This weekend in our Partners in Crime series, we’re exited to present a rare screening of Sam Peckinpah's (The Wild Bunch) most uncompromising work: a road movie, a love story, a Mexican-American western and a brutally honest self-portrait of the artist as a doomed loser. There’s a bounty out for a womanising scoundrel by the name of Alfredo Garcia, and ex-army officer and now two-bit piano player Bennie (Warren Oates) thinks this opportunity could be his way out – his…

This Sunday in our Bad Habits series, Jean-Paul Belmondo (Pierrot le fou) and Emmanuelle Riva (Hiroshima Mon Amour) engage in theological dialogue while fighting their repressed desires in occupied France. Jean Pierre Melville’s (Le Samurai) Léon Morin, Priest is something of a departure from the existentialist gangster and noir films the auteur is best known for. It sees him touch once more on the subject of the French Resistance (which Melville himself served with), which alongside the theological arguments is woven…

Join us tonight as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Brian De Palma’s criminally underrated lavish glam-rock spectacle on the Golden Screen. It's Faust, it's Frankenstein, it's the Phantom of the Opera, it's the horror-rock-musical passion project that was a massive flop (everywhere except for Winnipeg, where it ran for 18 consecutive weeks) but has since become a solid gold cult classic. Paul Williams, the man behind a slew of Carpenters' hits and Kermit the Frog's "Rainbow Connection", provided the…

This Sunday in our Bad Habits series is Luis Buñuel's (The Exterminating Angel, Belle de jour) Palme d'Or winning satire which was banned by Spanish censors for over a decade for being "a venomous, corrosive movie in terms of its filmmaking craftiness in combining images, reference and musical background”. A surreal, blasphemous and anti-fascist fable, Viridiana’s takedown of the Catholic church is in part a smoke-screen for Buñuel's vicious criticism of General Franco's fascist regime. The film would be banned…