One Night Only! Friday, April 8 at 7:30 at the IU Fine Art Theater One Day in April is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the triumphs and failures of two men’s and two women’s IU cyclist teams trying to win the Little 500. Directed by filmmaker and native Hoosier Thomas Miller, “One Day in April” is a bittersweet portrait of
There is just one week until Kate Mercer's (Charlotte Rampling) 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband (Tom Courtenay). The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps.
April 17 ♦ Scroll down for times and locations The definitive discourse with Noam Chomsky, widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive, on the defining characteristic of our time - the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few. Through interviews filmed over four years, Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to
Where else can you see four first-run, feature-length films for just $10? On April 17th you can spend the day at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater and do just that. The Ryder presents a day-long mini-festival featuring two Academy Award nominees--45 Years and Mustang--and two political documentaries. Tickets are on sale now at the BCT box office. One movie would be $7;
The Ryder is partnering with the Down Syndrome Family Connection to host a free screening of Where Hope Grows on Sunday, April 17 at the IU Fine Arts Theater at 3pm. Calvin Campbell (Kristoffer Polaha) is a former professional baseball player sent to an early retirement due to his panic attacks at the plate. Even though he had all the
One Night Only! Sunday, April 17 at 7:30 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater In 2012, jihadists took control of northern Mali. They banned music, destroying radio stations and publicly burning instruments. Facing torture, musicians went into hiding. But rather than lay down their instruments, Mali’s musicians fought back. / 105 min ♦ Social journalism of the highest order, They Will Have
We’ve lost touch with nature. This disconnect hurts our health, dims our spirit, and threatens our future. Narrated by Liam Neeson, Love Thy Nature is a cinematic journey through the beauty and intimacy of our vital relationship with the natural world. And it shows that a renewed connection with nature is key not only to our well being, but also to solving our climate and environmental crises.
An anthropologist recalls his childhood in France and a student trip to the USSR where a clandestine mission led him to offer up his own identity for a young Russian.
Set against the backdrop of the Louvre Museum’s history and artworks, master director Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) applies his uniquely personal vision onto staged re-enactments and archives for FRANCOFONIA, a fascinating portrait of real-life characters Jacques Jaujard and Count Franziskus Wolff-Metternich and their compulsory collaboration at the Louvre Museum under the Nazi Occupation. These two remarkable men - enemies then collaborators - share an alliance which would become the driving force behind the preservation of museum treasures.
June 3, 4 ♦ Scroll down for times and locations Individual Tickets: $5 ♦ Summer Passes $30 ♦ Group Tickets call 812 339.2002 In this penetrating dissection of modern China from storyteller extraordinaire Jia Zhang-ke (A Touch of Sin), a young woman must choose between a wealthy capitalist and a coal miner. Mountains May Depart begins in Fenyang in 1999 as
Meet the filmmaker of this low budget, slasher horror movie written and directed by Ben Arvin, a Southern Indiana native and IU alum. Dance with the cast and crew at Serendipity after the screening.
June 24, 25 David Hockney is one of the great surviving icons of the 1960s; the new bio-pic Hockney weaves together a portrait of the multifaceted artist from frank interviews with close friends, including several art world luminaries, as well as never before seen footage from Hockney’s own personal archive. Acclaimed filmmaker Randall Wright (Freud’s Naked Truths) offers a unique
June 24 - July 9 Norwegian director Joachim Trier's first two features, Reprise and Oslo, August 31st, which some of you saw at Ryder, were eloquent, deft dramas. Louder Than Bombs is Trier's first English language film. Isabelle Huppert, Gabriel Byrne, Devin Druid and Jesse Eisenberg star in this story of a family haunted by the legacy of its matriarch, an
June 24 - July 16 ♦ Scroll down for times and locations Individual Tickets: $5 ♦ Summer Passes $30 Cover your ears but open your hearts for Marguerite. 1921: the beginning of the Golden Twenties. Not far from Paris, it is party day at the castle of Marguerite Dumont, a wealthy woman with a passion for music and the opera.
A young, naive bride-to-be takes a job as a maid for a comparatively well-to-do couple in Tehran, unaware as she enters their apartment that she has been recruited as a domestic spy, keeping tabs on a boorish husband who may be having an affair. Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's film, A Separation, won the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award in 2012.
Truth is stranger than fiction. When journalist David Farrier came across a an online reference to a fringe sport in Los Angeles called “competitive endurance tickling” he thought he’d lit upon another amusingly weird topic for his lighthearted reports on New Zealand television. But it turned out to be no laughing matter.
Paris, 1941. A family of scientists is on the brink of discovering a powerful longevity serum when all of a sudden a mysterious force abducts them. From the producers of the Academy Award-nominated Persepolis and the mind of renowned graphic novelist Jacques Tardi comes a riveting sci-fi adventure set in an alternate steampunk universe.
Sea monsters, monarchs, ogres, kings and sorcerers: Tale of Tales is based on 3 spellbinding stories of magic and the macabre by Neapolitan poet and courtier Giambattista Basile, ♦ Set on the Afghan battlefield, Neither Heaven Nor Earth is a contemporary ghost story that’s both unabashedly mystical and thrillingly pulpy.
Set on the Afghan battlefield, Neither Heaven Nor Earth is a contemporary ghost story that's both unabashedly mystical and thrillingly pulpy.
A young French Red Cross doctor in Warsaw is treating the last of the French soldiers in the waning days of World War II. One night, a Benedictine nun appears on her doorstep.
Sea monsters, monarchs, ogres, and sorcerers: Salma Hayek and John C. Reilly star in this excursion into the dark heart of fairy tales. ♦ So few Italian films make it Stateside that it’s cause for celebration when a terrific one appears. –Time magazine
Nuts! is the sort of story the Coen Brothers would make up, except in this case, the story is true. NUTS! recounts the rags-to-riches tale of John Romulus Brinkley, a Kansas doctor who in 1917 discovered that he could cure impotence by transplanting goat testicles into men.
Sunday, Sept 4 4:30 Buskirk-Chumley Theater
We’re in the midst of a crisis of genetic diversity: we’ve lost over 94% of our vegetable seed varieties, leaving our food supply dangerously vulnerable to blight and famine.
Dheepan is a Tamil freedom fighter. As the Civil War in Sri Lanka nears its end, Dheepan decides to flee, taking with him two strangers – a woman and a little girl – hoping that they will make it easier for him to claim asylum in Europe.
Follows runaway Ricky and his cantankerous uncle on a manhunt through the New Zealand bush.
