La Chimera
With her customarily bewitching mixture of earthiness and magical realism, Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro) conjures a marvelous entertainment set in a rural Italy eternally caught between the ancient and the modern. Screens 10/12.
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With her customarily bewitching mixture of earthiness and magical realism, Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro) conjures a marvelous entertainment set in a rural Italy eternally caught between the ancient and the modern. Screens 10/12.
Bill Duke’s lively and poignant film is especially memorable for its soundtrack, particularly its epochal appearance by a young Lauryn Hill. On Sunday, 10/15, there will be a family day event featuring karaoke activities with songs from Sister Act 2 and music-related video games for the whole family!
Sweet-souled in story, scalpel-sharp in filmmaking precision, this enchanting love story from Finnish virtuoso Aki Kaurismäki circles around two financially strapped Helsinkians who keep finding and losing one another in a world that seems to be falling apart. Screens Friday, 10/13.
The Marx Brothers meet Aristophanes in this offbeat road movie from Renos Haralambidis.
One of the most creative, unexpected, and chilling paranormal thrillers of the 21st century, from Australian director Joel Anderson plays 10/13 and 10/15—introduced by critic Adam Nayman at the 10/15 screening.
Bill Duke’s lively and poignant film is especially memorable for its soundtrack, particularly its epochal appearance by a young Lauryn Hill. On Sunday, 10/15, there will be a family day event featuring karaoke activities with songs from Sister Act 2 and music-related video games for the whole family!
Haralambidis’s debut film, winner of the prestigious FIPRESCI prize at the Istanbul Film Festival, is a refreshing look at Athenian culture at the end of the century.
Based on a best-selling novel by Petros Tatsopoulos, the film moves between detective film noir, bittersweet comedy, and poetic cinema.
A sleeper hit when it came out in 1999, the scrappy, comic documentary American Movie has aged into an American classic. See it 10/8 and 10/4.
On 10/15, join us for an afternoon of family-friendly activities to celebrate 50 years of hip-hop music and to get in the mood for Halloween!
Bill Duke’s lively and poignant film is especially memorable for its soundtrack, particularly its epochal appearance by a young Lauryn Hill. On Sunday, 10/15, there will be a family day event featuring karaoke activities with songs from Sister Act 2 and music-related video games for the whole family!
The Coen brothers’ acerbic yet profoundly felt character study of a singer-songwriter (Oscar Isaac) will be introduced by critic Adam Nayman, author of The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together, on 10/15.