Directed With the same brutal yet operatic flair he brought to The Pusher Trilogy, Winding Refn gets inside the mind of “Britain’s most violent prisoner,” Charlie Bronson. With a wild, breakout performance from Tom Hardy, this pseudo-biopic delivers not only a portrait of an artist bereft of an outlet, but also a scathing indictment of celebrity culture.
Friday, May 1 - 7:00
Saturday, May 2 - 9:10
Wednesday, May 6 - 7:00
“Driver” is a Hollywood stuntman by day, criminal wheelman by night. Though a loner by nature, he can’t help falling for his neighbor Irene, a young mother drug into a danger by her husband. After a heist goes wrong, Driver finds himself and Irene on the run from a deadly serious syndicate. Soon, he realizes the gangsters are after more than a bag of cash. Drive juxtaposes a neon-cool aesthetic with understated performances and shocking bursts of violence for a breakout film that cemented Winding Refn as a modern auteur.
Friday, May 8 - 7:00
Saturday, May 9 - 9:00
Monday, May 11 - 7:00
THURSDAY, may 14 - 7:00
After Drive gained Winding Refn mainstream acceptance, Only God Forgives made it clear he wasn’t concerned with keeping it. Julian, an American fugitive, runs a boxing club in Bangkok as a front for his drug business. What appears to be a Thai-set action film becomes a slow descent into hell when Julian’s brother is killed, and his mother arrives to collect the body of her favorite son, and demands Julian deliver the head of the killers.
Friday, May 8 - 9:15
Saturday, May 9 - 7:00
tuesday, May 12 - 7:00
In 1996, Nicolas Winding Refn launched himself into the international film scene with his debut film. Pusher is the story of a small-time drug dealer named Frank (Kim Bodnia) who finds himself in massive debt to drug baron Milo (Zlatko Buric), and suspicious of his partner Tonny (Mads Mikkelsen), after a heroin deal goes wrong. The pressure mounts as Frank races through Copenhagen’s criminal underbelly, desperate for a way to repay Milo.
Friday, May 15 - 7:00
Monday, May 18 - 7:00
Nicolas Wending Refn returned to the Pusher story in 2004 with Pusher II: With Blood on My Hands, which sees Mads Mikkelsen (Doctor Strange) return as Tonny. Just released from prison, Tonny tries to gain the respect of his father, a notorious gangster who has nothing but contempt for his son. As he tries to repay an old prison debt, Tonny’s mistakes only run him further afoul of his father.
Tuesday, May 19 - 7:00
For the final entry, Pusher III: I’m the Angel of Death, Refn’s focus again shifts. Milo, the terrifying drug baron from the original Pusher, is now middle-aged, is forced to contend with a new order of young hoods to move a shipment of ecstasy that arrives in place of the heroin he was expecting. In order to maintain his dominance over the Copenhagen underworld, Milo must survive one of the most harrowing days of his life.
