Major Oscar buzz for Cate Blanchett's commanding performance in TÁR.
Dec 2, 6 & 7
Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and first-ever female music director of a major German orchestra.
"The movie belongs to Blanchett, in a turn so exacting and enormous that it feels less like a performance than a full-body possession." - Entertainment Weekly
Celebrate Winter With Warren Miller’s 73rd Annual Film, 'Daymaker'
Two Shows Only: Dec 7 & 11
BIG SCREEN, BIG SNOW and BIG HILLS! Warren Miller films are annual celebrations that cross generations and connect us to the comforting constant of snow. Daymaker, the 73rd feature film in the Warren Miller library, will take you on a journey to peaks so high, they’ll replace the mountains in your mind with ones that free your mind.
The profoundly emotional and cinematic film, TILL, starts Friday
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"Danielle Deadwyler gives the breakout performance of the year as a Black activist mother who used the 1955 lynching of her son Emmett Till to galvanize the civil-rights movement. Chinonye Chukwu crafts this emotional powerhouse into essential viewing." - Peter Travers, ABC News
CINEMA SPECULATION* PRESENTS DIRTY HARRY!
Two Shows Only: Dec 2 & 5!
When a madman calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces the city, tough-as-nails San Francisco Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath.
*Cinema Speculation is an ongoing series inspired by the films Quentin Tarantino features in his new book of the same name. Get it at Epic Books!
"Maybe the most beautifully realized documentary in recent memory." - Los Angeles Times
All That Breathes plays Dec 3, 5 & 7
Amidst the darkening backdrop of Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the Black Kite.
Hard to believe E.T. turns 40 this year! Celebrate with a special chance to see it in 35mm!
Dec 3 & 4 ONLY!
A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet.
The World of Wong Kar Wai 4K Restorations continue with HAPPY TOGETHER
Dec 4, 5, & 8!
A couple take a trip to Argentina but both men find their lives drifting in opposite directions.
"For all the simplicity of the narrative, 'Happy Together' is anything but slight. It's a moody, contemplative piece of work, and a vividly tactile one as well, lingering on the senses." - Vice
"Grand celestial theatre, in which the greatest storyteller in modern movies invites us to set aside any scepticism, look up, and believe." - The Guardian
Steven Spielberg's 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' plays Dec 8 & 10!
Roy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.
TERRIFIER 2 slashes its way to the Playhouse! Dec 3 & 10
After being resurrected by a sinister entity, Art the Clown returns to the timid town of Miles County where he targets a teenage girl and her younger brother on Halloween night.
"It indulges in all of its innate, nasty impulses, and then just keeps going... Get together with a group of the rowdiest genre freaks you can find and go nuts." - Austin Chronicle
JOHN CARPENTER'S STARMAN is back on the big screen for a limited time!
Dec 6 & 7 Only!
An alien takes the form of a young Wisconsin widow's husband and makes her drive him to his departure point in Arizona. Distrustful government agents, along with a more ambivalent scientist, give pursuit in hopes of intercepting them.
1947 classic, Black Narcissus, is on the Big Screen for two nights only! Part of our Powell & Pressburger series!
Dec 8 & 11
A group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.
The Room in 35mm
Dec 2 @ 9:20
"To make a movie so bad it's good you need vision, drive, luck and obsessive vanity. Fortuitiously Tommy Wiseau appears to possess all of these qualities, combined with a total lack of acting talent." - The Guardian
One Final Chance!