In the month of February, Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre will be hosting a selection of special events that include a retrospective on groundbreaking NY independent film director Nancy Savoca, stage-to-screen broadcasts from National Theatre Live, wonderful family films, iconic classic movies, a special screening with Academy Award nominated animator Bill Plympton, and a selection of influential and important films for Black History Month.
This Just In!: The love-hate relationship between Hollywood and the News Media
NETWORK
Thursday, February 1st at 7:30 PM
Hosted by Wallace Matthews former columnist for Newsday, the New York Post and ESPN
$16 Public | $10 Members
Sidney Lumet’s stinging rebuke of network television stars Peter Finch as Howard Beale, a veteran anchorman who is being forced out of his post after 25 years. At the end of his rope, he announces on air that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Beale’s rants lead to a spike in ratings, opening the door for ambitious producer Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway) to develop even more outrageous programming. Nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning four including Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor for Finch. (1976, 121 mins)
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Night Owl Cinema
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
Friday, February 2nd at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
George Romero’s 1968 zombie classic that virtually created and defined the entire Zombie genre! As chaos descends upon a small farmhouse, as the brains of the recently deceased become inexplicably reanimated, causing the dead to rise and feed on human flesh! Anyone who dies will return as a flesh-eating zombie. and the only way to destroy the living dead is to destroy the brain. (1968, 96 mins)
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Cult Café / Black History Month Screening
SWEET SWEETBACK’S BAADASSSSS SONG
Saturday, February 3rd at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
A landmark of Black and American independent cinema that would send shock waves through the culture, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song was Melvin Van Peebles’s second feature film, after he walked away from a contract with Columbia in order to make his next film on his own terms. Acting as producer, director, writer, composer, editor, and star, Van Peebles created the prototype for what Hollywood would eventually co-opt and make into the blaxploitation hero: a taciturn, perpetually blank-faced performer in a sex show, who, when he’s pushed too far by a pair of racist cops looking to frame him for a crime he didn’t commit, goes on the run through a lawless underground of bikers, revolutionaries, sex workers, and hippies in a kill-or-be-killed quest for liberation from white oppression. Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song’s incendiary politics are matched by Van Peebles’s revolutionary style, in which jagged jump cuts, kaleidoscopic superimpositions, and psychedelic sound design come together in a sustained howl of rage and defiance. (1971, 97 mins)
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Cinema for Kids
WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT
Sunday, February 4th at 12 PM
$5 Kids | $7 Members | $13 Public
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a delightful adventure. Daffy, cheese-loving inventor Wallace and his faithful dog Gromit become heroes in stopping a crime spree. They learn that a giant, fuzzy creature is stealing the town’s produce and the not-completely-dynamic duo set out to capture the beast and save the day. (2005, 85 mins)
PET SHOP BOYS DREAMWORLD: THE GREATEST HITS LIVE AT THE ROYAL ARENA COPENHAGEN
Sunday, February 4th at 7 PM
$18 Public | $12 Members
Pet Shop Boys bring their critically-acclaimed greatest hits tour, Dreamworld, to movie theatres worldwide for two nights only! Captured live at Copenhagen’s Royal Arena, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe put on an exhilarating performance, featuring a lavish stage show, full back-up band and mesmerizing visual backdrops, in front of an exuberant, sold-out audience. This new concert film includes all of Pet Shop Boys’ greatest hits including West End Girls, Suburbia, Left to My Own Devices, Rent, Love Comes Quickly, Always on My Mind, and It’s a Sin. (2023, 114 mins)
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Sky Room Talk Lecture
HIDDEN HITCHCOCK GEMS
Monday, February 5th at 8 PM
Hosted by Film Historian Glenn Andreiev
$18 Public | $12 Members
If another filmmaker made any of Alfred Hitchcock lesser known films, they would be heralded as a cinematic master. Hitchcock’s most popular films, the ones that concern mom-obsessed hotel managers, Mount Rushmore chases, and nosy NYC photographers cause some to bypass classic Hitchcock films like Young and Innocent, Saboteur, Torn Curtain and many others. Film historian Glenn Andreiev returns to the Cinema with a look at 12 entertaining but over-shadowed Alfred Hitchcock gems. Come discover more murder, mystery and mayhem by the master of suspense.
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Best of the Big Screen
THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
Tuesday, February 6th at 7:30 PM
With introduction by Philip Harwood
$16 Public | $10 Members
The legendary leading man Errol Flynn stars as the famed bandit king of Sherwood Forest who romances Maid Marian and leads his Merry Men in a battle against the corrupt Prince John. Directed by Academy Award winner Michael Curtiz (Casablanca), and co-starring Oscar- nominee Basil Rathbone, Oscar-winner Olivia De Havilland and Oscar-nominee Claude Rains, The Adventures of Robin Hood is action adventure on a grand scale. Nominated for four Academy Awards (including Best Picture) and winner of three. (1938, 102 mins)
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PAPRIKA
4k Remaster!
Wednesday, February 7th at 7:20 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
The final film from director Satoshi Kon‘s before his death in 2010, Paprika follows 29 year old genius Dr. Atsuko Chiba – by day an Japanese research psychotherapist whose work is on the cutting edge of her field – and by night, a stunning and fearless 18 year old ‘dream detective,’ code named PAPRIKA, who can enter into people’s dreams and synchronize with their unconscious using a powerful new psychotherapy devise known as the ‘DC-MINI’. When one of the only four existing DC-MINI prototypes is stolen and several of the researchers at the lab start to go mad, Atsuko realizes that whoever is manipulating the machines has an evil purpose. The DC MINI is being used to destroy people’s minds, and she must enter the dream world in an attempt to discover who is behind the plot. (Japan, 2006, 86 mins, R, Japanese with English Subtitles | Dir. Satoshi Kon)
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CINEMA ARTS CENTRE PREVIEW CLUB – Winter Season 2024
February 8th | February 22nd | March 7th | March 21st
at 7 PM
Pro-Rated Season Passes are available
One-night-only General Admission – $22
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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Night Owl Cinema / Black Horror
GANJA & HESS
Friday, February 9th at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
Flirting with the conventions of blaxploitation and horror, Bill Gunn’s revolutionary independent film Ganja & Hess is a highly stylized and utterly original treatise on sex, religion, and African American identity. Duane Jones (Night of the Living Dead) stars as anthropologist Hess Green, who is stabbed with an ancient ceremonial dagger by his unstable assistant (director Bill Gunn), bestowing upon him the blessing of immortality… and the curse of an unquenchable thirst for blood. When the assistant’s beautiful and outspoken wife Ganja (Marlene Clark) comes searching for her missing husband, she and Hess form an unexpected partnership. Together, they explore just how much power blood holds. (USA, 1973, 113 mins, R | Dir. Bill Gunn)
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Black History Month Screening
DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST
Saturday, February 10th at 7 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
Julie Dash’s 1991 masterpiece was the first American feature directed by an African American woman to receive a general theatrical release. A languid, dreamy, and elegant meditation on the Gullah people of South Carolina and Georgia’s Sea Islands, Daughters of the Dust effortlessly shifts between the present, past and future to tell the story of a multi-generational Gullah family – former West African slaves who adopted many of their ancestors’ Yoruba traditions – as they struggle to maintain their cultural heritage while contemplating a migration to the mainland. (1991, 112 mins)
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Cult Café / Black History Month Screening
SHAFT
Saturday, February 10th at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and introduced a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft (Richard Roundtree, in a career-defining role), a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem mob boss from Italian gangsters, he finds himself in the middle of a rapidly escalating uptown vs. downtown turf war. A vivid time capsule of gritty seventies Manhattan that has inspired sequels and multimedia reboots galore, the original Shaft is studded with indelible elements—from Roundtree’s sleek leather fashions to the iconic funk and soul score by Isaac Hayes. (USA, 1971, 100 mins, English | Dir. Gordon Parks)
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Sunday Schmooze
HOLD ME TIGHT
Sunday, February 11th
Bagels at 10 AM, Film at 11 AM
$20 Public | $15 Members
Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread) gives another riveting performance as Clarisse, a woman on the run from her family for reasons that aren’t immediately clear. Director Mathieu Amalric’s sixth feature is a virtuosic, daringly fluid portrait of one woman’s fractured psyche, alternating between Clarisse’s adventures on the road and her husband as he struggles to take care of their children at home. Amalric’s film keeps viewers uncertain as to the reality of what they’re seeing until the final moments of this richly rewarding and unpredictable portrait of grief. (France, 2021, 97 mins, France, German | Dir. Mathieu Amalric)
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Cinema for Kids
COOL RUNNINGS
Sunday, February 11th at 12 PM
$5 Kids | $7 Members | $13 Public
Based on a true story, this is the comedic saga of four Jamaican athletes going to extremes to compete as bobsled racers at the Winter Olympics. With few resources and virtually no clue about winter sports, it’s an uphill course for this troupe from the tropics who are sliding on thinice as they go for the gold in Calgary, Canada. Refusing to let anything stand in their way, these four Jamaicans enlist the help of a down-and-out ex-champion American slider named Irv (John Candy). Unavoidably drawn back to a sport he had come to loathe, Irv is faced with coaching a team of complete novices. But once committed, he is determined to turn them around and to somehow right the wrongs of his own failed career. It’s a bumpy ride but with pride, determination, and dignity, the bobsledders make their impossible dreams come true. (1992, 98 mins)
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Black History Month Screening
MOONLIGHT
Sunday, February 11th at 7 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami. At once a vital portrait of contemporary African-American life and an intensely personal and poetic meditation on identity, family, friendship, and love, Moonlight is a groundbreaking piece of cinema that won three Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor for Mahershala Ali. (2016, 111 mins)
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Black History Month Screening
PARIS IS BURNING
Monday, February 12th at 7:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City’s Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, Paris Is Burning offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion “houses,” from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women – Paris Is Burning brings it, celebrating the joy of movement, the force of eloquence, and the draw of community. (1990, 76 mins)
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Movie Trivia Night
Monday, February 12th 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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Anything But Silent
Harold Lloyd in GIRL SHY
Tuesday, February 13th at 7:30 PM
35mm Screening!
With live accompaniment by Ben Model
$18 Public | $12 Members
He may be completely inept around girls in real life, but that doesn’t stop poor tailor’s apprentice Harold Meadows (Harold Lloyd) from publishing “The Secret of Making Love,” his guidebook on how to woo women. When romance finally does come along—in the form of a wealthy, already-engaged heiress (Jobyna Ralston)—can this bumbling lad put his own advice into practice? Lloyd’s first independent feature (following his association with Hal Roach) features an epic, two-reel chase climax that may be the comedian’s finest. (1924, 89 mins)
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Valentine’s Day Screening!
CASABLANCA
Wednesday, February 14th at 7:00 PM
$20 Public | $15 Members
The Cinema Arts Centre invites all lovebirds and lonelyhearts to spend Valentine’s Day with us revisiting a classic, Casablanca. One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of romance and intrigue from director Michael Curtiz follows Casablanca nightclub owner Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) who discovers his old flame Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) is in town with her husband, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid). Laszlo is a famed rebel, and with Germans on his tail, Ilsa knows Rick can help them get out of the country. (US, 1942, 102min., English, PG | Dir. Michael Curtiz)
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National Theatre Live
ROMEO & JULIET
Thursday, February 15th at 7 PM
$25 Public | $20 Members
Romeo and Juliet risk everything to be together. In defiance of their feuding families, they chase a future of joy and passion as violence erupts around them. This bold new film brings to life the remarkable backstage spaces of the National Theatre in which desire, dreams and destiny collide to make Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy sing in an entirely new way. Jessie Buckley (Wild Rose, Judy) and Josh O’Connor (The Crown) play Juliet and Romeo. The award-winning cast includes Tamsin Greig, Fisayo Akinade, Adrian Lester, Lucian Msamati, Deborah Findlay.
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Stand Up / Sit Down
YOU BET IT’S GROUCHO
Starring Stevie GB as Groucho Marx
With special guests Joe Gelish as Chico Marx & Anita Starlite as Margaret Dumont
Thursday, February 15th at 8 PM
$40 Public | $30 Members
A hilarious evening with the iconic comedian Groucho Marx, portrayed by award winning comedian Stevie GB. Famous scenes from the movies performed live! Duck Soup, Horse Feathers and so much more.
A regular headliner on the Long Island comedy scene, award winning stand-up comedian, actor and playwright, Stevie has opened for Rob Schneider, Norm Macdonald, Louie Anderson, Lisa Lampanelli, Bobby Collins, Bob Nelson, Uncle Floyd and more. After the performance experience a fun-interesting interview with Stevie GB as we discuss everything Groucho and Stevie’s many stories as a comedian and playwright. Recently, Stevie received rave reviews for his portrayal of Groucho Marx in a local theater production. Stevie also authored two One Man Shows and 12 plays. His full-length musical play “Vampires Suck, The Musical” was featured in an Off-Broadway theater. Many of his One-Act plays have been produced in NYC theaters.
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Presented by the CAC Youth Advisory Board
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY
Friday, February 16th at 7 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal star in Rob Reiner’s blockbuster romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally… Harry Burns and Sally Albright meet when they share a car on a trip from Chicago to New York right after both graduate from college. As they build their lives and careers in Manhattan, they find love and heartache–with other people–but their paths continue to cross and their friendship continues to grow over the years – until they confront the decision whether to let their friendship develop into something more. (1989, 96 mins)
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Night Owl Cinema / Black History Month Screening
SORRY TO BOTHER YOU
Friday, February 16th at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
In this surreal anti-capitalist satire, set in an alternate reality of present-day Oakland, Calif., telemarketer Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield) finds himself in a macabre universe after he discovers a magical key that leads to material glory. As Green’s career begins to take off, his friends and co-workers organize a protest against corporate oppression. Cassius soon falls under the spell of Steve Lift (Armie Hammer), a cocaine-snorting CEO who offers him a salary beyond his wildest dreams. (USA, 2018, 111 min., R, English | Dir. Boots Riley)
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Cult Café / Black History Month Screening
Spike Lee’s CROOKLYN
Saturday, February 17th at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
Spike Lee fashions a bold, flavorful picture of family life starring Alfre Woodard as Carolyn, a loving, but fiercely independent mother who, along with her musician husband Woody (Delroy Lindo), struggles to raise their family in difficult but often wonderful circumstances in 1973 Brooklyn. Co-written with siblings Joie Susannah Lee and Cinque Lee, who based the story on their Brooklyn upbringing in the 1970s, Spike Lee’s Crooklyn was beautifully shot by Arthur Jafa (Daughters of the Dust) and is complimented by a vintage R&B soundtrack. (USA, 1994, 115 mins, English | Dir. Spike Lee)
Cinema for Kids
THE LEGO MOVIE
Sunday, February 18th at 12 PM
$5 Kids | $7 Members | $13 Public
The first-ever full-length theatrical LEGO movie follows Emmet an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person (the MasterBuilder) and the key to saving his LEGO world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers — including an old mystic (voiced by Morgan Freeman) and LEGO Batman (voiced by Will Arnett) — on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the universe together – a journey for which Emmett is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared. Now the fate of the world is in his tiny yellow hands. Will Ferrell, Liam Neeson, Elizabeth Banks and more also provide voices in this family adventure from the filmmakers behind Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Prepare yourself for…the greatest movie ever assembled! (2014, 101 mins)
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SLIDE
With Legendary Animator Bill Plympton in-person!
Sunday, February 18th at 2:15 PM
$25 Public | $20 Members
With post-film reception where Bill Plympton will draw impromptu cartoons for every audience member!
What if Clint Eastwood and Mel Brooks became cartoonists to create the wackiest, most surreal musical western ever? The result might be legendary animator Bill Plympton’s mythical cowboy showdown with eco-villains intent on paving over idyllic Sourdough Creek. Plympton’s wit and surreal animation takes on the fight for the wild west’s fading glory, peppered with swinging western tunes. This is the animator’s ninth hand-drawn feature. Along with many shorts, MTV ID’s, and Simpsons’ couch gags, this has earned Plympton status as the “King of Indie Animation.” (2024, 80 min)
After an 8 year hiatus from feature film making, Bill Plympton, the “King of Indie Animation, returns to LI’s Cinema Arts Centre, which he has chosen to hold the New York and East Coast Premiere of his ninth and newest award-winning feature animated film, SLIDE (co-produced by Guillermo del Toro, among others.) Nominated two-times for Academy Awards, Bill Plympton is also a winner of the winner of the Cannes Grand Prix du Jury among other honors, and is the first person to hand draw an entire animated feature film. Just this past December SLIDE won the Los Angeles Animation Festival’s Best Feature Film and Best Feature Director.
Pride Cinema
METAMORPHOSIS
Tuesday, February 20th at 7:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
15-year-old Adam harbors an astonishing secret. Raised by his conservative family, Adam goes through all the things prepubescent boys go through, until he gets his first menstrual period. Tensions mount with his religious family as life changing decisions must be made. His bucolic world turns upside down, setting him on a journey that tests the spiritual and physical limits of gender identity and into a new world of ambiguity and desire. (2019, 98 mins)
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Comic Gems
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
Wednesday, February 21st at 7 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
Frank Capra adapted a hit play for this screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, drama critic Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) returns home to Brooklyn, where his aunts greet him with love, sweetness – and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A brother who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who’s a dead ringer for Boris Karloff, and a drunken plastic surgeon are among the oddballs populating this diabolical delight that only gets funnier as the body count rises. (1944, 118 mins | Dir. Frank Capra)
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Nancy Savoca: Cinema From The Heart
TRUE LOVE
Friday, February 23rd at 7:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
The 1989 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner that helped jumpstart the ‘90s indie movement, Nancy Savoca’s True Love is a seminal work of Italian-American cinema. An unflinching look at the realities of love and marriage, True Love follows Michael and Donna, a young couple preparing for their wedding in an Italian enclave of the Bronx. Through conversations in dive bars, pizzerias, and living rooms, the film offers a fluid authentic meditation on marriage in a world heavily driven by gender norms. (1989, 104 mins)
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Night Owl Cinema / Black Horror
Jordan Peele’s NOPE
Friday, February 23rd at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
The new terror from the mind of Academy Award winner Jordan Peele. Caretakers at a California horse ranch encounter a mysterious force that affects human and animal behavior. Starring DANIEL KALUUYA, KEKE PALMER, and STEVEN YEUN. (USA, 2022, 135min., English | Dir. Jordan Peele)
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Nancy Savoca: Cinema From The Heart
THE MANY MIRACLES OF HOUSEHOLD SAINTS
With Nancy Savoca, director Martina Savoca-Guay, & Rich Guay in-person
Saturday, February 24th at 4 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
In keeping with the intergenerational magic of Household Saints, filmmaker Martina Savoca-Guay has crafted a compelling new documentary revealing the improbable story behind the making of the iconic film. It’s a fitting work, since Nancy Savoca was pregnant during the shoot and Savoca-Guay was the baby she carried. Combining behind the scenes footage from the set — as well as interviews with Savoca, author Francine Prose and producer Rich Guay. This new documentary is a celebration of a remarkable American independent film and to her own filmmaking heritage. (2023, 58 mins)
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Nancy Savoca: Cinema From The Heart
HOUSEHOLD SAINTS
With director Nancy Savoca, Martina Savoca-Guay, & producer Rich Guay in-person
Saturday, February 24th at 7 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
Based on Francine Prose’s novel, Nancy Savoca’s comic chronicle of a spirited Italian-American family perfectly balances humor, tragedy, and pathos. Vincent D’Onofrio’s Joseph Santangelo is a butcher with a wicked sense of humor who “wins” his wife (Tracey Ullman) in a pinochle game. Together they experience the ups, downs, and wacky in-betweens of city life – including a teenage daughter that yearns to join a convent. Produced by Jonathan Demme, with notable appearances from Michael Imperioli and Judith Malina, Household Saints announced a unique voice in 1990s NYC independent filmmaking. (1993, 125 mins)
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Cult Café / Black History Month Screening
HIGHER LEARNING
Saturday, February 24th at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
Omar Epps, Kristy Swanson, and Michael Rapaport star as first-term freshmen who get a crash course in diversity, identity and sexuality in legendary writer/director John Singleton‘s bold look at contemporary college life. Former high school track star, Malik (Epps), learns that as long as he keeps winning races the university will support him, but as far as his academic life is concerned, they don’t care a bit whether he learns anything at college or not. Kristin Conner (Swanson), a middle-class white girl from Orange County, discovers that she is ill-prepared for college life and in matters sexual she finds that the male students don’t always accept “no” for an answer. She also finds that her own sexual proclivity is not as clear-cut as she’d always imagined. Remy (Rapaport), a quiet kid from Idaho who has no social skills, turns to the only group who’ll have him–the skinheads. He’s so grateful for their acceptance that he finds he’ll do anything to stay in their good graces. Also starring Laurence Fishburne, Ice Cube, Busta Rhymes, Jennifer Connelly and Tyra Banks. (USA, 1995, 127 mins, R, English | Dir. John Singleton)
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Cinema for Kids
HARRIET THE SPY
Sunday, February 25th at 12 PM
$5 Kids | $7 Members | $13 Public
Harriet (Michelle Trachtenberg) may only be in the sixth grade, but she’s already found her calling: to be a spy. In a private journal she takes everywhere, Harriet records suspicious activity and keeps a running list of observations on virtually everyone she knows. It seems harmless enough until, one day, someone finds the journal and exposes Harriet’s critical thoughts about her classmates. Suddenly, even her best friends are against her, and Harriet resolves to take revenge. (1996, 100 mins)
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Frederick Wiseman’s
MENUS-PLAISIRS LES TROISGROS
Sunday, February 25th at 2:15pm
$18 Public | $12 Members
The unrivaled maestro of observational nonfiction, Frederick Wiseman, brings his camera into a three-star Michelin restaurant in rural central France, and the results are as expansive, delectable, and provocative as one would hope. La Maison Troisgros, located in the Roanne commune in Loire, is run by head chef Michel Troisgros and his sons César and Léo. Behind the scenes, we are privy to passionate debates among the head chefs about texture, color, and depth of flavors. In addition to displaying the craft and skill that goes into Troisgros’s mouthwatering dishes, Wiseman takes an organic approach, bringing us to a bounteous produce farm, a local vineyard, and a massive cheese cave (where “each cheese has its moment of truth”); as well as waitstaff meetings focused on individualized customer preferences and food plating at a performance-art level. In his trademark style, Wiseman patiently illuminates the restless creativity of this culinary family as they experiment with dishes, methods, and ingredients — keeping their haute cuisine anchored in tradition while brilliantly evolving. (USA/France, 2023, 240 min., Color, In French with English Subtitles | Dir. Frederick Wiseman)
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Nancy Savoca: Cinema From The Heart
DOGFIGHT
Monday, February 26th at 7:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
An unsung and underrated gem of 1990s independent cinema, Nancy Savoca’s bittersweet romance Dogfight stars River Phoenix as one of four Marines enjoying San Francisco on their last night before being shipped off to Vietnam. They plan to attend a “dogfight” party, where each marine competes to bring the ugliest date. After Phoenix encounters a shy and reluctant girl (Lili Taylor) in a coffee shop, she becomes his unwitting victim, only gradually realizing that their “date” is not what it appears. (1991, 93 mins)
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Nancy Savoca: Cinema From The Heart
DIRT
Tuesday, February 27th at 7:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
Dirt is the story of the clashing of cultures and classes in modern day New York City. Dolores Del Rosario is an undocumented Salvadoran immigrant who cleans luxury apartments. Her life is disrupted once again when her boss of nine years, Mrs. Ortega, fires her when she decides to run for Congress on an anti-immigration platform. Dolores struggles to keep her family afloat as her story takes us from Manhattan’s Upper East Side to Corona, Queens to Metapan, El Salvador. (2004, 94 mins)
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National Theatre Live
VANYA
Wednesday, February 28th at 7 PM
$25 Public | $20 Members
Andrew Scott (Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust into sharp focus in this one-man adaptation which explores the complexities of human emotions. Filmed live during its sold-out run in London’s West End.
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