OPENING WEEK!
FIRST FEATURE FILM AT THE YEAR-ROUND PARKWAY
We can think of no better film to kick off our year-round Parkway programming than this classic from Baltimore’s own Pope of Trash, John Waters
FEMALE TROUBLE
John Waters, USA, 1974, 99 minutes, 35mm
Arguably John Waters’ masterpiece, Female Trouble offers the
best of both worlds—the brilliantly nasty dialogue and transgressive content of his underground films colliding with the assured
direction of his later work—even as it brims with some of the most
outrageous characters from any era. Divine stars as teen runaway
Dawn Davenport, alongside fellow Dreamlanders David Lochary,
Mary Vivian Pearce, Edith Massey, and Mink Stole.
Friday May 12, 7pm; Saturday May 13, 4:30pm; Thursday May
18, 7pm
EMERGING FILMS
Join us at the newly renovated Stavros Niarchos Foundation Parkway! We’re a state-of-the-art, 3-screen film
complex anchored by the historic Parkway Theatre, first
opened in 1915 and located at the corner of Charles St.
& North Ave. in the heart of Station North. Come explore
bold emerging voices in cinema and repertory titles drawing from every era, region, and genre of film history—7
days a week! The Parkway is proudly curated and operated by Maryland Film Festival (MdFF).
Enjoy a rotating selection of local craft beer, wine and
cocktails from our bar and lounge, as well as, canned
beer, wine, locally sourced popcorn and an assortment of
gourmet snacks from our concession stand.
TWO BY DAVID LYNCH
One of our primary missions at the Parkway is to give a year-round home to the kinds of work we champion during the annual
Maryland Film Festival: visionary independent films from emerging voices
To celebrate one of our greatest living filmmakers and whet your appetite for the coming new episodes of Twin Peaks, here are two of David Lynch’s
essential works that we feel pair particularly well with the historic Parkway auditorium
ALL THIS PANIC
Jenny Gage, USA, 2016, 79 minutes
All This Panic takes an intimate look into the lives of seven teenage
girls as they come of age in NYC. The film mixes portraiture and
verité as the teens navigate the ephemeral and fleeting transition
between child and adult. Shot over a three-year period in a lush and
cinematic style, All This Panic is a meditation on the mysterious,
sometimes painful, and ultimately exhilarating time of life, comprised of young women speaking to their own experiences. “Gage
makes each minute boldly and deeply matter.”—Tomris Laffly,
RogerEbert.com
Full week-long run! Check mdfilmfest.com for showtimes!
DONALD CRIED
Kris Avedisian, USA, 2016, 85 minutes
Director/writer/star Kris Avedisian’s Donald Cried, a hit at MdFF
2016, expertly deconstructs the “man-child” with its darkly funny
story about former childhood best friends who reconnect decades
later in their working-class Rhode Island neighborhood. “A painful
nostalgia trip that’s also terribly funny. It’s set to unveil a new comedic talent both behind the camera and in front of it. Donald Cried
suggests the shadings of a psychological thriller stuffed into the
mold of a boisterous R-rated comedy.”- Eric Kohn, Indiewire
Full week-long run! Check mdfilmfest.com for showtimes!
5 W. North Ave. Baltimore, MD 21201
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ERASERHEAD
David Lynch, USA, 1977, 89 minutes, DCP, new 4k digital restoration
Several years in the making, Eraserhead put David Lynch on the
map, and stands as a landmark film in surrealism, body horror, and
midnight movies. “What a masterpiece of texture, a feat of artisanal
attention, an ingenious assemblage of damp, dust, rock, wood, hair,
flesh, metal, ooze.”—Nathan Lee, Village Voice
Saturday May 13, 9:45pm; Monday May 15, 9:30pm; Wednesday
May 17, 9:50pm
MULHOLLAND DRIVE
David Lynch, USA, 2001, 146 minutes, DCP, new 4k digital restoration
In this L.A.-set neo-noir, Naomi Watts stars as both wide-eyed
aspiring actress Betty Elms and the depressed and desperate Diane
Selwyn—who may or may not be two iterations of the same person.
Heralded as the first great film of the 21st century, to many it still
stands as the single best. “David Lynch has been working toward
Mulholland Drive all of his career,” Roger Ebert wrote in his 4-star
review. “[It] works because Lynch is absolutely uncompromising.”
Friday May 12, 9:30pm; Sunday May 14, 9:40pm; Tuesday May
16, 9:30pm; Thursday May 18, 9:20pm
RADICAL FILMS OF THE 1960s and 1970s
OPENING WEEK!
RADICAL FILMS OF THE 1960s and 1970s
During the ‘60s and ‘70s, The Parkway served Baltimore as an art-house known as the 5 West, specializing in foreign, independent, cult, and New Hollywood fare. Our repertory programming at
the Parkway will draw heavily from these exciting eras and genres, highlighting diverse voices whose work remains challenging, thrilling, and ground-breaking to this day.
DAISIES
PORTRAIT OF JASON
Věra Chytilová, Czechoslovakia, 1966, 76 minutes, 35mm
The visually dazzling story of Marie I and Marie II, two young
women who entertain themselves with a parade of anarchic
pranks, Daisies is at once playful, irreverent, innovative, and iconoclastic. We’re proud that one of our first 35mm presentations at
The Parkway will be this landmark work of the Czech New Wave.
“My favorite Czech film, and surely one of the most exhilarating
stylistic and psychedelic eruptions of the ‘60s, this madcap and aggressive feminist farce by Věra Chytilová explodes in any number
of directions.”—Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Saturday May 13, 7:30pm; Sunday May 14, 1:30pm
Shirley Clarke, USA, 1967, 105 minutes, DCP
A marathon free-form interview between documentarian Clarke
and gay African-American hustler and cabaret performer Jason
Holliday overflows with humor, pain, and insight, in the process
“[saying] more about race, class, and sexuality than just about any
movie before or since” (Melissa Anderson, Village Voice). Ingmar
Bergman called it “the most extraordinary film I’ve seen in my life.”
Saturday May 13, 1:30pm; Monday May 15, 7pm
FOX AND HIS FRIENDS
TOUKI BOUKI
Djibril Diop Mambéty, Senegal, 1973, 95 minutes, DCP (2008
restoration)
Also known as Journey of the Hyena, this psychedelic Senegalese
road trip movie is cool beyond belief, one of the true miracles of
cinema history. The Parkway programming team can’t recommend
this one enough! “This 1973 first feature by Senegalese director
Djibril Diop Mambety is one of the greatest of all African films and
almost certainly the most experimental.”—Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader
Sunday May 14, 4:30pm; Tuesday May 16, 7pm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Germany, 1975, 124 minutes, DCP, new
restoration
The filmography of Fassbinder, 40 feature films and assorted other
works completed before his untimely death at age 37, remains
unmatched in both its manic level of productivity and uniformly
high quality. Fox and His Friends, the story of a gay working-class
man (Fassbinder himself ) who falls for the son of a wealthy factory
owner, is perhaps the best entry point into his work. “Here is a
movie about characters who define themselves by their sexuality,
but the movie doesn’t. It takes the sexuality as a given, and defines
them by their values and morals.”—Roger Ebert
Sunday May 14, 7pm; Wednesday May 17, 7pm
COMING SOON
FRAUD: What is Fraud? A home movie, a
HILAR-80s - joints from the comedy cannon & some deep cuts
crime tape, a confessional, found footage, a
hoax? We’ve never seen anything quite like
Dean Fleischer-Camp’s film, which came to
MdFF on the heels of its HotDocs premiere.
9 TO 5
BOONE: Christopher LaMarca’s beautiful experiential documentary immerses
viewers in the daily grind, howling wind,
and earthy grit of a small Northwestern
farm. Fans of Sweetgrass, Leviathan, and
Manakamana take note.
CADDYSHACK
HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE
THIS IS SPINAL TAP
www.mdfilmfest.com
VALLEY GIRL
...AND MORE!
COMING TO THE PARKWAY MAY 19-25
5 W. North Ave. Baltimore, MD 21201