Tears of the Black Tiger (2000)  

Fri. Jul. 31 

Doors – 7:00 PM  

Organ Overture – 7:30 PM  

Film – 8:00 PM  

Tickets - $6  

1hr 50min | Not Rated, Violence and gore | Action/Drama | Thailand 

Every summer as temperatures rise, The Senate Theater greets the heat with our annual Hot, Sweaty & Weird film series, focusing on cult favorites, underground classics, and B-movie schlock. For our fourth film of the series this year we are excited to screen the original cut of a little-seen gem out of Thailand, Tears of the Black Tiger!  

A tale of star-crossed lovers, frontier lawlessness, and hyper-stylized gun violence, this pseudo-western camp melodrama dazzles with eye-popping color and intense emotions. Its vivid and hallucinatory mélange of Thai pop culture and international cinematic influences will have film aficionados making connections to 1950s Hollywood melodrama, spaghetti westerns, Hong Kong action flicks, Tarantino and more. But the soapy dramas and low-brow action films of Thai cinema were equally important to writer/director Wisit Sasanatieng, who lovingly paid homage to and satirized the cinematic culture of his country. 

It is a film both unique and yet springing from and commenting on the entire, cacophonous, kaleidoscope of 20th century film culture.  

Check it out in all its panoramic glory on the Senate’s big screen! 

Parking is available in our gated lot, on Gilbert, and Michigan Avenue