The 48 Hour Film Project is an annual event that encourages filmmakers of all ages and skill levels to compete and see which team will make the best film in 48 hours!

Roxie and Spoke Art present

ALMOST FAMOUS

with legendary Rolling Stone journalist Ben Fong-Torres (portrayed by Terry Chen) & renowned band promoter Pennie Lane (Kate Hudson) for an IN PERSON Q&A!

Celebrate Cameron Crowe's love letter to classic rock! Spoke Art will be creating an exclusive limited-edition commemorative poster specially for this screening. After the film, you'll get a chance to hear real stories of the '70s rock & roll era.

Accompanied by a new, exclusive poster design in Spoke Art's ongoing series with the Roxie.

Bad Reputation gives you a wild ride as Jett and her close friends tell you how it really was in the burgeoning ’70s punk scene, and their interviews are laced with amazing archival footage.

This sleeper hit, a sweetly bonkers comedy fantasy about ghosts uneasily playing house with humans, confirmed Tm Burton as a creative genius and Winona Ryder as a piquant talent. Playing a goth teen caught in the middle, she holds her own with a cast including Catherine O’Hara and Jeffrey Jones (as her folks), Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis (as a nice young dead couple), and, of course, Michael Keaton as the berserk titular poltergeist.

It’s the early 1970s, a time of great social upheaval ajavascript:void(0);s the struggle for civil rights rages on. Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) becomes the first African-American detective on the Colorado Springs Police Department, but his arrival is greeted with skepticism and open hostility by the department’s rank and file. Undaunted, Stallworth resolves to make a name for himself and a difference in his community. He bravely sets out on a dangerous mission: infiltrate and expose the Ku Klux Klan.

Posing as a racist extremist, Stallworth contacts the group and soon finds himself invited into its inner circle. He even cultivates a relationship with the Klan’s Grand Wizard, David Duke (Topher Grace), who praises Ron’s commitment to the advancement of White America. With the undercover investigation growing ever more complex, Stallworth’s colleague, Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), poses as Ron in face-to-face meetings with members of hate group, gaining insider’s knowledge of a deadly plot. Together, Stallworth and Zimmerman team up to take down the organization whose real aim is to sanitize its violent rhetoric to appeal to the mainstream.

Produced by the team behind the Academy-Award® winning Get Out, BlacKkKlansman offers an unflinching, true-life examination of race relations in 1970s America that is just as bracingly relevant in today’s tumultuous worl.

Collin (Daveed Diggs) must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning. He and his troublemaking childhood best friend, Miles (Rafael Casal), work as movers and are forced to watch their old neighborhood become a trendy spot in the rapidly gentrifying Bay Area. When a life-altering event causes Collin to miss his mandatory curfew, the two men struggle to maintain their friendship as the changing social landscape exposes their differences. Lifelong friends Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal co-wrote and star in this timely and wildly entertaining story about friendship and the intersection of race and class set against the backdrop of Oakland. Bursting with energy, style and humor, Blindspotting, boldly directed by Carlos López Estrada in his feature film debut, is a provocative hometown love letter that glistens with humanity.

Amidst a landmark class action lawsuit over illegal policing quotas, Crime + Punishment chronicles the real lives and struggles of a group of black and Latino whistleblower cops and the young minorities they are pressured to arrest and summons in New York City. A highly intimate and cinematic experience with unprecedented access, Crime + Punishment examines the United States' most powerful police department through the brave efforts of a group of active duty officers and one unforgettable private investigator who risk their careers and safety to bring light to harmful policing practices which have plagued the precincts and streets of New York City for decades.

Aliens, vampires, and beautiful technicolor psychedelia invade the Roxie in this pulp masterpiece! The crowning achievement of 60s Japanese sci-fi, GOKE is an unforgettable big screen experience!

An intimate, immersive account of a captivating, little-known phenomenon: same-sex competitive ballroom dance, a world where expressions of personal passion become a political statement.

For four dancers from the USA, Russia, Costa Rica and New Zealand, dance is a form of personal power and political engagement that both shapes their identities and helps them overcome uniquely personal challenges.

As the Gay Games approach, we watch the dancers’ relationships with family, dance partners, life partners — and with themselves — develop and deepen in a beautifully human way.

After a minor incident in her village, nine-year-old Shula is exiled to a travelling witch camp where she is told that if she tries to escape she will be transformed into a white goat. As she navigates through her new life, she must decide whether to accept her fate or risk the consequences of seeking freedom.

A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.

A theater director's latest project takes on a life of its own when her young star takes her performance too seriously.

A lyrical skateboard ballet featuring adrenaline-inducing footage in a Sundance winning doc about the toxic masculinity and domestic violence that cycles through generations, poverty, race and class.

The Roxie Releasing classic in 35mm!

A look into the many lives of Christa Päffgen, otherwise known as Nico; from cutie German mädchen to the first of the supermodels, to glamorous diva of the Velvet Underground, to cult item to junkie.

The narrative biography centers on the final two years of Nico, the German-born singer-model-actress, was in her zeitgeist in the 1960s, when she had a cameo in Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” and was a Warhol star and singer with the Velvet Underground. In 1987 and 1988, she was approaching 50 and living a solitary life in Manchester. Her manager Richard convinces her to hit the road again and tour Europe to promote her latest album. Struggling with her demons and the consequences of a muddled life, she longs to rebuild a relationship with her son, whose custody she lost long ago.

The story of the titular girl known only as "Otome" and her insanely long night of partying and drinking-complete with a book fair, festival, and many adventures in between. It is also the story of "Senpai," her upper class man who has been attempting to get closer to her by "coincidentally" running into her again and again. However, on this night, meeting up with her may be the greatest challenge of his life.

A seemingly minor traffic collision has far-reaching consequences in this story of a well-meaning medical examiner haunted by the death of a child he might have prevented. As the story unfolds, his fate becomes inextricably bound up with that of the grieving family. In only his second feature, Jalilvand coaxes brilliantly understated performances from a superb cast for this compelling, considered meditation on guilt and grief. –Chicago International Film Festival.

Directed by Vahid Jalilvand. Iran. 2017. In Farsi with English Subtitles.

In 2015 and 2017, Paul Clipson curated and presented programs of experimental films from the collection at Canyon Cinema. One was screened as part of their salon series and the other, an event for a local gallery, in conjunction with an exhibition. This Little Roxie/Canyon Cinema presentation commingles many of the works he had selected and remixes them, with a few new additions as well as some of Paul's films.

A retired pop singer turned actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past. (20th Anniversary)

The hippie movement that captivated hundreds of thousands of young people in the West had a profound impact on the other side of the Iron Curtain.

What began as Todd Haynes' (CAROL, I'M NOT THERE) vision to do an official biography of the king of glam himself, David Bowie, was denied when Bowie rejected Haynes the rights to his life and music. Rather than chucking the project entirely, Haynes took advantage of this new opportunity to make a movie that, unlike your typical biopic, completely takes off into space, embodying the spirit of Ziggy Stardust and the other-worldliness of the glam movement itself, playing out like a love letter from a die-hard fan. Starring Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as glam superstar Brian Slade, Ewan Mcregor as Slade's lover and Iggy Pop incarnate, Curt Wild, a stunning Toni Collette as Slade's wife Mandy,  and a tour de force soundtrack featuring Roxy Music, T. Rex, Brian Eno, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, covers by Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Ewan Mcgregor and Thom Yorke and Placebo, plus some impressively glam original music from Pulp, Shudder to Think and Grant Lee Buffalo.

From the team behind the award-winning One For Ten comes a feature documentary to lift the lid on the human cost of the death penalty in the United States.

America’s most divisive issue – capital punishment – is running into some trouble. With drug supplies for lethal injections drying up and public support at an all-time-low, the struggle to keep executing is taking its toll.

The Penalty follows three people caught in the crosshairs of capital punishment and the political landscape that could decide their fate.

Going behind the scenes of some of the biggest headlines in the history of America's death penalty, the film follows the lethal injection protocol crisis that resulted in a botched execution; the rehabilitation of a man who spent 15 years on death row for a crime he didn't commit, and the family of a young woman - brutally murdered - split by the state's pursuit of the ultimate punishment.

The Penalty is coming to a screen near to you. Take a look at our screenings page to find one near you.

Directed by William Francome. 90 mins.

The WOMEN'S ADVENTURE FILM TOUR has arrived in the USA for the first time ever! This tour is a celebration of the fantastic women around us who are doing extraordinary things. The films are to be enjoyed by women and men of all ages!