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			The Apple Menahem Golan, USA/West Germany, 1980; 86m Pre-screening reception from 10-11 PM, hosted by “NYC’s Apple Super-Fan.” With Menahem Golan and very special surprise guest in person! Plus Raffles! Disco! Mayhem! Hey, hey, hey, it's cult musical time! Prophetically declaring that “Life is nothing but showbusiness in 1994,” this futuristic retelling of the Book of Genesis introduces us to wide-eyed Canadian songbirds and their dastardly nemesis Mr. Boogalow. “Hey, hey, hey, BIM’s on the way!” Read more...		Buy Tickets Sat Nov 20: 11:00
			Barfly Barbet Schroeder, 1987, USA; 100m Q&A with director Barbet Schroeder and producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus on Nov. 19! The best Bukowski on film: Mickey Rourke plays self-scuttling skid-row wordsmith Henry Chinaski. With Faye Dunaway as his soused sweetheart. Read more...		Buy Tickets Fri Nov 19: 6:15 Wed Nov 24: 4
			Castaway Nicolas Roeg, 1986, UK; 117m Roeg’s lush desert-island “romance” tracks the deteriorating relationship between a middle-aged writer (Oliver Reed) and the woman (Amanda Donohoe) who joins him for one year. Read more...		Buy Tickets Sun Nov 21: 6:15 Wed Nov 24: 1:30
			52 Pick-Up John Frankenheimer, 1986, USA; 110m PLEASE NOTE: Unfortunately due to print condition issues, we have had to cancel the 9pm screening of 52 Pick-Up on Wednesday, November 24. Shy People will screen in its place. Read more...		Buy Tickets Fri Nov 19: 4 Cancelled: Wed Nov 24: 9
			King Lear Jean-Luc Godard, 1987, USA; 90m Introduced by Richard Brody, New Yorker film critic and author of the book Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard. Woody Allen, Norman Mailer, and Molly Ringwald star in Godard’s reimagining of the play as a post-Chernobyl meditation on personal and cultural dissolution. Read more...		Buy Tickets Sun Nov 21: 2
			Love Streams John Cassavetes, 1984, USA; 141m Cassavetes’ raw final film stars the director as a hollowed-out romance novelist who receives an unexpected visit from his neurotic sister (Gena Rowlands). Read more...		Buy Tickets Fri Nov 19: 9 Tue Nov 23: 3:15
			Operation Thunderbolt Menahem Golan, 1977, Israel; 124m Q&A with Menahem Golan! Israeli commandos battle hijackers Klaus Kinski and Sybil Danning to save 100 hostages in this gung-ho account of the daring July 1976 raid at Entebbe Airport in Uganda. Read more...		Buy Tickets Sat Nov 20: 4:15
			Runaway Train Andrei Konchalovsky, 1985, USA; 111m A conversation with Golan and Globus follows the screening! Escaped convicts (top-notch Jon Voight and Eric Roberts) jump a speeding train in this hurtling actioner. From a screenplay by Akira Kurosawa. With Rebecca De Mornay. After the screening, fasten your seat belts as iconoclastic Cannon Films impresarios Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus join the Film Society’s Scott Foundas and Gavin Smith for a career-spanning dialogue, tracing their journeys from Israel to Hollywood, and from high art to low exploitation. Read more...		Buy Tickets Sat Nov 20: 2 Sat Nov 20: 7
			Shy People Andrei Konchalovsky, 1987, USA; 118m ADDED SCREENING: Wednesday, November 24 at 9pm. Barbara Hershey won the Best Actress prize at Cannes for her turn as a Southern widow visited by her Yankee cousin (Jill Clayburgh) in this bruising culture-clash tale. Read more...		Buy Tickets Tue Nov 23: 1 Wed Nov 24: 9
			Street Smart Jerry Schatzberg, 1987, USA; 97m Jerry Schatzberg in person on Nov. 24! This shrewd examination of the power balance between writer and subject follows a journalist (Christopher Reeve) whose fabricated exposé of a pimp draws the attention of a real-life hustler (an explosive Morgan Freeman). Read more...		Buy Tickets Fri Nov 19: 2 Wed Nov 24: 6:15
			The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 Tobe Hooper, 1986, USA; 89m The late Dennis Hopper (a Cannon contract player!), phallic chainsaws, corpse puppetry, and creepy Grandpa are among the treats in the return of Leatherface and family. Read more...		Buy Tickets Sun Nov 21: 8:45
			Tough Guys Don’t Dance Norman Mailer, 1987, USA; 110m Introduced by executive producer Tom Luddy and actor Stephan Morrow! Mailer does Mailer in an unclassifiable, bull-by-the-horns cinematic experience: an alcoholic writer/excon (Mailer) emerges from a blackout to find a severed head in his pot stash. Read more...		Buy Tickets Sun Nov 21: 4
			Treasure Island Raul Ruiz, 1987-91, France/USA; 115m PLEASE NOTE: Unfortunately, we have had to cancel the 2pm screening of Treasure Island on Saturday, November 20. Runaway Train will screen in its place. Read more... SCHEDULE CHANGES • TIME CHANGE: Runaway Train will screen at 7pm on Sat Nov 20 ; it was originally scheduled for 9pm. A conversation with Golan and Golubus will follow the 7pm screening. • ADDED: Runaway Train, on Sat Nov 20 at 2pm. • ADDED: The Apple on Sat Nov 20 at 11pm. Pre-screening reception from 10-11pm in the Furman Gallery. • ADDED: Shy People on Tue Nov 23 at 1pm & Wed Nov 24 at 9pm. • CANCELLED: Treasure Island, the 2pm screening on Sat Nov 20. • CANCELLED: Runaway Train, the 1pm screening on Tue Nov 23. • CANCELLED: 52 Pick-up, the 9pm screening on Wed Nov 24. PRINT CONDITION The print of Castaway, that we received, is medium faded, and warped in certain areas which will cause the focus to go in and out in portions of the picture. (It’s not terrible but not good…)We apologize for the problem. Back to Top		Buy Tickets Cancelled: Sat Nov 20: 2