In the mid-60s big changes were afoot in the US, culturally, politically, and musically. Four rock music/concert films that explore these changes are being released in theaters this summer; we are hosting a two-week “micro-festival, ” including a screening of all four films at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater on July 21st.   Jimi Hendrix, Aretha Franklin, The Byrds and Brian Wilson are just some of the performers you’ll see on the big screen.

Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church presents the legendary guitarist in full flight at the 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival before the largest US audience of his career, only two months before his death.

In 1972, having topped the pop charts with a series of hits, Aretha Franklin returned to her family’s gospel roots. She held two concerts of the most deeply moving spirituals at a Baptist church in Watts, a Los Angeles neighborhood still recovering from the riots six years earlier.

You’ve seen The Harder They Come, maybe you’ve seen Rockers, but you’ve never seen anything like Babylon. Franco Rosso’s incendiary film had its world premiere at Cannes in 1980 but went unreleased in the U.S. until this year for “being too controversial, and likely to incite racial tension.”

This vibrant restoration of never-before-seen footage results in one of the most astounding films about space ever made. It is as awe-inspiring today as it was 50 years ago.

High Life is unlike every outer space film you’ve ever seen. An astronaut and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a dangerous mission to deep space. The crew—death-row inmates led by a doctor (Juliette Binoche) with sinister motives—has vanished.

A shy but ambitious film student begins to find her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man. Real-life mother and daughter Tilda Swinton and Honor Swinton-Byrne.star

The story of the enduring love between the Canadian singer-songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen, the Norwegian woman he met on the Greek island of Hydra in the early 1960s.

A couple’s relationship becomes complicated, as one might expect,  when she leaves him for his best friend. Shifting points of view as nimbly as lovers switching partners, the sophomore feature from French actor/director Louis Garrel is at once a beguiling bedroom farce and a and a slippery inquiry into truth, subjectivity, and the elusive nature of romantic attraction.

One day Asako’s first love suddenly disappears. Two years later, she meets his perfect double.

It was a time (1965 to 1967) when folk musicians came to LA to emulate The Beatles and Laurel Canyon emerged as a hotbed of creativity and collaboration for a new generation of musicians who would soon put an indelible stamp on the history of American popular music.

The French romantic comedy Get Out Your Handkerchiefs won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1979. It was one of the first contemporary foreign films that we programmed when we began this film series in 1979. (As part of our 40th anniversary, we will be revisiting a few of the films that we […]

In 1973, five men and six women drifted across the Atlantic on a raft as part of a scientific experiment studying the sociology of violence, aggression and sexual attraction in human behavior. Although the project became known in the press as ‘The Sex Raft’, nobody expected what ultimately took place on that three month journey.

From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to ‘70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, and history.

Werner Herzog and André Singer’s riveting documentary, filled with unforgettable archive materials and based on three long interviews, provides incredible access to, arguably, the world’s greatest living politician.

A sharp, propulsive portrait of the hostile, dignified newsman who may have transformed television news into a weapon of mass destruction.

Stray dogs abroad, adventure dogs in sidecars, dogs winning prizes, dogs in prison, senior dogs, dogs who make you laugh, and dogs at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. The NY Dog Film Festival™ is coming to Bloomington on Sunday, Sept 22nd!

The festival consists of two different 60-75 minute programs of documentary, animated, and narrative films. A portion of every ticket benefits the Monroe County Humane Association.Well-mannered, well-dressed dogs who appreciate good films are invited to attend.

A pampered cocker spaniel named Lady, living in a charming Midwestern town, finds herself on the loose and out on the street where she is befriended and protected by the tough stray mutt Tramp. This is the original 1955 animated Disney film (Disney is working on a live-action remake as we speak.) (Children 10 and […]

Ever wondered where the minerals in your mobile come from? We love our cell phones and the selection between different models has never been bigger. But the production of phones has a dark, bloody side.

An obnoxious, devious poltergeist named  Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton) tries to scare away the new family who have purchased the house he inhabits.

Jimmie Fails has one hope in life: to reclaim the majestic Victorian house his grandfather built. Every week, Jimmie and his only friend, Montgomery, make a pilgrimage across San Francisco to Jimmie’s dream home

The Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra arrives in Israel to play at the opening of an Arab Cultural Center. Dressed in full regalia and observing all military police protocol, the members of the orchestra are at a pivotal time in their careers. It’s not just the political nature of an Arab military police band playing traditional Arab music in Israel that makes this event so important

This new film from France is romantic comic mystery written by the legendary Jean-Claude Carrière, who has penned nearly 150 screenplays including The Tin Drum, The Unbearable Lightness of Being and That Obscure Object of Desire.

Asako and Baku share an all-consuming romance—but one day the moody Baku vanishes. Two years later, having moved from Osaka to Tokyo, Asako meets Baku’s exact double.

Tod Browning crossed with Robert Altman crossed with David Lynch crossed with the Muppets only begins to describe something this startlingly original and deeply felt film.