AUGUST CURATED

Curated showtimes for the month of August, all in one place.

In collaboration with ALLIn Productions, NAMI Philly, and partners, Sharing Hope is a short film screening event consisting of interactive discussions and activities.
Runtime: 120 min
Endlessly influential and filled with iconic black and white photography, LA HAINE follows three friends, including Vincent Cassel, as they navigate their poor Parisian suburb neighborhood after a night of protesting left a close friend severely injured at the hands of the police.
Director: MATHIEU KASSOVITZ
Runtime: 97 min
Genre
DRAMA
Category
Film Essentials
PFS Member 50
Formats
DCP
Release
1995
Adapted from 10th century Japanese folklore, the discovery of a tiny girl inside a bamboo stalk and her transformation into a magical young woman is an enchanting animated narrative from acclaimed director Isao Takahata (GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES) and Studio Ghibli.
Director: ISAO TAKAHATA
Runtime: 137 min
Genre
ANIMATED
Category
Anime Series
Formats
DCP
Release
2015
Halle Berry and Natalie Desselle-Reid radiate as the iconic duo of waitresses-turned-Black American Princesses, hustling to achieve their dream salon with down-for-anything Martin Landau in tow in this beloved comedy cult classic from Robert Townsend.
Runtime: 91 min
Category
Throwback
Formats
DCP
Release
1997
A tale of two epics, Rajamouli’s saga may span generations but begins as a story of an abandoned boy of royal heritage raised by a rural tribe, destined to liberate the land from a tyrant.
Director: S.S. RAJAMOULI
Runtime: 169 min
Genre
EPIC
Category
Summer of Trilogies
Formats
DCP
Release
2015
Walking away from her E.T. editing gig to direct this slyly feminist B-movie, filmmaker Amy Holden Jones’ debut follows a gaggle of high school girls plunged into a night of horror when an escaped serial killer armed with a power drill crashes their slumber party, picking them off one by one.
Director: AMY HOLDEN JONES
Runtime: 77 min
Genre
Horror
Category
After Hours
Formats
DCP
Release
1982
Confusion and panic arise when the Axis’ inevitable defeat leaves Japanese soldiers and civilians not only abandoned on foreign soil, but targets for the quickly approaching Soviet and Chinese armies.
Director: MASAKI KOBAYASHI
Runtime: 190 min
Genre
DRAMA
Category
Summer of Trilogies
Formats
DCP
Release
1961
Following the 3:15 PM screening on Sunday, September 1, stay for an exclusive live virtual Q&A with renowned director Moussa Sene Absa | In Moussa Sene Absa’s Berlinale award-winning film, a fiercely independent mother fights for justice after falling for a duplicitous police officer, refusing to be disempowered by him or anyone else for that matter. Join us Sunday, September 1st for a very special live streamed Q&A from Senegal with Moussa Sene Absa.
Director: MOUSSA SENE ABSA
Runtime: 104 min
Genre
DRAMA
Category
Echoes of the Land
Formats
DCP
Release
2002
SOLD OUT - The 70mm podcast and the Philadelphia Film Society co-present a special 4K screening of Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO at Philadelphia Film Center. Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is on the run with a ton of cash and is ready to start a new life. Unfortunately for her, she ends up at the Bates Motel where manager Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) has other plans.
Director: ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Runtime: 109 min
Genre
THRILLER
Category
Special Event
Formats
4K
Release
1960
Halle Berry and Natalie Desselle-Reid radiate as the iconic duo of waitresses-turned-Black American Princesses, hustling to achieve their dream salon with down-for-anything Martin Landau in tow in this beloved comedy cult classic from Robert Townsend.
Runtime: 91 min
Category
Throwback
Formats
DCP
Release
1997
After his sister’s mysterious death, an Englishman searches for answers at the Spanish castle of Vincent Price and discovers a playhouse of horror in Roger Corman’s eerie and chilling Poe adaptation.
Director: ROGER CORMAN
Runtime: 80 min
Genre
Horror
Category
After Hours
Formats
DCP
Release
1961
Brand new 4K restoration! Giallo master Dario Argento at his most visually arresting and deranged, follows a young woman cast in a cursed production of Macbeth, and the patented mysterious black gloves that are determined to make it a deadly success.
Director: DARIO ARGENTO
Runtime: 107 min
Genre
Horror
Category
After Hours
Formats
4K
Release
1987