In a nod to LV-426, the moon where it all began, 26 April is officially ‘Alien Day’! Therefore Ridley Scott’s science fiction classic, Alien, returns to our cinema. Visionary and terrifying, Scott’s modern classic hybridized the horror and science-fiction genres in 1979 to effectively launch a new subgenre, and countless clones have since borrowed from its DNA.
“Don’t dream it. Be it.” Again we return to the freak show/cult classic/cultural institution that is The Rocky Horror Picture Show. So dress up like a dirty, little pervert and timewarp your (virgin?) butt over to our cinema and participate in a one-of-a-kind immersive musical movie experience! We’ll make sure there’s plenty of rice, toilet paper and whatnot to help you on your “strange journey”.
Two weeks ago influential (soundtrack) composer Ryuichi Sakamoto sadly passed away at the age of 71. To celebrate the late Japanese master we’ll have limited screenings of Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence in which Sakamoto, who also provided the mesmerizing synth score, stars alongside fellow icon David Bowie.
After receiving many requests for us to screen it, we finally got the go and so Makoto Shinkai’s latest, lavish anime fantasy, Suzume will hit our cinema starting April 13th. Alongside it, you will have the chance to revisit Shinkai’s beloved anime hits Your Name and Weathering With You. All films will be screened in their original Japanese versions with English subtitles of course!
We continue with our series of Expat Cinema – where we offer the best foreign movies with English subtitles. Writer-director Davy Chou’s story of a young woman looking for her birth parents in South Korea is one blissful portrait of a woman trying to find herself.
We continue with our series of Expat Cinema – where we offer the best foreign movies with English subtitles. In expressively luminous colours, José Miguel Ribeiro tells the story of three women whose lives are overshadowed by the Angolan civil war.
We continue with our series of Expat Cinema – where we offer the best foreign movies with English subtitles. It’s really too bad the title The Worst Person in the World is already taken because otherwise, it’d be a perfect fit for this year’s Oslo-set comedy of young-adult malaise.
LAB111 presenteert iedere laatste vrijdag van de maand het ultieme video-avondje: Straight to Video. Twee krankzinnige cultfilms op originele VHS, vanaf een analoge videorecorder, met glitches, trailers, bloed en bier!
In samenwerking met het Nationeel Comité 4 en 5 mei besteden wij ook dit jaar weer extra aandacht aan (de slachtoffers van) oorlog en de gevolgen daarvan met ditmaal twee anti-oorlogsklassiekers: Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam-epos Apocalypse Now en Elem Klimovs uiterst aangrijpende WOII-aanklacht Kom en Zie.
In samenwerking met het Nationeel Comité 4 en 5 mei besteden wij ook dit jaar weer extra aandacht aan (de slachtoffers van) oorlog en de gevolgen daarvan met ditmaal twee anti-oorlogsklassiekers: Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam-epos Apocalypse Now en Elem Klimovs uiterst aangrijpende WOII-aanklacht Kom en Zie.
We continue with our series of Expat Cinema – where we offer the best foreign movies with English subtitles. Colm Bairéad’s beautifully understated feature debut finds a young girl coming to terms with loss and the importance of family in rural Ireland.
No other American filmmaker has made bad taste perversely transcendent like the man known by such dubious titles as The Sultan of Sleaze, The Baron of Bad Taste or The Pope of Trash. One of the grandfathers of cult cinema, John Waters is best known for directing boundary-pushing independent comedies, three of which we’ll be screening to coincide with the release of the Waters-inspired Please Baby Please starring Andrea Riseborough.
Coinciding with the sleazy and neon-soaked ride Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon we return to the Iranian streets Ana Lily Amirpour’s stunning debut feature A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night.
A sleazy and neon-soaked ride that splits the difference between a crafty caper and a guilty pleasure, Ana Lily Amirpour’s newest film Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon is the kind of cheeky flick you can’t help but surrender to. Coinciding with its release we’ll also be screening her beguiling, Iranian vampire debut feature A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night.
We continue with our series of Expat Cinema – where we offer the best foreign movies with English subtitles. Director of The Squid Game Lee Jung-jae directs this lavishly produced, mad-cap 80s-set stunt-filled spy flick.
We love ourselves some Murakami! Adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short stories, Pierre Földes’ animated debut feature Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman sketches the lives of three Tokyo residents thrown into a whirlpool of anxiety and introspection following the 2011 earthquake in eastern Japan.
Launching on March 23rd on your favorite podcast platform, come swing by at LAB111 for celebratory drinks, meet the filmmakers and our podcast crew and feel free top watch multiple shorts from all the interviewed artists.
LAB111 presenteert iedere laatste vrijdag van de maand het ultieme video-avondje: Straight to Video. Twee krankzinnige cultfilms op originele VHS, vanaf een analoge videorecorder, met glitches, trailers, bloed en bier!
In association with Cineville, we’re happy to be part of a nationwide series of early previews of the beautiful new film by Davy Chou, Return To Seoul. The film will be screened with English subtitles!
In association with Park Circus, we are extremely happy to present a bruising 4K restoration of Martin Scorsese’s raw sports drama masterpiece Raging Bull featuring an award-winning performance by Robert De Niro.
Schmutz Cinema brings you steamy, erotic arthouse. Each programme features a variety of bodies, gender identities and sexual preferences. Displayed on a smorgasbord of cinematographic creativity.
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of its initial release, we are thrilled to present First Blood – the first in the Rambo franchise – in a brand-new 4K restoration.
Our Second Chance Cinema programming for March gives you the opportunity to (re)visit a number of Oscar-nominated or winning films. Lukas Dhont’s second feature Close is a heartbreaking tale of boyhood friendship turned sour.
We continue with our series of Expat Cinema – where we offer the best foreign movies with English subtitles. Alice Diop’s unnerving fiction feature is based on the true case of a Senegalese immigrant accused in the French court of murdering her 15-month-old daughter.
We continue with our series of Expat Cinema – where we offer the best foreign movies with English subtitles. Masaaki Yuasa’s showstopping animation reframes the classical performance style as a world of rock gods and cavorting dancers.
Following the devastating impact of the earthquakes across Turkey and northern Syria, we will be screening the beautiful Turkish film The Wild Pear Tree by acclaimed director Nuri Bilge Ceylan to raise funds for those affected in the area. All proceeds of this screening will be donated to a to-be-determined grassroots aid organization; please consider an extra donation when purchasing your ticket.
The Day of the Dude is celebrated on March 6 every year to commemorate the North American release of the movie The Big Lebowski in 1998. It’s been a while since we’ve last mellowed out with his Dudeness or El Duderino, if you’re not into the whole brevity thing, so it’s time to put on a bathrobe, pour yourself a White Russian (or order one at our bar) and join us to celebrate this iconic Coen Bros. classic.
We continue with our series of Expat Cinema – where we offer the best foreign movies with English subtitles. Iran’s Saeed Roustayi puts the spotlight on a woman driven to distraction by the indolent, incompetent patriarchy.
We continue with our series of Expat Cinema – where we offer the best foreign movies with English subtitles. Life is seen through the eyes of a put-upon beast of burden in this beautifully photographed homage to Au Hasard Balthazar by the veteran Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski.
After our successful Queer Speeddates during Pride last summer, we have decided to host another round of wholesome get-togethers in our cozy venue on March 19th at 4pm in our Kapel. So if you have been feeling lonely this Valentine’s, don’t miss your chance to create meaningful new connections and just have a fun time on this special day to celebrate love!
Na drie succesvolle edities van Club Imagine, keert in het weekend van vrijdag 10 t/m zondag 12 maart Imagine Film Festival terug LAB111 voor Part IV. Dit met een ‘short but sweet’ programma van zes titels, die beide liefhebber en nieuwkomer meevoert van de ene uithoek van het fantastische spectrum naar het andere.
For those who like to spice up their Valentine’s Day with some French Nouvelle Vague, we offer the chance to revisit Alain Resnais’ melancholy romance classic Hiroshima Mon Amour; a moody masterwork that delicately weaves past and present, intimate love and personal pain.
LAB111 presenteert iedere laatste vrijdag van de maand het ultieme video-avondje: Straight to Video. Twee krankzinnige cultfilms op originele VHS, vanaf een analoge videorecorder, met glitches, trailers, bloed en bier!
With his sweeping epic Titanic back in cinemas (sadly only in 3D IMAX) and the sequel to sci-fi adventure Avatar still dominating the box office, we’ve decided to give you the chance to revisit two of James Cameron’s bonafide action classics: 1986 ‘best sequel ever made’ Aliens and his gritty science fiction breakthrough The Terminator.
With his sweeping epic Titanic back in cinemas (sadly only in 3D IMAX) and the sequel to sci-fi adventure Avatar still dominating the box office, we’ve decided to give you the chance to revisit two of James Cameron’s bonafide action classics: 1986 ‘best sequel ever made’ Aliens and his gritty science fiction breakthrough The Terminator.
Coinciding with the release of his Oscar-nominated psychological drama The Whale, featuring a mesmerizing comeback performance by Brendan Fraser, we dive off the pier in Requiem For A Dream and into The Fountain which is the oeuvre of American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky.
Celebrating 70 years – William Wyler’s iconic classic Roman Holiday returns to our cinema to coincide with Valentin’s Day. A sparkling Audrey Hepburn falls for a dashing Gregory Peck in this classic romantic comedy.
One of the most requested and suggested film cycles of the past decade is Richard Linklater’s wonderful three-part romance The Before Trilogy. To celebrate this Valentine’s Day we’ll give you plenty of opportunities to see all three Before films in the days leading up to February 14th. On Valentin’s Day itself, you can book tickets for the films in chronological order with plenty of time to share a pizza with a loved one between Sunrise and Sunset.
Inspired by Lizzy Goodman’s bestselling book, Meet Me In The Bathroom is an immersive archival journey through the explosive New York music scene of the early 2000s. Set against the backdrop of 9/11, this acclaimed documentary tells the story of the last great romantic age of rock ‘n’ roll through the prism of a handful of era-defining bands, including The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, TV on the Radio, and The Moldy Peaches.
Een jaar zit vol met belangwekkende feestdagen, maar er is er maar één (existentieel) relevante datum die iedere filmliefhebber elke tweede februari van het jaar dient te vieren; keer op keer op keer op keer op keer op keer op keer op keer op…
Celebrating the 50th-anniversary re-release of his mystical magnum opus The Holy Mountain, the three-part retrospective The Alchemy Of Alejandro Jodorowsky presents brand-new, stunning 4K restorations of a trio of the most influential classics by one of world cinema’s most fabled iconoclasts.
We continue with our series of Expat Cinema – where we offer the best foreign movies with English subtitles. Selcen Ergun delivers a dark tale blinded by the whiteness of the snowy landscapes of a Turkish village locked in the outdated traditions of an endless winter.
We’re extremely happy to return to our Anime Extra series with the new anime hit from Japan, That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime The Movie: Scarlet Bond.
LAB111 presenteert iedere laatste vrijdag van de maand het ultieme video-avondje: Straight to Video. Twee krankzinnige cultfilms op originele VHS, vanaf een analoge videorecorder, met glitches, trailers, bloed en bier!
What happens when you combine a distinct love for 70’s Italian ‘giallo’ and erotic films – and their unique soundtracks – with ASMR, possessed dresses and butterflies? Well, you get the cinema of one of Brittain’s most unique, up-and-coming filmmakers, Peter Strickland. Coinciding with the release of his latest film Flux Gourmet we’ll give you the chance to jump into his thought-provoking niche with screenings of his quirky, culty films The Duke Of Burgundy and In Fabric.
Ever since his 1998 breakthrough film After Life, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda is know for unique brand of poignant family drama. Coinciding with the release of his newest film Broker we’ll screen a small selection of his most touching works.
Hopefully by now you will have heard of our very own podcast Celebrating Cinema, made for the love of cinema! At long last, we are glad to host our first live recording following a screening of 2008’s Twilight.
After sadly failing to bring Krysztof Kieślowski’s devastatingly beautiful Trois Couleurs trilogy to our cinema during our tribute to Juliette Binoche, we’re overjoyed to present brand-new 4K restorations of all the films this January. With it we shall also screen our personal favorite of the Polish filmmaker, La Double Vie De Veronique.
We continue with our series of Expat Cinema – where we offer the best foreign movies with English subtitles. Five years after winning the Palme d’Or for Shoplifters, Academy award nominated filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with Broker, starring Cannes Best actor winner Song Kang Ho (Parasite).
We continue with our series of Expat Cinema – where we offer the best foreign movies with English subtitles. Adèle Exarchopoulos (‘Blue Is the Warmest Color’) toplines this genre-bending second feature from writer-director Léa Mysius (‘Ava’).