Crosstown Arthouse presents WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN at Crosstown Theater.
Crosstown Arthouse Film Series
Crosstown Arthouse presents BLOW OUT
The Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents BLOW OUT at Crosstown Theater.
Brian De Palma / 1981 / 108 minutes / Rated R
Tickets: $5 at the door
Films begin at 7:30PM (sharp!) at Crosstown Theater
A Philadelphia sound-effects man witnesses and records a car accident that turns out to be a politically motivated murder. Brian De Palma’s stylish and quite inspired mash up of Coppola’s The Conversation and Antonioni’s Blow Up remains ….
Crosstown Arthouse Film Series Presents LOVE JONES
LOVE JONES is an unconventional love story between a young poet and a photographer. Larenz Tate and Nia Long play these passionate young artists who both definitely feel the pull of love but are too afraid to commit to it. With Nia Long (BOYZ N THE HOOD! BIG MOMMA’S HOUSE 1 AND 2!!!! ARE WE THERE YET!!!), Larenz Tate (MENACE II SOCIETY! DEAD PRESIDENTS!!)
Crosstown Arthouse presents FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
When Hitchcock’s REBECCA won Best Picture in ’41, he also had another film in contention: FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT. Expertly paced, it finds Hitchcock honing the formula of a breathless chase across multiple locations, even sketching out ideas later to appear in NORTH BY NORTHWEST. The impulsive slugging of a cop by reporter John Jones (Joel McCrea) gets the attention of his editor, who seeks a scribe to cover Europe’s unstable situation without the biased tone of a foreign correspondent. Things get sinister when Jones’ first interview subject, a Dutch diplomat, is assassinated in a spectacularly Hitchcockian sequence involving a gazillion umbrellas. From there, Jones is embroiled in a deadly plot to undermine the stability of the Western world. A flawless example of a classic Hollywood thriller with perfect balance between comedy, tension, and visual ingenuity. The film is also a harbinger of things to come from the director, who also dabbled in war-themed shorts and chronicled WWII’s evolution in SABOTEUR and LIFEBOAT, followed by a perverse look at its aftermath in NOTORIOUS.
Crosstown Arthouse presents THE FILMS OF MAYA DEREN with live score by Optic Sink
Maya Deren is one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of all time. Along with being a filmmaker, Deren was a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, and photographer, and she brings all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and ecstatic films. The history of avant-garde film is unthinkable without her. For this presentation Deren’s films will be curated and performed with a live score by Memphis no-wave and Goner Records recording artist OPTIC SINK.
Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents THRILLING BLOODY SWORD
If He-Man and the Masters of the Universe dropped acid with the Shaw Brothers while knocking out a martial arts horror-fantasy movie, that movie would be THRILLING BLOODY SWORD. This head-spinning slice of Taiwanese psychotronic cinema builds a movie out of SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS, impossible fight scenes, and wild monsters that include a cyclops, a pterodactyl, and Satan himself! A comet impregnates a queen. She gives birth to a fleshy egg. In disgust, the king tosses the egg in the river. Seven little people stumble onto the egg. They stab it with a knife and find a cute baby inside —one who grows up to be a beautiful princess. One day, she runs into a prince, who is fighting a multi-headed dragon. Of course, the two royals fall in love. Unfortunately, a group of dastardly wizards want to keep them apart, and they’ll use every creature at their disposal to do it! Previously only available via VHS bootlegs, Gold Ninja Video is proud to present this hallucinogenic fantasia in a new 2K preservation from the only known 35mm print in existence.
