CTRL Cinematheque
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Idocracy(2006)
Director Mike Judge
Starring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard and Terry Crews
In 2005, average in every way private Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson) is selected to take part in a secret military experiment to put him in hibernation for a year along with a woman named Rita (Maya Rudolph). The slumbering duo is forgotten when the base they are stored on is closed down and are left in stasis until 2505. When they finally wake up, they discover the average intelligence of humans has decreased so much that Joe is now the smartest man in the world.
Wednesday, doors 7pm with opening cartoons before the film starts at 8pm
DM for location and details
Akira(1988)
Director Katsuhiro Otomo
In 1988 the Japanese government drops an atomic bomb on Tokyo after ESP experiments on children go awry. In 2019, 31 years after the nuking of the city, Kaneda, a bike gang leader, tries to save his friend Tetsuo from a secret government project. He battles anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader until Tetsuo’s supernatural powers suddenly manifest. A final battle is fought in Tokyo Olympiad exposing the experiment’s secrets.
Wednesday, doors 7pm with opening cartoons before the film starts at 8
DM for location and details
Punch Drunk Love(2002)
Director Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Luis Guzmán
Although susceptible to violent outbursts, bathroom supply business owner Barry Egan (Adam Sandler) is a timid and shy man by disposition, leading a lonely, uneventful life — partly due to the constant berating he suffers from his seven sisters. However, several events transpire that shake up Egan’s mundane existence, one of which is falling in love with one sister’s co-worker, Lena Leonard (Emily Watson). But the romance is threatened when Egan falls victim to an extortionist.
Die Hard(1988)
Director John McTiernan
Starring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman
Tough New York cop John McClane finds himself in a tight situation when an office building in Los Angeles is taken over by terrorists. Apart from himself, everyone else in the building - including his wife - is held at gunpoint while their captors spell out their demands. The F.B.I. are called in to survey the situation, but John McClane has other plans for the terrorists.
Wednesday, doors 7pm with opening cartoons before the film starts at 8pm
DM for location and details
The Nightmare Before Christmas(1993)
Director: Tim Burton
Score: Danny Elfman
Starring: Chris Sarandon, Catherine O’Hara, William Hickey, Glenn Shadix, Paul Reubens, Ken Page, Ed Ivory
Jack Skellington, Halloweentown’s beloved pumpkin king, who has become bored with the same annual routine of frightening people in the “real world.” When Jack accidentally stumbles on Christmastown, all bright colors and warm spirits, he gets a new lease on life — he plots to bring Christmas under his control by kidnapping Santa Claus and taking over the role. But Jack soon discovers even the best-laid plans of mice and skeleton men can go seriously awry.
Wednesday, doors 7pm with opening cartoons before the film starts at 8pm
Dm for location and details
See you in the back row!
Naked Lunch(1991)
Director David Cronenberg
Starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands and Roy Scheider
A blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee (Peter Weller) and his dead-eyed wife, Joan (Judy Davis), like to get high on Bill’s pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway (Roy Scheider), Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work — which he doesn’t remember writing.
The Game(1997)
Director David Fincher
Starring Michael Douglas, Deborah Kara Ungerand and Sean Penn
After a wealthy San Francisco banker is given an opportunity to participate in a mysterious game, his life is turned upside down as he begins to question if it might really be a concealed conspiracy to destroy him.
Wednesday, doors 7pm with opening cartoons before the film starts at 8pm. Dm for location and details
The Lighthouse(2019)
Director Robert Eggers
Starring Williem Dafoe & Robert Pattinson
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
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Rushmore(1998)
Director Wes Anderson
Starring Jason Schwartzman, Olivia Williams, Bill Murray, Brian Cox, Seymour Cassel, Mason Gamble
When a beautiful first-grade teacher (Olivia Williams) arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max (Jason Schwartzman), who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father (Bill Murray) of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the teacher. However, the situation soon gets complicated when Max’s new friend becomes involved with her, setting the two pals against one another in a war for her attention.
Wednesday doors open at 7pm with opening cartoons before the film starts at 8pm
DM for location and info
See you in the back row!
The Green Knight(2021)
Director David Lowery
Starring Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, Joel Edgerton, Sarita Choudhury, Sean Harris, Ralph Ineson
An epic fantasy adventure based on the timeless Arthurian legend, “The Green Knight” tells the story of Sir Gawain (Dev Patel), King Arthur’s reckless and headstrong nephew, who embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight, a gigantic emerald-skinned stranger and tester of men. Gawain contends with ghosts, giants, thieves, and schemers in what becomes a deeper journey to define his character and prove his worth in the eyes of his family and kingdom by facing the ultimate challenger. From visionary filmmaker David Lowery comes a fresh, bold spin on a classic tale from the Knights of the Round Table.
Thelma & Louise(1991)
Director Ridley Scott
Starring Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis and Harvey Keitel
Meek housewife Thelma (Geena Davis) joins her friend Louise (Susan Sarandon), an independent waitress, on a short fishing trip. However, their trip becomes a flight from the law when Louise shoots and kills a man who tries to rape Thelma at a bar. Louise decides to flee to Mexico, and Thelma joins her. On the way, Thelma falls for sexy young thief J.D. (Brad Pitt) and the sympathetic Detective Slocumb (Harvey Keitel) tries to convince the two women to surrender before their fates are sealed.
Wednesday, doors 7pm with opening cartoons before the film starts at 8pm.
DM for location and info
House of 1000 Corpses(2003)
Written and Directed by Rob Zombie
Starring: Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon, Karen Black, Erin Danials, Rain Wilson
On the eve of Halloween, on October 1977, four friends—Bill, Jerry, Mary, and Denise—embark on an exciting cross-country road trip to write a guidebook about offbeat roadside attractions in America’s less-travelled roads. Before long, the young explorers chance upon Captain Spaulding’s Museum of Monsters and Madmen, only to become infatuated with the local legend of a deranged serial-killer doctor evil, and cross paths with the mysterious hitchhiker, Baby. However, when the unsuspecting group meets Baby’s eccentric family after having a flat tyre, an endless night of terror, torture, and murder ensues.
Doors 7pm with opening cartoons before the film starts at 8pm(winter schedule)
Dm for location and parking info
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