4th Tuesdays of the month Nostalgic For Nothing Cinema presents film screenings of various militant films (Palestinian, Third Cinema, Cinema Novo, French New Wave, Newsreel) and counter-cinema (Surrealism, British Black Arts, LA Rebellion, New Queer Cinema) as a kind of political education and also community gathering space for folks doing movement work to take a break but be in the company of others.

Nostalgic for Nothing Cinema is back with Luis Buñuel's feature debut "L'Âge d'Or" (1930)

Banned for decades, Buñuel’s feature debut is a gleefully inventive, wickedly funny and still profoundly disturbing Surrealist assault on every social and moral convention imaginable.

Few directors managed the one-two punch of Luis Buñuel’s first film Un Chien Andalou (1929) and his debut feature L’Âge d’or (1930). If there’s nothing in the latter as immediately, viscerally shocking as the slit eyeball that opens the former, it more than compensates in the way it lays out the preoccupations that would occupy Buñuel for the rest of his career. (Salvador Dalí is credited as co-writer, but had little to do with its production.) These include his abiding hatred of the church and the middle classes, an unmatched eye for an incongruously compelling image, and a fervent belief in the transformational power of human sexuality. The film’s plot revolves around Lya Lys and Gaston Modot’s increasingly desperate attempts to consummate their passion for each other in a succession of wildly inappropriate settings: when he’s summoned to the phone, she relieves her frustration on the well-sculpted toe of a garden statue.