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.
six men on a fishing trip off the coast of Greece decide to play a game that will determine which of them is the best. What begins as a lampoon of bourgeois machismo and male anxiety develops into an incisive allegory for the state of contemporary Greece, and leaves a final impression as an empathetic, razor-sharp study of human nature itself.
Many politicians have seen their careers careen off the tracks, but few instances have been captured so completely on film as the incisive and painfully funny Weiner.
Robert Frank, now 91 years old, is among the most influential artists of the last half-century. His seminal volume, The Americans, published in 1958, records the Swiss-born photographer’s candid reactions to peculiarly American versions of poverty and racism.
Emmanuelle Bercot won the Best Actress prize last year at Cannes for her performance as an accomplished lawyer seduced by a sexy, stylish man of the world given to flights of charmingly offbeat spontaneity.
A university student retreats to a country inn to write his masterpiece and becomes caught up in a metaphysical mystery of David Lynch-like dimensions.
Zero Days is a non-fiction thriller about the world of cyberwar and the never-before-told story of Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware (known as a “worm” for its ability to burrow from computer to computer on its own) that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclear facility, and which ultimately spread beyond its intended target.
We are screening 3 films at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater: Arsenic and Old Lace, The Exorcist and The Wailing. Frank Capra’s Halloween comedy Arsenic and Old Lace stars Cary Grant as a man learns that his eccentric but sweet aunts have been seeking out lonely, elderly men, poisoning them, and burying them in the basement. Controversial from the day it opened in 1973, The Exorcist is now recognized as a defining classic of the genre.
This Hammer Studios classic is far closer to the letter (and spirit) of the Bram Stoker novel than the Bela Lugosi version of Dracula. The premise finds the infamous count journeying from his native Transylvania to England, where he takes a headfirst plunge into the London nightlife. The Wailing is a murder mystery, a zombie movie, a tale of demonic possession and a parable of bad parenting gone wrong. At times outrageously funny, it's a moral and/or narrative puzzler that will keep you guessing days or weeks later.
Nov 4-11 ♦ Scroll down for times and locations Individual Tickets: $5 ♦ Semester Passes $30 WHERE ARE FILMS SHOWN? ♦ WHERE CAN I PARK? Gimme Danger is Jim Jarmusch’s affectionate tribute to Iggy Pop and The Stooges. Some performers flirted with danger. Iggy Pop embraced it. With abandon. Forming his band The Stooges in the late 1960s, he gained a
Werner Herzog leads viewers on a journey through a series of provocative conversations that reveal the ways in which the online world has transformed how virtually everything in the real world works - from business to education, space travel to healthcare, and the very heart of how we conduct our personal relationships
Short films...Big Stars. Dick Van Dyke, Ed Asner, Peri Gilpin and Julia Louis-Dreyfus star in this program of award-winning short films.
Dec 2-10 ♦ Scroll down for times and locations ♦ Individual Tickets: $5 ♦ Semester Passes $30 WHERE ARE FILMS SHOWN? ♦ WHERE CAN I PARK? Dying to Know is an intimate portrait celebrating two very complex, controversial characters in an epic friendship that shaped a generation. In the early 1960s Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert began probing
Dec 2-4 ♦ Individual Tickets: $5 ♦ Semester Passes $30 WHERE ARE FILMS SHOWN? ♦ WHERE CAN I PARK? Little Men is a little movie brimming with big truths about modern life.... Thirteen-year-old Jake is a quiet, sensitive middle schooler with dreams of being an artist. When his grandfather dies, his family moves from Manhattan back into his father's old
Back by Popular Demand! Ove patrols his neighborhood, blithely disposing of wrongly parked bikes and chucking shoes at stray cats. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the house opposite Ove’s, she accidentally backs her car into Ove’s mailbox
