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!
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.
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 in the Pavilion in Switchyard Park. Disney Trivia 5pm – 7pm Movie 7pm – 9pm
“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 […]
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 […]
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?
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.
Five of the bravest international filmmakers working today tell thoughtful, compelling stories in this year’s documentary short film program.
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.