Tag: Crosstown Arthouse Film Series

The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents THE BLACK CAT at Crosstown Theater.

Edgar B. Ulmer / 1934 / 65 minutes / N/R
Tickets: $5 at the door
Films begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater

American honeymooners in Hungary become trapped in the home of a Satan-worshiping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident.

The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground and documentary features.

The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents SPIDER BABY at Crosstown Theater.

Jack Hill / 1967 / 81 minutes / N/R
Tickets: $5 at the door
Films begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater

The first solo feature from exploitation legend Jack Hill (Foxy Brown), Spider Baby remains one of the wildest and weirdest horror films of the 1960s. The credits dub this “the maddest story ever told,” a promise that’s well on the way to being fulfilled in the opening scene alone, when Virginia traps and kills a hapless deliveryman in her makeshift web. She’s one of three siblings, including Sid Haig, who suffer from a unique genetic disorder that causes them to regress back to childhood while retaining the physical strength and sexual maturity of adults. Lon Chaney Jr. (The Wolf Man) gives one of his most memorable late performances as Bruno, who manages to cover up the crimes of the “kids” until two distant relatives lay claim to their house. Blending elements of gothic horror and gallows humor, Spider Baby drops somewhere between The Addams Family and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. 

The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground and documentary features.

The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents GIRLFRIENDS at Crosstown Theater.

Claudia Weill / 1978 / 88 minutes / Rated PG
Tickets: $5 at the door
Films begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater

A woman learns independence when her roommate decides to get married and leave their nest. An unexpected flirtation with a rabbi gives her the opportunity to be a portrait photographer for Jewish weddings.

The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground and documentary features.

The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents BRANDED TO KILL at Crosstown Theater.

Seijun Suzuki / 1967 / 91 minutes / N/R
Tickets: $5 at the door
Films begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater

When Japanese new wave bad boy Seijun Suzuki delivered this brutal, hilarious, and visually inspired masterpiece to the executives at his studio, he was promptly fired. Branded to Kill tells the ecstatically bent story of a yakuza assassin with a fetish for sniffing steamed rice (the chipmunk-cheeked superstar Joe Shishido) who botches a job and ends up a target himself. This is Suzuki at his most extreme — the flabbergasting pinnacle of his ’60s pop-art aesthetic.

The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground and documentary features.

The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents LONG WEEKEND at Crosstown Theater.

Colin Eggleston / 1979 / 97 minutes / N/R
Tickets: $5 at the door
Films begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater

Long Weekend has notes of Possession’s marital anarchy, with a healthy amount of Hitchcockian flair and the stark hellscapes of The Seventh Seal transposed onto the unforgiving Outback. Essential viewing.

Attempting to resurrect their failing marriage, Peter and Marcia trample through the deserted countryside, hoping a long weekend will patch up their differences. As they inadvertently destroy everything in their tracks, scattering garbage and shooting anything that moves, their callous disregard becomes apparent to them when the animals seek vengeance!

The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground and documentary features.

The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents DEEP COVER at Crosstown Theater.

Bill Duke / 1992 / 107 minutes / Rated R
Tickets: $5 at the door
Films begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater

David Jason (Jeff Goldblum) is the biggest drug dealer in Los Angeles, and Russell Stevens (Larry Fishburne) is an undercover cop who wants to bring him down. Posing as a dealer, Stevens begins to earn the trust of the L.A. drug underworld, eventually making his way to Jason himself. But along the way he has to take his cover to depths he never thought he would have to see, including selling drugs and going to great lengths to eliminate potential competitors for Jason’s drug cart.

The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series showcases a diverse collection of independent, international, historically significant, artistic, experimental, cult, underground and documentary features.