FREE ARTSCAPE SCREENING! ONE SHOW ONLY - 7/31 AT 7PM!
A young musician, tormented by an abusive situation at home, must contend with a rival singer, a burgeoning romance, and his own dissatisfied band, as his star begins to rise.
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FREE ARTSCAPE SCREENING! ONE NIGHT ONLY - 8/1 AT 7PM
The story of a man who has started a new hip-hop/rap label called Krush Groove.
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70th Anniversary 4K Restoration
“Epic” is overused, but it’s hard to get around it here. Akira Kurosawa drew the blueprint for action cinema with his vastly influential tale of hastily recruited ronin defending a village full of farmers from marauding bandits. Along the way, he limns indelible character moments not only for the stoic warriors but for the haple
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Thursday, September 5 9pm
John Carpenter responded to the box-office failure of his 1982 masterpiece The Thing in part by making its precise opposite. Here, Jeff Bridges’ extraterrestrial is a benign tourist who grows on (not in) Karen Allen’s earthling widow by taking on the form of her dead husband. Carpenter shot his oddball sci-fi romance on location
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Thursday, September 12 9pm
Wim Wenders’ camera dwells on the deserted contours of the American Southwest for most of the first hour, but the landscape that stays with you is that of Harry Dean Stanton’s face. Watching his haunted wanderer slowly come back to life, reconnect with people, and confront what set him adrift in the first place constitutes one o
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Thursday, September 19 9pm
Flair. TPS reports. The red Swingline stapler. Mike Judge’s takeout on work in general, and the cube-farm culture of white-collar labor in particular, was so dead-on and scathing that it provided a whole new set of terms and concepts to mock and undermine them. Since it was famously a failure at the box office and only became be
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Thursday, September 26 9pm
David Cronenberg’s breakout leveled-up artistically as well as at the box office. Despite an inert lead performance from Stephen Lack, Scanners depicts a reality full of weaponized psychics at war but also disturbingly recognizable corporate conspiracies and house-of-mirrors paranoia. While the director’s work is best known for
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Encore screening only! 10/12