Saturday, November 1 11:30am
The young special-needs son of a single father gets in trouble thanks to his pathological lies and trusting nature—he’s soon being trafficked, falling into substance abuse, and unhoused. Perhaps the most grim and yet most beautiful of the early Disney features. -Lee Gardner
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Thursday, November 13 9pm
Screenwriter Oliver Stone and director Brian De Palma faithfully transposed Howard Hawks’ gangster classic 50 years forward to the ‘80s coke boom, inspiring a generation of rap tropes and kindling the conflagration of Al Pacino’s “Big Al” late acting style in the process. Pacino is still arguably great here, but the secret sauce
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Saturday, November 15 11:15am ONE SHOW ONLY!
This is the end—or so it was understood at the time, before original IP became a value proposition for shareholders. Pros: George Lucas upped the ante on set pieces and the three leads remain magnetic. Con: The first recurring use of blowing up the doomsday thingy as a stock climax and, of course, Ewoks.
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Monday, November 17 7pm - One Show Only!
Andrei Tarkovsky’s unconventional account of the life of a 15th-century Russian painter is likely to live on as long as its subject’s icons. Tarkovsky muse Anatoly Solonitsyn never paints a stroke as Andrei. The film instead shadows his episodic struggles with making art in light of the cruelty and venality of the muddy world. A
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Thursday, November 20 9pm
Smart move on Terry Gilliam’s part adopting a cockeyed steampunk aesthetic here. It places the film slightly outside the typical pop-culture timescale and keeps a fable-like veneer slapped on top of what is, at root, a dystopian tale of repression, stupidity, and cruelty. Jonathan Pryce stars as the most everyman Everyman ever.
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Thursday, December 11 9pm
Random people keep turning up gruesomely murdered, their placid killers unaware of having done the deed. The unrelated victims sport an “x” carved deep into their throats. From that premise, Japanese dread master Kiyoshi Kurosawa weaves one of the great modern psychological thrillers and perhaps his deepest meditation on the lon
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