Metro Cinema Society: Cult Cinema

Cult Cinema

Metro Cinema's monthly series of eccentric classics and unusual treasures. Featuring the original, the challenging, and the just plain weird. Curated by Jeff Noel.

Cult: Clerks

Director: Kevin Smith

USA 1994, 92 min, 35mm

Sep 25 (2012) @ 9pm

Dante Hicks is a slacker who works at a New Jersey Quick Stop, while his best friend Randall works at the video store around the corner. Their apathy for their jobs is equaled only by the absurdity of their customers,... view more

Cult: Punch-Drunk Love

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

USA 2002, 94 min, 35mm

Oct 23 (2012) @ 9:30pm

Winner of the Best Director Award at Cannes, Paul Thomas Anderson’s fourth film is a unique portrait of a lonely soul finding strength in the power of love. Adam Sandler is Barry Egan, an isolated entrepreneur who is suddenly forced... view more

Cult: Schindler's List

Director: Steven Spielberg

USA 1993, 195 min, 35mm

Nov 26 (2012) @ 7pm

In 1939 Germany invaded Poland, setting off World War II, and immediately began relocating the countries Jewish population, first into ghettos, then to concentration camps. Steven Speilberg's masterpiece follows the true story of the more than one-thousand Polish Jews who... view more

Cult: Casablanca

Director: Michael Curtiz

USA 1942, 102 min, Digital

Dec 19 (2012) @ 7pm

A perfect example of studio-era filmmaking, _Casablanca_ went from box office success to Best Picture winner, and then transcended that claim by becoming one of the most iconic movies of the Twentieth Century. Set during the Second World War in... view more

Cult: Jackie Brown

Director: Quentin Tarantino

USA 1997, 154 min, 35mm

Jan 29 @ 9pm

Tarantino followed up the world-conquering success of _Pulp Fiction_ with this relatively restrained adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s novel _Rum Punch_, and produced what may be his most mature and understated work, a crime based character study about getting older. Already... view more

Cult: Cruising

Director: William Friedkin

USA 1980, 102 min, Digital

Feb 26 @ 7pm

Al Pacino is Steve Burns, a rookie cop who goes undercover in New York’s gay underground to track a serial-killer operating in the S&M and leather clubs, and is forced to face his own sexuality in the process. Met with... view more

Cult: Altered States

Director: Ken Russell

USA 1980, 107 min, Digital

Mar 26 @ 7pm

In his screen debut, William Hurt plays Eddie Jessop, a scientist engaged in a series of sensory deprivation and psychedelic experiments, hell bent on discovering the essence of human existence and the “ultimate truth”, who finds himself unlocking his own... view more

Cult: Silent Running

Director: Douglas Trumbull

USA 1972, 89 min, Digital

Apr 30 @ 7pm

Douglas Trumbull, the effects wizard behind _2001: A Space Odyssey_, made his directorial debut with this ecologically minded science-fiction feature set in a future where Earth has become inhospitable to plant life. Bruce Dern plays Freeman Lowell, one of a... view more

Cult: The Beguiled

Director: Don Siegel

USA 1971, 105 min, Digital

May 28 @ 7pm

In this Southern Gothic tale set in Civil War era Louisiana, Clint Eastwood stars as John McBurney, a Yankee soldier wounded in Confederate territory and taken in to mend by the residents of a boarding school for girls. While helping... view more