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THE ODYSSEY (35MM)
Presented exclusively on 35mm, Christopher Nolan's newest epic set after the Trojan War follows Odysseus on a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, meeting creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, Sirens, and Calypso along the way.
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SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY
It's a BRAND NEW DAY for Peter Parker. Fighting crime full-time as Spider-Man in a world that doesn’t remember him—and the pressure of seeing his old friends move on without him—sparks a change in Peter he may not have the power to control. But that transformation might also be the only thing that can stop a shocking new threat to the city and those he loves - a powerful villain no one can even see.
The world may have forgotten Peter Parker, but he hasn’t forgotten them.
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THE ODYSSEY (DIGITAL)
Christopher Nolan's newest epic set after the Trojan War follows Odysseus on a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, meeting creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, Sirens, and Calypso along the way.
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HER PRIVATE HELL
When a mysterious mist engulfs a futuristic metropolis, unleashing a deadly and elusive entity, a troubled young woman searches for her father. Her quest collides with an American GI on a harrowing odyssey to rescue his daughter from Hell.
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I WANT YOUR SEX
In the latest from New Queer Cinema pioneer Araki (“Mysterious Skin”), I Want Your Sex tells the story of Elliot (Cooper Hoffman), a kind-hearted if unmotivated twentysomething whose fantasies quickly come true when he lands a job with renowned artist and provocateur Erika Tracy (Olivia Wilde). When Erika breaks down office boundaries and takes Elliot on as her sexual muse and subordinate, their sexually charged relationship makes him question his own desires, boundaries and relationships with his uptight girlfriend (Charli xcx) and repressed roommate (Chase Sui Wonders). As the stakes heighten and power dynamics shift, the film mixes satire, romantic comedy, mystery and murder through the colorful and edgy visual language for which Araki is known.
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SHEEP IN THE BOX
In the near future, Otone and Kensuke, a grieving couple who have lost their son, take into their lives a humanoid identical to their late child.
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THE INVITE (BOURSE)
Joe and Angela's marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down?
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MICHAEL MANN'S MANHUNTER: THE FINAL CUT
New 4K Restoration! In retirement following a nervous breakdown, preternaturally gifted FBI profiler Will
Graham is persuaded by his former boss Jack Crawford to hunt down a new serial killer terrorizing the American South with the help of a high-IQ cannibal murderer.
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ON THE LINE
Filmed over the course of ten years, ON THE LINE explores the careers of three professional fighters - Will ‘Power’ Rosinsky, Danny ‘The Miracle Man’ Jacobs, and Patrick ‘All’ Day - as they strive to become world champions in one of the most unforgiving of all sports in this illuminating new documentary presented in partnership with the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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PHILLY FILM SHOWCASE
Celebrate our talented local filmmakers each month during the Philly Film Showcase. PFS turns the Philadelphia Film Greenfield Screening Room into a venue for up-and-coming filmmakers of all ages, levels, and backgrounds. Each Showcase is followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers and talent to elicit feedback from the audience.
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FADE TO BLACK
In this ‘80s slasher-turned-portrait of a damaged individual, a bonafide cineaste dons the iconic outfits of his big-screen idols to knock off his tormenting co-workers in outrageous recreations of famous movie scenes.
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THE CHASER
Before you’re terrorized by Na Hong-jin’s wild HOPE this fall, experience his bleak, frantic thrillride debut about an ex-cop-turned-pimp on the hunt for a john that did him wrong in one of the most wild first features of the century.
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UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD
Despite a celebrated filmography filled with adored stories on the road, nothing comes close to the scope (and length) of Wim Wenders’ sci fi-tinged road epic about a disintegrating relationship, an Earth destroying threat, and a new technology that may change the world forever.
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COMPENSATION
A Deaf seamstress and an illiterate migrant worker build a life together amid the shifting social currents of early 20th century America. 80 years later, a Deaf artist and a hearing librarian search for love in a world of their own. Zeinabu irene Davis’s reimagination of a historic poem is one of the LA Rebellion’s most daring and experimental achievements.
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DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST
Three generations of Gullah women from the Peazant family gather along the pastel shores of Ibo Landing on the eve of a life-changing migration. Julie Dash’s magnum opus of the LA Rebellion weaves family life into a breathtaking tapestry of diasporic and collective memory.
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THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES
Clint Eastwood’s underrated directorial Western epic finds a grizzled hotshot Confederate gunslinger with a bounty on his head at the conclusion of the Civil War making his way to Mexico.
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WAGES OF FEAR
Before there was Friedkin’s SORCERER, there was Henri-Georges Clouzot’s white-knuckle film adaptation of the suspense novel about four Europeans trapped at the end of the world in South America with only one way out: delivering highly volatile explosives across unforgiving terrain.
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2046
A heartbroken journalist (Tony Leung) pieces together the past and present while working on a sci-fi novel in a timeworn hotel room in WKW’s visually stunning conclusion to his thematic trilogy.
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VANISHING POINT
One of the defining car films of cinematic history finds a drug-addled ex-cop and racecar driver getting his devilish fix when he attempts to make a high-speed delivery of a Dodge Challenger across Nevada in record time.
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BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS
A key pillar of Black independent filmmaking, Bill Woodberry and Charles Burnett’s blues portrait of the Black working class follows a chronically unemployed family man in the constant chase for work and dignity.
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THEY CAME TOGETHER
Boy meets girl. Girl hates boy. Boy hates girl too. David Wain crushes the meet-cute in this warning against the unchecked dangers of corporate candy monopolies. (BYOB Night | 21+ Event /// MONDAY | AUGUST 3 | 7:30PM)
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BOYHOOD: 12TH ANNIVERSARY
Filmed over short periods from 2002 to 2013, BOYHOOD is a groundbreaking cinematic experience covering 12 years in the life of a family. At the center is Mason, who with his sister Samantha, is taken on an emotional and transcendent journey through the years, from childhood to adulthood. Stay tuned after the screening for a special pre-taped Q&A with Richard Linklater and the cast.
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TOTALLY FUCKED UP
In the first installment of Gregg Araki’s Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy, a band of teenagers juggle volatile relationships and societal pressures, portraying the complexity of queer adolescence with masterful finesse.
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THE DOOM GENERATION
New Queer Cinema legend Gregg Araki goes full 4K Araki on a catastrophic, darkly comic, road trip laced with sex, violence, and liberation as two anarchic teens pick up an enigmatic drifter as the world crumbles around them.
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TOUKI BOUKI
With little more than a motorcycle and dreams of Paris(dise), a cowherder and a university student hatch a scheme to escape postcolonial Dakar. Part fever dream, part political satire, Djibril Diop Mambéty’s afro-punk masterpiece remains one of cinema’s most audacious works.
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NOWHERE
Lauded as a cinematic acid trip, the final film in Gregg Araki’s Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy chronicles the lives of a group of angsty, totally f***ed up LA teens juggling sexuality, love, and existentialism.
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TWO-LANE BLACKTOP
One of the many (and best) road films released in a post-EASY RIDER world finds The Driver (James Taylor) and The Mechanic (Dennis Wilson) racing across the US in a ‘55 Chevy trying to figure out what it all means, man.
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SING SING
In partnership with First Unitarian Church, explore and unpack the SpringFest 2024 pick SING SING by Greg Kwedar followed by a talkback with Valerie Flower, a playwriting instructor for the Easter University’s Prison Education Program (PEP) at SCI Chester.
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FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
How to pack for a road trip according to Hunter S. Thompson’s stand-in Raoul Duke: two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, and a saltshaker half-full of cocaine. Noted.
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PULSE (2001)
Strange apparitions flicker across Tokyo in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s influential and haunting cult ghost story for the digital age. Rare theatrical screening!
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BRIGHT FUTURE
Mamoru and Yuji are listless factory workers navigating dead-end jobs and an uncertain future, forging a strange friendship around a pet poisonous jellyfish.
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THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN
From director Liu Chia-liang, one of the most iconic and influential kung-fu films of all time traces the legendary Gordon Liu (KILL BILL’s Pai Mei and Crazy 88 Johnny Mo) through a series of trials to obtain mastery of the coveted Shaolin martial arts and take on a brutal Manchu general.
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A GOOFY MOVIE
It’s been nearly 30 years since the world was introduced to mega superstar Powerline and it hasn’t been the same since. Revisit the plight of an absentminded, some would say goofy, single father attempting to reconnect with his punk son through unforgettable songs and Pauly Shore’s greatest performance committed to celluloid.
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NYMPHOMANIAC VOL. 1
Several cups of tea (with milk) give way to an all-night confession as a battered woman (Charlotte Gainsbourg/Stacy Martin) recounts a lifetime of erotic encounters to a mysterious stranger (Stellan Skarsgård).
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PUSHER
A botched drug deal leaves Frank (Kim Bodnia) with an insurmountable debt, forcing him deeper into Copenhagen’s underbelly in Nicolas Winding Refn’s guerilla debut and Mads Mikkelsen’s first feature film.
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NYMPHOMANIAC VOL. 2
Dawn breaks as the two strangers sift through the past in search of lost time, closing one of the boldest provocations of the 21st-century art cinema.
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PUSHER II
Fresh out of prison, disgraced Tonny (Mads Mikkelsen) returns to the ranks of Copenhagen’s underworld in a desperate bid to win the respect of his crime lord father (Leif Sylvester Petersen).
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SLEEPAWAY CAMP
After a boating accident kills her family, shy Angela (the iconic Felissa Rose) lives with her eccentric Aunt Martha and cousin Ricky. Angela and Ricky are sent to Camp Arawak for the summer, where bizarre and violent accidents are claiming the lives of campers.
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PUSHER III
It's lonely at the top. Serbian kingpin Milo suffers through arguably one of the worst 24 hours in movie history, juggling his daughter's elaborate birthday dinner and a disastrous ecstasy shipment.
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DEKALOG: PARTS 1 & 2
Dekalog: Part 1 - A semantics professor raising his young son, Pawel, and his son’s faith-based aunt are forced to question their belief systems over the course of one day. Dekalog: Part 2 - Dorota is in love with two men: her gravely ill husband, Andrzej, and a fellow musician who is the father of her unborn child. She implores her’s husbands to swear to a prognosis and in doing so puts a very serious decision into his hands.
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LA NOTTE
Prestigious novelist Giovanni (Marcello Mastroianni) and his morose wife Lidia (Jeanne Moreau) haunt Milan’s cultural elite in Antonioni’s autopsy of a modern marriage.
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THE WRONG GIRLS (6:45PM ADVANCED SCREENING)
Two codependent best friends (Kristen Stewart, Alia Shawkat) living paycheck to paycheck and bong rip to bong rip get caught in a case of mistaken identity that throws their lives into chaos. Special Guest screening on Wednesday, August 12 with Philly's Mannequin Pussy!
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THE WRONG GIRLS (ADVANCED SCREENING)
Two codependent best friends (Kristen Stewart, Alia Shawkat) living paycheck to paycheck and bong rip to bong rip get caught in a case of mistaken identity that throws their lives into chaos. Special Guest screening on Wednesday, August 12 with Philly's Mannequin Pussy!
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TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA
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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WEEKEND
After nearly a decade of redefining cinema with an unprecedented filmography, Jean-Luc Godard dropped this dense, anarchic satire about a disillusioned society on the brink of social revolution, on and off the screen.
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THE MAGIC BLADE
Spooky swordplay and thrilling action is at the center of Yuen Chor’s Shaw Brothers-produced extraordinary wuxia classic about two rival swordsmen banding together to prevent a dangerous weapon falling in the hands of a criminal overlord.
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SLEEPAWAY CAMP II: UNHAPPY CAMPERS (35MM)
The cult slasher icon returns with another Brat Pack and a newly revamped Angela (Pamela Springsteen), whose idea of a happy camper leaves little breathing room for bad behavior.
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SLEEPAWAYS CAMP III: TEENAGE WASTELAND (35MM)
Angela’s résumé keeps getting killer. A freshly acquired identity earns Angela a cushy position at Camp New Horizons, where an ambitious social experiment takes a toxic turn.
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DEKALOG: PARTS 3 & 4
Dekalog: Part 3 - During a Christmas Eve of recklessness and lies, Ewa and her married lover grapple with the choices they’ve made and the value of their present lives. Dekalog: Part 4 - The discovery of an unopened letter from her deceased mother forces Anka to question her unique relationship with her father.
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KILLER OF SHEEP
A monumental episodic merging of cinéma vérité and Italian neorealism from Charles Burnett follows a working-class Black man facing the challenges and uncertainty of life in 1970s LA.
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RED DESERT
A disoriented Monica Vitti traverses an industrial dystopia of smokestacks and wreckage in Michelangelo Antonioni’s hypnotic, gorgeous, yet enigmatic vision of modernity.
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MELANCHOLIA
Two sisters (Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg) struggle for normalcy in the face of an existential threat in Lars von Trier’s eerie premonition about the end of the world.
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA
As Western imperialists encircle 19th-century China with rifles and gunboats, folk hero Wong Fei-Hung (Jet Li) makes a compelling argument for bringing kungfu to a gunfight in Tsui Hark’s legendary martial arts epic.
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ZATOICHI MEETS THE ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN
The mononymous Japanese icon and Hong Kong kung-fu star Jimmy Wang Yu unite to protect a troubled orphan from danger as their nefarious enemies attempt to pit the two legends against each other.
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA II
Wong Fei-Hung is back with his mean flying kick and an even meaner braid. This time the struggle against imperialism gets complicated by a few internal contradictions as a militant religious movement, the White Lotus Sect, vie for power.
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA III
At the dawn of a new century, the Chinese National Question rests on a lion dance competition as our martial-arts master Wong Fei-Hung finds himself entangled in an assassination plot.
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SURPRISE 35!
In 2026, PFS will be embarking on the 35th Philadelphia Film Festival with another year of presenting life-changing and brain-altering films throughout October. Before the anniversary arrives we’ve decided to search far and wide for coveted films on 35mm to project every month. The catch: We aren’t saying what it’s going to be. Seriously. Don’t ask.
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CURE
A string of baffling murders seduces a weary detective (Koji Yakusho) with its promise of answers, drawing him deeper into a labyrinth of uncanny encounters.
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ANTICHRIST
A grieving couple (Lars von Trier’s chief penitents Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) retreat to a secluded woodland cabin where chaos soon reigns in the opening descent of the Depression Trilogy.
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DEKALOG: PARTS 5 & 6
Dekalog: Part 5 - An idealistic young defense lawyer morally opposed to the death penalty takes on a brutal murder case that forces him to question his stance. Dekalog: Part 6 - A teenager routinely spies on his older, sexually liberated neighbor that leads him down a path of love, curiosity and obsession.
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PENITENTIARY
Wrongly imprisoned, Two Sweet pummels his way through the system in Jamaa Fanaka’s eccentric blaxploitation knock-out.
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LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
One of the defining breakout indie–and road trip–films of the aughts finds Toni Collette and Greg Kinnear taking the wheel of an iconic yellow van to drive their dysfunctional family across state lines to compete in a child beauty pageant. Chaos ensues.
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CHALLENGE OF THE TIGER
In this deliriously entertaining Brucesploitation extravaganza, a Spanish scientist develops a drug that causes sterility, only to have it fall into the hands of terrorists. It’s up to a pair of CIA agents to recover the secret formula before the bad guys hold hostage the genetic future of the human race.
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SAMBA TRAORÉ
The only surviving accomplice of a gas station robbery gone bad, Samba Traoré flees the scene of the crime with a suitcase full of cash for his native village in rural Burkina Faso in this new 4K restoration of the West African cinema classic.
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DREAMS IN NIGHTMARES
A new take on the American road movie, filmmaker Shatara Michelle Ford’s follow up to TEST PATTERN finds a group of queer friends in their mid-30s navigating love, identity, and belonging.
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DEKALOG: PARTS 7 & 8
Dekalog: Part 7 - After giving birth to a child as a teenager, Majka resorts to kidnapping her daughter from her own mother, Ewa, who had raised the child as her own. Dekalog: Part 8 - A daytime classroom conversation around the fate of Jews who survived World War II between a professor of ethics and a researcher turns into a night of confrontation and revelations.
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THE HOLE (35MM)
New 35mm! Misfortunes do not come singly in Tsai Ming-liang’s Taipei as a mysterious contagion sweeps the city and an apartment leak brings two lonely tenants together for what is perhaps their last dance amidst the uncertainty.
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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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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 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 BIRDS
Question: What's a better way to kick off the Eagles season than a screening of Hitchcock's THE BIRDS? Answer: There is none. Thursday, 9/10 screening presented with VHS CLUB.
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THE FISHER KING
Terry Gilliam (BRAZIL) dons his Capra hat in this dark, yet moving fantasy comedy about the unlikely relationship between a New York shock jock (Jeff Bridges) and a delusional man (Robin Williams) the depressed DJ unknowingly impacted.
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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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FOR THE COMMON GOOD: THE WOMEN WHO SHAPED OUR NATION
The evening will feature four episodes from the series, including the stories of Dinah, who celebrates 250 years of requesting and gaining her freedom; Elin Kunders, a German Quaker immigrant known as the "Mother of Germantown"; and Elizabeth Coates Paschall, a healer and community pillar in colonial Philadelphia. A fourth episode featuring Margaret Mattson, a settler of New Sweden accused of witchcraft by the newly arrived British government, will make its Philadelphia public premiere.
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MEMORY OF PRINCESS MUMBI
In the year 2093, a filmmaker journeys to Umata to capture life after a war that outlawed modern technology. There, he’s challenged by the enigmatic Princess Mumbi to set aside AI and rediscover the art of seeing through simplicity and human connection.
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THE DOORS: THE FINAL CUT
Val Kilmer is Jim Morrison in this epic music biopic from Oliver Stone that perfectly captures the hedonistic debauchery of the 60s and the late poet-cum-musician’s entry into the fabled 27 club.
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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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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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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 BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY
In Edward Yang's sprawling masterpiece the intricacies of young love, masculinity, and identity are illuminated through the eyes of a 14-year-old Taiwanese boy as he moves through a pivotal era in his life.
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FROM PAGE TO SCREEN: LOVE CHILD
The Philadelphia Film Society, The Free Library of Philadelphia, Esperanza Arts Center, and Tamo en Cine Films have joined together to launch From Page to Screen: A Dominican Arts & Film Series, a six-week celebration of Dominican culture through film, literature, and the arts.
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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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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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BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II W/ 70MM PODCAST
For their third annual meet-up at PFS, the 70mm Podcast crew will present the prescient throwback hit BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II where 2015 sees the rise of a megalomaniac businessman stealing from others to make a fortune.
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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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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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DEKALOG: PARTS 9 & 10
Dekalog: Part 9 - A married couple’s relationship is tested when the discovery of an affair drives the husband to take extreme measures, physically and mentally. Dekalog: Part 10 - A bequeathed stamp collection of surprising value leads the sons of the deceased through a dangerous and comical series of events.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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