Spectacle Theater's Top Films

Spectacle Theater's Top Films

In partnership with Spectacle Theater, we present a new playlist curated by Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer celebrating our collaborations with the Brooklyn microcinema. The selections include Japanese maverick Shohei Imamura’s portrait of remote island communities THE PIRATES OF BUBUAN, the Afrofuturist reverie THE LAST ANGEL OF HISTORY, the dumpling drama OXHIDE II, and a few trailers made by Spectacle’s team of volunteers.

Spectacle Theater (est.2010) is a a collectively-run screening space in Brooklyn, NY, established and staffed by hard-working, cinema-loving volunteers. Our programming runs seven days a week and includes overlooked works, offbeat gems, contemporary art, radical polemics, live performance and more.

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Spectacle Theater's Top Films
  • Ice

    Directed by Robert Kramer • Drama • With Robert Kramer, Leo Braudy, Tom Griffin, Paul McIsaac • 1969 • 128 minutes

    ICE is an innovative independent thriller, shot in New York City, which centers on a revolutionary group plotting to attack a fascistic political regime. Using a fictitious war with...

  • The Pirates of Bubuan

    Directed by Shohei Imamura • Documentary • 2012 • 46 minutes

    Imamura reveals remote and impoverished islands in the Philippines to be the home of rival factions of pirates in this absorbing investigation into a little-known way of life.

    "Masterful... Imamura whisks an entire world out of nothin...

  • A Grin Without a Cat

    Directed by Chris Marker • Documentary • 1977 • 178 minutes

    Newly restored! A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT is Chris Marker's epic film-essay on the worldwide political wars of the 60's and 70's: Vietnam, Bolivia, May '68, Prague, Chile, and the fate of the New Left.

    Released in France in 1978, restored a...

  • From The East

    Directed by Chantal Akerman • Documentary • 2003 • 110 minutes

    FROM THE EAST retraces a journey from the end of summer to deepest winter, from East Germany, across Poland and the Baltics, to Moscow. It is a voyage Chantal Akerman wanted to make shortly after the collapse of the Soviet bloc "befo...

  • Metal and Melancholy

    Directed by Heddy Honigmann • Documentary • 1993 • 80 minutes

    This documentary is an offbeat "road movie" in which acclaimed documentarian Heddy Honigmann travels with, and thereby discovers the stories of, taxi drivers in Lima. In the early 1990s, in response to Peru's inflationary economy and ...

  • The Last Angel of History

    Directed by John Akomfrah • Documentary • 1996 • 45 minutes

    John Akomfrah, director of Seven Songs of Malcolm X, returns with an engaging and searing examination of the hitherto unexplored relationships between Pan-African culture, science fiction, intergalactic travel, and rapidly progressing c...

  • La Commune (Paris 1871) (Theatrical Version)

    Directed by Peter Watkins • Documentary • 2000 • 208 minutes

    This is a shorter, theatrical version of LA COMMUNE. All of Peter Watkins films are events. When he tackles a historical moment of such magnitude as the Paris Commune of 1871, Watkins provokes, disturbs, jostles. The story, based on a ...

  • Three Sisters

    Directed by Wang Bing • Documentary • 2012 • 153 minutes

    One of his generation's most important documentary filmmakers, director Wang Bing is at the height of his powers in THREE SISTERS. The film introduces viewers to 10-year-old YingYing, 6-year-old Zhenzhen and 4-year-old Fenfen, who live alo...

  • Oxhide II

    Directed by Liu Jiayin • Drama • With Liu Jiayin, Huifen Jia, Zaiping Liu • 2012 • 132 minutes

    Breaking new ground in cinematic art, Liu Jiayin's follow-up to her masterful debut OXHIDE turns a simple dinner into a profoundly intimate study of family relationships.

    Building on the stunning visi...

  • Lemebel

    Directed by Joanna Reposi • Documentary • 2020 • 96 minutes

    Chilean performance artist, writer, anti-fascist, cross-dresser, and queer activist Pedro Lemebel (1952-2015) was a larger-than-life icon of his country’s gay liberation movement. In both his work and his life, he blended humor with spe...

  • Metal and Melancholy Fan Trailer

    Metal and Melancholy Fan Trailer by Spectacle Theater

  • A Grin Without a Cat Fan Trailer

    A Grin Without a Cat Fan Trailer by Spectacle Theater

  • The Pirates of Babuan Fan Trailer

    The Pirates of Babuan Fan Trailer by Spectacle Theater

  • Oxhide II Fan Trailer

    Oxhide II Fan Trailer by Spectacle Theater

  • From the East Fan Trailer

    From the East Fan Trailer by Spectacle Theater

  • The Last Angel of History Fan Trailer

    The Last Angel of History Fan Trailer by Spectacle Theater