Richmond City Cinema Club

Join Nowhere Cinema for a ticketed screening of Manila in the Claws of Light as part of their Mayday series on labor.

Tickets are pay-what-you-can with a $6 minimum. Buy them here: https://www.nowherecinema.com/event-details/manila-in-the-claws-of-light

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

This is an important Filipino classic from Lino Brocka. It was restored thanks to Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project. You don't want to miss it!

​​​​​"A young fisherman from a provincial village arrives in the capital on a quest to track down his girlfriend, who was lured there with the promise of work and hasn’t been heard from since."

An assassin goes through obstacles as he attempts to escape his violent lifestyle despite the opposition of his partner, who is secretly attracted to him.
Runtime: 98 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 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