Board Picks
Cruising (1980)
William Friedkin · 102m · 35mm
Tasked to lure a serial killer out of the shadows, Det. Steve Burns (Al Pacino) must infiltrate New York's leather and S&M subculture. While "cruising" — a double entendre for police work and looking for sex — he realizes his sexuality is unsettled. While controversial upon release (the film was accused of misrepresenting gay men as violent) the movie remains a unique time capsule of the modes and attitudes of its time.
Please note: This print exhibits some color fading.
Friday, October 3 9:30 PM
Casino (1995)
Martin Scorsese · 179m · DCP
Las Vegas chews up everything and spits it out — including the mobsters who ran it in the '70s. Casino executive Sam "Ace" Rothstein (Robert DeNiro) and mob enforcer Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci) are making a killing running the Tangiers Casino. When a cunning hustler, Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone), comes along, she, she drives a wedge between the boyhood friends, threatening the gangsters' heyday.
Saturday, October 11 3:00 PM
Dead or Alive (1999)
Takashi Miike · 105m · DCP
Journey into the interiors of Tokyo's Shinjuku ward as Ryuichi, a yakuza of the Chinese diaspora, vies for control of the drug trade. Renegade cop Jojima is determined to stop him. Opening the film with a six-minute credit sequence featuring drugs, nudity, ultraviolence, and ramen, Takashi Miike (who followed up Dead or Alive with Audition later that year) eschews all conventions of genre, physics, and public decency.
Friday, October 17 9:30 PM · Saturday, October 18 10 PM
Lost in Translation (2003)
Sofia Coppola · 102m · 35mm
Amidst the neon lights and constant movement of Tokyo, Bob — an aging actor fading from relevance — and Charlotte — a young woman unsure of her place in the world — move through hotels, bars, and empty streets, strangers to their environment and to themselves. Lost in Translation shows how their brief encounters form an unlikely companionship, delicate and quiet, revealing how understanding and intimacy can emerge in moments of displacement.
Friday, October 24 9:30 PM
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Alfred Hitchcock · 101m · 35mm
A train becomes the site for a fateful chance encounter between Guy (Farley Granger) and Bruno (Robert Walker), who learn they each have someone they would prefer dead. An idea for the "perfect" murder emerges: the two can swap, each taking care of the other's target. However, the plot becomes more than just a theoretical exercise when it becomes clear that one of them intends on following through. Their fates now bound, a fatal sequence of events is set in motion.
