A love story in the city of dreams . . . Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman’s identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project. David Lynch’s seductive and scary vision of Los Angeles’s dream factory is one of the true masterpieces of the new millennium, a tale of love, jealousy, and revenge like no other.

Pasqualino is a fool. He’s not brave, or bright, or even cynical or cowardly. Living off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost, Seven Beauties follows his absentminded wander through Italian machismo and fascism as the Third Reich closes in. Absorbing, mysterious, and equal parts disturbing drama and slapstick comedy, Lina Wertmuller’s four-time Academy Award nominated film is a singular, provocative, and under-recognized masterpiece.

Hard-luck drifters with big dreams and empty pockets join forces on the open highway in Jerry Schatzberg’s Scarecrow. Effortlessly swinging between funny, heartwarming, and melancholic, the film shows us America from the sidelines, seen through the eyes of two societal outcasts. The masterful performances by Hackman and Pacino influenced a generation of actors to follow (including our presenter Sean Penn!) Along with the glowing landscape photography by Vilmos Zsigmond, Scarecrow makes for a unforgettable postcard of dusty American dreams.

Gap Tooth is honored and blessed to host the FIRST EVER public screening of a BRAND-NEW CUT of the weirdo classic Schizopolis! In the wackiest, most extreme work of his career, Louisiana’s own Steven Soderbergh masterfully writes/directs/shoots AND STARS IN this unhinged tale of a bored employee of a cultish self-help company. A raw, experimental, brain-exploding comedy, the film confirmed his status as one of America’s most daring and unpredictable filmmakers.

In-person talk and Q&A with Soderbergh’s long-time post sound dude, Larry Blake to follow!

Come celebrate the release of Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winning film, Anora, with one of his inspirations! Adua and her Friends is a rare masterpiece telling the tragicomic story of four prostitutes forced to fend for themselves when a new law closes the bordellos of Rome. The works of Pietrangeli, one of the least recognized but most talented members of the Italian neo-realism movement, specialized in sensitive group studies, with tender attention paid to each of a unit’s wounded members. His films explore the ways in which, by codifying and stratifying people, class divisions also isolate them.

Virtual introduction by 2024 Palme D’Or Winner Sean Baker!

Legendary maestro Takashi Miike’s stomach-turning masterpiece Audition unfolds with a quiet that’s meticulously transformed into moodiness and then fear-filled tension. With a female bent on punishing male arrogance, self-pity, and incipient masochism, he draws horror from the objectification of women in Japanese society and the mirror-image violence of retribution it could create. The film sent audiences staggering from the theater upon its release in 2001, and remains a genre defining shocker to this day. If you like a scare that lingers, this is the Hallow-eve film for you!

Werner Herzog was so sure Errol Morris would never complete his brilliant debut feature Gates of Heaven, that he swore he would eat his shoe if he ever finished it… resulting in the short film Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe. This astonishingly poignant documentary portrays two pet cemeteries in Northern California and the people involved with them. Such a description, however, can hardly do justice to the captivating, funny, and enigmatic Gates of Heaven, a film that is about our relationships to our pets, each other, and ourselves. Both sincere and satirical, this is an endlessly surprising study of human nature.

Werner Herzog was so sure Errol Morris would never complete his brilliant debut feature Gates of Heaven, that he swore he would eat his shoe if he ever finished it… resulting in the short film Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe. This astonishingly poignant documentary portrays two pet cemeteries in Northern California and the people involved with them. Such a description, however, can hardly do justice to the captivating, funny, and enigmatic Gates of Heaven, a film that is about our relationships to our pets, each other, and ourselves. Both sincere and satirical, this is an endlessly surprising study of human nature.

Come celebrate the arrival of GAP TOOTH CINEMA with your favorite vampire throuple! THE iconic classic of New Orleans cinema and maybe the most twisted and depraved mainstream movie ever made, Interview With the Vampire projects Anne Rice’s universe onto a constellation of our streets, our swamps, and four of the greatest movie stars of their generation. Churning through issues of toxic love, eternal life, and the moral code of preying on others, this insane story unfolds new layers on every watch and is one of the few films that feels as fresh and deviant as it did twenty years ago.

Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated a well-known filmmaker—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.

While in the midst of rehearsals for her latest play, a Broadway actor witnesses the accidental death of an adoring young fan, after which she begins to confront the chaos of her own life. Headlined by a virtuoso performance by the dearly departed Gena Rowlands, “I’ve never seen anyone as drunk as you who could stand up” John Cassavetes’s Opening Night lays bare the drama of a performer who, at great personal cost, makes a part her own, and it functions as a metaphor for the director’s singular, wrenched-from-the-heart creative method. Gena-4-eva we love you Gena Rowlands!!