Upcoming Movie Nights
Film Fanatics Movie Nights transforms local venues in Champaign-Urbana into a screening room where film lovers gather to experience artistic, unusual, and visually striking cinema together on the big screen. Expect a stimulating evening of conversation, and community in a lounge atmopshere — the kind of shared experience that reminds us why we fell in love with movies in the first place.
Coming Soon
You told us what you want to see and we listened. Based on the results of our first survey, we’re excited to present the following films over the coming months.
As always, club members receive discounted admission to all screenings, along with reserved seating in our premium section. Join today and help shape what we show next.
Santa Sangre
Mexico/Italy 1989 • 123 min (1.85:1)
Directed by: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Starring: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell
Date: TBD
A hallucinatory descent into madness and memory, this masterwork stands as one of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s most ferocious and personal visions—equal parts surrealist nightmare, operatic melodrama, and cult initiation rite. Emerging after years of myth-making around the director’s unrealized projects, the film marked a triumphant return that reaffirmed Jodorowsky’s status as cinema’s high priest of the subconscious. Drenched in ritual, symbolism, and Grand Guignol intensity, it plays less like a conventional narrative than a waking dream engineered to unnerve and mesmerize a roomful of viewers at once. Decades later, its power remains undiminished: shocking, hypnotic, and unmistakably the work of a singular auteur whose influence continues to ripple through cult and midnight cinema.
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Chungking Express
Hong Kong 1994 • 102 min (1:66:1)
Directed by: Wong Kar-wai
Starring: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Brigitte Lin
Screening date: TBD
A defining work of 1990s world cinema, this restless, intoxicating romance captures Wong Kar-wai at the moment his style fully ignites. Shot with kinetic immediacy by Christopher Doyle, the film transforms late-night Hong Kong into a neon-lit dreamscape of chance encounters, missed connections, and emotional drift. Its fragmented storytelling, pop-music obsessions, and offhand intimacy redefined modern screen romance, influencing everything from indie cinema to fashion, music videos, and global arthouse aesthetics. A time-stamped mood piece that somehow feels eternal, it remains one of the most beloved and endlessly rewatchable films of its era.
#CultCinema #HongKongCinema #Arthouse #NeoNoir #Romantic #VisionaryDirector #AuteurCinema #RestoredClassic #BigScreenExperience
Koyaanisqatsi
USA 1982 •
86 min (1.85:1)
Directed by: Godfrey Reggio
Music by: Philip Glass
Date: TBD
Drawing its title from the Hopi word meaning "life out of balance," this ground-breaking documentary reveals how humanity has grown apart from nature. Emerging at the dawn of the digital age and the twilight of Cold War anxiety, it captured a world accelerating beyond comprehension — juxtaposing the natural and the industrial with an intensity that felt prophetic. Philip Glass’s score fused with Godfrey Reggio’s hypnotic visuals to create an experience closer to a trance than a traditional documentary, a cinematic ritual that audiences sought out like a shared vision. Decades later, its critique of modern life feels even sharper, its beauty more overwhelming, and its influence unmistakable across music videos, experimental cinema, and visual culture at large. Koyaanisqatsi is not just a film; it’s a cult phenomenon that has redefined what a “movie” could be.
#Documentary #CultCinema #ExperimentalFilm #VisuallyStunning #BigScreenExperience #VisionaryDirector #ModernClassic #AuteurCinema #ComingSoon #Arthouse #ConcertFilm
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