THE MIDWEEK ROUND UP (3/28 - 3/31)

Go high brow with past Oscar winners like The Piano or a newly reconstructed Peter Bogdanovich classic, or go low brow with some Killer Tomatoes, or a Chris Farley favorite… It’s our picks of classics and cult favorites on the big screen this week!

Mon 3/28th 7:30pm: Jane Campion's THE PIANO (1993) is the Oscar winning drama, for Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin (at age 11), as they and their piano make the long voyage to New Zealand after being sold into marriage with a frontiersman. Screens at The Hollywood Theatre, Portland. More info HERE.

Mon 3/28 8:30pm: “They were out for blood and rotten to the core. Now they’re back!" Just when you thought it was safe to eat a BLT sandwich, the terrible tomatoes return in a nutrition-free sequel that somehow manages to be even worse than the original! RETURN OF THE KILLER TOMATOES (1988) screens at The Loft Cinema, Arizona. $4 tix / $3 for members. More info HERE.

Mon 3/28th 9:05pm: One of the great psychedelic masterpieces of world animation, SON OF THE WHITE MARE (1981) is a swirling, color-mad maelstrom of mythic monsters and Scythian heroes, part-Nibelungenlied, part-Yellow Submarine. Screens at The Roxie Cinema, San Francisco. More info HERE.

Mon 3/28th 7pm: A female hair stylist who is seduced by the vampiric ghost of a former optometrist. Using supernatural contact lenses to control her mind, he gradually drains her life essence as she is forced to find new victims in GHOST EYES (1974), a rare classic from the legendary Hong Kong Shaw Brothers Studio. Screens at Film Noir Cinema, Brooklyn NY. More info HERE.

Mon 3/28th 7pm: Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps make for one of the most iconic screen couples of the 2000s as the basketball-obsessed next-door neighbors who find love over flirtatious pickup games, fall apart under the strain of high-pressure college hoops and families, and drift in and out of each other’s lives as they pursue their twin aspirations of playing professionally. LOVE AND BASKETBALL (2000) screens at The Coolidge Corner Theatre, Massachusetts. More info HERE.

Mon 3/28th 7pm: Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance return to star in the smash sequel to the original genre defining slasher HALLOWEEN II (1981 ). Screening at The American Cinematheque at Los Feliz, Los Angeles in 35mm. More info HERE.

Tues 3/29th 5:05pm: A murder mystery as only Hitchcock can do it. A photographer (James Stewart) becomes an amateur sleuth. While coinfined to a wheelchair in his apartment, he thinks he's spied a murder from his living room window. Wonderfully shot and acted, and co-starring Grace Kelly and Thelma Ritter. REAR WINDOW (1954) screens at The Belacourt Theatre, Nashville. More info HERE.

Tues 3/29th 1pm & Wed 3/30th 6:25pm: The no-holds barred story of the notorious Aussie criminal ‘Chopper’ Read became Eric Bana's breakout role in this blood soaked biopic. CHOPPER (2000) screens at The Prince Charles Cinema, London. More info HERE.


Tues 3/29th 7:30pm: A Sophia Coppola Double Feature of MARIE ANTOINETTE (2006 / 35mm Print) + THE BLING RING (2009 / 35mm Print) screens at The New Beverly, Los Angeles. More info HERE.

Tues 3/29th 8:30pm: After his auto-parts tycoon father dies, the overweight, underachieving son teams up with a snide accountant to try and save the family business. Beloved comedy duo of Chris Farley and David Spade star in TOMMY BOY (1995) screening at The Texas Theatre, Dallas. More info HERE.

Tues 3/29th 7pm: A Nicolas Cage Double Feature in 35mm to launch the book 'The Age of Cage' with MATCHSTICK MEN (2000 / 35mm Print) + FACE OFF (1997 / 35mm Print) at The Music Box Theatre, Chicago. More info HERE.

Wed 3/30 7:30pm A Howard Hawks classic Double Feature of a groundbreaking horror, followed by the gangster genre defining classic, with THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951) + SCARFACE (1932) screening at The American Cinematheque at The Aero Theatre, Santa Monica. More info HERE.

Wed 3/30th 7:30pm: A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open the container, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all humanity in John Carpenter's PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1987) screening at Grand Illusion Theatre, Seattle. More info HERE.

Thurs 3/31st 7:30pm: Andrei Tarkovsky’s rejoinder to Kubrick’s 2001 is a stunning, visionary work in which the travel is not so much into outer but inner space – the cosmos of memory, consciousness and dreams. SOLARIS (1972) screens for its 50th Anniversary at The Loft Cinema, Arizona. More info HERE.

Thurs March 6:30pm: A young punk recruited by a car repossession agency finds himself in pursuit of a Chevrolet Malibu that is wanted for a $20,000 bounty - and has something otherworldly stashed in its trunk in REPO MAN (1984) screening at Braindead Studios, Los Angeles. With art show by Kerosene More info HERE.

Thurs 3/31st 9:30pm: Elliot Gould, Susannah York and a particularly creepy Christopher Plummer star in the classic thriller THE SILENT PARTNER (1978) screening at The Kino Theater, Rotterdam for the first time since its premiere. More info HERE.

Thurs 3/31st 7pm: A high school slacker commits a shocking act and proceeds to let his friends in on the secret. A slew of edgey performances from the young including Keanu Reeves and Crispin Glover. RIVER’S EDGE (1987 / 35mm Print) screens at The Roxy Cinema, New York City. More info HERE.

Until April 5th: Heavily cut and substantially re-shot, Peter Bogdanovich’s final theatrical feature was released in 2014 under the title ‘She’s Funny That Way’ quickly disappeared from view. Discovery of the HD master of the original version surfaced on Ebay allowing the original version to be restored. SQUIRREL’S TO NUTS (2014) shos in it’s complete form at The MOMA, New York City. More info HERE.

Thurs 3/31st 8pm: Undergoing a major revaluation of late, this uniquely bold and kaleidoscopic vision of digital light and color from the Wachowski sisters lend the big screen version if the classic anime a distinct and lively style. SPEED RACER (2008) screens at The Frida Cinema, Santa Ana. More info HERE.

Thurs 3/31st 11:15pm: The first animated feature from Romania and a benchmark in outré sci-fi imagination. DELTA SPACE MISSION (1984) screens at The Metrograph, New York City. More info HERE.