Teenage Wasteland

Trudge through the tumultuous trenches of that small, suffocating place between being a kid and an adult. Where like wildflowers – wonder both wakes and wanes in natural wistfulness. Let us take you to that vexing place of forgotten familiarity in which angst broods, lust looms, and rebellion blooms. Spanning nearly 70 years of diverse stories about the most dreamy and dreadful days of lives – each of these films – selected in a fastidious fever – seeks to satiate that gnawing need for nostalgia in each of us. Welcome to TEENAGE WASTELAND. Please enjoy your stay.

Sat, Sep 6 at Midnight

VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS

A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. Ravishingly shot, enchantingly scored and spilling over with surreal fancies, this enticing phantasmagoria from director Jaromil Jireš is among the most beautiful oddities of the Czechoslovak New Wave.

Mon, Sep 8 at 3:20pm, 8:00pm

CHRISTIANE F.

The ’70s at their grungiest are captured by Uli Edel’s 1981 film with Natja Brunckhorst as 14-year-old David Bowie-obsessed junkie crashing in West Berlin’s Zoo Station. Bowie himself appears in a concert performance, and the film’s soundtrack is a virtual compendium of the epochal musician’s celebrated “Berlin period” — and a perfect sonic evocation of nightclubbing’s dark side.

Sat, Sep 13 at 2:50pm

PARIAH

Nashville native Dee Rees directs the story of Alike (Adepero Oduye) — a teenage Black girl from Brooklyn who’s on the brink of self discovery in the department of homosexuality. But the more she embraces her identity, the more she faces scrutiny from her Christian mother.