Cult Classics
Rediscover the films you know and love—movies that hold a special place in your heart and deserve another big-screen viewing.
Snowpiercer
- Thu, Nov 12
Director: Bong Joon Ho Run Time: 127 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2013 Language: English, Korean
Starring: Chris Evans, Ed Harris, John Hurt, Song Kang Ho, Tilda Swinton
After a failed climate experiment triggers a global Ice Age, the last survivors of humanity live aboard the Snowpiercer, a train endlessly circling the globe. As a rigid class system divides its passengers, a rebellion begins in the train’s tail section, setting off a thrilling journey toward the powerful figure who controls it all. Directed by Bong Joon Ho and starring Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, Octavia Spencer, and Ed Harris, this visionary sci-fi thriller has become a modern cult classic. Part of our Cult Classic series, introduced by Programming Associate Eliana Choi.
Time Bandits
- Tue, Jan 12
Director: Terry Gilliam Run Time: 116 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 1981
Starring: Ian Holm, John Cleese, Katherine Helmond, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall
In this fantastic voyage through time and space from Terry Gilliam, a boy named Kevin (Craig Warnock) escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarfs. Armed with a map stolen from the Supreme Being (Ralph Richardson), they plunder treasure from Napoleon (Ian Holm) and Agamemnon (Sean Connery)—but the Evil Genius (David Warner) is watching their every move. Featuring a darkly playful script by Gilliam and his Monty Python cohort Michael Palin (who also appears in the film), Time Bandits is at once a giddy fairy tale, a revisionist history lesson, and a satire of technology gone awry. Part of our Cult Classic series, guest introduction by Joel Fenster (Director, Murder Among Friends at Curtain Call)