July 14-23 After an idyllic date night full of red wine, Mia stops at a Parisian bistro to take shelter from a downpour. Her reprieve is shattered when a gunman opens fire. Three months later, she returns to the bistro to find the stranger who helped her make it through the attack,
July 21-30 The Duke is set in England in 1961 and is the true story of Kempton Bunton, a 60-year old taxi driver, who stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren star.
July 29-30/strong> In 1985, Willem de Kooning’s “Woman-Ochre,” one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, was sliced from its frame and stolen from an Arizona museum. Thirty-two years later, the $160 million painting was found hanging behind a bedroom door in the home of retired school teachers.
Aug 2-12) A sculptor preparing to open a new show must balance her creative life with the daily dramas of family and friends, in accaimed American filmmaker Kelly Reichardt’s vibrant and captivatingly funny portrait of art & craft.
Aug 12-20 Pietro Marcello, one of contemporary cinema’s most versatile talents, follows his dramatic breakthrough, Martin Eden, with an enchanting period fable based on a beloved 1923 novel by Russian writer Alexander Grin.
Aug 18-27 A newly restored film from the late 1930s by unsung French filmmaker Jean Grémillon. "Lady Killer is ONE OF THE SCREEN'S LEAST SEEN MASTERPIECES."
Aug 25-Sept 3 Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Park Chan-Wook's cinematic masterpiece, Oldboy has been restored and remastered in stunning 4K
Sept 1-10 Billy and Ray are lifelong best friends — and the last two men on earth. Their custom biosphere is outfitted with basic necessities and creature comforts that make it possible to retain a sense of what life used to be like.
FRI, SEPT 1 AT DUSK • FREE SCREENING IN SWITCHYARD PARK Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie in this blend of live-action and stop motion animation. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, Marcel and Connie now live alone as the sole survivors of a mysterious tragedy. Jenny Slate
Sept 8-17 England, 1988: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher states “Children who need to be taught to respect traditional moral values are being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay.”
Blue Jean is a fictional film set against this real-life backdrop.
Sept 9 in Bryan Park at 8:30) “Isn’t it a fascinating design? One could study it forever,” Hitchcock remarked to Francois Truffaut of the elaborately structured Strangers opens on an NYC-bound train, where Guy, a tennis star who wants out of his unhappy marriage, encounters a charming psychopath named Bruno who offers him a coolly unhinged plan to accomplish just that: they can swap murders. Bruno will murder Guy’s wife if Guy will do away with Bruno’s troublesome dad.
Sept 15-24 As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war. 20 Days in Mariupol offers a vivid, harrowing account of civilians caught in the siege, as well as a window into what it’s like to report from a conflict zone, and the impact of such journalism around the globe.
Friday, Sept 15 in Bryan Park at 8:30 in Bryan Park The animated musical adventure, Vivo—featuring original songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda—centers on his character Vivo, a one-of-kind kinkajou (or rainforest “honey bear”) who spends his days playing music with his beloved owner Andrés (Juan de Marcos).
Sept 22-Oct 1 A writer with a severe case of writer's block goes to the countryside home of his best friend hoping to focus on his novel. Upon arrival, he discovers that the peaceful summer home by the Baltic Sea has been double-booked. Afire won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at this year's Berlin International Film Festival.
Saturday, Sept 23rd in Bryan Park at 8:15 - Free Screening Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Supporting Actress for Angela Bassett.
Sept 29-Oct 8 Cult icon, enigma, recluse… the life of Syd Barrett, the visionary, founding member of Pink Floyd, is full of unanswered questions. Until now.
Oct 6-15 Georgie is a resourceful 12-year-old girl. She secretly lives alone in her flat in a working class suburb of London following the death of her mother. She makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali and keeps the social workers off her back
Oct 13-22 A man walks onstage with a guitar. There is a boombox waiting for him. He presses play on the boombox and starts to sing. The world changes.
The man is David Byrne, the band is Talking Heads, the song is “Psycho Killer,” and the movie is Stop Making Sense, directed by Jonathan Demme. Four decades later, we live in a culture shaped by all of them.
Oct 13-15 One of the country’s preeminent and prolific serious writers, Joyce Carol Oates is the author of more than 100 books, including them, (winner of the National Book Award and yes, spelled in all lower case) and Blonde (which looks at America through the life of Marilyn Monroe).
Oct 20-29 A bourgeois French couple--idealistic organic farmers--who settle in a Galician village. Their earnest enthusiasm reeks of patronizing privilege to the poor Spanish farmers who have toiled on the land for generations. Tensions between locals and foreigners boil over in this edge-of-your-seat thriller.
Oct 27-Nov 5 a gripping real-life spy thriller about controversial Manhattan Project physicist Ted Hall, who infamously provided nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, told through the perspective of his loving wife Joan, who protected his secret for decades. Recruited in 1944 as an 18-year-old Harvard undergraduate to help Robert Oppenheimer and his team create a bomb, Hall was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, and didn’t share his colleagues’ elation
strong>Nov 3-12 Kiwi journalist/filmmaker David Farrier is known for engaging with the stranger side of life in films like his stranger-than-fiction competitive tickling exposé Tickled, drawing bizarre subjects into the light through his affable but penetrating investigations. But Farrier may have met his match with the subject of his latest film.
Nov 10-19 Submitted by Tunisia as their official entry to the 96th Academy Awards, Four Daughters is a mesmerizing, formally ambitious documentary that bends the edges of narrative form in careful service to the stories of brave, bold, and complicated women.
Nov 17-Dec 3 “I am not a saint, I am a noise,” wrote 13-year-old Joan Baez in her journal, reflecting on a discordance between her outer and inner lives that would only deepen.
Dec 8-10 A budding childhood romance between Nora and Hae Sung, classmates at a primary school in Seoul, ends abruptly when Nora’s family emigrates to Canada. has been perched atop most cinephiles’ must-see lists since its triumphant debut at Sundance.
