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Lumpia with a Vengeance
Fundraiser for the displaced Lumad People of the Philippines & Rose City Eskrima. Filipino meal with lumpia available by award winning restaurant Magna Kusina!
The Lost Letter (Church of Film)
A valorous, strong and simple Cossack named Vasyl is given the arduous task of traveling across the wilderness and plains, and (literally) to Hell and back, to deliver an important petition for help to the Russian Empress Elizabeth. Based on an adventurous comedy by Nikolai Gogol, Boris Ivchenko's THE LOST LETTER was one the last and most striking films of the Ukrainian Poetic Cinema movement. Banned immediately by Soviet censors, it's a lost masterpiece of its time!
The Ninth Heart (Church of Film)
A young thief falls in love with a comedienne in a traveling carnival, but runs afoul of the law. To win his freedom, he must use his cloak of invisibility to save the ruling Lord’s daughter from a nefarious court alchemist, who steals the hearts of others to fuel his magical machines. Juraj Herz’s (Morgiana) THE NINTH HEART was a spectacular gothic fantasy filmed in tandem with his dark adaptation of Beauty & the Beast, with set design by his longtime friend Jan Švankmajer!
The Fern Flower: Ukrainian Animation (Church of Film)
From witchy Gogol adaptations, sinisterly psychedelic Alice in Wonderland serials and cigarette ads, to surrealist parables, antifascist poems, and even Stephen King (!), Ukrainian animators rebuilt their industry after the second world war and made Kievnauchfilm one of the most distinguished animation studios in the world.
The Invitation (2015)
In this taut psychological thriller by Karyn Kusama (JENNIFER’S BODY), the tension is palpable when Will shows up to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife Eden and new husband David (Michiel Huisman).
Marguerite of the Night (Church of Film)
Rescheduled from the night of the big snowstorm! Old Dr. Faust attends the opera, a performance of his famous ancestor's pact with the Devil. Actually, the Devil is there too, and has a deal for the old man... here we go again!
Daisies
Maybe the New Wave’s most anarchic entry, Věra Chytilová’s absurdist farce follows the misadventures of two brash young women. Believing the world to be “spoiled,” they embark on a series of pranks in which nothing—food, clothes, men, war—is taken seriously. Daisies is an aesthetically and politically adventurous film that’s widely considered one of the great works of feminist cinema.
The Very Late Afternoon of the Faun (Church of Film)
A fading Lothario and bureaucrat plies his rapidly diminishing charms on Prague's young women, and in the process confronts the spectre of Death! A reversal of perspective on their beloved classic Daisies, and teeming with the same frenetic energy, THE VERY LATE AFTERNOON OF THE FAUN saw director Věra Chytilová and writer & designer Ester Krumbachová teaming up once again for an encore of savage feminist comedy!