This documentary follows Jérémie and his trusted mountain partner Sam Anthamatten as they seek out ski descents on the highest mountain ranges. From the Andes to the Karakoram and their home range in between, Sam and Jérémie have spent the last couple of years trying to expand their definition of “steep skiing”. This journey has been a life-changer, one that poses as many questions as it answers. The title of the film says it all: you either succeed, or you come back with nothing to show for the time you spent away from home and the risks that you took.
Showtimes for Friday January 21st – Sunday January 23rd
6:10pm
Showtimes for Monday January 24th – Thursday January 27th
6:10pm
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Director: Eric Crosland Cast: Jérémie Heitz, Sam Anthamatten Language: English Genre: Documentary Rating: Not Rated Run time:
A young woman battles indecisiveness as she traverses the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path.
Coming Friday, February 4th
Director: Joachim Trier Cast: Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lee Language: Norwegian Genre: Drama, Comedy Rating: R for sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and some language Run time: 2 hours 7 minutes
A Scottish lord becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he will become the next King of Scotland. His ambitious wife will do anything to support him in his plans of seizing power.
Showtimes for Friday January 21st – Sunday January 23rd
(3:30)pm, 8:40pm
Showtimes for Monday January 24th – Thursday January 27th
8:40pm
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Director: Joel Coen Cast: Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Alex Hassell Language: English Genre: Drama, History, Thriller Rating: R for violence Run time: 1 hours 55 minutes
In a future where the government records dreams and taxes them, a dream auditor gets caught up in an aging eccentric’s dreams.
Coming Friday, February 18th
Director: Kentucker Audley, Albert Birney Cast: Kentucker Audley, Constance Shulman Language: English Genre: Drama, Fantasy Rating: Not Yet Rated Run time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and delinquent adolescence; forced to grow up fast to become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Indigenous uprising known as The Oka Crisis, which tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.
Cut off from civilization, a single mother puts her children on high alert when they bring home a young girl caked in clay. She tells of spirits and spirit hunters, but these are not mere superstitions. As more strangers show up on her doorstep, she quickly finds another reason to fear the forest. Malaysia’s official submission to the 2021 Academy Awards.
In rural Iceland, a childless couple discover a strange and unnatural newborn in their sheep barn. They decide to raise her as their own, but sinister forces are determined to return the creature to the wilderness that birthed her.
Showtimes for Friday October 29th– Sunday October 31st
(3:40)pm, 8:20pm
Showtimes for Monday November 1st – Tuesday November 2nd
8:20pm
Showtimes for Wednesday November 3rd – Thursday November 4th
(3:40)pm, 8:20pm
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Director: Valdimar Jóhannsson Cast: Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson Language: Icelandic Genre: Horror/Drama Rating: Rated R for some bloody violent images and sexuality/nudity Run time: 2 hours
THE RESCUE chronicles the enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand. Academy Award®-winning directors and producers E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin keep viewers on the edge of their seats as they use a wealth of never-before-seen material and exclusive interviews to piece together the high stakes mission, highlighting the efforts of the Royal Thai Navy SEALs and U.S. Air Force Special Tactics and details the expert cave divers’ audacious venture to dive the boys to safety. THE RESCUE brings alive one of the most perilous and extraordinary rescues in modern times, shining a light on the high-risk world of cave diving, the astounding courage and compassion of the rescuers, and the shared humanity of the international community that united to save the boys.
Showtimes for Friday October 29th– Sunday October 31st
6:00pm
Showtimes for Monday November 1st – Tuesday November 2nd
6:00pm
Showtimes for Wednesday November 3rd – Thursday November 4th
6:00pm
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Director: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Cast: N/A Language: English Genre: Documentary Rating: PG for thematic material involving peril and some language Run time: 1 hour 50 minutes
The new feature documentary ALGREN is a journey through the gritty world, brilliant mind, and noble heart of Nelson Algren. Exploding onto the national scene in 1950 after winning the first-ever National Book Award for The Man with the Golden Arm, Algren defined post-war American urban fiction with his gritty, brilliant depiction of working class Chicago.
Hemingway declared him second only to Faulkner; Vonnegut dubbed him a literary groundbreaker. Hollywood soon came calling, immortalizing his breakout novel with none other than Frank Sinatra in the lead role. Algren even won a notorious place in both the heart and work of France’s premiere feminist, Simone de Beauvoir.
Including never-before-seen archival footage, newly uncovered audio recordings and his own rarely seen, personal photo collages, ALGREN charts the rise and fall of a man whose transgressions, compassion and thirst for justice pushed him to dedicate his life and career to giving a voice to the voiceless. Through interviews with Algren’s friends, literary experts and artists – including William Friedkin, Russell Banks, Philip Kaufman, Billy Corgan and John Sayles – the film is an intimate, witty and even antagonistic portrait of a tireless champion of America’s most marginalized.
Director: Michael Caplan Cast: Nelson Algren, Billy Corgan, Russell Banks Language: English Genre: Documentary Rating: Not Rated Run time: 1 hour 25 minutes
MAN IN THE FIELD profiles pioneering artist and chef Jim Denevan, founder of Outstanding in the Field, a radical alternative to the conventional dining experience. The documentary intimately reveals Denevan’s artistic and culinary first with land art in epic geometric formations alongside grand dinners in beautiful natural settings. Instead of bringing the food to the restaurant, Outstanding in the Field has brought the restaurant to the food since 1999. Hosted at one long table, with 100 to 1000 guests dining together, Denevan has set tables in vineyards, beaches, meadows, fishing docks, and city streets. Over 120,000 lucky patrons in all 50 states and 16 countries have experienced this once-in-a-lifetime event.
A semi-autobiographical film which chronicles the life of a working class family and their young son’s childhood during the tumult of the late 1960s in the Northern Ireland capital.
Showtimes for Friday December 10th – Sunday December 12th
6:10pm
Showtimes for Monday December 13th – Thursday December 16th
6:10pm
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Director: Kenneth Branagh Cast: Caitríona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciarán Hinds Language: English Genre: Drama Rating: Not Yet Rated Run time: 1 hour 40 minutes
“Licorice Pizza” is the story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973. Written and Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, the film tracks the treacherous navigation of first love.
Showtimes for Friday January 21st – Sunday January 23rd
(3:15)pm, 6:00pm, 8:45pm
Showtimes for Monday January 24th – Thursday January 27th
6:00pm, 8:45pm
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Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Cast: Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Bradley Cooper, Benny Safdie Language: English Genre: Drama, Romance Rating: R for language, sexual material and some drug use Run time: 2 hours 15 minutes
Believing he’s a wolf trapped in a man’s body, Jacob eats, sleeps and lives like one — much to the shock of his family. When he’s sent to a clinic, Jacob and his animal-bound peers are forced to undergo increasingly extreme forms of curative therapies. However, once he meets the mysterious Wildcat, their friendship blossoms into an undeniable infatuation, and Jacob must decide whether to renounce his true self for love.
Coming Soon
Director: Nathalie Biancheri Cast: Lily-Rose Depp, George MacKay Language: English Genre: Drama Rating: Not Yet Rated Run time: 1 hour 40 minutes
Director: Baneil Karia Cast: Ben Whishaw, Ellie Haddington, Hammed Animashaun, Jasmine Jobson Language: English Genre: Drama Rating: Not Rated Run time: 1 hour 45 minutes
One of the most acclaimed directorial debuts of recent years, and the winner of the coveted FIPRESCI Prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, Bogdan Mirică’s Dogs is the most haunting and gruesome Western to come out of Europe in decades.
Dogs begins with an elegant tracking shot through a marshland near the Black Sea, eventually landing on a severed foot, bobbing in the swampy water. Soon after, we meet Roman (Dragoș Bucur, star of the classic Romanian noir Police, Adjective), who has just arrived on a vast plot of vacant land bequeathed to him by his late grandfather, known locally as Uncle Alecu.
While selling off Uncle Alecu’s property, Roman learns that the land came into his family under murky circumstances. Then, after coming upon mysterious midnight meetings on the land, Roman discovers exactly what happened on Uncle Alecu’s watch, and why it will be both difficult and dangerous to sell his land: The squatters, led by the fearsome Samir (Snowpiercer’s Vlad Ivanov), are a gang of criminals so dangerous that the local police captain (Romanian cinema legend Gheorghe Visu) is powerless to protect him. After his friend disappears and the detached, chewed-up foot washes up, Roman must either cut his losses or stay and fight.
With gorgeous, sunbaked widescreen cinematography by Andrei Butica and masterful performances by three of Romania’s finest actors, Dogs is a terrifying allegory about class and corruption that builds towards a grim and bloody showdown. With Dogs, Mirică places himself squarely in the Western tradition exemplified by Sam Peckinpah and Anthony Mann.
Once described as a young professional tennis prodigy, Thomas (Cesar-winner Alex Lutz) never had the career in the game he had hoped for. At 37, he decides to return to the French Open at Rolland Garros, in spite of his declining physical fitness and shattered knee. Although his wife Eve (Ana Girardot) and mother Judith (Oscar-nominee Kirstin Scott Thomas) advise him to give up on his unlikely ambition, Thomas obsessively perseveres. He will have to face his own demons as well as the intense competitive qualifying rounds to reach the tournament and eventually face a young tennis genius who disturbingly reminds him of his younger self.
Director: Quentin Reynaud Cast: Alex Lutz, Ana Girardot, Kristin Scott Thomas Language: French Genre: Drama Rating: Not Rated Run time: 1 hour 45 minutes
Featuring interviews with Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cornel West, and Naomi Klein, The Big Scary “S” Word explores the rich history of the American socialist movement. Weaving together hidden episodes of history and verité footage, the film shows that, contrary to popular belief, socialism is in fact deeply American and led to popular government programs such as public schools and Medicare. Activists and journalists explain how the 2008 financial crisis, the Wall Street bailout, the Occupy Movement, and the ascension of politicians like Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez have pushed a new generation to embrace the language of socialism.
Showtimes for Friday September3rd- Monday September 6th
6:00pm
Showtimes for Tuesday September 7th – Thursday September 9th
6:00pm
Director: Yael Bridge Cast: Cornel West, Lee Carter, Jimmy Durante Genre: Documentary Rating: Not Yet Rated Run time: 1 hour 32 minutes
Following a car accident, which kills her mother, 17-year old Ida moves in with her estranged aunt and her aunt’s grown sons. The home is filled with physical tenderness and love, but outside of the home, the family leads a violent and criminal life. When an unforeseen murder pressures the family and their loyalty to each other, tension builds as love and violence become impossible to separate. Ida is faced with the same question her mother faced before her: What are you willing to sacrifice for your family?
Utterly unique in film history, Mariam Ghani’s archival marvel WHAT WE LEFT UNFINISHED is a probing and engrossing case study in censorship, authoritarianism, and political art. Thirty years after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and the subsequent civil war, during a new era of political uncertainty for the embattled nation, WHAT WE LEFT UNFINISHED looks closely at the era of state-funded Afghan filmmaking during the country’s Communist era, bringing together dozens of writers, actors, and filmmakers to discuss five unfinished, unedited projects produced between 1978 and 1991.
After each regime change, leaders always saw propagandistic potential in Kabul’s rich filmgoing culture and the high quality of Afghan filmmaking. Scenes from the five never-before-seen films, beautifully restored, testify to the immense resources provided to filmmakers willing to play by certain rules. The studio politics and mishaps that accompany any film’s production here rise to the level of life-and-death conflict, as filmmakers recall coming up against the censorship of an authoritarian government, as well as unceasing threats of violence. Depicting the censorship process with astounding detail, WHAT WE LEFT UNFINISHED raises potent, eternally relevant questions about art and politics, the freedom of speech, and what happens when the truth becomes a bargaining chip.
Mariam Ghani, the accomplished visual artist and a longtime advocate for film conservation, makes a passionate and personal feature directorial debut. Selected by the Berlin Film Festival, DOC NYC, and Il Cinema Ritrovato, WHAT WE LEFT UNFINISHED is an unsettling and brilliantly researched exposé which will prove disquieting to filmmakers and audiences alike.
A rising star in progressive politics and a new father, 32-year-old Ady Barkan’s life is upended when he is diagnosed with ALS. But after a confrontation with powerful Senator Jeff Flake on an airplane goes viral, catapulting him to national fame, Ady and a motley crew of activists ignite a once-in-a-generation political movement called “Be a Hero.” Together, they barnstorm across the country and empower people to confront their elected officials with emotional, personal stories to demand healthcare justice, and Ady holds groundbreaking interviews with Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren. Through his journey, Ady discovers that collective action and speaking truth to power offers hope for his family and millions of others.
Director: Nicholas Bruckman Cast: Ady Barkan, Elizabeth Jaff, Rachael King Language: English Genre: Documentary Rating: Not Rated Run time: 1 hour 37 minutes
For Berliners, the Baltic island of Usedom was once the most luxurious destination for excursions within striking distance of the city. This is where imperial Germany’s grand health resorts of Bansin, Heringsdorf and Ahlbeck were built. Heinz Brinkmann, who was born in Heringsdorf, traces the eventful history of his island. He talks about the magnificent villas on Europe’s longest beach promenade, about the expulsion of Jewish citizens by the Nazis and about Usedom being split into a German and a Polish half after the Second World War. During the GDR era, most of the spa architecture remained intact because of the lack of means to build something new. Since the fall of the Wall, however, investors have been trying to replace it with indistinguishable luxury residences.
Brinkmann also asks people about conservation and change. We hear from the mayor infuriated by the architectural eyesores of recent years, a farmer who bought an island in the Achterwasser lagoon for his organic cattle, a Polish hotel manageress and other bridge-builders between the two countries. Brinkmann also quotes from his own 1992 Usedom film and compares the plans of his former protagonists with today’s reality. A discursive tour through a fractured paradise.
Director: Heinz Brinkmann Cast: Hans-Uwe Bauer, Lars Petersen, Fritz Spalink Language: German Genre: Documentary Rating: Not Rated Run time: 1 hour 40 minutes
A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.
Showtimes for Friday August 20th- Sunday August 22nd
(3:50)pm, 8:35pm
Showtimes for Monday August 23rd – Thursday August 26th
8:35pm
Director: Michael Sarnoski Cast: Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff Language: English Genre: Drama/Thriller Rating: R for language and some violence Run time: 1 hour 40 mins
A couple are forced to re-evaluate themselves and their relationship through the reality of lockdown. She is a charity worker, a coordinator for all of Europe at a refugee charity. She’s the daughter of a dentist father and an `old socialist’ mother and the only grandparent still around. He, meanwhile, is a self-employed, self-made man who runs a boutique computing consultancy.
Showtimes for Friday September3rd- Monday September 6th
6:10pm
Showtimes for Tuesday September 7th – Thursday September 9th
6:10pm
Director: Stephen Daldry Cast: James McAvoy, Sharon Horgan Language: English Genre: Comedy Rating: R for language throughout Run time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Director: Peter Sattler Cast: Ben Platt, Lola Kirke, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alfphonso Mcauley Language: English Genre: Drama Rating: Not Rated Run time: 1 hour 30 minutes
A ROCKY-esque tale of determination and grit, PLATFORM follows of three Iranian sisters as they compete to become international champions of Wushu, a Chinese martial art. The sisters thrilling underdog story explores not only their dedicated training, but also their surprising place in society as they challenge traditional gender roles on the path to success.
“Iranian cinema has a rich, varied, and self-aware texture. While one might expect the strictures of a theocratic state to impinge creative output, these very restrictions push filmmakers to extraordinary lengths to tell stories with unique, even revolutionary methods. PLATFORM explores the unique and extraordinary tale of three sisters rejecting the assumptions placed upon them to become masters of Wushu, a Chinese martial art. They are not free from the conservatism of their country – they are forced to cover themselves entirely, unlike their opponents – but they do not shy from these problems, and succeed in spite of them.
While compelling in content, Sahar Mosayebi also proves herself very much a daughter of Iran’s history of engaging, well-crafted cinema. The editing is especially impressive, cutting together fights and training as though part of a choreographed action sequence. These scenes provide the documentary with a spark and the spirit of these fighters seems to infect the film itself – a welcome meeting of content and form. PLATFORM is more than a simple telling of a sporting success story, it is an inspirational, motivational film about what can be achieved with hard work and dedication.”—Milo Garner.
The fates of an unlucky pig farmer, a feisty home-owner defending her property, a lovestruck busboy, a disenchanted rich girl, and an American expat pursuing the Chinese Dream converge and collide as thousands of dead pigs are found floating down the Huangpu River, towards a modernizing Shanghai in Cathy Yan’s (BIRDS OF PREY) debut feature.
Director: Cathy Yan Cast: Zazie Beetz, Mason Lee, Meng Li Language: Chinese, English Genre: Comedy, Drama Rating: Not Rated Run time: 2 hours 10 minutes
Alvin Ailey was a trailblazing pioneer who found salvation through dance. AILEY traces the full contours of this brilliant and enigmatic man whose search for the truth in movement resulted in enduring choreography that centers on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and unparalleled beauty. Told through Ailey’s own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews with those who intimately knew him, director Jamila Wignot weaves together a resonant biography of an elusive visionary.
Coming in September
Director: Jamila Wignot Cast: Alvin Ailey, Bill T. Jones Language: English Genre: Documentary Rating: Not Yet Rated Run time: 1 hour 20 minutes
A young widower sidesteps grief, loss, and familial dysfunction when he steals his wife’s ashes and sets off on an impulsive odyssey through America’s heartland in the charming new road trip comedy, MONUMENTS.
Ted (David Sullivan) encounters a cast of eccentric characters, including his rival Howl (Javier Muñoz), who direct and misdirect him on his mission to find something he’d lost long before the death his wife Laura (Marguerite Moreau).
MONUMENTS infuses humor and hope into a story of mourning, loss, and marriage to create one of the best feel-good indie films of 2021.
Director: Jack C. Newell Cast: Marguerite Moreau, David Sullivan, Joel Murray Language: English Genre: Drama, Comedy Rating: Not Rated Run time: 1 hour 35 minutes
In Stip, a small town in Macedonia, every January the local priest throws a wooden cross into the river and hundreds of men dive after it. Good fortune and prosperity are guaranteed to the man who retrieves it. This time, Petrunya dives into the water on a whim and manages to grab the cross before the others. Her competitors are furious – how dare a woman take part in their ritual? All hell breaks loose, but Petrunya holds her ground. She won her cross and will not give it up.
Michael (Charlie Tahan, OZARK) is a recent graduate whose post-college plan is derailed when his girlfriend leaves him for a job in New York City. When the bus service hires a security guard to watch over the night shift, Michael comes face to tattooed face with Pineapple, a 300-pound punk rock Samoan.
Director: Brandon LaGanke & John Carlucci Cast: Charlie Tahan, Pineapple Tangaroa, Kara Hayward Language: English Genre: Comedy Rating: Not Rated Run time: 1 hour 40 minutes
Written and directed by Suzanne Lindon (Vincent Lindon’s daughter and 20 years-old at the time of production), SPRING BLOSSOM is charmingly refreshing, and oh so French coming of age story that heralds Lindon as a rising international filmmaker to be reckoned with. Suzanne (Suzanne Lindon) is sixteen. She is bored with people her own age. From the outside, everything appears lovely in her charmed world, but the everyday monotony of school and her relationships with friends and family feels completely uninspired. Every day on her way to high school, she passes a theater. There, she meets a 35-year-old actor named Raphaël (Arnaud Valois, BPM (Beats Per Minute). Despite their age difference they find in each other an answer to their ennui and develop a strong connection. Immersed in the world of grown-ups and adult choices, Suzanne begins questioning the pitfalls of blossoming too quickly and missing out on life – the life of a 16-year-old, which she had struggled so much to enjoy in the same way as her peers. SPRING BLOSSOM is a refreshing tale of young teen’s sense of curiosity and wonderment at first-love replete with freewheeling musical numbers that echo the song-and-dance routines of Jacques Demy’s beloved The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
Director: Suzanne Lindon Cast: Suzanne Lindon, Arnaud Valois Language: In French with English subtitles Genre: Comedy, Drama Rating: Not Rated Run time: 1 hour 15 minutes