After Hours

July 5–Oct. 19, 2024

An ongoing series that showcases the best of repertory and contemporary genre cinema, with a particular emphasis on horror and cult classics.

July, Action: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Starship Troopers, Goldfinger, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark 

August, Rock n’ RollPrince of Darkness, Phantom of the Paradise, Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Hunger

September, First EncountersClose Encounters of the Third Kind, Starman, Galaxy Quest, Mars Attacks!

October, Horror ClassicsGremlins, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior July 5–6, 2024 After avenging the death of his wife and young son at the hands of a vicious gang leader, Max (Mel…
Starship Troopers July 12–13, 2024 Director Paul Verhoeven’s sci-fi send-up of the military industrial complex—maligned and misunderstood upon its release, but now widely considered a…
Goldfinger July 19–25, 2024 The powerful tycoon Auric Goldfinger has initiated Operation Grand Slam, a cataclysmic scheme to raid Fort Knox and obliterate the…
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark July 26–29, 2024 Get ready for edge-of-your-seat thrills in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Indy (Harrison Ford) and his…
Prince of Darkness Aug. 2–3, 2024 Master of horror John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing) directs this terrifying battle between humankind and ultimate evil. A group of…
Phantom of the Paradise Aug. 9–10, 2024 After record producer Swan (Paul Williams) steals the music of songwriter Winslow Leach (William Finley) and gives it to one…
The Rocky Horror Picture Show Aug. 23–24, 2024 The Aug. 23 screening will feature a shadowcast performance The antici…pation is over and it’s finally time to do the Time-Warp again! Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a…
The Hunger Aug. 30–31, 2024 Sensual vampire story stars rock legend David Bowie as an ailing vampire whose fanged-lover, Catherine Deneuve, seduces a mortal (Academy…
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Sep. 6–7, 2024 Richard Dreyfuss stars as cable worker Roy Neary, who along with several other stunned bystanders experience a close encounter of…
Starman Sep. 13–14, 2024 Director John Carpenter presents a romantic science fiction odyssey starring Jeff Bridges as an innocent alien from a distant planet…
Galaxy Quest Sep. 20–21, 2024 The stars of a 1970s sci-fi show—now scraping a living through re-runs and sci-fi conventions—are beamed aboard an alien spacecraft.…
Mars Attacks! Sep. 27–28, 2024 Presented on 35mm Superstar Jack Nicholson as the President of the United States greeting invaders from outer space? Anything can and does happen…
Gremlins Oct. 4–5, 2024 With its Christmas lights and dusting of snow, Kingston Falls is an idyllic small town—until the gremlins take over. A…
A Nightmare on Elm Street Oct. 11–12, 2024 Presented on 35mm In the dreams of his victims, a spectral child murderer stalks the children of the members of the lynch mob…
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Oct. 18–19, 2024 Presented on 35mm 40 years ago, five youths on a weekend getaway in the Texas countryside fell prey to a butcher in a…
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles Oct. 25, 2024 In late 20th-century San Francisco, a 200-year-old vampire tells history–of desire, love, yearning, grief, terror, ecstasy–to a young reporter, weaving…

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