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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.
PG-13for intense sequences of violent action, a scene of torture, sexual content and nudity
Casino Royale, 2006 Directed by Martin Campbell EVERYONE HAS A PAST. EVERY LEGEND HAS A BEGINNING. Casino Royale disposes of the silliness and gadgetry that plagued recent James Bond outings, and Daniel Craig delivers what fans and critics have been waiting for: a caustic, haunted, intense reinvention of 007. After receiving a license to kill, British Secret Service agent James Bond (Daniel Craig) heads to Madagascar, where he uncovers a link to Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), a man who finances terrorist organizations. Learning that Le Chiffre plans to raise money in a high-stakes poker game, MI6 sends Bond to play against him, gambling that their newest "00" operative will topple the man's organization.
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Special agent 007 (Sean Connery) comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.
“Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus” with opening performance from Q Lazzarus collaborator Danny Z An intimate journey through the life of singer Diane Luckey, also known as Q Lazzarus, narrated through her own words, lyrics and music. The exceptionally talented but vastly under-appreciated Q, who sang thecult hit song “Goodbye Horses,” which appeared in the Jonathan Demme films “Married to the Mob” and “Silence of the Lambs” and had a brief moment of fame in the late 1980s/early 1990s. Q reveals the reason behind her mysterious 25-year-long disappearance and paves the way towards her re-emergence, with stories heartbreaking, hilarious and moving. MUSIC at 7:30 | FILM at 8:20
PG-13mature thematic material, sexual content and language.
Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.
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
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When Bond (Roger Moore) investigates the murders of three fellow agents, he finds himself a target, evading vicious assassins as he closes in on powerful Kananga (Yaphet Kotto). Known on the streets as Mr. Big, Kananga is coordinating a global threat, using tons of self-produced heroin. As Bond tries to unravel the mastermind's plan, he meets Solitaire (Jane Seymour), a beautiful tarot-card reader, whose magic is crucial to the crime lord.
A CELEBRATION OF INDEPENDENTS An All-Day Extravaganza Celebrating the Brilliance of Bay Area Film, Video, Music & more! featuring live music and performance from: Marc & the Casuals The Red ROM Orchestra Jesse DeNatale Justin D. Frahm Carroll Ashby Kristin Sobditch’s All-Lemur Dance Band Hannah Barbarian and film and video works from: Ted Kuhn Thomas Campbell Evan Capelle Sam Green Anne McGuire Ruminator Audio Lauren Veen, Vincent Tremblay & Owsley Brown Kota Ezawa Griff Williams Keelan Williams The Prelinger Archive The Internet Archive The Oddball Archive Eddie Bartley & Noreen Weeden Beth Lisick & Tara Jepsen Tommy Guerrero DOORS at 2:30PM FIRST FILM at 3:00 PM Full Day Ticket: $40 Half Day Ticket: $20 Full Day Student / Senior Ticket (ID Required at Box Office): $30 (Half Day Ticket admission starts at 2:30 PM and ends at 7:00 PM for the Afternoon and starts at 6:30 PM and ends at 11:00 PM for the Evening. You may use this ticket to enter at any time during those blocks, but your admission expires at the end of that block.)
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!
MOViES FOR MANiACS is thrilled to present the Bay Area Theatrical Premiere of NUMBSKULL REVOLUTION (2026) w/ filmmaker Jon Moritsugu IN PERSON! Hosted by Jesse Hawthorne Ficks The new film by underground legends Jon Moritsugu and Amy Davis is a "punk rock Blade Runner for artists." Nine years in the making, this is their most epic, fully-realized, and visionary motion picture, even witnessing the end of their marriage and 35-year creative partnership: My Degeneration (1990), Terminal USA (1993), Mod Fuck Explosion (1994), Fame Whore (1997), Scumrock (2002), Pig Death Machine (2013). "Amy Davis and James Duval (“Frank the Bunny” from Donnie Darko) play a pair of rival conceptual artists battling for fame and funding in the near-future dystopia of Shitville, Earth. As one ascends the heights of neoliberal capitalist success, the other seeks inspiration and solace in the euphoric waves of a new cyber drug called Skullfuck. Ingenious production design and savvy location shooting evoke the urban sprawl and rural industrial collapse against which the filmmakers frame this scathing satire of art world pretension." -Paul Malcolm Senior Public Programmer UCLA Film & Television Archive/Hammer Museum Shot over 16 days in 2017 in Santa Fe, NM & Marfa, TX, NUMBSKULL REVOLUTION (2026) is ostensibly a riff on the absurdity of art, warfare of people and sexes, material control/secular terror, addictions of every genre, and self-actualization thru internal Jungian conflict, this movie - at its most base level - is a full-on and mega-entertaining cinematic odyssey tinged with ludicrous sci-fi, raw poignancy, and utter brutalism. Soundtrack by Plack Blague, Crime, Carlo Anthony, Sex Headaches, Meri St. Mary, Nunu & Low on Fire. **Don't miss a gaggle of giveaways with Jon Moritsugu who will give a post-film Q&A for this ultimate final goodbye... a “thank you, dear” for all the good times.
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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.