A Southern Gothic masterpiece. Written and directed by Kasi Lemmons in her feature debut. Listed as the Best Film of 1997 by Roger Ebert and called "one of the greatest writer-director debuts in American cinematic history" by critic Angelica Jade Bastién.
Portland premiere! Vinegar Syndrome Pictures presents a Sunrunner Films production—Molly Pray is on a bloody crusade against the criminal forces who have wronged her. Her mission strikes at the myth of manifest destiny, but for Molly, with the embodied specter of Death on her side, this isn't political. This is personal.
Put on your beads and warm up the jambalaya, we're celebrating Mardi Gras with a special screening of the two Les Blank documentaries.
With entrancing desert photography, and a blend of old pop and blues mixing indiscriminately with opera records, WILLOW SPRINGS is a haunting, bizarre, morbid and darkly comical piece of German New Cinema from one of the movement’s most provocative queer icons.
Agnès Varda's film career began with this graceful, penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Part of the Agnès Varda film festival.
A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina. Part of the Agnès Varda Forever Film Festival.
Agnès Varda’s tender evocation of the childhood of her husband, Jacques Demy—a dream project that she realized for him when he became too ill to direct it himself—is a wonder-filled portrait of the artist as a young man and an enchanting ode to the magic of cinema. Part of the Agnès Varda Forever Film Festival.
A buoyant hymn to sisterly solidarity rooted in the hard-won victories of a generation of women, One Sings, the Other Doesn’t is one of Agnès Varda’s warmest and most politically trenchant films, a feminist musical for the ages. Part of the Agnès Varda Forever Film Festival.
Come watch our intimate, scaled-back screening of the ultimate cult movie that has played weekly at the Clinton Street Theater since 1978. If you’ve ever wanted to attend, but didn’t know if you’d enjoy your first time, our special host for this evening, Sin, will be your guide. You’ll learn the funniest callbacks, proper prop timing, and how to dance the Time Warp.
