Lon Chaney stars as a carnival performer “Alonzo The Armless Wonder” who throws knives with his feet in a daring act featuring the alluring Nanon Zanzi, played by Joan Crawford in her first major role. Without divulging too much, The Unknown serves romance, macabre obsession, and horror in about 60...
Moscow Film Society presents UNCUT GEMS as part of their Panic! at the Kenworthy series. With his debts mounting and angry collectors closing in, a fast-talking New York City jeweler risks everything in hope of staying afloat and alive. Uncut Gems reaffirms the Safdies as masters of anxiety-inducing cinema — and proves Adam Sandler remains a...
KPAC presents indie sensation DÍDI. In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom. A semi-autobiographical love letter to teenage angst that’s also...
KPAC presents THE CONVERSATION as part of our New Restorations series featuring recently restored classics. Lonely wiretapping expert and devout Catholic Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is hired to record a seemingly innocuous conversation in San Francisco’s Union Square between two lovers. Upon re-hearing the tapes, however, Caul believes he may be putting the couple...
Moscow Film Society presents GREEN ROOM as part of their Panic! at the Kenworthy series. A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing a murder at a neo-Nazi skinhead bar. Green Room delivers unapologetic genre thrills with enthusiasm and uncommon intelligence. Rated: R | 1 hr 35 min | Tickets: $8...
Japanese director Teinsosuke Kinugasa’s electrifying psychological drama holds the legendary distinction as being the most fascinating, perplexing madhouse movie ever made. In a major win for the Inland Northwest, KPAC will present this film exactly as it was intended for Japanese audiences in the 1920s, with a live benshi artist...
KPAC presents BULLITT as part of our Cinema Classics series, featuring films chosen by our Classics Film Committee. A nonconformist San Francisco cop is determined to find the underworld kingpin who killed the witness under his protection. Steve McQueen is cool as ice in this thrilling police procedural that also happens to contain arguably...
KPAC presents the 30th Anniversary screening of classic anime NINJA SCROLL including an all-new exclusive interview with director Yoshiaki Kawajiri. A mysterious vagabond sets out on a journey to confront his past. Little does he know he is up against a demonic force of killers, with a ghost from his past...
Moscow Film Society presents WHIPLASH as part of their Panic! at the Kenworthy series. A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student’s potential. Intense, inspiring, and well-acted, Whiplash is a brilliant sophomore effort from...
The festival concludes with Harold Lloyd’s most satisfying slapstick comedy, featuring a nigh-incoherent story as pretext for set pieces involving brilliant pratfalls, surly retail workers, innuendo with garment scissors, and foot-stamping cops. Lloyd projects a dumb genius of everyman workplace enthusiasm that grounds him in our world more firmly than...
Palouse Cult Film Revival presents BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA. A rough-and-tumble trucker and his side kick face off with an ancient sorcerer in a supernatural battle beneath Chinatown. Brimming with energy and packed with humor, Big Trouble in Little China distills kung fu B-movies as affectionately as it subverts them. Keep the...
KPAC and BookPeople present MATILDA as part of our Movie Book Club series. A girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers uses both to get even with her callous family and free her kindly schoolteacher from the tyrannical grip of a sadistic headmistress. The Danny DeVito directed version of Matilda is odd, charming, and...
