They Don't Luv U Like I Love You

The Roxy Cinema this Valentine’s season is spending time with some of cinema’s less conventional relationships. Shrouded in the murky atmospheres of kink and taboo, our impassioned lovers misstep heart-first into kissy, lovey oblivion.

…Made off

Don’t stray

My kinds your kind

I’ll stay the same

Pack up

Don’t stray

Oh say say say

Oh say say say…

Whether it’s a Car or a Monkey, Porn Star or Secretary, just let them know…

THEY DONT LUV U LIKE I LOVE YOU

CRASH (35MM)

After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub- culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife. BUY TICKETS.

LAST TANGO IN PARIS: 

A young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex. BUY TICKETS.

SECRETARY (35MM):

A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one. BUY TICKETS.

9 1/2 WEEKS (35MM): 

A woman gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated. BUY TICKETS.

TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN! (35MM): 

An unbalanced but alluring former mental patient takes a porn star prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him. (Rare print courtesy of UNCSA) BUY TICKETS.

OBSESSION: 

A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his deceased wife. BUY TICKETS.

THE PIANO TEACHER (35MM): 

The story of an unmarried piano teacher (Isabelle Huppert) at a Vienna conservatory, living with her mother (Annie Girardot) in a state of emotional and sexual disequilibrium, who enters into a sadomasochistic relationship with her student (Benoît Magimel). BUY TICKETS.

CHRISTINE (35MM): 

A nerdish boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it. BUY TICKETS.

THE PILLOW BOOK (35MM): 

Greenaway deploys a broad arsenal of formal effects (varying screen widths, multiple imagery, textual inscription) to impart the complex story of a beautiful fashion model-turned-writer who is obsessed with calligraphy and the flesh. Based on the classic tenth-century text of the same title by Sei Shonagon, radically transposed by Greenaway to modern-day Japan and the information age, The Pillow Book melds a timeless eroticism and a fascination with language that is at once erudite and libidinal into a dreamlike, startlingly beautiful, and sometimes shocking narrative. BUY TICKETS.

THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE (35MM): 

Chelsea (Sasha Grey) is an in-demand call girl whose $2,000 an hour price tag allows her to live in New York’s lap of luxury. Besides her beauty and sexual skill, Chelsea offers her clients companionship and conversation, or, as she dubs it, “the girlfriend experience.” With her successful business and a devoted, live-in boyfriend, Chelsea thinks she has it made… until a new client rocks her world. BUY TICKETS.

CAPE FEAR (1991, 35MM): 

Scorsese’s wild re-make of J. Lee Thompson’s 1962 film of the same name about a deranged psychopath rapist (Robert DeNiro) haunting a defense lawyer (Nick Nolte). A confused story of love, morality and revenge, be sure not to miss this thriller from the early 90s. BUY TICKETS.