Creature with the Atom Brain
This film marks the slow-building shift toward a more “raceless” zombie figure, discarding the symbolically Black trappings of Haiti and voodoo.
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This film marks the slow-building shift toward a more “raceless” zombie figure, discarding the symbolically Black trappings of Haiti and voodoo.
Please note: This screening has been canceled due to the distributor's decision to withdraw the film from circulation temporarily.
In Walter Hill’s neo-noir cum outlaw-biker rock opera, fifties nostalgia fuels a futuristic Americana fantasy that’s all neon, chrome, fire, and steam. Screening in 70mm, August 27–Sep. 4.
While other zombie films of the era were more preoccupied with the “atomic” zombie—a manifestation of scientific overreach rather than a mystical being—Cahn’s film contains prescient imagery to which several later zombie films may trace their lineage.
You have two more chances to see this gorgeous 70mm print of Walt Disney’s classic 1959 fairy tale, at the time the most expensive animated film ever made. Screening September 3 and 5!
A decade after his synoptic inquiry into 20th-century cinema, The Story of Film: An Odyssey, film historian Mark Cousins returns with a hopeful tale of cinematic innovation at the frontiers of our young century. Playing 9/9–9/23!
Virtuoso genre stylist Johnnie To returns with a darkly beautiful homage to the films of Jean-Pierre Melville.
Bob Clark's second zombie feature is an ominous retelling of the W. W. Jacobs’s short story “The Monkey's Paw.”
Though somewhat forgotten, this film harnesses stock footage with a rather clear-eyed view of the cost of war and a pervasive eeriness that eclipses its dated special effects.
A decade after his synoptic inquiry into 20th-century cinema, The Story of Film: An Odyssey, film historian Mark Cousins returns with a hopeful tale of cinematic innovation at the frontiers of our young century. Playing 9/9–9/23!
A master class in atmosphere, the film nods to post-World War II zombie cinema and features several satisfyingly chilling chase sequences.
Bob Clark's second zombie feature is an ominous retelling of the W. W. Jacobs’s short story “The Monkey's Paw.”
Spike Lee's thrillingly made psychological diagnosis of both a man and a city was the first major movie to acknowledge the September 11th attacks. Screening September 10 and 11.