Showings By Date
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- Thursday, June 20
- Friday, June 21
- Saturday, June 22
- Sunday, June 23
- Monday, June 24
- Tuesday, June 25
- Wednesday, June 26
- Thursday, June 27
- Friday, June 28
- Saturday, June 29
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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
| Friday, May 3 | ||
| 7:00 pm | ||
| Saturday, May 4 | ||
| 4:00 pm | ||
| 9:15 pm | ||
| Sunday, May 5 | ||
| 6:15 pm | ||
| Tuesday, May 7 | ||
| 7:00 pm | ||
| Wednesday, May 8 | ||
| 10:15 pm | ||
| Thursday, May 9 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
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.
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MFA Thesis Screenings
| Sunday, April 28 | ||
| 3:00 pm |
Presented by Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature
3PM – 10PM
3PM: Maia Melton “Content Warning: On Traunomenology”
4PM: Sarah Harris “If We Could Talk”
5PM: Charles Woodard “This Is A Light”
6PM: INTERMISSION
7PM: Avi Michael “The Green & Golden Ass”
8PM: Georg Koszulinski “Last Stop, Flamingo”
9PM: D. Jesse Damazo “The Creature”
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Video Diary of a Lost Girl
| Saturday, April 27 | ||
| 6:15 pm |
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!
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| Friday, April 26 | ||
| 7:00 pm | ||
| Saturday, April 27 | ||
| 4:00 pm | ||
| Tuesday, April 30 | ||
| 9:00 pm | ||
| Wednesday, May 1 | ||
| 7:00 pm | ||
| Thursday, May 2 | ||
| 9:00 pm |
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.
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Spring Breakers
| Friday, April 26 | ||
| 9:15 pm | ||
| Saturday, April 27 | ||
| 9:00 pm | ||
| Tuesday, April 30 | ||
| 7:00 pm | ||
| Wednesday, May 1 | ||
| 9:15 pm | ||
| Thursday, May 2 | ||
| 7:00 pm | ||
| Friday, July 26 | ||
| 8:00 pm | ||
| Saturday, July 27 | ||
| 8:00 pm | ||
| Sunday, July 28 | ||
| 8:00 pm | ||
| Monday, July 29 | ||
| 8:00 pm | ||
| Tuesday, July 30 | ||
| 8:00 pm | ||
| Wednesday, July 31 | ||
| 8:00 pm | ||
| Thursday, August 1 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
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.
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Jackie Brown (1997)
| Friday, April 19 | ||
| 11:45 pm | ||
| Saturday, April 20 | ||
| 11:00 pm |
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.
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Neighbouring Sounds
| Friday, April 19 | ||
| 9:15 pm | ||
| Saturday, April 20 | ||
| 6:15 pm | ||
| Sunday, April 21 | ||
| 5:15 pm | ||
| Tuesday, April 23 | ||
| 7:00 pm | ||
| Wednesday, April 24 | ||
| 9:15 pm | ||
| Thursday, April 25 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
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.
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Sound City
| Friday, April 19 | ||
| 7:00 pm | ||
| Saturday, April 20 | ||
| 4:00 pm | ||
| 8:45 pm | ||
| Sunday, April 21 | ||
| 3:00 pm | ||
| Tuesday, April 23 | ||
| 9:30 pm | ||
| Wednesday, April 24 | ||
| 7:00 pm | ||
| Thursday, April 25 | ||
| 9:30 pm |
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.
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Pavilion
| Sunday, April 14 | ||
| 3:00 pm | ||
| Tuesday, April 16 | ||
| 9:30 pm | ||
| Wednesday, April 17 | ||
| 7:00 pm | ||
| Thursday, April 18 | ||
| 9:30 pm |
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.
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Vanishing Waves
| Sunday, April 14 | ||
| 4:30 pm | ||
| Tuesday, April 16 | ||
| 7:00 pm | ||
| Wednesday, April 17 | ||
| 8:30 pm | ||
| Thursday, April 18 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
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.
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