Housewife Kyoko begins moonlighting at a mysterious sex club as a means of rebelling against her boring salaryman husband Akihito. The Bedroom isn’t like any normal club, though: the female hostesses all take the powerful sedative Halcion to sleep through their encounters with the male clientele.
Behind The Lens is a one-hour plus visual and musical feast of music photography and stories as told from one of the worlds iconic music photographers who documented those memorable times. Henry Diltz takes you on a visual and story-telling journey of some of the most famous album covers and musical artists ever documented. Featuring a rare look on film and in classic photographs, The Doors, Eagles, Crosby Stills & Nash, James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Woodstock and many more… and the stories! You will be taken far behind the scenes of what the Sixties and Seventies were really all about in this authentic, heart-warming and humorous ride that only Henry Diltz can provide. In the world of music photography, Henry Diltz occupied the upper strata of legendary photographers. His images of popular musicians of the Sixties and Seventies defined the musical landscape of that time, when you were part of the band and a photographer could create lasting friendships and document each artist’s beginning through their assent to greatness. After the show, Henry Diltz will be available to hand-sign and make available for purchase, his most famous photographic prints in a special after-show meet and greet.
Castration Movie is a labyrinthine post-modern epic about gender. A trans woman named Michaela “Traps” Sinclair (filmmaker Louise Weard) is a sex worker in Vancouver who splits her time between seeing clients and hanging out with her group of trans friends. As the weight of the world piles up on her she decides to reclaim some sense of control by seeking out a back-alley orchiectomy. Written and directed by Louise Weard (Computer Hearts), Castration Movie Anthology ii. The Best of Both World's cast includes Ivy Wolk (Anora), Lea Rose Sebastianis (The All Golden), Hesse Deni (Brain Death), Jack Haven (I Saw the TV Glow), Alexandra McVicker (The Serpent’s Skin), Betsey Brown (Actors), Theda Hammel (Stress Positions), and Peter Vack (www.RachelOrmont.com), amongst a mix of other emerging talent and weird and wonderful cameos. The second part of Castration Movie (running 300 minutes with an intermission) contains one chapter: In Chapter iii. Polygon!!! Heartmoder, Circle (Alex Walton) tries to leave a trans separatist cult in New York. Q&A with Louise Weard following both screenings.
When wannabe documentarian Sophie-Anne Emerson sees a viral video of a young trans woman named Cece claiming to be pregnant, she thinks she found the perfect subject for her next film. While the pregnancy turns out to be real, Cece proves to be a very different subject than Sophie-Anne anticipated, and as they spend the next several months together Cece struggles to balance her life as an LA party girl and her impending motherhood while Sophie-Anne struggles to maintain objectivity as a filmmaker.
After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
Chronicles the doomed affair between bar Titanik regular Karrer and the cruel cabaret singer he pines for while scheming to displace her brutish husband.
Step into the glitz and glam of the most sensational Oscars viewing party in NYC! Mark your calendars for Sunday, March 15th at 6:30 p.m. The Roxy Cinema New York (https://www.roxycinemanewyork.com/)(located at 2 Avenue of the Americas) is once again rolling out the red carpet for DRAG the Oscars, hosted by Jamie CD & Essa Noche Martini's, Mayhem, and Movie magic make witnessing the 98th Academy Awards at Roxy Cinema extra special. Get ready for jaw-dropping looks, Oscar-themed games, and expertly shady commentary as we celebrate Hollywood's grandest affair! But wait, there's more! This year there will be an exclusive Martini bar inside the theater, so you don't need to miss any of the action. You can sip on something dirty, something with a twist, or something with a caffeinated kick. Tickets are available for $25 which includes a welcome glass of bubbly. Trust us, this is one Eleganza Extravaganza you simply don't want to miss!
Exuberant and witty, Hail the New Puritan is a simulated day-in-the-life "docufantasy" starring the British dance celebrity Michael Clark. Atlas' fictive portrait of the charismatic choreographer serves as a vivid invocation of the studied decadence of the 1980s post-punk London subculture. Contriving a faux cinéma-vérité format in which to stage his stylized fiction, Atlas seamlessly integrates Clark's extraordinary dance performances into the docu-narrative flow. Focusing on Clark's flamboyantly postured eroticism and the artifice of his provocative balletic performances, Atlas posits the dance as a physical manifestation of Clark's psychology. From the surreal opening dream sequence to the final solo dance, Clark's milieu of fashion, clubs and music signifies for Atlas "a time capsule of a certain period and context in London that's now gone. A post-film Q&A with filmmaker Charles Atlas and PLANK editor Sam Korman following screening
Rfor pervasive language, violence, sexual content, and drug use.
When their evil enemy resurfaces after 16 years, a group of ex-revolutionaries reunites to rescue one of their own's daughter.
Bergman's modernist masterpiece explores the volatile relationship between an actress who refuses to speak and the nurse overseeing her convalescence. After a mischievous montage 'explaining' the film's origins, the narrative proper gets underway, charting the increasingly tense battle of wits between the chatty Alma (Andersson) and the mute Elisabet (Ullmann), who are isolated together in a cottage on the island of Fårö. With a rich, resonant mix of related themes - the vampiric nature of art, the complex fragility of personality, the difficulty of communication - the film is arguably Bergman's most audacious and formally innovative work, multi-levelled yet utterly lucid. Sven Nykvist's lustrous camerawork, the subtle sound design and matchless lead performances combine to create a mesmerisingly beautiful work of unforgettable, haunting mystery.
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Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue. Directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes.
A young Italian actress embarks on a self-destructive spree of sex, drugs and other excess while doing some soul searching to find the path for redemption.
Rfor graphic sexual language, and for nudity
Directed by the esteemed Robert Altman and featuring a huge cast of recognizable stars , this innovative episodic drama is based on nine short stories and a poem by the late Raymond Carver, detailing the longings and thwarted lives of a disparate group of individuals in contemporary Southern California.
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(New Restoration) A gangster, a crooked banker, a hitman and an arab terrorist are stranded and on the run in a small village in South America. Their only chance of escape is to drive two trucks filled with unstable nitroglycerin up a long and rocky mountain road in order to plug an escalating oil refinery blaze. With their deadly cargo likely to explode at the slightest bump, the four men must put aside their differences and work together to survive.
Professional motorcycle racer Bud Clay heads from New Hampshire to California to race again. Along the way he meets various needy women who provide him with the cure to his own loneliness, but only a certain woman from his past will truly satisfy him.
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Brought up in an environment torn apart by violence and alcohol, Lidia Yuknavitch seemed destined for self-destruction and failure until words offered her unexpected freedom in the form of literature. The Chronology of Water, adapted from Yuknavitch’s autobiographical bestseller, follows Lidia’s journey to find her own voice in an exploration of how trauma can be transformed into art through re-possessing our own bloody histories, particularly those uniquely experienced by the bodies of women and girls.
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New 4K restoration! Axel Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all of his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother, and finally some bad guys that chase him. Despite all of this, he cannot stop gambling.
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1977. In a Brazil tormented by the military dictatorship, Marcelo, a man in his forties fleeing a troubled past, arrives in the city of Recife where he hopes to build a new life and reconnect with his family. That's without taking into account the death threats that lurk and hover over his head.
Rfor sexual content, graphic nudity, violence and bloody images.
From award-winning writer-director Mona Fastvold (The World to Come, The Brutalist) comes the extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers. Academy Award nominee Amanda Seyfried stars as the Shaker's irrepressible leader, who preached gender and social equality and was revered by her followers. The Testament of Ann Lee captures the ecstasy and agony of her quest to build a utopia, featuring more than a dozen traditional Shaker hymns reimagined as rapturous movements with choreography by Celia Rowlson-Hall (Vox Lux) and original songs & score by Academy Award winner Daniel Blumberg (The Brutalist).
A traumatized young woman (Kiyomi Itô) grows into a cynical and vengeful adult who unleashes her carnal—and often bloodthirsty—rage on the random men who court her. Meanwhile, a professional cameraman (Kôichi Imaizumi) working for an unknown shadowy outfit is tasked with shooting covert footage of sexual acts around the city. Introduced by Samm Deighan 2/26.
We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher — a 65-minute cinematic experiment exploring the continuing relevance of the late theorist’s ideas on capitalism, culture, and the future. Blending documentary, performance, and hauntological fiction, the film follows Parkins — a time-slipped character — through ghostly landscapes and digital spaces, tracing Fisher’s thought from the 1990s to our algorithmic present. Created collaboratively by over 70 artists through Instagram (@markfisherfilm), the film embodies Fisher’s call for collective imagination beyond capitalist realism.