Upcoming Movie Nights

Film Fanatics Movie Nights transforms local venues in Champaign-Urbana into a screening room where film lovers gather to experience artistic, unusual, and visually striking cinema together on the big screen. Expect a stimulating evening of conversation, and community in a lounge atmopshere — the kind of shared experience that reminds us why we fell in love with movies in the first place.

 

 

 

Coming Soon

You told us what you want to see and we listened. Based on the results of our first survey, we’re excited to present the following films over the coming months.

 

As always, club members receive discounted admission to all screenings, along with reserved seating in our premium section. Join today and help shape what we show next.

Santa Sangre

Mexico/Italy 1989 • 123 min (1.85:1)

Directed by: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Starring: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell

Date: TBD

 

A hallucinatory descent into madness and memory, this masterwork stands as one of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s most ferocious and personal visions—equal parts surrealist nightmare, operatic melodrama, and cult initiation rite. Emerging after years of myth-making around the director’s unrealized projects, the film marked a triumphant return that reaffirmed Jodorowsky’s status as cinema’s high priest of the subconscious. Drenched in ritual, symbolism, and Grand Guignol intensity, it plays less like a conventional narrative than a waking dream engineered to unnerve and mesmerize a roomful of viewers at once. Decades later, its power remains undiminished: shocking, hypnotic, and unmistakably the work of a singular auteur whose influence continues to ripple through cult and midnight cinema.

 

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A Scanner Darkly

USA 2006 • 100 min (1.85:1)

Directed by: Richard Linklater

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder

Date: TBD

 

Richard Linklater’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s novel utilizes digital rotoscope animation to create an alternate reality, perfectly suited to the author’s radical aesthetic. Keanu Reeves is Bob Arctor, an undercover cop trying to determine where a new drug, Substance D, is coming from and how it’s made. Along the way he gets involved with a group of ne’er-do-wells who’ve fallen under the drug’s sway and finds himself following in their footsteps. Hypnotic and as seductive as the drug at its center, the film is engaging from start to finish, Linklater adhering to Dick’s paranoid and nihilistic view of the world, creating a sobering vision of a world beset by corruption and paranoia.

 

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Koyaanisqatsi

USA 1982 • 86 min (1.85:1)

Directed by: Godfrey Reggio
Music by: Philip Glass

Date: TBD

 

Drawing its title from the Hopi word meaning "life out of balance," this ground-breaking documentary reveals how humanity has grown apart from nature. Emerging at the dawn of the digital age and the twilight of Cold War anxiety, it captured a world accelerating beyond comprehension — juxtaposing the natural and the industrial with an intensity that felt prophetic. Philip Glass’s score fused with Godfrey Reggio’s hypnotic visuals to create an experience closer to a trance than a traditional documentary, a cinematic ritual that audiences sought out like a shared vision. Decades later, its critique of modern life feels even sharper, its beauty more overwhelming, and its influence unmistakable across music videos, experimental cinema, and visual culture at large. Koyaanisqatsi is not just a film; it’s a cult phenomenon that has redefined what a “movie” could be.

 

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