February 22nd, 2012 03:55 p.m.

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 Cinema: A Hard Day's Night

Director: Richard Lester
UK 1964, 87 min, 35mm
  • Sep 20 (2011) @ 9pm
The Beatles play themselves in this masterpiece of rock n' roll cinema, produced in the weeks following the Fab Four's return from their triumphant first trip to the US. Intended to cash in on the sudden worldwide outbreak of Beatlemania,... view more

Cult Cinema: Manhattan

Director: Woody Allen
1979, 96 min, 35mm
  • Oct 25 (2011) @ 9pm
Woody Allen's cinematic prowess reached it's apex with this black & white love-letter to New York City. Here he plays Isaac Davis, a successful middle-aged comedy writer who is dating a precocious 17-year-old just about to finish high school, while... view more

Cult Cinema: Wild at Heart

Director: David Lynch
USA 1990, 125 min, 35mm
  • Nov 29 (2011) @ 9pm
Nicholas Cage and Laura Dern set the screen on fire as Sailor and Lula, young lovers on the road in a nightmarish American landscape and high on love. When Sailor is released form a stint in prison Lula picks them... view more

Cult Cinema: Die Hard 2

Director: Renny Harlin
USA 1990, 124 min, 35mm
  • Dec 21 (2011) @ 9:15pm
Yipee Ki-Yay moviegoer! Bruce Willis returns as John McClane, the working man's James Bond, for his second straight Christmas vs.Terrorists. This time it's ex-CIA operatives who take control of Washington's Dulles airport on Christmas Eve in an attempt to free... view more

Cult Cinema: Brazil

Director: Terry Gilliam
USA 1985, 131 min, 35mm
  • Feb 28 @ 9pm
_Brazil_ is Terry Gilliam’s masterpiece. The film, co-written by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy. When a bug, literally, gets in the system, an innocent man is... view more
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