It’s @phantomfestival week! Starting on Halloween night, a coalition of Cincy curators will present 9 special films at the @esquiretheatre - Halloween (1978), The Crow (1994), Replicator (2024), A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014), Carrie (1976), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), The Slumber Party Massacre (1982), Phantasm (1979), and XTRO (1982). Follow @phantomfestival or visit esquiretheatre.com for times and details! And tonight, Tuesday 10/29 - don’t miss @cindependentfilmfestival’s 10th anniversary screening of Ex Machina (2014), preceded by Cindependent 2024 short film, GOLDEN HOUR, directed by Cincinnati’s own @maureenmcely! Cincy Film Calendar is compiled by the @cindependentfilmfestival 🍿🥤🎉

It’s time for the Cincy Film Calendar November preview! The event I’m most excited for right now is the upcoming 3 day inaugural Cincinnati Phantom Fest at @esquiretheatre. The festival will consist of 10 films over Halloween weekend - 9 classics and one new release (@replicatormovie)! The films will be presented by a bevy of your favorite Cincinnati curators - @leontine_cinema, @secretbasecinema, @outercinemacincinnati, @conveyor_belt_books, and @cindependentfilmfestival. After parties with themed beverages will take place each night at @aliveandwelloverhere, around the corner from the Esquire! Another exciting November development - @cincycinema at the Garfield Theater will be back in action with two announced films (Chronicles of a Wandering Saint and Matt & Mara) and potentially more on the way! @woodwardtheater of course also has several hot offerings in store, starting with a new release from @utopiamovies, starring @alexwolffofficial - The Line, on November 4th. Woodward Cinema will also launch into horror territory with the demented puppet thriller Abruptio (featuring the voice talents of Jordan Peele and Robert Englund). Stay tuned for more details on that screening… Finally, @leontine_cinema ,@conveyor_belt_books and @outercinemacincinnati will be going deep into their bags this month with screenings of The Bling Ring (Leontine), Werckmeister Harmonies (Conveyor Belt), Arrebato (Outer Cinema) and Candy Mountain (Conveyor Belt). And keep an eye out for screening announcements from @opensourcecinemacinci and @secretbasecinema! Cincy Film Calendar is compiled by the @cindependentfilmfestival 🎉🍿🥤

Quite a loaded week ahead! 7 days of special screenings around town that all feature special introductions and/or post-film discussions! @woodwardtheater has the 2nd of 3 films in the ‘Caribbean Eye’ film series tonight - Rafaela, presented by @fotofocuscincinnati and @cindependentfilmfestival. And on Tuesday, Woodward has a screening of the acclaimed new documentary UNION, presented in partnership with @cincysocialists and featuring a post film Q&A with @peach.tea.communist. In the back half of the week, we have three screenings from some of our esteemed Cincy film curators - @secretbasecinema with Thirteen Ghosts (2001) at @esquiretheatre on Thursday, @outercinemacincinnati with Flesh for Frankenstein (1973) at Esquire on Friday, and @conveyor_belt_books with Downtown 81 (2000) at @woodwardtheater on Sunday. @cindependentfilmfestival also has our final 2024 Best of Fest short film program screening on the Reels on Wheels mobile cinema on UC campus green on Wednesday evening. And lastly, @cincyanimefilmfest returns for a special screening of Mary and the Witch’s Flower (2017) at the Hollywood Drive In Theater in College Hall, behind @manga_cincinnati. The screening will be preceded by a “Halloween Runway” and cosplay contest! 🔥 Look for other events this week on our stories as well, from the likes of @cincypalisolidarity, @improvcincinnati, and @opensourcecinemacinci!

Labyrinth (1986) in concert on Monday! 🤯 This is the first @tafttheatre film event that I’ve come across since starting this account, and I’m curious who’s behind it and if more similar programming is in the works… @woodwardtheater has a screening of Pies en la Arena (Feet in the Sand), as a part of a three part “Caribbean Eye” film series, on Tuesday, with director Gustavo Ramos Perales on hand for a post film Q&A. @oldmanbrad is back at the @esquiretheatre on Friday night with a screening of Trick r Treat (2007)! No film events that I can find are scheduled on Saturday or Sunday, but there should be more than enough entertainment to go around with both @blinkcincinnati and @cincinnaticomicexpo in full swing this weekend! Cincy Film Calendar is compiled by the @cindependentfilmfestival 🍿🥤🎉

Coming out of festival season, we’re looking at a mad dash of heavy hitting/awards contending films through the end of the year. In the weeks and months ahead, we have the likes of Anora, Emilia Perez, The Brutalist, Blitz, Conclave, Nickel Boys, The Piano Lesson, A Real Pain, Hard Truths, and The Room Next Door, to look forward to, not to mention Gladiator 2 and Wicked, both releasing on November 22nd (a cultural moment to rival Barbenheimer?). This week I’m highlighting two Sebastian Stan showcases (A Different Man and The Apprentice) and the Saiorse Ronan addiction recovery story, The Outrun, which premiered to acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Stan and Ronan both figure to be in the thick of the Oscar discussion this year for their performances, and The Apprentice co-star, Jeremy Strong, may also be a contender for Best Supporting Actor. Personally, I’m all in on the potential reunion of Kendall and Roman Roy (from HBO’s Succession) in the Best Supporting Actor category next March (Kieran Culkin is currently considered to be a front runner in the category for his performance in the upcoming, A Real Pain).

Lots of unique films and conversations this week! Tuesday at 7:30pm, the new documentary ENO screens one night only at @woodwardtheater! @cindependentfilmfestival will bring their “Reels on Wheels” mobile cinema to Campus Green at University of Cincinnati for two student-led best of fest short film screenings on Wednesday and Thursday. @freedomcenter will be screening the documentary “Excavated: From Soil to Stars” through the weekend, featuring a conversation between filmmaker Alphonso J Wesson and curator Trudy Gaba. And finally, the 43rd annual Asbury Short Film Concert with @dougleclaire comes through Cincinnati for two stops at the @esquiretheatre (Thursday with hosts @thecinemaguys) and @themariemonttheatre (Sunday with host @oldmanbrad)! Cincy Film Calendar is compiled by @cindependentfilmfestival 🍿🥤🎉

Stop Making Sense returns to @woodwardtheater tonight! The volume will be loud and the suit will be big. Leontine Cinema brings The Invitation to @esquiretheatre on Wednesday evening, featuring an exclusive pre-recorded interview with director Karyn Kusama! And for the third weekend in a row, we have a great area film festival taking place. This weekend - the Yellow Springs Film Festival. @ysfilmfest 2024 will include special appearances from @reggiewatts and @jim.jarmusch. Tim Heidecker’s Yellow River Boys have not been confirmed… Cincy Film Calendar is compiled by the @cindependentfilmfestival 🍿🥤🎉

Horror, thrillers, and interactive events coming up in October! 🎃🍿 On the spooky front, Leontine Cinema starts the month off strong with a screening of Karyn Kusama’s thriller, The Invitation (2015) at @esquiretheatre on Tuesday, October 2nd. The terrors continue at the Esquire toward the end of the month, with Thirteen Ghosts (2001) presented by @secretbasecinema on 10/24, Ex Machina (2014) presented by @cindependentfilmfestival on 10/28 (featuring a Cindependent 2024 short film - GOLDEN HOUR - before the feature), and the beginning of the first annual @phantomfestival on the scariest day of them all, Halloween! Esquire will also host plenty of Rocky Horror Picture Show screenings throughout the month (with @dentonaffair), and on the evening of October 30th, @woodwardtheater will host two screenings of the film with a live shadow cast from NKU. On the non-horror front, @woodwardtheater will host an encore screening of Stop Making Sense (1984) on Tuesday, October 1st, a new Brian Eno documentary (ENO) on 10/8, a scintillating new documentary about a unionizing effort at an Amazon warehouse, titled UNION (presented by @cincysocialists) and a three part film series of acclaimed new films from the Caribbean islands, presented by @fotofocuscincinnati and @cindependentfilmfestival. Be sure to check out @opensourcecinemacinci and @outercinemacincinnati for more vile and despicable content during the month of October as well! 👻 Cincy Film Calendar is compiled by the @cindependentfilmfestival 🍿🥤 🎉