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.

How far can Right-wing media go to brainwash elderly Americans? Filmmaker Jen Senko looks at the rise of Right-wing media through the lens of her WWII vet father who changed from a life-long, moderate Kennedy Democrat to an angry, right-wing fanatic after his discovery of talk radio.

Take a trip back in time with ‘The Final Inning, The Final Album,’ a baseball themed mockumentary film about a famous blues band called The Easy Outs.

Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld, who died in a plane crash in 1961. As their investigation closes in, they discover a crime far worse than killing the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

For far too long, felines have been the “invisible” part of the human-animal bond. It’s time to shine the spotlight on these magnificent creatures and the humans devoted to them.

A teenager explores an abandoned house in modern-day Salem and accidentally frees a coven of evil witches played by Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker. Now, with the help of a magical cat, the kids must steal the witches’ book of spells to stop them from becoming immortal.

Kim Novak, Jimmy Stewart and Jack Lemmon star in this delightful romantic comedy about a modern-day bohemian witch living in Greenwich Village

A wonderful collection of short films from around the world for the young and the young-at-heart.
There are two programs, one for children ages 3-7 and another for ages 8-80.

A hapless young Russian American,  reluctantly agrees to ferry his grandfather and a dozen elderly Russians to a funeral. Kirill Mikhanovsky’s hilarious, heartbreaking debut feature is “completely, delightfully unpredictable from scene to scene.” – The NY Times

In this beautiful film, two canines while away the time as life goes on around them.

Single Tickets $6     Semester Passes $35     Where Are Films Shown?     Where Can I Park for free on Campus?     Essayist, novelist, critic, cinephile, and all-around intellectual dynamo Susan Sontag was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the 20th century. She made her directorial debut with the dark comedy […]

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.

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

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).

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.

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

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!