In the month of May, Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre will be hosting a selection of special events that include the 2nd annual Long Island Jewish Film Festival, screenings of iconic classic films like ‘The Sound of Music’, ‘The Night of the Hunter’, & ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’, & as well as family favorites like ‘Back to the Future’, ‘Beauty and the Beast’, & ‘The Last Unicorn’. Other events include stand-up comedy, live music, a silent film screening of ‘Piccadilly’, featuring a discussion with Katie Gee Salisbury, author of Not Your China Doll, and some Giallo horror classics.
DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD
Wednesday, May 1 at 7:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
As he proved with his scandalous, scathing political comedy Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude is among the most radical filmmakers working today. Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World takes a fierce and darkly comic swipe at modern day life. Overworked and underpaid production assistant Angela (Ilinca Manolache) is assigned to film a workplace safety video for a multinational corporation in Bucharest. When one of the interviewees makes a statement that ignites a scandal, Angela has to re-invent the story. Featuring appearances from Nina Hoss, Uwe Boll, and Angela’s TikTok alter-ego Bobi?a, Jude’s anarchic satire is a wild and unforgettable ride through the vulgar indignities of the 21st century. Scabrously funny, provocatively topical, unashamedly oddball and often inspired, Jude’s sprawling, crazed but surprisingly coherent comedy skewers both today’s Romania and the West in general. (Romania, 2023, 163 min., color, Romanian with English subtitles, DCP)
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MACBETH
Thursday, May 2nd at 7:30 PM
& Sunday May 5th at 12:05 PM
$18 Public | $12 Members
Macbeth is coming. A couple corrupted by their relentless lust for power have blood on their hands. Tony and BAFTA Award winner Ralph Fiennes (Antony & Cleopatra, Schindler’s List, Coriolanus) and Olivier Award winner Indira Varma (Game of Thrones, Luther) star in a brand- new production of one of William Shakespeare’s most iconic plays, Macbeth. Witness the gripping tale of greed, murder, deception, and superstition in cinemas for a limited time only. Once you cross the line, you can never turn back. This brand-new production of one of Shakespeare’s most iconic plays is be staged like never before in custom built theatre spaces unique to this production. (150 mins)
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2nd Annual Long Island Jewish Film Festival
KIDNAPPED
Friday, May 3rd at 7 PM
& Sunday, May 5th at 7 PM
Curated by David Schwartz, Curator at Large at the Museum of the Moving Image
$16 Public | $10 Members
The great Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio, now 84, has made one of the most stylish and operatic films of his career. Kidnapped depicts the scandalous true story of Edgardo Mortara, a six-year-old Jewish boy who, in 1858, was baptized by his caretaker, and abducted from his family by order of the Pope, to be raised as a Catholic. Edgardo became the center of an international firestorm as his parents fought to retrieve their child from the clutches of a ruthless theocratic government; the case led to historical change. (Italy, France, Germany, 2023, 134 mins, Italian, Hebrew, Latin | Dir. Marco Bellocchio)
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Night Owl Cinema / Giallo Horror!
BLOOD AND BLACK LACE
Friday, May 3rd at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
At the Cristiana Haute Couture fashion house, models and their boyfriends excel at the art of backstabbing, blackmail, and snorting cocaine. That is, until a faceless maniac embarks on a mission of death! When a model named Isabella is murdered by a masked assailant, an investigation begins and her diary is found, detailing the vices of the fashion house and a complex web of blackmail and secrets. As panic spreads and the killer searches for the diary, models are murdered one by one. (Italy, 1964, 88 mins, English | Dir. Mario Bava)
2nd Annual Long Island Jewish Film Festival
THE OTHER WIDOW
Saturday, May 4th at 2 PM
& Tuesday, May 7th at 7 PM
Featuring a pre-recorded Q&A with director Maayan Rypp
Curated by David Schwartz, Curator at Large at the Museum of the Moving Image
$16 Public | $10 Members
Nominated for 9 Ophir awards (the Israeli Oscars) including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Actress, this wonderfully observed comedic drama follows Ella (Dana Ivgy) a costume designer who is in a long-term affair with Assaf, a married playwright. When Assaf dies unexpectedly, Ella decides to attend Shiva while keeping her identity under wraps, diving into a world once forbidden to her. Through intimate encounters with his family, she examines her place in his life and eventually demands her legitimate right to mourn. (Israel, France, 2022, 83 mins, Hebrew | Dir. Maayan Rypp)
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2nd Annual Long Island Jewish Film Festival
THE GOLDMAN CASE
Saturday, May 4th at 4 PM
& Monday, May 6th at 7 PM
Curated by David Schwartz, Curator at Large at the Museum of the Moving Image
$16 Public | $10 Members
This gripping courtroom drama delves into the sensational and widely followed 1976 trial of Pierre Goldman, a Jewish activist defending himself against multiple charges, including murder. Goldman steadfastly maintained his innocence, while the facts of his case became a flash point for a generation, raising questions of antisemitism and political ideology. Directed with vérité realism and pinpoint historical precision, The Goldman Case is both subdued and electrifying, communicating so much about the complexity of Jewish identity in recent European history. It was the opening night film in the Director’s Fortnight section at Cannes. (France, 2023, 115 mins, French | Dir. Cedric Kahn)
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2nd Annual Long Island Jewish Film Festival
HOW TO COME ALIVE WITH NORMAN MAILER
Saturday, May 4th at 7 PM
Featuring a pre-recorded Q&A with director Jeff Zimbalist
Curated by David Schwartz, Curator at Large at the Museum of the Moving Image
$16 Public | $10 Members
Norman Mailer, a towering figure in American literature, had a life that was certainly stranger than fiction. From his formative years in Brooklyn, through his career as a preeminent cultural voice, we follow Mailer’s life through 6 marriages, 9 children, 11 bestselling books and 2 Pulitzer Prizes as he solidifies his place in the literary pantheon. With access to Mailer’s family and never before seen footage, this biography details the life and times of an American icon. (USA, 2023, 100 mins, English | Dir. Jeff Zimbalist)
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Cult Cafe
MEATBALLS
Saturday, May 4th at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
Bill Murray is at his hilarious best in this classic cult comedy that’s “Animal House goes to summer camp” (Newsweek). Murray plays Tripper, the wisecracking, rule-bending head counselor at Camp North Star. Whether playing pranks on Camp North Star’s clueless director, wooing a female counselor, or scheming against the rich brats of a rival camp, Tripper delivers fun and mayhem during a summer his campers will remember forever. Between leading in the hijinks and befriending Rudy, a loner camper who has trouble fitting in, Tripper inspires his young charges to take on the rival Camp Mohawk in the annual Olympiad competition. (Canada, 1979, 99 mins, PG, English | Dir. Ivan Reitman)
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2nd Annual Long Island Jewish Film Festival
THE ANCIENT LAW
Sunday, May 5th at 2 PM
With live score performed by pianist Donald Sosin and Klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals
Curated by David Schwartz, Curator at Large at the Museum of the Moving Image
$18 Public | $12 Members
This rarely seen silent film from Weimar Era Germany tells the dramatic story of Baruch, a young shtetl Jew and the son of a Rabbi, who leaves his family and community, seeking a secular career as a stage actor. Featuring wonderful scenes depicting shtetl life, the film paints a complex portrait of the tension between tradition and modernity. Like so many other Jewish artists of the era, director E.A. Dupont and star Ernst Deutsch were both forced to flee their homelands as the Nazis rose to power. (Germany, 1923, 128 mins, Silent with English Intertitles | Dir. E.A. DuPont)
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2nd Annual Long Island Jewish Film Festival
BRIGHTON BEACH
Sunday, May 5th at 5 PM
With director Susan Wittenberg in-person
Curated by David Schwartz, Curator at Large at the Museum of the Moving Image
$16 Public | $10 Members
Set against the iconic Coney Island boardwalk, Brighton Beach is a neighborhood in constant re-formation. This 1980 documentary offers a genuine portrait of the immigrant communities that changed the Brooklyn neighborhood—mostly Soviet Jews and Puerto Ricans—as they mingle on the boardwalk with long-time residents, eye one another, and coexist around a shared sense of uprootedness. From directors Susan Wittenberg and Carol Stein, Brighton Beach is an unposed, seductively shot, color film about life’s simple pleasures and the creating of a community. (USA, 1980, 55 mins, English | Dir. Carol Stein & Susan Wittenberg)
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Movie Trivia Night
Monday, May 6th 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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Stand Up / Sit Down
Comedian RITCH SHYDNER
Tuesday, May 7th at 8 PM
$40 Public | $30 Members
Join us for a night with acclaimed comedian Ritch Shydner as he performs the outrageously funny and mesmerizing, America’s Reflection in the Funhouse Mirror, A History of Stand-up Comedy. This hilarious show explores the original American art form of stand-up comedy! This side-splitting program will look into what jokes have said about the country and how the culture and technology changed stand-up comedy – from the first standup during the Civil War to today’s social critics with a license to kill with laughter.
A staple of the late-night comedy scene in the 80s, Ritch Shydner has appeared on Late Night with David Letterman and The Tonight Show with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, and had his own HBO comedy special, One Night Stand. He also appeared in numerous TV series and films, playing Al Bundy’s co-worker on Married with Children, he also appeared on Roseanne & Designing Women. Ritch was able to translate his modest success on TV into a film career, appearing in Steve Martin’s Roxanne and Eddie Murphy’s, Beverly Hills Cop II. He was also a writer on many other TV comedy series including Roseanne, The Jeff Foxworthy Show, and HBO’s The Mind of the Married Man.
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Night Owl Cinema / Giallo Horror!
Dario Argento’s OPERA
Friday, May 10th at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
After the demanding lead singer of a new opera production of Verdi’s Macbeth is injured in an accident, her young understudy, Betty (Cristina Marsillach) opens the show to rave reviews. But trouble is only just beginning behind the scenes of this cursed opera, as Betty becomes the plaything of a murderer. He repeatedly ties her up and tapes rows of needles under her eyelids so she can’t blink, forcing her to watch as he murders her friends and colleagues. Strangely, these killings echo the nightmares Betty had as a child after her mother died – nightmares of a sinister man in a black hood. (Italy, 1987, 107 mins, R, English | Dir. Dario Argento)
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Cult Café
FRIDAY THE 13TH FAN FILM FEST VOL. 1
Saturday, May 11th at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
Two Friday the 13th fan films! Directors, cast and crew in person! Merch for sale! featuring:
Victim No More: Robby is a young man whose family members are surviving victims of serial killer Jason Voorhees. He sets out to prove to his loved ones that Voorhees is dead, and that the infamous Crystal Lake campgrounds are now safe. (USA, 2022, 40 mins, English | Dir. Bob Heckman)
Rose Blood: A Friday the 13th Fan Film: Takes place 13 months after Friday The 13th Part VII. We follow Tina Shepard as she is held and studied at the infamous Camp Crystal Lake Research Facility. Tina realizes that she is not alone. There in fact is another New Blood. Rose. (USA, 2021, 92 mins, English | Dir. Peter Anthony)
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Cinema for Kids
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Sunday, May 12th at 12 PM
$5 Kids | $7 Members | $13 Public
Disney’s beloved modern classic Beauty and the Beast was the first animated feature film in the history of the Oscars nominated for Best Picture. The story follows spirited, headstrong village girl Belle, who enters the castle of a prince who has fallen under the spell of a wicked enchantress – who has turned him into the hideous Beast until he learns to love and be loved in return. With the help of his enchanted servants, including the matronly Mrs. Potts, Belle begins to draw the cold-hearted Beast out of his isolation. (USA, 1991, 84 mins, G, English | Dir. Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise)
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Sky Room Talk
I LOVE LUCY
Monday, May 13th at 7:30 PM
Hosted by film historian Glenn Andreiev
$18 Public | $12 Members
Everybody loves Lucy! Lucille Ball’s groundbreaking sitcom, I Love Lucy drew more viewers than the President Eisenhower Inauguration in 1953, or Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation in 1958. I Love Lucy is more than just a funny classic sitcom. Lucille Ball and her husband, Desi Arnez pioneered many television production techniques. Legendary movie stars were always making cameo appearances with Lucy. Come to the Cinema as returning film historian Glenn Andreiev offers a one-night talk on this entertainment treasure! And remember, go easy on that “Vitameatavegamin” before you arrive!
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Anything But Silent
Anna May Wong in PICCADILLY
Tuesday, May 14th at 7:30 PM
With live accompaniment by Ben Model
And discussion with Katie Gee Salisbury, author of Not Your China Doll
$18 Public | $12 Members
E.A. Dupont‘s silent masterpiece stars the sultry Anna May Wong in her greatest role. After many years of supporting roles in Hollywood, Wong left for Europe in search of better work. And did she find it! Her electric, sexually-charged performance in Piccadilly is a revelation. Wong is mesmerizing as Shosho, the Chinese scullery maid at a Piccadilly nightclub who overnight becomes the toast of London – and the object of desire of all around her. Piccadilly was the brilliant apex to director E. A. Dupont’s trilogy of theater films (Varieté and Moulin Rouge), showcasing his signature mix of magnificent acting, dazzling imagery and balletic camera movements. (1929, 108 mins)
Set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles during the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of Hollywood, Not Your China Doll celebrates Anna May Wong, the first Asian American movie star, to bring an unsung heroine to light and reclaim her place in cinema history.
Before Constance Wu, Sandra Oh, Awkwafina, or Lucy Liu, there was Anna May Wong. In her time, she was a legendary beauty, witty conversationalist, and fashion icon. Plucked from her family’s laundry business in Los Angeles, Anna May Wong rose to stardom in Douglas Fairbanks’s blockbuster The Thief of Bagdad. Fans and the press clamored to see more of this unlikely actress, but when Hollywood repeatedly cast her in stereotypical roles, she headed abroad in protest. Anna May starred in acclaimed films in Berlin, Paris, and London. She dazzled royalty and heads of state across several nations, leaving trails of suitors in her wake. She returned to challenge Hollywood at its own game by speaking out about the industry’s blatant racism. She used her new stature to move away from her typecasting as the China doll or dragon lady, and worked to reshape Asian American representation in film. Filled with stories of capricious directors and admiring costars, glamorous parties and far-flung love affairs, Not Your China Doll showcases the vibrant, radical life of a groundbreaking artist.
Author Katie Gee Salisbury has spoken and written about Anna May Wong on MSNBC, in the New York Times and in Vanity Fair. She also writes the newsletter Half-Caste Woman. She was a 2021 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship finalist and gave the TED Talk “As American as Chop Suey.” A fifth-generation Chinese American from Southern California, she now lives in Brooklyn. This is her first book.
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Comic Gems
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
Wednesday, May 15th at 7 PM
Introduction by Film Historian Glenn Andreiev
$16 Public | $10 Members
A hysterical, historical tour-de-force from Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, this cult classic comedy from the Monty Python team loosely follows the legend of King Arthur (Graham Chapman), along with his squire (Gilliam), and his Knights of the Round Table (John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin), as they embark on a fearless quest in search of the elusive Holy Grail. With their second feature film, the Pythons redefined the limits of narrative structure to create this innovative and unconventional comedy. (1975, 92 mins)
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Hard Luck Cafe
Presented with the Folk Music Society of Huntington (FMSH)
ROD ABERNETHY AND ABIGAIL DOWD
Wednesday, May 15th at 7 PM
$20 Public | $15 Members
Rod Abernethy is an authentic southern folk troubadour, master acoustic guitarist, and award-winning songwriter and composer for film, TV and video games. He was the Overall Grand Prize Winner of the 2021 International Acoustic Music Awards and the 2019 Grand Prize winner of American Songwriter’s Bob Dylan Song Contest. His album Normal Isn’t Normal Anymore received rave reviews from Americana Highways, No Depression and The Wall Street Journal. At #11, it was among the most-played albums of 2021 on folk radio according to charts compiled by Folk Alliance International.
Abigail Dowd grew up under the longleaf pines in the Sandhills region of North Carolina. A singer-songwriter and guitarist known for her storytelling and command of an audience, she has been called “a writer of the highest caliber” (The All Scene Eye). Pulling from her heritage of storytelling and determination, Dowd weaves hints of Celtic melodies with the soulful gospel of the south to create a sound that dances between folk, rock and blues.
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This Just In!: The love-hate relationship between Hollywood and the News Media
GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK
Thursday, May 16th at 7:30 PM
Hosted by Wallace Matthews former columnist for Newsday, the New York Post and ESPN
$16 Public | $10 Members
George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr. & David Strathairn star in this Oscar nominated historical drama, also directed by Clooney, examining one of the ugliest periods in American political history. Set during the early days of broadcast journalism, Good Night, and Good Luck chronicles the conflict between news pioneer Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee. With a desire to report the facts, Murrow, and his dedicated staff defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to examine the lies and scaremongering tactics perpetrated by McCarthy during his communist witch-hunts. (USA, 2005, 93 mins, PG, English | Dir. George Clooney)
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Presented by the CAC Youth Advisory Board
THE HUNGER GAMES
Friday, May 17th
Pre-show party at 6 PM, film at 7 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
Featuring a pre-show party with trivia, raffles, and more!
In what was once North America, the Capitol of Panem maintains its hold on its 12 districts by forcing them each to select a boy and a girl, called Tributes, to compete in a nationally televised event called the Hunger Games. Every citizen must watch as the youths fight to the death until only one remains. District 12 Tribute Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) has little to rely on, other than her hunting skills and sharp instincts, in an arena where she must weigh survival against love. Based on Suzanne Collins’ best-selling novel of the same name, this gripping dystopian action film would be followed by 4 sequels, grossing over 3.3 billion in the box office, making it one of the most popular film franchises of all time. (2012, 142 mins)
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Night Owl Cinema / Giallo Horror!
CEMETERY MAN
Friday, May 17th at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
This compulsively watchable and quotable black-comedy-zombie classic has it all: gore, humor, heart, brains, sex and nudity, and more gore! Rupert Everett stars as graveyard caretaker Francesco Dellamorte, whose job—aided by his grotesque halfwit sidekick Gnaghi—becomes a little more complicated when the corpses start unearthing themselves after only a week’s rest, looking for human flesh to feed on. And to complicate matters further, he falls for an enigmatic young woman (Anna Falchi) whose husband has recently died. Will his resurrected lust for life become greater than his bond with death? (Italy, 1994, 105 mins, English | Dir. Michele Soavi)
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Cult Cafe
LITTLE DARLINGS
Saturday, May 18th at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
Well-educated and well-traveled Ferris Whitney (Tatum O’Neal) is a child of privilege. Angel Bright (Kristy McNichol) is “cool,” streetwise and tough. They’re brought together for a season of summer camp, with intended fun and friendship sometimes turning into rivalries. With bets placed and money at stake, the other campers choose sides as Ferris and Angel are goaded on: whoever loses her virginity first… wins! Amid the classic camp conflicts—food fights, “sneak-outs” and crushes —Angel and Ferris deal with their own growing sexual awareness. (USA, 1980, 96 mins, R, English | Dir. Ron Maxwell)
Sunday Schmooze
INSHALLAH A BOY
Sunday, May 19th
Bagels at 10 AM, Film at 11 AM
Hosted by Fred Craden
$20 Public | $15 Members
The first film from Jordan ever selected for the Cannes Film Festival, Inshallah a Boy follows Nawal, who is struggling to cope after the sudden death of her husband. However, her pain is soon compounded by the possibility of losing her home to her brother-in-law. Desperate to keep her home and provide a stable life for her daughter, Nawal resorts to deception by faking a pregnancy. But as time passes, the lie becomes harder to sustain and Nawal faces a difficult choice. With only three weeks to find a solution, Nawal embarks on a journey that challenges her fears, beliefs, and morality, as she fights to secure her rightful inheritance and protect her daughter’s future. (Jordan, 2023, 113 mins, Arabic | Dir. Amjad Al Rasheed)
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Cinema for Kids
THE LAST UNICORN
Sunday, May 19th at 12 PM
$5 Kids | $7 Members | $13 Public
In this animated musical, the villainous King Haggard (Christopher Lee) plots to destroy all the world’s unicorns. When a young unicorn (Mia Farrow) learns that she’s in danger and that she may soon be the last of her kind, she leaves the safety of her protected forest and enlists the help of Schmendrick (Alan Arkin), a gentle, albeit clumsy, sorcerer. Together, they embark on a long and dangerous journey with one goal: to defeat Haggard and save the unicorns from extinction. (UK/US, 1982, 92min., English, G | Dir. Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin, Jr.)
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Film Noir Classics
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
Monday, May 20th at 7:30 PM
Hosted by professor Foster Hirsch
$18 Public | $12 Members
A mystical slice of Americana noir, revered actor Charles Laughton’s sole directorial effort is cinema’s most eccentric rendering of the battle between good and evil. Starring a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum as a traveling preacher, whose nefarious motives for marrying a widow, played by Shelley Winters, are uncovered by her terrified young children. Tall and handsome Reverend Harry Powell roams the countryside, preaching the gospel while leaving a trail of murdered women in his wake. Now his sights are set on the widow of his former cellmate. (USA, 1955, 92 mins, English | Dir. Charles Laughton)
Best of the Big Screen
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Tuesday, May 21st at 7:30 PM
Introduction by film historian Philip Harwood
$16 Public | $10 Members
Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, this heartwarming story, adapted by Oscar winning director Robert Wise (West Side Story) from Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, is based on the real-life story of the Von Trapp Family singers, one of the world’s best-known concert groups in the era preceding World War II. Julie Andrews plays the role of Maria, a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain, who brings a new love of life and music into the home and whose courage led them across the Alps in their 1938 flight to freedom. (USA, 1965, 174 mins, G, English | Dir. Robert Wise)
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Foreign Cinema Night
LIMBO
Wednesday, May 22nd at 7:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
Introduction by series programmer Sahib Singh Bakshi
Jaded police detective Travis (Simon Baker) arrives in the remote Australian Outback town of Limbo to investigate the cold case murder of a local Indigenous girl. As truths about the crime begin to unfold, Travis gains new insight into the unsolved case. Shot in starkly beautiful black and white, Limbo is a penetrating modern noir and a poignant, intimate journey into the complexities of loss. Writer-director Ivan Sen, one of Australia’s foremost Indigenous filmmakers, deftly wields the police procedural to chart the impact of the justice system on Indigenous families in Australia. (Australia, 2023, 108 mins, English | Dir. Ivan Sen)
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Night Owl Cinema / Giallo Horror!
DEATH LAID AN EGG
Friday, May 24th at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
The first and only murder mystery to revolve entirely around a farm for mutant chickens, this explosive oddity has become a huge cult favorite. From Giulio Questi, acclaimed director of Django, Kill! (If You Live Shoot!) comes one of the most startling and shocking Italian thrillers ever made. Anna (Gina Lollobrigida) and Marco (Jean-Louis Trintignant) run an automated state-of-the-art facility and develop a strain of boneless, mutant chickens. Marco appears to lead a double life as a serial killer who specializes in stabbing prostitutes to death. When Anna’s amorous and alluring cousin Gabri (Ewa Aulin) starts a steamy affair with Marco and discovers his darker side, she plans to murder Anna and frame Marco for the crime. Compellingly crafted, brilliant and bizarre, and arguably the most insanely idiosyncratic giallo ever directed, Death Laid An Egg is a true wayward masterpiece of kaleidoscopic Italian counterculture cinema. (Italy, 1968, 89 mins, English | Dir. Giulio Questi)
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Cult Cafe
WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER
Saturday, May 25th at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It’s the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there’s still a summer’s worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who struggles to keep order while she falls in love with the local astrophysics professor. He is busy trying to save the camp from a deadly piece of NASA’s Skylab which is hurtling toward earth. All that, plus: a dangerous waterfall rescue, love triangles, misfits, cool kids, and talking vegetable cans. The questions will all be resolved, of course, at the big talent show at the end of the day. Featuring unparalleled comedy ensemble that includes Janeane Garofalo, Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper, Elizabeth Banks, David Hyde Pierce, Michael Showalter, Christopher Meloni, A.D. Miles, Molly Shannon, & Michael Ian Black. (USA, 2001, 97 mins, R, English | Dir. David Wain)
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Cinema for Kids
BACK TO THE FUTURE
Sunday, May 26th at 12 PM
$5 Kids | $7 Members | $13 Public
Robert Zemekis’ sci-fi masterpiece, about a teenager Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) who is thrown back into the ‘50s when an experiment by his eccentric scientist friend Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) goes awry. Traveling through time in a modified DeLorean car, Marty encounters young versions of his parents (Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson), and must make sure that they fall in love or he’ll cease to exist. Even more dauntingly, Marty has to return to his own time and save the life of Doc Brown. (USA, 1985, 116 mins, PG | Dir. Robert Zemekis)
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International Classics
THE RULES OF THE GAME
Sunday, May 26th at 2:30 PM
Hosted by Fred Craden
$16 Public | $10 Members
Considered one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners in which a weekend at a marquis’s country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut-bourgeois acquaintances. The film has had a tumultuous history: subjected to cuts after the violent response of the audience at its 1939 premiere, and the original negative was destroyed during World War II; it wasn’t reconstructed until 1959. (1939, 106 mins, French | Dir. Jean Renoir)
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Pride Cinema
BOULEVARD, A HOLLYWOOD STORY
Tuesday, May 28th at 7:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
For Gloria Swanson, the iconic star of Sunset Boulevard, both the movie and the character of Norma Desmond provided a renewed spotlight. Seeing her role as a path back to stardom, Swanson began efforts to parlay Sunset Boulevard into a new phase of her career – adapting a musical stage adaptation of the film. Dickson Hughes and Richard Stapley, two young songwriters and romantic partners, soon find themselves caught in Swanson’s web when she hires them to write a musical version of the film. Life imitates art when Gloria falls for Richard, and the men find themselves living a real-life version of the film. A tale of relentless passion and unspoken desperation, the story of Swanson’s Sunset Boulevard musical has remained an untold tale of Hollywood Babylon…until now. (2021, 85 mins, English | Dir. Jeffery Schwarz)
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National Theatre Live
THE MOTIVE AND THE CUE
Wednesday, May 29th at 7 PM
$25 Public | $20 Members
Academy Award Winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1917, The Lehman Trilogy) directs Mark Gatiss as John Gielgud and Johnny Flynn as Richard Burton in this fierce and funny new play. 1964: Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under John Gielgud’s exacting direction. But as rehearsals progress, two ages of theatre collide and the collaboration between actor and director soon threatens to unravel. Written by Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) and designed by Es Devlin (The Crucible), the Evening Standard award-winning best new play was filmed live during a sold-out run at the National Theatre. (180 mins)
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Programmer for a Day
PULP FICTION
Thursday, May 30 at 7:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
With a sprawling cast, whip-smart script, and stylish visual aesthetic, it’s no surprise that Pulp Fiction helped redefine a genre of films that would follow the movie’s 1994 release. There are a million stories in the City of Angels, and the craziest seem to revolve around John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson’s deadpan-deadly duo of contract killers, who wax philosophical in between pulling jobs for crime kingpin Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames). Along the way there’s Uma Thurman as a coke-sniffing gangster’s moll; Bruce Willis as a prizefighter having a really, really bad day; and a lovey-dovey pair of bandits (Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer) who pick the wrong diner to hold up. Quentin Tarantino’s ingeniously plotted instant classic crackles with spot-the-reference pop-culture allusions and a retro-cool soundtrack. Pulp Fiction is as iconic as cinema gets, and Tarantino’s exhilarating dialogue and surprising script deliver equal parts thrills and laughter for audiences to slurp down like a $5 milkshake. (USA, 1994, 154 min., Color, DCP)
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Rebel of German Cinema
THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN
35mm screening
Friday, May 31st at 7 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
Maria (Hanna Schygulla) marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany’s “economic miracle” of the 1950s. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s biggest international box-office success, The Marriage of Maria Braun is a heartbreaking study of a woman picking herself up from the ruins of her own life, as well as a pointed metaphorical attack on a society determined to forget its past. (Germany, 1979 120 mins, German | Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
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Night Owl Cinema / Giallo Horror!
Dario Argento’s DEEP RED
Friday, May 31st at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
Stylish and vivid with doses of humor and madness, Dario Argento’s most sophisticated giallo stars David Hemmings as an English jazz pianist living in Rome who witnesses the brutal murder of his neighbor, a psychic. With the help of a tenacious young reporter, he tries to discover the identity of the killer. What follows is a blood-soaked whodunit as the pair are drawn into a shocking web of violence. (Italy, 1975, 126 mins Dir, Dario Argento)
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