Gentle Monster

Concert pianist Lucy (Léa Seydoux) moves her family to the countryside to help her husband Philip recover from burnout. Their fresh start is shattered by a police visit, leaving Lucy torn between her love for Philip and troubling questions about what he may have done.

The Cycle

When the body of a man missing for thirty-six years is discovered at the scene of a horrific crime, it’s up to his estranged daughter to unravel his dark past.

Mouse

Miss Representation: Rise Up

Thu, Oct 22: Q&A w/ Reshma Saujani (Founder, Moms First and Girls Who Code) and Alyse Nelson (CEO, Vital Voices) after 6:30 show!

Over a decade after MISS REPRESENTATION exposed the media’s contribution to the underrepresentation of women in leadership, this follow-up dives deep into the cultural backlash against women’s agency and power. With the proliferation of AI and deepfakes, a new era of tech-facilitated violence is exacerbating sexism and misogyny in an attempt to control and silence women and girls. With inspiring young women at its core, MISS REPRESENTATION: RISE UP interweaves their personal journeys with powerful voices in media, culture, leadership, and academia to reimagine a future that finally uplifts women and girls.

Trauma Or, Monsters All

Wed, Nov 4: Opening night Q&A w/ dir. Larry Fessenden after 7:00 show!

Following HABIT, DEPRAVED and BLACKOUT, this final creature feature from indie horror legend Fessenden centers around a writer who, while investigating her town’s dark past, stirs up fears about lurking monsters.

“Trauma came about very organically. The concept was to take the monsters we’ve come to know intimately from three previous films and to observe them from the outside. So I chose a new protagonist. This raised questions of how we see, judge, and talk about each other and so it became my meditation on identity politics. Intentionally or not my movies have become a chronicle of American dysfunction as seen through the lens of gothic horror.” – Larry Fessenden, director

Additional showtimes for Nov 4 – 10 to be announced. 

The Last Winter

Screening on 35mm!

“This was conceived as a sequel of sorts to my family drama WENDIGO, expanding the themes of cultural cannibalism to themes of Manifest Destiny and climate collapse, all of which relate to the Wendigo Mythology of Ojibway origins. It was my biggest budget and my biggest cast and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was bought by IFC to some fanfare. It’s in the permanent collection at MOMA. It continues my focus on the left right political divide that makes solving problems impossible.” – Larry Fessenden, director

Screening as part of our series Optic Nerve: A Tribute to Glass Eye Pix

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The Innkeepers

“This was Ti West’s fourth film with Glass Eye Pix and his follow up to seminal slow-burn THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL. Ti explained that the crew stayed in the Yankee Peddlar hotel during the shooting of HOUSE and everyone felt it was haunted so he wrote a script for the location. But I know that Ti had pitched the idea of two slacker ghost hunters years before. Look under the hood and you see three ghosts of past present and future in this movie, anticipating West’s newest venture, EBENEZER. And listen for me voicing A CHRISTMAS CAROL off camera on the TV. I’ve been told it’s Scorsese’s favorite Ti West Film.” – Larry Fessenden, producer

Screening as part of our series Optic Nerve: A Tribute to Glass Eye Pix

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Stake Land

“The tentpole film in our production Slate with Chicago-based film Company MPI/Dark Sky, STAKE LAND was conceived of as a webseries when that was barely a thing by writer Nick Damici and director Jim Mickle. An epic, heartfelt post-apocalyptic film made over the course of four months to capture different seasons. Another Glass Eye Pix movie that anticipates many significant projects like THE WALKING DEAD and THE LAST OF US and Mickle’s own political SWEET TOOTH.” – Larry Fessenden, producer, actor.

Screening as part of our series Optic Nerve: A Tribute to Glass Eye Pix

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I Sell The Dead

“Glenn McQuaid’s movie started out as a low budget period romp but expanded as Glass Eye Pix producer Peter Phok ambitiously attached actors like Dom Monaghan who started working on our movie the day his character’s demise on LOST aired. A lovely cast includes Angus Scrimm from PHANTASM who had become a Glass Eye Regular (AUTOMATONS, SATAN HATES YOU, TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE) and Glass Eye stalwart John Speredakos (WENDIGO, STRAY BULLETS, CRUMB CATCHER etc). Glenn’s latest film THE RESTORATION OF GRAYSON MANOR is currently in theaters.” – Larry Fessenden, producer, actor

Screening as part of our series Optic Nerve: A Tribute to Glass Eye Pix

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Habit

Wed, Oct 28: Q&A w/ writer/director Larry Fessenden after 8:45 show! 

“My main contribution to the horror genre was to tell a very personal story about addiction and obsession in New York City with an affectionate nod to vampire tropes and mood. Shot on 16mm by Frank DeMarco with a un-self-conscious spare style, we filmed on and off for 45 days with a crew of 5 for 60K. Also steeped in ambiguity, it seems to resonate with anyone who has ever suffered a breakup or felt overwhelmed by existential loneliness, which is to say, most everyone and most every cinephile.” – Larry Fessenden, director

Screening as part of our series Optic Nerve: A Tribute to Glass Eye Pix