MARCH 21 and 23

WINNER! ACADEMY AWARD BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community’s mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta, as soldiers destroy the homes of families - the largest single act of forced transfer ever carried out in the occupied West Bank. He crosses paths with Yuval, an Israeli journalist who joins his struggle, and for over half a decade they fight against the expulsion while growing closer. Their complex bond is haunted by the extreme inequality between them: Basel, living under a brutal military occupation, and Yuval, unrestricted and free. NO OTHER LAND was co-created by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists during the darkest, most terrifying times in the region, as an act of creative resistance to Apartheid and a search for a path towards equality and justice.

The Saturday 4pm screening will be followed by a discussion on the current conditions of Masafer Yatta and ways to directly support the Palestinian people there.

Friday, March 21 --- 5pm

Sunday, March 23 --- 1:45pm

March 21 - 23

After years away, theater director Jeanine (Academy Award nominee Amanda Seyfried) re-enters the opera world to stage her former mentor’s most famous work. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to color the present as her personal and professional lives begin to unravel. Renowned director Atom Egoyan (Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter) reunites with Seyfried in SEVEN VEILS, a visually stunning, propulsive work, filmed on location during the staging of Egoyan's acclaimed production of "Salome."

Friday, March 21 --- 7:30pm

Saturday, March 22 --- 4:45pm and 7:30pm

Sunday, March 23 --- 4:15pm

March 22 - 23

The third installment of legendary cult filmmaker John Waters’ Trash Trilogy is a deranged, fractured fairy tale. A neurotic society woman (played with high-strung perfection by Mink Stole) murders her husband with her maid's help; on the lam, they escape to Mortville, a homeless community populated by a wild bag of criminals and outcasts trying to exist outside of conventional society. Mortville is Oz filtered through a psychedelic garbage heap, and sits in the shadow of a looming castle, ruled over by a fascist queen (the great Edith Massey) with the help of her leather and mesh-clad police guard. But revolution is in the air. DESPERATE LIVING’s gleefully nihilistic depravity and mean-but-hilarious spirit is fulfilling in a way that few contemporary films can match. A work of true trash art for a world losing its mind.

Saturday, March 22 --- 9:30pm

Sunday, March 23 --- 7pm

MARCH 28 - 30

A group of men trained by al-Qaeda are transferred from Guantanamo to the world’s first rehabilitation center for terrorists located in Saudi Arabia. Filmed over three years, with unprecedented access, this film is a complex and nuanced exploration of the men we have heard so much about but never heard from. A riveting, undeniably vital film for intelligent people looking to have their preconceived notions challenged. Don't miss this rare screening of this controversial, acclaimed film.

Filmmaker Meg Smaker in person for Q&A following Friday 7pm and Saturday 3pm screenings

Friday, March 28 --- 7pm (w/filmmaker Q&A)

Saturday, March 29 --- 3pm (w/filmmaker Q&A) and 6:30pm

Sunday, March 30 --- 4:15pm

March 29 - 30

Harmony Korine’s debut feature is an audacious, lyrical evocation of America’s rural underbelly, and an elegy in the southern-gothic tradition of William Faulkner and William Eggleston. Shot in Korine’s native Nashville—standing in for the tornado-ravaged Xenia, Ohio—the rough-hewn film follows two young friends, Tummler and Solomon, as they ride around town, huffing glue and hunting stray cats, their every local encounter charged with vaudevillian anarchy as well as deep pathos. At once transgressive and empathetic, disturbing and undeniably beautiful, GUMMO is a one-of-a-kind portrait of angelic and devilish souls caught in a cultural void, circumscribed by poverty and the depleted, alienated spiritual life of late-twentieth-century America.

Saturday, March 29 --- 9pm

Sunday, March 30 --- 7pm

APRIL 4 - 6

On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family, in filmmaker Rungano Nyoni's surreal and vibrant reckoning with the lies we tell ourselves. Nyoni is one of the most exciting voices in cinema today and ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL is abject proof: a disquieting, blistering examination of a family where social status trumps blood ties.

Showtimes TBA

April 11 - 13

Two amateur baseball teams, the River Dogs and Adlers Paint, have been meeting on their New England field on Sunday afternoons for longer than anyone can remember. These middle-aged sportsmen can’t run as fast as they used to or connect as reliably with a pitch, but their vigorous appetite for socializing, squabbling, and busting chops remains undiminished. When an imminent construction project is scheduled to raze the baseball diamond, the teams meet for one final game at their beloved field, with girlfriends, kids, and local hooligans as intermittent spectators. As day turns to night and innings bleed together, the players face the uncertainty of a new era. Set in a vanished Massachusetts of the mid-1990s, Carson Lund’s poignant feature debut plays like a lazy afternoon, perfectly attuned to the rhythms of America’s eternal pastime. Named for a rarely-deployed curveball, EEPHUS is both a ribald comedy for the baseball connoisseur and a movie for anyone who’s ever lamented their community slipping away.

Showtimes TBA

April 12 - 13

As a sequel to one of the scariest horror films ever made, EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC is a complete failure. When taken on its own as a bizarre, psychedelic horror headtrip, however, it goes outrageously hard. This demonic freakout picks up four years after the original film, and sees now teenaged Regan (Linda Blair) once again tormented by an otherworldly oppressor. This time around, however, she’s treated in a state-of-the-art research facility by experts in hypnotism. A wacked-out fever dream merging 70’s sci-fi and Satanic spookiness, future shock technology and swarms of giant locusts. Not to mention Louise Fletcher once again working at a facility for the mentally unstable, a tomato-spitting James Earl Jones, and Richard Burton's priestly histrionics. Director John Boorman combines all this with stunning baroque visuals, Buñuelian absurdity and a very heavy Ennio Morricone score, creating some kind of perfect weirdness. Demands to be seen on the Pageant screen!

Saturday, April 12 --- 9pm

Sunday, April 13 --- 7pm

April 18 - 20

An expansive and revelatory inside look at John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s life in Greenwich Village in the early 1970s, ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO delivers an immersive cinematic experience that brings to life electrifying, never-before-seen material and newly restored footage of John and Yoko’s only full-length concert. Kevin Macdonald’s riveting documentary takes that legendary musical event and uses it as the starting point to explore eighteen defining months in the lives of John and Yoko spent in a Greenwich Village apartment, while also tracing developments in American politics like the presidency of Richard Nixon and opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War. As they experience a year of love and transformation in the US, John and Yoko begin to change their approach to protest, ultimately leading to the One to One concert. Featuring mind-blowing music newly remixed and produced by Sean Ono Lennon, the film is a seismic revelation that will challenge pre-existing notions of two of history’s most influential artists.

Showtimes TBA