Smiley Face (Gregg Araki, 2007) (28 Jul 2026)

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Smiley Face (Gregg Araki, 2007)

After accidentally eating an entire batch of cannabis-laced cupcakes, perpetually distracted actress Jane F. sets out to complete a simple to-do list: go to an audition, pay her electric bill, replace the cupcakes, and somehow get through the day without everything falling apart. Naturally, everything falls apart. Anna Faris gives one of her funniest and most fearless performances in Gregg Araki’s sun-baked stoner odyssey, turning one very bad high into a surreal Los Angeles quest involving Marxist theory, Garfield, dental offices, an angry roommate, a very patient John Krasinski, and the slow collapse of every reasonable plan Jane has ever had. Silly, chaotic, oddly sweet, and much smarter than it looks, Smiley Face is a cult comedy built around one simple truth: Anna Faris should have been handed the keys to American comedy.

All the cool cat cinephiles are looking forward to Araki's new Sundance-acclaimed film, I Want Your Sex, which comes out later this summer. Here's a chance to see the one that got away while you're waiting, the best counter cultural cult comedy of the last twenty years that you've never heard of: (Smiley Face).

Reviews

"Hilarious and endlessly inventive.”

Los Angeles Times

“A stoner comedy with a purpose… Despite its laid-back script, Smiley Face is as prankishly political as Mr. Araki’s Doom Generation, evincing a deep unease with the media-saturated capitalist nation that Jane crawls inside her bong to escape.

The New York Times

“Araki has directed his finest film since 1997's Nowhere, and... Faris, flawless, rocks their inspired idiot odyssey in a virtuoso comedic turn."

The Village Voice

"A wonderful performance by Anna Faris and one of the all-time great stoner monologues in movie history.”

Salon

"A fearless performance, as nuanced as it is silly, and there isn't another young actress that could pull it off. With Smiley Face, Anna Faris has arrived at last."

The Boston Globe

“Finally, a stoner comedy for the girls who get overstimulated at the supermarket.”

The Guardian

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A Poet (Simón Mesa Soto, 2025) (4 Aug 2026)

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A Poet (Simón Mesa Soto, Columbia 2025, 123 min.)

Middle-aged and erratic, Oscar is a failed writer who has given up on life. Unemployed and living with family, he wanders the streets of Medellín in a drunken stupor, lamenting the state of literature in his home country, where he has succumbed to the cliché of the tortured artist. However, the opportunity to mentor a young student offers a chance at redemption, if he doesn't screw it up first. In a performance marked by darkly comic pathos, first-time actor Ubeimar Rios stars in Simón Mesa Soto's Un Certain Regard Jury Prize-winner A Poet, a raw and riotous farce about how good deeds are often met with the universe's idea of cruel and unusually poetic punishment.

Reviews

"Immensely appealing.”

Indiewire

“Very funny."

The New York Times

"A hilarious fable... Both funny and poignant.”

Variety

"Deftly touches on themes of contemporary importance."

Screen Daily

“This mordant reflection on the place of art in a person’s life, and on the place of the artist in an exploitative society, finds the filmmaker at his most mature and thought-provoking, but also at his funniest. ”

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Smiley Face (Gregg Araki, 2007) (28 Jul 2026)

A Poet (Simón Mesa Soto, 2025) (4 Aug 2026)