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Mulholland Drive, The Long Goodbye, Aguirre and the Dead
The BSR August 2025 repertory movie roundup
Stephen Silver
Summer is nearing an end, but that doesn’t mean we’re quite done yet with summer repertory movie screenings. Throughout August, the area’s repertory theaters are offering quite an eclectic mix of special showings.
The highlights
The Long Goodbye
Friday, August 8, 7:30pm
Space Melt Cinema at Ruba, 416 Green Street, Philadelphia
Space Melt, a local film club, is presenting a showing of Robert Altman’s 1973 revisionist LA detective story, starring Elliot Gould as a very different Philip Marlowe. The screening doubles as a fundraiser for Head Start Animal Rescue.
Mulholland Drive (Cinema Classics Seminar)
Thursday, August 14, 6:30pm
Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr
Mulholland Drive, from 2001, has been in the collective consciousness a lot lately due to the passings this year of its director David Lynch and Rebekah del Rio—who sings during the film’s famous Club Silencio scene—as well as a New York Times survey recently ranking it the second-best film of the 21st century, after Parasite.
In August, Mulholland Drive will be the subject of a Cinema Classics seminar, taught by Paul Wright, PhD, of Main Line Classical Academy. A story of Hollywood dreams and how they can curdle, Lynch’s film has been subject to a great deal of interpretation and argument ever since its arrival 24 years ago.
The Grateful Dead Movie
Thursday, August 14
Various theaters
Saturday, August 9, marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Jerry Garcia, while this year marks the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead’s formation. To mark both, The Grateful Dead Movie, the 1977 concert film that Garcia co-directed, is getting a re-release. The film features the band’s five-night run at Winterland in San Francisco, as well as the Dead scene of the era.
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Monday, August 25, 7:30pm
PhilaMOCA, 531 N 12th Street, Philadelphia
PhilaMOCA, as part of its Cult Movie Monday series, is presenting a rare local showing of one of Werner Herzog’s masterpieces, set in the 15th century and starring Klaus Kinski as Don Lope de Aguirre, a man with aspirations to conquer South America.
More cinema screenings
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Friday, August 1
Colonial Theatre
Bacurau
Friday, August 1
Friday, August 29
Film Society East
Wild at Heart
Saturday, August 2
Hiway Theater
The Thin Man (Cinema Classics Seminar)
Monday, August 4
Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Henry Fool
Tuesday, August 5
Film Society East
The Big Lebowski (Hollywood Summer Nights)
Wednesday, August 6
Ambler Theater
The Born Losers/Billy Jack
Sunday, August 10
PhilaMOCA
Timecop (with Rifftrax commentary)
Thursday, August 14
Tuesday, August 19
Fathom Events (various theaters)
Modern Times (Cinema Classics Seminar)
Monday, August 18
Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Rear Window (Cinema Classics Seminar)
Wednesday, August 20
Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Dirty Dancing
Wednesday, August 20
Colonial Theatre
Taxi Zum Klo
Wednesday, August 20
PhilaMOCA
American Graffiti
Thursday, August 21
Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Casablanca (Cinema Classics Seminar)
Thursday, August 28
Bryn Mawr Institute
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