This gritty, quintessential, eternally underrated noir is drenched in greed, cynicism, and corruption of the soul, as embodied by the great John Garfield (The Postman Always Rings Twice). He plays Joe Morse, a lawyer whose connection to a ruthless racketeer has destroyed his sense of morality. His participation in a rigged numbers racket will probably […]

Director of the Month: Jane Campion With An Angel at My Table, Academy Award–winning filmmaker Jane Campion brought to the screen the harrowing autobiography of Janet Frame, New Zealand’s most distinguished author. Three actors in turn take on the lead role (including Kerry Fox in a marvelous performance as the adult Frame), as the film […]

Fiercely independent 90-year-old Agatha Bock lives alone on her ancestral farm. Despite health challenges, she resolutely tends to her land, cultivating heirloom seeds passed down through generations. Employing antiquated techniques, Agatha plants and harvests her expansive field of watermelons, beans, flowers, herbs, and vegetables entirely by hand. Without a car, cell phone, running water, or […]

Fiercely independent 90-year-old Agatha Bock lives alone on her ancestral farm. Despite health challenges, she resolutely tends to her land, cultivating heirloom seeds passed down through generations. Employing antiquated techniques, Agatha plants and harvests her expansive field of watermelons, beans, flowers, herbs, and vegetables entirely by hand. Without a car, cell phone, running water, or […]

Director of the Month: Jane Campion Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape—pulsating with both freedom and menace—that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas […]

A high-water mark in the genre, Out of the Past has everything you want in a film noir: a tenacious detective (Robert Mitchum) spinning his wheels to make good, a drop-dead beauty (Jane Greer) up to no good, and a moneyed mobster (Kirk Douglas) with a shark’s grin, plus double crosses, fall guys, shadowy rooms, […]

Electric Eye presents First of the Month Films It’s a Julie Hagerty double bill! First, Make Up, a short film written and directed by local filmmaker Scott Tuft, who will participate in a Q&A after the show. Then we’ll show Albert Brooks’ Lost in America. In this hysterical road comedy, an acerbic send up of […]

Live improvised score by Matt Hagen plus special guest In noirish darkness, a man commits a shocking robbery. But, as we soon learn, this seeming criminal mastermind is actually a sensitive everyman driven to desperation by the need to provide for his family. Unfolding over the course of one night, Yasujiro Ozu’s That Night’s Wife […]

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. When Colm, the head of the Canavan family, dies suddenly, there are few who mourn his passing, not even his four adult children, all of them estranged from the patriarch. […]

When Colm, the head of the Canavan family, dies suddenly, there are few who mourn his passing, not even his four adult children, all of them estranged from the patriarch. But the legalities of his will must be observed, the estate must be allocated, and more than one Canavan sibling is harboring secrets. As the […]

New 4K Restoration Featuring very early parts for Steve Buscemi and Luis Guzmán (not to mention a prominent turn from Richard Hell), Philip Hartman’s No Picnic is an invaluable artifact of New York’s pre-gentrification East Village. No Picnic premiered at the 1986 Sundance Film Festival, where Peter Hutton won the Best Cinematography prize for his […]

New 4K Restoration Featuring very early parts for Steve Buscemi and Luis Guzmán (not to mention a prominent turn from Richard Hell), Philip Hartman’s No Picnic is an invaluable artifact of New York’s pre-gentrification East Village. No Picnic premiered at the 1986 Sundance Film Festival, where Peter Hutton won the Best Cinematography prize for his […]