The Bing Theater at LACMA

2016, color Includes a conversation with the filmmakers A screening of shorts produced and directed by the talented young filmmakers of Ghetto Film School, Los Angeles’s first and only high school dedicated to having filmmaking be a central part of its curriculum, will have its second annual presentation at Film Independent at LACMA this year. In addition, these storytellers will be present to offer their stories and reminisce about constructing their films. In conjunction with Film Independent at LACMA LACMA |…

A collection of surrealist animation shorts—from the studios of Universal and Warner Brothers to independently made cartoons—compiled by Tom Klein, Loyola Marymount University’s Chair of Animation, whose resume includes having cataloged the Walter Lantz Archives. Klein’s expertise also points him toward surreal animation, in particular the work of Shamus Culhane, who followed the Los Angeles track of the Avant Garde Movement. In conjunction with Film Independent at LACMA LACMA | Bing Theater $5 for Film Independent, LACMA Film Club, and the…

2016, 96 min, color, DCP Screenplay by Andrew Neel & Mike Roberts and David Gordon Green, based on Goat by Brad Land; directed by Andrew Neel; with Ben Schnetzer, Nick Jonas, Gus Halper, Danny Flaherty, Virginia Gardner, Jake Picking, James Franco For LACMA Film Club, Film Independent, and The New York Times Film Club members only Includes a conversation with actors Ben Schnetzer and Nick Jonas, and director Andrew Neel The thin line between random violence and sanctioned assault is…

2016, 120 min, color, DCP Written by Nate Parker; directed by Nate Parker; with Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Mark Boone Jr., Colman Domingo, Aunjanue Ellis, Dwight Henry, Aja Naomi King, Esther Scott, Roger Guenveur Smith, Gabrielle Union with Penelope Ann Miller For LACMA Film Club, Film Independent, and The New York Times Film Club members only Co-presented by The New York Times Film Club Eight years in the making, writer, director, and star Nate Parker’s take on the life of…

2016, color, DCP Executive produced by Ava DuVernay, Oprah Winfrey, Melissa Carter, based on Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile; with Rutina Wesley, Dawn-Lyen Gardner, Kofi Siriboe Co-presented by The New York Times Film Club Includes a conversation with creator Ava DuVernay, executive producer Oprah Winfrey, and cast Episode 105 The venture from writer/director Ava DuVernay (Middle of Nowhere, Selma) is Queen Sugar, her first cable television series for OWN, adapted from Natalie Braszile’s best-selling novel. The show is about culture shock—more specifically, the shock…

2016, 115 min, color, DCP Written by Craig Shilowich; directed by Antonio Campos; with Rebecca Hall, Michael C. Hall, and Tracy Letts Includes a conversation with actor Rebecca Hall, and director Antonio Campos A film that’s simultaneously a character study, a melodrama, and a real-life horror movie set in the 1970s, Christine is based on the story of Florida TV reporter Christine Chubbock, who killed herself on the air. As played by Rebecca Hall (from a script by Craig Shilowich),…

Includes a conversation with Sean Penn The director (his filmmaking resume includes The Indian Runner and Into the Wild) and two-time Academy Award-winning actor (Mystic River, Milk) comes to the Bing Theater with a special project. He will stage a reading of the absurdist comic audiobook Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff by first time author Pappy Pariah. Penn will read the book—which will be released as an audio-exclusive production on Audible, read by Penn—and sit for a conversation after the…

2016, 110 min, color, DCP Screenplay by Barry Jenkins, based on In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney; directed by Barry Jenkins; with Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, Trevante Rhodes, Andre Holland, Janelle Monáe, Mahershala Ali, and Naomie Harris For LACMA Film Club and Film Independent members only Includes a conversation with writer/director Barry Jenkins From writer/director Barry Jenkins, whose first film, Medicine for Melancholy, took a unique and grimly comic look at the situation for people of…

2016, 45 min, color, DCP Created by Chuck Rose; with Christian Cooke, Kate Bosworth, Cary Elwes, and Dennis Quaid For LACMA Film Club and Film Independent members only Includes a conversation with actor Dennis Quaid The Art of More stars Christian Cooke as former soldier Graham Connor who shakes off his blue collar Brooklyn roots and gains access to an elite society through his connections with a smuggling ring he encountered during his tour in Iraq. Dennis Quaid stars as…

2016, 137 min, color, DCP | Written by Kenneth Lonergan; directed by Kenneth Lonergan; with Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges, Gretchen Mol, C.J. Wilson For LACMA Film Club and Film Independent members only Includes a conversation with writer/director Kenneth Lonergan Writer/director Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count on Me, Margaret) returns to the big screen with a new emotionally packed melodrama. This one, set in the small Massachusetts town that gives the film its title, follows another family…

2016, 113 min, color, DCP | Written by Jim Jarmusch; directed by Jim Jarmusch; with Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Barry Shabaka Henley, Cliff Smith, Chasten Harmon, William Jackson Harper, and Masatoshi Nagase For LACMA Film Club and Film Independent members only Includes a conversation with actor Adam Driver Adam Driver is the title character in writer/director Jim Jarmusch’s new film, a drama that plays like a dream parable. Paterson (Driver) is a New Jersey bus driver with an almost symbiotic…

2016, 91 min, color, DCP | Written by Noah Oppenheim; directed Pablo Larraín; with Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, John Hurt, Caspar Phillipson, John Carroll Lynch, Beth Grant, Max Casella For LACMA Film Club and Film Independent members only Includes a conversation with actor Natalie Portman and producer Mickey Lidell Jackie is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First…

2016, 105 min, color, DCP | Story by Jon Lucas, Scott Moore, Dan Mazer, screenplay by Justin Malen and Laura Solon; directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck; with Jason Bateman, Olivia Munn, T. J. Miller, Jillian Bell, Randall Park, Vanessa Bayer, Matt Walsh, Courtney B. Vance, Kate McKinnon, and Jennifer Aniston Includes a conversation with directors Josh Gordon and Will Speck From Josh Gordon and Will Speck, the directors of the 2007 athletic dysfunction comedy, Blades of Glory, which…

1996, 108 min, color, 35mm | Written by Tom Hanks; directed by Tom Hanks, with Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler, Johnathon Schaech, Steve Zahn, Ethan Embry, Paul Feig, Giovanni Ribisi, and Tom Hanks For the 20th anniversary of Tom Hanks’s debut as writer/director, join us for a screening of his film (produced by his Philadelphia director Jonathan Demme) that both celebrates the headiness and capriciousness of fame and examines it. Tom Everett Scott—who resembles a younger version of the writer/director—stars…

2016, 110 min, color, DCP | Written by Madison Harrison and Miles Joris-Peyrafitte; directed by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte; with Charlie Heaton, Owen Campbell, and Amandla Stenberg Includes a conversation with writer / director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, actor Owen Campbell, producer Brent Stiefel, and producer Justin Lothrop The film is an intimate window into the lives of three young adolescents who form a strong bond with one another, and find themselves in more trouble than they planned for. Switching between present day and a…

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | 1964, 91 min, color, new digital restoration | Written by Jacques Demy; directed by Jacques Demy; with Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo Includes a conversation with Damien Chazelle Since starting his film career in 2009, writer/director Damien Chazelle has made an enormous splash in the movies. His collection of work starts with the 2009 short film Guy and Madeline on a Park Benchto the 2013 short Whiplash, which he expanded into the feature version of Whiplash the…

2017, 93 min, B&W and color, DCP | Written by James Baldwin and Raoul Peck; directed by Raoul Peck; with Samuel L. Jackson Includes a conversation with director Raoul Peck From Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck, whose biopic Lumumba exploded onto the international scene 15 years ago, comes another film that fuses the cultural and historical momentum of an era. In this documentary, Peck uses found footage of author, cultural figure, and agent provocateur James Baldwin taking on the social issues…

2017, 84 min, color | Created by Dustin Lance Black; written by Dustin Lance Black; directed by Gus Van Sant; with Guy Pearce, Mary-Louise Parker, Rachel Griffiths, Ivory Aquino, Michael K. Williams Includes a conversation with director Gus Van Sant and creator Dustin Lance Black Part 1 When We Rise is written and created by Academy Award®-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black. This mini-series event chronicles the real-life personal and political struggles, set-backs and triumphs of a diverse family of LGBT men and…

Live original score by Seth Bogart In the vein of Film Independent at LACMA’s critical and audience success Live Read—director Jason Reitman’s creative hatchling, in which he mated classic film scripts with the concept of a cold read, and got stars to do once-in-a-lifetime stagings of the material—comes Bring the Noise. For this new series, an acclaimed musician will take a film of their choosing, have the original score removed from the film, and put together a new accompaniment for…

1967, 108 min, color, 35mm | Written by William Rose; directed by Stanley Kramer; with Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton In 1967, for the first time in film history, as Mark Harris noted in his book, Pictures at a Revolution, a black man was the number one box-office attraction: Sidney Poitier. And in another first, a black man—Poitier—was the star of two movies that were nominated for Best Picture by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…

2017, 43 min, color | Executive produced by Sean Hayes, Todd Milliner, Mark Herzog, and Christopher G. Cowen Includes a conversation with executive producers Todd Milliner and Mark Herzog From CNN, whose riveting original series include Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown, The Eighties, and This is Life with Lisa Ling, comes a new series, The History of Comedy. We will present the premiere episode of the eight-part documentary series that explores what makes people laugh and how comedy has affected the…

1997, 100 min, color, 35mm | Written by John Cassavetes; directed by Nick Cassavetes; with Sean Penn, Robin Wright, Harry Dean Stanton, Debi Mazar, John Travolta Includes a conversation with 2017 Film Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award Nominees For our annual salute to Film Independent’s Cassavetes Award nominees, we screen a film by the influential and inspirational movie figure John Cassavetes. Commemorating its 20th anniversary this year, She’s So Lovely comes from a Cassavetes script that the ambitious writer, director, and actor…

2017, color | Created by Steve Conrad; with Marcus Toji, Michael Dorman, Terry O’Quinn Probably no one is more interested in the comedic proximity between common courtesy, the everyday world, and violence than writer Steve Conrad, whose produced scripts include the 2005 Gore Verbinski-directed The Weather Man, 2008’s The Promotion and 2014’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Conrad’s deadpan and surrealist take on the way things can get pushed too far, and how a perceived slight can linger in…

2016, 106 min, color, DCP | Written by Olivier Assayas; directed by Olivier Assayas; with Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Anders Danielsen Lie, Ty Olwin, Nora von Waldstätten For LACMA Film Club and Film Independent members only Includes a conversation with actor Kristen Stewart and writer/ irector Olivier Assayas The filmmaker and actress team from 2014’s Clouds of Sils Maria—director Olivier Assayas and star Kristen Stewart—reunite for this low-key, thoughtful and gripping ghost story. Stewart plays Maureen, the right…

2017, 101 min, color, DCP | Screenplay by Daniel Clowes, based on Wilson by Daniel Clowes; directed by Craig Johnson; with Woody Harrelson, Laura Dern, Isabella Amara, Judy Greer, Cheryl Hines, Margo Martindale, Mary Lynn Rajskub For LACMA Film Club and Film Independent members only Includes a conversation with actor Laura Dern From Craig Johnson, the director of the 2014 film The Skeleton Twins, and the inspired comics writer/artist Daniel Clowes (whose work was the source material for films such as the…

1985, 97 min, color | Written by John Hughes; directed by John Hughes; with Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy Includes a live performance by Jack Antonoff of Bleachers Lead Sponsor: Hollywood Foreign Press Association The latest edition of Bring the Noise—the exciting new program in which top musicians use their talents to create and perform a new and original live score to a movie of their choice—features Jack Antonoff of the pop-scenesters Bleachers.…

2017, 101 minutes, color, DCP | Written by Tom Flynn; directed by Marc Webb; with Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Lindsay Duncan, Jenny Slate, Octavia Spencer For LACMA Film Club and Film Independent members only Frank Adler (Chris Evans) is a single man raising a child prodigy—his spirited young niece Mary (Mckenna Grace)—in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven-year-old’s mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank’s formidable…

2017, 140 minutes, color, DCP | Screenplay by James Gray, based on The Lost City of Z by David Grann; directed by James Gray; with Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, Tom Holland For LACMA Film Club and Film Independent members only Includes a conversation with director James Gray For his newest film, writer-director James Gray (The Yards, We Own the Night, The Immigrant) has turned his gift for dramatizing intimacy that unfolds under the most stressful circumstances to a new situation:…

2017, 61 minutes, color, DCP | Written by Bryan Fuller and Michael Green, based on the novel by Neil Gaiman; directed by David Slade; with Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane, Emily Browning, Pablo Schreiber, Crispin Glover, Orlando Jones, Gillian Anderson, Yetide Badaki, Bruce Langley For LACMA Film Club and Film Independent members only Includes a conversation with executive producers and showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael Green, and actors Ricky Whittle and Ian McShane Neil Gaiman’s 2001 best-selling fantasy novel that baked…

2017, color, DCP Includes a conversation with host W. Kamau Bell Emmy-nominated United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell is an eight-part CNN Original Series that follows sociopolitical comedian Bell as he explores subcultures across the country, using humor to start a conversation about race and how our differences unite and divide us. Each episode of the hour-long series strives to show that the country is not built upon just one but many diverse and colorful definitions of America.…

2017, color, DCP | Written by George C. Wolfe, based on the book by Rebecca Skloot; directed by George C. Wolfe; with Oprah Winfrey, Rose Byrne, Rocky Carroll, Leslie Uggams, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Reg E. Cathey, Courtney B. Vance For LACMA Film Club and Film Independent members only Includes a conversation with executive producer/actor Oprah Winfrey, and writer/director George C. Wolfe Oprah Winfrey teams up with legendary Broadway director George C. Wolfe—whose Obie and Tony Award-winning works span…

2016, 90 minutes, color, DCP | Directed by Richard Dewey & Timothy Marrinan Includes a conversation with directors Richard Dewey and Timothy Marrinan If you’ve ever been curious about the mind and sensibility responsible for LACMA artworks such as Urban Light, the collection of functioning lampposts that draw visitors from around to the world to Wilshire Boulevard, and to the Metropolis II installation, this documentary from directors Richard Dewey and Timothy Marrinan is just the film to offer some answers…

2016, 42 minutes, color | Written by Anthony Bourdain; directed by Tom Vitale For LACMA Film Club and Film Independent members only Includes a conversation with writer/host Anthony Bourdain, executive producer Sandy Zweig, producer/director Tom Vitale, and directors of photography Zach Zamboni, Hunter Gross, and Jeff Allen Episode 808: “Rome” A restless, inquisitive mind in search of a singular meal and an equally stimulating conversation—that’s the best way to describe both the CNN series Parts Unknown and its thoughtful, occasionally…

Includes a live performance by Inc. No WorldLead Sponsor Hollywood Foreign Press Association It’s the fourth installment of Film Independent at LACMA’s new Bring the Noise series, in which musicians play a live, original musical accompaniment to a film of their choice. And in May, the band Inc. No World, featuring brothers Andrew and Daniel Aged, comes to the stage at the Bing, with a soon-to-be-announced classic film. In conjunction with Film Independent at LACMA LACMA | Bing Theater $20 for…

2017, 120 minutes, color, DCP | Written by Fred Parnes and Andrew Wagner, adapted from the novel by Brian Morton; directed by Andrew Wagner; with Holly Hunter, Tony Shalhoub, Cristin Milioti, Omar Metwally, Isabelle Candelier, Alfred Molina Includes a conversation with director Andrew Wagner The new film from writer/director Andrew Wagner (Starting Out in the Evening) follows a turbulent and transformative year in the lives of the Wellers, a dynamic family on New York’s Upper West Side. Eleanor (Holly Hunter), a psychologist struggling to reinvent…

2017, 83 minutes, color, DCP | Written by Mike White; directed by Miguel Arteta; with Salma Hayek, Chloë Sevigny, Connie Britton, Jay Duplass, John Lithgow, Amy Landecker, John Early For LACMA Film Club and Film Independent members only Includes a conversation with writer Mike White Beatriz (Salma Hayek), an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a spiritual health practitioner in Los Angeles. Doug Strutt (John Lithgow) is a…

2017, color, DCP | Created by Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang; with Aziz Ansari, Noël Wells, Eric Wareheim, Kelvin Yu, Lena Waithe For LACMA Film Club and Film Independent members only Includes a conversation with creator/actor/director Aziz Ansari and creator Alan Yang From Italy and New York, it’s the second season of writer, director, co-creator, and star Aziz Ansari’s Peabody and Emmy award-winning Netflix series Master of None. When we last left struggling actor and gourmand Dev Shah (Ansari), he…

2017, 113 minutes, color, DCP | Written by Edgar Wright; directed by Edgar Wright; with Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Lily James, Jon Bernthal, Eiza González, Jon Hamm, Jamie Foxx For LACMA Film Club and Film Independent members only Includes a conversation with writer/director Edgar Wright A talented, young getaway driver (Ansel Elgort) relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best in the game. When he meets the girl of his dreams (Lily James), Baby sees a chance…

2017, 52 minutes, color | Created by Tig Notaro and Diablo Cody; 201 and 202 written by Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne; 201 directed by Tig Notaro, 202 directed by Ken Kwapis; with Tig Notaro, Noah Harpster, John Rothman, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Stephanie Allynne, Carly Jibson Includes a conversation with actor / creator Tig Notaro, executive producer Kate Robin, and cast What could possibly be good as a season of a show with behind the scenes credits so stellar, including award-winning playwright and TV writer Kate Robin (Six Feet Under).…

2017, 101 minutes, color, DCP | Written by Mike White; directed by Mike White; with Ben Stiller, Michael Sheen, Jenna Fischer, Jemaine Clement, Luke Wilson, Austin Abrams For LACMA Film Club and Film Independent members only Includes a conversation with actor/writer/director Mike White The newest film from actor/writer/director Mike White, who serves all three functions in this comedy-drama that’s a bird’s eye view of insecurity. Status features a career peak performance from Ben Stiller as Brad Sloan, a successful but driven executive…

2017, 121 minutes, color, DCP | Written by Simon Beaufoy; directed by Valerie Ferris and Jonathan Dayton; with Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough, Sarah Silverman, Bill Pullman, Alan Cumming, Elisabeth Shue For LACMA Film Club and Film Independent members only Includes a conversation with directors Valerie Ferris and Jonathan Dayton They’re two people who seem to have everything. She has an adoring husband and has taken the athletic world of the day by storm. He’s a retired sports legend…

2017, 100 minutes, color, DCP | Written by Kate Mulleavy and Laura Mulleavy; directed by Kate Mulleavy and Laura Mulleavy; with Kirsten Dunst, Joe Cole, Pilou Asbæk For LACMA Film Club and Film Independent members only Includes a conversation with directors Kate Mulleavy and Laura Mulleavy This is the feature film debut of writers and directors Kate and Laura Mulleavy, best known as the fashion design team Rodarte. Their design work has displayed a connection to narrative momentum and psychological subtext, so…

2017 | Created by Ben Ketai; with Martin Freeman, Adam Brody, Edi Gathegi, Otmara Marrero, Jocelin Donahue, Ashley Hinshaw Includes a conversation with actors Adam Brody, Edi Gathegl, and Otmara Marrero, and creator/executive producer/director Ben Ketai Season two of StartUp, Crackle’s 10-episode, one-hour original drama, picks up on the streets of Miami following the takeover of GenCoin, an unregulated global cryptocurrency. With their startup now in the hands of the Russian Mob, our unlikely trio, Izzy Morales, Ronald Dacey, and Nick…

2017, 93 minutes, color | Written by Greta Gerwig; directed by Greta Gerwig; with Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Timothée Chalamet, Lucas Hedges For LACMA Film Club and Film Independent members only Includes a conversation with writer/director Greta Gerwig With a before-the-cameras career that has taken her from mumblecore (Hannah Takes the Stairs, Baghead) to films that exist as drama (Jackie) to idiosyncratic comedy-drama (Greenberg, 20th Century Women, Maggie’s Plan, Mistress America) to the musical (Damsels in Distress) to starring in a film she…

2017, 123 minutes, color | Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor, story by Guillermo del Toro; directed by Guillermo del Toro; with Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Doug Jones, Michael Shannon, Michael Stuhlbarg For LACMA Film Club and Film Independent members only Includes a conversation with writer/director Guillermo del Toro and cast From Oscar-nominated writer/director Guillermo del Toro—whose projects from Hellboy to Cronos to Pan’s Labyrinth to Pacific Rim display the heart-on-his-ruffled-sleeves loamy romanticism (and lurking horrors) of Byron—comes a story that pulls together all of his…

2017, 134 minutes, color | Screenplay by Dee Rees and Virgil Williams, based on Mudbound by Hillary Jordan; directed by Dee Rees; with Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell, Mary J. Blige, Jonathan Banks For LACMA Film Club and Film Independent members only Includes a conversation with producer Cassian Elwes The newest theatrical film from writer-director Dee Rees, which played this year’s Sundance Film Festival—where she had her initial success with her filmmaking debut, Pariah—is her first adaptation. Rees and co-writer…

Includes a screening of Light Sleeper and conversation with actor Willem Dafoe. What do Kathryn Bigelow, Tony Scott, Walter Hill, William Friedkin, Oliver Stone and Martin Scorsese have in common? How about the fact that comprise only the 1980s filmography of Film Independent Spirit Award winner and Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe? This protean performer has moved so effortlessly from hero to villain, supporting character actor to leading man, comedy to drama and independent landmark to studio classic that his talent has kept him…

Includes a screening of World of Tomorrow 1 & 2 and conversation with writer/director Don Hertzfeldt. Since the ‘90s, the maverick animation director Don Hertzfeldt has been working so potently and cleverly in a type of animation he has made all his own – the world of stick-figure cartoon. He has created a series of shorts that have crashed into the firmament like lightning bolts, finding the humor and pathos in a field that might have been dismissed as parody if not for the sheer force…

Includes a conversation with director Lynne Ramsay Please note: Film Independent at LACMA ticketing is no longer handled by Eventbrite. All ticket purchases/reservations are now routed through the LACMA box office online ticketing system. Almost twenty years after her galvanizing filmmaking debut – 1999’s Ratcatcher– which she followed with Morvern Callar, a provocative swirl of a murder mystery, writer/director Lynne Ramsay is back behind the camera. She adapts Jonathan Ames’ atmospheric short story to the screen, starring Academy Award nominee Joaquin Phoenix (Walk the Line) as Joe, a…

Includes a conversation with host W. Kamau Bell Please note: Film Independent at LACMA ticketing is no longer handled by Eventbrite. All ticket purchases/reservations are now routed through the LACMA box office online ticketing system. The critically acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning CNN Original Series United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell returns for its third season this April. The eight episode docuseries follows sociopolitical comedian W. Kamau Bell as he explores subcultures across the country, using humor to start conversations about race and how our…

Includes a conversation with writer/director Ramin Bahrani In 1953, Ray Bradbury published a science-fiction novel with one of the most unforgettable takes on dystopia ever. It was such a potent piece of work that Francois Truffaut selected it as the basis for his first and only English-language project, choosing it over what would become Bonnie and Clyde. Bradbury devised a shocking definition of the word “fireman”: a destroyer of hope and possibility, rather than a rescuer of these ideals. In the future…

Includes a conversation with director Kate Novack and André Leon Talley Both figuratively and literally, no one looms larger in the parallel and ever-intersecting worlds of fashion and style than André Leon Talley. This deeply thoughtful tastemaker rose from humble beginnings to become a journalist and Anna Wintour’s number two at Vogue magazine, where he brought a purview that was both earthy and fabulous – a sensibility that still remains. As a man of color, Talley’s persistence in making diversity an undeniable aspect of…

Includes a conversation with writer/director Jennifer Fox. You’d be hard pressed to come up with a better time than right now for documentarian Jennifer Fox’s fiction debut, The Tale. Trippy and intense, the film premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it became a sensation for both its timely subject matter as well its commanding use of the medium. Writer/director Fox plays with time and storytelling techniques in this story of the relationship between a younger woman and an older man…

The extraordinary and thrilling true story of four friends living an ordinary existence who brazenly attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in US history. But not everything is as it seems, and as the daring theft unfolds through each of their perspectives, each of them start to question whether their attempts to inject excitement and purpose into their lives is simply a misguided attempt at achieving the American Dream. 2018, 116 minutes, Color, DCP | Written/directed…

Includes a conversation with director Morgan Neville For over thirty years, Fred Rogers, an unassuming minister, puppeteer, writer and producer was beamed daily into homes across America. In his beloved television program, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Fred and his cast of puppets and friends spoke directly to young children about some of life’s weightiest issues, in a simple, direct fashion. There hadn’t been anything like Mr. Rogers on television before and there hasn’t been since. Though he may be best known today as a soft-spoken,…