Slab Cinema Art House

06/20/2026

Screening this week: Tangerine. This 2015 independent film is credited as the first major professional feature film shot entirely on an iPhone. Directed by Sean Baker, Tangerine premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was shot using three iPhone 5s smartphones.

06/15/2026

The Matrix (1999) screens this week!

A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.. Directed by Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski.

06/08/2026

Sunday, June 14

06/05/2026

Screening June 9 and June 11: Dazed and Confused, directed by .

A group of teenagers in Austin, Texas, welcomes the summer break with parties, hazing rituals and more chaos on the last day of school in 1976.

Starring including Jason London, Ben Affleck, Matthew McConaughey, Milla Jovovich, Cole Hauser, Parker Posey, Adam Goldberg, Nicky Katt, Joey Lauren Adams, Rory Cochrane, and Anthony Rapp.

06/02/2026

Fritz Lang Metropolis with live score by David DiDonato coming July 11! Indoors at Slab Cinema Arthouse at Blue Star.

05/31/2026

June 1 and 2 - Our Sidney Lumet series continues with The Verdict. A washed-up, ambulance-chasing attorney (Paul Newman) gets a chance at redemption when his friend tosses him an open-and-shut medical malpractice case. Screenplay by David Mamet. 1982

05/27/2026

This Sunday, 5/31 at 7 pm.

Banned by the Soviet government for this overly stylistic interpretation of Sayat Nova’s life, this film presents a poetic biography of a well-loved Armenian ashug’s (storyteller’s) life. The film is a nearly all-silent tableaux, inspired by the charged symbolism of Armenian illuminated manuscripts. The film went against the grain and mandate of Soviet cinema at the time, which favored socialist realism. Without reserve, Paradjanov’s film colorfully celebrates the survival of Armenian culture in the darkness of oppression and political persecution. Sergei Parajanov (Armenian, 1924-94) was a master of cinematography whose films were centered on the celebration of Armenian, Georgian, and Ukrainian culture. (Synopsis from screening of this film for their Darkness Film Series)



CREDITS
Restored in 2014 by Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata and The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, in association with the National Cinema Centre of Armenia and Gosfilmofond of Russia. Restoration funding provided by the Material World Charitable Foundation and The Film Foundation.

05/25/2026

Wemby with a half-court buzzer be**er to end the half! Arthouse

05/22/2026

Tonight!

05/22/2026