Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz (1995).

Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La Haine, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France. The film give human faces to France’s immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their marginalization, slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point. A work of tough beauty, La Haine is a landmark of 1990s French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country’s ongoing identity crisis.

Directed by Stephen Winters (1996).

Through a campaign of fabulous surprise attacks, an underground band of radical queer HIV+ activists, addicts, and drag queens take to the streets of New York City to combat conservative politicians and government apathy toward the AIDS crisis. A frenetic debut feature from writer/director Stephen Winter, Chocolate Babies unleashes a world of anarchic camp and unapologetic Black queer power in one of the hidden gems of New Queer Cinema.

Screening at the BROADSIDE with a special performance by Owen Dunne.

Directed by Harmony Korine (2012).

Start your Carnival bender right with former Disney stars spending every waking moment on the verge of bursting out of their bikinis as they gyrate their way through a week of drinking, snorting, sniffing, tonguing, robbing, laughing, and sometimes crying. A candy-colored fever nightmare, a twisted look at the modern American dream, Spring Breakers challenges us to think about the hedonistic hell of materialism that we love to hate to love to hate to love. As bleak as a Girls Gone Wild VHS, and as aggressively provocative as a Godard film. It’s all summed up in the film’s oft-repeated mantra: Spring Break forever, bitches.

Directed by Michael Patrick Jann (1999).

An annual beauty pageant in small-town Minnesota turns ridiculously competitive and dangerously chaotic in this horribly offensive and devastatingly funny cult classic. Featuring a stacked cast of powerful female performers and a razor sharp screenplay penned by beauty pageant survivor Lona Williams, Drop Dead Gorgeous is a misunderstood classic we will never see the likes of again.