, a sailor named Popeye (Robin Williams) journeys to the port town of Sweethaven. Popeye befriends an assortment of eccentrics and falls in love with Olive Oyl (Shelley Duvall), who already has a suitor, the bully Bluto (Paul L. Smith). Popeye also discovers an abandoned baby, Swee’Pea, whom he raises as his own. But when the spurned Bluto kidnaps Olive and the child, Popeye takes action, with the help of his magic spinach.
Starring: Isla Fisher, Pete Davidson, Stephen Root, Ricky Gervais, Lil Rel Howery
When a police officer and his faithful police dog get injured in the line of duty, a harebrained but life-saving surgery fuses the two of them together — and Dog Man is born. As Dog Man learns to embrace his new identity, he must stop feline supervillain Petey the Cat from cloning himself and going on a crime spree.