THE DOLL (Church of Film)
THE DOLL is a striking, frightening psychological thriller that recalls Hitchcock’s Psycho and presages Polanski’s Repulsion.
THE DOLL is a striking, frightening psychological thriller that recalls Hitchcock’s Psycho and presages Polanski’s Repulsion.
Directed by Patrick Tam, Wong Kar-Wai’s mentor and a key figure of the Hong Kong new wave, shot by venerated co-cinematographers Christopher Doyle and David Chung, and with music by Danny Chung (Happy Together), this pulpy 80s classic looks and sounds as lush as ever in this lavish 2K restoration.
School's out for summer, but the PSYCHOTRONIC AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL is back in session with a collection of vintage TEEN SCARE films! Whether it be reckless driving, drugs or cigarette smoking, this episode leads you through the perils of teen life with a handmade 16mm film program assembled from the collection of Portland film archivist Greg Hamilton.
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!
Curious? Nervous? We've got you covered. Come dip into the shallow end of the pool at Rocky Horror for Virgins—our intimate, scaled-back screening of the ultimate cult movie.
Splitting off from his Dolemite persona, rap pioneer & stand-up legend Rudy Ray Moore is once again the titular hero whose talent for comedy is only topped by his lumpy gift for martial arts!
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.
Long believed lost, this queer Bonnie & Clyde-meets-the children of Revlon & Marx was discovered in a warehouse in 2018, filling in one of the great mysteries of trans cinema, and revealing a masterpiece that provides a copestone for the end of Japan's era of radical cinema.
You can expect to see the best independent horror films, some funny, some gory, some scary, but all cooler and more innovative than anything you can see at the multiplex.