The Deadlights Theater: Broadcast Signal Intrusion
Today's screening of BROADCAST SIGNAL INTRUSION begins at 7pm EST in the Deadlights Theater!
2022-07-06 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Deadlights Theater: Censor
Today's first screening of CENSOR begins at 1pm EST in the Deadlights Theater, with a second showing tonight at 7pm EST!
2022-07-03 16:55:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Deadlights Theater: The Cutting Room Floor
For July we're watching eight horror movies about film, editing, and sound mixing!
SUNDAY 7/3, 1pm and 7pm: CENSOR
WEDNESDAY 7/6, 7pm: BROADCAST SIGNAL INTRUSION
SUNDAY 7/10, 1pm and 7pm: THE RING
WEDNESDAY 7/13, 7pm: PONTY...
2022-07-02 00:48:17 +0000 UTC View PostI Would Like to See It: You Won't Be Alone
As far as actively cribbing from contemporary films goes, you could do worse than to pick and choose elements of Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life to paste into your story about a body-snatching witch child experiencing various facets of h...
2022-06-30 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Flesh: Salo
Today's first screening of SALO begins at 1pm EST in the Deadlights Theater, with a second showing tonight at 7pm EST!
2022-06-26 14:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Flesh: X (Novel)
There’s a scene in X, author Davey Davis’s sophomore novel, in which the protagonist, lifestyle sadist Lee, idly observes that most emerging queers go through a period of adjustment during which they still prefer the company of straig...
2022-06-24 05:56:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe Deadlights Theater: The Night Porter
Today's first screening of THE NIGHT PORTER begins at 1pm EST in the Deadlights Theater, with a second showing tonight at 7pm EST!
2022-06-22 14:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Deadlights Theater: Querelle
Today's first screening of QUERELLE begins at 1pm EST in the Deadlights Theater, with a second showing tonight at 7pm EST!
2022-06-19 14:31:07 +0000 UTC View PostDeadlights Film Festival
Free showing of REBECCA at 1pm, with screening of CRACKS to follow at 3:30!
The Deadlights Theater: In the Realm of the Senses
Today's first screening of IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES begins at 1pm EST in the Deadlights Theater, with a second showing tonight at 7pm EST!
2022-06-15 14:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Flesh: Old
Twelve people mill and separate and mill again on a sun-washed sweep of sand flanked by soaring cliffs on three sides and on the fourth the ceaseless pounding of the surf. Their bodies are minuscule against these natural backdrops, and director M....
2022-06-14 04:52:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe Deadlights Theater: Tokyo Decadence
Today's first screening of TOKYO DECADENCE begins at 1pm EST in the Deadlights Theater, with a second showing tonight at 7pm EST!
2022-06-12 14:30:59 +0000 UTC View PostI Would Like to See It: The Wailing
The Wailing is that rare film which immediately and without room for discussion establishes itself as crucial to its genre. Directed with intimate, disorienting finesse and written with throat-closing tension by master craftsman Na Hong-j...
2022-06-10 07:56:29 +0000 UTC View PostI Would Like to See It: The Sadness
Separated by a security gate, two young lovers sit slumped at the end of a hall splattered with dripping gore. The man gives a heartfelt speech about his long quest to return to the woman across a city overrun by people virally transformed into mu...
2022-06-09 17:51:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe Deadlights Theater: Antiporno
Today's screening of ANTIPORNO begins at 7pm EST!
2022-06-08 20:30:59 +0000 UTC View PostI Would Like to See It: Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
Sometimes the history of outsider sexuality in art feels like sand running through your fingers. You look at Claude Cahun’s slender, starving frame or Greer Lankton’s lovingly bizarre and deformed dolls, at Mapplethorpe’s photos of nude Adon...
2022-06-07 22:11:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe Deadlights Theater: Belle de Jour
Today's first screening of BELLE DE JOUR begins at 1pm EST in the Deadlights Theater, with a second showing tonight at 7pm EST!
2022-06-05 15:11:43 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Flesh: Crimes of the Future
“Surgery is the new sex,” stammers the gauntly attractive bureaucrat Timlin (Kristin Stewart). “Is it?” deadpans performance artist Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), a man whose partner surgically removes the pseudo-cancerous novel organs his...
2022-06-04 18:52:22 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Flesh: Be My Cat: A Film for Anne
In Be My Cat: A Film for Anne, Romanian writer/actor/director Adrian Țofei casts himself as a delusional and sociopathic director of the same name attempting to entice Anne Hathaway into working with him by shooting a kind of test film a...
2022-06-02 04:38:33 +0000 UTC View PostJune: It Feels So Good
We're sucking and fucking our way through a full month of movies about sex, sex work, and pornography in the Deadlights Theater!
6/1: BOOGIE NIGHTS
6/5: BELLE DE JOUR
6/8: ANTIPORNO
6/12: TOKYO DECADENCE
6/15: IN THE REALM OF THE...
In the Flesh: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
The shards of branching universes tinkle and grind against one another. A fearsomely literal “everything” bagel pulsates like a dark heart at the center of creation. Across the multiverse stretches a chain of families broken by the repeated st...
2022-05-26 03:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostI Would Like to See It: The Boys in the Band
It’s your birthday, and the guests are the same friends you’ve had for twenty years. As a snapshot of the simultaneously claustrophobic and sexually liberated lives of gay men in New York immediately prior to the AIDS crisis, The Boys in t...
2022-05-25 04:01:27 +0000 UTC View PostI Would Like to See It: Maps to the Stars
Celebrity is a noxious enough concept taken by itself, a process of folding an overabundance of meaning and emotion into a single human receptacle until inevitably the constructed reality collapses for both viewer and icon, resulting in a total me...
2022-05-24 22:18:15 +0000 UTC View PostI Would Like to See It: The Proposition
The archetypal Western takes place at the line of demarcation between so-called civilization and barbarism, plumbing the limits and nature of both forces. Nick Cave and John Hillcoat’s The Proposition seems at first to tread similar gro...
2022-05-20 19:22:38 +0000 UTC View PostI Would Like to See It: The Pillow Book
Double exposure, spliced images, and some of cinema’s most masterfully confident fades render Peter Greenaway’s The Pillow Book as much collage as film, so saturated in overlapping and interbled images that at times it employs picture...
2022-05-07 18:12:24 +0000 UTC View PostI Would Like to See It: The Belly of an Architect
That Peter Greenaway’s obsession with impermanence led him eventually to a film about legacy is perhaps inevitable, the proverbial unstoppable force and its paired immovable object colliding as an expression of simple probability over time. As A...
2022-05-06 22:27:39 +0000 UTC View PostI Would Like to See It: A Zed and Two Noughts
At what point in the process of decay does life become death? How does one relate to the other, and can the human mind experience real intimacy with the latter? Peter Greenaway’s A Zed and Two Noughts, the tale of twin zoologists Oswald...
2022-05-03 21:17:43 +0000 UTC View PostMay: In Plain Sight
For May we're watching horror happen in full view of society in the Deadlights Theater!
ROSEMARY'S BABY
PERFECT BLUE
CANDYMAN
GET OUT
THE VANISHING
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK
THE WICKER MAN
IT FOLLOWS
In the Flesh: Hardcore Henry
I’ve often described Marvel movies as sort of protracted action figure play sessions by particularly unimaginative toy collectors. By contrast, Hardcore Henry, Ilya Naishuller’s gleefully bloody first-person action flick about a cybor...
2022-04-28 19:10:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe Deadlights Theater: Seven Samurai
Today's first screening of SEVEN SAMURAI begins at 1pm EST in the Deadlights Theater, with a second showing tonight at 7pm EST!
2022-04-24 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post