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Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair - Poster

Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair

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Presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque, ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair‘ is an annual film festival showcasing some of the greatest works of cinema from across the globe that venture into the darkest sides of humanity and the bleakest points in human history.⁠ ⁠

A harrowing, yet powerful lineup of films defined by stark imagery, unimaginable tragedies, existential fear, nihilism and shocking acts of brutality, this series features the world’s leading filmmakers who wholly embrace a cinema of despair in pursuit of unpleasant truths and raw empathy.

Taking place in June, the fifth year will see the festival expand to nearly 100 theatres across the United States and Puerto Rico, Canada, England, Scotland, Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile. Each venue will curate it’s own lineup of films.


Individual film tickets: $13
Full festival pass: $35


Lineup and individual tickets:

Twin Peaks: The Return - Part 8 "Gotta Light?" & Night of the Living Dead (1968) Double Feature | Friday, June 12th @ 7:00 PM | BUY TICKETS


Enter the Void (2009) | Saturday, June 13th @ 7:00 PM | BUY TICKETS


The Vanishing (1988) | Sunday, June 14th @ 7:00 PM | BUY TICKETS


Punishment Park (1971) | Monday, June 15th @ 7:00 PM | BUY TICKETS


Funny Games (1997) | Tuesday, June 16th @ 7:00 PM | BUY TICKETS


Cure (1997) | Wednesday, June 17th @ 7:00 PM | BUY TICKETS


Come and See (1985) | Thursday, June 18th @ 7:00 PM | BUY TICKETS



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Upcoming Showtimes
  • June 12 - 7:00pm
  • June 13 - 7:00pm
  • June 14 - 7:00pm
  • June 15 - 7:00pm
  • June 16 - 7:00pm
  • June 17 - 7:00pm
  • June 18 - 7:00pm
Twin Peaks: The Return Part 8

Twin Peaks: The Return Part 8 "Gotta Light?" & Night of the Living Dead Double Feature - Bleak Week

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Festival Pass: $35


Globe Cinema and American Cinematheque Presents: Twin Peaks: The Return Part 8 "Gotta Light?" & Night of the Living Dead Double Feature - Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair

Kick off Bleak Week with a grim double feature of Twin Peaks: The Return Part 8 "Gotta Light?" and George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968).

The pivotal episode of David Lynch’s triumphant return to Twin Peaks 25 years later, Part 8 “Gotta Light?” marks a massive shift in the series’ tone while heralding the birth of all evil depicted brilliantly by the Manhattan Project nuclear testing in New Mexico. What follows is one of the most unhinged and vivid nightmares Lynch has conjured setting the stage for the series’ climax.

Alongside the birth of evil, we have the original sin and horror found in the seminal zombie classic; George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. A paranoid and desperate fight for survival against hordes of the recently unearthed that culminates in one of the most cynical and bleak endings to a film already littered with suffering and despair. 

Presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque, ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair‘ is an annual film festival showcasing some of the greatest works of cinema from across the globe that venture into the darkest sides of humanity and the bleakest points in human history.⁠ ⁠

A harrowing, yet powerful lineup of films defined by stark imagery, unimaginable tragedies, existential fear, nihilism and shocking acts of brutality, this series features the world’s leading filmmakers who wholly embrace a cinema of despair in pursuit of unpleasant truths and raw empathy.

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Twin Peaks: The Return Part 8 "Gotta Light?"

Director: David Lynch
Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Leslie Berger, Robert Broski           
Running time: 56 min 
Rating: 14A


Night of the Living Dead

Director: George A. Romero
Stars: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman           
Running time: 1 hr 36 min 
Rating: 14A (Violence, Frightening Scenes)


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Upcoming Showtimes
  • June 12 - 7:00pm
Enter the Void - Bleak Week - Poster

Enter the Void - Bleak Week

Synopsis:

Festival Pass: $35


Globe Cinema and American Cinematheque Presents: Enter the Void (2009) - Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair

Tokyo's nasty underside, seen primarily through the eyes of Oscar, a heavy drug user, whose sister Linda is a stripper. Oscar also has flashbacks to his childhood when trauma upends the siblings. Oscar's drug-fed hallucinations alter Tokyo's already-disconcerting nights, and after the police shoot him, he can float above and look down: on his sister's sorrow, on the rooms of a love hotel, and on life at even a molecular level. The spectrum's colors can be beautiful; it's people's colorless lives that can be ugly. And what of afterlife, is there more than a void?

Presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque, ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair‘ is an annual film festival showcasing some of the greatest works of cinema from across the globe that venture into the darkest sides of humanity and the bleakest points in human history.⁠ ⁠

A harrowing, yet powerful lineup of films defined by stark imagery, unimaginable tragedies, existential fear, nihilism and shocking acts of brutality, this series features the world’s leading filmmakers who wholly embrace a cinema of despair in pursuit of unpleasant truths and raw empathy.

Genre: Drama


Director: Gaspar Noe
Stars: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy             
Running time: 2 hr 41 min 
Rating: R (Disturbing Content)



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Upcoming Showtimes
  • June 13 - 7:00pm
The Vanishing - Bleak Week - Poster

The Vanishing - Bleak Week

Synopsis:

Festival Pass: $35


Globe Cinema and American Cinematheque Presents: The Vanishing (1988) - Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair

Rex and Saskia are on holiday, a young couple in love. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia disappears. Rex dedicates the next three years trying to find her. Then he receives some postcards from her abductor, who promises to reveal what has happened to Saskia. The abductor, Raymond Lemorne, is a chilling character to whom Rex is drawn by his intense desire to learn the truth behind his lovers disappearance. The truth is more sinister than he dared imagine.

Genre: Mystery, Thriller


Director: George Sluizer
Stars: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege               
Running time: 1 hr 47 min 
Rating: PG



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Upcoming Showtimes
  • June 14 - 7:00pm
Punishment Park - Bleak Week - Poster

Punishment Park - Bleak Week

Synopsis:

Festival Pass: $35


Globe Cinema and American Cinematheque Presents: Punishment Park (1971) - Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair

A pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews's news coverage of the team of soldiers escorting a group of hippies, draft dodgers, and anti-establishment types across the desert in a type of capture the flag game. The soldiers vow not to interfere with the rebels' progress and merely shepherd them along to their destination. At that point, having obtained their goal, they will be released. 

The film crew's coverage is meant to insure that the military's intentions are honorable. As the representatives of the 60's counter-culture get nearer to passing this arbitrary test, the soldiers become increasingly hostile, attempting to force the hippies out of their pacifist behavior.

Genre: Drama, Thriller


Director: Peter Watkins
Stars: Patrick Boland, Kent Foreman, Carmen Argenziano                 
Running time: 1 hr 31 min 
Rating: 14A (Coarse Language)



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Upcoming Showtimes
  • June 15 - 7:00pm
Funny Games - Bleak Week - Poster

Funny Games - Bleak Week

Synopsis:

Festival Pass: $35


Globe Cinema and American Cinematheque Presents: Funny Games (1997) - Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair

Michael Haneke’s most notorious provocation, Funny Games spares no detail in its depiction of the agony of a bourgeois family held captive at their vacation home by a pair of white-gloved young men. In a series of escalating “games,” the sadistic duo subject their victims to unspeakable physical and psychological torture over the course of a night. 

A home-invasion thriller in which the genre’s threat of bloodshed is made stomach-churningly real, the film ratchets up shocks even as its executioners interrupt the action to address the audience, drawing queasy attention to the way that cinema milks pleasure from pain and stokes our appetite for atrocity. With this controversial treatise on violence and entertainment, Haneke issued a summation of his cinematic philosophy, implicating his audience in a spectacle of unbearable cruelty.

Genre: Drama, Crime


Director: Michael Haneke
Stars: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Muhe, Arno Frisch                   
Running time: 1 hr 48 min 
Rating: 14A (Violence, Disturbing Content)



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Upcoming Showtimes
  • June 16 - 7:00pm
Cure - Bleak Week - Poster

Cure - Bleak Week

Synopsis:

Festival Pass: $35


Globe Cinema and American Cinematheque Presents: Cure (1997) - Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s arresting international breakthrough established him as one of the leaders of an emerging new wave of Japanese horror while pushing the genre into uncharted realms of philosophical and existential exploration. 

A string of shocking, seemingly unmotivated murders—each committed by a different person yet all bearing the same grisly hallmarks—leads Detective Takabe (Koji Yakusho) into a labyrinthine investigation to discover what connects them, and into a disturbing game of cat and mouse with an enigmatic amnesiac (Masato Hagiwara) who may be evil incarnate. Awash in hushed, hypnotic dread, Cure is a tour de force of psychological tension and a hallucinatory journey into the darkest recesses of the human mind.

Genre: Horror, Crime


Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Masato Hagiwara, Koji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki                     
Running time: 1 hr 51 min 
Rating: 18A (Gory Violence)



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Upcoming Showtimes
  • June 17 - 7:00pm
Come and See - Bleak Week - Poster

Come and See - Bleak Week

Synopsis:

Festival Pass: $35


Globe Cinema and American Cinematheque Presents: Come and See (1985) - Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair

This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in what is now known as Belarus, teenage Flyora (Alexei Kravchenko, in a searing depiction of anguish) eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. 

Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty—rendered with a feverish, otherworldly intensity by Klimov’s subjective camera work and expressionistic sound design. Nearly blocked from being made by Soviet censors, who took seven years to approve its script, Come and See is perhaps the most visceral, impossible-to-forget antiwar film ever made.

Genre: Drama, Thriller


Director: Elem Klimov
Stars: Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius                       
Running time: 2 hr 22 min 
Rating: 18A (Brutal Violence)



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Upcoming Showtimes
  • June 18 - 7:00pm
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open - Poster

The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open

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A League of Their Own Presents: The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019)

When Aila encounters a young Indigenous woman, barefoot and crying in the rain on the side of a busy street, she soon discovers that this young woman, Rosie, has just escaped a violent assault at the hands of her boyfriend. Áila decides to bring Rosie home with her and over the course of the evening, the two navigate the aftermath of this traumatic event.

Genre: Drama

Director: Kathleen Hepburn, Elle-Maija Tailfeathers 
Stars: Violet Nelson, Elle-Maija Tailfeathers, Charlie Hannah                
Running time: 1 hr 45 min 
Rating: STC  


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Upcoming Showtimes
  • June 10 - 7:00pm
Trainspotting - 30th Anniversary 4K Restoration - Poster

Trainspotting - 30th Anniversary 4K Restoration

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Globe Cinema Presents: Trainspotting - 30th Anniversary 4K Restoration (1996)

Funny, disturbing, tragic and deeply addictive, TRAINSPOTTING is based on the seminal best-selling novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh. 

Set in gritty, late 1980s Edinburgh, Scotland, it’s the story of smart, funny, sickly, heroin addict Mark Renton
(Ewan McGregor) and his so-called friends - a bunch of losers, liars, psychos, thieves and junkies. 

Hilarious but harrowing, the film charts the disintegration of their friendship as they proceed, seemingly inevitably, towards self-destruction. Mark alone has the insight and opportunity to escape his fate, but does he really want to “choose life”?

Genre: Drama, Crime

Director: Danny Boyle
Stars: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller                      
Running time: 1 hr 33 min 
Rating: 18A (Substance Abuse, Disturbing Content)  


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Upcoming Showtimes
  • June 5 - 7:00pm
  • June 5 - 9:00pm
  • June 6 - 7:00pm
  • June 7 - 6:30pm
  • June 10 - 7:30pm
  • June 11 - 7:30pm