Flesh Impact

A 100-year-old woman arrives unannounced to audition for a Broadway play. Standing alone on stage, she begins to reveal strange truths about a life in the public eye and a woman the world thought it knew.

Showtimes for 10/2-6 to be announced.

Super 8 1/2

Sun, Oct 4 at 8:15: Exteneded intro by director Bruce LaBruce!

New Digital Restoration!

Bruce LaBruce on SUPER 8½:

“SUPER 8½ is my second feature (some mean critics would say my sophomore slump), a low-budget, queer-punk riff on Fellini’s 8½, starring me as Bruce, a washed-up underground filmmaker and porn star who is having a nervous breakdown and trying to make a comeback. It may be considered a tad autobiographical, and is indeed subtitled “A Cautionary Bio-Pic.”

The movie was really my response to the unexpected success of NO SKIN OFF MY ASS. I had made that film with my boyfriend and friends, never imagining that anyone outside our little world of punk clubs and alternative art spaces would ever see it. Then suddenly it was playing at festivals all over the world, with my private sex life projected onto enormous screens. It wreaked havoc on my relationship, strained some of my friendships, and saddled me with a newfound reputation as a dirty, worthless faggot pornographer. Naturally, I made another movie about it.

In SUPER 8½, Bruce is broke, creatively blocked and desperate to resurrect his career when Googie, an ambitious underground lesbian filmmaker, offers to make a documentary about him. He imagines this will be his triumphant comeback, but Googie has other ideas: she is ruthlessly exploiting him for her own movie. Bruce, meanwhile, is quite capable of exploiting himself without anybody’s assistance.

The movie is also a loose remake of the Tuesday Weld vehicle Frank Perry’s Play It As it Lays, and it blurs autobiography, fiction and pornography until it becomes difficult to tell where Bruce LaBruce ends and “Bruce LaBruce” begins. Everyone is using everyone else, everybody wants to be famous, and the camera becomes both confessional booth and glory hole.

SUPER 8½ took two torturous years to make and was my first feature shot on 16mm, a process of trial and error because I basically had no idea what I was doing. It’s about narcissism, sexual exhibitionism, exploitation, artistic failure and the strange consequences of turning yourself into a spectacle.

Basically, I had a semi-nervous breakdown and made a movie out of it. Waste not, want not.”

The House with Laughing Windows

Art restorer Stefano arrives at an isolated Italian village to repair a fresco depicting Saint Sebastian agonizing’s martyrdom. The original painter was a death artist: a madman so obsessed with mortality that, according to whispered rumors, he tortured his models in their final moments of life. When villagers start turning up dead, Stefano is forced to consider that the artist has returned to his brutal career, with Stefano as the primary target.

Screening as part of Waverly Midnights: Every Day is Halloween 2026

Double Impact

Staff pick by Ray

Chad (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a charming, smooth karate instructor from Los Angeles is mysteriously urged to fly to China by the man who raised him like a son, Frank Avery (Geoffrey Lewis, “High Plains Drifter,” “Every Which Way But Loose”). There he meets Alex (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a streetwise gun-slinging smuggler raised on the back streets of Hong Kong. Chad and Alex discover they are twin brothers and were separated when their parents were brutally murdered twenty-five years ago.

All About Lily Chou-Chou

Staff pick by Richard

For kids around the world, music is often the only salvation when the pain and anxiety of teenage life becomes too much to bear. Yuichi (Hayato Ichihara) is in the 8th grade and he worships Lily Chou-Chou, a Bjork-like chanteuse whose epic music is lush and transcendent. Yuichi only lives for Lily Chou-Chou’s big Tokyo concert, where the lies and violence can be washed away by the presence of his goddess and her powerful music. But fate has yet another obstacle in store for Lily’s devoted fan.

Free Leonard Peltier

Fri, Oct 2: Q&A w/ dirs. Jesse Short Bull and David France after 6:30 show!

Sat, Oct 3: Q&A w/ dirs. Jesse Short Bull and David France after 6:30 show!

Sun, Oct 4: Q&A w/ dirs. Jesse Short Bull and David France after 1:15 show!

In FREE LEONARD PELTIER, acclaimed directors Jesse Short Bull and David France revisit one of the most discredited convictions in modern America—the double life sentences handed down to Indian rights activist Leonard Peltier for the 1975 murder of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of South Dakota.

 

André Leon Talley: Style is Forever

André Leon Talley was a trailblazing fashion icon whose influence spanned nearly five decades. This documentary explores his legacy of inclusivity, elegance, and the fearless pursuit of authenticity. Interviews with Anna Wintour, Tom Ford and Diane von Furstenberg, among others, as well as never-before-seen footage, reveal Talley’s personal and professional challenges and remarkable triumphs.

Hereditary x Monstrous Bitch

 

 

Fjord

Tue, Oct 6: Sneak preview + Q&A with director Cristian Mungiu and co-star Sebastian Stan after the 6:15 show!

Tuesday, Oct 6: Extended intro with director Cristian Mungiu and co-star Sebastian Stan at the 8:15 show!

From two-time Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu, a Norwegian woman and her devout Romanian husband relocate with their five children to a remote, close-knit, coastal town. Their teenage children form a fast bond with a neighboring family as unease begins to simmer around their rigid beliefs. When allegations of abuse emerge, they are forced to confront a system of judgment that blurs the line between concern and prejudice.

Regular engagement begins Fri, Oct 9. Additional showtimes to be announced.

Naza

In secret conversations on the rooftops of Tel Aviv at night, the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza are revealed by the people who designed and operated them.

Directors’ Note

We made this film out of a sense of obligation to use our position as Israeli filmmakers and journalists to examine the systems behind the mass killing of Palestinian civilians for which our country is responsible. While filming members of Israel’s military on rooftops at night in Tel Aviv over the past three years, we found ourselves asking the very questions that were asked by our grandparents’ generation and throughout the 20th century: how does one group of people allow the total dehumanization of another? What do the inner workings of such a system look like? Many of the revelations in the film were published almost immediately as we learned of them, in the months following the October 7th attacks, by The Guardian (one of NAZA’s producers), in collaboration with reporting partners +972 Magazine and Local Call. The film lets us explore something deeper than we could in our investigative journalism alone: not only the words being said but also those that are not said, the silence. It is up to all of us to break that silence.

 

— Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor