Lana del Rey appropriately stars as both Eve and the Virgin Mary in this iconoclastic manifesto of female alienation, worshipped by sad girls everywhere, never before shown in New York. Followed by Tumblr cult classic The Crush, featuring Alicia Silverstone in her scene-stealing first role. Q&A with Anthony Mandler, moderated by Alexandra Coburn.

Through the portrait of the young Andrés Roca Rey, a leading star of contemporary bullfighting, Albert Serra depicts the determination and solitude that distinguish the life of a bullfighter.

U.S. Premiere! In 2017 Ulli Lommel, the inimitable Fassbinder actor, Warhol collaborator and prolific genre auteur, completed his 64th feature film. At age of 72, he was ready to unveil a supreme late-period masterpiece: America - Land of the FreeKS. Tragically, Lommel passed away before his personal travelogue—cruising around Hollywood and beyond in a limousine, profiling an eclectic cross section of personalities, including gamers, political extremists and sexual trailblazers—would premiere at the 2018 Berlin Film Festival. Updating Jacopetti’s “mondo” genre for the age of Kim Kardashian West and Donald Trump, with a splash of Tocquevillian observation, the German Lommel, adorned in a baby blue Mickey Mouse leather racing jacket, paints a chaotic portrait of his adopted country in the throes of a nervous breakdown. Rejecting a purely didactic or moralist condemnation of the present, America - Land of the FreeKS comes from a place of absurdism and humanism, infused with the unique wisdom of one of the 20th/21st centuries biggest filmmaking freeKS. Introduced by Michael M. Bilandic and Gina Telaroli. One-of-a-kind, mystery Lommel Zine available at screening.

Ben Santhanaraj journeys to Sri Lanka to rekindle his relationship with Suzanne Hopper, an American NGO worker, after a long separation. But when Suzanne's boss demands she work during their vacation, their love is tested by a dilemma: desire versus duty. As Suzanne struggles with the responsibilities of her job, Ben tries everything to revive their intimacy, leading to candid conversations and chaotic twists as New Year’s Eve - and Ben’s departure - looms ahead.

A young actor's obsession with spying on a beautiful woman who lives nearby leads to a baffling series of events with drastic consequences.

Jesse (Richard Gere, American Gigolo), a restless and cocky common criminal with a penchant for fast cars, rock ‘n roll music and comic books, finds himself obsessed with Monica (Valérie Kaprisky, La Femme Publique), a French exchange student at UCLA. On the run for car theft and the accidental slaying of a highway patrolman, Jesse finds himself on the streets of Los Angeles, passing time in swimming pools, making love with Monica and dodging the law that is closing in on him. A controversial remake of Jean-Luc Godard’s iconic staple of the French New Wave, À bout de souffle (1960), BREATHLESS is a decidedly 80s updating of the tried-and-true merging of romance and crime, giving way to the sex and violence expected from its era. Directed by American iconoclast Jim McBride (David Holzman’s Diary, The Big Easy), who co-wrote the script with L.M. Kit Carson (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2; Paris, Texas), BREATHLESS is a potent blast of pop-culture idolation, eschewing the gritty monochrome of its source for a vibrant, colorful, Los Angeles, gorgeously captured by director of photography Richard H. Kline (Body Heat, The Fury). Presented by Justin LaLiberty and Vinegar Syndrome. New Breathless 4K UHD blu-ray on sale now. Introduced by Justin LaLiberty 7/23. Introduced by Kristen Yoonsoo Kim 7/25.

A Chinese woman lives to herself in silence, celebrating the prosperous Belle Epoque with songs and dance.

Adapted from actress and musician Christiane Felscherinow’s harrowing account of her teenage years, Christiane F. depicts the impact of West Berlin’s mid-to-late-70s heroin epidemic on one of its youngest and luckiest survivors. On the cusp of fourteen, David Bowie-worshipping Cristiane (Natja Brunckhorst) begins slipping out from under the watch of her divorced mother (Christiane Lechle) and spending time at hip discotheque Sound. There she falls in love with Detlev (Thomas Haustein), whose recent experiments with heroin soon have her hooked. Working with first-time actors and shooting on location with real-life regulars of Zoo Station’s notorious drug cruising scene, director Uli Edel unflinchingly captures the degradation of each phase of junkie life, from underage prostitution to brutal withdrawals to the seemingly endless vows to “go straight.” Bowie himself appears in a concert performance of “Station to Station”; the film’s soundtrack is a virtual compendium of the epochal musician’s celebrated “Berlin period” and a perfect sonic evocation of nightclubbing’s dark side.

Cinema Tehran presents this landmark of Cuban cinema directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. In "Memories of Underdevelopment", a disillusioned bourgeois intellectual drifts through the streets of Havana, observing the society in flux. Blending documentary with fiction, this bold and introspective film captures the dreams of the Cuban revolution, and the disillusionment that followed, portraying a man and a nation caught between the past and the future. The feature will be preceded by Abbas Kiarostami's "Two Solutions for One Problem"

Cinema Tehran presents this rarely seen masterpiece by Abbas Kiarostami. In "And Life Goes On...", a filmmaker and his son revisit a village in Iran devastated by an earthquake to find the people who acted in the director's film a few years before the disaster. This tender and poetic road film quietly blurs reality and fiction, tracing cinema's path leading to the essence of life itself.

City Dudes is the new monthly “blindfolded” screening series at the Roxy Cinema New York curated and hosted by the American cinematographer Sean Price Williams and the American writer Nick Pinkerton. Might could be they’ll have the occasional Exciting Guest on-hand as well.

A night of smiles and surprises with live comedy from Haley Stiel, Will Duncan, and a premiere of our brand new film " Circumstantial Forgiveness." We're back in the city for the first time this year, and we plan on making it a special, special experience.

When, at the age of fifty-five, Isabella Ducrot, whose real name was Antonia Mosca, decided to become a visual artist, no one, not even Ducrot herself, ever dreamed that today, at ninety, she would be the darling of art galleries the world over. The film follows her activity for two years, both her achievements internationally and her private sphere. It’s more than a portrait of an artist who rose to the top despite being self-taught and an outsider; it’s an in-depth look at a woman who traversed the 20th century and ultimately revealed that “a happy life begins at sixty!” Wonderstruck by what she says and does, we believe her.

After the death of a common friend, three married men leave their lives together, seeking pleasure and freedom and ultimately leaving for London.

A matchmaker's lucrative business is complicated when she falls into a toxic love triangle that threatens her clients.

This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.

A team of astronauts land on an inhabitable planet and form a society. Many years later, a single astronaut is sent to the planet and becomes a messiah.

As filmmaking grew into a popular and profitable medium, the ancient art of puppetry enjoyed a brand new resurgence. Throughout the first half of the 20th century, some animators created stop-motion films in which puppets came to life and magically moved on their own. Filmmakers also made more straightforward films featuring live marionettes and hand puppet performances. A bit later, when early television producers needed quick and affordable entertainment for child-oriented programming, show runners looked towards hand puppets and marionettes for an easy solution. Roxy Cinema hereby presents our 10th 'Peculiar Puppets' retrospective of forgotten vintage short films featuring hand puppets, ventriloquist dolls, marionettes, and stop motion creatures—all filmed in the 1930s through the 1970s. This peculiar potpourri of unnamed surprises is programmed by early animation archivist and historian Tommy José Stathes, and prints are hand-selected from his personal 16mm film archive. Warning: You may find some of the offerings to be rather unsettling, and possibly even creepy! 90-minute film presentation includes an intermission and will be followed by a live Q&A session with Stathes.

A young woman who has been in and out of rehab for the past ten years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.

World Premiere of a brand new 4K Restoration! Presented by Severin Films and The Oscarbate Film Collective Severin Films Pop-Up Shop before and after the film! Upon his death in 2013 at the age of 82, writer/director Jess Franco – hailed by The Guardian as “a dedicated exponent of weird sex, shocking sadism and surreal horror, and one of the cinema's great individualists” – left an astonishing legacy of over 180 films that Sight & Sound says “occupy a liminal terrain between exploitation cinema and the avant-garde, playing with the porous structure of dream and nightmare, indeed the nature of reality itself.” For his follow-up to VAMPYROS LESBOS, writer/director Jess Franco delivered perhaps his most twisted shocker of the 70s. In what fans and critics consider to be her greatest role, the luscious Soledad Miranda in one of her final performances before her tragic death stars as the vengeful widow who seduces then murders the men and women responsible for her husband’s suicide. Howard Vernon (THE AWFUL DR. ORLOFF), Paul Muller (BARBED WIRE DOLLS), Ewa Strömberg (VAMPYROS LESBOS) and Jess himself co-star in this EuroCult classic featuring another epic sexadelic lounge score by Manfred Hübler & Siegfried Schwab now remastered in a brand new 4K restoration! It's Franco at his perversely erotic best, like you've never seen or heard it before!

A shady police detective finds himself in the middle of a murder conspiracy at an important boxing match in an Atlantic City casino.

After a stint in prison, a young man returns to friends and family waiting for him across New York. Except his girl has moved on, money ain't what it used to be and this isn't the same bustling city he left behind. It's all good. Q&A with $ECK and Rasan Kuvly.

Young driver Speed Racer aspires to be champion of the racing world with the help of his family and his high-tech Mach 5 automobile.

A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.

THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME. The story of a family and a family business. Starring: Benicio del Toro as Zsa-zsa Korda, one of the richest men in Europe; Mia Threapleton as Sister Liesl, his daughter/a nun; Michael Cera as Bjorn Lund, their tutor. With: Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Riz Ahmed, Mathieu Amalric, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Richard Ayoade, Rupert Friend, Hope Davis, and Benedict Cumberbatch.

Against the backdrop of a shared obsession with Bollywood fantasy, Mariam, a Pakistani Muslim woman, and her Canadian-born daughter Azra come of age in two different eras.

With little time and even littler budget, a directing duo attempt to finish their indie movie - but at what cost? Two is a meta-fictitious film that was principally shot in two days, a dark comic satire of gender and power dynamics in the film industry created with an ensemble cast of some of the greatest up and coming comedic talent. Q&A with cast and crew following screening.

World Premiere of a brand new 4K Restoration! Presented by Severin Films and The Oscarbate Film Collective Severin Films Pop-Up Shop before and after the film! Upon his death in 2013 at the age of 82, writer/director Jess Franco – hailed by The Guardian as “a dedicated exponent of weird sex, shocking sadism and surreal horror, and one of the cinema's great individualists” – left an astonishing legacy of over 180 films that Sight & Sound says “occupy a liminal terrain between exploitation cinema and the avant-garde, playing with the porous structure of dream and nightmare, indeed the nature of reality itself.” From Jess Franco, the filmmaker The Vatican called the most dangerous director in the world, comes the most celebrated movie of his legendary career: Stunning Soledad Miranda stars as a vixen vampire who lures women to a Mediterranean island to satisfy her insatiable lust for female flesh and blood. It's a mind-bending odyssey of surreal erotica and 70s EuroHorror, featuring the psycho-sexadelic soundtrack that remains a global phenomenon. Ewa Strömberg (SHE KILLED IN ECSTASY), Dennis Price (VENUS IN FURS), Paul Muller (NIGHTMARE CASTLE) and Franco himself co-star in this landmark cult classic, recently cited by The New York Times as one their Queer Horror favorites. Experience Franco's masterpiece like you've never seen or heard it before in a brand new 4K restoration!

A farce about a renowned director of romantic comedies who, in his senior years, applies for a job as assistant groundskeeper in a cemetery. Because he does this at the same time as meeting his lawyer to address his last will and testament, his family, friends, and neighbors assume he is dying and crowd into his apartment to express their farewells. The film features actors long familiar to Hartley fans, such as Bill Sage, Robert John Burke, and Edie Falco, and also includes less frequent but seasoned collaborators as Gia Crovatin, Joe Perrino, and Obie Award winner Kathleen Chalfant. Finally, the film introduces the talents of a younger generation of actors: Kim Taff, Katelyn Sparks, Jeremy Hendrik, Jay Lenox and Aida Johannes.

Rachel doesn't realize she has grown up in captivity working for an advertising agency where her job is to assess Mommy 6.0, her favorite pop star in the whole entire world. Q&A with Peter Vack 5/16. Moderated by William Banks.