06/02/2026
T O N I T E ! Embrace the bitter and the sweet — and leave with your soul right in tact, like it's supposed to be... And you'll have it back, like you like it..
TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 7:30pm, —
Taradrome presents AFTER LIFE (1998).
Our now-beloved director Hirokuzu Kore-Eda (SHOPLIFTERS, STILL WALKING) released his tender and wildly imaginative first fictional film, AFTER LIFE, the same year that Videodrome opened, and we've been recommending it ever since. It's appropriate to finish our current series, Liminal Loss & Love, with a movie that takes place entirely in the most iconic of liminal spaces: purgatory. Some like it there, most have to leave, and a few can't decide…
If you could choose only one memory to hold on to for eternity, what would it be? That’s the question at the heart of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s revelatory international breakthrough, a bittersweet fantasia in which the recently deceased find themselves in a limbo realm where they must select a single cherished moment from their life to be recreated on film for them to take into the next world.
AFTER LIFE’s high-concept premise is grounded in Kore eda’s documentary-like approach to the material, which he shaped through interviews with hundreds of Japanese citizens. What emerges is a panoramic vision of the human experience—its ephemeral joys and lingering regrets—and a quietly profound meditation on memory, our interconnectedness, and the amberlike power of cinema to freeze time.
Recommended if you like Michel Gondry, Powell & Pressburger, Spike Jonze…
Join us for this Videodrome favorite on the big screen!
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