Crosstown Theater

The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents Marcel Camus' Black Orpheus at Crosstown Theater. 1959/107 minutes/Rated PG

Black Orpheus is a retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus (Breno Mello) and Eurydice (Marpessa Dawn) and is set in the streets of Rio during Carnival. When released in 1959, Black Orpheus was an arthouse hit, driven by the incredible cinematography, the location, and the bossa nova music.

The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents Martin Scorsese's After Hours at Crosstown Theater. 1985/97 minutes/Rated R

Ever have a night where nothing seems to go right? After releasing The King of Comedy just a few years before, Martin Scorsese kept working on his “comedy chops” with After Hours — the story of one night in the life of everyman, data entry worker Paul Hackett, played by Griffin Dunne (An American Werewolf in London and My Girl).

The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents Lisa Rovner's Sisters With Transistors at Crosstown Theater. 2020/86 minutes/Rated M

Sisters With Transistors is the remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today. The film maps a new history of electronic music through the visionary women whose radical experimentations with machines redefined the boundaries of music, including Clara Rockmore, Daphne Oram, Bebe Barron, Pauline Oliveros, Delia Derbyshire, Maryanne Amacher, Eliane Radigue, Suzanne Ciani, and Laurie Spiegel.

The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents Juzo Itami's Tampopo at Crosstown Theater. 1987/118 minutes/Rated M

Tampopo is a 1985 Japanese satirical “ramen western” comedy by Juzo Itami that tells the story of two truck drivers, Goro and Gun, who embark on a search for the perfect ramen restaurant, but have yet to find it. They meet Tampopo, a young ramen-making widow whose restaurant is besieged by mediocrity and overrun with unpleasant patrons. Goro takes Tampopo under his wing and helps guide her on her quest to find the perfect ramen recipe.

The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents Cirio Santiago's The Muthers at Crosstown Theater. 1976/93 minutes/Rated R

“Sleaze ahoy! Directed by heroic smut merchant Cirio Santiago (TNT Jackson, Vampire Hookers) and shot on-the-cheap in the Philippines, The Muthers is like stepping into one of Martin Denny's exotica LPs while it plays in Jess Franco's living room. Filled with karate chops and epic psychedelic-funk jams, this is the story of two pirates (Jeanne Bell and Rosanne Katon) who rob and loot on the China Seas, get sent to a women's prison presided over by a sadistic warden, then revolt and turn the sky black with the smoke from their machine guns. In other words, this is the only revolutionary-pirate-women-in-prison movie that you'll ever need. Restored from the original negative for maximum savagery!” — American Genre Film Archive

In the late 80s and early 90s, the streets of downtown Manhattan were the site of a collision between two vibrant subcultures: skateboarding and hip hop. Narrated by Zoo York co-founder Eli Gesner, with an original score by legendary hip-hop producer Large Professor (Nas, A Tribe Called Quest), All the Streets Are Silent brings to life the magic of the time period and the convergence that created a style and visual language with an outsized cultural effect.

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror explores the folk horror phenomenon from its beginnings in a trilogy of films – Michael Reeves’ Witchfinder General (1968), Piers Haggard’s Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971) and Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man (1973) – through its proliferation on British television in the 1970s and its culturally specific manifestations in American, Asian, Australian, and European horror, to the genre’s revival over the last decade. Touching on over 200 films and featuring over 50 interviewees, Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched investigates the many ways that we alternately celebrate, conceal, and manipulate our own histories in an attempt to find spiritual resonance in our surroundings.