I Saw the TV Glow + Poltergeist with Jane Schoenbrun

Join us for an advance screening of Jane Schoenbrun's upcoming A24 film I Saw the TV Glow before it opens at BAM on May 10, followed by Tobe Hooper’s Poltergeist, featuring a Q&A with Schoenbrun between films!

I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
Dir. Jane Schoenbrun
100min, DCP
With Justice Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Ian Foreman, Helena Howard, Fred Durst, Danielle Deadwyler, Lindsay Jordan, Connor O’Malley

“a one-of-a-kind masterpiece”—The Playlist

“Jane Schoenbrun is a filmmaker for our era”—Vanity Fair

Owen is just trying to make it through teenage life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious and unsettling late-night TV show that depicts a shadowy world churning beneath their feet. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack, and everything he thought he knew about sleepy suburban life starts to blur. Following their genre-defying 2021 feature debut, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, Jane Schoenbrun’s latest is a distinctly contemporary work of horror, starring Justice Smith and Brigette Lundy-Paine.

Poltergeist (1982)
Dir. Tobe Hooper
114min, DCP
With JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke, Craig T. Nelson

At first, the ghosts haunting the Freeling family’s new home seem playful—rearranging furniture and interfering with their TV reception. But when young Carol Anne (O'Rourke) is abducted into their netherworld, her parents fear they may have lost their child to specters with more malevolent intentions in this classic 80s horror phenomenon, written by Steven Spielberg.