RuPaul is back on the big screen with a handful of limited indie openings from Cannes-premiering Promised Sky to award winning documentary The Gas Station Attendant and O Horizon starring Maria Bakalova.
The weekend is sprinkled with limited release restorations including Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Amores Perros from Mubi and The Third Man from Rialto Pictures. I Shot Andy Warhol is back, from Janus Films with The Devil Queen from Kino Lorber and By Hook Or By Crook from Altered Innocence. June is Pride Month.
BTS World Tour ‘Arirang’ In Busan: Live Viewing from Trafalgar will beam out to screens in North America and worldwide on Saturday.
Bleecker Street’s campy comedy Stop! That! Train! by director Adam Shankman and starring RuPaul is on 1,161 screens. Follows best friends Tess (Ginger Minj) and DeeDee (Jujubee), train stewardesses who trade their dreary shifts on the Stank Rail for the glitzy Glamazonian Express. With the train at risk of derailing, they join a group of snobby first class attendants and President Gagwell (RuPaul) to save the day. At 86% with Rotten Tomatoes critics off 34 reviews, see Deadline’s here.
Karla Murthy’s award-winning documentary The Gas Station Attendant opens at DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema in New York. A daughter reflects on her father’s life, weaving the story of his journey from the streets of India with the realities of life in America. Using recorded phone calls with her dad while he worked nights at a gas station, along with home movies, the doc is a meditation on family and the immigrant experience. Accolades include a Grand Jury Special Mention award, Sheffield Docfest; Best Documentary Feature, Nashville Film Festival; Best Documentary Feature Award, San Diego Asian Film Festival.
Film Movement debuts Cannes-premiering Promised Sky by French-Tunisian director Erige Sehiri at the Film Forum in NYC. Opening film of the 33rd New York African Film Festival last month. An Ivorian pastor and former journalist, Marie, opens her home in Tunisia to three generations of migrant women. A mother desperate to obtain residency status in Tunisia, Naney seeks a better life for herself and her daughter. Jolie, in Tunisia on a student visa, feels burdened by her family’s expectations. Kenza, an orphaned child and the only survivor of a shipwreck is lost and in need of a mother.
Magical realist tale O Horizon from Variance Films starring Maria Bakalova opens at the Quad Cinema in NYC. Madeleine Rotzler directs. Bakalova is Abby, a young neuroscientist navigating an exhilarating new romance and a groundbreaking career discovery after the recent loss of her father (David Strathairn). When an emerging technology suddenly allows her to speak with him again, it turns her life upside down.
