His Girl Friday

We've been revisiting some of the earliest films that we've programmed as part of our 40th Anniversary. His Girl Friday is the earliest - it's the first film we ever showed.

Downtown 81 – Last Chance!

As part of our 40th anniversary, we have revisited several films from the our early days. Downtown 81 is a film that we would have shown if it had ever been released. In 1981, writer and Warhol confederate and Interview magazine founder Glenn O’Brien, Swiss photographer Edo Bertoglio, and painter Jean-Michel Basquiat hit the streets of lower Manhattan to make a movie

It Happened One Night

Frank Capra's romantic comedy was the first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay).

SYNONYMS

A young Israeli, Yoav, flees to Paris intending to transform into a Frenchman. It starts out badly. While he is taking a bath, his clothes are stolen. First lesson learned: when you're in a strange country, take a shower instead.

The Disappearance of My Mother

Benedetta Barzini wants to disappear. An iconic fashion model in the 1960s, she became a muse to Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali and Richard Avedon. As a radical feminist in the 1970s, she fought for the rights and emancipation of women. But at the age of 75

from Italy: MARTIN EDEN

Based on the 1909 autobiographical novel by Jack London, young Martin Eden is a charming, impoverished, self-taught sailor who dreams of becoming a writer. Martin Eden might be the BEST FILM OF THE YEAR!

American Dharma

Academy Award winning filmmaker Errol Morris continues his examination of the nature of evil.
No stranger to sitting down with some of the most controversial figures of our time, Morris trains his lens on Stephen K.​ Bannon, former Chief Strategist of the Trump administration.

Gauguin, from the National Gallery, London

This brand-new 60-minute documentary about the life and work of Paul Gauguin narrated by actor Dominic West (The Wire, The Affair, Colette) and will be followed by a 30-minute private view of the National Gallery exhibition, Gauguin Portraits, while it is currently on display in London.

The Lion King

The Lion King in the Pavilion in Switchyard Park. Disney Trivia 5pm - 7pm Movie 7pm - 9pm

ZAPPA

"We were loud. We were coarse. We were strange. And if anyone in the audience ever gave us any trouble, we told them to fuck off." There has yet to be a film about the life and times of the brilliant and genuinely maverick musician Frank Zappa. The music he composed and performed with his band, The Mothers of Invention

from Romania: COLLECTIVE

ONE OF THE GREATEST MOVIES ABOUT JOURNALISM and the Dark Forces in Confronts...Alexander Nanau’s bracing, relentless documentary plays like a gripping real-time thriller, merging the reportorial intensity of Spotlight with the paranoid uncertainty of The Manchurian Candidate. When Nanau screened Collective to rave reviews at the Venice, Toronto and Sundance festivals, he had no idea that his exposé would prove

MAYOR

Filmmaker David Osit subtly – and with a keen eye for black humor – explores the absurdities of a worldly politician trying to turn his city into a Middle Eastern Amsterdam while in the midst of a geopolitical storm. Follow the mayor of Ramallah – de facto capital of the Palestinian people – and you’ll see him greeting grateful constituents on the street, planning the town’s neon-bright Christmas celebrations, mulling “city branding” slogans with his aides in an effort to boost tourism…or dodging gunfire from an Israeli army fracas. It’s all in a day’s work for Mayor Musa Hadid, a liberal Christian and civil engineer by training, whose charming public persona is balanced by a self-effacing, realist streak. “I feel jealous when I visit other cities,” he laments. “They can do so much that we cannot.” “Thoughtful and gripping. There are whiffs of Veep-like humor throughout MAYOR. It’s also a sincere tale of a public servant who’s seeking to lead in a world that’s stacked against him.” – Alissa Wilkinson, Vox

His ultimate mission: to end the occupation of Palestine. Rich with detailed observation and a surprising amount of humor, Mayor offers a portrait of dignity amidst the madness and absurdity of endless occupation while posing a question: how do you run a city when you don't have a country?

RAISE HELL: The Life And Times of Molly Ivins

Molly Ivins was often compared to Mark Twain. She was six feet of Texas trouble who, despite her Houston pedigree, took on Good Old Boy corruption wherever she found it.

2020 Oscar Short Film Festival – Held Over!

Hollywood movies are often impersonal and risk-free — creative decisions are made by lawyers and accountants. The Oscar Shorts are a celebration of intimate, personal storytelling.

Oscar Shorts Festival: Animation – Held Over!

One of the most entertaining categories at the Academy Awards — and one of the least heralded — is for the Best Animated Short Subject. We are screening the five nominees in that category along with three films short-listed for a nomination.

Oscar Shorts: Live Action – Held Over!

Like short stories, short films are sometimes overlooked. But they often display all of the scope, power, insight and resonance of feature length films..

WHAT SHE SAID: The Art of Pauline Kael

In a field that has historically embraced few women film critics, Kael was controversial, witty, and fiercely discerning. Her turbo-charged prose famously championed films that were dismissed by most other critics (Bonnie and Clyde, Taxi Driver).

Beanpole – Last Chance!

In post-WWII Leningrad, two women, Iya and Masha (astonishing newcomers Viktoria Miroshnichenko and Vasilisa Perelygina), intensely bonded after fighting side by side as anti-aircraft gunners, attempt to readjust to a haunted world.

Lemon Tree

Tickets $6     Where Are Films Shown?     Where Can I Park for free on Campus?     Any other Questions? Send an email to editor@TheRyder.com Two Nights Only!  Lemon Tree is set in the West Bank, where Palestinian widow Salma Zidane tends her lemon grove. However, when Israeli Defense Minister Navon moves in across the way, his security guards

Rigoletto on the Lake

Giuseppe Verdi’s masterwork – compelling, blood - curdling and beautiful – is being performed for the first time on the breathtaking water stage of Lake Constance, Bregenz.

The Ryder: Going Forward

Since the Ryder Film Series began in 1979, we’ve rarely gone more than a week without bringing at least one new film to Bloomington. Now, realistically, the earliest we will begin in-theater programming again will be ​​in mid-May. We hope to reschedule all of those films that have been postponed, as well as to program several exciting new films that

FREE TIME

You can watch Free Time right here, right now   Free Time, the latest film by one of our greatest documentarians, Manny Kirchheimer. A New York Film Festival selection, Free Time presents meticulously restored and poetically assembled 16mm black-and-white footage shot in New York between 1958 and 1960, set to the stirring music of Ravel, Bach, Eisler, and Count Basie.

from Argentina: The Weasel’s Tale

Schemers meet their match in The Weasel's Tale, a comedic thriller by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Juan José Campanella (The Secret in Their Eyes). Four long-time, showbiz friends share a decaying mansion in the countryside outside of Buenos Aires. Their peaceful coexistence is menaced by a young couple who, feigning to be lost, slowly insinuate themselves into their lives. It's Sunset Boulevard meets The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, with a Latin twist. Financial gain, seduction, betrayal, and memories run amok are the elements that create the recipe for this delightful game of cat...and weasel.

FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO

Over a period of 35 years between 1984 and 2019, filmmaker Lynne Sachs shot 8 and 16mm film, videotape and digital images of her father, Ira Sachs Sr., a bon vivant and pioneering businessman from Park City, Utah. Film About a Father Who is her attempt to understand the web that connects a child to her parent and a sister to her siblings.