Please join Cultivate Cinema Circle and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center as we showcase the debut features of some of today’s modern visionary filmmakers with a year-long series dubbed Women Direct. Our fourth selection is Lucrecia Martel’s La Ciénaga… Read More
It might be coming from an unlikely source (MoviePass—the theater ticketing subscription system—has partnered with The Orchard for distribution), but American Animals is one of the best films of the year thus far. Despite a fair share of critics who disagree, I found its documentary/drama hybrid of an ostentatious true-life heist riveting from start to finish. Check it out for yourself at North Park Theatre and Dipson Theatres Eastern Hills.
And if you want a bit of nostalgia and genuine human compassion in today's climate of bile-fueled rhetoric, the Fred Rogers documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor? opens Dipson Amherst and Eastern Hills for a breath of much-needed joy.
Not to be forgotten: the screening room cinema cafe brings Vincent Gallo's Buffalo 66 back to the big screen for a limited 20th anniversary run. See their website for showtimes.
Also opening wide:
• Jurassic World: FALLEN KINGDOM at AMC Theatres, Regal Cinemas & Flix Stadium 10
Tonight we host the second event in our duo of new restorations, Olivier Assayas in the Mid-90s: Irma Vep, starring Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud and Nathalie Richard!
TOMORROW (6/21) at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (7:00pm), we screen the second of two mid-90s masterpieces from Olivier Assayas with IRMA VEP, starring Maggie Cheung! Details: cultivatecinemacircle.com/irma-vep/
