BIG SCREEN PICKS FOR THE LABOR DAY WEEKEND (SEPT 3 - 6)

From Slashers to French new wave to extreme Japanese body horror, it’s a super lineup of cult classics and favorites on the big screen across the Labor Day Weekend!

All Weekend 9/3 - 9/5: Are you ready genre fans? It's CAMP BLOOD VII at MAHONING DRIVE IN, Pennsylvania! Three retro slasher horror Triple Features, all in 35mm. Lineup includes (Fri 9/3) FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VI + HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME + HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW // (Sat 9/4) SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE + SCREAM FOR HELP + EYES OF A STRANGER // (Sun 9/5) SILENT RAGE + TEN TO MIDNIGHT + JASON X. More info HERE.

Fri 9/3 8:40pm: Dinosaur’s rule the earth again! JURASSIC PARK (1993 / 35mm Print) stills stuns with how well it’s VFX hold up almost 30 years later. On celluloid and not remastered within an inch of it’s life makes it look even better. Screens at The PRINCE CHARLES CINEMA, London. More info HERE

Fri 9/3 Midnight: Robert De Niro stars as the ‘God’s Lonely Man’ cabbie on the filthy streets of NYC’s bad old days in TAXI DRIVER (1976 / 35mm Print) at THE COOLIDGE CORNER THEATER. More info HERE.

Fri 9/3 8:30pm: Pure 80s macho sci-fi action madness in VENDETTA DAL FUTURO aka HANDS OF STEEL (1986) at FILM NOIR CINEMA + VIDEO, Brooklyn NY. Shot in Arizona by an Italian Director, does this make it a ‘Spaghetti Cyborg Sci-Fi’? More info HERE.

Fri 9/3 7:30pm: Hitchcock’s voyeuristic masterpiece REAR WINDOW (1954), starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly screens at THE MICHIGAN THEATER, Ann Arbor. More info HERE.

All Weekend: Spawn of way too many reboots and sequels, the original TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974) remains a textural, shocking and effective low budget exercise in terror. Screens at THE NITEOWL DRIVE IN, Miami. More info HERE.

All Weekend: CONTEMPT (1963), Jean-Luc Goddard’s crucial film in the lauded French-Italian New Wave, screens at THE ROXIE CINEMA, New York City. More info HERE.

Fri 9/3 Midnight: It took about five minutes for this absolute train wreck of a film to zoom past universal critical scorn to absolute cult status as a new ‘midnight movie’. CATS (2019) screens at The MUSIC BOX THEATRE, Chicago. Also screens Sunday and Monday. More info HERE.

All Weekend (Fri - Mon): Hayao Miyazaki’s PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997) remains a landmark of animation and a film of unsurpassed power and beauty. Screens in original Japanese Dialouge w/ English Subtitles) at The LOFT CINEMA, Arizona. More info HERE.

Sat 9/4 & Sun 9/5 3pm: The original bad boy of rock returns in his third cinematic outing, and probably most recognizable. Elvis Presley stars in JAILHOUSE ROCK (1957 / 35mm Print) at HOLLYWOOD THEATER Portland. More info HERE.

Sat 9/4 7:30pm: The fourth pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers is still the best. TOP HAT (1935 / 35mm Print) screens at THE DRYDEN THEATER, Rochester New York. Music by Irving Berlin. More info HERE.

Sat 9/4 7pm: John Waters’ demented SERIAL MOM (1994) stars Kathleen Turner as a suburban mother who will resort to any measure to keep her perfect American family just that – perfect! Screens at HOLLYWOOD THEATRE, Portland with guest hosts. More info HERE.

Sat 9/4 10pm: 1940s-style movie whimsy meets 70s Muzak to become discokitsch! XANADU (1980 / 35mm Print) stars Olivia Newton-John as a muse sent to Earth to inspire a directionless artist to open a roller-disco nightclub funded by aging, lonely moneybags Gene Kelly. Screens at AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE x LOS FELIZ. More info HERE.

Sat 9/4: BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (1988) screens as part of the Keanu Reeves’ birthday weekend at SYNDICATED SIDEWALK CINEMA, Brooklyn NY. More info HERE.

Sat 9/4 7:30pm: As pure a big screen experience as one could ever hope for DR ZHIVAGO (35mm Print) is made for being presented in a theatre. Screens at AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE x AERO THEATER. Also at MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE New York City in absolutely glorious 70mm.

Sat 9/4 8:30pm: Stanley Kubrick’s ultimate masterwork returns in the “un-restored” 4K DCP supervised by Christopher Nolan., offering no digital trickery or enhancements to ensure it recreates the cinematic event audiences experienced fifty years ago. 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) - 4K Restoration screens at TEXAS THEATER. More info HERE.

Sat 9/4 Midnight: Utterly ominous and relentless, IT FOLLOWS (2014) screens at COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE, Massachusetts with Haus of Oni horror drag preshow! More info HERE.

Sat 9/4 7pm: 20th Anniversary screening of Alfonso Curan’s Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN (2001 / 35mm Print), a film that moved Mexican film making onto an even larger world stage. Screens at KINO ROTTERDAM. More info HERE.

Sun 9/5 4pm: Cary Grant balances humor and intensity perfectly in this extremely fun caper of mistaken identity, featuring the crop dusting sequence, one of the most famous scenes every filmed. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959 / 35mm Print) screens at ROXIE CINEMA, San Francisco. More info HERE.

Sun 9/5 9:30pm: It is an absolute understatement to call this cult Japanese classic ‘bonkers’, but TETSUO, THE IRON MAN (1989) is the epitome of the cult cinema wave coming out if the late 80s into the early 90s and full of eye splitting cinematography. The difficult shoot resulted in much of the film crew abandoning the 18 month low budget production. Screens at the PLAZA THEATER, Atlanta. More info HERE.

Sun 9/5 6:30pm: Step Into a world of dark and seedy streets and vice squads with a 35mm Triple Feature of ANGEL (1983) + VICE SQUAD (1982) + SAVAGE STREETS (1984) at NEW BEVERLY CINEMA, Los Angeles. More info HERE.

Mon 9/6 8:30pm: Filmmaker Amy Heckerling directs this decade-defining high-school comedy reworking of Jane Austin’s Emma. CLUELESS (1995) screens at AFI SILVER, Maryland. Also screens Fri 9/3. More info HERE.

Mon 9/6 7:30pm: A 35mm Double Feature of grandhouse martial arts classics with Jet Li in THE MASTER (1992) + L.A. STREETFIGHTERS (1985) from the Dirtector of Miami Connection at NEW BEVERLY CINEMA, Los Angeles. More info HERE.

Mon 9/6 5pm: Takashi Shimura gives a timeless performance in Akira Kuroswawa’s moving IKIRU (1956) as an aging bureaucrat with stomach cancer who must make sense of his final days. Screens. at PARIS THEATER New York City. More info HERE.