The Cornelia Street Cafe in Exile
Step into the heart of Greenwich Village’s legendary counter-culture with “The Cornelia Street Cafe In Exile.” For over forty years, the Cornelia Street Cafe was more than just a café; it was a vibrant, eclectic haven for artists, poets, and musicians, lovingly nurtured by its visionary owner, Robin Hirsch. This film chronicles its extraordinary journey, celebrating the unforgettable voices and cherished memories that filled its iconic walls.
Koyaanisqatsi
Drawing its title from the Hopi word meaning “life out of balance,” this renowned documentary reveals how humanity has grown apart from nature. Featuring extensive footage of natural landscapes and elemental forces, the film gives way to many scenes of modern civilization and technology. Given its lack of narration and dialogue, the production makes its points solely through imagery and music, with many scenes either slowed down or sped up for dramatic effect.
Staff Pick by Billy, Operations Coordinator
Screening as part of our Staff Picks 2025 series
Mauvais Sang
With this giddily romantic, exquisitely stylized sophomore feature, Leos Carax cemented his status as one of the boldest filmmakers of his generation. In a world ravaged by STBO, a sexually transmitted disease only acquired by people having sex without any emotion, a rebellious young man (Denis Lavant) is recruited by a veteran criminal (Michel Piccoli) to steal the antidote. He soon falls dangerously in love with his new associate’s lover (Juliette Binoche)—an infatuation that catapults him out into the street to run to the pounding beat of David Bowie’s “Modern Love” in one of the most exhilarating moments of eighties cinema.
Screening as part of Leos Carax: Modern Loves
It’s Not Me + Boy Meets Girl
IT’S NOT ME
“French cinema firebrand Leos Carax has spent 40 years making galvanizing movies that float in the beautifully perplexing nether space between reality and artifice, from Boy Meets Girl and The Lovers on the Bridge to Holy Motors and the recent musical Annette. In his new film, he lovingly evokes the aesthetics of Jean-Luc Godard, paying aptly cheeky respect to the late New Wave master, his own career, and cinema itself, rummaging through a century of movies to situate his work within a continuum of the medium. Rather than self-aggrandize, he uses this diaristic format for an iconoclastic and impudent inquiry into power, politics, and image-making that is at once wry and playful, oblique and deeply personal.” (New York Film Festival)
BOY MEETS GIRL
The first feature by Leos Carax (made when he was just twenty-three years old) is an intoxicating, lusciously stylized evocation of a nocturnal Paris populated by moody misfits and lost souls. Among them are Alex (Denis Lavant), an aspiring filmmaker whose girlfriend has just left him for his best friend, and Mireille (Mireille Perrier), a young woman who is contemplating suicide after being jilted by her lover. Over the course of a night, the two find themselves joined by fate in a passionate romance alive to both the ecstasy and ennui of youth.
Screening as part of Leos Carax: Modern Loves
Holy Motors
In the performance(s) of a lifetime, regular Carax collaborator Denis Lavant is an amorphous Actor on a chameleonic mission to inhabit a variety of public roles: a bag lady, an assassin, a sewer-dwelling freakazoid, a heated lover and much more. Chauffeured around Paris by Edith Scob (EYES WITHOUT A FACE), Lavant commits to each character so thoroughly, and engages you so quickly with each swap that it’s impossible to predict what comes next. Essential 21st-century viewing.
“Nothing makes ‘sense’ in this crazy-beautiful reverie about movies, love and the love of movies…[a]nd yet everything is exactly as it should be.” — Entertainment Weekly
Screening as part of Leos Carax: Modern Loves
Boy Meets Girl
The first feature by Leos Carax (made when he was just twenty-three years old) is an intoxicating, lusciously stylized evocation of a nocturnal Paris populated by moody misfits and lost souls. Among them are Alex (Denis Lavant), an aspiring filmmaker whose girlfriend has just left him for his best friend, and Mireille (Mireille Perrier), a young woman who is contemplating suicide after being jilted by her lover. Over the course of a night, the two find themselves joined by fate in a passionate romance alive to both the ecstasy and ennui of youth.
Screening as part of Leos Carax: Modern Loves
Abraham’s Boys: A Dracula Story (Open Captioning)
Please note: Showtimes on this page are for screenings of ABRAHAM’S BOYS: A DRACULA STORY with open captions (on-screen display of dialogue and sounds). For non-open captioned screenings, see here.
Max and Rudy Van Helsing have spent their lives under the strict and overprotective rule of their father, Abraham. Unaware of his dark past, they struggle to understand his paranoia and increasingly erratic behavior. But when they begin to uncover the violent truths behind their father’s history with Dracula, their world unravels, forcing them to confront the terrifying legacy they were never meant to inherit.
Based upon the short story by Joe Hill.
Official Selection: Overlook Film Festival
Psycho Beach Party
25th Anniversary!
Wednesday, July 30 at 7:00 p.m.: Q&A with actors Charles Busch and Lauren Ambrose and director Bob King after the show
Thursday, July 31 at 7:00 p.m.: Q&A with actor/writer Charles Busch and director Bob King moderated by David Rooney (The Hollywood Reporter) after the show
PSYCHO BEACH PARTY is a wickedly fun satire of Hollywood movie genres. Chicklet (Lauren Ambrose – CAN’T HARDLY WAIT, HBO’s SIX FEET UNDER), a wannabe surf-girl with a split personality, becomes the primary suspect after a string of humorously gruesome murders terrifies the teen set. When the clues take her to the beach, the fun and suspense begin.
At the beach, Chicklet crosses paths with burnt-out surf guru Kanaka (Thomas Gibson, CRIMINAL MINDS, DHARMA & GREG), dreamy surfboy Starcat (Nicholas Brendon, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER), and stylish homicide detective Monica Stark (Charles Busch, DIE MOMMIE DIE!). PSYCHO BEACH PARTY also stars Amy Adams (AMERICAN HUSTLE, BIG EYES), Matt Keeslar (SCREAM 3), Beth Broderick (SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH), Kimberly Davies (THE NEXT BEST THING) and Kathleen Robertson (BEVERLY HILLS, 90210).
In My Skin
4K Restoration!
Feminism and French New Extremity have always been a powerfully potent combination in the hands of female directors like Catherine Breillat (FAT GIRL) and Claire Denis (TROUBLE EVERY DAY), and auteur Marina de Van joined their righteously twisted ranks with her gorgeous and grotesque 2002 horror breakthrough IN MY SKIN.
Esther has been recovering from a recent leg injury when she develops an increasingly disturbing relationship with her body, one where the lines between painful pleasure and self-mutilation become irrevocably blurred. Body horror filtered through serrated expectations of body image, IN MY SKIN is a powerful vision of feminist rage that will sink its teeth into you and never let go.
Clerks
It’s one wild day in the life of a pair of overworked counter jockeys whose razor-sharp wit and on-the-job antics give a whole new meaning to customer service! Even while braving a nonstop parade of unpredictable shoppers, the clerks manage to play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home, and straighten out their offbeat love lives. The boss is nowhere in sight, so you can bet anything can –and WILL– happen when these guys are left to run the store!
Staff Pick by Atticus P., usher
Screening as part of our Staff Picks 2025 series