GREEN BORDER
Agnieszka Holland
- 147 minutes
- 2024
- English, Polish, Arabic and French with English Subtitles
July 26 - 28
In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so-called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa are lured by government propaganda promising easy passage to the European Union. Unable to cross into Europe and unable to turn back, they find themselves trapped in a rapidly escalating geopolitical stand-off. An unflinching depiction of the migrant crisis captured in stark black-and-white, this riveting film explores the intractable issue from multiple perspectives: a Syrian family fleeing ISIS caught between cruel border guards in both countries; young guards instructed to brutalize and reject the migrants; and activists who aid the refugees at great personal risk.
Three-time Oscar nominee Agnieszka Holland brings a masterful eye for realism and deep compassion to this blistering critique of a humanitarian calamity that continues to unfold. GREEN BORDER is a poignant and essential work of cinema that opens our eyes and speaks to the heart, challenging viewers to reflect on the moral choices that fall to ordinary people every day. A courageous, profoundly moving and flawlessly executed film that promises to be one of the best of the year.
Friday July 26 --- 3:45pm and 7pm
Saturday July 27 --- 3:45pm and 7pm
Sunday July 28 --- 3:45pm
KINDS OF KINDNESS
Yorgos Lanthimos
- 144 minutes
- 2024
- English
July 28
KINDS OF KINDNESS is the darkly comic and unpredictable new film by the director of The Favourite and Poor Things. A triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader. A work of audacious originality and vicious humor, this macabre, mischievous film is mind-bendingly brilliant and at no point can you pretend to anticipate what will happen next. Starring Emma Stone, who won the Best Actress Oscar for Poor Things, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Jesse Plemons and Hong Chau.
Sunday July 28 --- 7pm
JONATHAN RICHMAN featuring Tommy Larkins on the drums
July 31 and August 1
Two shows each night: 7pm and 9pm (doors open 1/2 hour before show)
$10 at the door - no advance tickets
Live music performance from Jonathan Richman with Tommy Larkins on the drums! One of America’s most unique and dynamic songwriters Jonathan Richman has spent decades removing barriers between himself and his audience, cultivating an intimacy that is almost extinct in modern music and his live performances are legendary. Here’s what Jonathan has to say:
“The music we’re doing now works well in quiet places like theaters and performing art centers. We still don’t use a program or a set list so we don’t know what we’ll do until we do it. Please do not expect old songs. Many singers my age do a retrospective; this show is not like that. It’s mostly stuff made up in the last 3 and 4 years. Some of the songs presented might be in different languages; this is not to be esoteric or clever, it’s because the different languages help me express different feelings sometimes. One last thing, my idea of a good show has nothing to do with applause. It’s about if all the songs I sang that night were ones that I felt.” Don’t miss this very special intimate live music event!
$10 at the door - no advance tickets, two shows each night, 7pm and 9pm, doors 1/2 hour before showtime
Wednesday July 31 --- 7pm and 9pm
Thursday August 1 --- 7pm and 9pm
THE BIG COMBO
Joseph H. Lewis
- 87 minutes
- 1955
- English
August 2 and 4
HOT AUGUST NOIR!
Steeped in the film noir tradition, this cult classic ventures into the seamy gangster underworld, oozing with seediness and low-life characters. Far ahead of its time, THE BIG COMBO takes a dark, disturbing look at the battle between Police Lieutenant Diamond (Cornel Wilde), a good and honest cop, Mr. Brown (Richard Conte), a sadistic crime boss and Susan Lowell (Jean Wallace), a cool and beautiful blonde who gets caught in the middle. With the help of the gangster's ex-girlfriend, Diamond is determined to bring down the cunning gangland kingpin. But the gangster and his henchmen are ruthless. With stylish and unflinching direction by by Joseph H. Lewis (Gun Crazy) THE BIG COMBO is one of the greatest film noirs of all time.
Friday August 2 --- 4:45pm
Sunday August 4 --- 2:45pm
SOLARIS
Andrei Tarkovsky
- 166 minutes
- 1972
- Russian with English subtitles
August 2, 3 and 4
Ground control has been receiving mysterious transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is dispatched to investigate, he experiences the same strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his consciousness. With SOLARIS, the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky created a brilliantly original science-fiction epic that challenges our conceptions about love, truth, and humanity itself. Visually stunning and filled with deep ideas, don't miss this rare chance to see this essential cinema classic in the theater.
Friday August 2 --- 7pm
Saturday August 3 --- 7pm
Sunday August 4 --- 5pm
THE NAKED KISS
Samuel Fuller
- 90 minutes
- 1964
- English
August 3
HOT AUGUST NOIR!
The setup is pure pulp: A former prostitute (a crackerjack Constance Towers) relocates to a buttoned-down suburb, determined to fit in with mainstream society. But in the strange, hallucinatory territory of writer-director-producer Samuel Fuller, perverse secrets simmer beneath the wholesome surface. Featuring radical visual touches, full-throttle performances, brilliant cinematography by Stanley Cortez, and one bizarrely beautiful musical number, THE NAKED KISS is among Fuller’s greatest, boldest entertainments.
Saturday August 3 --- 4:45pm
DETOUR
Edgar G. Ulmer
- 70 minutes
- 1945
- English
August 9 and 11
HOT AUGUST NOIR!
From Hollywood's Poverty Row came a movie that, perhaps more than any other, epitomizes the dark fatalism at the heart of film noir. As he hitchhikes his way from New York to Los Angeles, a down-on-his-luck nightclub pianist (Tom Neal) finds himself with a dead body on his hands and nowhere to run—a waking nightmare that goes from bad to worse when he picks up the most vicious femme fatale in cinema history, Ann Savage’s snarling, monstrously conniving drifter Vera. Working with no-name stars on a bargain-basement budget, B-movie auteur Edgar G. Ulmer turned threadbare production values and seedy, low-rent atmosphere into indelible pulp poetry.
Friday August 9 --- 5:15pm
Sunday August 11 --- 2:15pm
TOKYO STORY
Yasujiro Ozu
- 137 minutes
- 1953
- Japanesse with English subtitles
August 9, 10 and 11
A profoundly stirring evocation of elemental humanity and universal heartbreak, TOKYO STORY is the crowning achievement of the unparalleled Yasujiro Ozu. The film, which follows an aging couple’s journey to visit their grown children in bustling postwar Tokyo, surveys the rich and complex world of family life with the director’s customary delicacy and incisive perspective on social mores. Featuring lovely performances from Ozu regulars Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara, TOKYO STORY plumbs and deepens the director’s recurring theme of generational conflict, creating what is without question one of cinema’s mightiest masterpieces.
Friday August 9 --- 7pm
Saturday August 10 --- 7pm
Sunday August 11 --- 4pm
THE STRANGER
Orson Welles
- 95 minutes
- 1946
- English
August 10
HOT AUGUST NOIR!
An ex-Nazi war criminal assumes a new identity and a new life in suburban America following World War II. But an agent from the U.N.'s War Crimes Commission is on his tail, threatening to expose the lurid past and true identity he keeps secret. Orson Welles directs and stars as Charles Rankin, a professor residing in a quiet Connecticut town with his new American wife, Mary (Loretta Young). Rankin has held strong to his fascist ideals but left nary a shred of evidence, not even a photograph, to identify him as the notorious Franz Kindler. Mr. Wilson (Edward G. Robinson), the man determined to find him, has a plan. But when that plan disappears in the woods, Wilson is left with little hope of convincing the townspeople, or Kindler's naive new wife, who this stranger in their midst really is. Welles is in fine form, casting a moody tension and building up to dramatic crescendo in a thrilling conclusion played out in the dark clock tower that looms over the little village.
Saturday August 10 --- 4:45pm