OPENING WEEK! Join us at the newly renovated Stavros Niarchos Foun- FIRST FEATURE FILM AT THE YEAR-ROUND PARKWAY dation Parkway! We’re a state-of-the-art, 3-screen film 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 complex anchored by the historic Parkway Theatre, first opened in 1915 and located at the corner of Charles St. FEMALE TROUBLE & North Ave. in the heart of Station North. Come explore John Waters, USA, 1974, 99 minutes, 35mm bold emerging voices in cinema and repertory titles draw- Arguably John Waters’ masterpiece, Female Trouble offers the ing from every era, region, and genre of film history—7 best of both worlds—the brilliantly nasty dialogue and transgres- sive content of his underground films colliding with the assured days a week! The Parkway is proudly curated and operat- direction of his later work—even as it brims with some of the most ed by Maryland Film Festival (MdFF). outrageous characters from any era. Divine stars as teen runaway Dawn Davenport, alongside fellow Dreamlanders David Lochary, Enjoy a rotating selection of local craft beer, wine and Mary Vivian Pearce, Edith Massey, and Mink Stole. cocktails from our bar and lounge, as well as, canned Friday May 12, 7pm; Saturday May 13, 4:30pm; Thursday May 18, 7pm beer, wine, locally sourced popcorn and an assortment of gourmet snacks from our concession stand. EMERGING FILMS 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 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 Maryland Film Festival: visionary independent films from emerging voices essential works that we feel pair particularly well with the historic Parkway auditorium ALL THIS PANIC ERASERHEAD Jenny Gage, USA, 2016, 79 minutes David Lynch, USA, 1977, 89 minutes, DCP, new 4k digital restoration All This Panic takes an intimate look into the lives of seven teenage Several years in the making, Eraserhead put David Lynch on the girls as they come of age in NYC. The film mixes portraiture and map, and stands as a landmark film in surrealism, body horror, and verité as the teens navigate the ephemeral and fleeting transition midnight movies. “What a masterpiece of texture, a feat of artisanal between child and adult. Shot over a three-year period in a lush and attention, an ingenious assemblage of damp, dust, rock, wood, hair, cinematic style, All This Panic is a meditation on the mysterious, flesh, metal, ooze.”—Nathan Lee, Village Voice sometimes painful, and ultimately exhilarating time of life, com- Saturday May 13, 9:45pm; Monday May 15, 9:30pm; Wednesday prised of young women speaking to their own experiences. “Gage May 17, 9:50pm makes each minute boldly and deeply matter.”—Tomris Laffly, RogerEbert.com Full week-long run! Check mdfilmfest.com for showtimes! DONALD CRIED MULHOLLAND DRIVE Kris Avedisian, USA, 2016, 85 minutes David Lynch, USA, 2001, 146 minutes, DCP, new 4k digital restoration Director/writer/star Kris Avedisian’s Donald Cried, a hit at MdFF In this L.A.-set neo-noir, Naomi Watts stars as both wide-eyed 2016, expertly deconstructs the “man-child” with its darkly funny aspiring actress Betty Elms and the depressed and desperate Diane story about former childhood best friends who reconnect decades Selwyn—who may or may not be two iterations of the same person. later in their working-class Rhode Island neighborhood. “A painful Heralded as the first great film of the 21st century, to many it still nostalgia trip that’s also terribly funny. It’s set to unveil a new co- stands as the single best. “David Lynch has been working toward medic talent both behind the camera and in front of it. Donald Cried Mulholland Drive all of his career,” Roger Ebert wrote in his 4-star suggests the shadings of a psychological thriller stuffed into the review. “[It] works because Lynch is absolutely uncompromising.” mold of a boisterous R-rated comedy.”- Eric Kohn, Indiewire Friday May 12, 9:30pm; Sunday May 14, 9:40pm; Tuesday May Full week-long run! Check mdfilmfest.com for showtimes! 16, 9:30pm; Thursday May 18, 9:20pm 5 W. North Ave. Baltimore, MD 21201 www.mdfilmfest.com OPENING WEEK! RADICAL FILMS OF THE 1960s and 1970s 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 Shirley Clarke, USA, 1967, 105 minutes, DCP The visually dazzling story of Marie I and Marie II, two young A marathon free-form interview between documentarian Clarke women who entertain themselves with a parade of anarchic and gay African-American hustler and cabaret performer Jason pranks, Daisies is at once playful, irreverent, innovative, and icon- Holliday overflows with humor, pain, and insight, in the process oclastic. We’re proud that one of our first 35mm presentations at “[saying] more about race, class, and sexuality than just about any The Parkway will be this landmark work of the Czech New Wave. movie before or since” (Melissa Anderson, Village Voice). Ingmar “My favorite Czech film, and surely one of the most exhilarating Bergman called it “the most extraordinary film I’ve seen in my life.” stylistic and psychedelic eruptions of the ‘60s, this madcap and ag- Saturday May 13, 1:30pm; Monday May 15, 7pm gressive 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 FOX AND HIS FRIENDS TOUKI BOUKI Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Germany, 1975, 124 minutes, DCP, new Djibril Diop Mambéty, Senegal, 1973, 95 minutes, DCP (2008 restoration restoration) The filmography of Fassbinder, 40 feature films and assorted other Also known as Journey of the Hyena, this psychedelic Senegalese works completed before his untimely death at age 37, remains road trip movie is cool beyond belief, one of the true miracles of unmatched in both its manic level of productivity and uniformly cinema history. The Parkway programming team can’t recommend high quality. Fox and His Friends, the story of a gay working-class this one enough! “This 1973 first feature by Senegalese director man (Fassbinder himself) who falls for the son of a wealthy factory Djibril Diop Mambety is one of the greatest of all African films and owner, is perhaps the best entry point into his work. “Here is a almost certainly the most experimental.”—Jonathan Rosenbaum, movie about characters who define themselves by their sexuality, Chicago Reader but the movie doesn’t. It takes the sexuality as a given, and defines Sunday May 14, 4:30pm; Tuesday May 16, 7pm them by their values and morals.”—Roger Ebert Sunday May 14, 7pm; Wednesday May 17, 7pm COMING SOON HILAR-80s - joints from the comedy cannon & some deep cuts FRAUD: What is Fraud? A home movie, a 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 HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE VALLEY GIRL BOONE: Christopher LaMarca’s beauti- ful experiential documentary immerses ...AND MORE! viewers in the daily grind, howling wind, and earthy grit of a small Northwestern COMING TO THE PARKWAY MAY 19-25 farm. Fans of Sweetgrass, Leviathan, and CADDYSHACK THIS IS SPINAL TAP Manakamana take note. www.mdfilmfest.com 5 W. North Ave. Baltimore, MD 21201.