Working Girls
Sex work is portrayed with radical nonjudgment in Lizzie Borden’s immersive, richly detailed look at the rhythms and rituals of society’s most stigmatized profession.
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Daniah La Metisse & Other Tales of Love, Death & the Sea (Church of Film)
A shorts and featurettes program of love, death, and the sea! Our headline film, DAINAH LA DAINAH LA METISSE (1931) is an early masterpiece by French master Jean Gremillon. A strange, stylized and alluring film, DAINAH is a jazzy, nightmarish poem about racial tension and sublimated colonial guilt, set amidst the strange parties and magic-laced maskarades on...
Wendy and Lucy
Wendy (Michelle Williams), a near-penniless drifter, is traveling to Alaska in search of work, and her only companion is her dog, Lucy. Already perilously close to losing everything, Wendy hits a bigger bump in the road when her old car breaks down in Oregon and she is arrested for shoplifting dog food. When she posts bail and returns to retrieve Lucy, she finds that the dog is gone, prompting a frantic search for her pet. Directed by Kelly Reichardt.
The Savage Hunt of King Stakh (Church of Film)
A masterwork of atmospheric gothic ghastliness! Featuring the rarely seen full length cut of this film.
Lingua Franca
Written and directed by Isabel Sandoval, LINGUA FRANCA follows an undocumented Filipina trans woman Olivia (Isabel Sandoval) after she has secured a job as a live-in caregiver for Olga (Lynn Cohen), an elderly Russian woman in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach neighborhood.
Before the Revolution: Film & Poetry in Iran (Church of Film)
A collection of poetic pieces that launched the Iranian New Wave! This program includes a set of beautiful work from the Golestan Film Workshop, the first independent film studio in Iran.
The Cow (Church of Film)
THE COW is widely considered the masterpiece of the Iranian New Wave, a symbolic drama so beautiful that even the Ayatollah Khomeini would not ban it, even as its author Gholām-Hossein Sā'edi was exiled. THE COW has been meticulously restored in Iran for the first time since its 1969 release, so come see one of the greatest monuments in film history!
The Deer (Church of Film)
THE DEER is the most revolutionary film of the Iranian New Wave, censored innumerable times and banned to this day in Iran. For the first time it has been restored to its full length and with its original ending! The ending rewritten and shot at the behest of the Pahlavi censors will also be included after the film for comparison.