Palme d’Or Favorites – Cannes Film Festival In a village in Protestant northern Germany, on the eve of World War I, the children of a church and school run by the village schoolteacher and their families experience a series of bizarre incidents that inexplicably assume the characteristics of a punishment ritual. Who could be responsible […]
New England, 1630. Upon threat of banishment by the church, an English farmer leaves his colonial plantation, relocating his wife and five children to a remote plot of land on the edge of an ominous forest—within which lurks an unknown evil. Strange and unsettling things begin to happen almost immediately—animals turn malevolent, crops fail, and […]
Set in the suburbs of Boulogne-Sur-Mer in northern France, The Worst Ones captures a film within a film as it follows the production of a feature whose director turns to the local Cité Picasso housing project for casting. Eager to capture performances of gritty authenticity, the director selects four working class teenagers to act in […]
Julie, 30, flirted with psychology and photography before settling on writing. She has a serious boyfriend named Aksel, a graphic novelist 10 years her senior. Their chemistry is undeniable . . . until she meets Elvind and falls madly in love. Through 12 chapters by turns playful and serious, Joachim Trier offers a journey through […]
New 4K Restoration Thelma and Louise – a bored housewife and a straight-laced waitress at a coffee shop – are best friends who are sick of what they’ve settled for. Deciding to escape the tedium of their everyday lives, the pair sneak off in Louise’s ’66 T-bird convertible for a three-day fishing trip with no […]
*Presented in collaboration with le Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC)* LAST SCREENING July 25: Original version with French subtitles Heshmat is a model husband and father. Pouya is a soldier, patiently awaiting orders. Java slips away from his military service to visit his girlfriend. Bahram goes hunting with his niece, who’s visiting from abroad. All […]
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON DOUBLE FEATURE A sprawling epic of family, faith, power and oil, THERE WILL BE BLOOD is set on the incendiary frontier of California’s turn-of-the-century petroleum boom. The story chronicles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his […]
Special screenings with filmmaker Mitchell Stafiej in attendance A car slowly navigates the winding streets and disparate airwaves of the United States of America to uncover the scars of capitalism in natural landscapes, urban environments, people, and wildlife. An intricately built meditative audio-visual experience, mixed in Dolby Atmos.
Special screening paired with short film THE PUNK OF NATASHQUAN by Nicolas Lachapelle, with filmmakers Nicolas Lachapelle and Steve Patry in attendance Away from the world, in a DIY cabin, Martin’s life is organized. Surrounded by a forest of spruce trees and scrap metal carcasses, this indomitable loner patches up a new existence in the […]