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The American Sector
For 18 months, Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez (Manakamana, The Reagan Show) traveled the US to document sections of the Berlin Wall that are on display in over 75 locations, ranging from the s... READ MORE
Directed by: Courtney Stephens, Pacho Velez
Runtime: 69 mins
Format: Digital
Clifford
Screening in the Music Box Garden | Extremely Limited Seating Available | A Part of Maniacal Misfits with PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE When his brother asks him to look after his young son, Cliff... READ MORE
Directed by: Paul Flaherty
Runtime: 90 mins
Format: Digital
Crimson Gold
A murder and a suicide occur early one morning in a jewelry store. Behind this headline lies the story of a desperate man’s feelings of humiliation in a world of social injustice.When his friend Ali s... READ MORE
Directed by: Jafar Panahi
Runtime: 95 mins
Format: Digital
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Screening in the Music Box Garden | Extremely Limited Seating Available | A Part of Mockumentaries with WAITING FOR GUFFMAN Written by Lona Williams and directed by Michael Patrick Jann... READ MORE
Directed by: Michael Patrick Jann
Runtime: 97 mins
Format: Digital
I Carry You With Me
Heidi Ewing’s luminous, moving debut as a narrative filmmaker follows a tender romance spanning decades. Starting in provincial Mexico and continuing as first Iván, then Gerardo, j... READ MORE
Directed by: Heidi Ewing
Runtime: 111 mins
Format: DCP
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Screening in 35mm | Theatrical Edition The culmination of nearly 10 years' work and conclusion to Peter Jackson's epic trilogy based on the timeless J.R.R. Tolkien classic, "The Lord of the Rings... READ MORE
Directed by: Peter Jackson
Runtime: 201 mins
Format: 35mm
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Screening in 35mm | Theatrical Edition The sequel to the Golden Globe-nominated and AFI Award-winning "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," "The Two Towers" follows the continuing... READ MORE
Directed by: Peter Jackson
Runtime: 179 mins
Format: 35mm
Lourdes
LOURDES: A stunningly beautiful mountainous village in the Southwest foothills of the Pyrenees went from a sleepy scenic town to a sacred wonder after 1858, when a 14-year-old peasant girl claimed to... READ MORE
Directed by: Thierry Demaizière, Alban Teurlai
Runtime: 92 mins
Format: Digital
Lydia Lunch: The War is Never Over
LYDIA LUNCH: THE WAR IS NEVER OVER by Beth B is the first career-spanning documentary retrospective of Lydia Lunch’s confrontational, acerbic and always electric artistry. As New York City’s... READ MORE
Directed by: Beth B
Runtime: 95 mins
Format: Digital
Mama Weed
Opens Friday, July 16th Patience Portefeux is a translator for the Paris police by day, looking in on her aging mother in the evenings. She’s months behind on her bills, so when when she finds he... READ MORE
Directed by: Jean-Paul Salomé
Runtime: 104 mins
Format: DCP
My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To
“Do you have any idea what we do to get that blood?” Dwight and his sister Jessie reach a crossroads over what to do about their brother Thomas' mysterious illness. The increasingly dangerous tas... READ MORE
Directed by: Jonathan Cuartas
Runtime: 90 mins
Format: Digital
The Phantom
In February 1983, Carlos DeLuna was arrested for the murder of Wanda Lopez, a young woman working at a gas station in Corpus Christi, Texas. DeLuna said he wasn’t the killer; it had been another man n... READ MORE
Directed by: Patrick Forbes
Runtime: 82 mins
Format: Digital
Phantom of the Paradise
Screening in the Music Box Garden | Extremely Limited Seating Available | A Part of Maniacal Misfits with CLIFFORD After record producer Swan (Paul Williams) steals the music of songwr... READ MORE
Directed by: Brian De Palma
Runtime: 92 mins
Format: Digital
Pig
Opens Wednesday, July 14th A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.
Directed by: Michael Sarnoski
Runtime: 92 mins
Format: DCP
Reel Rock 15
Capturing the greatest stories and sends from the year in climbing, the four new films of REEL ROCK 15 deliver a joyful dose of inspiration, heart and humor. Witness an unimaginable triumph of determi... READ MORE
Runtime: 105 mins
Format: DCP
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
It's not where you go. It's what you leave behind. Chef, writer, adventurer, provocateur: Anthony Bourdain lived his life unabashedly. ROADRUNNER is an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at ho... READ MORE
Directed by: Morgan Neville
Runtime: 119 mins
Format: DCP
Sun Children
SUN CHILDREN is the story of 12-year-old ALI and his three friends. Together they work hard to survive and support their families, doing small jobs in a garage and committing petty crimes to... READ MORE
Directed by: Majid Majidi
Runtime: 99 mins
Format: Digital
Tove
Set from 1944 to 1956, the Swedish-language film shows how painter Tove Jansson finds worldwide success from an unexpected side project, in the midst of artistic struggles and an unconventional person... READ MORE
Directed by: Zaida Bergroth
Runtime: 103 mins
Format: Digital
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams — writers, celebrities, geniuses — catapulted to fame in the 1950s, sparking a friendship and rivalry spanning nearly 40 years until their deaths within... READ MORE
Directed by: Lisa Immordino Vreeland
Runtime: 81 mins
Format: DCP
Upheaval: The Journey of Menachem Begin
Imprisoned by the Soviets. Orphaned by the Holocaust. Elected Prime Minister. Crowned peacemaker by the Nobel Prize Committee. Disgraced by the Lebanon War. Menachem Begin was a pillar of the Sta... READ MORE
Directed by: Jonathan Gruber
Runtime: 87 mins
Format: Digital
