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TOUKI BOUKI
Sun, Aug 27 at 3:10pm

TOUKI BOUKI

Alienated and tired of life in Senegal, two disaffected young lovers steal some money to fund an escape to France, but the local police are on their tail in this stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic from director Djibril Diop Mambéty.
NATURAL BORN KILLERS
Mon, Aug 28 at 5:30pm, 8:00pm

NATURAL BORN KILLERS

A cross-country killing spree by serial killers (and lovers) Mickey and Mallory becomes an unlikely cause célèbre when the ensuing media frenzy glorifies their ultraviolent exploits in director Oliver Stone’s scathing satire.
THE GETAWAY
Sat-Sun, Sep 2-3

THE GETAWAY

Action maestro Sam Peckinpah’s bloody take on the genre follows a recently-released ex-con and his wife (Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw) who go on the run after a heist goes awry.
SHORTCOMINGS
Ends Sat, Aug 12

SHORTCOMINGS

Cynical young filmmaker Ben is forced to reckon with his own ambitions and his film-obsessed existence in Berkeley when his girlfriend Miko accepts an internship in New York. Exposing a multiplicity of Asian American identities in a fresh and groundbreaking way, Randall Park’s debut comedy embraces the complexity of being human, flaws and all.
THE BLUES BROTHERS
Mon, Aug 7 at 3:05pm, 8:00pm

THE BLUES BROTHERS

Jake and Elwood Blues are on a mission from God: In order to save the orphanage that raised them, they enlist the help of their former band. Cast to the gills with R&B legends, including James Brown, Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles.
SPACE IS THE PLACE
Mon, Jul 17 at 3:45pm, 8:00pm

SPACE IS THE PLACE

Afrofuturist sci-fi, blaxploitation, cosmic free-jazz and radical race politics combine when Sun Ra and his Arkestra lead an intergalactic movement to resettle the Black race on their utopian space colony and offer an “alter-destiny” to those who would join him.
AFIRE
Ends Sat, Aug 19

AFIRE

Four young people come together, friends old and new, at a small vacation home on the Baltic Sea. As the parched forests around them begin to ignite, so do their emotions — happiness, lust and love, but also jealousies, resentments and tensions. Meanwhile, the forests burn. Directed by Christian Petzold (TRANSIT, BARBARA)
DESPERATE SOULS, DARK CITY, AND THE LEGEND OF MIDNIGHT COWBOY
Tue-Wed, Jul 18-19

DESPERATE SOULS, DARK CITY, AND THE LEGEND OF MIDNIGHT COWBOY

The story of the deeply gifted and flawed people behind the dark and difficult masterpiece MIDNIGHT COWBOY; New York City in a troubled time of cultural ferment; and the era that made a movie and the movie that made an era. Featuring extensive archival material and compelling new interviews. See also: MIDNIGHT COWBOY (Tue, Jul 18)
SCARLET
Wed-Thu, Jul 12-13

SCARLET

The fantastic period tale of a young girl growing up in rural Normandy between the two World Wars delicately weaves together music and fantasy, history and folklore, realist drama and ethereal romance, to craft a timeless story of a young woman’s emancipation. Directed by Pietro Marcello (MARTIN EDEN).
THE DOOM GENERATION
Wed, Jul 26 at 8:00pm

THE DOOM GENERATION

Amy Blue (Rose McGowan), her boyfriend Jordan White (James Duval) and drifter Xavier Red (Johnathan Schaech) take an anarchic road trip that leads them through a series of gonzo encounters ranging from the erotic to the violent, in this dark satire of surrealist heterosexual America.