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The Deadlights Theater: Broadcast Signal Intrusion

Today's screening of BROADCAST SIGNAL INTRUSION begins at 7pm EST in the Deadlights Theater!

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!

The 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: PONTYPOOL

SUNDAY 7/17, 1pm and 7pm: THE CONVERSAT...

I 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 human life after spending her childhood shut up in ...

In 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!

In 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 straights. By contrast, the only present-day appearance ...

The 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!

The 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!

Deadlights Film Festival

Free showing of REBECCA at 1pm, with screening of CRACKS to follow at 3:30!

Link here! 

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!

In 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. Night Shyamalan often positions them at extreme d...

The 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!

I 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-jin, the film spins together influences as diverse ...

I 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 murderous sadists, then slumps against the gate and ...

The Deadlights Theater: Antiporno

Today's screening of ANTIPORNO begins at 7pm EST!

I 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 Adonises in ballet flats or Tom of Finland’s muscula...

The 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!

In 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 body produces in front of adoring crowds. “You ...

In 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 as a proof of concept. The found footage thriller k...

June: 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 SENSES
6/19: QUERELLE
6/22: THE NIGHT PORTE...

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 strikes of apathy, overbearingness, and lack of comm...

I 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 the Band is almost unbearably tender and painf...

I 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 meltdown of individual identity as well as a catacly...

I 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 ground, pitting the civilizing Australian colonial fo...

I 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-in-picture to further complicate its visual langu...

I 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 American architect Stourley Kracklite (Brian Denneh...

I 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 (Brian Deacon) and Oliver (Eric Deacon) Deuce who...

May: 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 cyborg supersoldier running for his life from a Cow...