Lightbox Film Center
@lightboxfilmcenter.bsky.social
Philadelphia's premier exhibitor of film & moving image art, showing repertory, nonfiction, experimental, international cinema.
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Today is the birthday of poet and filmmaker Willard Maas (1906 - 1971). Maas and his wife, filmmaker Marie Menken, were at the center of New York's underground literary and film scene in the 40s, 50s, and 60s.
June 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Today is the birthday of poet and filmmaker Willard Maas (1906 - 1971). Maas and his wife, filmmaker Marie Menken, were at the center of New York's underground literary and film scene in the 40s, 50s, and 60s.
Happy Birthday Lois Weber (born 1879 in Allegheny City, PA). Only a fraction of her film output exists today but she was one of the most innovative and prolific silent film directors of all time.
June 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Happy Birthday Lois Weber (born 1879 in Allegheny City, PA). Only a fraction of her film output exists today but she was one of the most innovative and prolific silent film directors of all time.
If you happen to be in NYC this week head over to @anthologyfilm.bsky.social to catch Lightbox's restoration of Richard Beymer's THE INNERVIEW. Stepping away from acting in the late 1960s, Beymer directed this stunning avant-garde masterpiece which has rarely been seen since its initial release.
April 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
If you happen to be in NYC this week head over to @anthologyfilm.bsky.social to catch Lightbox's restoration of Richard Beymer's THE INNERVIEW. Stepping away from acting in the late 1960s, Beymer directed this stunning avant-garde masterpiece which has rarely been seen since its initial release.
Remembering author, filmmaker, scholar, and activist Toni Cade Bambara, born on this day in 1939
March 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Remembering author, filmmaker, scholar, and activist Toni Cade Bambara, born on this day in 1939
Looking ahead to later this spring, we've got two very unique Japanese films from the 1980s lined up...stay tuned!
March 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Looking ahead to later this spring, we've got two very unique Japanese films from the 1980s lined up...stay tuned!
Gene Hackman (RIP)
February 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Gene Hackman (RIP)
TONIGHT! Join us at the Bok building for Niki de Saint Phalle's brilliantly bizarre A DREAM LONGER THAN THE NIGHT.
February 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
TONIGHT! Join us at the Bok building for Niki de Saint Phalle's brilliantly bizarre A DREAM LONGER THAN THE NIGHT.
Next Wednesday (2/5) we present the Academy Award nominated film SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT. We will also be raffling off copies of the newly published "My Country, Africa - Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria" by Andrée Blouin, now back in print thanks to @versobooks.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Next Wednesday (2/5) we present the Academy Award nominated film SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT. We will also be raffling off copies of the newly published "My Country, Africa - Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria" by Andrée Blouin, now back in print thanks to @versobooks.bsky.social
Jean-François Laguionie's haunting animated sci-fi adventure GWEN AND THE BOOK OF SAND is finally available in a newly restored version. Experience this otherworldly masterpiece on the big screen next Wednesday at Lightbox. @deafcrocodile.bsky.social
January 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Jean-François Laguionie's haunting animated sci-fi adventure GWEN AND THE BOOK OF SAND is finally available in a newly restored version. Experience this otherworldly masterpiece on the big screen next Wednesday at Lightbox. @deafcrocodile.bsky.social
"This whole world's wild at heart and weird on top" RIP David Lynch
January 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"This whole world's wild at heart and weird on top" RIP David Lynch
JUST BOOKED! The feature directorial debut by Allan Moyle (TIMES SQUARE, EMPIRE RECORDS); a gritty slice of 1970s drug culture in Canada. Before DRUGSTORE COWBOY and TRAINSPOTTING there was THE RUBBER GUN. Catch its East Coast premiere next month at Lightbox!
January 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
JUST BOOKED! The feature directorial debut by Allan Moyle (TIMES SQUARE, EMPIRE RECORDS); a gritty slice of 1970s drug culture in Canada. Before DRUGSTORE COWBOY and TRAINSPOTTING there was THE RUBBER GUN. Catch its East Coast premiere next month at Lightbox!
Our double shot of Robert Bresson continues this Wednesday with a new restoration of LANCELOT DU LAC (1974), the director's unconventional take on the Knights of the Round Table.
January 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Our double shot of Robert Bresson continues this Wednesday with a new restoration of LANCELOT DU LAC (1974), the director's unconventional take on the Knights of the Round Table.
Swedish/American filmmaker Gunvor Nelson has died. Nelson was a pivotal figure in the Bay Area experimental film community during the 1960s with groundbreaking works such as MY NAME IS OONA and TAKE OFF.
January 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Swedish/American filmmaker Gunvor Nelson has died. Nelson was a pivotal figure in the Bay Area experimental film community during the 1960s with groundbreaking works such as MY NAME IS OONA and TAKE OFF.
A later work of French auteur Robert Bresson, THE DEVIL, PROBABLY is a deeply existential film that continues to resonate in the 21st century. See it this Wednesday at 7pm
January 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
A later work of French auteur Robert Bresson, THE DEVIL, PROBABLY is a deeply existential film that continues to resonate in the 21st century. See it this Wednesday at 7pm
A fixture in the world of Czech New Wave film, writer and costume designer Ester Krumbachová (DAISIES, VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS) only made one feature film of her own. The deliriously dark MURDERING THE DEVIL is our final film of 2024. Catch it this Wednesday 12/18 at the Bok Auditorium.
December 13, 2024 at 3:38 PM
A fixture in the world of Czech New Wave film, writer and costume designer Ester Krumbachová (DAISIES, VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS) only made one feature film of her own. The deliriously dark MURDERING THE DEVIL is our final film of 2024. Catch it this Wednesday 12/18 at the Bok Auditorium.
Shot in shimmering black and white, Bruce Weber's LET'S GET LOST is a soulful elegy to a jazz legend who had a penchant for self-sabotage. Catch it TONIGHT at 7pm then head over to 48 Record Bar for a post-screening, jazzy after-party.
December 11, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Shot in shimmering black and white, Bruce Weber's LET'S GET LOST is a soulful elegy to a jazz legend who had a penchant for self-sabotage. Catch it TONIGHT at 7pm then head over to 48 Record Bar for a post-screening, jazzy after-party.
We hope you'll consider making a tax-deductible donation to Lightbox today! donorbox.org/lightbox-reo...
December 3, 2024 at 8:08 PM
We hope you'll consider making a tax-deductible donation to Lightbox today! donorbox.org/lightbox-reo...
This Wednesday (12/4) we'll be at Moore College of Art & Design with a program of newly restored films by Narcisa Hirsch. Beginning her career as a painter, Hirsch later embarked on an extraordinary journey of filmmaking after encountering Michael Snow's experimental opus WAVELENGTH.
December 1, 2024 at 1:10 PM
This Wednesday (12/4) we'll be at Moore College of Art & Design with a program of newly restored films by Narcisa Hirsch. Beginning her career as a painter, Hirsch later embarked on an extraordinary journey of filmmaking after encountering Michael Snow's experimental opus WAVELENGTH.
December at Lightbox:
12/4 - Narcisa Hirsch
12/11 - LET'S GET LOST (Bruce Weber, 1988)
12/18 - MURDERING THE DEVIL (Ester Krumbachova, 1970)
12/4 - Narcisa Hirsch
12/11 - LET'S GET LOST (Bruce Weber, 1988)
12/18 - MURDERING THE DEVIL (Ester Krumbachova, 1970)
November 26, 2024 at 4:23 PM
December at Lightbox:
12/4 - Narcisa Hirsch
12/11 - LET'S GET LOST (Bruce Weber, 1988)
12/18 - MURDERING THE DEVIL (Ester Krumbachova, 1970)
12/4 - Narcisa Hirsch
12/11 - LET'S GET LOST (Bruce Weber, 1988)
12/18 - MURDERING THE DEVIL (Ester Krumbachova, 1970)