After escaping from a mental hospital, drifting ex-boxer Kid Collie (Jason Patric) meets an alcoholic widow, Fay (Rachel Ward), who entices him into performing maintenance work at her estate. When crooked Uncle Bud (Bruce Dern) joins the two, Fay's darker side begins to appear. Bud and Fay concoct a scheme to kidnap the son of a local wealthy family and have Collie carry out the dirty work, to which the troubled ex-boxer agrees, but he soon has second thoughts.
Rfor language and some drug content
Documentary about an aspiring filmmaker's attempts to finance his dream project by finally completing the low-budget horror film he abandoned years before.
Rfor language and some violent content/bloody images.
A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.
After schoolteacher Ed Avery (James Mason) faints and is hospitalized, doctors diagnose him with a fatal arterial illness and tell him he has a few months to live. Ed agrees to an experimental treatment with cortisone, and makes what appears to be a miraculous recovery. However, upon his return home, his wife, Lou (Barbara Rush), notices severe mood shifts in him. His friend and coworker Wally (Walter Matthau) also perceives the changes, and discovers that Ed has been abusing the cortisone.
During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew. New 4K restoration, courtesy Grindhouse Releasing.
New York City, 1971. As Mei, Chris and Leonard trace differing paths through this melancholic vision of the Asian American Movement, collective paranoia rises as those around them begin to vanish without explanation.
When a woman named Lisa is brutally murdered by a human trafficking syndicate and her body is dumped in the South Sea, it awakens the wrath of the sea goddess. The spirit (Nyai) possesses Rara, turning her into a conduit of revenge. Armed with supernatural abilities, Rara goes on a bloody crusade against the four perpetrators. Meanwhile, Inspector Yati tries to investigate the string of gruesome murders and connects with Mbak Endang, who holds the secrets of the Southern Coast.
for action/violence, some bloody images and strong language.
If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This June, the truth belongs to seven billion people. We are coming close to … Disclosure Day.
for smoking and some language.
EPiC features long-lost footage from Presely's legendary Las Vegas residency in the 1970s, woven together with rare 16mm footage from Elvis on Tour, and precious 8mm from the Graceland archive, plus recordings of Elvis telling "his side of the story" rediscovered during Luhrmann's research for his Best Picture Oscar-nominated 2022 film Elvis.
Not just a film, but an immersive, genre-defying experience that blurs the boundaries between documentary, narrative, experimental cinema, and music video. Nine fearless artists step into the frame — their voices raw, their stories electric. As poets, musicians, and performers reveal deeply personal truths, their stories collide and intertwine, forming a powerful, living dialogue with the audience. What unfolds is not simply storytelling, but an invitation: to feel, to witness, to connect. Drawn from lived experience, Glowing journeys through darkness and into transformation — where pain becomes art, and struggle ignites into radiant self-expression. Through hypnotic visuals and an electrifying score by Jim Coleman, the film pulses with emotional intensity, reflecting the inner worlds of its subjects — raw, unfiltered, unforgettable. Glowing is a cinematic awakening. From love and loss to identity and power, from the echoes of childhood trauma to the scars of war, Glowing dares to confront what lies beneath. Yet even in its most shadowed moments, it refuses despair — instead illuminating flickers of resilience, liberation, and hope. In the face of the unknown… we burn brighter. (68MIN) Preceded by 2 new short films (Near Death Jared + Near Death Bliss). (10MIN)
Famed nightclub performer Duke Mitchell is Paul, a paroled gangster with an unholy scheme: to kidnap the Pope and 'charge a dollar from every Catholic in the world' as the ransom. Shot in 1975, GONE WITH THE POPE was unfinished at the time of Duke Mitchell's death in 1981, and finally completed in 2009 from a rediscovered, unfinished print.
Rfor strong sexual content, nudity, language throughout and brief drug use.
A crew of professional shoplifters takes aim at a cutthroat fashion maven. It's like community service.
Hollywood screenwriter Dixon Steele (Humphrey Bogart) and his neighbor Laurel (Gloria Grahame) are just getting to know each other romantically when the police begin questioning Dixon about his involvement in the murder of a girl he met once. Certain her new love interest is innocent, Laurel stands by Dixon, but as the police continue pressing him, Dixon begins to act increasingly erratically. The blossoming love affair suffers as Laurel begins to wonder if Dixon really might be a killer.
Saeed braves an adolescent crush and an altercation with his best friend while his temperamental father Ali struggles to connect with him. Both they and the film are heading for a breakdown. Incorrectional: A Memorial Service is both a film screening and a last hurrah. Due to a years-long legal battle, the film must be removed from circulation and any remaining prints, screeners, files, and elements are to be destroyed as per an agreement between private entities and the filmmaking team. What will transpire will be a screening of the film and a memorial service where the creative team and any appreciators (programmers, critics, observers) will give an oral remembrance and/or dedication. After tributes are given, the project files will be deleted in front of the audience, and the project hard drive will be destroyed. Funeral attire is recommended.
After helping a wounded gang member, a strong-willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob.
Filmmaker Beth B accompanies the legendarily boundary-pushing No Wave musician and underground performance artist Lydia Lunch on her latest tour and, through interviews with her collaborators and Lunch herself, examines the qualities that have been present in her provocative and powerful art since the beginning.
A singer, whose career has gone on a downward spiral, is forced to make a comeback to the performance stage for a benefit concert.
A wealthy businessman gains his fortune through Nyi Blorong, sacrificing his wife and child in return, and later offers his daughter's boyfriend to satisfy her demand for more. His daughter, learning the truth in a dream, seeks help from a cleric to destroy Nyi Blorong.
Jim Wilson (Robert Ryan) is New York police detective on the edge. Hardened and embittered by his years of dealing with the lowest forms of criminal the city has to offer, Wilson becomes increasingly violent with suspects. For his own good, Wilson's police captain (Ed Begley) assigns him to a murder investigation in the countryside for a change of scenery. While searching for the killer, Wilson meets the suspect's sister, Mary Malden (Ida Lupino), a blind woman who might turn his life around.
Deft lawyer Thomas Farrell (Robert Taylor) has found himself a role successfully defending the crooked goons of crime boss Rico Angelo (Lee J. Cobb). When Thomas meets glamorous dancer Vicki Gaye (Cyd Charisse), he falls in love with her. Vicki makes Thomas realize that he should stop representing criminals, and he tries to break ties with Angelo. However, the mobster will not let Thomas free and kidnaps Vicki in order to keep the lawyer in his employ.
Peculiar Puppets vol. VIII (in Glorious 16mm) 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 marionette 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 an eigth retrospective screening featuring various peculiar examples of puppet films from the 1930s through the 1950s+. Warning: You may find some of the offerings to be rather unsettling, and possibly even creepy! This event is programmed by early animation archivist and historian Tommy José Stathes, and prints are hand-selected from his personal 16mm film archive. Film presentation will be followed by a live Q&A session with Stathes.
for some violence and thematic elements.
A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.
A dancer facing career decline returns home to meet her biological father. Raised by her lesbian mother through insemination, she navigates family complexities while bonding with elderly coworkers who help her find herself.
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Three decades ago, the Rose of Nevada vanished at sea, along with its crew. Now, it has returned. In a remote fishing village, its reappearance is embraced as an auspicious sign, with the local citizens convinced the luck of their economically devastated community may turn, if only the ship sails again. Joining the crew is Nick (George MacKay), desperate to provide for his young family, and Liam (Callum Turner), a mysterious drifter eager to escape his past. After a successful voyage, they return to harbour, only to find that nothing is as they remember it. Shooting on a 16mm Bolex camera and constructing all the sound in post, Mark Jenkin writes, directs, edits and scores a haunting and hallucinatory time-travel mystery that further solidifies him as one of the most distinct, singular artists working in film today. Jenkin conducts a cinematic séance, conjuring a portal into another world that forces us to confront the past and our relationship to it.
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A witty, perceptive and devastating look at the personal agendas and suppressed revelations swirling among a group of gay men in Manhattan. Harold is celebrating a birthday, and his friend Michael has drafted some other friends to help commemorate the event. As the evening progresses, the alcohol flows, the knives come out, and Michael's demand that the group participate in a devious telephone game, unleashing dormant and unspoken emotions.
Cinema Tehran presents the U.S. restoration premiere of Dariush Mehrjui’s rarely seen masterpiece. When a young boy in Tehran tries to save his father’s life, he becomes entangled in an ever deepening maze of blood trafficking, exploitation, and corruption. Exposing the darkness and extreme poverty in pre-revolutionary Iran, The Cycle was banned for several years before its eventual release in 1978. Though suppressed following complaints from the Iranian Medical Association, the film later helped encourage the formation of the Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization.
Cult webseries "The Ember Knight Show" is an instructional etiquette series that quickly devolves into a stream-of-consciousness romp through its host's worst impulses. Made by a group of friends for less than $8K, the series seamlessly blends guerrilla filmmaking, handmade sets, animation, and musical breakdowns into something endlessly inventive and brimming with style and wit. Quoted as a mashup of “Mr. Rogers and Jackass” (Garage Magazine), Knight oscillates between kids TV host and bitter artist — preaching the importance of listening while failing to do so, or sitting in a lobotomy chair trying to remove a single lie without losing her self-proclamation as King of L.A. Submerging themes of resentment, anger, and jealousy in a soup of DIY chaos, it's a lighthearted and spunky series about how to behave in a big messy world.
Rfor sexual material, language throughout, and drug use.
A middle-aged couple who are feeling stagnant in their relationship invite the younger and livelier couple from the apartment upstairs for a get-together that takes an unexpected turn.
In the American West of the 1950s, talented rodeo rider Jeff McCloud quits after an injury. Returning to his hometown, he gets a job on a ranch. He strikes up a friendship with Wes, a fellow ranch hand who dreams of being a rodeo rider. Wes talks Jeff into training him, and joins the rodeo circuit with the reluctant approval of his wife. But when the two men start to disagree, Jeff returns to the circuit himself.
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Set in 1851, a mute Scottish woman arrives in colonial New Zealand for an arranged marriage, with her precocious young daughter and beloved piano in tow. Her practical new husband refuses to transport the piano to their home and makes a deal with his neighbor, George Baines to take the piano off his hands. Attracted to Ada, Baines agrees to return the piano in exchange for a series of piano lessons that become a series of increasingly charged sexual encounters. As pent-up emotions of rage and desire swirl around all three characters, the savage wilderness begins to consume the tiny European enclave.
Through nearly a thousand found footage videos from the early internet, filmmaker Marcus Batto recreates the day of Michael Jackson's passing, assembling a vast, fragmented portrait of the cultural earthquake. Equal parts elegy, musical, and excavation into the death of the King of Pop from the lens of strangers, critics and bystanders.
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An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
Rfor pervasive strong language, violence, some sexual content and brief drug use.
From acclaimed filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie comes an electrifying crime thriller about Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler), a charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score. When he makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime, Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides, in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.
An extraordinary performance by Dirk Bogarde grounds this intense, sobering indictment of early-sixties social intolerance and sexual puritanism. Bogarde plays Melville Farr, a married barrister who is one of a large group of closeted London men who become targets of a blackmailer. Basil Dearden’s unmistakably political taboo buster was one of the first films to address homophobia head-on, a cry of protest against British laws forbidding homosexuality.