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.

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.

Expat Cinema: EO

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.

Spring Speeddates

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!

Club Imagine

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.

LAB Classics: Aliens

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.

LAB Classics: 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.

Valentine’s Day: The Before Trilogy

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.

Docu Special: Meet Me In The Bathroom

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.

The Alchemy Of Alejandro Jodorowsky

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.

Strictly Strickland: The Films Of Peter Strickland

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.

Expat Cinema: Broker

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).