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 […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/gods-pocket/DCP projection “A witty, romantic, psychological horror film and it’s almost as rewarding as a successful analysis. “DRESSED TO KILL is… about a split personality, a furious transvestite who goes clomping around Manhattan in large high heels, a blond wig, dark glasses, and a black raincoat, carrying a straight razor ready to slash any woman […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/dressed-to-kill/North American premiere (La cage dorée) José (Joaquim de Alameida) and Maria (Rita Blanco), a middle-aged Portuguese couple, have been living in Paris for 30 years. He is a respected construction foreman and she is the concierge at the ritzy apartment building where they live in a cramped ground-floor flat. Their life has been a fulfilling […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/the-gilded-cage/Filmed over five years, this epic, true tale explores what happens when ambitious people uncover a massive and exquisitely rare pot of gold in one of the poorest places on earth. In 2007, a US company discovers the first oil in the history of the West African republic of Ghana. What follows is a twisting […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/big-men/One man’s wild, lifelong adventure of testing society’s boundaries through his subversive art, Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story combines traditional documentary storytelling with original animation culled from seven decades worth of art from the renegade children’s book author and illustrator. Using a palette of 20th century events to paint an artist’s […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/far-out-isnt-far-enough-the-tomi-ungerer-story/As Ruby (Emayatzy Corinealdi) rides a bus through the inner city streets, she wills herself to push away memories that crowd her. Four years earlier, she was a vibrant medical student married to the love of her life, Derek (Omari Hardwick). Now, she makes her way to the maximum security prison on the outskirts of […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/middle-of-nowhere/35mm Print! “Moving away from the apocalyptic horror of his ‘Living Dead’ trilogy, Romero reaffirms his equal aptitude for controlled chills, previously evident in Martin. Paralysed in a road accident, Allan Mann (Beghe) is provided with a trained Capuchin monkey, Ella, as home help. A research specimen before training, Ella had been injected with human […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/monkey-shines/New 35mm print! “[De Palma’s] techno-thriller opens with a signature sequence: a continuous Steadicam shot starts outside an Atlantic City sports arena, then snakes its way along corridors, up stairs and down an escalator, to reveal the packed crowd awaiting the start of a heavyweight boxing match. We’re following flamboyant Rick Santoro (Cage), a corrupt […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/snake-eyes/François Truffaut is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in this, his most playful film. Part thriller, part comedy, part tragedy, Shoot the Piano Player relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano player Charlie (Charles Aznavour, in a triumph of hangdog deadpan) as he stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair. Loaded with […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/shoot-the-piano-player/Written by and starring real-life Chinese cops and bomb squad officers, this movie belongs to actual ex-cop and non-actor Ma Guowei, who plays the titular Old Fish who has to save his hometown from a mad serial bomber using little more than string, a razor blade and fishhooks. Dripping with tension, it’s a real-life look […]
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