Hallucinations
Hosted by Post Games’ Chris Plante, Hallucinations is a monthly event that spotlights movies that challenge our expectations of story, style, and “good taste”. We invite guests to bond over films that change what we expect from the medium, the world, and themselves. So come early, stay late, make friends, and watch something strange, surprising, or just shamelessly sick.
Mauvais Sang
- Wed, Oct 14
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Leos Carax Run Time: 119 min. Release Year: 1986 Language: French
Starring: Denis Lavant, Hans Meyer, Julie Delpy, Juliette Binoche, Michel Piccoli
Love that burns fast but lasts forever. Our Heist Hallucinations pick for November is Leos Carax's 1986 exquisitely stylized sophomore feature, Mauvais Sang! Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner's son to help them break into a laboratory and steal the vaccine against STBO, a sexually transmitted disease that is sweeping the country. It's spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity rather than commitment. A dazzling genre-mash of neo-noir, science fiction, crime, and doomed romance that's anchored by unforgettable performances from Denis Lavant, Juliette Binoche, and Michel Piccoli, Mauvais Sang announced Carax as one of the most audacious voices of the French cinema of the 1980s.
Sexy Beast
- Wed, Nov 18
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Jonathan Glazer Run Time: 89 min. Release Year: 2001
Starring: Amanda Redman, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane, James Fox, Ray Winstone
Yes...or yes? Our Heist Hallucinations series is going back to the criminal underworld with Jonathan Glazer's 2000 cult classic Sexy Beast! Retired safecracker Gal Dove (Ray Winstone) is enjoying a quiet life in Spain when a visit from his old associate Don Logan (Ben Kingsley) threatens to drag him back into the business. Logan has one last job in mind...a daring safe deposit heist in London. Oh, and he's not taking "no" for an answer. What follows is an unhinged descent into the criminal underworld unlike any other crime film you've ever seen. Glazer’s electrifying debut balances a meticulously-planned heist with a psychological showdown between two unforgettable characters. And then there’s Ben Kingsley, giving one of the great left-field performances of his career as the absolutely terrifying Don Logan. Add in Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, Amanda Redman, and a script that crackles with menace, and Sexy Beast is one hell of a way to get your heist on.
Widows
- Wed, Dec 16
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Steve McQueen Run Time: 129 min. Release Year: 2018
Starring: Colin Farrell, Cynthia Erivo, Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Rodriguez, Viola Davis
Our Heist Hallucinations series is pulling off its final score of the year with Steve McQueen’s 2018 thriller Widows! When a botched heist leaves four women widowed and drowning in debt, Veronica Rawlings (Viola Davis) discovers that her late husband left behind a plan for one final job. With nothing left to lose, she recruits Linda (Michelle Rodriguez), Alice (Elizabeth Debicki), and Belle (Cynthia Erivo) to finish the job...and settle a few scores of their own. Based on the British television series and co-written by Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl), McQueen’s film is a sleek, bruising reinvention of the heist movie, using the mechanics of a robbery to explore ghe women left behind by a criminal world built for men. And the cast is stacked: Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, Colin Farrell, Daniel Kaluuya, Brian Tyree Henry, and Robert Duvall.