The debut feature from writer-director Sadiq, screening 7/14–7/23, explores the many sides of love and desire in a patriarchal society.

ne of the films that helped set the template for eighties stylistic excess, Purple Rain is a wonderfully bombastic big-screen experience that was a massive hit in summer of 1984.

Serving up one delirious delight after another, Tim Burton’s film took everyone by pleasant surprise when it became a sleeper smash in summer ’85.

The debut feature from writer-director Sadiq, screening 7/14–7/23, explores the many sides of love and desire in a patriarchal society.

Romantic, funny, and occasionally shocking, it is as honest, fresh, and funny today as it was 40 years ago.

ne of the films that helped set the template for eighties stylistic excess, Purple Rain is a wonderfully bombastic big-screen experience that was a massive hit in summer of 1984.

Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson earned an Oscar nomination for writing this brilliantly self-contained comedy-drama about three gifted siblings and their relationship with their absent, selfish father. Screening 7/2, 7/8, and 7/9.

Serving up one delirious delight after another, Tim Burton’s film took everyone by pleasant surprise when it became a sleeper smash in summer ’85.

The debut feature from writer-director Sadiq, screening 7/14–7/23, explores the many sides of love and desire in a patriarchal society.

Spike Lee’s full-throttle portrait of a particularly eventful, hot summer day in the life of a Bed-Stuy neighborhood is a remarkable and ambivalent dramatization of race relations in America.

The debut feature from writer-director Sadiq, screening 7/14–7/23, explores the many sides of love and desire in a patriarchal society.

Romantic, funny, and occasionally shocking, it is as honest, fresh, and funny today as it was 40 years ago.