Richmond City Cinema Club

Join Nowhere Cinema for a special screening of Funeral Parade of Roses, the landmark Japanese film celebrating queer and trans identity! Purchase tickets here: https://www.nowherecinema.com/event-details/funeral-parade-of-roses

Doors open at 7:00 | Movie starts at 7:30

"Director Toshio Matsumoto’s shattering, kaleidoscopic masterpiece is one of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the late 1960s: a headlong dive into a dazzling, unseen Tokyo night-world of drag queen bars and fabulous divas, fueled by booze, drugs, fuzz guitars, performance art and black mascara. No less than Stanley Kubrick cited the film as a direct influence on his own dystopian classic A Clockwork Orange. An unknown club dancer at the time, transgender actor Peter (from Kurosawa’s Ran) gives an astonishing Edie Sedgwick/Warhol superstar-like performance as hot young thing Eddie, hostess at Bar Genet — where she’s ignited a violent love-triangle with reigning drag queen Leda (Osamu Ogasawara) for the attentions of club owner Gonda (played by Kurosawa regular Yoshio Tsuchiya, from Seven Samuri and Yojimbo). One of Japan’s leading experimental filmmakers, Matsumoto bends and distorts time here like Resnais in Last Year at Marienbad, freely mixing documentary interviews, Brechtian film-within-a-film asides, Oedipal premonitions of disaster, his own avant-garde shorts, and even on-screen cartoon balloons, into a dizzying whirl of image + sound." –Arbelos Films

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he’s left with a major problem to solve.
Runtime: 125 min

If this is your first movie with us, welcome! The Byrd is general admission, so you can sit wherever you like. A group of us will be there 10-15min early in the front two rows if you want to join us or say hello. After the movie, we’ll chat up front until credits are over, and then more outside under the marquee. Please stay and talk with us!

Join Nowhere Cinema in kicking off their Road Movies series with a ticketed screening of The Hitcher!

Tickets are pay-what-you-can with a $6 minimum. Buy them here: https://www.nowherecinema.com/event-details/the-hitcher-1986

Doors open at 7:00 | Movie starts at 7:30

​​​​​"A young man who escapes the clutches of a murderous hitchhiker is subsequently stalked by the hitcher and framed for his crimes."