In this calm yet tense debut feature, a 17-year-old girl agrees to go hiking in the forest with her father and an old friend of his. While apparently without revelation or great traumas, the impact of these men nevertheless becomes increasingly heavy as the film goes on. The girl, who has been regarded as the […]
Staff Picks – Emmie Caron (manager) Manon (Laurier) is a lonely and precocious 13-year-old living in an isolated region of Quebec with her mother Michelle (Tifo) and uncle Guy (Houde). Her mother is preoccupied with her own responsibilities toward her developmentally delayed brother and her relationships with two unlikely suitors. Desperate for her mother’s love, […]
July 31 screening presented in a double bill alongside King Hu’s DRAGON INN (1967) | Tickets sold separately Like the Royal Theater in The Last Picture Show and the title movie house in Cinema Paradiso, the Fu-Ho is shutting down for good. A palace with seemingly mile-wide rows of red velvet seats, the likes of […]
Special screenings dedicated to Ray Liotta (1954-2022), presented in 4K restoration Gangsters never refer to themselves as gangsters. They are made-men, wiseguys or Goodfellas. Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese exposes the fascinating, mysterious and violent underworld of New York’s Mafia families through the life of insider Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) as he rises from smalltime […]
Burma, 1917. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, jilts his lovestruck fiancée Molly the day she arrives to be married. As he flees into an unexpected odyssey across Asia, the free-spirited Molly—amused by his moves—follows in pursuit, embarking on a globe-trotting cat-and-mouse chase. *Best Director – Cannes Film Festival 2024
As the Empire of the Sun crumbles upon itself and a rain of firebombs falls upon Japan, the final death march of a nation is echoed in millions of smaller tragedies. This is the story of Seita and his younger sister Setsuko, two children born at the wrong time, in the wrong place, and now […]
December 17: original English version December 27: French dubbed version With its Christmas lights and dusting of snow, Kingston Falls is an idyllic small town–until the gremlins take over. A father returns from Chinatown with an unusual pet, a Mogwai–a gift for his son. The rules are simple: Keep your Mogwai away from water, bright […]
New 4K Restoration Harmony Korine’s debut feature is an audacious, lyrical evocation of America’s rural underbelly, and an elegy in the southern-gothic tradition of William Faulkner and William Eggleston. Shot in Korine’s native Nashville—standing in for the tornado-ravaged Xenia, Ohio—the rough-hewn film follows two young friends, Tummler and Solomon, as they ride around town, huffing […]
In Gunda, director Viktor Kosakovskiy’s (Aquarela)’s latest film, we are plunged into the immersive daily life of a sow as she tends to her litter on a farm. A universe that is both familiar and destabilizing, the film finds tremendous and poetic beauty in its minimalist black and white exploration of Gunda’s life, as well […]