Over one transformative summer in rural New Zealand in 2006, 14-year-old Sid discovers desire, identity, and the internet as she imitates the people she longs to be loved by. "Palmer’s conception of Sid is a wonder to behold... It’s the kind of performance that creates a visual map to the character’s internal emotional logic, allowing you to trace each and every ill-considered decision and deception." - Variety COME EARLY! Doors 5:30pm, pre-show 6pm

After directing Point Blank and Deliverance, John Boorman was offered to direct Exorcist II. The film became a massive failure, nearly ending his career. Years later, cast and filmmakers discuss its ambition and artistic value. "David Kittredge’s deeply researched, lightning-paced explication of a great director’s most infamous bomb is, in a curiously heartfelt way, meaningful. Across a rollicking tale of hubris, excitement, compromise and curses, it’s good to be reminded that even when money is no object and when auteurs ruled Hollywood, every movie is some kind of miracle — just for having gotten completed." - Los Angeles Times COME EARLY! Doors 6:30pm, pre-show 7pm

Breaking the Waves offers a remarkable testament to writer-director Lars von Trier's insight and filmmaking skill -- and announces Emily Watson as a startling talent. In a small and religious coastal town, a simple, devoutly religious Scottish woman, Bess McNeill (Emily Watson), finds a partner in an oil rig worker from Norway, Jan Nyman (Stellan Skarsgard). However, the relationship grows strained when Nyman breaks his neck in a horrific work accident on the rig and becomes paralyzed. Unable to perform sexually and suffering mentally from the accident as well, Jan convinces Bess to have sex with other men, which she comes to believe is God's work. "Von Trier has forged a myth of modern romantic faith that could haunt almost anyone into believing." - Entertainment Weekly "There are few movies around that take such huge risks: this is high-wire filmmaking, without a net of irony." - News Week

Join us for the NZ Premiere & Director Q&A with Kane Guglielmi. Common Wealth is an intimate yet globally minded documentary that follows filmmaker Kane Guglielmi on a personal journey to question the economic and political systems that shape modern life. Raised within a conservative, capitalist worldview, Guglielmi travels across eight countries, including Switzerland, Australia, Norway, Mexico, Singapore, the UK, Italy and the USA, exploring alternative models that prioritise compassion, fairness, community and shared prosperity. What begins as a search for answers evolves into a thoughtful exploration of how societies might build greater unity and equity in an increasingly divided world. Gentle in spirit yet ambitious in scope, Common Wealth is both a deeply personal story and a hopeful call to reimagine the structures that define how we live together. COME EARLY! Doors 6:30pm

With Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Dennis Franz. Sexual fantasy meets unending nightmare in De Palma’s lusciously overheated horror symphony, which reappropriates the best and worst of Psycho and sends Hitchcock’s cinema-rupturing classic all the way to its steamy, screamy endpoint. Bookended by shower scenes, Dressed to Kill commences as a portrait of a dissatisfied bourgeois housewife (Dickinson) who flirts with her psychiatrist (Caine) and then catches the eye of a sinister, handsome stranger at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; halfway through the baton—or straight razor—is handed off to a high-class call girl (Allen) embroiled in a murder investigation. As with De Palma, the particulars of plot are less important than the elegant tracking shots, intensely attenuated slow-motion, creepily soft lighting, endless halls of mirrors and doubles, and dramatically distorted view of a frightening New York cityscape emerging from the broke 1970s. COME EARLY! Doors 6:30pm, pre-show 7pm

Ridiculed because of his enormous ears, a young circus elephant is assisted by a mouse to achieve his full potential. "It's not only one of the best classic-era Disney features, but also one of the best animated films from any studio at any time." - The A.V. Club "With its genuinely cute hero and appealing storyline, Dumbo's exactly right for younger children but not too soppy for anyone over eight. Indispensible." - Empire COME EARLY! Doors open 1pm, pre-show 1:30pm

Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possible successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world. COME EARLY! Doors 3pm, pre-show 3:30pm

A teenage girl once possessed by a demon finds that it still lurks within her. Meanwhile, a priest investigates the death of the girl's exorcist. "Boorman deserves credit for trying out some new ideas, even if most of them backfire. Visually, it's fascinating—sort of a blend of Minnellian baroque and Buñuelian absurdity—but the dialogue is childish, the story is incomprehensible, and the metaphysics are ridiculous. Still, an audacious failure is preferable to a chickenhearted success. More than worth a look." - Chicago Reader COME EARLY! Doors open 5:30pm, pre-show 6pm

An enduring masterpiece of cinema starring Academy Award®-winner Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed, KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is a prescient epic of obsession and corruption — and a defining work of art from seminal filmmaker Ken Russell. Assembled from the original camera negative, this new 4K restoration presents Ken Russell’s definitive vision of THE DEVILS by referencing the edit he privately constructed in 2004. KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is the uncut and unfiltered theatrical experience that Russell always envisioned – and the first time the film will be presented restored and in 4K. COME EARLY! Doors 6:30pm, pre-show 7pm

Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.

Swackhammer (Danny DeVito), an evil alien theme park owner, needs a new attraction at Moron Mountain. When his gang, the Nerdlucks, heads to Earth to kidnap Bugs Bunny (Billy West) and the Looney Tunes, Bugs challenges them to a basketball game to determine their fate. The aliens agree, but they steal the powers of NBA basketball players, including Larry Bird and Charles Barkley -- so Bugs must seek the aid of retired basketball champion, Michael Jordan. Space Jam is a high-energy comedy that mixes live action, animation, cornball storytelling and rowdy humor into an energetic, gee-whiz confection that will probably delight just about everybody. COME EARLY! Doors 4:30pm, pre-show 5pm

Each year we run a secret 24-hour movie marathon at the Hollywood Avondale where we show a mysterious line-up of films that run non-stop. You get a good bang for your bucks. We show 12-14 films each year. This is our 27th year. We have a dinner break and breakfast break.BYO $ for snacks / good coffee and yummy food we have on hand and support the candy bar. No hot food is allowed in the cinema. No annoying crinkly bags in the cinema. No yabbering during the films. No cellphone use during films. Doors Open : 2.30pm (BYO Beanbag ticket holders let in first - based on when tix were purchased - first to last). Marathon Starts Sharp : 3pm

Julius Kelp (Jerry Lewis) is a college professor with a problem. Clumsy, awkward, inarticulate and unattractive, Julius is a hopeless case when it comes to women -- but he's desperate to impress beautiful student Stella (Stella Stevens). Fortunately, he does know something about chemistry and decides to concoct a potion that will turn him into a whole new man. In this classic comedy, Julius' suave alter ego, Buddy Love, must win Stella's affections before his short-lived potion runs out. What makes it all work is the edge that Lewis brings to the cartoonish psychology of his Jekyll and Hyde pairing: Kelp’s addiction to being Buddy and the sheer social sociopathy of Buddy. COME EARLY! Doors open 1 hour before start time, pre-show 30 mins before.

Inspired by true events and the whistleblower who started the social media reckoning we’re seeing play out today, this Aaron Sorkin original screenplay is a companion piece to the hit film The Social Network and a true David and Goliath story. Frances Haugen (Madison), a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz (White), a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network’s most guarded secrets. COME EARLY! Doors 6:30pm, pre-show 7pm

Adapted from Colleen Hoover's best-selling novel, this seductive, psychological thriller follows renowned author Verity Crawford (Anne Hathaway) and Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson), a struggling writer who relocates to the remote Crawford estate to ghostwrite for Verity. After Lowen uncovers what appears to be Verity's chilling autobiographical notes, she wrestles with the disturbing and twisted confessions about Verity’s husband Jeremy (Josh Hartnett), and finds it hard to separate fiction from reality, manipulation from attraction, and opportunity from obsession. COME EARLY! Door 7pm, pre-show 7:30pm

One choice changes everything. From the makers of Coraline, Wildwood is a sweeping, darkly magical adventure about a young girl who ventures into a dangerous hidden forest to rescue her brother – an odyssey shaped by love, power, and the courage to confront the unknown. Wildwood is a tale of love, loss, sacrifice, and secrets, and of the magic you can find on your doorstep, if you’re willing to look for it. COME EARLY! Doors 2pm, pre-show 2:30pm