In Theaters
Rewind, Be Kind: Josie and the Pussycats
USA | 2001 | 98 min. | Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont
July 27, 2024
A small-town rock band has a chance at fame and fortune when plucked from obscurity and offered a record deal from a major label. But what is the cost? Directors Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont in attendance for an in-person Q&A.
Rewind, Be Kind: The Mummy
USA | 1999 | 124 min. | Stephen Sommers
July 27, 2024
At an archaeological dig in the ancient city of Hamunaptra, an American serving in the French Foreign Legion accidentally awakens a mummy who begins to wreak havoc as he searches for the reincarnation of his long-lost love. Director Stephen Sommers in attendance for an in-person Q&A.
Rewind, Be Kind: Uptown Girls
USA | 2003 | 92 min. | Boaz Yakin
July 27, 2024
Brittany Murphy stars in Uptown Girls as a New York City it-girl and daughter of a deceased rock star. When she loses her trust fund, she begins working as a nanny for an uptight eight-year-old (Dakota Fanning). Initially maligned by critics for being an immature chick flick with a specific focus on the female leads being “unlikeable”, Uptown Girls stands the test of time as a heartbreaking coming-of-age story.
Rewind, Be Kind: Van Helsing
USA | 2004 | 131 min. | Stephen Sommers
July 27, 2024
Hugh Jackman stars as the titular Van Helsing who must face off against Dracula and a monster mash of classic Universal creatures in a movie that Roger Ebert called “...silly and spectacular, and fun.” We think he was right. Director Stephen Sommers in attendance for an in-person Q&A.
Adios Buenos Aires
Germany | 2022 | 93 min. | German Kral
Now Playing - Aug 1, 2024
Buenos Aires, November 2001. Argentina is embroiled in crisis, with the peso plunging deeper and deeper. Julio Färber, the charismatic bandoneon player of the "Vecinos de Pompeya," a five-piece working-class tango band, is trying to keep his head above water, but every month he is earning less and less from their gigs as well as from the traditional shoe shop he inherited from his father.
Deadpool & Wolverine
USA | 2024 | 127 min. | Shawn Levy
Now Playing
Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine delivers the ultimate team-up throwdown.
Seven Samurai: 70th Anniversary Restoration
Japan | 1954 | 207 min. | Akira Kurosawa
Now Playing - Jul 31, 2024
A sixteenth century farming village requests protection from seven samurai against a horde of bandits. 70th Anniversary 4K restoration.
Kinds of Kindness
USA | 2024 | 164 min. | Yorgos Lanthimos
Now Playing
Kinds of Kindness is a triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.
Thelma
USA | 2024 | 97 min. | Josh Margolin
Now Playing
June Squibb stars as a woman who gets scammed out of $10,000 and embarks on a daring mission across Los Angeles to recover it.
Rewind, Be Kind: Lady in the Water
USA | 2006 | 110 min. | M. Night Shyamalan
July 28, 2024
M. Night Shyamalan crafts a fairy tale about a jaded superintendent (Paul Giamatti) who discovers a water nymph in the community pool and is tasked with returning her to her blue world. Both a critical and financial failure, this one is too beautiful and sincere to dismiss as a strike.
Rewind, Be Kind: Punch-Drunk Love (35mm)
USA | 2002 | 95 min. | Paul Thomas Anderson
July 28, 2024
A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers. Presented on 35mm.
Rewind, Be Kind: Sunshine (35mm)
United Kingdom | 2007 | 107 min. | Danny Boyle
July 28, 2024
Sunshine has us join a team of eight international astronauts aboard the Icarus II, a ship on a mission to reignite our dying sun. Despite impressive visuals and a stacked cast, audiences didn’t take to Danny Boyle’s sci-fi thriller. Even so, this ship merits a ride in our book. Presented on 35mm.
Rewind, Be Kind: The Phantom of the Opera
United Kingdom | 2004 | 143 min. | Joel Schumacher
July 28, 2024
Joel Schumacher brings Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera” to the silver screen. Despite this film being one of Schumacher’s largest spectacles, critics had an inconsistent list of complaints. We feel that The Phantom of the Opera is a beautiful dream that deserves a revisit!
The Spirit Of Ubuntu
Zimbabwe | 2024 | 90 min. | Kudzai Tinagao
July 28, 2024
Award-winning director Kudzai Tiago and Grammy-nominated reggae legend Pato Banton embark on a journey through ten countries across Africa, exploring the ancient philosophy of Ubuntu.
CLASSIFIED CINEMA
91 min.
Opens July 30, 2024
Immaculately curated films kept top secret until they hit the screen. Still free, always fun, never pretentious.
Scope Screenings
USA | 3 hours
July 30, 2024
Join us at Scope Screenings for a monthly celebration of cinema and community. Each session features a diverse lineup of narrative shorts, music videos, and feature trailers. Doors open at 6:30 PM for socializing, with screenings kicking off at 7:30 PM, creating a dynamic hub for creatives and film enthusiasts alike.
AGFA August: Shredder Orpheus (New Restoration)
USA | 1990 | 88 min. | Robert McGinley
August 1, 2024
Newly preserved by AGFA from the original film elements. The Greek myth is reimagined as a post-apocalyptic skateboard rock opera in Shredder Orpheus, filmed in Seattle and featuring a rare screen role from Steven Jesse Bernstein—the William S. Burroughs of the Pacific Northwest. Writer/Director Robert McGinley scheduled to attend.
AGFA August: The Zodiac Killer
USA | 1971 | 87 min. | Tom Hanson
August 1, 2024
Directed by Tom Hanson, who had previously owned a chain of Pizza Man restaurants, The Zodiac Killer was made to capture the real-life Zodiac Killer, but instead delivered the most outrageous and compelling "tabloid horror" vortex in the history of planet Earth. Introduced by Something Weird Video's Lisa Petrucci and AGFA's Jackson Cooper.
Kneecap
Ireland | 2024 | Rich Peppiatt
Opens August 1, 2024
There are 80,000 native Irish speakers in Ireland. 6,000 live in the North of Ireland. Three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This anarchic Belfast trio becomes the unlikely figurehead of a civil rights movement to save the mother tongue.
AGFA August: Cannibal! The Musical
USA | 1993 | 95 min. | Trey Parker
August 2, 2024
The sole survivor of an ill-fated mining expedition tells how his taste for gold was replaced by that of human flesh. Like Oklahoma meets Bloodsucking Freaks, this infamous and hilarious musical from the creators of “South Park” is back to gross you out and get your toes tapping.
CatVideoFest 2024
2024
Opens August 2, 2024
Oscilloscope Laboratories presents CatVideoFest 2024, a compilation of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic internet powerhouses.
Widow Clicquot
France | 2023 | 90 min. | Thomas Napper
Opens August 2, 2024
After her husband's death, Madame Clicquot flouts convention by assuming the reins of their wine business, defying her critics and ultimately revolutionizing the champagne industry, establishing her as one of the world's first great businesswomen.
AGFA August: Donnie Darko (4k Restoration)
USA | 2001 | 113 min. | Richard Kelly
August 3, 2024
Before "Stranger Things" combined science fiction, Spielberg-ian thrills, and 1980s nostalgia to much acclaim, Richard Kelly set the high-water mark with Donnie Darko. In arguably the first cult classic of the new millennium, a troubled teenager (Jake Gyllenhaal) is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes. New 4K Restoration. Introduced by AGFA Executive Director Jackson Cooper.
AGFA August: HEY FOLKS! IT’S INTERMISSION TIME VIDEO PARTY
USA | 2024 | 70 min. | Bret Berg, Joseph A. Ziemba
August 3, 2024
The AGFA team has spun a mountain of vintage cinema and drive-in ads (courtesy of Something Weird Video) into a haunted found-footage ode to moviegoing and the snack bar in mid-century America. Introduced by Something Weird Video's Lisa Petrucci and AGFA's Jackson Cooper.
Munch: Love, Ghosts and Lady Vampires
90 min. | Michele Mally
Opens August 3, 2024
Munch: Love, Ghosts and Lady Vampires strives to shed new light on Edvard Munch, a profoundly mysterious, fascinating man, a trailblazer and a master for everyone who came after him.
Cuckoo (35mm)
Germany | 2024 | 103 min. | Tilman Singer
August 4, 2024
Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family. However, something doesn't seem right in this tranquil vacation paradise, and Gretchen is plagued by strange noises and bloody visions until she discovers a shocking secret that also concerns her own family. Presented on 35mm.
Walking with M
India | 2023 | 120 min. | Akash Sagar Chopra
August 4, 2024
This film is based on Sri M's 7500 km peace-march in 2015-2016 from Kanyakumari to Kashmir in India with the mission of Unity of Mankind and to revive an old mission to rekindle India's ancient values of compassion, acceptance and human understanding. The first 20 SIFF members to arrive can see the film for free as a courtesy from the Blossom Foundation!
AGFA August: Terminal USA
USA | 1993 | 60 min. | Jon Mortisugu
August 5, 2024
Moritsugu’s Asian freak-out magnum opus shocked America when it was broadcast on television in the mid-90’s. The director himself plays twins (a drug-dealing bad-ass and a closeted math nerd) in a radically dysfunctional family that completely obliterates the noble myth of the “model minority.” Introduced by AGFA Executive Director Jackson Cooper.
AGFA August: The Last Slumber Party (New Restoration)
USA | 1988 | 72 min. | Stephen Tyler
August 5, 2024
An escaped killer and boys with beer visit three teens having a pajama party. Reconstructed from scratch by AGFA from the film’s original elements–both the 16mm camera negative and VHS tape masters. Introduced by AGFA Executive Director Jackson Cooper.
A Conversation with Silvia Moreno-Garcia
120 min.
August 6, 2024
Join UBS and the Seattle Mexican Consulate to celebrate Silvia Moreno-Garcia's new book "The Seventh Veil of Salome" at SIFF Cinema Egyptian.
Heaven Adores You
USA | 2014 | 104 min. | Nickolas Rossi
August 6, 2024
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the film's release Heaven Adores You returns to theaters for a special event screening on August 6, which would have been the 55th birthday of Elliott Smith.
AGFA August: Blood Feast
USA | 1963 | 67 min. | Herschell Gordon Lewis
August 7, 2024
Widely considered the first-ever splatter film, Blood Feast is essential viewing for all horror film fans. The insane Ramses hypnotizes a socialite in order to land a job catering a party for her debutante daughter, and turns the event into an evening of gruesome deaths, bloody dismemberment and ritual sacrifice. Introduced by AGFA Executive Director Jackson Cooper.
AGFA August: She Freak (New Restoration)
USA | 1967 | 83 min. | Byron Mabe
August 7, 2024
Newly restored from the original camera negative. In this gutter-noir reworking Tod Browning’s Freaks, a waitress joins a carnival, marries the owner, and makes various employees her enemies. New Restoration. Introduced by AGFA Executive Director Jackson Cooper.
Movie Club: The Crow
USA | 1994 | 102 min. | Alex Proyas
August 7, 2024
The tale of a young musician Eric Draven who, along with his fiancé, is murdered on the eve of their Halloween wedding. Exactly one year after their deaths, Eric is risen from the grave by a mysterious crow to seek out his killers and force them to answer for their crimes. Introduced by SIFF Cinema staffer Milo Harms.
AGFA August: Attack of the Beast Creatures (New Restoration)
USA | 1985 | 80 min. | Mike Stanley
August 8, 2024
Originally known as Hell Island, the outrageously gory Attack of the Beast Creatures follows a group of survivors who wash up on the shores of a seemingly deserted island after their ship capsizes. It slowly becomes apparent that the island is home to a tribe of small doll-like creatures, who begin stalking and killing the survivors one by one. New restoration from the original 16mm camera negative. Introduced by AGFA Executive Director Jackson Cooper.
AGFA August: Indecent Desires (New Restoration)
USA | 1968 | 75 min. | Doris Wishman
August 8, 2024
In this perverse, dreamlike, and surprisingly complex film from one of the most prolific women filmmakers in American cinema, Zeb finds a doll and a ring in a garbage can. He realizes the doll looks like Ann, his neighbor. When he realizes Ann experiences everything he does to the doll, he starts to unwind. Newly restored in 2K from its original 35mm camera negative. Introduced by AGFA Executive Director Jackson Cooper.
Dìdi (弟弟)
USA | 2024 | 96 min. | Sean Wang
Opens August 8, 2024
A skate video-loving NorCal Taiwanese American spends his final pre-high school summer learning what it means to grow up.
Sing Sing
USA | 2023 | 107 min. | Greg Kwedar
Opens August 8, 2024
Colman Domingo stars in the inspirational true story about incarcerated people who find healing through the redemptive power of theatre. 2024 Seattle International Film Festival Golden Space Needle Audience Award - Best Film.
Burden of Dreams (New 4K Restoration)
USA | 1982 | 94 min. | Les Blank, Maureen Gosling
Opens August 9, 2024
Burden of Dreams captures legendary director Werner Herzog’s filming of his most ambitious film Fitzcarraldo, in which an entrepreneur (Klaus Kinski) endeavors to push a steamship over a mountain to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. New 4K restoration.
Crossing
Sweden | 2024 | 106 min. | Levan Akin
Opens August 9, 2024
A retired Georgian history teacher travels to Istanbul in search of her missing niece, who was kicked out of her house for being trans.
Alien: Romulus
United Kingdom | 2024 | Fede Alvarez
Opens August 15, 2024
The sci-fi/horror-thriller takes the phenomenally successful “Alien” franchise back to its roots: While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger
United Kingdom | 2024 | 131 min. | David Hinton
Opens August 16, 2024
Martin Scorsese first encountered the films of Powell and Pressburger as a child, sitting in front of the family TV. When The Archers’ famous logo appeared on screen, Scorsese recalls: “You knew you were in for fantasy, wonder, magic – real film magic.” Now, in this documentary, he tells the story of his lifelong love affair with their movies.
Picasso: A Rebel in Paris
2024 | 90 min. | Simona Risi
Opens August 17, 2024
Fifty years after his passing, we embark on a journey through Pablo Picasso's Paris, amidst sunshine and shadow, convictions and contradictions, from a young, impoverished foreigner to one of the most important icons of the 20th-century.
Trust in Love
USA | 2023 | 94 min. | Mick Davis
August 17, 2024
Record producer Jimi Petulla, struggling with his career, marriage, and his relationship with his family, slowly learns to recover them all.
Big Salad Comes to Seattle
60 min.
August 21, 2024
Cup of Jo and Big Salad founder Joanna Goddard in conversation with poet Kate Baer.
Blink Twice
USA | 2024 | 151 min. | Zoë Kravitz
Opens August 22, 2024
With an ensemble cast including Naomi Ackie, Channing Tatum, Alia Shawkat, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Haley Joel Osment, Christian Slater, Kyle MacLachlan and Geena Davis, Blink Twice is a wild new psychological thriller directed by Zoë Kravitz.
AGFA August: The Peanut Butter Solution
Canada | 1985 | 93 min. | Michael Rubbo
August 23, 2024
Ghosts restore a boy's hair when it falls out from fright, but then it won't stop growing. Introduced by AGFA Executive Director Jackson Cooper.
Know Your Place
USA | 2022 | 118 min. | Zia Mohajerjasbi
Opens August 23, 2024
Gentrification’s impact on Seattle’s East African community is explored as two teenage boys navigate the city on an errand. 2022 Seattle International Film Festival Golden Space Needle Award - Best Film. Includes post-film Q&A on the August 23 screening.
Sugarcane
USA | 2024 | 107 min. | Julian Brave NoiseCat (Secwepemc Nation), Emily Kassie
Opens August 23, 2024
A gutwrenching doc on the horrors of residential schools, centering on the abuse suffered at the hands of B.C.’s St. Joseph Mission. 2024 Seattle International Film Festival Official Competition Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Documentary.
AGFA August: The Films of the Gay Girls Riding Club (New Restorations)
USA | 1963 | 129 min. | Ray Harrison
August 24, 2024
A double feature of What Really Happened to Baby Jane (drag parody of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?") and All About Alice (a drag queen leads a cast of non-professional actors in a spoof of the film "All About Eve"). Introduction and performance by Seattle Drag Artist Uh-Oh (30 min drag show).
AGFA August: The Little Shop of Horrors
USA | 1960 | 72 min. | Roger Corman
August 24, 2024
Seymour Krelboin works in the Skid Row flower shop owned by Mr. Mushnik. In his spare time, Seymour creates a new plant species he names Audrey Junior in honor of his girlfriend Audrey. Introduced by AGFA Executive Director Jackson Cooper.
AGFA August: The Films of Sarah Jacobson
USA | 1996 | 125 min. | Sarah Jacobson
August 25, 2024
Sarah Jacobson's punk-spirited DIY films from the 1990s combine B-movie aesthetics and riot grrrl feminism, standing as a testament to the vision, determination, and raw talent of the Queen of Underground Cinema.
AGFA August: The McPherson Tape
USA | 1989 | 63 min. | Dean Alioto
August 25, 2024
On a fall evening in 1983, a young man videotaping his niece's fifth birthday party keeps the camera running as an alien invasion unfolds.
AGFA August: The Stairway to Stardom Mixtape
USA | 1972 | 70 min. | Various
August 25, 2024
From homemade R&B party hits to aggro stand-up comics, from interpretive dance by zombified children to amateur magicians, Stairway to Stardom is an unending treasure trove of bizarro entertainment that has been a staple among tape traders for decades. Introduced by AGFA Executive Director Jackson Cooper.
Reel Black: Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song
USA | 1971 | 97 min. | Melvin Van Peebles
August 25, 2024
A Revolutionary outsider challenges norms in a gritty quest for justice, passion, and empowerment in this influential 1971 cinematic milestone.
AGFA August: I Married a Witch
USA | 1942 | 77 min. | René Clair
August 26, 2024
As a 17th-century New England witch who comes to take revenge on the 20th-century descendant of the Puritan who persecuted her, Lake is all smolder and disruption. Introduced by SIFF Cinema Program Manager Kasi Gaarenstroom.
AGFA August: To Be or Not to Be
USA | 1942 | 99 min. | Ernst Lubitsch
August 26, 2024
Acting couple Joseph and Maria Tura are managing a theatrical troupe when the Nazis invade Poland. Using their skill for impersonation, Joseph and company must confuse the Nazis and stop Siletsky from handing over the list.
AGFA August: GLOW - The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
USA | 2012 | 76 min. | Brett Whitcomb
August 28, 2024
Chronicling the rise and fall of the first ever all-female wrestling show through the stories of those who lived it.
AGFA August: She Mob
USA | 1968 | 82 min. | Harry Wuest
August 28, 2024
A gang of four lesbian inmates escapes from prison and kidnaps the boyfriend of a wealthy woman. Introduced by Something Weird Video's Lisa Petrucci and AGFA's Jackson Cooper.
AGFA August: A Woman Under the Influence
USA | 1974 | 155 min. | John Cassavetes
August 29, 2024
A housewife on the verge of a nervous breakdown is committed for psychiatric treatment by her loving yet confused husband, with unpredictable results. John Cassavetes’ 1974 masterpiece is one of the most devastating portraits of a relationship ever filmed.
AGFA August: Faces
USA | 1968 | 130 min. | John Cassavetes
August 29, 2024
During one long, bumpy night and into the next morning, Richard and Maria Forst, a wealthy couple whose relationship is becalmed in an emotional downswing, dally separately with other partners with devastating results. Preservation of the film funded by The Film Foundation with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in celebration of the 40th anniversary of this Cassavetes classic.
AGFA August: Secret Screening
August 30, 2024
Shh...it's a secret! Come find out what the series finale will be at this mystery screening. Introduced by AGFA Executive Director Jackson Cooper.
AGFA August: Shaolin Invincibles
Taiwan | 1997 | 90 min. | Cheng Hoi
August 30, 2024
A young woman becomes a great fighter with powerful skills and fights against her enemies after she's allowed to train in 18 forms of Shaolin kung fu in the Shaolin temple by a golden teacher. Introduced by AGFA Executive Director Jackson Cooper.
Metallica Fest
2024 | 358 min. | Doug Freel & Jean Pellerin; Wayne Isham
August 31, 2024
Experience three Metallica Concert films on the big screen. The first film, “Cliff ’Em All” serves as a tribute to late original bassist Cliff Burton and is a raw collection of performances from 1983 to 1986. The second concert film, “Cunning Stunts,” shows Metallica pushing boundaries musically during their “Poor Touring Me” Tour. The final film covers three nights at Mexico City with 155,000 crazy Metalli-Fans!
Movie Club: Irma Vep
France | 1996 | 99 min. | Olivier Assayas
September 4, 2024
Olivier Assayas’s live-wire international breakthrough stars a magnetic Maggie Cheung as a version of herself: a Hong Kong action movie star who arrives in Paris to play the latex-clad lead in a remake of Louis Feuillade’s classic 1915 crime serial Les vampires. Introduced by Social Media Manager Shelby Smout.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
USA | 2024 | Tim Burton
Opens September 5, 2024
Beetlejuice is back! Oscar-nominated, singular creative visionary Tim Burton and Oscar nominee and star Michael Keaton reunite for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the long-awaited sequel to Burton’s award-winning Beetlejuice.
Le Samouraï
France | 1967 | 105 min. | Jean-Pierre Melville
Opens September 6, 2024
An elegantly stylized masterpiece of cool by maverick director Jean‑Pierre Melville, Le samouraï is a razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture—with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology.
Paris, Texas (New 4K Restoration)
France | 1984 | 148 min. | Wim Wenders
Opens September 6, 2024
New German Cinema pioneer Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire) brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in Paris, Texas, a profoundly moving character study written by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Sam Shepard. New 4K restoration.
S/He Is Still Her/e - The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documentary
USA | 2024 | 99 min. | David Charles Rodrigues
September 12, 2024
Very few artists lived their art, Genesis died three times for it. Pioneering electronic musician/avant garde artist/spiritual explorer/gender revolutionar y/cult leader? Genesis P. Orridge has been featured in numerous films and videos, but never the full story…never this intimate...until now. Director David Charles Rodrigues scheduled to attend for an in-person Q&A.
Enchanted Evenings: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
United Kingdom | 1943 | 164 min. | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
September 18, 2024
On the British World War II home front an aging gentleman soldier (Roger Livesey), and a brash young one (James McKechnie), learn how to most effectively fight battles of love and war. Mysteriously, a woman Livesey encounters at various stages of his life seems to be the same woman (Deborah Kerr). This is Thelma Schoonmaker Powell’s (Powell’s widow, Scorsese’s triple-Oscar editor) favorite film, not least for its ingenious flashback structure. With Anton Walbrook.
Reel Black: Soul (2020)
USA | 2020 | 100 min. | Pete Docter, Kemp Powers
September 22, 2024
Journey with a music teacher's Soul, exploring life's mysteries through humor, heart, and an extraordinary symphony of emotions.
Edward Scissorhands: Matthew Bourne’s dance version of Tim Burton’s classic
2024 | 95 min. | Matthew Bourne
Opens September 25, 2024
In a castle high on a hill lives Edward; a boy created by an eccentric inventor. When his creator dies he is left alone and unfinished with only scissors for hands until a kindly townswoman invites him to live with her suburban family. Can Edward find his place in the well-meaning community which struggles to see past his curious appearance to the innocence and gentleness within?
Enchanted Evenings: A Canterbury Tale
United Kingdom | 1944 | 125 min. | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
September 25, 2024
Like modern-day Chaucer’s seekers on the Pilgrims Way to the Canterbury Cathedral, two young soldiers (Sgt. John Sweet, Dennis Price) meet a woman (Sheila Sim) in the dark, and later confront a perhaps dangerous magus-like landsman who might help enact their spiritual destinies.
Hundreds of Beavers
USA | 2022 | 108 min. | Mike Cheslik
Opens September 29, 2024
In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.
Enchanted Evenings: I Know Where I’m Going!
United Kingdom | 1945 | 92 min. | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
October 2, 2024
A brash status-obsessed woman (Wendy Hiller) heads north to marry into corporate wealth. But stormy weather strands her on a tiny Hebridean isle, where the landscape, and the alluringly simple life of the locals, seem magical. Are she and the local laird (Roger Livesey) part of an ancient legend? Where is she going?
Movie Club: Practical Magic
USA | 1998 | 104 min. | Griffin Dunne
October 2, 2024
Enchanting international superstars Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman sparkle in this wry, romantic tale of two sisters who discover the gift of Practical Magic. Introduced by Digital Marketing Associate Helen Paulini.
Enchanted Evenings: A Matter of Life and Death (Stairway to Heaven)
United Kingdom | 1946 | 104 min. | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
October 9, 2024
Michael Powell’s favorite film makes reality fantastical, as a pilot (David Niven) bails out without a parachute, having fallen in love with radio operator Kim Hunter’s voice. He survives, they’re in love, but Heaven is short one soul, so Niven must go on trial in a vast celestial amphitheater in order to stay alive. Can the universe’s love manifest as a teardrop? With Roger Livesey.
Enchanted Evenings: Black Narcissus
United Kingdom | 1947 | 100 min. | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
October 16, 2024
In the high Himalayas Anglican nuns (Deborah Kerr, Kathleen Byron and company) try to establish a convent school, but the natives’ earthy ways, and the erotic fires of human nature, are seductive. Can “civilization” tame timeless forces? Red lipstick as rebellious liberation.
Enchanted Evenings: The Red Shoes
United Kingdom | 1948 | 133 min. | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
October 23, 2024
The Archers’ most famous film feverishly accompanies a young ballerina’s (Moira Shearer) rise to fame. Dedicated to Art, she’s tempted by earthbound love (composer Marius Goring), but her red shoes dance her on and on. The film that launched ballet dancers of all genders.
Reel Black: The People Under the Stairs
USA | 1991 | 102 min. | Wes Craven
October 27, 2024
In a sinister mansion, a family stumbles upon a dark secret beneath the stairs, unveiling a twisted realm of horror and oppression.
Enchanted Evenings: The Small Back Room
United Kingdom | 1949 | 106 min. | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
October 30, 2024
Brilliant but tormented bomb expert Sammy Rice is drafted into a secret project during World War II concerning a new land mine that German planes have been dropping over England's beaches. But despite the ministrations of his faithful assistant and girlfriend, Susan, Rice's increasingly problematic alcoholism and a recent injury threaten his ability to work.
Enchanted Evenings: Gone to Earth (35mm)
1950 | 111 min. | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
November 6, 2024
A nature girl (Jennifer Jones) of the Welsh hills is courted by a pious vicar (Cyril Cusack) and tempted by a roguish squire (DavidFarrar). Amidst an evocatively rendered sense of place, sacred and profane love entwine in the Celtic twilight. Presented on 35mm.
Movie Club: Koyaanisqatsi
USA | 1982 | 87 min. | Godfrey Reggio
November 6, 2024
Drawing its title from the Hopi word meaning "life out of balance," this renowned documentary reveals how humanity has grown apart from nature. Introduced by Cinema Rentals Manager Patrick McFarland.
Enchanted Evenings: Tales of Hoffmann
United Kingdom | 1951 | 138 min. | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
November 13, 2024
Set to Jacques Offenbach’s enchanting music, an archetypal Poet (Robert Rounseville) courts women (Moira Shearer, Ludmilla Tcherina) in various locale and times, ever-pursued by his wicked nemesis (Robert Helpmann).
Reel Black: A Wrinkle in Time
USA | 2018 | 109 min. | Ava DuVernay
November 17, 2024
Guided by celestial beings, a girl battles darkness to find her father in a visually stunning 2018 adventure of love and self-discovery.
Enchanted Evenings: Peeping Tom
United Kingdom | 1960 | 101 min. | Michael Powell
November 20, 2024
A psychologist experiments on his young son, who grows into a gentle, photography-obsessed man (Carl Boehm) who lives to see fear on others’ faces. Can we sympathize with a murderer? Powell calls this a “tender film,” full of empathy for a twisted soul. With Moira Shearer.
Mountains on Stage - Winter Edition 2024
France | 2024 | 150 min.
December 10, 2024
A selection of the best films related to mountain activities on the big screen are presented.