A fragile, anxious 12-year-old boy who’s regularly bullied by his stronger classmates finds love and revenge through a beautiful but peculiar girl who moves in next door.
Join us for the premiere of NASHVILLE BACHELORETTES: A BEN ODDO INVESTIGATION. Panel discussion and audience Q&A to follow, along with an after-party at Neighbors of Sylvan Park.
After a tragic accident, two stage magicians in 1890s London engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other. Directed by Christopher Nolan. Screening in 35mm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s unforgettable dissection of an imbalanced relationship between a haughty fashion designer (Margit Carstensen) and a beautiful but icy ingenue (Hanna Schygulla) — is based, in a sly gender reversal, on the writer-director’s own desperate obsession with a young actor. Screening with PETER VON KANT (opens Fri, Sep 16)
John Singleton’s quintessential chronicle of three friends growing up in an economically depressed South Central Los Angeles neighborhood in the early ‘90s. Featuring outstanding performances by Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding Jr., Morris Chestnut and Lawrence Fishburne. Pizza and a Movie, co-presented with Slim & Husky’s Pizza Beeria.
A teenage cartoonist rejects the comforts of his suburban life and leaves home, finding an unwilling teacher and unwitting friend in Wallace, a former low-level comic artist.
In the first film of the Three Colors trilogy, Juliette Binoche gives a tour de force performance as Julie, a woman reeling from the tragic death of her husband and young daughter. Shot in sapphire tones and set to an extraordinary operatic score, BLUE is an overwhelming sensory experience.
Having tasked the “notoriously shy” Australian musician Courtney Barnett with maintaining an audio diary through a never-ending tour, friend/filmmaker Danny Cohen focuses inward in this meditative 16mm antidote to the myth of a rock star on the rise.
Albert is employed to look after Mia, a girl with teeth of ice in an apartment where the shutters are always closed — until the day Albert is instructed that he must prepare the child to leave. Lucile Hadžihalilović creates complete worlds that are haunting, beautiful, and strange. EARWIG is no exception.
