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Barbarella, an astronaut from the 41st century, sets out to find and stop the evil scientist Durand Durand, whose Positronic Ray threatens to bring evil back into the galaxy.
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Billy Preston was 5 years old when he backed gospel legend Mahalia Jackson. Over the following six-decade career, Billy contributed his signature sound to the greatest artists of his time, including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Sly Stone, Ray Charles, Rufus, Eric Clapton, and others, while establishing himself as a GRAMMY-winning solo artist. Despite his success, Billy struggled to reconcile his deep relationship with the Black church with his sexuality, setting off a lifelong quest to find love and acceptance.
Dog Day Afternoon, the 1975 film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Al Pacino, remains a high-water mark of New Hollywood, with some of the best talent of the day coming together on a film that's truly exceptional. But did you know it was all based on a true story? In her latest book Born To Lose: The Misfits Who Made Dog Day Afternoon, film historian Rachel Walther draws on extensive archival research to delve into the film’s backstory, tracing how an unbelievable true crime tale of love, bank robbery, and LGBTQI+ activism became a box-office smash and catapulted a group of Brooklyn outsiders into the media spotlight. Walther’s deep dive interrogates the film’s place in the 1970s zeitgeist, set against a background of antiwar activism and the fight for gay and trans rights, and in doing so shows its continuing relevance today. Join the author in conversation with Noir City's Audra Wolfmann, followed by a screening of Dog Day Afternoon. Presented by Litquake DOORS 7:00 PM DISCUSSION 7:30 PM FILM 8:00 PM $15 ADV | $20 DOOR
Programme 4, the switched-on broadcast from the wall-to-wall carpeted world of Golden Sands, is coming to you live with a special presentation: a feature-length screening of Programme 4 with an exclusive look at all-new television entertainment! Escape to a groovy, aspirational world of tomorrow, TODAY. Make the Scene with creator Rachel Lichtman, special guest stars, Rhodes pianos, complimentary matchbooks and more. Featuring special guest appearance from Kelley Stoltz on the Rhodes piano! DOORS at 7:30PM SHOW at 8:00 PM $22 ADV | $25 DOOR
COSMIC SLOP: This March at Movie Madhouse, we’re doing the COSMIC SLOP! This made-for-tv anthology film exploring sci-fi and horror through a black and Latin lens debuted on HBO in 1994 and is hosted by the floating head of George Clinton of Parliament-Funkadelic fame. Developed to be an ongoing Twilight Zone-esque tv show by sibling producers Reginald and Warrington Hudlin (the filmmakers behind HOUSE PARTY, BOOMERANG, and the first two segments of this film), COSMIC SLOP was ultimately not picked up by HBO as a series but the first three episodes that had been produced were repackaged into a film. Our first story, “Space Traders”, is based on the seminal sci-fi story by Trey Ellis and begs the question of would the American government sell out our black population to visiting aliens? That’s followed by “The First Commandment”, which follows a Catholic Priest as he delves into a mystery involving the intersections between Christianity and Santeria. Finally, “Tang”, directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan (HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK) follows a couple who get a mysterious and life-changing package delivered to their apartment. The performances by actors such as Robert Guillaume, Nicholas Turturro, Chi McBride, and Paula Jai Parker (in her debut role!) are absolutely stellar and every segment is a gut punch in this must-see sci-fi thriller! MEDIA MELTDOWN MOVIE MADHOUSE: Gender jesters Piranha Psychotronica and Kafka X bring you a new experience in cinematic depravity… Media Meltdown Movie Madhouse! Prepare yourself to enter into a world of face-flaying forgotten and forsaken films… Made-for-TV, Direct-to-Video, VCR games, underground cinema, and more wiley weirdness than your minds can handle! In a world dominated by AI, CGI, mega streaming platforms, and cinematic universes, Media Meltdown celebrates the amateur, the low-budget, the handmade, the experimental, and the weird! Commit yourself every 3rd Sunday to … MEDIA MELTDOWN MOVIE MADHOUSE!
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When free-spirited petty crook Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) arrives at the state mental hospital, his contagious sense of disorder jolts the routine. He’s on one side of a brewing war, soft-spoken, coolly monstrous Nurse Ratched (Louis Fletcher) on the other. At stake is the fate of every patient in the ward. This electrifying adaptation of Ken Kesey’s bestseller swept all 5 major 1975 Academy Awards®: Best Picture (produced by Saul Zaentz and Michael Douglas), Actor (Jack Nicholson) Actress (Louis Fletcher) Director (Milos Forman) and Adapted Screenplay (Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman). Raucous, searing and with a superb cast that includes Brad Dourif, Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd in his film debut, it soars.
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Celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, "A Woman of the World" (1925) follows a liberal European countess, played by Pola Negri, who scandalizes a small, mid-Western American town with her unapologetic independence, sharp wit, and tattooed arm. Silents Synced creator, Josh Frank, explained, "She's done being pushed around by men. She's punk rock before punk even existed. How frickin' cool is that!"
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The Long Goodbye, 1973 Directed by Robert Altman NOTHING SAYS GOODBYE LIKE A BULLET… Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
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A bookish CIA researcher in Manhattan finds all his co-workers dead and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.
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In the distant future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.