In the month of January, Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre will be hosting a selection of unique and exciting special events and screenings. Events include an Italian Cinema film series, classic family friendly films, special screenings of cult films and television series on the big screen, short films from the New York International Children’s Film Festival, horror movies, live music, beloved silent comedy, and critically acclaimed classic films.
Cinema for Kids
The Addams Family
Sunday, January 1st at 12:00 PM
$12 Public | $7 Members | $5 Kids
When a man (Christopher Lloyd) claiming to be Fester, the missing brother of Gomez Addams (Raul Julia), arrives at the Addams’ home, the family is thrilled. However, Morticia (Anjelica Huston) begins to suspect the man is a fraud, since he cannot recall details of Fester’s life. With the help of lawyer Tully Alford (Dan Hedaya), Fester manages to get the Addams clan evicted from their home. Gomez realizes the two men are conspiring to swindle the Addams fortune and that he must challenge Fester. (US, 1991, 99min., English, PG-13 | Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld)
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Movie Trivia Night
Monday, January 2nd at 8:00 PM
$10 Public | $7 Members
50 questions based all around film, actors and actresses, awards, and everything else associated with the world of film. Challenge like-minded film fans in a battle of wits for cash and other prizes. You can form teams, so bring some friends and work together. Feel free to come alone and play solo as well!
1st Prize – $100 cash to the winning team!
2nd Prize – Up to 4 CAC gift cards! (a value of $24 each)
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Night Owl Cinema
The Mummy
Friday, January 6th at 9:30 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz star in the cult classic that set the standard for the action-adventure genre, 1999’s The Mummy. Adapted from Karl Freund’s 1932 film of the same name, the story follows adventurer Rick O’Connell (Fraser), who discovers the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra. Returning with an archaeological expedition, the mummy of High Priest Imhotep wakes after 3,000 years and begins to wreak havoc as he searches for the reincarnation of his long-lost love. (US, 1999, 125min., English, PG-13 | Dir. Stephen Sommers)
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Cult Cafe
Soylent Green
Saturday, January 7th at 10:00 PM
$7 Public | $5 Members
By 2022, the cumulative effects of overpopulation, pollution and an apparent climate catastrophe have caused severe worldwide shortages of food, water and housing. In New York City alone, there are 40 million people, and only the city’s elite can afford spacious apartments, clean water, and natural food. The homes of the elite are fortified, with private security and bodyguards for their tenants. Usually, they include concubines (who are referred to as “furniture” and serve the tenants as slaves). The poor live in squalor, haul water from communal spigots, and eat highly processed wafers: “Soylent Red,” “Soylent Yellow,” and the latest product, far more flavorful and nutritious, “Soylent Green.” (US, 1973, 97min., English, PG | Dir. Richard Fleischer)
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Cinema for Kids
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Sunday, January 8th at 12:00 PM
$12 Public | $7 Members | $5 Kids
In New York, mysterious radioactive ooze has mutated four sewer turtles into talking, upright-walking, crime-fighting ninjas. The intrepid heroes – Michelangelo (Robbie Rist), Donatello (Corey Feldman), Raphael (Josh Pais) and Leonardo (Brian Tochi) – are trained in the Ninjutsu arts by their rat sensei, Splinter. When a villainous rogue ninja, who is a former pupil of Splinter, arrives and spreads lawlessness throughout the city, it’s up to the plucky turtles to stop him. (Hong Kong/US, 1990, 93min., English, PG | Dir. Steve Barron)
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Film Noir Classics
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Monday, January 9th at 7:30 PM
$17 Public | $12 Members
Hosted by professor Foster Hirsch
Six years after the success of Laura, widely considered among the best film noirs, Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney re-teamed with director Otto Preminger for Where the Sidewalk Ends. Mark Dixon (Andrews), a detective with a reputation for violence, accidentally causes the death of a suspect. To avoid detection, he tries to pin the blame on a local gangster. Yet, when Mark finds himself falling for the dead man’s wife (Tierney), he must face both the consequences of his actions, and the shadow of his father’s past. (US, 1950, 95min., English, NR | Dir. Otto Preminger)
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Cinema Arts Centre Preview Club
January 10th | January 23rd | February 1st | February 28th | March 13th | March 27th
Start Time is 7:00 PM
Package Price: $108 Public | $90 Members
As a member of the Cinema Arts Preview Club, you will attend special advance screenings of major new films prior to their New York release. The club features outstanding films from the festival circuit, always accompanied by discussions with guest speakers. Club members are invited to participate in the discussion. Films and guest speakers are a surprise until the night of the screening; you will be introduced to a wide range of high-quality, discussion-provoking movies. The club is also a great social experience. Come early and schmooze. Members will fill out comment cards at each film, and the results and choice opinions will be read at the next film. The Cinema Arts Preview Club promises many unforgettable evenings this season and for years to come.
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International Cinema
Rimini
Wednesday, January 11th at 7:30 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
From acclaimed Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl (Dog Days, Paradise Trilogy, Safari, Import/Export), comes the riveting and wickedly funny RIMINI. Richie Bravo, in a captivating performance by Michael Thomas, was once upon a time a successful pop star, now he chases after his faded fame in wintry Rimini. Trapped between permanent intoxication and concerts for busloads of tourists, his world starts to collapse when his adult daughter appears back in his life, demanding money from him that he doesn’t have. (Germany/France/Austria, 2022, 114min., In German & Italian with English subtitles, NR | Dir. Ulrich Seidl)
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Sky Room Talk
Elvis Movies: A Closer Look
Thursday, January 12th at 8:00 PM
$17 Public | $12 Members
Hosted by film historian Glenn Andreiev
Could you see Elvis Presley cast as Hamlet or Abraham Lincoln? The words “Elvis Movie” conjures up images of a Technicolor Elvis singing for surfer girls, children and animals. Elvis Presley’s better films display memorable, stellar filmmaking, and some remarkable, often believable performances by the King of Rock and Roll. Film historian Glenn Andreiev returns to the Cinema with a fresh look at those enjoyable and sometimes surprising Elvis Presley movies. Michael Curtiz (Casablanca), who directed Elvis in King Creole said of Elvis, “He’s a lovely boy, and he’s going to be a wonderful actor.”
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Skinamarink
Friday, January 13th at 6:50 PM
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Saturday, January 14th at 7:00 PM & 9:30 PM
$12 Public | $7 Members
The scariest horror movie of the year, as seen in the viral Tik-Tok sensation! Two children wake up in the middle of the night to find their father is missing, and all the windows and doors in their home have vanished. (Canada, 2022, 100min., English | Dir. Kyle Edward Ball)
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Retro Picture Show – 35mm Screening
Friday the 13th Uncut
Friday, January 13th at 9:30 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
Terror and suspense abound in this 24-hour nightmare of blood. Camp Crystal Lake has been shuttered for over 20 years due to several vicious and unsolved murders. The camp’s new owner and seven young counselors are readying the property for reopening despite warnings of a “death curse” by local residents. The curse proves true on Friday the 13th as one by one each of the counselors is stalked by a violent killer. This film is widely acclaimed for its horrifying and creative murder sequences. (US, 1980, 95min., English, R | Dir. Sean S. Cunningham)
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Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom I
Saturday, January 14th at 12:00 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
Lars von Trier first made a name for himself directing a prodigiously deranged trilogy of films about the traumas of 20th-century Europe (The Element of Crime, Epidemic, and Europa), but it was his 1994 medical-supernatural miniseries co-directed with Morten Amfred, that brought him international acclaim and helped establish the rigorous style that he would formalize one year later with Dogme 95. A singular blend of horror, humor, and melodrama, The Kingdom I centers around the neurosurgical ward of Rigshospitalet—Denmark’s most technologically advanced hospital, which happens to be built on top of old bleaching ponds in Copenhagen—where strange and otherworldly events have started to occur, much to the dismay of doctors and patients: a child’s voice cries out to a patient in an elevator shaft, a phantom ambulance appears and disappears, and a pregnant doctor’s fetus grows at unnatural speed. Perhaps the most eccentric, turbulent television series of the 1990s after Twin Peaks, The Kingdom unfolds, as the critic Howard Hampton put it in Film Comment, “As if St. Elsewhere were infiltrated by the restless souls of Poltergeist.” (Denmark, 1994, 284 min., color, Danish and Swedish with English subtitles, DCP | Dir. Lars von Trier)
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Cult Cafe
Happy Gilmore
Saturday, January 14th at 10:00 PM
$7 Public | $5 Members
All Happy Gilmore (Adam Sandler) has ever wanted is to be a professional hockey player. But he soon discovers he may actually have a talent for playing an entirely different sport: golf. When his grandmother (Frances Bay) learns she is about to lose her home, Happy joins a golf tournament to try and win enough money to buy it for her. With his powerful driving skills and foulmouthed attitude, Happy becomes an unlikely golf hero – much to the chagrin of the well-mannered golf professionals. (US, 1996, 92min., English, PG-13 | Dir. Dennis Dugan)
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Cinema for Kids
Kid Flicks One – New York International Children’s Film Festival
Sunday, January 15th at 12:00 PM
$12 Public | $7 Members | $5 Kids
Let your imagination take the wheel with Kid Flicks One. Whether dreaming up the fantastical, like a cat the size of a house, or the practical, like finding a beloved teacher a summer romance, these 8 short films are sure to surprise and delight.
Battery Daddy: Everyone relies on attentive Battery Dad to keep things well-powered and smoothly-run, but when a field trip’s downpour hits, will he still have the power to keep his cool and save the day? (South Korea, 2021, 6min., In Korean with English subtitles | Dir. Jeon Seung-bae)
The Cat in the Art Park: Even small cats are known for causing chaos, so imagine the hijinks that ensue when this art- park-dwelling cat suddenly grows to the size of a house. (South Korea, 2020, 5min., In Korean with English subtitles | Dir. Kim Herian)
Cupids: This whimsical comedy love letter to New York’s essential workers follows a whole class on the last day of school as they scheme to find the perfect partner for their adored bus driver, Ms. Cheryl, and save her from a lonely summer without them. (US, 2021, 10min., English | Dir. Zoey Martinson)
Mama Has A Mustache: In this fully-animated, wildly collaged documentary, kids ages 5 to 10 share their thoughts about how they experience loving, inclusive worlds that aren’t bound by traditional gender binaries. (US, 2021, 10min., English | Dir. Sally Rubin)
Meta: Interconnection, form, function, flow: all these big ideas about change and growth sprout in playful ways when creatures shape shift and dance to the rhythm of discovery. (Germany, 2022, 1min., English | Dir. Antje Heyn)
Poum Poum! Poum Poum! is a musical animated film which celebrates the simple and childish joy of hitting drums, scribbling on paper, splashing paint or making cracked cymbals screech. (France, 2021, 6min. | Dir. Damien Tran)
Star Bound: When six-year-old Jerry gets together with his uncle Joey, a Mission Operations Engineer at NASA, they have so much– try a galaxy-sized amount– to talk about. (US, 2021, 3min., English | Dir. Richard O’Connor)
Step By Step: A little rain boot wakes up on a river’s edge, lost from her owner with the big wild forest to trek through and overcome obstacles to make her way back home. (France, 2021, 8min. | Dir. Fanny Paoli, Anabelle David, Emma Gach, Claire Robert, Julie Valentin, Theodore Janvier)
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Best of the Big Screen
The Godfather Part II
Tuesday, January 17th at 7:00 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
Part II of the Godfather trilogy continues the saga of the Corleone Family, serving as both a prologue and a sequel, extending over a period of 60 years and three generations. Chronicling both the rise of youthful Don Vito Corleone (Robert DeNiro replacing Marlon Brando) to Mafia chief in the early 1900s in the Little Italy section of New York City, as well as the career of Corleone’s son Michael (Al Pacino) from his patriarchal prime to his decline a year later. Winner of six Academy Awards. (US, 1974, 202min., English, R | Dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
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Hard Luck Café
Nick Russell and Drew Velting Live
Wednesday, January 18th at 7:00 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
Long-Island-based singer-songwriters Nick Russell and Drew Velting will share the bill during the January entry to our Hard Luck Café series. Drew Velting is an American singer-songwriter and accomplished roots-oriented musician. Performing with banjo and acoustic guitar, he is widely regarded for his interpretation of music that incorporates early blues, country, folk, rhythm and blues, and rock influences. Nick Russell released his latest full-length album, Talisman, in January 2019, produced by Grammy award-winning guitarist Andy Falco of The Infamous Stringdusters and named after a beach on Fire Island. An open mic precedes the concert.
Slumber Party Massacre 2
Thursday, January 19th at 7:30 PM
$17 Public | $12 Members
Post-Film Discussion with Costume Designer and Fashion Historian Jolene Marie Richardson & Film Historian Marcus Slabine
An all-female hard rock band rents a condo for a much-needed vacation. Their tranquility is cut short by a heavy metal dream-demon and his murder weapon of choice: the drill-tar. Written and directed by Deborah Brock (Rock ’N’ Roll High School Forever), Slumber Party Massacre II combines the most successful elements of Satisfaction, A Nightmare On Elm Street 3 and “Beverly Hills, 90210” to create one of the most outrageous trash-slashers. Although the sequel contains none of Slumber Party Massacre’s subversiveness, it does have a wise-cracking killer who materializes from a dream and takes time out for breakdancing. This is how life should be. (US, 1987, 77min., English, R | Dir. Deborah Brock)
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Night Owl Cinema
Darren Aronofsky’s Pi
Friday, January 20th at 9:30 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
Numbers whiz Max Cohen (Sean Gullette) is stunted by psychological delusions of paranoia and debilitating headaches. He lives in a messy Chinatown apartment, where he tinkers with equations and his homemade, super-advanced computer. One day, however, Cohen encounters a mysterious number. Soon after reporting his discovery to his mentor (Mark Margolis) and to a religious friend (Ben Shenkman), he finds himself the target of ill-intentioned Wall Street agents bent on using the number for profit. (US, 1998, 84min., English, R | Dir. Darren Aronofsky)
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Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom II
Saturday, January 21st at 12:00 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
Heads continue to roll in the four-part sequel to Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom I, where the hospital’s otherworldly forces have been manifesting among its staff and patients, including in its youngest: the newborn offspring of a demon-doctor (Udo Kier, in both roles). Effortlessly weaving a tapestry of bizarre plots, including a satanic cult, doctor masonry, malpractice victims, zombie poison, and a cancerous liver implant, Trier—who delivers a tuxedoed outro after each episode—ramps up the absurd humor behind the show’s ethereal and corporeal phenomena. The second installment takes twisted pleasure in exploring Denmark’s bureaucratic healthcare system and connecting it to humanity’s darkest impulses, building a masterpiece of horror-satire that is as brutally unnerving as it is hilarious. (Denmark, 1997, 295 min., color, Danish and Swedish with English subtitles, DCP | Dir. Lars von Trier)
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Cult Cafe
The Old Way
Starring Nicolas Cage
Saturday, January 21st at 10:00 PM
$7 Public | $5 Members
Retired gunslinger Colton Briggs (Nicolas Cage) faces the consequences of his past when the son of a man he murdered arrives to take his revenge. Briggs must take up arms once more after his wife is killed, and is joined by his young daughter. (US, 2023, 120min., English, R | Dir. Brett Donowho)
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Cinema for Kids
Kid Flicks Two – New York International Children’s Film Festival
Sunday, January 22nd at 12:00 PM
$12 Public | $7 Members | $5 Kids
Kid Flicks Two is full of journeys big and small, from a young artist’s river-bound trek to school and a passerby’s neighborhood stroll to the search for a loving home and or the path to understanding between friends. (68min.)
Comic Escape: A young boy unexpectedly finds a comic book that changes his reality. (US, 2021, 15min., English | Dir. Alphonso McAuley)
Frank & Emmett: “Frank & Emmet” tells the story of two life-long friends and show-business partners who, after weeks of drifting apart, sit together to address head-on the one thing they’ve never talked about: one of them is a puppet. (US, 2021, 12min., English | Dir. Carlos F. Puertolas)
How I Got My Wrinkles: Stop motion can’t stop time in this charming live-action and animated reflection on life, art, film, family, and all that makes the world go round. (France, 2022, 12min., In French with English subtitles | Dir. Claude Delafosse)
Salvador Dali: Every day, little Orozbek has to walk long distances and a river crossing to get to school—because that’s where he can get closer to his dream. (Kyrgyzstan, 2021, 19min., In Kirghiz with English subtitles | Dir. Eldiar Madakim)
Sanctuary: With a mindful animal rescuer, an ideal match is never far: even French Bulldogs on wheels and skittish puppies can all find their perfect human companions. (Czech Republic, 2021, 5min., In Slovak with English subtitles | Dir. Eva Matejovicová)
Warmth: Tender and observant, Warmth depicts the daily encounters of a passerby and a stranger without a home. (US, 2021, 3min., English | Dir. Nathania Zaini)
Generation Impact: The Coder: Jay Jay Patton was only 13 when she designed and built an app to help kids connect with their incarcerated parents, inspired by her own experience. Now she is creating a coding academy to help other kids do the same. (US, 2021, 7min., English | Dir. Samantha Knowles)
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Anything But Silent
Buster Keaton in The Navigator
Tuesday, January 24th at 7:30 PM
$17 Public | $12 Members
With live organ accompaniment by Ben Model
Rollo (Buster Keaton) decides to marry his sweetheart Betsy (Kathryn McGuire) and sail to Honolulu. When she rejects him, he decides to go alone but boards the wrong ship, the “Navigator” owned by Betsy’s father. Unaware of this, Betsy boards the ship to look for her father. whom spies capture before cutting the ship loose. It drifts out to sea with the two socialites each unaware of there being anyone else on board. Keaton’s 1924 comedy masterpiece about a spoiled rich boy and his sweetheart who are stranded on an abandoned, drifting ocean liner is one the master comedian’s most magical films. As Dave Kehr once noted, “the situation is perfectly suited to Keaton’s natural sense of surrealism–everything is too big, too full, and too much. Keaton and his girlfriend become two innocents lost in a threatening, mechanistic Eden, alone in their oversize world.” The movie came about when Keaton’s art director discovered the 500-foot SS Buford being sold for scrap; in its 33 years of service the ship had ferried troops to the Spanish-American War and carried the deported Emma Goldman to Russia. The classic diving-suit sequence, in which Keaton uses one swordfish to duel with another, was shot in the clear, frigid waters of Lake Tahoe, the star and cameramen punctuating their 15-minute submersions with slugs of whiskey. (USA, 1924, 59 min, b/w, DCP)
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Cage Match – the Best of Nicolas Cage
Raising Arizona
Friday, January 27th at 9:30 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
An ex-con (Nicolas Cage) and an ex-cop (Holly Hunter) meet, marry and long for a child of their own. When it is discovered that Hi is unable to have children they decide to snatch a baby. They try to keep their crime a secret, while friends, co-workers and a bounty hunter look to use the child for their own purposes. (US, 1987, 94min., English, PG-13 | Dir. Joel Coen)
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Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom Exodus
Saturday, January 28th at 12:00 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
In 2022, Lars von Trier has directed a third season of his incomparable The Kingdom, which began in 1994 and helped establish the Danish filmmaker’s reputation for jolting imagery and penchant for layered, unpredictable storytelling. The show’s legions of fans will be delighted by his dark-comic return to the misfit world of Copenhagen’s Rigshospitalet, once again ruled equally by sinister supernatural visions and at times hilarious administrative incompetence. This time, the hospital’s workers are aware of having been in a show, complaining that the scoundrel Lars von Trier has given them a bad name. Our guides to the increasing madness are Karen (Bødil Jorgensen), a curious somnambulist who voluntarily checks herself in after wandering to the Kingdom in her sleep, and the new Swedish head neurosurgeon, Stig Jr, (Mikael Persbrandt), desperate to follow in the footsteps of his father, the original series’ dastardly Dr. Stig Helmer. We are pleased to offer the opportunity to theatrically experience all five episodes, featuring the return of such original cast members as Ghita Norby, Peter Mygind, Søren Pilmark, and Udo Kier, as well as appearances from Alexander Skarsgard. (Denmark, 2022, 291 min., color, Danish and Swedish with English subtitles, DCP | Dir. Lars von Trier)
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Cult Cafe
Timekeepers Of Eternity
Saturday, January 28th at 10:00 PM
$7 Public | $5 Members
A Stephen King television movie (The Langoliers) is compressed and transformed through hypnotic black and white collage animation that meticulously reconstructs and reshapes its supernatural drama to an eerie and profound effect. (US, 2021, 64min., NR | Dir. Aristotelis Maragkos)
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Sunday Schmooze / Italian Cinema
Cinema Paradiso
Sunday, January 29th Bagels at 10 AM | Film at 11 AM
$17 Public | $12 Members
Cinema Paradiso is the beautiful, enchanting story of a young boy’s lifelong love-affair with the movies. Set in an Italian village, Salvatore finds himself enchanted by the flickering images at the Cinema Paradiso. When the projectionist, Alfredo, agrees to reveal the mysteries of moviemaking, a deep friendship is born. The day comes for Salvatore to leave and pursue his dream of making movies of his own. Thirty years later he receives a message that beckons him back home to a secret and beautiful discovery that awaits him. (Italy/France, 1988, 155min., In Italian with English subtitles, PG | Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore)
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Cinema for Kids
Kid Flicks ¡Hola Cine! – New York International Children’s Film Festival
Sunday, January 29th at 12:00 PM
$12 Public | $7 Members | $5 Kids
You’ve asked if we could screen more Spanish-language films. Our answer? ¡Sí, claro! This annual program from the New York International Children’s Film Festival delivers the best Latinx stories from around the world, and not just in Spanish, but also English, and even Portuguese, celebrating the many Latinx cultures, histories, identities and languages.
Alma y Paz: Sisters Alma and Paz have to consider parting with their childhood home. While the decision seems clearer for city-dwelling Paz, for younger Alma, their place in the Mexican countryside is full of memories hard to leave behind. (US, 2021, 14min., In Spanish with English subtitles | Dir. Cris Gris)
Burros: In southern Arizona, on the Tohono O’odham Nation, a young Indigenous girl meets a girl her age from across the border who has been separated from her dad. (US, 2021, 14min., In English, O’odham, and Spanish | Dir. Jefferson Stein)
I’m A Vampire: In and amongst the confusion created by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, 8-year-old Jackie believes she is turning into a vampire. (Mexico, 2020, 15min., In Spanish with English subtitles | Dir. Sofia Garza-Barba)
My Name Is Maluum: Maalum comes from a home surrounded by love and Afro-centered references. When her classmates tease her about her name, Maluum discovers the lovely legacy of her name and ancestry. (Brazil, 2021, 8min., In Portuguese with English subtitles | Dir. Luísa Copetti)
Our Lady Lupe: Chico’s luck might be a Lady Lupe in mechanic’s coveralls when he looks for a way to help out his mom, in this magical realist short about the power of family and the magic of Lotería. (US, 2021, 15min., In English & Spanish with English subtitles | Dir. Dominique Nieves)
My Grandma Matilde: With a keen eye for art and a soft-spot for all creatures, Maria’s easily distracted in the eyes of her more practical grandmother. But their relationship shifts when Maria’s grandmother remembers a secret from her own childhood. (Mexico, 2021, 10min. | Dir. Miguel Anaya Borja)
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Italian Cinema Concert
Fotogrammi: Scenes from Life and Music by Mafalda Minnozzi
Sunday, January 29th at 4:00 PM
$30 Public | $25 Members
In Fotogrammi, internationally renowned vocalist Mafalda Minnozzi presents an intimate soundtrack inspired by the composers who accompanied and inspired her during her 35-year career in Italy, Brazil, and beyond. With a jazz sensibility and unique arrangements featuring accomplished guitarist Paul Ricci, Mafalda taps into her acclaimed albums “Cinema City – Jazz Scenes from Italian Film” and “Sensorial – Portraits in Bossa and Jazz.” Presenting diverse selections such as Ennio Morricone’s “Cinema Paradiso” to Jobim’s “Águas de Março,” and from Bruno Martino’s “Estate” to Piaf’s “Hymne A L’Amour.”
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Italian Cinema
The Conformist
Monday, January 30th at 7:00 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
Bernardo Bertolucci‘s masterpiece, set in Mussolini’s Italy, follows a repressed man, Jean-Louis Trintignant, who joins the Fascists in a desperate attempt to fit in and purge memories of a youthful, homosexual episode, and murder. While on his way to assassinate a political refugee, he flashes back through numerous exaggerated, distorted scenes that encompass the formative experiences of his life. A hugely influential film to American cinema of the seventies, Bertolucci marries expressionism with a strain of 70’s realism in this exploration of sex, desire, politics, and responsibility. (Italy, 1970, 114min., In Italian with English subtitles, R | Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)
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Italian Cinema
La Dolce Vita
Tuesday, January 31st at 7:00 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, La dolce Vita rocketed Federico Fellini to international success—ironically, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom. A look at the darkness beneath the seductive lifestyles of Rome’s rich and glamorous, the film follows a notorious celebrity journalist (Marcello Mastroianni) during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight. A sharp commentary on the decadence of contemporary Europe, it provided a glimpse of how fame-obsessed our society would become. (Italy/France, 1960, 174min., In Italian with English subtitles, NR | Dir. Federico Fellini)
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