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Richmond City Cinema Club is all about cultivating a community of movie lovers. Our club is meant to be a fun and inclusive safe space, an easy social experience. Life is messy, but movies are cool. There's no pressure if you can't make it or don't feel like engaging once you're there... we're just happy to have you! And if you're looking to make real friends, we got you there too.
Events are movie showtimes at Studio Two Three, the Byrd, or Movieland. All movies are fair game, from independents to blockbusters, from new releases to classic films.
Sit with the group or wherever you'd like. Once the credits roll, we’ll meet up to chat about the movie and get to know your fellow moviegoers.
Upcoming events
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Wendy and Lucy (2008)/ Old Joy (2006)
Studio Two Three, 109 W 15th St, Richmond, VA, USCelebrate Hard Light Cinema's 2nd birthday with a double-feature from one of our favorite American auteurs, Kelly Reichardt! Tickets are $10 each or $15 for the double-feature and will be sold both at the door and online here. There will be cake and a lot of cheer at the show (also the inevitable Elliot Smith and PNW 00s indie music). See y'all there.
Doors are at 6:30pm and Wendy and Lucy will start at 7pm; doors for Old Joy at 8:30 with movie starting at 8:45!
Tickets and more details here: https://hardlight.online/2026/08/22/%f0%9f%8e%82-hl2-wendy-and-lucy-2008-old-joy-2006/
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The leaves are falling, the days are getting shorter, but in spite of the impending seasonal dread, we’re having a ball because it is Hard Light’s second birthday 🎂
To celebrate, hop in the van with us as we head up to the gloomy Pacific Northwest with a DOUBLE FEATURE of two of Kelly Reichardt’s most celebrated early films, 2008’s Wendy and Lucy and 2006’s Old Joy. These movies are like siblings: both feature Reichardt’s dog Lucy and Will Oldham (aka singer-songwriter legend Bonnie “Prince” Billy); take place in/around Portland, Oregon; and focus on finding glimmers of joy amidst life’s hardships. We’re big fans of Ms. Reichardt here at Team Hard Light, and with these serene features (and especially Old Joy‘s iconic soundtrack by Yo La Tengo), we’re going to celebrating the season in style 🍂
Come join us in celebrating our birthday at our last S23 screening of the year! See y’all there 🫶
— Jay Wilson, Hard Light Cinema3 attendees
Minority Report (2002)
Jepson Hall, Jepson Hall, The Cir, Richmond, VA 23226, USA, Richmond, VA, USFree at the University of Richmond in Jepson Hall, Room 118 from Hard Light's U of Noir series. I'll be hosting the event and introducing the film, so come and see me on the way in and say hello! Complimentary refreshments included and Q&A with film faculty to follow the film. More details here: https://hardlight.online/2026/08/22/minority-report-2002/
While the majority of the films in this series are classic noirs or neo-noirs, there’s always a place and reason to screen a Philip K. Dick and Steven Spielberg “technoir” like Minority Report. With a killer central Tom Cruise performance and shot by the great cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, Minority Report was a hit upon release but arguably hits harder in 2026 with a new Spielberg in theaters, Samantha Morton returning to the silver screen, and, of course, the paranoia of the surveillance state dominating our lives. Join us for the rare Hard Light blockbuster screening and prepare for a fun discussion after the screening!
— Warner West, Hard Light Cinema11 attendees
Bubble Bath (1980)
Main Library - Richmond Public Library, 101 E Franklin St, Richmond, VA 23219, USA, Richmond, VA, USJoin Nowhere Cinema for the next Saturday Morning Cartoons with a screening of Bubble Bath!
"Directed by György Kovásznai, who died of leukaemia in 1983, Hungary’s third ever full-length animated feature is a true curio and a work of minor genius: a gallopingly neurotic modernist-psychedelic musical from 1979 that bubbles and pulsates with anxieties about modernity.
It mostly takes place inside a single Budapest apartment, where medical student Anikó (voiced by Vera Venzcel, with Kati Bontovits singing) is suddenly visited by the walrus-moustached Zsolt (Kornél Gelley, with Albert Antalffy singing). He’s having a major wobbly – palpitations, handkerchief-dabbing, manic hoedown music and everything – about his impending marriage to Klári (Lenke Lorán, with Katalin Dobos singing), a society girl and Anikó’s best friend. Klári just wants babies, but would-be artist Zsolt and aspiring doctor Anikó start to bond over a more liberated idea of life.
With characters and settings constantly warping, tilting and transmogrifying, Bubble Bath is visually something special; like Van Gogh, Fleischer Studios, Robert Crumb, Yellow Submarine and the abstract-thought section of Pixar’s Inside Out smooshed into a great lysergic battenberg cake. Kovásznai also works in collaged photographic elements and rays of filtered light cast over the animation cells. Beginning with Anikó’s lounge-jazz effort about biological processes, all the characters – including her wheelchair-user aunt – get musical numbers by composer János Másik. Most rock hard, especially an avant-funk crooner from Zsolt on the subject of interior design that would do 70s Eno proud." –The Guardian
We're lucky to have writer, cartoonist, and filmmaker Dash Shaw join us to do a live introduction for the film.
CW: Bubble Bath contains many strobing sequences. If you have any questions, please email us at nowherecinema@pm.me.
3 attendees
Decision to Leave (2022)
Jepson Hall, Jepson Hall, The Cir, Richmond, VA 23226, USA, Richmond, VA, USFree at the University of Richmond in Jepson Hall, Room 118 from Hard Light's U of Noir series. I'll be hosting the event and introducing the film, so come and see me on the way in and say hello! Complimentary refreshments included and Q&A with film faculty to follow the film. More details here: https://hardlight.online/2026/08/23/decision-to-leave-2022/
It’s been a Hard Light side-quest to screen Decision to Leave in this city, and we’re excited to finally bring Park Chan-wook’s best film to the big screen in December! Very few films manage to combine romance, mystery, cop antics, sad beaches, a chainmail glove, cell phone detective-work, and Tang Wei, but, then again, very few films are directed by Park Chan-wook. For those who have seen this and know what to expect, come and join us! We’re excited too. For those who are going in blind? Prepare to have a new favorite Hitchcock homage. See you there!
— Warner West, Hard Light Cinema
11 attendees
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