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COYOTE VS ACME
After enduring years of catastrophic product failures at the hands of ACME, Inc., a tenacious, unemployed coyote uncovers a corporate cover-up and spearheads an unhinged battle against the multinational conglomerate that’s been blowing him up in the name of profit. Also, there’s a roadrunner. And dynamite.
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HOPE
A mysterious discovery is made on the outskirts of the remote harbor town. The residents find themselves in a desperate fight for survival against something they have never encountered before
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TONY
A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.
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UNION COUNTY
Will Poulter and Noah Centineo deliver pitch-perfect performances as brothers Cody and Jack Parsons, each navigating a court-mandated drug rehabilitation program in a pocket of rural Ohio hit hard by the opioid epidemic. Provided with hope for the first time since their struggles began and with the support of a tireless counselor (Annette Deao), the brothers work toward a brighter, sober future. Join PFS for a special screening of UNION COUNTY followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Adam Meeks and actor Will Poulter on Sunday, September 13 at 2:00 & 4:40 PM at the PFS Bourse | 400 Ranstead St. (Second screening added! 2:00pm Screening Sold Out)
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PRACTICAL MAGIC 2
A multi generational family of witches, cursed to be loveless for centuries, attempts to break the spell by confronting dark secrets and sacrificing for each other.
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RESIDENT EVIL
From the mind of visionary filmmaker Zach Cregger (WEAPONS, BARBARIANS) comes a thrilling — and terrifying — reinvention of the Resident Evil franchise. In an all-new story, RESIDENT EVIL follows Bryan (Austin Abrams), a medical courier who unwittingly finds himself in an action-packed, non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.
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TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA (BOURSE)
After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. But when she visits the original’s star, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.
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BIRDMAN
Iñárritu plays to the rafters in this uncharacteristically loud, chaotic and hilarious meta-tinged Best Picture winner about a washed-up superhero film star’s vanity-tinged attempt to gain respect by staging a Raymond Carver play.
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FRIED GREEN TOMATOES
There must be some secrets in the sauce to have cooked up this sweetly nostalgic yet radical Southern tale of “friendship” and resilience, with generation-spanning performances from Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Mary-Louise Parker.
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BUDDY
Remember BUDDY—the bright orange unicorn and star of that classic children's television show who brought joy and life lessons into your living room?
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BAD APPLES
A primary school teacher accidentally locks her most disruptive student in her home. Desperate to undo it, she hesitates when her class begins to flourish in the child's absence, landing her in an impossible predicament.
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THE WEIGHT
Desperate to save what is left of his family, during the height of the Great Depression a battle-scarred veteran is hired to help smuggle a fortune in gold across 100 miles of impenetrable wilderness.
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CAPE FEAR (1991)
Robert de Niro goes hard as ex-con Max Cady in Scorsese’s underrated Southern Gothic thriller about one man’s determination to terrorize the family of the public defendant (Nick Nolte) that failed him.
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THE ROCKETEER
Capturing the gee whiz heroics and unabashed heart of early-20th century serial matinee heroes, filmmaker Joe Johnson’s art deco blockbuster finds a Hollywood stuntman utilizing a jetpack to take on Nazis.
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POPCORN
When a group of film students devise a gimmick-filled horror movie marathon at an abandoned cinema, they unwittingly wander into the sights of a murderous psychopath who’s all too happy to use their props and tricks to his own deadly ends.
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RICOCHET
Nothing can prepare you for the straight insanity found in this forgotten late night gem action thriller about a vengeful murderer (John Lithgow) on a mission to destroy the life of an LA cop-turned-D.A. (Denzel Washington).
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HOOK
Just use a little bit of that Lost Boy imagination when returning to view this unique alt-Barrie take on Neverland’s love triangle between an aged out Robin “Peter Pan” Williams, Julia “Tinkerbell” Roberts, and Dustin “Captain Hook” Hoffman. Rufio!
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HEARTS OF DARKNESS: A FILMMAKER'S APOCALYPSE
Director Eleanor Coppola captures the insanity, baffling decisions and painstaking determination behind the much reported chaotic production from hell of APOCALYPSE NOW and makes one of the greatest documentaries about filmmaking in the process.
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DOGFIGHT
Before there was the mean-spirited dare bestowed upon Freddie Prinze Jr. in SHE’S ALL THAT, there was the late River Phoenix as a marine tasked with inviting the “ugliest” woman (Lili Taylor) to a last hurrah dance before his squad ships out to Japan in Nancy Savoca’s winsome coming-of-age period drama.
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THE ELEPHANT MAN
David Lynch’s magnificent follow-up to ERASERHEAD is an atmospheric and touching story about a London surgeon (Anthony Hopkins) discovering the complexity and beauty behind the shocking exterior of an ostracized circus performer (John Hurt).
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NAKED LUNCH
David Cronenberg adapts one of the most infamously unadaptable–some say incomprehensible–novels of the 20th century with bugs and prosthetics to spare in this junk-fueled marriage of William Burroughs’ life and the dark, hallucinatory world of Interzone.
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DELICATESSEN
In an apartment far, far away, lives a bloodthirsty landlord and his starving tenants all eagerly waiting for their next meal to walk through the door in AMÉLIE director Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s surreal dark comedy debut.
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A SHORT FILM ABOUT LOVE & A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING
A SHORT FILM ABOUT LOVE - An expanded version of Part 6 in Kieslowski's legendary series examines love, longing and sex through the story of a young postal worker who spies on a promiscuous woman in an adjacent housing project. A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING - A shocking, powerful film expanded from Part 5 of Kieslowski's legendary series considers societal violence in its many forms through the story of an idealistic young lawyer and the brutal murderer he is called to defend.
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JFK
Oliver Stone busts out the red yarn in this epic, conspiracy riddled political thriller about the real life Louisiana D.A. (Kevin Costner) who believed the Kennedy assasination was the work of the US government.
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PRIMETIME
In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history.
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JUNGLE FEVER
Spike Lee’s bold and provocative 1991 dissection of the complications around an interracial romance and the perils of addiction is led by a tour de force performance from Samuel L. Jackson and a lively Stevie Wonder soundtrack.
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MY GIRL
It’s hard to believe it’s been 35 years since this coming-of-age classic about a tomboy’s (Anna Chlumsky) summer with an indoor kid (Macaulay Culkin) instilled the fear of bees (and allergies in general) into impressionable minds around the world.
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THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE
After attending a workshop on how to write a Hallmark movie, filmmaker John Wilson tries to use the same formula to sell a documentary about concrete.
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AMERICAN DOCTOR
From Emmy® Award-winning filmmaker Poh Si Teng, AMERICAN DOCTOR follows three American physicians— Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian—united by a single oath to save lives. After volunteering in besieged hospitals in Gaza, they return home determined to fight for the patients and colleagues they left behind, taking their battle from the front lines of war to the halls of Congress.
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THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
Like a moth to a flame, FBI rookie Jodi Foster is pulled into the orbit of enigmatic psychiatrist Anthony Hopkins to aid in the search for a killer with a talent for getting under your skin in Jonathan Demme’s masterful thriller classic.
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THE RAPTURE
Behold, she (Mimi Rogers) is coming with her partner (David Duchovny), as Los Angeles swingers-turned-Born Again Christians in this 1991 melodrama oddity about it all being over when the trumpets call.
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A BAY OF BLOOD
Brand new 4K restoration of the groundbreaking, first ever fully-realized slasher film from the great gore maestro Mario Bava about the series of increasingly wild deaths that ensue after the murder of a wealthy countess leaves her lakeside cabin estate up for grabs to the last survivor. Barf bags will be provided.
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AMORES PERROS
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s emotionally evocative and memory searing Award-winning debut explores the lives of three disparate individuals crashing into each other in the most unexpected ways in this brand new 4K restoration.
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SLACKER + POISON (DOUBLE FEATURE)
The 1991 Sundance Film Festival saw the debuts of Julie Dash, Hal Hartley, and more, but two first films from celebrated auteurs signaled a new era for independent filmmaking. Richard Linklater would–for better or worse–inspire imitators to turn the camera on the idiosyncratic weirdos of their community with little regard for plot while Todd Haynes challenged what constitutes a queer film through an experimental adaptation with surreal direction and form.
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SAMURAI COP
Joe is the Samurai Cop, a rock of a man who will do literally whatever it takes to punish criminals—even if that means wig changes and taking dozens of innocent lives in the process. Teamed with a truly hilarious partner (Mark Frazer), Joe embarks on a mindmelting sex-and-violence-fueled adventure against evil ninjas, drug dealers, and genre legend Robert Z’Dar (MANIAC COP)!
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EL MARIACHI / RESERVOIR DOGS (Double Feature)
We kick off REEL OCTOBER with the historical Declaration of Independents at the 1992 and 1993 Sundance where Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, respectively, changed the world of independent filmmaking forever.
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THE WHITE RIBBON
Michael Haneke’s gorgeous black and white nightmare parable about a series of mysterious violent occurrences that plague a small German village just before World War I is as shocking today as it was when it won the Palme d’Or in 2009.
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SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK
After writing the most creative and wild screenplays of the early 21st century, Charlie Kaufman doubles down with his astonishing directorial debut about an ambitious playwright’s (Philip Seymour Hoffman) neverending quest to create an all-encompassing play about what it means to live.
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BIRTH
Jonathan Glazer’s underrated and misunderstood masterpiece led by an astonishing Nicole Kidman follows a recently widowed woman wallowing in immense grief until she is visited by a young boy claiming to be her late husband.
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SURPRISE 35! PFS MEMBER EDITION
After a year of amazing Surprise 35! screening experiences, we asked PFS Members to submit their pick for the series. But we aren’t done with surprises just yet: instead of just one film, we are devoting a whole day to surprise screenings chosen by our awesome members!
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A SEPARATION
Fresh off its Surprise 35! debut, we present a reprise screening of Asghar Farhadi’s monumental Iranian drama A SEPARATION. The Academy Award-winning film is a masterclass in tension, shifting perspectives and the dissolution of marriage in contemporary Iran.
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THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD
Influenced by the legendary cinematography of DAYS OF HEAVEN and heralded as one of the most visually stunning films of the millennium thanks to Roger Deakins superb work, we just had to play this on 35.
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THE FIVE HEARTBEATS
Presented with Be Reel Black Cinema Club and United We Heal Film Festival.
Loosely based on the many legendary R&B and soul groups that came before like The Dells and The Temptations, filmmaker and star Robert Townsend crafts a toe-tapping and decades-spanning bop about the fictitious, Motown-esque group.
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SANS SOLEIL
Presented with Lightbox Film Center.
Chris Marker’s uniquely original essay film Sans Soleil is a meditation on time, memory, and human interconnectedness. Told through a series of letters that suggests a travel diary, the film incorporates documentary footage along with clips from films and television to ruminate on the very nature of filmmaking and the role of the spectator.
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SPEED RACER
Following the success of THE MATRIX, the Wachowskis crafted the ultimate live-action anime adaptation sugar rush that has been rightfully reclaimed as a revolutionary cult classic.
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RACHEL GETTING MARRIED
The great Jonathan Demme directs a never-better Anne Hathaway in this remarkable drama about a young woman temporarily on leave from rehab to attend her sister’s wedding. Drama ensues.
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WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE
The incomparably odd Todd Solondz kicked off his own dark comedy cinematic multiuniverse with this deranged, yet sweet coming-of-age tale about an awkward middle schooler taking extreme measures to become one of the cool kids.
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JAWBREAKER
Before The Plastics rocked their pink outfits on Wednesdays, Rose McGowan and her Flawless Four reigned supreme in this influential dark comedy about murder, blackmail, and hard candy.
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CHAN IS MISSING
Presented with the Philadelphia Asian American Film Foundation.
New restoration of Wayne Wang’s groundbreaking debut is a mystery turned on its head about two men traversing the streets of San Francisco’s Chinatown and beyond in search of the money owed by the titular missing Chan.
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THE EXORCIST
Presented with Girls Like Horror and featuring a post-screening talkback with Eleanor Johnson, author of the new book Monstrous Bitch: A History of Terrifying Women.
Though over 50 years old, William Friedkin’s horror masterpiece remains a terrifying cinematic experience that will keep you up at night.
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