Tag: Crosstown Arthouse Film Series

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

Tickets: $5 at the door
Films begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!)

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 Lisa Rovner’s Sisters With Transistors at Crosstown Theater. 2020/86 minutes/Rated M

Tickets: $5 at the door
Films begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!)

New documentary! 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 Martin Scorsese’s After Hours at Crosstown Theater. 1985/97 minutes/Rated R

Tickets: $5 at the door
Films begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!)

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). It is hard to describe the level of strangeness and unease After Hours puts on the viewer. Paul’s night begins with a happenstance meeting that could seemingly result in a possible romantic encounter with Rosanna Arquette (Desperately Seeking Susan and Silverado). The plot devolves from there into an unceasing chain of worst-case scenarios. With Teri Garr (Young Frankenstein and Close Encounters of the Third Kind), Catherine O’Hara (Beetlejuice, Home Alone ONE AND TWO!!), Linda Fiorentino (The Last Seduction), Bronson Pinchot (COUSIN BALKI!!!) and CHEECH AND CHONG!! YES, THAT CHEECH AND CHONG!! CAN’T MISS!!!

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

Tickets: $5 at the door
Films begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!)

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. Despite its complications and glossing over of what life was like for the poor in Rio, Black Orpheus is without doubt a cultural milestone and an influence on later works in film and music. Black Orpheus is one of those award-winning films everyone is supposed to seem, but in this case, seriously, you should come see it!

The Crosstown Arthouse film series presents Frank Perry’s The Swimmer at Crosstown Theater. 1968/95 minutes/Rated PG

Tickets: $5 at the door
Films begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!)

Burt Lancaster (From Here to Eternity and Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair) plays the character of Ned Merrill in The Swimmer. Ned goes on an adventure of sorts as he swims from pool to pool through his well-heeled neighborhood. That is it. Or is it? As Ned swims toward his goal of making it home to his own pool, the audience is slowly let in on what is perhaps a psychotic break. With Joan Rivers, Janice Rule (3 Women!!), Kim Hunter (STELLA!!!!!!!!!) and Bernie Hamilton (Captain Dobey!!).

Crosstown Arthouse Film Series presents David Lynch’s Wild at Heart in Crosstown Theater. 1990/124 minutes

Tickets: $5 at the door
Films begin at 7:30 pm (sharp!)

Probably enough just to say DAVID LYNCH, but let’s hit on some of Wild at Heart‘s stars: Laura Dern (Foxes and Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains); Nicolas Cage (Valley Girl); Thrashers Powermad playing Elvis Presley; Diane Ladd (Laura Dern’s real-life mother) manically covering her face with lipstick after coming to the realization she can’t dial back what she has put in place; Crispin Glover (Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter and River’s Edge) as Jingle Dale, Laura Dern’s cousin who wants Christmas to be all year long and puts cockroaches in his own underwear; Harry Dean Stanton (Alien, Repo Man, and Red Dawn) as Diane Ladd’s pathetic lover; Sherilyn Fenn (The Wraith and Two Moon Junction) in one the best and most traumatic Lynch car wreck scenes ever put to screen; Willem Dafoe (Streets of Fire and The Last Temptation of Christ) as Bobby Peru; and a cameo by Laura Palmer herself (Sheryl Lee) as the Good Witch from the Wizard of Oz; Koko Taylor singing a song written by Lynch and composed by longtime collaborator Angelo Badalamenti; Jack Nance (Eraserhead!!) as a random crazy dude in a trailer park with an invisible dog.  If the last time you saw Wild at Heart was at the Fare Four, you owe it to yourself to come see it again on the big screen at Crosstown Theater!

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