Tag: Crosstown Arthouse Film Series

** This event is postponed until further notice.

Seijun Suzuki was a journeyman director for Nikkatsu, one of the oldest Japanese film production companies in existence. Suzuki eventually went from journeyman to auteur, slipping weird elements into what should have been run-of-the-mill Yakuza fare. Finally Suzuki made the legendary Branded to Kill (R.I.P., Joe Shishido) for Nikkatsu and was fired!

Suzuki persevered and made more films, but Crosstown Arts is going back to his roots with a screening of Tokyo Knights. Pre-dating the idea of “millennials,” Tokyo Knights  is about a boy named Koji who is good at, well, everything. Koji’s pop passes, and Koji goes home to take over his family’s “construction business,” crush it at school, and get the truth as to what happened with his daddy.

Seijun Suzuki/1961/82 minutes

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

Films begin at 7:30 pm sharp at Crosstown Theater
Tickets are $5 (at the door only)

** The event is postponed until further notice.

Jane Fonda (Cat Ballou, They Shoot Horses Don’t They?, Barbarella) stars as a groovy call girl and wannabe actress who may or may not be connected to a dead john (who ran a chemical company by day). Donald Sutherland (MASH,  The Kentucky Fried Movie) plays the title character Klute, a detective brought in by a chemical company executive to find out what really happened. Co-starring Roy Scheider (Jaws, Jaws II) as Jane Fonda’s pimp. Also co-starring the super-fun and sleazy NYC of the 1970s. Klute won a lot of Oscars, but don’t hold that against it. IT IS A GREAT MOVIE ANYWAY!!

Alan J. Pakula/1971/114 minutes

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

Films begin at 7:30 pm sharp at Crosstown Theater
Tickets are $5 (at the door only)

You know that story “Little Red Riding Hood”? You know that girl who works over at the City Thrift on Summer? The one with the creepy stepdad and the mom who hooks up by Tee Jay’s? The one who’s always talking about blowing Memphis to go live with her me-maw in a trailer park in Tipton County? Take “Little Red Riding Hood” and that girl we all know, and put them in L.A., and have the girl played by Reese Witherspoon before she got Legally Blonde-ed and you have Freeway.

With Amanda Plummer (The World According To Garp and The Hotel New Hampshire) doing her thing as the prostitute mom; Kiefer Sutherland (Stand By Me, The Lost Boys, Young Guns I and Young Guns II) as Bob Wolverton, the interstate serial killer!;  and Brooke Shields (Alice, Sweet Alice, Pretty Baby and The Blue Lagoon) as Bob’s uptight mean society wife!!! CAN’T MISS!!!!

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

Films begin at 7:30 pm sharp at Crosstown Theater
Tickets are $5 (at the door only)

David Byrne makes his directorial debut with TRUE STORIES, a movie loosely based around drawings Bryne had made about tabloid stories. Byrne is the main narrator as he traverses through the town of Virgil, Texas, as they prepare for the “Celebration of Specialness.”  With Spalding Gray (Swimming to Cambodia!! Farmer’s Daughters!!) and Pops Staples!!! David Byrne/1986/90 minutes

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

Films begin at 7:30 pm sharp at Crosstown Theater
Tickets are $5 (at the door only)

Directed by Otto Preminger and based on an Oscar Hammerstein musical, in turn based on the opera Carmen, CARMEN JONES tells the story of Carmen Jones , who works in a parachute factory in North Carolina during WWII.  Carmen is arrested for fighting with a co-worker who reported her for arriving late for work. Foreman Sgt. Brown assigns young soldier Joe to deliver her to the authorities, much to the dismay of Joe’s fiancée Cindy Lou, who had agreed to marry him during his leave.  Carmen Jones features a Saul Bass title sequence and Diahann Carroll (Dominique Deveraux in the hit television show Dynasty)!

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

Films begin at 7:30 pm sharp at Crosstown Theater
Tickets are $5 (at the door only)

BLUE COLLAR was Paul Schrader’s debut as a director, and making the movie reportedly literally drove him insane. BLUE COLLAR is a caper about three auto workers (Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, and Yaphet Kotto) who rob their union and unexpectedly uncover an illegal loan operation and ties to organized crime. BLUE COLLAR is about corruption, the impossible grind of the working class, powerlessness, and most definitely, the use of racial difference as a weapon by the oppressors against the oppressed.

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

Films begin at 7:30 pm sharp at Crosstown Theater
Tickets are $5 (at the door only)