Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.

Spencer Williams imagines W. Somerset Maugham's "Miss Thompson” as a Caribbean cabaret fable. While on the fictional island of Rinidad to escape her Harlem past, American Gertie LaRue (Francine Everett) becomes an object of fixation by locals and expats alike—among them a duo of pious missionaries and a sailor who goes by Tight Pants—when she debuts as a nightclub headliner. Williams himself stars in the bit part of the “voodoo woman” Old Hager, a gender-fluid character decades ahead of its time.

The Girl from Chicago

United States Secret Service agent Alonso White must go undercover in Mississippi on a classified assignment. There he meets and falls for the preacher’s daughter. Trouble is, she is being subjected to harassment from the same local crime lord Alonso was sent to investigate. The Girl from Chicago is punctuated by lively musical numbers. The film’s narrative looseness, further unmoored by the use of title cards, also lends the film the tone of a surreal dreamscape.

Make It Dinner and a Movie

Fanny's Restaurant & Café

All guests who present a ticket for a film screening, Tuesday through Saturday (and the first Sunday of every month), receive 10% off all food and non-alcoholic beverages at Fanny's. Discount only applicable on the same day as the screening and cannot be redeemed for another screening or date. Dinner reservations can be made on OpenTable or Resy.