Screening is free. There is a two-item minimum per seat.

Cine-Brunch at (Le) Poisson Rouge is a new take on the summer movie season - a free afternoon screening of art-house cinema classics. The inaugural run includes selections from auteurs such as Vittorio De Sica, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Francois Truffaut, and others. Kicking off the series is The Bicycle Thief on 7/5. Blockbuster season leaves little room for films of substance to elbow into the billboards advertising superheroes, heists, explosions, and magic. But this summer join LPR for free screenings of French New Wave masterpieces, Neo-Realist tragedies, slapstick mysteries, and other films by the great auteurs of cinema history.

Cine-Brunch offers an alternative to the summer blockbuster: refined entertainment in a cool, comfortable environment where viewers can enjoy brunch or LPR's regular menu of tapas while taking in classic cinema and sipping a cocktail. And best of all, it's free!

Brunch specials - all $7 and under - include eggs any style, waffles and pancakes with fresh fruit or oatmeal with brown sugar. Cocktails start at $3, and Mimosas and Bloody Mary's can be had for $7.

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UPCOMING CINE-BRUNCH SCREENINGS:

07.12 The 400 Blows
07.19 Gimme Shelter
07.26 Yojimbo
08.02 The Seventh Seal
08.09 Jules & Jim


"Alternately immediate and elegant, playful and brooding, gritty and poetic. In other words, it’s a film that veers between extremes, replicating with uncommon verve the crazy rhythms of youth. No wonder it kick-started a revolutionary cinematic movement!"– New York Magazine

"Here is a picture that encourages an exciting refreshment of faith in films." – Bosley Crowther, The New York Times

"Time has fortified this sharp, slender account of a misbegotten boyhood into one of the unassailable monuments of French cinema" – Anthony Lane, The New Yorker

"Francois Truffaut's 1959 masterwork The 400 Blows seems forever young." – Chicago Tribune

"Francois Truffaut's The 400 Blows is one of the most intensely touching stories ever made about a young adolescent... The later films have their own merits, and Stolen Kisses is one of Truffaut's best, but The 400 Blows, with all its simplicity and feeling, is in a class by itself. It was Truffaut's first feature, and one of the founding films of the French New Wave." – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times