They inspired Monty Python; their fans included John Lennon and Robin Williams. The legendary satirical radio theater troupe, Firesign Theatre will perform in Brown County on May 31st and in Bloomington on June 2nd. We are showing their epic feature film, J-Men Forever

A striking debut from China’s Qiu Sheng, Suburban Birds is a tantalizing mystery and a bittersweet coming-of-age comedy rolled into one.

In 1969 the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City’s Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by the city’s gay community. With this outpouring of courage and unity the gay liberation movement had begun.

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi blurs the line between fiction and non-fiction, sometimes playing himself in his films. In 3 Faces he plays a dissident filmmaker. In real life, Panahi was arrested in Iran in 2009 and again in 2010.

Juliette Binoche and Guillame Canet reunite with acclaimed director Olivier Assayas for this seductive tale of sex, lies, and literature. Set amidst the bohemian intelligentsia of the Parisian publishing world, Non-Fiction traces the romantic and emotional fallout that results when a controversial writer blurs the line between fact and fiction, using his real-life love affairs as fodder for a new novel. “Non-Fiction is incredibly WITTY, FAST-PACED and unmistakably French.” -Film Threat

Wedding in Galilee is the first major Palestinian fiction film to be made by an “insider,” an Israeli Palestinian. It was awarded the International Critics Prize at Cannes in 1987.

Andy’s Ghost, Eye on Forever, Inherent and Midwest are all films created by local student filmmakers Robbie Gonyea and Lucas Coniaris. Together, these four projects create a conversation about confronting things we don’t understand and challenge what the audience believes- as well as what they’re willing to believe in. The filmmakers will host a Q&A after […]

Single Tickets $6     Semester Passes $35     Where Are Films Shown?     Where Can I Park for free on Campus?      This documentary from BAFTA nominated directors Jacqui and David Morris traces the extraordinary life of Rudolf Nureyev. From his birth in the 5th class carriage of a trans-Siberian train, to his dramatic […]

Jia Zhangke’s extraordinary body of work has doubled as a record of 21st-century China and its warp-speed transformations.  At once his funniest and most emotionally generous film, Ash Is Purest White is both a smart rumination on love and

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.