Crosstown Arts Film Series

Calling all cinephiles to the Crosstown Arts Theater! Get ready for a new lineup of nine films to fill your Thursday nights. From award winners to cult classics, this series has something worth showing up for every single week. Grab your friends and make Thursdays your official movie night.

All screenings begin at 7:00 PM, tickets are just $5 at the door, and parking validation is included.

October 1: Arrival [PG-13] |2016|

Linguistics professor Louise Banks leads a team of investigators after massive spaceships land in 12 locations around the world, racing against time as nations edge toward global war. Hoping to communicate with the extraterrestrial visitors, she takes a chance that could threaten her life and possibly all of humanity.

October 8: Perfect Days [PG] |2023|

Hirayama finds deep contentment in his simple, structured life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo, filling his days with music on cassette tapes, books, and photography. Through a series of unexpected encounters, he comes to reflect on the quiet beauty found in everyday life.

October 15: Sinners [R] |2025|

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their Mississippi hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

October 22: The Vanishing [NR] |1988|

When Saskia vanishes without a trace during a road trip through France, her partner Rex spends three years consumed by the need to know what happened. When her captor finally makes contact, Rex is offered the truth, but only on terrifying terms.

October 29: Creepshow [R] |1982|

Five twisted tales unfold, a murdered patriarch returns for revenge, a mysterious meteor transforms everything it touches, a jealous husband seeks the ultimate payback, something lurks beneath the stairs, and an army of cockroaches has the final say. Each story finds cruelty, greed, and bad behavior met with fittingly monstrous consequences.

November 12: The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 [NR] |2011|

Rediscovered decades after it was filmed, this collection of 16mm footage from Swedish journalists captures the Black Power movement as it unfolded between 1967 and 1975, featuring voices like Stokely Carmichael, Angela Davis, and Bobby Seale. The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 pairs that archival material with contemporary commentary, examining resistance, community organizing, and the ongoing struggle for liberation.

November 19: Seconds [R] |1966|

A disillusioned banker accepts an extraordinary offer, a new body, a new identity, and the chance to start life over as a younger man. He soon discovers that escaping his old life may be far more complicated than he imagined.

December 3: The Holdovers [R] |2023|

A difficult boarding school teacher is stuck supervising students with nowhere else to go over winter break, finding himself sharing an empty campus with a sharp, troubled student and the school’s grieving head cook.

December 10: Black Christmas [R] |1974|

A sorority house becomes the target of chilling phone calls over Christmas break, and when a friend vanishes, the remaining women realize the threat is closer than they think. Black Christmas set the template for the slasher genre, built on eerie cinematography and an inescapable sense of dread.