“Experts consider King Hu’s Come Drink with Me a benchmark in Hong Kong martial arts filmmaking, and it has been cited as one of the sources for Ang Lee’s knockoff hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. And, if like me, you’ve only seen one other Hu film, the three-hour masterpiece A Touch of Zen (1969), Come Drink with Me may come […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/come-drink-with-me/DCP Projection “Here is a historical epic that fudges a few facts, tacks on a pandering love story and trips on its own grand ambitions. And yet here is a film that I give the highest rating. Nuts? I don’t think so. Gangs of New York is something better than perfect: It’s thrillingly alive. Martin Scorsese blows […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/gangs-of-new-york/Billy Bloom (Alex Lawther, The Imitation Game) is one-of-a-kind: a fabulous, glitter-bedecked, gender-bending teenager whose razor-sharp wit is matched only his by his outrageous, anything-goes fashion sense. When his glamorous mother (Bette Midler) is forced to send him to live with his straight-laced father (Larry Pine), Billy finds himself a diva-out-of-water at his new ultra-conservative high […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/freak-show/DCP projection “If there’s a seminal Ozploitation film, it’s arguably PATRICK. Together, the all-star Aussie team of schlockmaster producer Antony Ginnane, director Richard Franklin (Psycho II, Road Games) and writer Everett De Roche (Razorback, Long Weekend) shaped a fascinating film that blends Eurosleaze with Hitchcockian suspense. And it has one of the era’s most memorable […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/patrick/DCP projection. Chosen by Sean, floor staff. “A wild-haired eccentric arrives in town and demonstrates an extraordinary creativity – now where did movie wunderkind Tim Burton (wild-haired, deeply eccentric) get the idea for Edward Scissorhands?Certainly, Burton’s modern fairytale has an almost palpably personal feel: it is told gently, subtly and with infinite sympathy for an […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/edward-scissorhands/35mm print! “DREAMCATCHER is one of the more consistently entertaining Stephen King adaptations, a sprawling, big-budget epic that lurches from a creepy supernatural thriller to a campy, fart-joke-studded, aliens-on-the-loose extravaganza. Veteran writer-director Lawrence Kasdan – better known for low-key humanist comedies like The Big Chill – gleefully returns to the pulp-movie roots of his youth, […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/dreamcatcher/Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Jonathan Gold is a food writer like no other, passionately celebrating the glorious culinary diversity of multicultural Los Angeles, from Oaxacan grasshopper soup to hand-cut tonkotsu ramen to a particularly unctuous pad see ew. Combing through colorful neighborhoods in his green pickup, Gold sniffs out his next strip-mall discovery and, in the […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/city-of-gold/Chosen by Ashley S., manager! DCP projection “Charley (Ragsdale) has seen a coffin being carried into the house next door and a corpse being dragged out, but no one will take him seriously. In desperation he enlists a TV vampire killer, who’s initially charmed by neighbour-from-hell Jerry (Sarandon), before noticing the absence of his reflection […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/fright-night/Q&A with Chris Hegedus & DA Pennebaker! “Frequently funny, it’s a pleasure to watch. Mailer backpedals and obfuscates like a madman, but what finally makes Town Bloody Hall—so compelling and unsettling—is the impression that such serious, spirited debate is a thing of the past.” – Mark Holcomb, The Village Voice On the evening of April […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/town-bloody-hall/In the gritty, blue-collar neighborhood of GOD’S POCKET, Mickey Scarpato’s crazy stepson, Leon, is killed in a construction “accident,” and Mickey quickly tries to bury the bad news with the body. But when a local columnist comes sniffing around for the truth, things go from bad to worse. Mickey finds himself stuck in a life-and-death […]
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