Director of the Month: Akira Kurosawa A grand-scale adventure as only Akira Kurosawa could create, The Hidden Fortress delivers Kurosawa’s trademark deft blend of wry humor, breathtaking action, and compassionate humanity. The master’s invaluable collaborator and muse, the inimitable Toshiro Mifune, stars as a general charged with guarding his defeated clan’s princess (a fierce Misa […]
A surprisingly sexy, darkly funny emotional rollercoaster. In this layered dark comedy, June and her Persian-British mom Lela travel to the romantic Azores islands for a grief anniversary, with contrasting ways of coping. A hot philosophical surfer takes them on a tour as we surf the waves of life, loss, flirting… an unforgettable ride. In […]
We’re pleased to welcome writer-director Lilian T. Mehrel for a Zoom Q&A after this screening of Honeyjoon. A surprisingly sexy, darkly funny emotional rollercoaster. In this layered dark comedy, June and her Persian-British mom Lela travel to the romantic Azores islands for a grief anniversary, with contrasting ways of coping. A hot philosophical surfer takes […]
New Release Critic’s Pick. “Enchanting… an exquisitely deconstructed ghost story, a muted mystery that beguiles while remaining deeply grounded in its evocative setting.” –The New York Times ⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Luminous, spellbinding… If ghosts exist, Aleñar Iglesias has learned the cinematic sorcery to house them.” –RogerEbert.com Teenager Cata (Zoe Stein) is summering at her grandparents’ house on […]
New Release Critic’s Pick. “Enchanting… an exquisitely deconstructed ghost story, a muted mystery that beguiles while remaining deeply grounded in its evocative setting.” –The New York Times ⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Luminous, spellbinding… If ghosts exist, Aleñar Iglesias has learned the cinematic sorcery to house them.” –RogerEbert.com Teenager Cata (Zoe Stein) is summering at her grandparents’ house on […]
We’re calling it now: Jacques Tati’s modernist comedy masterpiece will crack the top-10 in the next Sight and Sound poll of the Greatest Films of All Time in 2032. Right now, it’s poised tantalizingly at #23, but anecdotally, it feels like more and more artists namecheck this immaculately choreographed, mind-bogglingly detailed, eminently graceful film with […]
Electric Eye presents First of the Month Films We’re pleased to welcome filmmaker Tommy Hyde, who will share a sneak peek at his latest project before our screening of Tony Gatlif’s Latcho Drom. It will be a rocking, musically-inspired double bill. Dancing encouraged! “A difficult-to-categorize masterpiece… The pulse is so infectious that you may feel […]
Live improvised score by Matt Hagen + Avery Cooper This violent, morally shocking early feature-length Western features America’s first cinematic cowboy hero, William S. Hart, who starred in producer Thomas Ince’s run of Westerns in the 1910s and became one of silent cinema’s most famous actors. Hell’s Hinges, Hart’s sixth feature for Ince, bears very […]
Director of the Month: Spike Lee Shot over 12 days in July of 1985 at a total cost of $175,000, Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It exploded onto American movie screens, redefining American independent cinema in the 1980s (along with filmmakers like Wayne Wang, John Sayles, and Jim Jarmusch). Having earned a Student Academy Award […]
If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Celebrated best-selling poet, Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods, openly queer but intensely private, Oliver was America’s unlikely contemporary mystic, stalking the ponds and forests of Cape Cod for nearly fifty years in order to open herself—and her readers—to […]
If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Celebrated best-selling poet, Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods, openly queer but intensely private, Oliver was America’s unlikely contemporary mystic, stalking the ponds and forests of Cape Cod for nearly fifty years in order to open herself—and her readers—to […]
Remembering Sam Neill The fabulous New Zealand actor Sam Neill passed away last month at the age of 78. He made many films, including Jurassic Park, The Piano, The Hunt for Red October, but we’ve chosen to remember him with the 1981 psycho-thriller Possession. We’re not alone in loving this deeply twisted film. Sam loved […]
Happy Birthday, Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Hitchcock turns 127 on August 13 so we’ll sing a few rounds of “Happy Birthday” and watch one of his many, many masterpieces: Notorious. Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman show what movie stars can do, as they burn a hole in the screen with their off-the-chart chemistry. To say […]
Director of the Month: Spike Lee One of the most electrifying heroes of the twentieth century receives an appropriately sweeping screen biopic, rich in both historical insight and propulsive cinematic style, courtesy of visionary director Spike Lee. Built around a truly extraordinary performance from Denzel Washington, Malcolm X draws on the iconic civil rights leader’s […]
Glen Hansard died in a motorcycle accident on July 29, returning from a gig outside of Dublin. He was known to the general public as the proudly Irish founder of the bands The Frame and The Swell Season, as well as a solo artist, and most famously as the star and co-composer of the film […]
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. Director of the Month: Spike Lee The great Spike Lee’s most underrated film, 25th Hour finds Academy Award-nominee Edward Norton leading an amazing all-star cast in this critically acclaimed film, […]
“Kurosawa has made one of his best films, a work that feels a bit like Agatha Christie, a bit like Shakespeare, and even a bit like Samurai Columbo.” —Brian Tallarico, rogerebert.com When Lord Murashige (Masahiro Motoki) rises up against the tyrannical Oda (Bando Shingo), he finds himself besieged within the walls of his own castle. […]
“Kurosawa has made one of his best films, a work that feels a bit like Agatha Christie, a bit like Shakespeare, and even a bit like Samurai Columbo.” —Brian Tallarico, rogerebert.com When Lord Murashige (Masahiro Motoki) rises up against the tyrannical Oda (Bando Shingo), he finds himself besieged within the walls of his own castle. […]
Before there was Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey… “Some say Citizen Kane is the greatest motion picture of all time. Other say it’s Casablanca. For me, the greatest picture of all time is Jason and the Argonauts.” —Tom Hanks, presenting Ray Harryhausen with an honorary Oscar in 1992. A brave man and his shipload of followers […]
Shorts | Arabic w/English subtitles | 2010-2012 | 75 min The Sudan Film Factory is a project of the Goethe-Institut Sudan. The project’s mission is to train young Sudanese talents in the area of filmmaking – script writing, directing, cinematography, and editing. Through the films created, Sudanese daily lives and worlds, stories and thoughts, dreams, […]