Palindromes USA, 2004. Todd Solondz. 100 min. NR. Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who...

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Doors 7:00pm Screening 7:30pm Tickets $10 or pay-what-you-choose (door)New Rose Hotel USA, 1998. Abel Ferrara. 93 mins. R. Curated by NAC Member Tyler Adair A corporate raider (Christopher Walken) and...

Akira Kurosawa's remarkable 1957 restaging of Macbeth in samurai and expressionist terms is unquestionably one of his finest works -- charged with energy, imagination, and, in keeping with the subject, sheer horror. - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

"Sanctimonious, silly, occasionally brilliant and exquisitely vivid, Hype Williams’s Belly crowned the decade in which hip-hop swallowed popular culture, and we never looked back." - Patrick Dahl, Screen Slate

" constantly keeps the audience on its toes with a wealth of incidental detail, excellent set pieces and technical versatility." - Time Out

Banned from making movies by the Iranian government, Jafar Panahi poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran.

Writer/director Nabwana Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey (AKA Nabwana IGG) is a major fan of Western action flicks and kung fu movies, and he crafted this film as something of an homage thereto, with a distinct Ugandan flavor.

Albert Pyun is the Werner Herzog of the b-movie. Not in content, but in the overwhelming desire to make a movie work...even if that means constructing an entire cyber-dystopia out of nothing but abandoned buildings and 100 pairs of cool sunglasses. - Letterboxd

When people call movies "poems" they're embarrassing themselves except if they said that about the kiarostami film Taste of Cherry. - Dylan Gulela, Letterboxd

70s Grindhouse Double Feature curated by Cult Canada's Will Foran

The night kicks off with 25 of the most insane minutes of grindhouse you could ever witness - in 3D!

You of strong will are invited to take part in the Analog Anarchy with the film being decided by the audience.

"Akira's strangeness is very startling and sometimes bewildering. But there is a thanatonic rapture to its vision of a whole world ending and being reborn as something else." - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian; "Perfect Blue's success lies in the twisted, self-referential storyline that intercuts reality with fantasy so fluidly that viewers inevitably take on Mima's shattered point of view, unable to distinguish the truth until the stunning conclusion." - Tasha Robinson, Sci-Fi Weekly

A brave, unofficial and impressionistic history of the Black Power movement that America at one point tried to suppress–an informal history that could only be told by outsiders. The Black Power Mixtape was shortlisted for the prestigious Grierson Award for Best Documentary at the London Film Festival and won the World Cinema Documentary Editing Award at the Sundance Festival. - Movie Metropolis

"The movie grinds along its dark, mordant, and fascinating path until it culminates in one of the most emotionally harrowing scenes ever filmed." - Austin Chronicle

A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who’s working as a gangster hitman.