When ran an A24 Showcase last month, the hardest part was deciding which films not to play. A24 has an impressive back library, and we’ve only got one screen. Thankfully, we had an open slot on the schedule, so we’re going back for an A24 Encore. For round two we’ll be playing a few personal favorites, a few glaring omissions, and a couple of the most requested movies we didn’t play in round one.
P.S. We know there are still plenty of excellent A24 movies we couldn’t fit in either event. We’ll get to them eventually. One screen, remember?
Midsommar was probably the second most obvious omission from the A24 Showcase, but there’s a simple reason we couldn’t fit it in: we wanted to play the director’s cut. In his definitive version, Ari Aster (Hereditary) turns an already good film into a great film… with a 3-hour runtime. It’s definitely worth it, but it needs a night to itself.
Monday (7/11) - 7:00
Thursday (7/14) - 8:00
Before he did such an excellent job capturing lockdown melancholy with Inside, Bo Burnham did an equally good job capturing adolescent anxiety with Eighth Grade. Anchored by a great performance by Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade is a warm, funny film that will remind you just how disorienting it is to be a young person.
Thursday (7/14) - 6:00
American Honey is, by far, the lowest grossing A24 film we’re going to show, and you should take that as a recommendation. It’s a personal favorite, and a movie we’re willing to take a financial risk for. Writer/Director Andrea Arnold shot American Honey in chronological order and kept her predominantly non-actor cast in the dark. The end result is a unique, meandering, mesmerizing road film.
Wednesday (7/13) - 7:00
A psychological horror dance movie may sound like a bad idea, but filmmaker Gaspar Noé (Enter the Void, Vortex) pulls it off. Climax is an intense, boundary pushing film, but Noé brings a focus and humanity his earlier films could lack. The end result is exhilarating and horrifying in equal measure.
Tuesday (7/12) - 7:00
Possibly the most obvious omission from the A24 Showcase, The Witch was one of A24’s first breakout films. Looking back, it’s sort of crazy that such a strange film enjoyed such broad sucess. The first film from writer/director Robert Eggers (The Lighthouse, The Northman), The Witch is a slow burn folk-horror tale with an unflinching commitment to period details.
Saturday (7/9) - 9:00
The Last Black Man in San Francisco is a beautiful, unconventional film from Joe Talbot. It’s a portrait of friendship, set against the deeply felt loss of a community displaced by gentrification. It’s also, like so many great films, about so much more.
Sunday (7/10) - 4:30
Spring Breakers is a satire in the loosest sense. It’s a film that captures vacuous excess with such enthusiasm that the line between condemnation and celebration is never clear. For fans of Writer/Director Harmony Korine (Gummo, Kids), this is no surprise. Love him or hate him, he’s always been a filmmaker with a singular vision and an unflinching drive to put it on screen.
Sunday (7/10) - 7:00
Speaking of encores, yeah, we just ran this a couple month ago, and yeah, it’s been playing around town. But if you’ve seen Everything Everywhere All at Once, you know it’s a true movie theater movie. It’s got a big screen energy that’s amazing with crowd. That’s why we are bringing it back for one night only, at peak hours on a Friday. Let’s make it good.
Schedule by Day
Friday
6:30 - Everything Everywhere All At Once
Saturday
9:00 - The Witch
Sunday
4:30 - Last Black Man in San Francisco
7:00 - Spring Breakers
Monday
7:00 - Midsommar (Directors Cut)
Tuesday
7:00 - Climax
Wednesday
7:00 - American Honey
Thursday
6:00 - Eighth Grade
8:00 - Midsommar (Directors Cut)