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Directed by Richard Linklater

Starring Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick

108 Minutes, 35mm

An American father, JESSE, (Ethan Hawke) is seeing off his son HANK (Seamus Davey–Fitzpatrick) at the Kalamata Airport in Greece. Hank’s returning to his mother and life in the U.S. after spending the “best summer ever” with Jesse and his family. The middle–schooler is more composed than his fortyish father, who hovers anxiously as their separation draws near.

Trailer: http://youtu.be/euOJkb0U8vE

Directed by Cristian Mungiu

Starring Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Valeriu Andriuță

150 Minutes, DCP

Romanian w/ English Subtitles

This harrowing, visually stunning new film from director Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days), inspired by the non-fiction novels of Tatiana Niculescu Bran, unfolds in and around a remote monastery where pious young women toil dutifully under the ever-watchful eye of an austere priest known as Papa (the excellent Valeriu Andriuta). For their remarkable lead performances, screen newcomers Flutur and Stratan shared the Best Actress prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where Mungiu also received the Best Screenplay award.

Trailer: http://youtu.be/auY8X8hguYM

Directed by Mark Christopher Covino & Jeff Howlett

96 minutes, DCP

Punk before punk existed, three teenage brothers in the early ’70s formed a band in their spare bedroom, began playing a few local gigs and even pressed a single in the hopes of getting signed. But this was the era of Motown and emerging disco. Record companies found Death’s music— and band name—too intimidating, and the group were never given a fair shot, disbanding before they even completed one album. Equal parts electrifying rockumentary and epic family love story, A Band Called Death chronicles the incredible fairy-tale journey of what happened almost three decades later, when a dusty 1974 demo tape made its way out of the attic and found an audience several generations younger. Playing music impossibly ahead of its time, Death is now being credited as the first black punk band (hell…the first punk band!), and are finally receiving their long overdue recognition as true rock pioneers.

Trailer: http://youtu.be/R5Pf3MlUo7c

Directed by Rodney Ascher

102 Minutes, DCP

A subjective documentary that explores the numerous theories about the hidden meanings within Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining (1980). The film may be over 30 years old but it continues to inspire debate, speculation, and mystery. Five very different points of view are illuminated through voice over, film clips, animation and dramatic reenactments. Together they’ll draw the audience into a new maze, one with endless detours and dead ends, many ways in, but no way out.

Trailer: http://youtu.be/khPPlvMnaV0

Directed by Andrés Wood

Starring Francisca Gavilán, Thomas Durand, Christian Quevedo, Gabriela Aguilera

110 Minutes, DCP

Spanish w/ English Subtitles

The extraordinary story of the iconic poet, musician and folksinger Violeta Parra, whose songs have become hymns for Chileans and Latin Americans alike. Director Andres Wood (Machuca) traces the intensity and explosive vitality of her life, from humble origins to international fame, her defense of indigenous cultures and devotion to her art.

Trailer: http://youtu.be/SChk4lmDCJU

Directed by Terrence Malick

Starring Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams, Javier Bardem

112 Minutes, 35mm

The anticipated new feature from renowned filmmaker Terrence Malick (Tree of Life, The New World), TO THE WONDER boldly and lyrically explores the complexities of love in all its forms. Parisian single mother Marina (Olga Kurylenko) and Midwestern tourist Neil (Ben Affleck) fall madly in love in France and relocate to Oklahoma with Marina’s young daughter to start a life together. As their relationship wanes and her visa nears expiration, Marina makes the acquaintance of a priest and fellow exile (Javier Bardem) who is struggling with his faith, while Neil renews a relationship with his childhood sweetheart, Jane (Rachel McAdams).

Trailer: http://youtu.be/rjVDnwGsAF4

Directed by Chan-wook Park

Starring Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode

99 Minutes, DCP

After India’s (Mia Wasikowska’s) father dies in an auto accident, her Uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode), who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her emotionally unstable mother Evelyn (Nicole Kidman). Soon after his arrival, she comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives, but instead of feeling outrage or horror, this friendless girl becomes increasingly infatuated with him.

Trailer: http://youtu.be/MXaanQkzrXU

Late Night Films at the Bijou
Free for Students

Directed by Ruggero Deodato

Italian, Spanish w/ English subtitles

95 Minutes, 35mm

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area’s local cannibal tribes.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ-Xp6VC7RQ

Late Night Films at the Bijou
Free for Students

Directed by David Cronenberg

Starring Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz

96 Minutes, Blu-ray

Seth Brundle, a brilliant but eccentric scientist attempts to woo investigative journalist Veronica Quaife by offering her a scoop on his latest research in the field of matter transportation, which against all the expectations of the scientific establishment have proved successful. Up to a point. Brundle thinks he has ironed out the last problem when he successfully transports a living creature, but when he attempts to teleport himself a fly enters one of the transmission booths, and Brundle finds he is a changed man. This Science-Gone-Mad film is the source of the quotable quote “Be afraid. Be very afraid.”

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BzwxJ-M_M0

Directed by Shane Carruth

96 Minutes, Blu-ray

Kris is derailed from her life when she is drugged by a small-time thief. But something bigger is going on. She is unknowingly drawn into the life cycle of a presence that permeates the microscopic world, moving to nematodes, plant life, livestock, and back again. Along the way, she finds another being—a familiar, who is equally consumed by the larger force. The two search urgently for a place of safety within each other as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of their wrecked lives.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U9KmAlrEXU

Directed by Werner Herzog

Russian w/ English subtitles

90 Minutes, DCP

With Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, Werner Herzog takes viewers on yet another unforgettable journey into remote and extreme natural landscapes. The acclaimed filmmaker presents this visually stunning documentary about the people living in the heart of the Siberian Taiga. Deep in the wilderness, far away from civilization, 300 people inhabit the small village of Bakhtia at the river Yenisei. There are only two ways to reach this outpost: by helicopter or boat. There‘s no telephone, running water or medical aid, The locals, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, live according to their own values and cultural traditions. With insightful commentary written and narrated by Herzog, Happy People: A Year in the Taiga follows one of the Siberian trappers through all four seasons of the year to tell the story of a culture virtually untouched by modernity.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1pOjj49d9Y

Presented by Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature

3PM – 10PM

Followed by Q&A with Lindsay Denniberg

Directed by Lindsay Denniberg

A rock and roll horror fantasy where we meet the immortal Louise and her beloved Charlie. Unfortunately, due to Louise’s supernatural origins, every man she sleeps with must die! Charlie was Louise’s first love from the 1920′s, who she accidentally killed before realizing what she is: a descendant of Lilith, the mother of all demons! This race of women must feed on the souls of men once every full moon, or else they will menstruate to death. Now a hundred years later, Charlie returns reincarnated, and Louise must struggle with staying away from the love of her life, or risk losing him a second time! PMS has never been this deadly!

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWcETSQFxD8

Directed by Pablo Larraín

Starring Gael Garcia Bernal

Spanish w/ English subtitles

118 Minutes, DCP

In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote YES or NO to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the NO persuade a brash young advertising executive, Rene Saavedra (Gael Garcia Bernal), to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and under scrutiny by the despot’s minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.

Trailers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGOcFPzx1H0

Directed by Harmony Korine

Starring Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, James Franco

94 minutes, DCP

Brit, Candy, Cotty, and Faith have been best friends since grade school. They live together in a boring college dorm and are hungry for adventure. All they have to do is save enough money for spring break to get their shot at having some real fun.

A serendipitous encounter with rapper “Alien” promises to provide the girls with all the thrill and excitement they could hope for. With the encouragement of their new friend, it soon becomes unclear how far the girls are willing to go to experience a spring break they will never forget.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw7Se-sCwYM

Late Night Films at the Bijou
Free for Students

Directed by Quentin Tarantino

Starring Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson

154 Minutes, Blu-ray

A female flight attendant becomes a key figure in a plot between the police and an arms dealer.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7HkBDNZV7s

Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho

Portuguese w/ English subtitles

131 Minutes, DCP

A palpable sense of unease hangs over a single city block in the coastal town of Recife, Brazil. Home to prosperous families and the servants who work for them, the area is ruled by an aging patriarch and his sons. When a private security firm is reluctantly brought in to protect the residents from a recent spate of petty crime, it unleashes the fears, anxieties and resentments of a divided society still haunted by its troubled past. Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Neighboring Sounds is a thrilling debut by a major new voice in world cinema.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A6eSp8kKrU

Directed by David Grohl

108 Minutes, DCP

The history of Sound City and their huge recording device; exploring how digital change has allowed ‘people that have no place’ in music to become stars. It follows former Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighter David Grohl as he attempts to resurrect the studio back to former glories.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQoOfiLz1G4

Directed by Tim Sutton

68 Minutes, Blu-ray

Max leaves his lakeside town to live with his father on the fringe of suburban Arizona. Both fever dream and quiet trip, PAVILION creates a deep and ethereal world, showing us an innocent way of life coming apart at the seams, constructing an indelible image of the enigma of youth. One of ten films selected for IFP’s 2011 Narrative Lab, PAVILION was also selected by the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s 2011 Emerging Visions Workshop.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2glgEVIB9M

Directed by Kristina Buozyte

Lithuanian w/ English subtitles

124 Minutes, DCP

A bold, visionary work of science fiction cinema that recalls the genre in its cerebral 1960s and ’70s golden age, just as it simultaneously forges new territory with its unique fusion of emotional melodrama and hallucinatory widescreen spectacle, Vanishing Waves is one of the most accomplished and distinctive European films in recent memory. The second solo feature from Lithuanian director Kristina Buozyte, following her acclaimed 2008 debut The Collectress, the 2012 production Vanishing Waves confirms Buozyte as a major young talent whose frequently breathtaking visual and technical gifts are thankfully also matched by her interest in complex characterizations, adventurous narratives, and challenging themes.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk-bLCJz2KA