Crosstown Theater

Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is one of cinema’s sharpest and most enduring satires, a Cold War nightmare spun into pitch-black comedy. Released at the height of nuclear anxiety, the film follows a chain reaction of military blunders and political absurdities that threaten to end […]

David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake is a woozy neo-noir that sinks into the dream logic of Los Angeles, peeling back its sunlit surface to expose the network of symbols, conspiracies, and secret messages that seem to pulse beneath the city. At the center is Sam, a drifting young man whose obsession with hidden […]

Julia Ducournau’s Titane is a ferocious fusion of body horror, melodrama, and black comedy, an audacious work that violently fractures genre in order to rebuild it into something startlingly intimate. Winner of the Palme d’Or, the film follows Alexia, a go-go dancer with a titanium plate fused into her skull after a childhood car accident, […]

March 26, 2026 Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center Bob Dylan Center Director Steven Jenkins will present the films and engage in a post-screening discussion. Get Your Tickets! This special curated program draws from rare and revelatory cinematic materials connected to Bob Dylan’s life, work, and cultural impact. Rather than offering […]

March 19, 2026 Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010, dir. Panos Cosmatos) More mood piece than narrative, Beyond the Black Rainbow is a hypnotic plunge into retro-futurist nightmare. Set inside a sterile research facility in an alternate 1980s, the film unfolds like a fever dream, saturated with neon color, droning synthesizers, and a suffocating sense of […]

March 12, 2026 Hardware (1990, dir. Richard Stanley) A cult classic of dystopian science fiction, Hardware is a ferocious blast of cyberpunk paranoia and industrial-age anxiety. Set in a scorched near future, the film follows the deadly consequences of reassembling a military robot designed solely to kill, serving as a grim metaphor for humanity’s inability […]

New York Philharmonic's Audrey Wright plays Zwilich Violin Concerto Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Violin Concerto is a dynamic and engaging work that blends traditional violin techniques with a modern, expressive edge. Featuring violinist Audrey Wright as the virtuosic soloist, this concerto unfolds with energetic rhythms, lush melodic lines, and moments of deep introspection. Friday, February 27, […]