Sabine Gruffat is a French-American artist whose films and videos have screened worldwide. Beyond Resolution: Films By Sabine Gruffat a program of short works highlighting a decade's worth of experimental animation techniques and alternative modes of storytelling screens this Sunday at Lightbox.
Michael Almereyda's darkly comic vampire tale NADJA is a glimpse of 90s indie filmmaking at its finest. This David Lynch produced gem is long overdue for rediscovery. Catch it this Wednesday at Lightbox, co-presented with Girls Like Horror.
Eric von Stroheim's unfinished film QUEEN KELLY is the stuff of Hollywood legend (referenced in Billy Wilder's SUNSET BOULEVARD). At long last there is a new reconstruction of the film based on von Stroheim's original scripts. Catch this epic of the silent era this Sunday (3/1) at Lightbox.
A head spinning blend of archival material and modern day reenactment, Igor BezinoviΔ's delightful FIUME O MORTE! is a tale of bumbling military aggression led by a seemingly mad despot who paves the way for Italy's fascist ascendancy. See it this Sunday (2/15)
Using central Pennsylvania's coal mining region as a backdrop for one woman's desperate escape from domestic tedium, Barbara Loden's WANDA is the high water mark of the actor/director's brief career. See it this Wednesday (2/11). Followed by a conversation with Elena Gorfinkel and Patricia White
Our next SUNDAY SCARIES program is happening this Sunday (2/1). Catch Dennis Christopher as a movie obsessed outcast who follows his darkest impulses in FADE TO BLACK.
At the age of 89, Doris Wishman β who had been working at a Miami sex shop β returned to filmmaking with the SOV oddity DILDO HEAVEN. The "Queen of Sexploitation" died shortly after its premiere but not before getting a well-deserved victory lap in the media for a wild ride of a filmmaking career.
Christian-Jaque's WHO KILLED SANTA CLAUS?, the first release by Continental Films, the sole film production company allowed to operate in German-occupied France, tells a tale of a small town beset upon by fear and paranoia in the wake of a possible murder. Screening at Lightbox this Sunday (12/21)
A dreamy adaptation of a 15th century fable that brought international praise to the film's director, don't miss the new restoration of JoΓ£o CΓ©sar Monteiro's SILVESTRE this Sunday (12/14)
Tomorrow night (12/10), we're back with part two of our spotlight on German director Monika Treut. 1991's MY FATHER IS COMING is a delightful cross-cultural, sex positive romp through NYC featuring "post porn modernist" Annie Sprinkle.
Jocelyne Saab was an intrepid journalist and filmmaker whose work is ripe for rediscovery. Saab's fiction feature THE RAZOR'S EDGE, set during the Lebanese Civil War, has been restored and is playing this Wednesday at Lightbox. Don't miss it.
GΓΆran Hugo Olsson's ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958-1989 is an incredible work of essay filmmaking built from archival materials in much the same vein as his previous THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975. See it this Wednesday (11/5) at Lightbox
Long before "locavore" and "farm to table" entered our dining vocabulary, Luc Moullet set out to uncover the fraught networks through which our food arrives on our plate. ORIGINS OF A MEAL is screening this Wednesday (10/22) at Lightbox
Catch the next film in our month long spotlight on French director Luc Moullet this Sunday (10/19) at 5pm. Moullet bares it all π³ in ANATOMY OF A RELATIONSHIP, a film about a sexually dysfunctional married couple which he co-directed with his real life wife Antonietta Pizzorno.
Our month of Moullet continues this Wednesday with THE SMUGGLERS, the director's absurdist commentary on border politics, youth activism, and young love. Don't miss this overlooked classic of French New Wave cinema!
Cut from the same cloth as THE WARRIORS and THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123, NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER is a frantic chase that unfolds over the course of one evening in the decaying urban hellscape that was 1970s New York City. Take the manic ride this Sunday at 5pm at Lightbox.
David Secter's nearly forgotten first feature film WINTER KEPT US WARM incorporates LGBTQ+ themes into a college campus coming of age tale β one of the first Canadian films to do so. It has also been noted as the film that inspired David Cronenberg to become a filmmaker. Screening Wednesday (9/24)
THIS SUNDAY! Delve into the fraught intersection of American history and Hollywood mythology in Alexander Horwath's epic new essay film HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT. Stick around for a conversation with the filmmakers after the film.
The Quay Brothers' STREET OF CROCODILES is based on the work of Polish author Bruno Schulz. For their latest feature film SANATORIUM UNDER THE SIGN OF THE HOURGLASS they revisit Schulz's text with a dreamy combination of live action and stop-motion animation. Don't miss it this Wednesday at Lightbox
Paleobotanist Mark Brown leads you on a fascinating, heartfelt journey through an eternal garden in Pierre Creton & Vincent BarrΓ©'s 7 WALKS WITH MARK BROWN. Screening this Wednesday (9/10) only at Lightbox.
We're 2 weeks away from Lightbox's return to the Bok and the Philadelphia premiere of the latest film by Jem Cohen (INSTRUMENT, MUSEUM HOURS). LITTLE, BIG, AND FAR is a mesmerizing portrait of human emotions set against the vastness of the cosmos.
The Quay Brothers have forged a unique path in the world of film. Their eerie, surreal stop-motion animations earned them cult status in the 80s with comparisons to Czech artist Jan Ε vankmajer. Their newest film SANATORIUM UNDER THE SIGN OF THE HOURGLASS is a dark/dizzying journey. Coming this Sept.
We're back at Drexel University's URBN Annex Screening Room (3401 Filbert St.) this Wednesday and totally stoked to present Haydn Keenan's lost Aussie punk classic GOING DOWN. See you there!
Marva Nabili's THE SEALED SOIL is a quiet masterpiece from pre-revolution Iran. The earliest surviving film by an Iranian woman, it screens next Wednesday (7/23) at Drexel University's URBN Annex (3401 Filbert St.)
This week! Our friends at Philadelphia Film Society are co-presenting the brand new Lightbox restoration of Richard Beymer's mind-expanding experimental feature film THE INNERVIEW. Catch it this Wednesday and/or Saturday.
We're thrilled to premiere our new restoration of Richard Beymer's (WEST SIDE STORY, TWIN PEAKS) experimental masterpiece in partnership with the Philadelphia Film Society next month. Grab your tickets now (Lightbox members will receive a special discount code). filmadelphia.org/movies/the-i...
Today is the birthday of poet and filmmaker Willard Maas (1906 - 1971). Maas and his wife, filmmaker Marie Menken, were at the center of New York's underground literary and film scene in the 40s, 50s, and 60s.
Happy Birthday Lois Weber (born 1879 in Allegheny City, PA). Only a fraction of her film output exists today but she was one of the most innovative and prolific silent film directors of all time.
REMINDER: We're at Moore College of Art & Design tomorrow (6/4) with a spellbinding program of short films by Sharon Couzin. See you there.
