April 24th

THE FLY

1986. USA. Dir: David Cronenberg. With With Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis. 96 min.

A teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong when a handsome scientist accidentally fuses his DNA with that of a house fly. Cronenberg riffs on "Beauty and the Beast" via his own signature brand of gruesome horror and top-notch makeup effects. What results is a deeply moving drama with profound reflections on the frailty of human life and acidic mucous vomit.

April 25th

An Evening of Experimental Cinema: I...DREAMING; OUTER SPACE; LANDSCAPE SUICIDE

1988, 2000, 1987. USA, Austria, USA. Dir: Stan Brakhage, Peter Tscherkassky, James Benning. With . 8 min, 10 min, 95 min.

Hollywood it ain’t: three avant-garde visionaries muse on murder, melancholy, and malaise. I…DREAMING mingles shadows and scratched emulsion; OUTER SPACE turns film editing violent; pseudo-doc feature LANDSCAPE SUICIDE diffuses murder into landscape (or vice-versa). Sponsored by the Cinema Sorcery Front.

 

April 26th

ZERO DARK THIRTY

2013. USA. Dir: Kathryn Bigelow. With With Jessica Chastain. 157 min.

While Academy voters preferred ARGO’s catchphrase-laden triumphs, Bigelow’s controversial follow-up to THE HURT LOCKER confronts us with important, if uncomfortable, reflections. The War on Terror evolves into a slow burn of obsession and frustration, cruelty and compromise, futility and tragedy, culminating in one final breathless action set piece.

April 27th

ARTISTS AND MODELS

1955. USA. Dir: Frank Tashlin. With With Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis. 109 min.

The big bad blizzard nixed our last go at this, so let's recap: In arguably their best film as a duo, Dino (sexy but slyly funny) and Jerry (funny but oddly sexy) stumble into cartoonish hijinks involving secret rocket fuel, a superhero named "Vincent the Vulture," and two brassy career gals in their apartment building.