There is Blixa Bargeld, skinny as a rake, getting people drunk in the bar ‘Risiko’, and an earnest-looking Nick Cave collecting ‘German Gothic’ on a wall of his room in a Berlin flat. Cool Gudrun Gut stands outside ‘Dschungel’ counting the number of clubs you can go to at two in the morning, and ‘Tödliche Doris’ sings at a most inhospitable Potsdamer Platz. And somewhere in between the Wall and firewalls, the old buildings and the new, Mania D and Westbam, is Mark Reeder from Manchester. Drawn by his love of off-the-wall urban electronic music this British musician, label-maker and military fetishist came to Berlin at the end of seventies, where apparently – and fortunately! – everything he experienced was filmed.

With its copious images and audio material compiled by Jörg A. Hoppe, Klaus Maeck and Heiko Lange, B-Movie: Lust and Sound in West-Berlin is a documentary and a declaration of love rolled into one. A warm-yet-wrecked reencounter with themselves for all those who were a part of it. And downright mind-expanding for all those who have arrived since and claim to know where Berlin’s bear got down, or even dare assert that things only began to swing in 1990.

In his ninth film for Hong Sangsoo, Kwon Haehyo plays Byungsoo, a film director who goes with his daughter Jeongsu (Park Miso), an aspiring interior designer, to a building owned by an old friend (Lee Hyeyoung) already established in the design field. She gives them a tour of the property, which includes a restaurant and cooking studio on the first two floors, her office in the basement, a residence on the third floor and an artist’s studio at the top. The three of them amicably chat the day away. But when his daughter leaves to get more wine, Byungsoo is left to spend time with the landlord and the other residents of her building.

A stylish and seductive submersion into the techno-scored neon nightlife of Taipei, Hou’s much-misunderstood marvel stars Shu Qi (The Assassin) as an aimless bar hostess drifting away from her blowhard boyfriend and towards Jack Kao’s suave, sensitive gangster. Structured as a flashback to the then-present from the then-future of 2011, it’s a transfixing trance-out of a movie, drenched in club lights, ecstatic endorphin-rush exhilaration, and a nagging undercurrent of ennui.

John Cassavetes’ love letter to the art of theater, inside a neo-noir take on the sleazy ‘70s Southland! In what other film would a waitress from famed post-hippie L.A. restaurant The Source take her morning break next door to audition for Ben Gazzara’s bizarro performance-art strip club? When his high-flying lifestyle owes debts to a sinister syndicate (led by Seymour Cassel and a wonderfully mushy Timothy Carey), he’s given a tough choice: knocking off a Chinese “bookie” or losing his beloved theatre. More info→

“Nothing says goodbye like a bullet.” Robert Altman serves up an ironic revision/​critique of the private-eye genre in the long underrated The Long Goodbye, now esteemed as one of the director’s crowning achievements. Transplanting Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled 1950s novel to the 1970s, the film angered some by replacing film-noir darkness and rain with SoCal sunshine and hippie-stoner sensibility! Elliott Gould, in an inspired (and subversive) performance, plays Chandler’s private eye Philip Marlowe as a somewhat bumbling, oft-bewildered eccentric. The complicated plot has Marlowe attempting to clear a friend accused of murder. Screenwriter Leigh Brackett also co-wrote the famously convoluted 1946 Hawks/​Bogart screen version of Chandler’s The Big Sleep. The cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond (McCabe & Mrs. Miller) is glorious. More info→

An immersive archival journey through the explosive New York music scene of the early 2000s. Set against the backdrop of 9/11 and a world unaware of the seismic political, technological and cultural shifts about to occur, Meet Me in the Bathroom, tells the story of the last great romantic age of Rock’n’Roll through the prism of a handful of era defining bands; THE STROKES, LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, YEAH YEAH YEAH’s, INTERPOL. More info→

Tix include Southern Gothic Themed Dinner from Bunny Bunny

Italian horror maestro Lucio Fulci (aka the Godfather of Gore) took horror to new heights with 1981’s THE BEYOND, the ultimate classic of gothic terror. Catriona MacColl stars as Lisa, the inheritor of a dilapidated New Orleans hotel that just so happens to be built on one of the seven gateways to Hell. Following a series of brutal accidents, the gateway opens and unleashes literal Hell in a graphic frenzy of gory crucifixions, chunk-blowing chain whippings, eyeball impalements, sulfuric acid meltdowns, flesh-eating tarantulas, throat-shredding demon dogs and ravenous, bloodthirsty zombies. More info→

Directed by German Expressionist master, F.W. Murnau, the film tells the tale of an ancient vampire named Count Orlock. Its gothic photography combines with the spindly figure and gaunt visage of its central monster to create a visual experience you won’t soon forget. The plot, involving an aristocratic immortal preying upon a woman in his newly adopted hometown, will be familiar to most. But no depiction of that most famous vampire has ever been quite as nightmarish as that of Max Schreck, whose performance here is so authentically disturbing that one could be forgiven for wondering if he really was, in fact, a vampire. More info→

Tix include Camp Crystal Lake Themed Dinner by Bunny Bunny!
A new owner and several young counselors gather to reopen Camp Crystal Lake, where a young boy drowned and several vicious murders occurred years earlier. They’ve ignored the locals’ warnings that the place has a death curse… and one by one they find out how unlucky Friday the 13th can be as they are stalked by a violent killer. More info→

The Senate and Cinema Lamont present the best Universal monster movie you’ve probably never seen!

It lurked in the darkness for decades, its alternate vision of shadowy gloom and eternal evil remembered only as legend in the minds of a select few. But then, from the depths of a New Jersey warehouse, it was brought once more into the light and exposed as a supreme example of a Universal Classic Monsters picture. That film is Drácula, a distorted mirror image of the iconic film starring Bela Lugosi, shot in the dark of night after the cast and crew of Dracula had all gone home for the day. More info→

In support of the new Rotland Press publication “Anatomy of the Devil: Short Stories by Walerian Borowczyk,” available for purchase before and after the screenings.

Join us Thursday May 12th as Lost River kicks off their Vincent Price weekend! We’re hosting a free screening of the bizarro masterpiece, "The Abominable Dr. Phibes”. There will be a specially curated themed cocktail, and Superstand will be there with food. Movie starts at 7:30. Don’t miss this! More info→

If He-Man and the Masters of the Universe dropped acid with the Shaw Brothers while knocking out a martial arts horror-fantasy movie, that movie would be THRILLING BLOODY SWORD. This head-spinning slice of Taiwanese psychotronic cinema builds a movie out of SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS, impossible fight scenes, and wild monsters that include a cyclops, a pterodactyl, and Satan himself! More info→

The year is 10,191, and four planets are embroiled in a secret plot to wrest control of the Spice Melange, the most precious substance in the universe and found only on the planet Arrakis. A feud between two powerful dynasties, House Atreides and House Harkonnen, is manipulated from afar by ruling powers that conspire to keep their grip on the spice. As the two families clash on Arrakis, Duke Atreides’ son Paul (Kyle MacLachlan, in his screen debut) finds himself at the center of an intergalactic war and an ancient prophecy that could change the galaxy forever. Learn more→

Join us at Outer Limits Lounge for the big show. There will be drinks. There will be ballots. There will be prizes.

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The Fu-Ho Grand, a movie palace in Taipei, is closing its doors. Its valedictory screening: King Hu’s 1967 wuxia epic Dragon Inn, playing to a motley smattering of spectators. Tsai Ming-liang crafts a film both powerfully plangent and deadpan funny in a film too multifaceted to reduce to a simple valentine to the age of pre-VOD cinephilia. Learn more→

Fundraiser for Ukraine!

Exquisitely shot and bold in its metastorytelling approach, director Iryna Tsilyk’s documentary follows single mother Anna and her four children as they document their lives under siege in Ukraine. A singular vision that gorgeously encapsulates the extremes of war, both its explosive trauma and its mundane peripheral existence in everyday life. Learn More→

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In her debut film, Payal Kapadia deftly merges reality with fiction, weaving together archival footage with student protest videos to create a vital tapestry of the personal and the political. With its dreamlike editing rhythms and a revelatory use of sound, A Night of Knowing Nothing is both an essential document of contemporary India and a nostalgic look at youth fighting the injustice of their time. Learn more→

John Cameron Mitchell’s SHORTBUS explores the lives of emotionally challenged characters as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex in and around a modern-day underground salon. Set in a post-9/11, Bush-exhausted New York City, SHORTBUS tells its story with sexual frankness, suggesting new ways to reconcile questions of the mind, pleasures of the flesh, and imperatives of the heart. Learn more→

A thrilling roller-coaster ride, RUN LOLA RUN is the internationally acclaimed sensation about two star-crossed lovers who have only minutes to change the course of their lives. Time is running out for Lola (Franka Potente). She's just received a frantic phone call from her boyfriend, Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu), who's lost a small fortune belonging to his mobster boss. If Lola doesn't replace the money in twenty minutes, Manni will surely suffer severe consequences. Set to a throbbing techno score, "Lola's like a human stun gun!" Peter Rainer, New York Magazine.

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ROOFTOP MOVIE NIGHT AT CØLLECT WITH DINNER BY BUNNY BUNNY!!

After the back to back triumphs of The Big Boss and Fist of Fury, Bruce Lee was given the chance to write, produce, and direct his third outing as a martial arts superstar. He used the opportunity to add a touch of goofily entertaining comedy to the typically action-driven proceedings, which find him playing a rigorously trained martial artist who travels from Hong Kong to Rome to help his cousin, whose restaurant is being threatened by a gang of thugs. Reaching new heights of virtuosity, Lee unleashes an astonishing display of nunchuck-swinging, fly-kicking mayhem, all culminating in one of his most breathtaking fights: an epic gladiatorial death match with Chuck Norris in the Roman Colosseum.

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Narrated by legendary multimedia artist Laurie Anderson, Lisa Rovner’s superb documentary showcases the music of and rare interviews with female electronic pioneers Clara Rockmore, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Éliane Radigue, Maryanne Amacher, Bebe Barron, Suzanne Ciani, Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Spiegel, and Wendy Carlos. Sisters with Transistors is an essential primer for those interested in discovering this vital, oft-overlooked history but also offers plenty of pleasures for crate-digging experimental music obsessives

CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER. Will screen after SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS on Saturday.

Michigan Native, Ty Besh, is bringing the story of Tucson Underground Electronic Music back home to Detroit during the best weekend of the year! Tucson Electro follows the flourishing Tucson scene from 2016-2018 as it took the city by storm. It also highlights the struggles of a DIY movement in a city being changed by new money.

The zany, madcap NEVER TOO YOUNG was made at the high point of glam rock in 1975. It offers a unique opportunity to experience the driving, feel-good sounds of the era’s top pop combos in their pomp. From the infectious choruses of Mud’s ‘Tiger Feet’ and ‘The Cat Crept In’, through the catchy doo-wop of The Rubettes, to percussive anthems like The Glitter Band’s ‘Angel Face’, this film provides aural nostalgia at its most intense.

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