Church of Film is a weekly film series dedicated to the strange, lost and overlooked treasures of cinema past. Researched, compiled, and curated by Muriel. Screenings most Wednesday nights at the Clinton Street Theater.
Upcoming Church of Film Screenings
THE SHADOW & ITS SHADOW (Church of Film)
Nightmares of French Surrealism including select works of cinematic dreamers Georges Franju, Ado Kyrou, Eric Duvivier, Patrick Bokanowski, and more!
THE CURSE OF THE DOLL PEOPLE (Church of Film)
This classic Mexican horror epitomizes pulp, horror, and adventure genres, where wild misunderstandings of science and culture lead to spectacular, strange, and surreal contortions of possibility.
THE DOLL (Church of Film)
THE DOLL is a striking, frightening psychological thriller that recalls Hitchcock’s Psycho and presages Polanski’s Repulsion.
NUITS ROUGES (Church of Film)
NUITS ROUGES was Surrealist Georges Franju’s final tribute to the silent serials of Louis Feuillade—aggressively and joyfully escalating the absurdity of the bygone fantastique-crime genre, propelling it into a raucous, garish, at times eerie and atmospheric film that somehow blends high camp, anti-fascism, moody dream reality, and winking postmodern détournement!
TREASURE ISLAND (Church of Film)
TREASURE ISLAND is a masterfully labyrinthine surrealist metatext, and a full dynamite-charged brain-blown deconstruction of children's literature and adventure cinema, in a free-flowing logic of media and dreams.