Print launch illus-straat

Op vrijdag 15 september organiseren we samen met illus-straat een expositie van prints van bioscoopgebouwen met een interessante geschiedenis en architectuur. De prints van de gebouwen van Studio K, Kriterion, Rialto en LAB111 zijn in onze bar Strangelove te bewonderen of te kopen van 17:00 tot 22:00. illus-straat creëert limited edition kunstwerken van unieke Nederlandse…

LAB Classics: The French Connection

Honoring the recently deceased director William Friedkin – whose unique brand of films help shape an entire generation of genre filmmaking – we’re screening his gritty, fast-paced, and innovative police drama The French Connection; good for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actor (Gene Hackman).

LAB Classics: Alien

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.

Koningsnacht Sing-Along: The Rocky Horror Picture Show

“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”.

Anime Extra: Suzume

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!

Expat Cinema: Return To Seoul

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.

Expat Cinema: Nayola

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. 

Expat Cinema: Sick Of Myself

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.

Three Films By Ari Aster

Coinciding with the release of his bizarre new Joaquin Phoenix starring fever dream Beau Is Afraid, we are delighted to present the three feature-length films of one of the most interesting filmmakers working today. Ari Aster is living rent-free in our mind after his unsettling, thrilling features Hereditary and Midsommar.

LAB Classics: Come And See

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.

John Waters: Pope Of Trash

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.

Ana Lily Amirpour: Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon

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.

Expat Cinema: Hunt

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.

Expat Cinema: Saint Omer

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.

Expat Cinema: Inu-Oh

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.

Fundraiser Turkey & Syria: The Wild Pear Tree

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 Dude Day: The Big Lebowski

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.