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Fox and His Friends
Wednesday, September 10 @ 7:00 P.M.
1975 | NR | 2 hr 4 min
Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Starring: Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Peter Chatel, Karlheinz Böhm, Adrian Hoven
A lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom but to social captivity, in this wildly cynical classic about love and exploitation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Casting himself against type, the director plays a suggestible working-class innocent who lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends, leading to the kind of resonant misery that only Fassbinder could create. Fox and His Friends is unsparing social commentary, an amusingly pitiless and groundbreaking if controversial depiction of a gay community in 1970s West Germany.
Women Who Kill
including Live Q&A with Ingrid Jungerman
Wednesday, October 1 @ 7:00 P.M.
2016 | NR | 1 hr 33 min
Directed by: Ingrid Jungermann
Starring: Ingrid Jungermann, Ann Carr, Sheila Vand
We all know that mystery keeps a relationship alive and that love can be dangerous. But can it also kill you? Exes Morgan and Jean are “Women Who Kill,” paranoid co-hosts of a podcast about female murderers. They’re inches away from getting back together when the mysterious, sexy Simone joins their Park Slope food co-op and Morgan falls quick and hard. But Simone’s secrets make everyone’s fur stand on end, and jealous Jean is convinced she might be a killer with a past to hide. Now what’s a commitment-phobe to do when everything that felt right seems suddenly wrong?
Hot off its debut at the Tribeca Film Festival, Women Who Kill is a whip-smart dark comedy that asks some clever questions about trust and intimacy. Is Googling someone the first step in a serious relationship? How soon is too soon to rent the U-Haul? Can you still get fat and happy with the love of your life even if she might be a deviant sociopath? In this feature debut, lauded writer-director Ingrid Jungermann (co-star and co-creator of the acclaimed lesbian web series The Slope and F to 7th) stars as Morgan alongside Sheila Vand (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night) as Simone and Ann Carr (The Actress) as Jean, with turns by co-stars Deborah Rush (Orange Is the New Black) as cranky co-op manager Grace and Annette O’Toole (Smallville) as creepy killer Lila.
Tangerine (10th Anniversary)
Thursday, December 4 @ 7:00 P.M.
2015 | R | 1 hr 28 mins
Directed by: Sean Baker
Starring: Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian, Mickey O'Hagan
It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the sex worker and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles.
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