December 1 - 3

Newly restored to coincide with its 40th anniversary, this 1984 film directed filmmaker Jonathan Demme is considered by many as the greatest concert film of all time. STOP MAKING SENSE is the rare concert movie that is itself a successful work of art. It's essential viewing not just for Talking Heads fans but for anyone looking for a haven in an often divisive and brutal world. Watching it leaves you lighter, dancing your way out of the theater in a joyous, exuberant celebration.

Friday December 1 --- 4:45pm and 7pm

Saturday December 2 --- 4:45pm and 7pm

Sunday December 3 --- 2:30 and 4:45pm

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December 3

Encore screening one night only! COMMON GROUND is the highly anticipated sequel to the acclaimed documentary, KISS THE GROUND. By fusing journalistic expose' with deeply personal stories from those on the front lines of the food movement, COMMON GROUND unveils a dark web of money, power, and politics behind our broken food system. The film reveals how unjust practices forged our current farm system in which farmers of all colors are literally dying to feed us. The film profiles a hopeful and uplifting movement of white, black, and indigenous farmers who are using alternative "regenerative" models of agriculture that could balance the climate, save our health, and stabilize America's economy – before it's too late.

Sunday December 3 --- 7pm

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December 8 - 10

Martin Scorsese emerged as a generation-defining filmmaker with this gritty portrait of 1970s New York City, one of the most influential works of American independent cinema. Set in the insular Little Italy neighborhood of Scorsese’s youth, MEAN STREETS follows guilt-ridden small-time ringleader Charlie (Harvey Keitel) as he deals with the debts owed by his dangerously volatile best pal, Johnny Boy (Robert De Niro), and pressure from his headstrong girlfriend, Teresa (Amy Robinson). As their intertwined lives spiral out of control, Scorsese showcases his precocious mastery of film style—evident in everything from his propulsive editing rhythms to the lovingly curated soundtrack—to create an electrifying vision of sin and redemption.

Friday December 8 --- 4:30pm

Saturday December 9 --- 6:30pm

Sunday December 10 --- 4:30pm

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December 8 - 10

The madcap Marx Bros take aim at stuffy opera lovers and the nouveau riche with equal aplomb. Otis B. Driftwood, a theatrical agent of dubious morals (Groucho Marx), is hired by social climber Mrs. Claypool (Margaret Dumont) to help her break into high society. He suggests she invest in an opera company, the success of which is contingent on his signing the famous Italian tenor Lassparri (Walter Woolf King). But when Driftwood sails back to New York he is unexpectedly joined by stowaways; the unemployed singer Baroni (Allan Jones), his manager (Chico Marx) and Lassaparri’s former dresser (Harpo Marx) and the charming young opera singer Rosa (Kitty Carlisle). Groucho, Chico, and Harpo cram the ship with wall-to-wall gags, one-liners, musical riffs and two hard-boiled eggs. Arriving in the city to save the opera, our heroes must first destroy it. They must also pull the wool (if not the beards) over the eyes of city hall, shred legal mumbo-jumbo down to a sanity clause, pester dowager Claypool and unleash so much anarchistic glee that many say this is the best Marx Brothers movie. Seeing is believing.

Friday December 8 --- 7pm

Saturday December 9 --- 4:15pm

Sunday December 10 --- 2:15pm

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December 9 - 10

An Academy Award–winning dark fable set five years after the end of the Spanish Civil War, PAN'S LABYRINTH encapsulates the rich visual style and genre-defying craft of Guillermo del Toro. Eleven-year-old Ofelia (Ivana Baquero, in a mature and tender performance) comes face to face with the horrors of fascism when she and her pregnant mother are uprooted to the countryside, where her new stepfather (Sergi López), a sadistic captain in General Francisco Franco’s army, hunts down Republican guerrillas refusing to give up the fight. The violent reality in which Ofelia lives merges seamlessly with her fantastical interior world when she meets a faun in a decaying labyrinth and is set on a strange, mythic journey that is at once terrifying and beautiful. In his revisiting of this bloody period in Spanish history, del Toro creates a vivid depiction of the monstrosities of war infiltrating a child’s imagination and threatening the innocence of youth.

Saturday December 9 --- 9pm

Sunday December 10 --- 7pm

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December 15 - 17

In this hysterical satire of Reagan-era values and modern consumerism, written and directed by Albert Brooks, a successful Los Angeles advertising executive (Brooks) and his wife (Julie Hagerty) decide to quit their jobs, buy a Winnebago, and follow their Easy Rider fantasies of freedom and the open road. When a stop in Las Vegas nearly derails their plans, they’re forced to come to terms with their own limitations and those of the American dream. Brooks’s barbed wit and confident direction drive LOST IN AMERICA, an iconic example of his restless comedies about insecure characters searching for satisfaction in the modern world that established his unique comic voice and transformed the art of observational humor.

Friday December 15 --- 7pm

Saturday December 16 --- 4:45pm

Sunday December 17 --- 2:45pm

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December 15 - 17

It’s a very Kubrick Christmas as Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman star as a married couple entangled in an intricate web of jealousy and sexual obsession in this masterful dark comedy. At a Christmas party hosted by wealthy, unconventional Victor Ziegler (Sydney Pollack), provocative advances and innocent flirtations arouse suspicion as high-society physician Dr. William Harford (Cruise) and his wife, Alice (Kidman) watch each other from a distance. Alone later, this seemingly perfect couple confront their intimate sexual fantasies - which don't include each other. As Dr. Harford sets off on a harrowing yuletide odyssey, Christmas lights illuminate his path (the constant presence of Christmas decorations allowed Kubrick to shoot most of the film in natural light and the film is another of the visionary filmmaker’s aesthetic triumphs). Like Scrooge before him, Harford is haunted by the ghosts of the past and chilled by the horrors of his present. Stanley Kubrick's final film, his final gift to us, takes its rightful place in the Christmas movie canon. Uncensored version, of course.

Friday December 15 --- 3:45pm

Saturday December 16 --- 7pm

Sunday December 17 --- 5pm

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