In the Eagle
Farewell My Concubine
- Today, Sep 8
Director: Chen Kaige Run Time: 171 min. Format: 4K Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1993 Language: Mandarin with English subtitles
Starring: Gong Li, Leslie Cheung, Lü Qi, Ying Da, Zhang Fengyi
Join Vidiots and our friends at CAPE for the new 4K Restoration of Chen Kaige's ravishing Palme d'Or winning masterpiece Farewell My Concubine.
Alex Borstein: A Silent Thirst
- Wed, Sep 9
- Thu, Sep 10
Run Time: 85 min.
Fresh off her national theatrical tour, four-time Emmy winner Alex Borstein brings her critically acclaimed one-person stage show, A Silent Thirst to our very own Vidiots!
Wet Hot American Summer
- Fri, Sep 11
Fri, Sep 11 @ 4:00 pm: Screening Only, No Guests
Director: David Wain Run Time: 97 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 2001
Starring: Amy Poehler, David Hyde Pierce, Janeane Garofalo, Marguerite Moreau, Michael Showalter, Molly Shannon, Paul Rudd
Encore Screening Added - September 11th, screening only.
Unbreakable
- Fri, Sep 11
Director: M. Night Shyamalan Run Time: 106 min. Format: Digital Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 2000
Starring: Bruce Willis, Charlayne Woodard, Robin Wright, Samuel L. Jackson, Spencer Treat Clark
M. Night Shyamalan twists the superhero genre into an introspective thriller in this genre-shattering slow burn.
Howard the Duck
- Fri, Sep 11
Director: Willard Huyck Run Time: 110 min. Format: Digital Rating: PG Release Year: 1986
Starring: Chip Zien, Ed Gale, Lea Thompson, Tim Robbins
Get your brain ready for maximum meltage with this bizarro cult classic and one of the strangest superhero movies of all time!
Happy Feet
- Sat, Sep 12
Director: George Miller Run Time: 108 min. Format: Digital Rating: PG Release Year: 2006
Starring: Brittany Murphy, Elijah Wood, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Robin Williams
Get ready to shake a tail feather with George Miller's joyously animated treasure of putting your best foot (and wing) forward.
The Traveler
- Sat, Sep 12
Director: Abbas Kiarostami Run Time: 73 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 1974 Language: Farsi with English subtitles
Starring: Hasan Arab, Hassan Darabi, Masud Zandbegleh, Mostafa Tari, Pare Gol Atashjameh
Join us for Abbas Kiarostami's remarkable feature debut with this simple, intimate, and haunting tale of childish obsessions and the means we'll use to fulfill them.
Splash
- Sat, Sep 12
Director: Ron Howard Run Time: 110 min. Format: Digital Rating: PG Release Year: 1984
Starring: Daryl Hannah, Dody Goodman, Eugene Levy, John Candy, Tom Hanks
A rom com with fins, get ready to fall in love all over again with Ron Howard's very 80s fairytale starring Daryl Hannah and Tom Hanks (not to mention Eugene Levy and John Candy)!
Death Wish
- Sat, Sep 12
Director: Michael Winner Run Time: 93 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1974
Starring: Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Steven Keats, Vincent Gardenia, William Redfield
Bronson's gonna get you, punk!
Clash of the Titans
- Sun, Sep 13
Director: Desmond Davis Run Time: 118 min. Format: Digital Rating: PG Release Year: 1981
Starring: Burgess Meredith, Harry Hamlin, Judi Bowker, Maggie Smith, Ursula Andress
If you love Greek mythology, stop-motion animation, or an all-star adventure, ride your pegasus over to Vidiots for a mythical quest like no other!
The Virgin Suicides
- Sun, Sep 13
Director: Sofia Coppola Run Time: 97 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1999
Starring: James Woods, Josh Hartnett, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, Michael Paré
Slip into the dark and dreamy world of Sofia Coppola's directorial debut - a hypnotic and ethereal work supported by the sublime soundtrack from Air.
Welcome II the Terrordome
- Mon, Sep 14
Director: Ngozi Onwurah Run Time: 90 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1995
Starring: Ben Wynter, Felix Joseph, Saffron Burrows, Suzette Llewellyn, Valentine Nonyela
Vidiots is thrilled to welcome writer/director Ngozi Onwurah for a special 30th Anniversary screening of her visionary Afrofuturist gem Welcome II the Terrordome!
Co-presented by our friends at Monkeypaw Productions and featuring a merch pop-up and limited giveaways!
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
- Wed, Sep 16
Director: Colin Higgins Run Time: 115 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1982
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Jim Nabors
Vidiots is easing our heartbreak over the loss of the eternal Goddess Dolly Parton with a special screening of her rootinest tootinest musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
Husbands
- Thu, Sep 17
Director: John Cassavetes Run Time: 131 min. Format: Digital Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 1970
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Jenny Lee Wright, Jenny Runacre, John Cassavetes, Peter Falk
Join us for John Cassavetes' raucous and unsettling meditation on toxic masculinity: the hangout movie from hell, Husbands.
Spirited Away (Japanese with English Subtitles)
- Fri, Sep 18
Director: Hayao Miyazaki Run Time: 125 min. Format: Digital Rating: All Ages Release Year: 2001 Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Starring: Mari Natsuki, Miyu Irino, Rumi Hiiragi, Takashi Naito, Yasuko Sawaguchi
Take a journey to the land of the spirits
Pump Up the Volume
- Fri, Sep 18
Director: Allan Moyle Run Time: 102 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1990
Starring: Annie Ross, Christian Slater, Mimi Kennedy, Samantha Mathis, Scott Paulin
Long live Pirate Radio and long live this bangin' early 90s cult classic starring Christian Slater as a teenage airwave bandit!
Co-presented by our friends on the airwaves at KPBJ!
Staying Alive
- Fri, Sep 18
Director: Sylvester Stallone Run Time: 96 min. Format: Digital Rating: PG Release Year: 1983
Starring: Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes, John Travolta, Julie Bovasso, Steve Inwood
Your Friday night is never going to be the same because the steamiest, sweatiest, musclyest sequel of all time is about to scorch the Vidiots big screen in all its oiled up 80s glory!
Babe
- Sat, Sep 19
Director: Chris Noonan Run Time: 91 min. Format: Digital Rating: All Ages Release Year: 1995
Starring: Christine Cavanaugh, Danny Mann, Hugo Weaving, Miriam Flynn, Miriam Margolyes
This perennially delightful family film will still make you squeal with joy!
Salesman
- Sat, Sep 19
Director: Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, David Maysles Run Time: 90 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 1969
Starring: Charles McDevitt, James Baker, Melbourne I. Feltman, Paul Brennan, Raymond Martos
One of the most important and illuminating documentaries of the mid-20th-century, Salesman showed the world a realism it had never seen and a pair of brothers who would change the documentary landscape forever.
Minority Report
- Sat, Sep 19
Director: Steven Spielberg Run Time: 145 min. Format: Digital Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 2002
Starring: Colin Farrell, Lois Smith, Max von Sydow, Samantha Morton, Tom Cruise
An all-too prescient science fiction blockbuster of the surveillance state gone awry, Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Philip K. Dick is a dystopian thriller for this and any time!
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Sat, Sep 19
Director: Michael Schultz Run Time: 111 min. Format: Digital Rating: PG Release Year: 1978
Starring: Barry Gibb, Frankie Howerd, Maurice Gibb, Peter Frampton, Robin Gibb
Get ready for all the gonzo musical weirdness of this Beatles-tuned, Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees helmed cult classic of epic proportions!
Encanto Sing-Along
- Sun, Sep 20
Director: Byron Howard, Jared Bush Run Time: 102 min. Format: Digital Rating: PG Release Year: 2021
Starring: Diane Guerrero, Jessica Darrow, John Leguizamo, María Cecilia Botero, Stephanie Beatriz
Sing along with this enchanted musical with your little ones, or your Pixar-loving adult besties!
An Evening with Mike Mills – Beginners
- Sun, Sep 20
Director: Mike Mills Run Time: 105 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 2011
Starring: Christopher Plummer, Ewan McGregor, Goran Visnjic, Kai Lennox, Mélanie Laurent
Vidiots is thrilled to welcome Indie legend Mike Mills for an incredible night of cinema starting with the lovable modern classic Beginners followed by a conversation with Mills.
An Evening with Mike Mills – C’mon C’mon
- Sun, Sep 20
Director: Mike Mills Run Time: 110 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 2021
Starring: Gaby Hoffmann, Joaquin Phoenix, Molly Webster, Scoot McNairy, Woody Norman
Our enchanting evening with Mike Mills continues with his latest intimate and tender triumph C'mon C'mon featuring an introduction by Mills.
An Evening with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Hidden in Pieces + Eraserhead
- Wed, Sep 23
Run Time: 111 min. Format: Digital
Vidiots invites you to an extraordinary evening of music, cinema, and community when we welcome the Yeah Yeah Yeahs for a special advance screening of Hidden in Pieces - a visual companion to their new record - followed by a conversation with the band and a special screening of David Lynch's Eraserhead. And the magic doesn't end there! Fresh copies of their new LP will be available for purchase before and after the screening.
Raising Victor Vargas
- Thu, Sep 24
Director: Peter Sollett Run Time: 88 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 2003
Starring: Altagracia Guzman, Judy Marte, Melonie Díaz, Silvestre Rasuk, Victor Rasuk
Vidiots is excited to welcome writer/director Peter Sollett, screenwriter Eva Vives, and cast member Melonie Díaz for a special screening of the coming-of-age classic Raising Victor Vargas!
A warm, funny, and intimate look at growing up and getting down on the Lower East Side, this coming-of-age classic is an undeniable treasure of indie cinema.
Dead Calm on 35mm
- Fri, Sep 25
Director: Phillip Noyce Run Time: 96 min. Format: 35mm Film Rating: R Release Year: 1989
Starring: Billy Zane, George Shevtsov, Nicole Kidman, Rod Mullinar, Sam Neill
Our celebration of the life and legacy of Sam Neill continues with this unnerving slow burn Aussie thriller, featuring a special extended introduction from Director Phillip Noyce!
Bandidas on 35mm
- Fri, Sep 25
Director: Espen Sandberg, Joachim Rønning Run Time: 93 min. Format: 35mm Film Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 2006
Starring: Denis Arndt, Dwight Yoakam, Penélope Cruz, Salma Hayek Pinault, Steve Zahn
If your Friday night could use a little kick-ass social justice fire, don't miss out when Penélope Cruz and Salma Hayek singe the big screen with this bad ass banger!
Dazed and Confused – Dazed Day!
- Sat, Sep 26
Director: Richard Linklater Run Time: 102 min. Format: 4K Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1993
Starring: Adam Goldberg, Anthony Rapp, Ben Affleck, Jason London, Joey Lauren Adams, Matthew McConaughey, Milla Jovovich, Parker Posey, Rory Cochrane
Our Fourth Annual Dazed Day is back and better than ever!
A Full Day of Dazed Screenings! Pinball on Free play courtesy of our neighbors at Walt's! Tripped out 16mm! All Vinyl DJ sets!
Tommy
- Sat, Sep 26
Director: Ken Russell Run Time: 111 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1975
Starring: Ann-Margret, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Oliver Reed, Roger Daltrey, Tina Turner
Our Dazed Day extravaganza continues with the most psychedelic cinematic rock opera of all time - Ken Russell's mind-melting adaptation of The Who's Tommy. Co-presented by our friends and neighbors at Walt's Bar!
Beauty and the Beast Sing-Along
- Sun, Sep 27
Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise Run Time: 84 min. Format: Digital Rating: All Ages Release Year: 1991
Starring: Angela Lansbury, David Ogden Stiers, Jerry Orbach, Paige O'Hara, Richard White, Robby Benson
Be our guest and sing-along with this magical fairytale!
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
- Sun, Sep 27
Director: Stanley Kramer Run Time: 192 min. Format: Digital Rating: G Release Year: 1963
Starring: Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Spencer Tracy
Buckle up for a carload of belly laughs with Stanley Kramer's madcap comedy of treasure hunting starring a cavalcade of some of the best comedians of the day.
Monster-in-Law
- Sun, Sep 27
Director: Robert Luketic Run Time: 101 min. Format: Digital Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 2005
Starring: Adam Scott, Jane Fonda, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Vartan, Wanda Sykes
It's a battle of the icons when J. Lo faces off against Jane Fonda in this guiltless pleasure of cinematic bitchery!
Short Cuts
- Mon, Sep 28
Director: Robert Altman Run Time: 188 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1993
Starring: Andie MacDowell, Bruce Davison, Jack Lemmon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Julianne Moore, Lili Taylor, Tim Robbins, Tom Waits
Cinematic master Robert Altman interweaves the stories of 22 characters in this sprawling and kaleidoscopic masterpiece based on the short stories of Raymond Carver.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day on 35mm
- Wed, Sep 30
Director: James Cameron Run Time: 137 min. Format: Digital Rating: R Release Year: 1991
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Edward Furlong, Joe Morton, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick
One bad-ass mother of a sequel!
35th Anniversary screening on 35mm Film!
Chocolate Babies
- Wed, Oct 7
Director: Stephen Winter Run Time: 83 min. Format: 4K Digital Release Year: 1996
Starring: Bryan Webster, Claude E. Sloan, Dudley Findlay Jr., Jon Kit Lee, Suzanne Gregg Ferguson
Vidiots and One Institute are thrilled to welcome writer/director Stephen Winter for a special screening of the new 4K Restoration of the radical and riotous New Queer Cinema treasure Chocolate Babies!