Runaway Train
Voight and Roberts both received Oscar nominations for their gripping, physically instinctive performances in Russian filmmaker Konchalovsky’s bullet-paced American thriller based upon an original story by Akira Kurosawa.
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All We Imagine as Light
One of the year’s marvelous cinematic discoveries, Payal Kapadia’s Grand Prize winner at the Cannes Film Festival is a profoundly moving, meditative, exquisitely textured look at the lives of three women seeking love and spiritual sustenance in working-class Mumbai.
Expanded Screens Program 4: Out of the Past
Featuring films that operate in the spaces between documentary, found footage filmmaking, the essay film, and contemporary remix culture, this program invites viewers to engage with the past in thought-provoking and immersive ways. Followed by a Q&A featuring the series programmers in dialogue.
The Shining
Stanley Kubrick’s psychological horror masterpiece in which writer Jack Torrance is driven mad while working as the caretaker of a cavernous Colorado hotel over the course of one isolated winter, screens 1/25 and 1/26.
Nickel Boys
A visually astonishing film that takes an uncompromising look at America’s past with cleansing, clear eyes. From Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. With director RaMell Ross in person on January 7!
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
A tense and gripping thriller as well as a politically radical, antipatriarchal drama, Mohammad Rasoulof’s film was shot in secret, away from the eye of the censorious Iranian government. With Mohammad Rasoulof and co-star Mahsa Rostami in person!
Anora (in 35mm)
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, this spellbinding, bullet-paced modern-day screwball comedy follows a young sex worker from Brighton Beach whose life takes an unexpected turn. With co-star Karren Karagulian in person on 1/9.
The Gold Rush
Charlie Chaplin’s sublimely funny and exquisitely made comedy is one of the unparalleled triumphs of silent cinema, an avalanche of groundbreaking effects, astonishing stunts, and humor made poetic. Screens 1/10 and 1/11.
Somebody Somewhere
Set in Manhattan, Kansas, the Peabody Award-winning HBO Original comedy series follows Sam (Bridget Everett), whose return to her hometown forces her to contend with family, friends, and her relationship to herself. With creators, writers, and executive producers Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen in person.
Sugarcane
In 2021, evidence of unmarked graves was discovered on the grounds of an Indian residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada. After years of silence, the forced separation, assimilation, and abuse many children experienced at these segregated boarding schools was brought to light, sparking a national outcry against a system designed to destroy Indigenous communities. With filmmaker Julian Brave NoiseCat in person.
Industry with Ken Leung in person
Centered on the London office of behemoth international bank Pierpoint & Co, HBO’s Industry follows a coterie of ambitious young bankers as they navigate the tempestuous world of high finance. With actor Ken Leung in person!