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About Endlessness
A reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality.We wander, dreamlike, gently guided by our Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments take on the sam... READ MORE
Directed by: Roy Andersson
Runtime: 76 mins
Berlin Alexanderplatz
An African immigrant struggles to make a new life for himself in the big city in director-co-writer Burhan Qurbani's (We Are Young. We Are Strong.) audacious, neon-lit reinterpretation of Alfred Döbli... READ MORE
Directed by: Burhan Qurbani
Runtime: 183 mins
Format: Digital
Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts
This illuminating documentary explores the life of a unique American artist, a man with a remarkable and unlikely biography. Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural... READ MORE
Directed by: Jeffrey Wolf
Runtime: 75 mins
Format: Digital
Candyman
Screening in the Music Box Garden | Extremely Limited Seating Available Each Member Ticket admits 2 guests. In order to accomodate as many Members as possible, please limit ticket purchases to tw... READ MORE
Directed by: Bernard Rose
Runtime: 104 mins
Format: Digital
Dazed and Confused
Featuring a Pre-Recorded Cast Reunion Conversation Hosted by Jack Black with Richard Linklater, Matthew McConaughey, & Park PoseyThis coming-of-age film follows the mayhem of group of rowdy teenag... READ MORE
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Runtime: 102 mins
Format: DCP
The Djinn
The story follows a mute 12-year-old, Dylan Jacobs, as he discovers a mysterious book of spells inside his new apartment. Grieving the loss of his mother and feeling isolated from everyone except for... READ MORE
Directed by: David Charbonier, Justin Powell
Runtime: 82 mins
Format: DCP
Don't Panic
Two Showings Only A bonkers tribute to A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET from Mexican horror king Rubén Galindo Jr. (CEMETERY OF TERROR, GRAVE ROBBERS), DON'T PANIC is a surreal and action-packed rager t... READ MORE
Runtime: 90 mins
Format: DCP
Gunda
Experiential cinema in its purest form, GUNDA chronicles the unfiltered lives of a mother pig, a flock of chickens, and a herd of cows with masterful intimacy. Using stark, transcendent black and... READ MORE
Directed by: Victor Kossakovsky
Runtime: 93 mins
In Silico
A young filmmaker sets out to document a brilliant neuroscientist who has become frustrated with his field’s status quo. With time elapsing and millions of dollars on the line, In Silico explores... READ MORE
Directed by: Noah Hutton
Runtime: 83 mins
Format: Digital
Los Hermanos - The Brothers
Two Cuban-born brothers, both virtuoso musicians – Aldo and Ilmar López-Gavilán – live on opposite sides of the geopolitical chasm that separates the U.S. and Cuba. But although they lead very differe... READ MORE
Directed by: Marcia Jarmel, Ken Schneider
Runtime: 84 mins
Format: Digital
Lust for Gold: A Race Against Time
LUST FOR GOLD: A RACE AGAINST TIME is a true story is about obsession, greed, and the hunt for gold. Boyhood dreams of treasure lead to a lifelong search when a retired missile scientist makes a monum... READ MORE
Directed by: Robert May
Runtime: 83 mins
Format: Digital
My Wonderful Wanda
Winner of awards at Tribeca and Vancouver, MY WONDERFUL WANDA is a delightful satire of the haves and the have-nots set against the backdrop of a gorgeous lakeside villa in Switzerland. At t... READ MORE
Directed by: Bettina Oberli
Runtime: 110 mins
Format: Digital
The Paper Tigers
As teenagers, kung fu disciples Danny (Alain Uy), Hing (Ron Yuan) and Jim (Mykel Shannon Jenkins) were inseparable. Fast forward 25 years, and each has grown into a washed-up middle-aged man seemingly... READ MORE
Directed by: Tran Quoc Bao
Runtime: 108 mins
Format: Digital
Paris Calligrammes
PARIS CALLIGRAMMES is German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger’s love letter to the city where she came of age, and her explorations of her own artistic growth, fueled by bookstores, jazz clubs, workshops and... READ MORE
Directed by: Ulrike Ottinger
Runtime: 131 mins
Format: Digital
The Perfect Candidate
Opens Friday, May 21st A revealing look at the changing roles of women in Saudi Arabia from director Haifaa Al Mansour (WADJDA), THE PERFECT CANDIDATE follows Maryam, a determined young... READ MORE
Directed by: Haifaa Al Mansour
Runtime: 105 mins
Format: DCP
Perfumes
Anne Walberg is a master in perfumes. She creates fragrances and sells her incredible gift to many companies. She is a diva, selfish and temperamental. Guillaume is her new driver and the only one who... READ MORE
Directed by: Grégory Magne
Runtime: 100 mins
Format: Digital
Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement
When punk rock exploded in D.C. in the late 1970s, it was a mighty convergence of powerful music, inter-generational friendships, and clear minds. Punk the Capital captures that transformati... READ MORE
Directed by: Paul Bishow, James Schneider
Runtime: 90 mins
Format: Digital
Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm
Black Sabbath, Queen, The Stone Roses, Oasis, Coldplay, Simple Minds, Robert Plant, Manic Street Preachers are some of the greatest bands and musicians of our time, but what is the one thing these tit... READ MORE
Directed by: Hannah Berryman
Runtime: 93 mins
Format: Digital
The Room
This “electrifying American black comedy about love, passion, betrayal and lies” stars (and was directed, written and produced by) the mysterious Tommy Wiseau, and has been a cult favorite in LA since... READ MORE
Directed by: Tommy Wiseau
Runtime: 99 mins
Format: Digital
Rush Hour
Screening in the Music Box Garden | Extremely Limited Seating Available Each Member Ticket admits 2 guests. In order to accomodate as many Members as possible, please limit ticket purchases to tw... READ MORE
Directed by: Brett Ratner
Runtime: 98 mins
Format: Digital
Shiva Baby
A near college graduate, Danielle, gets paid by her sugar daddy and rushes to meet her neurotic parents at a family shiva. Upon arrival, she is accosted by various estranged relatives about her... READ MORE
Directed by: Emma Seligman
Runtime: 77 mins
Format: Digital
Sister Act
Screening in the Music Box Garden | Extremely Limited Seating Available Each Member Ticket admits 2 guests. In order to accomodate as many Members as possible, please limit ticket purchases to tw... READ MORE
Directed by: Emile Ardolino
Runtime: 100 mins
Format: Digital
The Story of a Three Day Pass
*New 4k Restoration*Melvin Van Peebles’s edgy, angsty, romantic first feature could never have been made in America. Unable to break into a segregated Hollywood, Van Peebles decamped to France, taught... READ MORE
Directed by: Melvin Van Peebles
Runtime: 87 mins
Format: DCP
There is No Evil
Shot in secret and smuggled out of Iran, There is No Evil is an anthology film comprising four moral tales about men faced with a simple yet unthinkable choice – to follow orders to enforce... READ MORE
Directed by: Mohammad Rasoulof
Runtime: 150 mins
Format: Digital
Wet Season
It is monsoon season in Singapore and the city is pouring with rain.Wet Season follows the plight of Ling, a Chinese language teacher, whose marriage and school life are fraying apart because she... READ MORE
Directed by: Anthony Chen
Runtime: 103 mins
Format: Digital
