https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org An international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video with a particular focus on American independent and avant-garde cinema and its precursors found in classic European, Soviet and Japanese film. en-us Sun, 25 Oct 2026 20:50:58 -0400 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62038 <p>Troma’s answer to PLATOON and APOCALYPSE NOW, TROMA’S WAR is packed with gargantuan battle scenes, heart stopping stunts, and never-before-seen special effects. It is the first war picture that combines satire, sex, special effects make-up, stunts, gore, and a beautiful love story. A small group of typical Tromaville citizens find themselves in the path of a terrorist army controlled by the power elite. The freedom of Tromaville and the world is at stake! TROMA’S WAR creates new kinds of heroes. A used car salesman, a handsome environmentalist, an obese junk-food gourmand, a seventy-year-old housewife, some sensational young women, a year-old jingoistic baby, and more sensational women all become deadly soldiers in the most unusual and explosive, action-packed combat film ever produced by the Troma Team.<a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><br /><strong><br />CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, October 25 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62004 <p>IN THE MOMENT features charismatic poets and musicians who are masters of the art of improvisation, dueling with one another and commenting on the meaning of these traditions and of life itself in improvised rhymes. The film introduces viewers to payadores, emboladores, decimistas, band bertsolari poets, as well as freestyle rap. The poets hail from Argentina, Canary Islands, Brazil, Portugal, Italy, Trinidad, the Basque region of Spain, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and the U.S.<br /><br />Preceded by:<br />Richard Levine AFTER BASHŌ 2026, 8 min, DCP<br />Twenty haikus by Bob Holman – written while he was following “A Narrow Path Into the Interior,” the walk that Japan’s National Poet, Matsuo Bashō, took in 1689 – are the starting point of this animated collaboration by filmmaker Richard Levine, musician Phillip Johnston, and poet Bob Holman. The poems originally appeared in The New Yorker magazine.<br /><br /><strong>Followed by Q & A with Steve Zeitlin and Amanda Dargan!</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, October 25 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62040 <p>“When rookie New York City policeman Harry Griswold ends up in the middle of a shootout while attending an evening of kabuki theater, his attempt to save the life of a critically injured performer yields unintended consequences. The dying man bestows his supernatural powers onto Harry, thus rendering him ‘The Chosen One.’ Suddenly finding himself sprouting paper umbrellas and covered in face paint, the formerly clumsy cop is transformed into a crime-fighting superstar, with the help and training of Lotus, daughter of the deceased actor. But Harry’s new gifts also come with a fresh calling as he learns that he alone has the power to defeat the ancient ‘Evil One’ and foil his diabolical plans for bloodthirsty world domination. Mixing high-stakes action, spectacular car stunts, monstrous mutants, and Troma’s signature style of madcap gore and hilarious hijinx, this outrageous late-night TV and video store classic features a who’s who of cult stars, including Joe Fleishaker, Bill Weeden, and Rick Gianasi as Harry Griswold.” –VINEGAR SYNDROME<a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><br /><br /></a><strong>Lloyd Kaufman will be here in person for the screening on Sun, Oct 25 at 6:30, and he'll be joined by actor Bill Weeden!</strong><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><br /><strong><br />CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, October 25 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62006 <p>AZUL is a documentary about the poetic soul of Nicaragua. Twenty-four poems interweave with interviews to create a narrative of Nicaragua’s poetry and the historical contexts and individuals who formed it. With poems from the creator of Modernismo, Rubén Darío, to Ernesto Cardenal, Carlos Rigby, and Gioconda Belli, to people reciting spontaneously in the street and soldiers workshopping poems on the frontlines, AZUL reveals a nation alive with the creative spirit and a profound belief in poetry as a crucible for change and expression. Originally filmed during the height of the Contra War, the film has been restored digitally.<br /><br />Preceded by:<br />Richard Levine AFTER BASHŌ 2026, 8 min, DCP<br />Twenty haikus by Bob Holman – written while he was following “A Narrow Path Into the Interior,” the walk that Japan’s National Poet, Matsuo Bashō, took in 1689 – are the starting point of this animated collaboration by filmmaker Richard Levine, musician Phillip Johnston, and poet Bob Holman. The poems originally appeared in The New Yorker magazine.<br /><br /><strong>Followed by a Q&A with co-producer and editor Joanna Kiernan!</strong><br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, October 25 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62043 <p>“Joel grew up in the church but has recently started questioning his beliefs. After sensing a supernatural presence from his deceased father, Joel becomes compelled to visit his cousin in New York. But shortly after arriving, they become embroiled in a series of mysterious homicides of local men, all of whom were last seen in the company of a mysterious and beautiful woman. Beautifully photographed by Ernest Dickerson (DO THE RIGHT THING) and starring Kadeem Hardison (I’M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA) and Samuel L. Jackson (PULP FICTION), this sole directorial effort from child actor James Bond III is a macabre, neon-tinged portrait of late 1980s Brooklyn. The movie blends supernatural horror and religious mysticism, punctuated by an electrifying hip hop and R&B soundtrack.” –AGFA<a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><br /><strong><br />CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, October 25 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62046 <p>“Alferd Packer, awaiting his execution on the charge of cannibalism, recounts his harrowing story of survival in the snow-covered Colorado mountains while on an ill-fated quest for riches. After being convinced by a group of gold prospectors to join their expedition, Alferd loses his beloved horse, Liane, which unwittingly sets the men on an unplanned adventure, including encounters with a group of very unusual Indians, facing off with ultra-manly fur trappers, and, of course, fudge packing, all before becoming stranded in the freezing winter with no provisions. As tempers flare and stomachs growl, the posse is forced to make the only logical decision: eat each other! From the deranged and brilliant minds behind SOUTH PARK, Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s legendary feature filmmaking debut CANNIBAL! THE MUSICAL is the over-the-top, all-singing, and all-dancing story of real-life Colorado cannibal Alferd Packer! Starring Parker as Packer and featuring a guest appearance from legendary experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage, it is an unpredictable and thoroughly unhinged musical memoir through one of the grislier footnotes in American history.” –VINEGAR SYNDROME<a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><br /><strong><br />CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Monday, October 26 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62049 <p>Lovin’ sons always do what their mothers tell them to…even if it’s to KILL!!! In the spirit of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and IGOR & THE LUNATICS, the stylish, horrific, and darkly humorous MOTHER’S DAY is a celebration of gore and depravity that is certain to offend the weak of heart! When three beautiful young women set out for a relaxing weekend retreat in the woods, they unwittingly stumble upon a sadistic band of backwoods yokels. Taken prisoner by the insane matriarch and her demented sons, the women are forced to fight back using anything they can get their hands on. Heads roll, blood spurts, and genitals are mutilated as the women use myriad objects to do battle with Mother’s loving sons.<a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><br /><strong><br />CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Monday, October 26 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62051 <p>“The first of director Lloyd Kaufman’s official adaptations of William Shakespeare, TROMEO & JULIET is a wild, punk reimagining of The Bard’s eternal doomed romance, only with non-stop gore, nudity, and giant mutant genitals! Set amongst the denizens and outcasts of squalid New Jersey, standing in for a modern vision of Verona, and featuring a screenplay co-written by soon-to-be major director in his own right, James Gunn (SLITHER, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY), TROMEO features scream queen Debbie Rochon, Sean Gunn in his on-screen debut, music superstar Lemmy (Motörhead), and Will Keenan as Tromeo.” –VINEGAR SYNDROME<a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><br /><strong><br />CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Tuesday, October 27 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62054 <p>“The debut from Black filmmaker Ronald K. Armstrong, BUGGED is an ultra-fun and ambitious DIY creature feature. Following a freak lab accident with major RE-ANIMATOR vibes, a woman named Devine hires the Dead and Buried Exterminators to rid her house of some overgrown crickets. The bug-busters soon realize that these aren’t just large crickets, but radioactive beasties with a lust for blood! Filled with goopy practical effects and a charming mood, BUGGED is an important and overlooked chapter of 1990s horror from a Black perspective.” –AGFA<a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><br /><strong><br />CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Tuesday, October 27 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62056 <p>“When the notorious Diaper Mafia take the students of the Tromaville School For The Very Special hostage, only the Toxic Avenger, and his sidekick Lardass, can save them. However, a horrific explosion creates a portal between Tromaville and its dimensional counterpart, Amortville. While Toxie is trapped in Amortville, Tromaville comes under the control of his evil doppelgänger, the Noxious Avenger. Will Toxie return to Tromaville in time to stop Noxie’s rampage or is he doomed to remain a second-class citizen in Amortville forever? With a veritable cast of dozens, including Lemmy, Al Goldstein, Stan Lee, James Gunn, Hank the Angry Dwarf, Julie Strain, Eli Roth, Hugh Hefner, and Corey Feldman, CITIZEN TOXIE is Lloyd Kaufman’s ‘Tromasterpiece’” –AGFA<a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><br /><strong><br />CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Wednesday, October 28 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-61979 <p>Basilio is hired to watch over a remote beach on Mexico's Baja California coast, a seemingly idyllic stretch of shoreline where little appears to happen. But beneath the tranquil surface lies a community governed by its own codes, where illicit activities coexist with everyday life. Guided by an unwavering moral compass, Basilio is determined to do what he believes is right – only to discover that justice is far more elusive than he imagined. Set against a breathtaking coastal landscape, EL GUARDIÁN, the striking fiction debut by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Nuria Ibáñez (THE NAKED ROOM, A WILD STREAM), is a gripping and quietly unsettling meditation on ethics, belonging, and the fragile boundaries between duty and survival.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Wednesday, October 28 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62059 <p>In this crude parody of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”, Prospero lures a boatload of pharmaceutical executives to Tromaville, New Jersey. Mad scientist Prospero runs away with his blind daughter Miranda to Tromaville, hiding from evil pharmaceutical execs, including his own sister Antoinette, who ruined his career after he found the cure against opioid addiction. With the help of a handicapped prostitute, he releases a massive amount of laxative to whales, while his enemies are on a cruise ship to North Korea. A humongous shitstorm washes the boat away and brings them to Tromaville. Prospero can now fully realize his ultimate vengeance.<a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><br /><strong><br />CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Wednesday, October 28 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-61920 <p>(LA CHUTE DE LA MAISON USHER)<br /><br />Epstein deploys slow-motion, intricate lighting, and stylized sets to create an atmosphere of doom in this famous avant-garde expressionist Poe adaptation (combining both the eponymous tale and another Poe story, “The Oval Portrait”). Starring Marguerite Gance, wife of French director Abel Gance, it was also made with the participation of a young Luis Buñuel, who served as Epstein’s second assistant.<br /><br />“Since the French Impressionist school has always considered the cinema to be like a visual symphony, we might call this film by Epstein the cinematic equivalent of Debussy’s works.” –Henri Langlois<br /><br />Preceded by:<br />Jean Epstein<br />THE THREE-SIDED MIRROR / LA GLACE À TROIS FACES<br />(1927, 38 min, 35mm-to-DCP. French intertitles with English voiceover.)<br />“[Epstein’s] dependence on the close-up, his obsession with the totemic power of the object, his freewheeling mastery of cutting, variation of camera speed, and trust in the interpretive abilities of the audience, all come to a head with THE THREE-SIDED MIRROR. The fractured narrative follows the relations of three separate women…with a handsome, stylish, affluent young man. In the course of the film, he breaks an engagement with each of them in turn, tooling off in a sports car to his eventual demise.” –Brad Weismann, SENSES OF CINEMA<br /><br />[<strong>Please note: the 35mm prints that we have traditionally screened are no longer available, so this screening will be a digital one - we hope to find alternate prints for future EC screenings.</strong>]</p> <p><strong><strong><strong><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr">CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</a></strong></strong></strong></p> Thursday, October 29 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62061 <p>“A fledgling film crew, led by the lovable, yet blind, director Larry Benjamin, is hard at work making – or at least trying to make – Benjamin’s latest and most ridiculous movie. But problems with a difficult cast, an inexperienced and distracted crew, special effects that don’t quite work, and more are soon upended when members of the production team begin to be murdered in increasingly strange and convoluted ways. Lloyd Kaufman’s twisted take on a meta-movie, TERROR FIRMER is a splatter-fueled shock-fest-cum-murder-mystery which pushes the concept of bad taste to its wildest and most creative extremes, as only Troma can do. Featuring an ensemble cast of Troma alums including Will Keenan (TROMEO AND JULIET), TRENT HAAGA (TALES OF HALLOWEEN), and legendary ‘Scream Queen’ Debbie Rochon (TROMEO AND JULIET), along with guest appearances from esteemed filmmakers Eli Roth (HOSTEL), Joe Lynch (WRONG TURN 2), Matt Stone & Trey Parker (SOUTH PARK) and Lemmy Killmister (of the band Motörhead) as himself, TERROR FIRMER is a wildly over-the-top ode to independent filmmaking.” –VINEGAR SYNDROME<a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><br /><br /></a><strong>Lloyd Kaufman will be here in person on Thurs, Oct 29 at 7:30, and will be joined by actor Will Keenan!</strong><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><br /><strong><br />CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Thursday, October 29 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-61921 <p>Flaherty’s pioneering ethnographic film depicts the struggle for survival of Inuit hunter Nanook and his family. Though rife with staged scenes, anachronisms, and an indulgence in the myth of the “noble savage” (Nanook was in fact an Inuit man named Allakariallak, who hunted not with harpoons and spears but with a rifle), NANOOK OF THE NORTH is a work of great lyricism, simplicity of design, and genuine affection for its protagonists, and its force is undiminished almost 100 years after it was made.</p> <p><a href="https://ticketing.uswest.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Friday, October 30 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62036 <p>When first released in theaters in 1986, CLASS OF NUKE ‘EM HIGH became an instant sensation. Its unique blend of horror and humor was cheered by audiences and celebrated by critics. The film spawned two sequels and legions of fans. At Tromaville High School, located a stone’s throw from the local Nuclear Power Plant, the students are getting brighter. In fact, they’re beginning to develop a Troma-green glow. Innocent students mutate into sex-crazed psychos, the Honor Society’s turned into carnivorous, kinky cretins, and the slimy monster stalking the hallways isn’t the principal!<a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><br /><br /></a><strong>Lloyd Kaufman will be here in person for both screenings! The Q&A on Fri, Oct 30 will be moderated by Screen Slate founder Jon Dieringer.</strong><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><br /><strong><br />CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Friday, October 30 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-61922 <p>Flaherty’s third major film portrays the lives of a family of fisher folk on the Aran Islands off the coast of Galway, Ireland. Flaherty selected the location and subjects because of their isolation as the westernmost outpost of European civilization. In addition, the daily struggle between the islanders and the sea perfectly suited his interests and concerns. The scenes at sea are breathtaking.<br /><br />“His passionate devotion to the portrayal of human gesture and of a man’s fight for his family makes the film an incomparable account of human dignity. Better than anyone, Flaherty knew how to show the true face of Man.” –Georges Sadoul</p> <p><a href="https://ticketing.uswest.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Friday, October 30 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62029 <p>Welcome to Tromaville, New Jersey, a small American town, terrorized by criminals. The town’s corrupt mayor sits idly by while muggers, robbers, and teenage punks victimize helpless citizens. Among the residents of Tromaville is Melvin, a nerdy emaciated janitor at the local health club. That is, until he becomes THE TOXIC AVENGER! A gang of thugs devise a cruel hoax that goes horribly wrong as Melvin is cast through a third story window into a vat of hazardous toxic waste. However, an unexpected metamorphosis takes place. As the chemicals take hold of his body, Melvin turns into the TOXIC AVENGER, doer of good, and brutal mauler of evil! The rest, as they say, is history. See the film that spawned the comic book, website, cartoon, action figures, and three sequels to date! Experience the action that made Troma Entertainment a cinematic legend!<a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><br /><strong><br />CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Friday, October 30 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62041 <p>“When rookie New York City policeman Harry Griswold ends up in the middle of a shootout while attending an evening of kabuki theater, his attempt to save the life of a critically injured performer yields unintended consequences. The dying man bestows his supernatural powers onto Harry, thus rendering him ‘The Chosen One.’ Suddenly finding himself sprouting paper umbrellas and covered in face paint, the formerly clumsy cop is transformed into a crime-fighting superstar, with the help and training of Lotus, daughter of the deceased actor. But Harry’s new gifts also come with a fresh calling as he learns that he alone has the power to defeat the ancient ‘Evil One’ and foil his diabolical plans for bloodthirsty world domination. Mixing high-stakes action, spectacular car stunts, monstrous mutants, and Troma’s signature style of madcap gore and hilarious hijinx, this outrageous late-night TV and video store classic features a who’s who of cult stars, including Joe Fleishaker, Bill Weeden, and Rick Gianasi as Harry Griswold.” –VINEGAR SYNDROME<a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><br /><br /></a><strong>Lloyd Kaufman will be here in person for the screening on Sun, Oct 25 at 6:30, and he'll be joined by actor Bill Weeden!</strong><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><br /><strong><br />CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, October 31 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-61923 <p>ZORNS LEMMA<br />(1970, 60 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.)<br />“A major poetic work. Created and put together by a very clear eye-head, this original and complex abstract work moves beyond the letters of the alphabet, beyond words and beyond Freud. If you don’t understand it the first time you see it, don’t despair, see it again! When you finally ‘get it,’ a small light, possibly a candle, will light itself inside your forehead.” –Ernie Gehr<br />&<br />HAPAX LEGOMENA I: (nostalgia)<br />(1971, 36 min, 16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives, MoMA, and the NYU Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program, with funding from the National Film Preservation Foundation.)<br />“In (nostalgia) the time it takes for a photograph to burn (and thus confirm its two-dimensionality) becomes the clock within the film, while Frampton plays the critic, asynchronously glossing, explicating, narrating, mythologizing his earlier art, and his earlier life, as he commits them both to the fire of a labyrinthine structure; for Borges too was one of his earlier masters, and he grins behind the facades of logic, mathematics, and physical demonstrations which are the formal metaphors for most of Frampton’s films.” –P. Adams Sitney<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 100 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BOOK TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, October 31 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62044 <p>“Joel grew up in the church but has recently started questioning his beliefs. After sensing a supernatural presence from his deceased father, Joel becomes compelled to visit his cousin in New York. But shortly after arriving, they become embroiled in a series of mysterious homicides of local men, all of whom were last seen in the company of a mysterious and beautiful woman. Beautifully photographed by Ernest Dickerson (DO THE RIGHT THING) and starring Kadeem Hardison (I’M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA) and Samuel L. Jackson (PULP FICTION), this sole directorial effort from child actor James Bond III is a macabre, neon-tinged portrait of late 1980s Brooklyn. The movie blends supernatural horror and religious mysticism, punctuated by an electrifying hip hop and R&B soundtrack.” –AGFA<a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><br /><strong><br />CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, October 31 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-61924 <p>Georges Franju<br />BLOOD OF THE BEASTS / LE SANG DES BÊTES<br />1949, 20 min, 16mm. In French with English subtitles.<br />“This documentary on the slaughterhouses of Paris is one of the great masterpieces of the subversive cinema; here, for once, we are face to face with death, and are neither protected nor cheated. […] A dream-like quality permeates the intense realism of the images; a surrealist intent – akin to Buñuel’s slitting of the eyeball in UN CHIEN ANDALOU – is discernible in this anti-bourgeois film. But the eyeball, however shocking, was fictional; BLOOD OF THE BEASTS is real.” –Amos Vogel, FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART<br /><br />Jean Genet<br />UN CHANT D’AMOUR<br />1950, 26 min, 35mm, silent. <strong>Brand-new 35mm print by Anthology!</strong><br />“Genet’s only film – hounded by the censors, unavailable, secret – is an early and remarkably moving attempt to portray homosexual passions. Already a classic, it succeeds as perhaps no other film to intimate the explosive power of frustrated sex…. Like all Genet’s early work, the entire film is, in effect, a single onanistic fantasy, filled with desperate frustration and sensuous nostalgia.” –Amos Vogel, FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART<br />“There’s no smoke without fire; UN CHANT D’AMOUR is a communion in which Genet takes us into the prison in order to liberate us from it.” –Derek Jarman<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 50 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BOOK TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, October 31 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=10&year=2026#showing-62047 <p>“Alferd Packer, awaiting his execution on the charge of cannibalism, recounts his harrowing story of survival in the snow-covered Colorado mountains while on an ill-fated quest for riches. After being convinced by a group of gold prospectors to join their expedition, Alferd loses his beloved horse, Liane, which unwittingly sets the men on an unplanned adventure, including encounters with a group of very unusual Indians, facing off with ultra-manly fur trappers, and, of course, fudge packing, all before becoming stranded in the freezing winter with no provisions. As tempers flare and stomachs growl, the posse is forced to make the only logical decision: eat each other! From the deranged and brilliant minds behind SOUTH PARK, Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s legendary feature filmmaking debut CANNIBAL! THE MUSICAL is the over-the-top, all-singing, and all-dancing story of real-life Colorado cannibal Alferd Packer! Starring Parker as Packer and featuring a guest appearance from legendary experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage, it is an unpredictable and thoroughly unhinged musical memoir through one of the grislier footnotes in American history.” –VINEGAR SYNDROME<a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><br /><strong><br />CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, October 31 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=11&year=2026#showing-62052 <p>“The first of director Lloyd Kaufman’s official adaptations of William Shakespeare, TROMEO & JULIET is a wild, punk reimagining of The Bard’s eternal doomed romance, only with non-stop gore, nudity, and giant mutant genitals! Set amongst the denizens and outcasts of squalid New Jersey, standing in for a modern vision of Verona, and featuring a screenplay co-written by soon-to-be major director in his own right, James Gunn (SLITHER, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY), TROMEO features scream queen Debbie Rochon, Sean Gunn in his on-screen debut, music superstar Lemmy (Motörhead), and Will Keenan as Tromeo.” –VINEGAR SYNDROME<a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><br /><strong><br />CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, November 01 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=11&year=2026#showing-62228 <p>“Ernie Gehr [makes] cinematic magic, often from the least likely materials. Indeed, Gehr’s most famous film, SERENE VELOCITY (1970), in which the filmmaker transforms an institutional hallway in the basement of a classroom building at the State University of New York at Binghamton into a nexus of visual and conceptual energy, merely by adjusting his stationary camera’s zoom lens every four frames for twenty-three minutes, can be read as Gehr’s manifesto. For Gehr the most everyday spaces and the most mundane actions offer the imaginative filmmaker the most interesting potential. No other filmmaker, with the exception of Michael Snow, has so relentlessly and so productively explored the capacity of filmmaking to develop the visual (and auditory) opportunities afforded by the cinematic apparatus itself.” –Scott MacDonald, A CRITICAL CINEMA 5<em><strong><br /><br /></strong></em>REVERBERATION (1969, 23 min, 16mm)<br />SERENE VELOCITY (1970, 23 min, 16mm, silent)<br />&<br />STILL<br />1971, 54 min, 16mm. <span id="docs-internal-guid-d23934b8-7fff-25bd-abe4-271a8111682d"><span>Preserved by Anthology Film Archives.<br /><br /></span></span>Total running time: ca. 105 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BOOK TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Sunday, November 01 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=11&year=2026#showing-62062 <p>“A fledgling film crew, led by the lovable, yet blind, director Larry Benjamin, is hard at work making – or at least trying to make – Benjamin’s latest and most ridiculous movie. But problems with a difficult cast, an inexperienced and distracted crew, special effects that don’t quite work, and more are soon upended when members of the production team begin to be murdered in increasingly strange and convoluted ways. Lloyd Kaufman’s twisted take on a meta-movie, TERROR FIRMER is a splatter-fueled shock-fest-cum-murder-mystery which pushes the concept of bad taste to its wildest and most creative extremes, as only Troma can do. Featuring an ensemble cast of Troma alums including Will Keenan (TROMEO AND JULIET), TRENT HAAGA (TALES OF HALLOWEEN), and legendary ‘Scream Queen’ Debbie Rochon (TROMEO AND JULIET), along with guest appearances from esteemed filmmakers Eli Roth (HOSTEL), Joe Lynch (WRONG TURN 2), Matt Stone & Trey Parker (SOUTH PARK) and Lemmy Killmister (of the band Motörhead) as himself, TERROR FIRMER is a wildly over-the-top ode to independent filmmaking.” –VINEGAR SYNDROME<a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><br /><br /></a><strong>Lloyd Kaufman will be here in person on Thurs, Oct 29 at 7:30, and will be joined by actor Will Keenan!</strong><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><br /><strong><br />CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, November 01 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=11&year=2026#showing-62168 <p>This evening features a screening of Eduardo Coutinho’s TWENTY YEARS LATER: A MAN MARKED TO DIE (1984), introduced by the internationally acclaimed and Booker-shortlisted writer Itamar Vieira Junior. The evening also celebrates the English publication (by Verso) of Vieira Junior’s new novel, Saving the Fire, which presents the ghosts of a family’s past, lost amid the shadows of Brazil’s history. Vieira Junior masterfully blends the intimate journeys of his characters with faithfully rendered elements of Brazilian life in a world where the scars of colonialism still ache.<br /><br />For more info about Itamar Vieira Junior’s Saving the Fire, visit: <a href="https://www.versobooks.com/products/3303-saving-the-fire">https://www.versobooks.com/products/3303-saving-the-fire </a><br /><br />Eduardo Coutinho<br />TWENTY YEARS LATER: A MAN MARKED TO DIE / CABRA MARCADO PARA MORRER<br />1984, 119 min, 35mm-to-digital. In Portuguese with English subtitles.<br />“TWENTY YEARS LATER rescues a history doubly interrupted by the brutal military coup of 1964 in Brazil: that of Peasant League activism and of Coutinho’s project, A MAN MARKED TO DIE, a film that was meant to reenact the story of Agrarian Reform struggles leading to the assassination of the Peasant League leader João Pedro Teixeira in 1962. Featuring the leader’s widow and their children, as well as people from a similar community, the film was never finished, and the crew had to flee. In 1981, Coutinho set about locating the actors, in order finally to narrate the history of the Peasant League up to 1964. The 1984 film radiates centripetally from the absence at the core of the interrupted film: its dead protagonist, the assassinated leader. Coutinho was haunted for years by the rushes hidden in a suitcase at a friend’s. He admitted that the original film patronized and idealized the people but claimed to value the unfinished A MAN MARKED TO DIE precisely because of the participation of the organized rural movement. Besides its inordinate value as a record of a traumatic history, the film marks the passage from an idealized documentary representation to a testimonial, reflexive mode incorporating memory and commentary.” –Ivone Margulies<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, November 01 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=11&year=2026#showing-62057 <p>“When the notorious Diaper Mafia take the students of the Tromaville School For The Very Special hostage, only the Toxic Avenger, and his sidekick Lardass, can save them. However, a horrific explosion creates a portal between Tromaville and its dimensional counterpart, Amortville. While Toxie is trapped in Amortville, Tromaville comes under the control of his evil doppelgänger, the Noxious Avenger. Will Toxie return to Tromaville in time to stop Noxie’s rampage or is he doomed to remain a second-class citizen in Amortville forever? With a veritable cast of dozens, including Lemmy, Al Goldstein, Stan Lee, James Gunn, Hank the Angry Dwarf, Julie Strain, Eli Roth, Hugh Hefner, and Corey Feldman, CITIZEN TOXIE is Lloyd Kaufman’s ‘Tromasterpiece’” –AGFA<a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><br /><strong><br />CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, November 01 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=11&year=2026#showing-62170 <p>To celebrate the publication of the English translation of writer Rim Battal’s autobiographical novel <em>I’ll Look Myself in the Eyes</em>, Anthology presents a special screening of MUSTANG (2015), by Turkish filmmaker Deniz Gamze Ergüven, a film that’s closely tied thematically to Battal’s text.<br /><br />In <em>I’ll Look Myself in the Eyes</em> 17-year-old Rim is caught smoking out her window in her home in Marrakesh, Morocco. This minor transgression unleashes the fury of her mother, who demands that Rim complete a gynecological test certifying her virginity. So begins a nuanced journey into the tangled web of a patriarchal society in which various generations of women seem to complicitly preserve the status quo. Ultimately, it is Rim who breaks the cycle of dysfunction, rebels against tradition, confronts betrayal from the women closest to her, and dares to be her true self.<br /><br />MUSTANG, co-written by Alice Winocour, similarly explores the internalized psychological and moral impact of the patriarchy, through the story of five orphaned sisters growing up with their grandmother and uncle. When, on their way home from school, they play an innocent game with a group of boys on the beach, their grandmother flies into a rage, accusing them of having “pleasured themselves” and forbidding them from leaving the house. Things quickly escalate with the threat of arranged marriages. As in Rim’s novel, we see how far families can go wrong in their perceived mission of protecting the purity of their girls.<br /><br />The screening will be followed by a bilingual reading from the novel by author Rim Battal and her translator Liza Tripp, along with a discussion and audience Q&A.<br /><br />For more info about <em>I’ll Look Myself in the Eyes</em>, visit: <a href="https://www.galiotpress.com/authors/rim-battal">https://www.galiotpress.com/authors/rim-battal</a> <br /><br />Deniz Gamze Ergüven<br />MUSTANG<br />2015, 97 min, 35mm-to-DCP. In Turkish with English subtitles.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Monday, November 02 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=11&year=2026#showing-62255 <p>[BRENNENDE LANGEWEILE]<br /><br />“In the late 1970s, Wolfgang Büld first made a name for himself with his documentary PUNK IN LONDON. The follow-up to this authentic document of youth culture was the ZDF production BORED TEENAGERS, part of the “Das kleine Fernsehspiel” series; it was filmed in 1979 in the wake of the RAF panic – wanted posters are visible in the background several times throughout the film. The movie blends concert footage of the English punk band The Adverts with a loose narrative thread about a young punk named Peter and his hairdresser girlfriend, Karin, as they follow the band – led by TV Smith and Gaye Advert – on their tour through Germany. It is an entertaining yet quirky journey through a late-70s musical subculture.” –OX-FANZINE<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Wednesday, November 04 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=11&year=2026#showing-62166 <p>This program of artist films and videos is presented in conjunction with The Drawing Center’s current exhibition “Form, Shadow, Motion: Selections from the Burger Collection, Hong Kong”, opening on October 23, 2026 and on view until January 2027. The screening showcases a selection of artist pieces that extend the exhibition's visual essay on shared historical, poetic, and philosophical concerns, with Hong Kong and New York as twin points of reference and Eastern thought and Western philosophy as its guiding frameworks.<br /><br />“Form, Shadow, Motion: Selections from the Burger Collection, Hong Kong” is organized by Olivia Shao, Burger Collection & TOY Meets Art Curator.<br /><br />Cici Wu UNFINISHED RETURN OF YU MAN HON (2019, 19 min, 16mm-to-DCP)<br />Tang Kwok Hin GRANDPA TANG (2017, 13 min, DCP)<br />Chan Hau Chun THE MEMORY OF A CICADA IS LONGER THAN ITS LIFE (2024, 12 min, DCP. Music and sound: Chui Chi Yin.)<br />Simon Liu PROCEDURES (2026, 17 min, 16mm-to-DCP)<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 65 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Wednesday, November 04 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=11&year=2026#showing-62258 <p>[RANDALE UND LIEBE – ROCKER, POPPER, TEDS UND PUNKS]<br /><br />“Thomas Schmitt’s film offers unique insights into the alternative subculture of 1980s Cologne. Depending on the concert, the Blue-Shell attracted rockers, punks, and Teddy Boys, while the Café d’Or was a popular hangout for the ‘Popper’ crowd. RANDALE UND LIEBE – ROCKER, POPPER, TEDS UND PUNKS is a magnificent document of its time.” –COLOGNE CINEMA NIGHTS<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Wednesday, November 04 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=11&year=2026#showing-62261 <p>Michael Braun<br />NO FUTURE – KEIN BOCK AUF ILLUSIONEN<br />1981, 44 min, 16mm-to-DCP. In German with English subtitles.<br />“In 1981, film and television producer Michael Braun made this film (which for a long time circulated only on atrociously poor-quality VHS copies) about the punk scene in Duisburg, featuring Willi Wucher, the band ARTLESS, and – here and there – Bernie Blitz (RIP). It is a journey back to the early 1980s, to the Ruhr region…back when the area was even bleaker than it is today. In the 80s, Braun hosted the ‘Michael Braun Talkshow’ on WDR television, featuring guests such as the bands DAF and Östro 430; the show was an early precursor to today's late-night talk shows.” –COMPUTERSTAAT<br /><br />Detlev Puls<br />ALLET UNITED – PUNK IM POTT<br />1983, 25 min, 16mm-to-DCP. In German with English subtitles.<br />This short film – made for German television during the summer of 1983 – focuses on the punk scene in the industrial Ruhr region, and features the bands Die Kanzlers and Starkbier, members of which later went on to form Body Checks.<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 75 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Thursday, November 05 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=11&year=2026#showing-62172 <p>This screening – presented on the occasion of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop’s exhibition “Asilah Oui: Robert Blackburn in Morocco” – pairs two films that explore the links between Morocco and New York: Shalom Gorewitz’s MELEHI (1984) and Hisham Aïdi’s A THOUSAND AND ONE BERBER NIGHTS (2023), which together examine two pioneers of Moroccan art in the twentieth century.<br /><br />Commissioned as part of his 1984 solo exhibition at the Bronx Museum, MELEHI documents the work and life of renowned Moroccan painter and Asilah Cultural Moussem founder Mohamed Melehi through his projects as a teacher, painter, and modernist. Forty years after its production, MELEHI provides a career snapshot of the artist contextualized by his influences across the Moroccan landscape, placing him in the larger history of Morocco and its visual culture.<br /><br />A THOUSAND AND ONE BERBER NIGHTS delves into the transatlantic career of dancer, actor, and choreographer Hassan Ouakrim. In the late 1950s, Ouakrim was a young dancer and actor in Morocco. Little did he know that he would soon become the protegé of La Mama Theatre founder Ellen Stewart, performing across America, forming friendships with the likes of jazz virtuosos Ornette Coleman and Randy Weston, and becoming a pioneer in spreading Berber dance and music in North America.<br /><br />“Asilah Oui: Robert Blackburn in Morocco” at the Blackburn Study Center, September 15-December 12, 2026, focuses on the first decade of the Asilah Cultural Moussem. Established in 1978, this international festival brought together printmakers, musicians, intellectuals, and poets from around the globe to create, as founders Mohamed Benaissa and Mohamad Melehi described it, “a permanent center for cultural diffusion, rich in authenticity and steeped in heritage.” The exhibition illuminates how Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop served as a conduit in connecting the Moussem’s international artists.<br /><br />This screening is organized by the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, and co-presented with the Bronx Museum. For more info about the exhibition, visit: <a href="https://www.rbpmw-efanyc.org/asilah-oui">https://www.rbpmw-efanyc.org/asilah-oui</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Thursday, November 05 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=11&year=2026#showing-62263 <p>Helke Misselwitz<br />BULKY TRASH / SPERRMÜLL<br />1990, 72 min, 35mm-to-DCP. In German with English subtitles.<br />Filmed in the early summer of 1989, this documentary portrays a band of four young musicians who call themselves “Sperrmüll” (“Bulky Trash”), thanks to their proclivity for producing music by drumming on other people’s discarded items. Misselwitz concentrates especially on Enrico, who decides to stay behind when his mother Erika marries in the West, and who insists on maintaining his cultural identity even after the fall of the Wall. The members of “Sperrmüll” wish to remain citizens of their own state, and their attitude towards the looming reunification is one of skepticism. Originally intended as a call for social change, Misselwitz’s film documents the events of the Wende from the perspective of young East Berliners.<br /><br />Preceded by:<br />Petra Tschörtner<br />THE FREE ORCHESTRA / DAS FREIE ORCHESTER<br />1988, 17 min, 35mm-to-DCP. In German with English subtitles.<br />“Day in, day out, Barbara sells screws at a store in the East Berlin Market Hall. She is frustrated about having to tell her customers most of the time: ‘Ham wa nich!’ (‘We don’t have that!’) In the evening, she is the loud and wild singer of the legendary East Berlin avantgarde and punk band Das Freie Orchester. Playing music with her friends helps her escape the monotony of her job, express her dissatisfaction with everyday life in East Germany in the 1980s, and dream of a different life.” –DEFA FILM LIBRARY<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 95 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Thursday, November 05 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=11&year=2026#showing-62266 <p>Wolfgang Büld<br />GIRLS BITE BACK aka WOMEN IN ROCK<br />1980, 45 min, 16mm-to-DCP. In English and German with English subtitles.<br />“Canvassing a selection of female musicians squarely at the forefront of the post-punk tide, director Wolfgang Büld finds plenty of restless, spiky personalities and intriguing approaches to music and performance. Metal-heads Girlschool, tribal dub merchants The Slits, No Wave experimentalists Mania D, and operatic rock diva Nina Hagen are all featured in live performances, but best of all is a supremely sarcastic Siouxsie Sioux, filmed and interviewed on tour in Berlin.” –SCHAMROCK<br /><br />LiLiPUT<br />ROAD MOVIE<br />1982/2006, 29 min, Super-8mm-to-digital<br />Recorded in 1982 by the legendary all-female Swiss punk band LiLiPUT (née Kleenex) while on the road, the film captures both the exhilaration and the tedium of touring.<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 80 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Friday, November 06 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=11&year=2026#showing-62174 <p>THE THEATER OF THE MATTERS & TAUFIC PRESENT:<br />JEAN-CLAUDE ROUSSEAU’S ‘THE PASTORAL CONCERT’ + ‘LAST STOP FOR THE CIRCULAR TICKET’<br />This book launch event celebrates the release of Jean-Claude Rousseau’s unclassifiable, long-unavailable film text, The Pastoral Concert, published for the first time in English this October by Taufic. The evening will culminate in a special premiere screening of Rousseau’s new feature film, LAST STOP FOR THE CIRCULAR TICKET (winner of a Jury Special Mention at this year’s FIDMarseille), alongside his 2006 short, FAUX DÉPART.<br /><br />The Pastoral Concert marks the first English translation of Rousseau’s early written work Le Concert champêtre, begun in 1968, some fifteen years before his debut film. Rousseau continued shaping the work as a screenplay until its rejection by the Centre National de la Cinématographie in 1983. Unrealized, Le Concert champêtre became the matrix from which Rousseau’s subsequent films would emerge.<br /><br />Taking its title and three central characters (A, B, and C) from the eponymous painting long attributed to Giorgione and now to Titian, The Pastoral Concert begins as a letter written by a young man to his cousin in the countryside on the eve of her wedding, before mutating into a diary entry, a screenplay, and finally a film imagined through the failure of its own realization. In this restless fluctuation between registers, The Pastoral Concert expresses, in the words of Jean-Marie Straub, “something magnificent [and] entirely different from a screenplay or a découpage.”<br /><br />Translated from the French by artist and filmmaker Kevin Weil, this edition includes an extensive appendix of extra-diegetic materials written by Rousseau, as well as correspondence with contemporaries such as Dominique Noguez, Marcel Hanoun, and Jean-Marie Straub, which form a picture of the work’s early reception.<br /><br />For more info about The Pastoral Concert visit: <a href="https://taufic.org/the-pastoral-concert">https://taufic.org/the-pastoral-concert</a><br /><br />Jean-Claude Rousseau<br />LAST STOP FOR THE CIRCULAR TICKET / DERNIER ARRÊT POUR LE BILLET CIRCULAIRE<br />2026, 87 min, DCP. No dialogue.<br />Rousseau’s longest film since THE ENCLOSED VALLEY from 1995 (the summit of his 8mm era), LAST STOP FOR THE CIRCULAR TICKET refers to the looped ferry route that plies the waters of Lake Como in Northern Italy. Firmly grounded in place, Rousseau’s solitary camera finds desolate poetry in the void of the spectacular landscape and in the anonymous crowds of passengers seemingly entranced at the edge of an abyss. Musical chords and voices magnify their gestures and the movement of the vessel on the lake. Closing the circle, the specter of the end looms: “On the ferry, among the travelers, I recognized Mrs. Death…”<br /><br />Preceded by:<br />Jean-Claude Rousseau FAUX DÉPART (2006, 13 min, DCP. No dialogue.)<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Friday, November 06 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=11&year=2026#showing-62268 <p>An essential text for anyone with a love for the avant-garde. The explosive soundscapes of industrial music titans Einstürzende Neubauten first shook Berlin – then the whole world – to its core in the 1980s. In LIEBESLIEDER, co-directors Klaus Maeck and Johanna Schenkel wield a fractured feast of killer Neubauten performances from Euro television: ones that highlight the group’s cinematic presence, wild handmade instruments, and totally unique style. For those who are at all curious about industrial or noise music in general, this sweaty documentary is unmissable. For Neubauten fans, this humanizing portrait of their first decade provides a fresh take on the band.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Friday, November 06 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=11&year=2026#showing-62271 <p>“Bernd Sahling’s documentary follows the young punk Michael as he struggles to reconcile his identity and the reality of living in East Germany. He eventually applies for an exit permit and leaves for the West not long before the Fall of the Berlin Wall. The film explores Michael’s strained relationship with his mother, his path toward financial and intellectual autonomy, and thematizes the physical as well as the mental barriers one has to overcome in the pursuit of freedom.” –DEFA FILM LIBRARY<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, November 07 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=11&year=2026#showing-62259 <p>[RANDALE UND LIEBE – ROCKER, POPPER, TEDS UND PUNKS]<br /><br />“Thomas Schmitt’s film offers unique insights into the alternative subculture of 1980s Cologne. Depending on the concert, the Blue-Shell attracted rockers, punks, and Teddy Boys, while the Café d’Or was a popular hangout for the ‘Popper’ crowd. RANDALE UND LIEBE – ROCKER, POPPER, TEDS UND PUNKS is a magnificent document of its time.” –COLOGNE CINEMA NIGHTS<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, November 07 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=11&year=2026#showing-62186 <p>NEW YORK PREMIERE! FILMMAKERS IN PERSON!<br /><br />“Following two unconventional documentaries – SPACE DOGS (2019) and DREAMING DOGS (2024) – focused on the lives of stray canines, filmmaking duo Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter return with the narrative feature WHITE SNAIL, where the two protagonists also exhibit a fondness for various animals. Set in contemporary Belarus, the film tells the story of Masha, a blonde, thin, fair-skinned model pursuing her dream job in China, and Misha, a tattooed, thickset painter working at a morgue. Played with extreme naturalness by non-professionals Marya Imbro and Mikhail Senkov, these two loners strike up an unlikely but profound friendship that will force them to confront their secrets and wounds. The worlds to which Masha and Misha belong are completely at odds. But as these characters form a strange bond, the fashion industry and the funeral business reveal equally unlikely coincidences and areas of overlap that subtly proliferate as the plot advances. By depicting how we and our bodies relate to sight and touch, life and death, reality and imagination, flaws and perfection, Kremser and Peter map two universes on to one another, leaving the viewer to determine where they intersect and whether they diverge.” –Cristina Álvarez López, VIENNALE<br /><br />These screenings are co-presented by Deutsches Haus at NYU and Erste Bank, on the occasion of the co-awarding of the 2025 Viennale Erste Bank Film Award to WHITE SNAIL. Since 2011, each annual edition of the Viennale (Vienna International FilmFestival) has featured the granting of the Viennale Erste Bank Film Award to one or more filmmakers whose films are included within the festival. Designed to showcase the best of Austrian cinema, the Award was founded by Erste Bank, the Viennale’s main sponsor, and is awarded according to the findings of an independent jury. The Award brings a cash prize as well as a residency as a visiting filmmaker organized by Deutsches Haus at NYU. Additional support for these screenings has been provided by the Austrian Cultural Forum New York.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, November 07 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=11&year=2026#showing-62274 <p>“In 1988, the East German state film studio DEFA produced the first – and only – documentary report on the country’s rock and punk scene. whisper & SHOUT sold over a million tickets upon release, largely to young people eager to see their favorite bands on screen and to find out what made it past the censors. Their enthusiasm was natural; director Dieter Schumann’s team had hit the road across the GDR not only to film live performances, but also to interview teenage fans about their place in the subculture, their prospects for the future, and the targets of their rebellion. Shot on 35mm and featuring luminary bands like Feeling B (some of whose members went on to found Rammstein), Silly, Chicorée, and Die Zöllner, whisper & SHOUT is both a generational portrait of music and protest behind the Wall and a unique historical artifact of the East German media’s relationship to its country’s underground.” –GOETHE-INSTITUT<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, November 07