April marks the 1-Year Anniversary of Moscow Film Society! It all started with a screening of ALIEN so in celebration we are having a free screening of ALIENS! Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony, but finds herself battling...
Moscow Film Society presents POSSESSION as part of their Euro Horror series. A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister. Blending genres as effectively as it subverts expectations, POSSESSION uses powerful acting and disquieting imagery to grapple with complex themes. Rated:...
Moscow Film Society presents OLDBOY as part of their Bong vs Park series! Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Park Chan-Wook’s cinematic masterpiece, OLDBOY, now restored and remastered in stunning 4K. After being mysteriously kidnapped and imprisoned with no human contact for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su (Choi Min-sik) is suddenly released without...
Moscow Film Society and University of Idaho JAMM present THE EXORCIST as part of their Wicked Wednesday series! When a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter. THE EXORCIST rides its supernatural theme to magical effect, with remarkable special effects and...
Moscow Film Society presents AFTER HOURS as part of their Surreal Absurdities series. An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho he met that evening at a coffee shop. With this Kafkaesque cult classic, Martin Scorsese—abetted by Michael Ballhaus’s kinetic cinematography and...
Moscow Film Society presents BEING JOHN MALKOVICH as part of their Surreal Absurdities series. A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich. Melancholy marionettes, office drudgery, a frizzy-haired Cameron Diaz—but that’s not all! Surrealism, possession, John Cusack, a domesticated primate, Freud, Catherine Keener, non sequiturs, and...
Moscow Film Society presents PLAYTIME as part of their Surreal Absurdities series. Jacques Tati’s gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in an age of high technology reached their apotheosis with PLAYTIME. For this monumental achievement, a nearly three-year-long, bank-breaking production, Tati again thrust the lovably old-fashioned Monsieur Hulot, along...
Moscow Film Society presents BRAZIL as part of their Surreal Absurdities series. In the dystopian masterpiece BRAZIL, Jonathan Pryce plays a daydreaming everyman who finds himself caught in the soul-crushing gears of a nightmarish bureaucracy. This cautionary tale by Terry Gilliam, one of the great films of the 1980s, has come to be esteemed alongside...