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ANORA (BOURSE)
Official Selection of PFF33! Sean Baker's Palme d'Or winner ANORA is an audacious, thrilling, and comedic variation on a modern day Cinderella story. Mikey Madison captivates as Ani, a young sex worker from Brooklyn whose life takes an unexpected turn when she meets and impulsively marries Vanya, the impetuous son of a Russian billionaire. However, when Vanya's parents catch wind of the union, they send their henchmen to annul the marriage, setting off a wild chase through the streets of New York.
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A REAL PAIN
Official Selection of PFF33! Mismatched cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the odd-couple's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
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GLADIATOR II
After his home is conquered by the tyrannical emperors who now lead Rome, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum and must look to his past to find strength to return the glory of Rome to its people.
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ANORA
Official Selection of PFF33! Sean Baker's Palme d'Or winner ANORA is an audacious, thrilling, and comedic variation on a modern day Cinderella story. Mikey Madison captivates as Ani, a young sex worker from Brooklyn whose life takes an unexpected turn when she meets and impulsively marries Vanya, the impetuous son of a Russian billionaire. However, when Vanya's parents catch wind of the union, they send their henchmen to annul the marriage, setting off a wild chase through the streets of New York.
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HERETIC
Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant), becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse.
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WITHOUT ARROWS
In partnership with Indigenous Peoples’ Day Philadelphia, we are honored to welcome filmmakers Jonathan Olshefski and Delwin Fiddler Jr. for our screening of their brand new film WITHOUT ARROWS. WITHOUT ARROWS is an intimate documentary that captures thirteen years in the life of a Lakota family living on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe reservation in South Dakota.
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ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT
Official Selection of PFF33! The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut.
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CONCLAVE
Official Selection of PFF33! Conclave follows one of the world's most secretive and ancient events—selecting a new Pope. Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with running this covert process after the unexpected death of the beloved Pope. Once the Catholic Church's most powerful leaders have gathered from around the world and are locked together in the Vatican halls, Lawrence finds himself at the center of a conspiracy and discovers a secret that could shake the very foundation of The Church. Also starring Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini and directed by Edward Berger.
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ISHTAR
The unceremoniously received last film by one of the greatest comedians and filmmakers ever, Elaine May. ISHTAR is is a total comedic gem that overflows with chemistry between Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman playing two failed songwriters who stumble their way into an international crisis in Morocco.
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THE TWO FACES OF A BAMILEKE WOMAN
A filmmaker returns to her native Cameroonian village to reunite with her mother, who serves as a reflection of the complexities of identity and culture.
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PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE
PTA and Adam Sandler collide in the auteur’s arguably most underrated spin on the romantic comedy. A lonely and neurotic bachelor Barry Egan (Sandler) catapults his seemingly mundane life into turmoil after he dials a phone-sex line in a desperate attempt to alleviate his loneliness.
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PERFECT BLUE
With his pitch-perfect surreal debut, Satoshi Kon explores the nefarious trappings and fallout of fame when a Japanese pop idol gives up her music career for acting and must face a world of stalkers—and even murder.
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PUMP UP THE VOLUME
Everybody knows Christian Slater was the coolest in 1990, but little do they know that this galvanizing banger about a timid, high school wallflower moonlighting as a teenage revolutionary-cum-therapist pirate radio DJ is one of the greatest forgotten gems of the 90s.
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PAPRIKA
Arguably a source of inspiration for Christopher Nolan’s INCEPTION, PAPRIKA is a twisty surreal noir that delves into the subconscious when a psychologist enters the dream world via new tech and attempts to thwart a dream terrorist, causing irrefutable nightmares for the population.
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AI
At the dawn of the millenia, Spielberg released this equally confounding and revolutionary epic that began in earnest 30 years prior by the great Stanley Kubrick, only to be met with a puzzled reception. Twenty years later, experience the never-more-timely journey of a young android with the unique ability to love.
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THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS
Wes Anderson’s unforgettable direction and ensemble finds three siblings, once-promising child prodigies whose potential has since tragically faded, suddenly reunited and reckoning with their ailing patriarch and each other.
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RRR
We thought you had enough over the past couple of years, but we were wrong! After being inundated with requests from PFS Members and the Philadelphia filmgoing community we gave in and are excited to bring back RRR for one-night only on Friday, November 29th! Bring the in-laws and family who are in town, bring your high school pals returning from college to avoid acknowledging they’ve changed, bring your beautiful self, and let’s Naatu Naatu one more time this year.
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THE MASTER
PTA’s greatest achievement to date is an intimate character study and masterclass in acting about the complicated relationship between a temperamental veteran navigating PTSD and a charismatic leader in the aftermath of World War II
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FITZCARRALDO
The legendary epic, known for its quixotic, troubled production as much as for what was eventually committed to celluloid. FITZCARRALDO chronicles madman Klaus Kinski as a rubber baron in Peru and his unrelenting determination to relocate a gigantic steamship over the Andes mountains with little regard for safety or sanity.
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MAHAKAAL
Never before released in US cinemas until now, this blatant A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET rip off is an outrageous Bollywood-meets-Argento nightmare filled with razor-claw wielding monsters, glorious colors, and, of course, musical numbers!
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BLOOD RAGE
Let’s get this out of the way: it’s not cranberry sauce. One of the few 80s holiday slashers that lay claim to Turkey Day is an outright feast of sleaze and horny diners with a massive helping of an evil twin who has escaped an asylum to wreak havoc on a Florida community.
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CREED
Training under a reluctant Rocky Balboa, Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) enters the ring with hopes to establish his own legacy, while battling the crushing weight of his legendary father’s name in Ryan Coogler's excellent kick start to a new trilogy.
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ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
The comedic neuroses of Charlie Kaufman and tactile visual feast of Michel Gondry fantastically collide in one of the greatest films of the century about a lovelorn man (Jim Carrey) and a directionless woman (Kate Winslet) seeking to permanently erase their past relationship from memory.
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EX MACHINA
Alex Garland’s phenomenal directorial debut may be overflowing with themes of what it means to be human, but at its core is a love triangle between a human, a robot, and the robot’s creator in this perfectly executed and timely sci-fi masterpiece.
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ALL ABOUT EVE
One of the greatest rivalries in cinema history is an uproarious battle of wits between a rising starlet (Anne Baxter) who schemes her way into the world of a revered Broadway icon (Betty Davis), unraveling a whirlwind tale of ambition, deception, and the ruthless pursuit of fame.
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ROCKY
Celebrate Philadelphia’s most iconic film hero in the City’s most iconic cinematic venue. The Rocky Movie Marathon will celebrate RockyFest 2024 with a marathon showing of Sylvester Stallone’s blockbuster franchise. Join us for a single movie or book the whole package to spend a weekend immersed in one the greatest underdog stories to ever grace the silver screen.
The Philadelphia Visitor Center will partner with the Philadelphia Film Society to activate the Film Society Center with pop up events, selfie spots, and Rocky-themed activities throughout the marathon weekend.
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ROCKY II
Rocky v. Apollo Creed: Part Deux. The RockyFEST2024 Movie Marathon is part of the citywide celebration RockyFEST2024, presented by The Philadelphia Visitors Center.
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TOKYO GODFATHERS
An instant holiday classic, a slightly more-grounded Kon finds three very unique individuals homeless on the streets of Tokyo on Christmas Eve who discover a newborn baby amidst their rummaging and a newfound mission to return the baby home.
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ROCKY III
Rocky v. Clubber Lang.The RockyFEST2024 Movie Marathon is part of the citywide celebration RockyFEST2024, presented by The Philadelphia Visitors Center.
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MILLENNIUM ACTRESS
An earnest request to interview a retired acting legend about their career is the catalyst for Satoshi Kon’s breathtaking, mesmerizing journey into the past where reality and life on the silver screen collide in unexpected ways
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ROCKY IV (ULTIMATE DIRECTOR'S CUT)
Rocky v. Ivan Drago. The RockyFEST2024 Movie Marathon is part of the citywide celebration RockyFEST2024, presented by The Philadelphia Visitors Center.
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PULP FICTION
Two chatty hitmen, a boxer, a crime boss, his coked-up wife, and a dozen other characters from the mind of Quentin Tarantino collide in the filmmaker’s endlessly-quotable, homage-laden soufflé served ingeniously out of order over the course of four days in LA.
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ROCKY V
Rocky v. Tommy Gunn. The RockyFEST2024 Movie Marathon is part of the citywide celebration RockyFEST2024, presented by The Philadelphia Visitors Center.
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ROCKY BALBOA
Rocky v. Mason Dixon. The RockyFEST2024 Movie Marathon is part of the citywide celebration RockyFEST2024, presented by The Philadelphia Visitors Center.
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KISS KISS BANG BANG
It wouldn’t be the holiday season without an alternative yuletide gift from Shane Black about a burglar (Robert Downey Jr.) unknowingly fumbling his way through a film audition that lands him at a Hollywood party face to face with the greatest detective in La La Land, Val Kilmer.
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GO
Whether you’ve been naughty or nice, you deserve to spend 98 minutes with this kinetic Rashomon-inspired script with a 90s-tastic who’s who cast set on Christmas Eve about a store clerk trying to sell some E only for things to go horribly wrong x3.
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ALIEN
Often imitated, but never outdone, Ridley Scott’s ALIEN may be a slasher in space on script, but the artistry, acting, production and direction are firing on all cylinders to create a thrilling and horrific, existential encounter between a woman and an unknown stowaway for the ages.
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ALIENS
WWJCD? What would James Cameron do if he was given the reins to helm a sequel to one of the greatest films of all time? He would not only cement Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley as the greatest sci-fi action hero ever, but introduce a team of unforgettable jarheads equipped to combat a multiplying aggro species in thrilling out-of-this-world set pieces.
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LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
The cinematic experience of a lifetime from David Lean chronicles the titular British Lieutenant’s experiences in WWI across the declining Ottoman Empire and his struggle with his allegiance to his country and comrades in our PFS Member 50 #1 pick.
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PHANTOM THREAD
Like a well-tailored austere dress out of Reynolds Woodcock’s own mind, PHANTOM THREAD is at first a seemingly pristine romantic period piece, but underneath its semblance of perfection is a rousing, nasty, and comedic play of power dynamics (and quite possibly PTA’s best!)
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THE THING
John Carpenter ignites the horror genre with no flares to spare in his chilly hellscape of isolation at the end of the world when a research expedition in Antarctica encounters an alien species that begins to mimic the team one by one, inciting paranoia and terror around every corner.
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HOME ALONE
There’s nothing wrong with a little bit of tradition and cheese pizza at PFS! Come out for our annual holiday gathering of the PFS Young Friends (12/19). Bust out your best PJs or ugly sweaters and sink your teeth into some free pizza while watching a scheming tyke stops two grown adults from ruining Christmas.
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STAR WARS
Many words and internet rants have been written about one of the most influential and successful films ever created, but beyond the chatter and groundbreaking special effects is an unforgettable tale of good vs. evil between a farmer boy, a princess, a smuggler, and some droids up against a vast empire in a galaxy far, far away.
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CHEZ JOLIE COIFFURE
Within the walls of a bustling salon, a spirited Cameroonian hairdresser creates a sanctuary where the struggles, aspirations, and resilience of the West African immigrant community are free to roam.
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IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Free admission with donations of individually wrapped factory-sealed snacks & beverages | Join PFS and Ronald McDonald House Charities for our annual free screening (with donation) of a heartwarming, timeless holiday classic about an angel who descends from heaven to show a despondent businessman the ways he has profoundly transformed the lives of those in his community..
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LICORICE PIZZA
A burgeoning 15-year-old entrepreneur (Cooper Hoffman) goes into business with an erratic twentysomething (Alana Haim) as they schmooze their way through the San Fernando Valley of 1973 in this absolutely stunning hang out film with charm to spare.
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