Films

Charles Burnett’s lyrical debut feature unfolds as a mosaic of Black life in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. Largely unseen for decades following its completion in 1977, the film is now recognized as a touchstone of the groundbreaking L.A. Rebellion movement — and a masterpiece that brought Black American lives to the screen with an aching intimacy like no film before. 2x Charles Burnett – New 4K DCP Restorations

Set in the 1950s, this adaptation of Shannon Pufahl’s 2019 novel follows the parallel journeys of a newlywed (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and her wayward brother-in-law (Jacob Elordi) as they navigate the risks and rewards of clandestine transgressions that could place them in greater danger than either bargained for.

A tech-entrepreneur (Vincent Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of buried loved ones — until a spate of vandalized graves threatens to put his enterprise at risk. Written following the death of his own wife, the new film from David Cronenberg is both a profoundly personal reckoning with grief and a descent into noir-tinged dystopia.

In Charles Burnett’s long-awaited 1999 comedy, an aging Jamaican widower (James Earl Jones) has spent decades wrestling an invisible demon named Hank. De-institutionalized, he takes a bus to Los Angeles and meets fellow lodger (Lynn Redgrave) who is fleeing her spurned long-dead fiancé, composer Giacomo Puccini. 2x Charles Burnett – New 4K DCP Restorations

In effort to save his marriage, ex-pat Nicolas Cage returns to an idyllic western Australian beach community intent on catching waves with his son and purchasing the cliffside home of his youth. When he’s stymied by a cult-like gang of beach-bronzed locals hellbent on keeping the surf for themselves, Nic Cage does what he does best: he freaks the f*** out!

In the mid-’60s, Janis Ian, a teenage singer-songwriter from New Jersey, scored a controversial hit single called "Society's Child," about an interracial love relationship. The song launched her illustrious career but also ignited death threats, plunging her into an emotional tailspin — only to emerge from the ashes in the 1970s with an even bigger hit, "At Seventeen," a song ahead of its time in confronting lookism and bullying. Janis overcame significant obstacles — embezzlement, record industry misogyny and heartbreak — to find love and produce an indelible body of searingly honest songs that have earned her a devoted following and critical acclaim.

In 2003, a group of artists snuck inside the thriving but contentious Providence Place Mall and for the next four years lived in a hidden art space that they created on the sly. This testament to youthful ingenuity incorporates original footage and present day interviews with the construction of both a miniature of the mall and full-scale replica of the apartment in question to create an amusing argument for art as lifestyle.

Part of Staff Picks and programmed by Will, who says: “MIDNIGHT RUN, above all, is a great time! I'm a sucker for a cross-country roadtrip, enemies to friends buddy comedy and MIDNIGHT RUN delivers with a ridiculous soundtrack to boot. Cheeky De Niro gives bonus points!”

Director Alex Ross Perry constructs a kaleidoscopic impression of the band Pavement by mounting scripted scenes with actors in a fake biopic, a musical stage play based on their songs, an exhibition of questionable ephemera, and blends it all together with archival footage. Opening Night Q&A with band members Bob Nastanovich and Steve West.

Director Alex Ross Perry constructs a kaleidoscopic impression of the band Pavement by mounting scripted scenes with actors in a fake biopic, a musical stage play based on their songs, an exhibition of questionable ephemera, and blends it all together with archival footage. Opening Night Q&A with band members Bob Nastanovich and Steve West.