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A rundown loft on Sixth Avenue in the Flower District—it doesn’t look like much. Yet between 1957 and 1965 it was the scene for all-night jams and recordings, a regular meeting place for the jazz-obsessed and legends like Thelonious Monk and Hall Overton.

Reynolds’ spiritually-exhausted LAPD detective dallying with Catherine Deneuve’s high-class escort while trying to crack the case of a teenaged girl washed up on a beach, whose daddy (the God-level Ben Johnson) doesn’t buy that this was a routine suicide.

The Rat Pack rides West as preening junior tycoon Zack Thomas (Frank Sinatra, loathed by Aldrich) and sharpshooter Joe Jarrett (Dean Martin) roll into Galveston, quibbling over who gets to dump $100,000 into a waterside casino.

It is the defining cultural tale of modern America - a saga of race, celebrity, media, violence, and the criminal justice system. Two decades after its unforgettable climax, it continues to fascinate, polarize, and develop new chapters. Now, Peabody and Emmy-award winning director Ezra Edelman and the producers of ESPN’s “30 for 30” series have made it the subject of their most ambitious project yet.

After chimp Oscar’s mom disappears, he’s left to fend for himself, and the chances of his finding someone to adopt him look grim until he comes to his last possible hope, the gruff and macho alpha Freddy, who becomes an unlikely protector and friend.

World War II RAF pilot David Niven, going down fast over the English Channel, makes a last minute connection to American radio operator Kim Hunter before he bails out, sans parachute. Then, in one of cinema’s most magical conceits, the angel of death loses him in the fog! Heaven wants him, but he is determined to stay on Earth with his new love, and is willing to fight for it in celestial court.

Since they were kids, it’s always been the same: Nicky (John Cassavetes) gets in trouble, and Mikey (Peter Falk) bails him out. This time, however, there’s a price on Nicky’s head, so the guys have to keep on the move over the course of one night in the lower depths of Philadelphia.

South-of-the-border joy ride Vera Cruz teams up Burt Lancaster, an amoral, black-clad gun-for-hire with a huge, white, carnivorous grin, and Gary Cooper, a straight-backed ex-Confederate cavalier.

An undeniably accomplished Gothic melodrama in which Joan Crawford, in one of her finest late roles, stars as a middle-aged typist who gets involved with a younger, newly returned war veteran (Cliff Robertson), only to discover that he ain’t exactly who he seems to be.

Due to a private event, we will have no public screenings this evening. We look forward to seeing you soon!

Written by Dalton Trumbo, The Last Sunset stars Kirk Douglas as Brendan O’Malley, a cowboy hiding out from justice in Mexico.

Highschooler Lisa (Anna Paquin) shoulders a burden of guilt after witnessing, and she feels causing, a pedestrian to be killed by a bus.

Revisiting a dynamic familiar from Vera Cruz, Ten Seconds pits a man of principle (a tormented Jack Palance) against a feckless, mercenary cynic (Jeff Chandler, sipping champagne amid the rubble of civilization).

Prodigal son Kerwin Mathews returns from Korea to find that father Lee J. Cobb has given anti-union gangsters an awful lot of say in the family business Roxton Fashions.

Burt Reynolds’s QB and professional dirtbag Paul “Wrecking” Crewe gets himself tossed in Georgia State Prison and finds a new reason to live when he’s put in charge of the prisoners’ team in an exhibition game against the brutal guards.

On the popular British radio serial Applehurst, “Sister George” is the sweetas- pie gal next-door, but June Buckridge (Beryl Reid), who provides her voice, is a gin-soaked sadist who lords over her young girlfriend, “Childie” (Susannah York).

On the Kenyan savanna we meet the majestic big cats who hunt and fight to survive on the hostile plains, where every day is high drama.

Burt Lancaster’s Air Force General leads a team of disaffected patriots on a mission to capture nine nuclear missiles, holding the world for ransom until the president (Charles Durning) makes classified information about the Vietnam War public.

Kidnapped and stuffed in a hole without explanation, when Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) is suddenly let loose on the streets after fifteen years, he’s stone-cold pissed off.

One of the most celebrated premieres at Cannes this year, a twisty, kinky, 1930s-set period piece constructed of interlocking narratives which come together in an old-dark-house mystery that’s taut with thrills and S&M restraints.

Aldrich’s World War II actioner stars Lee Marvin as an Army major ordered to lead a squad of death row prisoners—Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes, Jim Brown, and many more—on a suicide mission that’s headed right down the Nazis’ throat.

An imperious Vincent Price knows more than he lets on about the mysterious recent death of his wife.

Combining vintage footage from the set of Oldboy with new interviews from cast and production crew (including rarely-heard-from craftsmen), Han Sun-hee’s new documentary offers a front row seat to film history.

An international incident: two North Korean soldiers have been shot in the fortified DMZ that separates the Koreas, and a South Korean soldier stands accused. It’s up to an officer from neutral Switzerland to try to quash an international incident and find the truth.

Aldrich’s super-violent period crime flick concerns the kidnapping of a young heiress by a depraved gang of perverts presided over by venomous old ma Grissom and her cretinous son.

New in town railway worker Duff meets minister’s daughter Josie in Jim Crow Birmingham, where every aspect of daily life - work, relationships, parenthood, Church - is tainted by pervasive, systemic racism.

Please join us for a secret screening of a Park Chan-Wook film on 35mm for its U.S. Premiere.

Poison takes its influence from the patron saint of all queer outlaw art, Jean Genet; the result was a trio of intercut, stylistically distinct stories drawn together by their conceptual rigor and openly-gay themes.

Ride along with the California Dolls (Vicki Frederick and Laurene Landon) and their crusty manager (Peter Falk) as they gig their way across an economically depressed U.S.

Four girlfriends from L.A. decide to plan the heist of a lifetime. Queen Latifah’s butch-tough, cornrowed Cleopatra Simms is in it for her bleach blonde femme girlfriend Ursula.

On an island in the Pacific in the early days of World War II, Cliff Robertson and Michael Caine, a US translator and a Cockney medic, are attached to an almost certain-death commando raid on a Japanese communications post.

A Pacific Northwestern retelling of Shakespeare’s Falstaff-Hal bromance, with a narcoleptic queer hustler, Mike, and the slumming scion of a wealthy family, Scott, who looks after Mike, and takes him on a quest for his mother.

One wig-out day in the life of Dark Smith, an 18-year-old negotiating a SoCal landscape which the director described as “90210 on acid.”

The story of the birds and the bees—no, not that one, but how they work to help exotic flowers to reproduce, and the role that all of this plays in a complex, interrelated, and very fragile ecosystem which also happens to be jaw-droppingly beautiful.

John Huston's hard-boiled directorial debut follows Bogart as a private dick on the prowl for "the stuff that dreams are made of."

A seamy NYC prep-set reworking of Les Liaisons dangereuses for the high school horndog crowd.

Aldrich’s unruly, gregarious, unbuckled film puts you front and center on the off-duty antics of officers during their “choir practice” meetings in MacArthur Park.

Manuela (Cecilia Roth) travels to Barcelona after the death of her teenaged son to give the news to his father, a transvestite named Lola (Toni Cantó).

A film director who’s a spiritual casualty of his own success (Peter Finch) is hired to helm a tawdry biopic of his recently-deceased exwife, starring a newcomer who’s her dead ringer (Kim Novak, not coincidentally recalling Vertigo).

A belated American counterpoint to powerful Axis propaganda.

Over the same, unceasing monochromatic blue frame, the voices of filmmaker Derek Jarman and collaborating actors read a poetic text in which Jarman muses on his physical and mental deterioration as well as the endless implications of the color blue.

The HBO biopic of Philadelphia-born fashion model Gia Carangi, an iconic 1970s cover girl.

This survey of the five oceans and everything that lives in and around them shows the staggering variety of marine life, as well as the grave threat posed to that teeming life by man.

A warm, funny, folksy fable which goes on its rounds through one Vermont village, never stooping to self-seriousness even when laying out some very concrete lessons in economics.

Possibly the most ambitious of the Nature series films covers a year in the life of our one and only planet, beginning at the North Pole in January and working its way down to end the year in Antarctica.

Mel Hurley, a photographer during the last violent days of the Biafran War, is overcome with jealousy over a suspected affair his lover and model may be having. Obsessed by erotic images of her clashing with the photographs of war and starving children covering his studio wall, he begins to spin out of control.

Rob Nilsson reprises his role as Mel Hurley for a photo session with the exotic Funmi Marlowe (T. Moon), an artist and model who has commissioned him to do erotic photographs of her for her upcoming gallery show.

Dictatorial spinster Victoria Van Brett, lording over her dependent relations in the family mansion/madhouse, and kicking the craziness up a notch when her slightly too beloved half-brother gets hitched.

Grief-stricken widow Roma makes an easy mark for a predatory con artist medium, but that sham spiritualist doesn’t count on catching the attention of very real spirits, much less a ghost with a thirst for vengeance.