Get ready to shake what you’ve got as present a limited run of Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!

Haru (Rinko Kikuchi) and Luis (Alejandro Edda) are passionate competitors on Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but when tragedy strikes, Haru retreats from the dance floor and into herself. With some encouragement from her friends, she returns to the studio and finds herself drawn to a new instructor (Alberto Guerra), forcing her to confront the possibility of moving forward.

Directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka (Tokyo Vice) and winner of the U.S. Dramatic Directing Award at Sundance, Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! is a wildly stylish drama with just a little bit of magical realism. At the center of it all is Rinko Kikuchi, giving Haru a performance that can move from heartbreak to hilarity in the blink of an eye.

The first film in our Art House of Horrors: Presented by MUBI series for October is the 1968 chilling masterpiece Rosemary’s Baby!

Newlyweds Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and Guy Woodhouse (John Cassavetes) move into a beautiful New York City apartment, where their new neighbors, the overly friendly Roman and Minnie Castevet, take an unusual interest in the young couple. When Rosemary becomes pregnant, her excitement quickly gives way to suspicion as strange occurrences, unsettling dreams, and sinister secrets begin to close in around her.

This landmark Horror classic transformed the ordinary anxieties of pregnancy and domestic life into something truly terrifying that has echoed on in the world of cinema for almost 60 years. Farrow’s unforgettable performance lends a brilliantly oppressive sense of paranoia, making the movie truly unforgettable all these years later. 

Our Art House 101: Global Queer Cinema series continues with two groundbreaking films that explore queer identity through radically different perspectives: Ma Vie en Rose + Je Tu Il Elle.

First, Ma Vie en Rose follows Ludovic, a young child who knows from an early age that she wants to live as a girl. As Ludovic begins expressing her identity more openly, her family and suburban community struggle to understand, and ultimately accept, the person she knows herself to be. Director Alain Berliner approaches Ludovic’s story wutg  a child’s-eye sense of wonder, creating a tender portrait of gender identity that refuses to treat its protagonist as anything less than fully herself.

Then, Frida Faorite Chantal Akerman’s Je tu il elle offers a starkly different vision of queer desire. Akerman stars as a young woman who retreats into isolation following a breakup, spending her days alone before embarking on a journey that brings her into encounters with a truck driver and, ultimately, her former lover. Deeply intimate, the film turns sexual identity into an intensely physical cinematic experience.

Together, these two movies offer two radically different visions of queer self-discovery but are ultimately united by their belief in the power of seeing and accepting oneself on your own terms.

There will be a 10 minute intermission between the movies. One ticket gets you access to both films.

The Exorcist is the next film up in our Art House of Horrors: Presented by MUBI series!

When young Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair) begins exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior, her desperate mother Chris (Ellen Burstyn) turns to doctors, psychiatrists, and finally the Catholic Church for answers. As Father Karras (Jason Miller) struggles with his own crisis of faith, he and Father Merrin (Max von Sydow) confront an ancient evil in one of the most terrifying battles between good and evil ever committed to film.

William Friedkin’s 1973 masterpiece shattered the boundaries of mainstream horror, turning a story of demonic possession into a deeply unsettling drama about many things, but mostly…the nature of evil. From its unnerving sound design and groundbreaking makeup effects to unforgettable performances from its extraordinary cast, The Exorcist became a cultural phenomenon and remains one of the defining horror films of the 20th century.

Please note: we will be screening a 4K restoration of the 122 minute Theatrical Cut of the film!

Enhanced Accessibility: this film has Closed Captioning capability!