PFS Goes Green!
PFS Goes Green!
In observance of Earth Day and 4/20 we offer a unique hit of 3 special screenings and other films from our month’s program.
PRINCESS MONONOKE (SUBBED)
HAYAO MIYAZAKI | JAPAN | 1997 | 134 MIN | PG-13 | JAPANESE | 4K
April 20 | 12:00 PM /// April 21 | 3:00 PM
Hayao Miyazaki’s landmark fantasy and environmental epic finds a cursed prince struggling to reestablish harmony amidst the raging crossfire between the gods of the forest and a mass-polluting, natural resource-consuming populace.
CATS
TOM HOOPER | UK | 2019 | 110 MIN | PG | ENGLISH
April 20 | 7:00 PM
And we all say…Oh! Well, I never! Was there ever a film so magical as CATS the musical? For one special night only, the Jellicle Ball comes to the Philadelphia Film Center for a purrrrfect party with Rum Tug Tugger, Old Deuteronomy, Grizabella, and the rest of the feline gang.
ENTER THE VOID on 35mm
GASPAR NOÉ | FRANCE | 2009 | 161 MIN | R | ENGLISH, JAPANESE | 35mm
April 20 | 8:45 PM
France’s reigning enfant terrible Gaspar Noé (CLIMAX, IRRÉVERSIBLE) invites audiences into a cinematic and psychedelic out-of-body experience after a sketchy drug deal turns fatal and leaves a literal lost soul traveling through the neon-drenched skies of Tokyo.
THE HOST
BONG JOON HO | SOUTH KOREA | 2006 | 120 MIN | R | KOREAN
April 20 | 2:45 & 9:30 PM
Bong Joon-ho’s exhilarating and entertaining eco-creature feature shows what happens when you dump corporate chemical waste into the Han river: you get a monstrous tentacled beast ravaging a city and kidnapping children with only PARASITE’s Song Kang-ho as a bumbling father standing in its way.
THE SACRIFICE in 4K
ANDREI TARKOVSKY | SWEDEN | 1986 | 145 MIN | PG | SWEDISH, ICELANDIC | 4K
April 20 | 1:00 PM
After learning the news that World War III has broken out, a man makes a Faustian deal with God to save his family from psychological devastation in Tarkovsky’s profound, and dare we say, emotionally touching final film completed at the end of the legend’s life.
NOSTALGHIA in 4K
ANDREI TARKOVSKY | ITALY | 1983 | 126 MIN | NR | ITALIAN, RUSSIAN | 4K
April 25 | 7:00 PM /// April 28 | 3:00 PM
Upon leaving the Soviet Union in 1979, Tarkovsky created a contemplative and stirring meditation on being a stranger in a strange land when a Russian writer travels to Italy for research, becoming entrenched in the culture and locals while reminiscing on a home that may no longer exist.
FAST FIVE
JUSTIN LIN | USA | 2011 | 130 MIN | PG-13 | ENGLISH, PORTUGUESE, SPANISH, ITALIAN, FRENCH
April 20 | 4:00 PM
Before Dom Torretto and Family can kick back a ‘rona and drive off (not at the same time) into the sunset, they embark on one of the most audaciously staged, turbo-fueled heists of the 21st century by franchise savior, Justin Lin.