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Hypnos Theater, Norra Grängesbergsgatan 15. Please arrive early. Doors open 30 minutes before showtime. It is not possible to gain entrance after doors are closed.
If you want to volunteer, just message us on facebook (or email owen at owen@filmimalmo.se), and let us know which screening you are interested in coming to – then we’ll ask you to show up 30 minutes before the doors open, and we’ll train you smoothly into your first – guided, supervised, and sweet – volunteering experience with the actual audience.
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Thursday | April 24 | 19:30
*****QUEER THURSDAYS: JOHN WATERS*****
HAIRSPRAY
Musical – Comedy – Drama
USA, 1988, 92′, English
This is not John Waters’ queerest film, nor is it his best; but it may be his most accessible, and it displays his incredible gift for depicting the “bizarre” within a crystal-clear story structure. It’s queer for a number of reasons—the always-wonderful Divine in her last film role, the camera’s tendency to linger on beautiful boys—but the true heart of the film lies in its acceptance of everyone. Tracy may be overweight, but she’s still fabulous, and she gets to neck passionately with the boy of her dreams. Waters constructs a fantasy here, but it’s one without a shaming moral; like Dr. Frank N’ Furter, he wants you to own your identity.
(Ben Larned, We Screenplay)
Sunday | April 27 | 19:00
PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE
Comedy – Drama – Romance – Thriller
US, 2002, 95′, English
Chaos lurks in every corner of this giddily off-kilter foray into romantic comedy by Paul Thomas Anderson. Struggling to cope with his erratic temper, novelty-toilet-plunger salesman Barry Egan (Adam Sandler, demonstrating remarkable versatility in his first dramatic role) spends his days collecting frequent-flier-mile coupons and dodging the insults of his seven sisters. The promise of a new life emerges when Barry inadvertently attracts the affection of a mysterious woman named Lena (Emily Watson), but their budding relationship is threatened when he falls prey to the swindling operator of a phone sex line and her deranged boss (played with maniacal brio by Philip Seymour Hoffman). Fueled by the careening momentum of a baroque-futurist score by Jon Brion, the Cannes-award-winning Punch-Drunk Love channels the spirit of classic Hollywood and the whimsy of Jacques Tati into an idiosyncratic ode to the delirium of new romance.
– The Criterion Collection
Tuesday | May 6 | 19:30
UNFORGIVEN
Drama – Western
US, 1992, 131′, English
Frank Munny, a now peaceful hog farming widower, but former stone cold killer, gets persuaded by a young outlaw into taking up his old violent ways once more and go bounty hunting. A terrible crime has been done in the town of Big Whiskey against a woman from the local brothel, and with the evil and corrupt sheriff doing nothing to pursue justice, the women of the brothel has set up a bounty on the perpetrator.
This revisionist Western starring Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman and Christian Slater is one of only three Westerns to win the Best Picture Oscar.
Monday | May 12 | 19:00
MOONSTRUCK
Comedy – Drama – Romance
US, 1987, 102′, English
A full moon, a New York City night, and love and music in the air . . . One of the most enchanting romantic comedies of all time assembles a flawless ensemble cast for a tender and boisterously funny look at a multigenerational Italian American family in Brooklyn, wrestling with the complexities of love and marriage at every stage of life. At the center of it all is a radiant Cher as Loretta, an unlucky-in-love bookkeeper whose feelings about her engagement to the staid Johnny (Danny Aiello) are thrown into question after she meets his hot-blooded brother, Ronny (Nicolas Cage), and one night at the opera changes everything. Winner of the Academy Awards for best actress (Cher), supporting actress (Olympia Dukakis), and original screenplay (by playwright John Patrick Shanley), this modern-day fairy tale is swept along on passionate Puccini melodies, and directed by master storyteller Norman Jewison with the heightened emotion to match.
– The Criterion Collection
Tuesday | May 13 | 19:30
KOYAANISQATSI
Experimental – Documentary – Music
US, 1982, 86′, Hopi | English with English subtitles
Koyaanisqatsi is a 1982 experimental documentary directed by Godfrey Reggio with a score by Philip Glass. The film presents a visual journey that explores the relationship between humans, nature, and technology. It opens with serene shots of the natural world, gradually contrasting them with the rapid pace and chaos of modern industrial society. The documentary uses no dialogue, relying solely on stunning imagery and music to convey its message. It critiques the environmental degradation, overconsumption, and alienation caused by technological progress. The film’s title, a Hopi word, translates to “life out of balance.” Through its time-lapse cinematography, it highlights the disconnection between human existence and the earth’s natural rhythms. The work invites viewers to reflect on the consequences of humanity’s dependence on technology. It suggests a loss of harmony and connection with nature as society grows more mechanized. Ultimately, Koyaanisqatsi is a powerful meditation on the imbalance between modern civilization and the environment.