ECCENTRIC CINEMA

Eccentric Cinema was inspired by the groundbreaking L.A. cable station Z Channel and its chief programmer Jerry Harvey. Dedicated to showcasing offbeat films, director’s cuts, and the more unique mainstream offerings, Harvey resurrected movies that had been cast aside critically, flopped at the box office, or developed cult followings. Adopting that same idea, Eccentric Cinema brings you some of the wildest, weirdest, underseen or most controversial movies, allowing audiences the opportunity to experience these films on the big screen.

ALL SHOWS START AT 9:30 UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.

FLASH GORDON (1980)

Saturday, July 4, 9:30 pm

Football player Flash Gordon and his comrades travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth from its eventual destruction.

LONE WOLF AND CUB: BABY CART AT THE RIVER STYX (1972)

Saturday, July 11, 9:45 pm

Trailed by a clan of female ninja, Ogami is paid to assassinate a clan traitor accompanied by three killers known as the Gods of Death.

THE HEROIC TRIO (1993)

Saturday, July 18, 9:30 pm

While one tough woman with an invisible robe has stolen 18 babies for her powerful master, two other tough women and the cops try to stop her.

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TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985)

Saturday, July 25, 9:30 pm

A Secret Service agent becomes obsessed with catching a ruthless counterfeiter.

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LEGEND (1985)

Saturday, August 1, 9:30 pm

Ridley Scott’s lush, sensuous adult fairy tale bombed in theaters back in 1985 but found a second life once audiences discovered it on cable and VHS. Tom Cruise plays a young wilding who must rescue an innocent princess (Mia Sara, FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF) from the Satanic claws of Darkness, a muscular walking nightmare played with immense ferocity by the legendary Tim Curry. We will be screening the U.S. theatrical cut featuring a score by Tangerine Dream (RISKY BUSINESS, SORCERER, NEAR DARK).

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PARIS, TEXAS (1984)

Saturday, August 8, 9:30 pm

4K RESTORATION. Wim Wenders won the 1984 Palme D’or for this delicate drama about the misfits who drift unseen throughout America. The great Harry Dean Stanton stars as a broken loner who finds himself reunited with the son (Hunter Carson) he abandoned four years earlier. Determined to make amends for his destructive past, Stanton and his son head out to Texas to track down the boy’s mother (Nastassja Kinski). Tender, haunting, and humane, PARIS, TEXAS remains a quintessential movie to understanding America and its complicated relationships with identity, individuality and family.

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THE ROOM (2003)

Second Saturday of every month
Saturday, August 8, 9:45 pm

Johnny is a successful banker who lives happily in a San Francisco townhouse with his fiancée, Lisa. One day, inexplicably, she gets bored with him and decides to seduce his best friend, Mark. From there, nothing will be the same again.

If you have not experienced The Room at the Drexel, you don’t know what you’re missing. The loyal fans have created their own live experience à la The Rocky Horror Picture Show. They’re always excited to indoctrinate newbies into the cult of Wiseau. A Drexel tradition for 16 years, The Room is a gonzo masterpiece. (2003, dir. Tommy Wiseau)

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SCHOOL IN THE CROSSHAIRS (NERAWARETA GAKUEN) (1981)

Saturday, August 15, 9:30 pm

4K RESTORATION. Wim Wenders won the 1984 Palme D’or for this delicate drama about the misfits who drift unseen throughout America. The great Harry Dean Stanton stars as a broken loner who finds himself reunited with the son (Hunter Carson) he abandoned four years earlier. Determined to make amends for his destructive past, Stanton and his son head out to Texas to track down the boy’s mother (Nastassja Kinski). Tender, haunting, and humane, PARIS, TEXAS remains a quintessential movie to understanding America and its complicated relationships with identity, individuality and family.

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A CHINESE GHOST STORY (SIEN LUI YAU WAN) (1987)

Saturday, August 22, 9:30 pm

This 1987 Hong Kong hit helped revive the wuxia genre and served as a stylish update of one of China’s oldest tales. A bumbling tax collector (Ning Tsai Tsen) is forced to spend the night in a haunted temple, where he meets the gorgeous Nieh Hsiao Tsing (Joey Wong). He falls in love with the mysterious woman, unaware that she is a ghost trapped under the rule of the Tree Demoness (Lau Siu Ming). From director Siu-Tung Ching (2006’s HERO) and producer Tsui Hark (THE KILLER, A BETTER TOMORROW).

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