An anthropologist recalls his childhood in France and a student trip to the USSR where a clandestine mission led him to offer up his own identity for a young Russian.

June 3, 4  ♦  Scroll down for times and locations Individual Tickets: $5 ♦ Summer Passes $30 ♦  Group Tickets call 812 339.2002 In this penetrating dissection of modern China from storyteller extraordinaire Jia Zhang-ke (A Touch of Sin), a young woman must choose between a wealthy capitalist and a coal miner.  Mountains May Depart begins […]

Meet the filmmaker of this low budget, slasher horror movie written and directed by Ben Arvin, a Southern Indiana native and IU alum. Dance with the cast and crew at Serendipity after the screening.

June 24, 25 David Hockney is one of the great surviving icons of the 1960s; the new bio-pic Hockney weaves together a portrait of the multifaceted artist from frank interviews with close friends, including several art world luminaries, as well as never before seen footage from Hockney’s own personal archive. Acclaimed filmmaker Randall Wright (Freud’s […]

June 24 – July 9 Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s first two features, Reprise and Oslo, August 31st, which some of you saw at Ryder, were eloquent, deft dramas. Louder Than Bombs is Trier’s first English language film. Isabelle Huppert,  Gabriel Byrne, Devin Druid and Jesse Eisenberg star in this story of a family haunted by the […]

June 24 – July 16 ♦  Scroll down for times and locations Individual Tickets: $5 ♦ Summer Passes $30   Cover your ears but open your hearts for Marguerite. 1921: the beginning of the Golden Twenties. Not far from Paris, it is party day at the castle of Marguerite Dumont, a wealthy woman with a passion […]

A young, naive bride-to-be takes a job as a maid for a comparatively well-to-do couple in Tehran, unaware as she enters their apartment that she has been recruited as a domestic spy, keeping tabs on a boorish husband who may be having an affair. Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s film, A Separation, won the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award in 2012.

Truth is stranger than fiction. When journalist David Farrier came across a an online reference to a fringe sport in Los Angeles called “competitive endurance tickling” he thought he’d lit upon another amusingly weird topic for his lighthearted reports on New Zealand television. But it turned out to be no laughing matter.

Paris, 1941. A family of scientists is on the brink of discovering a powerful longevity serum when all of a sudden a mysterious force abducts them. From the producers of the Academy Award-nominated Persepolis and the mind of renowned graphic novelist Jacques Tardi comes a riveting sci-fi adventure set in an alternate steampunk universe.

Sea monsters, monarchs, ogres, kings and sorcerers: Tale of Tales is based on 3 spellbinding stories of magic and the macabre by Neapolitan poet and courtier Giambattista Basile, ♦ Set on the Afghan battlefield, Neither Heaven Nor Earth is a contemporary ghost story that’s both unabashedly mystical and thrillingly pulpy.

Set on the Afghan battlefield, Neither Heaven Nor Earth is a contemporary ghost story that’s both unabashedly mystical and thrillingly pulpy.

A young French Red Cross doctor in Warsaw is treating the last of the French soldiers in the waning days of World War II. One night, a Benedictine nun appears on her doorstep.

Sea monsters, monarchs, ogres, and sorcerers: Salma Hayek and John C. Reilly star in this excursion into the dark heart of fairy tales. ♦ So few Italian films make it Stateside that it’s cause for celebration when a terrific one appears. –Time magazine

Nuts! is the sort of story the Coen Brothers would make up, except in this case, the story is true. NUTS! recounts the rags-to-riches tale of John Romulus Brinkley, a Kansas doctor who in 1917 discovered that he could cure impotence by transplanting goat testicles into men.

Sunday, Sept 4 4:30 Buskirk-Chumley Theater

We’re in the midst of a crisis of genetic diversity: we’ve lost over 94% of our vegetable seed varieties, leaving our food supply dangerously vulnerable to blight and famine.

Dheepan is a Tamil freedom fighter. As the Civil War in Sri Lanka nears its end, Dheepan decides to flee, taking with him two strangers – a woman and a little girl – hoping that they will make it easier for him to claim asylum in Europe.

Follows runaway Ricky and his cantankerous uncle on a manhunt through the New Zealand bush.

six men on a fishing trip off the coast of Greece decide to play a game that will determine which of them is the best. What begins as a lampoon of bourgeois machismo and male anxiety develops into an incisive allegory for the state of contemporary Greece, and leaves a final impression as an empathetic, razor-sharp study of human nature itself.

Many politicians have seen their careers careen off the tracks, but few instances have been captured so completely on film as the incisive and painfully funny Weiner.

Robert Frank, now 91 years old, is among the most influential artists of the last half-century. His seminal volume, The Americans, published in 1958, records the Swiss-born photographer’s candid reactions to peculiarly American versions of poverty and racism.

A university student retreats to a country inn to write his masterpiece and becomes caught up in a metaphysical mystery of David Lynch-like dimensions.

We are screening 3 films at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater: Arsenic and Old Lace, The Exorcist and The Wailing. Frank Capra’s Halloween comedy Arsenic and Old Lace stars Cary Grant as a man learns that his eccentric but sweet aunts have been seeking out lonely, elderly men, poisoning them, and burying them in the basement. Controversial from the day it opened in 1973, The Exorcist is now recognized as a defining classic of the genre.