May 9, 2024
Eastwood’s astonishingly beautiful adaptation of the best-selling novel by Robert James Waller, starring a magnificent Meryl Streep, screens on 35mm on 6/15 and 6/16.
This sweeping, feverish epic adapted loosely from James Fenimore Cooper’s 1826 novel features some of Michael Mann’s most hypnotic vistas and kinetic sequences.
Already a superstar in his native Hong Kong, Jackie Chan officially broke through to the American mainstream with this perfect showcase for the action icon’s breathtaking talent. Screening on 35mm 6/7 and 6/8.
Albert Brooks’s captivating romantic comedy about the afterlife, screening 6/1 and 6/2, is a perfect showcase for the inimitable writer-director-star’s mix of caustic social observation and emotional warmth.
After winning the Oscar for writing Moonstruck, Shanley got the greenlight for his ambitious, surreal comedy about a hypochondriac workaday schlub (Tom Hanks) who finds out he has a fatal “brain cloud” and dumps his soul-sucking office job to embark on a final adventure.
Terrence Malick’s World War II epic marked not only a professional comeback after 20 years of silence but also a major turning point in the filmmaker’s art.
On 5/24, Tim Burton’s gleeful riff on 1950s sci-fi schlock, about an invasion of ray-gun-wielding Martians, kicks off our wide-ranging summer series See It Big at the ’90s Multiplex.