The Pageant Theatre

OH, CANADA

Paul Schrader

  • 95 minutes
  • 2024
  • English
      • Friday December 13
      • 4:45 and 7pm
      • Saturday December 14
      • 4:15 and 6:30pm
      • Sunday December 15
      • 2:30pm and 4:45pm
      • Please note: no ads - films begin at posted showtimes

      Aging filmmaker Leonard Fife (Richard Gere), still fiery despite his battle with illness, wants to tell his life story, unfiltered, before it’s too late. As the director of acclaimed documentary exposés, he has much to be proud of, but his Vietnam War draft-dodging and his past relationships harbor thorny truths. Leonard sits for an extended interview with his former student Malcolm (Michael Imperioli), relating candid stories about his younger self (Jacob Elordi) in the tumultuous 1960s and beyond. At Leonard’s insistence, his wife and indispensable artistic partner, Emma (Uma Thurman), bears witness to it all. His successes are held up against his failings and, as the man is cleansed of the myth, Leonard must confront what is left. Paul Schrader’s adaptation of Russell Banks’s novel delivers a moving and deeply personal take on this story of an artist reflecting on a lifetime of storytelling.

HERETIC

Scott Beck, Bryan Woods

  • 111 minutes
  • 2024
  • English
      • Saturday December 14
      • 8:45pm
      • Sunday December 15
      • 7pm
      • Please note: no ads - films begin at posted showtimes

      Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant), becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse. A deliciously entertaining and thought-provoking theological debate wrapped up inside the clothing of a horror movie. Grant has infectious fun playing against type in this psychological thriller that preaches the gospel of cerebral chills over cheap shocks.

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