BTW/FYI, Logistics has been rerunning as part of BEST OF @spectacletheater.com 2024 (see www.spectacletheater.com/best-of-spec...) and the end is here once again, but it's not 5 in the morning like last time (see screenshot below)… stream.spectacletheater.com

TONIGHT AT SPECTACLE Our ANTI-VALENTINES Francois Ozon triple feature continues with WATER DROPS ON BURNING ROCKS (2000), a four-way relationship mess based on an unproduced Fassbinder play. www.spectacletheater.com/anti-valenti...

TONIGHT AT SPECTACLE It's February, so it's time for our annual ANTI-VALENTINES program. At 7:30, see NATURAL ENEMIES (Jeff Kanew, 1979), in which Hal Holbrook embarks on a murder-suicide mission against his hated family. www.spectacletheater.com/anti-valenti... vimeo.com/1046222734

My new trailer for @spectacletheater.com: “Gaza Is Our Home” is viewable here: vimeo.com/1053465279?s...

TONIGHT AT SPECTACLE At 7:30, it's our first showing of I'LL BE AROUND (Mike Cuenca, 2020), a day in the life of struggling musicians at a post-punk festival. www.spectacletheater.com/ill-be-around/

TODAY AT SPECTACLE Rockuary kicks off in spectacular fashion with an all-day marathon of films about history's greatest guitarist! IN THE WINK OF AN EYE: JIMI HENDRIX (1942-1970) starts at noon and runs until well after midnight. www.spectacletheater.com/hendrix/ vimeo.com/1049050193

BEST OF SPECTACLE 2024 ENDS TONIGHT At 7:30, it's our final screening of NEKO-MIMI (Jun Kurosawa, 1993), a "cinema crystal” that removes “human emotions, time, space, and montage" from the equation. www.spectacletheater.com/best-of-spec... vimeo.com/918790272

TONIGHT AT SPECTACLE The end of Best of Spectacle 2024 is closing in! It's your last chance to see these encores! At 7:30, we play Grigori Kromanov's snowbound '70s Soviet Estonian sci-fi mystery DEAD MOUNTAINEERS HOTEL. www.spectacletheater.com/best-of-spec... vimeo.com/1042532379

Really excited for the @spectacletheater.com screening this Sunday evening of two films directed and codirected by Sasha Tycko about the struggle to Stop Cop City. I'll be in conversation with Sasha afterward—please come out if you can! www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

TONIGHT AT SPECTACLE At 7:30, it's the final Best of Spectacle encore of GOIN' ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS, a double feature of documentaries about Appalachian folk music www.spectacletheater.com/best-of-spec... vimeo.com/907673423

Best of Spectacle wraps up this week, with our last encores of some of our favorite programming from 2024. At 7:30, see THE TIME THAT REMAINS, Elia Suleiman's quasi-autobiographical chronicle of decades of life in Palestine from 1948 onward. www.spectacletheater.com/best-of-spec...

TODAY AT SPECTACLE At 3, it's the latest edition of Blood Brunch, our biweekly surprise horror matinee. www.spectacletheater.com/blood-brunch/

Big day at Spectacle! At 3, it's the latest edition of ANIME NO GOGO, our secret anime OVA matinee. www.spectacletheater.com/anime-no-gogo/

TONIGHT AT SPECTACLE At 7:30, we have another showing of BLUE MOUNTAINS, OR UNBELIEVABLE STORY (Eldar Shengelaia, 1983), a late Soviet-Georgian portrait of a writer trudging through artistic bureaucracy. www.spectacletheater.com/best-of-spec...

Tonight at Spectacle, catch the first of two Best of Spec reprises of PERFECT LIVES (1983), John Sanborn and The Kitchen's epic theatrical/television “comic opera about reincarnation." Starts at 7:30! www.spectacletheater.com/best-of-spec...

CANICHE plays again tonight at 7:30, featuring a Q&A with Santiago Fouz Hernández, a professor at Durham University and author of forthcoming book The Films of Bigas Luna! withfriends.co/event/225073...

TONIGHT AT SPECTACLE At 7:30, it's our final Best of Spectacle reprise of RAVE MACBETH! One of the unsung touchstones of digital cinema is Macbeth, but in the club. www.spectacletheater.com/best-of-spec...

TONIGHT AT SPECTACLE At 7:30, see another screening of GOIN' ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS, a double feature of short documentaries about Appalachian folk music. www.spectacletheater.com/best-of-spec...

It's a very special Best of Spectacle Saturday: an all-day marathon of LANCELOT LINK: SECRET CHIMP, the 70s spy spoof TV series starring ape actors. Starts at 3 and runs until midnight! www.spectacletheater.com/best-of-spec...

It feels weird to say this, but I saw HAMBURGER DAD at @spectacletheater.com tonight and it's genuinely one of the best, most inspiring films I've seen in the last 12 months? An exemplar in how to fruitfully expand a one-joke concept, if nothing else.

Despite the MTA, I am omw to @spectacletheater.com for late shows of MISTER DESIGNER (1987) and HAMBURGER DAD (2003). @lcosgrove.bsky.social will be there, too!

TONIGHT AT SPECTACLE At 7:30, another Best of Spec showing of Klaus Lemke's SYLVIE, a supremely unlikely German love story. www.spectacletheater.com/best-of-spec...

Tonight at Spectacle, we have another encore of ORO, PLATA, MATA, one of our biggest hits from last year. Peque Gallaga's 1982 epic follows the fortunes of two families in the Philippines through the upheaval of World War II. withfriends.co/event/225071...

For a break in our Best of Spectacle retrospective, here's something fresh tonight: At 7:30, see SUNSET SEDUCTION (Charles de Agustin, 2024), an evolving piece that combines a 45-minute film with a site-specific discussion and contract work (yes, really!) withfriends.co/event/225075...

Last month, we presented Elia Suleiman's THE TIME THAT REMAINS (2009), a multi-decade look at Palestinian life from the Nakba onward, in our series You Killed Me and I Forgot to Die. Now the film returns as part of BEST OF SPECTACLE. Plays tonight at 7:30. withfriends.co/event/225075...

Robert Wynne-Simmons' 1982 Irish folk horror THE OUTCASTS plays again tonight at 7:30! withfriends.co/event/225072...

Programming Update: - going to (slooowly) work on this project over the next couple of weeks - if you're affiliated w/ @spectacletheater.com & have additional / corrective info, hit me up - have some Themroc (the film that, IIRC, nuked their Covid-era Twitch stream) vimeo.com/48716118

this trailer belongs in the Library of Congress

The first 2025 edition of BLOOD BRUNCH, our much-loved secret horror matinee series, starts today at 3! vimeo.com/363719853

I'm not a @spectacletheater.com volunteer (unless you count my "work" in their early-Covid chat streams), but I am (slowly) working on LTRBXD lists, by year & what's in their Vimeo trailer archive (w/ links), of what's (kinda) played there here's (part of) 2011: letterboxd.com/falsebinary/...

1st perfect 10 first watch of 2025 just dropped, documentary filmmaking as hauntological alchemy

Tonight at Spectacle, at 7:30, we have another BEST OF SPECTACLE encore of RAVE MACBETH (Klaus Knoesel, 2001). As the title suggests, it's Macbeth, in the rave scene. It's also the first film produced, filmed, and edited entirely digitally. withfriends.co/event/225071...

TONIGHT AT SPECTACLE At 7:30, it's THE OUTCASTS (Robert Wynne-Simmons, 1982). Last year, we hosted the US premiere of the 2K restoration of this feminist Irish folk horror film. Now it's back as part of BEST OF SPECTACLE! withfriends.co/event/225072...

Tonight at 7, our latest Best of Spectacle 2024 screening is FUNKY FOREST: THE FIRST CONTACT (Katsushito Ishii, Hajime Ishimine, Shunichirô Miki, 2005), a beautifully strange and epic sketch anthology. withfriends.co/event/225075...

CANICHE plays again tonight at 7:30!

Tonight at Spectacle! At 7:30, a reprise of one of last year's biggest hits, the Soviet-Estonian snowbound sci-fi mystery DEAD MOUNTAINEER'S HOTEL (Grigori Kromanov, 1979) withfriends.co/event/225074...

Tonight at Spectacle! At 7:30, our latest BEST OF SPECTACLE encore is BLUE MOUNTAINS, OR UNBELIEVABLE STORY (Eldar Shengelaia, 1983), a Soviet-Georgian comedy of bureaucracy Tickets: withfriends.co/event/225071...

Today at Spectacle, it's the first FIST CHURCH of the year! Drop in at 3 for our latest secret kung-fu movie matinee.

ITS GAMERA DAY DWEEBS

ANIME NO GOGO is back for 2025 today at 3! Tickets at the door only.

Tonight, BEST OF SPECTACLE continues with a 7:30 reprise of CANICHE ("Poodle," Bigas Luna, 1979), a dog's-eye view of the incestuous, cannibalistic, bestial bourgeoisie. Originally screened in April as part of our Bigas Luna series. Tickets: withfriends.co/event/225073...

BEST OF SPECTACLE kicks off with GOIN' ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS. Originally screened last February, this double feature of documentary shorts explores Appalachian culture Plays at 7:30, tickets here: withfriends.co/event/225072...

Our free encore stream of LOGISTICS (Erika Magnusson and Daniel Andersson, 2012) starts up again in a few hours and runs nonstop for the duration of the film -- all 35 days and 17 hours. stream.spectacletheater.com

We reopen our doors tomorrow, kicking off our January tradition of BEST OF SPECTACLE, revisiting volunteers' and members' favorite programming of 2024 www.spectacletheater.com/best-of-spec...

On Twitter, there was an otherwise fun prompt asking for our favorite rep cinema programs/events of the year. Mine were both @spectacletheater.com: the marathon screening of Robert Ashley’s PERFECT LIVES and the @schlockvalue.bsky.social programmed Fred Worden shorts.

The theater is now closed. Doors will reopen early in January. Thanks for a great year, happy holidays, and see you in 2025!

At 3, catch the last Fist Church of 2024! Turn up for a surprise kung-fu movie matinee. Tickets at the door. vimeo.com/107790292

Our much-loved weeklong premiere run of WEEKNIGHTS wraps tonight at 7:30! @danscanlon.bsky.social will be hosting the Q&A Tickets: withfriends.co/event/223470...