The Guide
The next twenty-four hours, in your local time. Times are the same for everyone; the clock is the schedule.
Now Next
Tonight
The Silent Signal
Cinema before it spoke.
The first grammar of the medium, transmitted whole. These films had no dialogue to lean on, so they solved everything — dread, longing, comedy, revolution — with light, faces, and cutting. A century later the solutions still work on you. That is not nostalgia; that is engineering.
21 films · 82 screenings a week
Noir After Dark
The night shift of the American picture.
Cheap films that turned their poverty into a style and their style into a worldview. Shot fast, lit hard, cut to the bone — the B-picture underworld where the American dream files its incident reports. Nobody here is innocent, and the cinematography agrees.
22 films · 104 screenings a week
The Haunted Screen
What the dark does with an audience.
Named for Lotte Eisner's study of German expressionism, programmed for the hours when the house is quiet. Horror is the genre most honest about why we watch together: it is easier to look when someone is beside you. These prints have frightened three generations and are not finished.
21 films · 107 screenings a week
The Matinee
Fast talk, slow afternoons.
The daylight programme: screwball, romance, and one perfect thriller in evening wear. Dialogue as choreography, charm as craft. These are the films that made talking itself cinematic — proof that wit, timed to the frame, is a special effect.
21 films · 91 screenings a week