The Grand Illusion

The first feature film wholly produced by Vinegar Syndrome Pictures, directed by Kurtis M. Spieler (Re-Director of New York Ninja).

A group of friends in a punk rock band discover a hidden cemetery in the woods, where they accidentally raise a horde of undead friars. Shot entirely on 16mm film, NIGHT OF THE VAMP-FRIARS is a loving tribute to the homegrown horror films made during the height of the video store era.

20th anniversary screening of Sofia Coppola's pastel-soaked cult classic, newly restored in 4K.

Coppola brings a candy-colored palette, a dreamy synth-pop soundtrack, and Converse high-tops to eighteenth-century Versailles for this exuberantly subversive, extravagantly stylized anti-biopic of one of history’s most infamous (and perhaps misunderstood) figures.

Kirsten Dunst portrays Marie Antoinette as a rebellious teenage princess, who marries the awkward young dauphin of France (Jason Schwartzman), soon to be crowned King Louis XVI. Feeling isolated in a royal court rife with scandal and intrigue, Marie Antoinette defies both royalty and commoner by living like a rock star—which can work for only so long.

Named the 10th best movie of the 21st century by The Big Picture podcast.

“A buoyant, passionately sympathetic dream-bio.” Stephanie Zacharek, Salon

“With lyrical intelligence and scrappy wit, Coppola creates a luscious world to get lost in. It’s a pleasure.” Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

“A startlingly original and beautiful pop reverie that comes very close to being transcendent.” Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times

Eleanor Coppola's behind-the-scenes documentation of her daughter Sofia directing the 2006 film MARIE ANTOINETTE, capturing the craftsmanship and challenges of being a young female director.

Polarizing upon its release, Sofia Coppola’s MARIE ANTOINETTE is now, 20 years later, widely embraced as a 21st-century cinematic cornerstone and a distilled expression of its director’s recurring themes of celebrity, wealth, and isolation. For the first time, Coppola’s dynamic craftsmanship in creating her personal vision for the brief life of the 18th-century queen in the years leading up to the French Revolution is on full display in this diary shot by her mother, filmmaker Eleanor Coppola, on the film’s set in Versailles in 2005.

From almost 80 hours of video, Eleanor began to assemble the footage during the pandemic lockdown, and Sofia helped finish editing it after Eleanor’s death in 2024. Narrated by Diane Lane, reciting Eleanor’s journals from the time, this is a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse that is both process-oriented and touchingly personal.

“Lush, intimate and compulsively watchable, this Coppola family affair bottles the fleeting nature of time and invites us to the ultimate Versailles party.” Tomris Laffly, Variety

“Making Marie Antoinette is considerably more than meets the eye… [It is] a circular and tenderly meta-textual film unto itself — one about two generations of women paying tribute to each other across space and time, seeding each other with the strength required to be seen in a world that would sooner flatten them into the wallpaper.” David Ehrlich, IndieWire

Writer/director/editor Aaron Strand scheduled to join for an in-person intro and Q&A. Raw, unflinching, and surprisingly funny, WITHDRAWAL was shot on miniDV in Athens, GA for a budget of $60k and is a prime example of indie filmmaking at its finest.

Artistic lovers Viv (Millie Rose Evans) and Jay (Brent Michal) are trapped in a vicious cycle of codependent heroin addiction. When Viv's wealthy parents hire an interventionist to take her to rehab, the couple decides to go it alone with nothing but a suboxone prescription and each other. All they have to do is survive one harrowing night of withdrawal. As the hours tick by, physical, mental, and emotional torments send them searching through fractured memories, trying to figure out where it all went wrong.

Winner of a dozen awards on the festival circuit, including Best Feature/Best Director at the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival and Best Actress at the Kanazawa Film Festival.

“Withdrawal could well be the best film about addiction since Requiem for a Dream.” Bobby LePire, Film Threat

“Superbly acted and jarringly raw and realistic to the core, Withdrawal offers a harsh look at drug addiction through expert filmmaking.” Becca Johnson, Film Focus Online