Films

They were never in time to book a gig at Toronto’s The Rivoli, then one day… They weren’t in their time at all. From Matt Johnson (BLACKBERRY) and Jay McCarrol’s cult comedy series comes an adventure 17 years in the making. NIRVANNA sets the flux capacitor for a gut-busting and time-skewing real good time.

In his unorthodox queer romance, Harry Lighton crafts a film about a sadomasochistic relationship that is both transgressive and disarming, starring Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård in fearless performances as a mild young man and his leather-clad dom lover.

It all starts with something magnificent…. Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis and Alicia Silverstone, among others.

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Michael B. Jordan) return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back in Ryan Coogler’s genre-shifting blockbuster.

A winner of this year’s Cannes Competition Jury Prize, SIRÂT is at once a visceral and metaphysical excursion, in which a man desperately searches for his missing daughter amid a roving raver community in the harsh southern deserts of Morocco. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards®

Winner of multiple prizes at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s sly, genre-bending political thriller stars Wagner Moura as Marcelo, a technology expert on the lam and seeking refuge in the Brazilian city of Recife in 1977 — and is a thrilling and pleasurable neo-noir steeped in the filmmaker’s love for and knowledge of cinema.

Academy Award–winning director Chloé Zhao (NOMADLAND) helms this lush and tender drama about William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) and his family, as seen through the eyes of his thoughtful wife Agnes (a luminous Jessie Buckley). Nominated for 8 Academy Awards®

When their evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years, a band of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue the daughter of one of their own. Nominated for 13 Academy Awards®

Renate Reinsve and Stellan Skarsgård lead this moving drama about a burgeoning stage actress and her estranged father, a once-renowned director who’s reappeared to both revive his career and repair his family’s broken bond. The novelistic drama marks another high watermark collaboration between actress Renate Reinsve and filmmaker Joachim Trier (THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD).

A standout critical and audience favorite at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Clint Bentley’s lyrical adaptation of Denis Johnson's acclaimed novella stars Joel Edgerton as a laborer whose life bears witness to several decades of profound change and social upheaval. A lovely meditation on man’s connection to the natural world and a testament to the way that seemingly mundane incidents make up a life.

Dubbed “the greatest that never was,” Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) was Formula One’s most promising phenom of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later, he’s approached by his former teammate Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem) to come back for one last shot.

Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.

Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness. Set amid the underground world of 1950s table tennis, MARTY SUPREME evokes the vibe and intensity of director Josh Safdie’s earlier film UNCUT GEMS and features a career-making performance from Timothée Chalamet. Nominated for 9 Academy Awards®

Fun-loving Pasha works as a nonconformist teacher at the same primary school he attended as a child, but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine transforms the school and community he loves from a place of education and self-expression to one of militarization and state ideology. Filmed secretly over two years, this Oscar-nominated documentary shows the impossible choices citizens face when the country they love is in the hands of a ruler who demands it become something they cannot accept.

Ethan Hawke delivers a charming, lived-in performance as lyricist Lorenz Hart, holding court at Sardi’s on the historic night of his former collaborator Richard Rodgers’ (Andrew Scott) greatest triumph: the premiere of Oklahoma!

Guillermo del Toro's feature debut, a highly unorthodox tale about the seductiveness of the idea of immortality, a kindly antiques dealer happens upon an ancient golden device in the shape of a scarab — and soon finds himself its victim. New 4K Restoration

Musical prodigy, admired and beloved by his many collaborators (not the least of which dubbed him “the fifth Beatle”), keyboardist and songwriter Billy Preston was also troubled, underrecognized and elusive — a closeted gay man raised in a Black church community that stridently condemned homosexuality (or pretended it didn’t exist). Electrifying footage and moving interviews bring the maestro front and center.

In the year 2071 on Mars, a lethal virus is released when a band of rogues blows up a tanker truck. Putting a stop to any future biochemical assaults — and making some reward money off the job — are Capt. Spike Siegel and his crew of vigilantes.

This delightfully imaginative film is the timeless story of a resourceful young witch who uses her broom to create a delivery service, only to lose her gift of flight in a moment of self-doubt. The new 4K remaster highlights the great thought and care put into every frame of the film, celebrating the authentic craftsmanship of Hayao Miyazaki’s hand-drawn, animated feature.

NATCHEZ captures an unsettling clash between history and memory in a small Mississippi town — a layered mosaic of people contending with the weight of the past in a place where it is always present. Equal parts amusing and disturbing, we journey through an antebellum tourist destination at a crossroads as it grapples with a deeply troubled history that is so thoroughly ingrained in its present, we’re left to wonder if it’s actually past at all.

Cyber-bodied agent Batou and his still human partner Togusa embark on a journey through a technological dystopia to uncover the shocking truth behind a string of murders perpetrated by a prototype android model in this follow-up to the beloved anime classic.

QUEEN KELLY should have been a dream collaboration — a glamorous world-famous movie star (Gloria Swanson) and her financier lover (Joseph P. Kennedy) hire the most celebrated director of the time (Erich von Stroheim) to make a groundbreaking independent film. Shot in sequence, but shut down by Swanson after just a few of the scandalous African sequences were filmed, the unfinished QUEEN KELLY has been reconstructed based on von Stroheim’s original scripts.

A middle-aged banker, dissatisfied with his suburban existence, elects to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life — but finds that starting over in America is not as easy as it sounds in this cautionary sci-fi tale from director John Frankenheimer.

Gael García Bernal stars as Ferdinand Magellan in this grand, decolonial retelling of the Portuguese explorer’s life and expeditions. A vast, globe-spanning epic from Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz conjures the sublime, suggesting each raindrop and each blade of grass carries a power infinitely greater than Magellan’s self-importance.

From the Oscar-winning director of NAVALNY, a father-to-be who tries to figure out what is happening with the AI insanity. Combining expert interviews, home videos and animations, the film meets this pressing AI discourse with curiosity and heart, clarifying complex ideas while acknowledging how much remains uncertain.

After a friendly alien becomes stranded on Earth, a young boy named Elliott (Henry Thomas) and his little sister, Gertie (Drew Barrymore) endeavor to keep its existence a secret. When E.T. falls ill, young Elliot must help him get back home and avoid abduction by the authorities.

As both director and cinematographer, debut filmmaker Brittany Shyne immerses the viewer in the absorbing rhythms and intimate materiality of African-American farm life in Georgia. As government support for Black farmers dwindles, exquisite black-and-white imagery lovingly captures the rough-worn hands, faces and tools-of-trade of octogenarian patriarchs fighting to preserve their family legacies and century-old homesteads.

An advanced prototype robot child named David (Haley Joel Osment) is programmed to show unconditional love. When his human family, unprepared for the consequences, abandons him, David embarks on a dangerous quest to become a real boy. Steven Spielberg helms this futuristic story, the brainchild of Stanley Kubrick, who died before he could bring it to the big screen.

Keith Jarrett’s legendary performance in January 1975 nearly didn’t happen. KÖLN 75 dramatizes how the concert was conceived and orchestrated by the efforts of a teenage up-and-coming concert promoter (Mala Emde) and nearly stymied when the Bösendorfer Imperial Grand promised to the pianist (John Magaro) was nowhere to be found.

“Northwest Passage” — The small northwest town of Twin Peaks, Washington is shaken up when the body of the Homecoming Queen, Laura Palmer, is discovered washed up on a riverbank, wrapped in plastic.

An astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.

A happily engaged couple (Zendaya, Robert Pattinson) is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails. Co-starring Mamoudou Athie, Alana Haim, Hailey Gates and Zoë Winters. Directed by Kristoffer Borgli (DREAM SCENARIO, SICK OF MYSELF). Exclusive 35mm Engagement

A celebration of life filled with raw honesty, surreal bursts of imagination and brazen irreverence, ANDRÉ IS AN IDIOT shows us what it really means to live happily, truthfully, and hilariously. In this Sundance award winning documentary, André Riccardi sets out to chronicle his final journey after receiving a diagnosis he could have prevented, through comedic vérité storytelling and fantastical stop-motion interludes.

Bandmates and best friends Josie, Valerie and Melody find themselves in the midst of massive, multibranded success — as well as a fiendish plot to remake the minds of the world’s youth into zombielike consumers. A candy-colored skeptical musical adventure for everyone!

Past and present collide in this sly psychodrama by German auteur Christian Petzold, as Laura (Paula Beer), a young woman from Berlin, survives a countryside car crash before she gradually enters the fold of a mysterious family. MIROIRS NO. 3 continues the filmmaker’s thematic exploration of trauma, memory, myth and identity in a tale that is simultaneously haunted and enchanted.

The iconic gender-exploding rock sensation and enduring cult classic big-screen adaptation of John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s stage musical about an “internationally ignored” but divinely talented rock diva, characterized by Mitchell as inhabiting a “beautiful gender of one.”

A group of scientists are dispatched to investigate the world's first theme park with actual live dinosaurs. Genetic manipulation, chaos theory, and family tensions are explored, and the state of visual effects in the movies was changed forever.

Steven Spielberg brings every strange turn to vivid and tactile life in this complex Cold War story of the 1962 exchange of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Soviet agent Rudolph Abel (Mark Rylance), negotiated by James Donovan (Tom Hanks).

An unconventional work in every way, now in its 40th anniversary year KOYAANISQATSI wordlessly surveys the rapidly changing environments of the Northern Hemisphere, in an astonishing collage created by director Godfrey Reggio, cinematographer Ron Fricke and composer Philip Glass.

“Traces to Nowhere” — Agent Cooper enjoys the comforts of the Great Northern Hotel. Bobby Briggs and Mike Nelson are released from jail. Doctor Hayward hands over the autopsy report on Laura Palmer.
“Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer” — Ben Horne's brother, Jerry, arrives in Twin Peaks; together they travel to One Eyed Jack's and meet with the madam, Blackie O'Reilly. Audrey leaves a clue for Cooper. Deputy Hawk finds a bloody towel near the crime scene.

Set during the height of Stalin’s Great Terror, the great Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s pitch-black absurdist tale concerns an idealistic government-appointed prosecutor who sets out to expose the mistreatment of a dissident Bolshevik writer who has been jailed and tortured without evidence of wrongdoing. Loznitsa constructs his story with a patient yet unmistakable sense of mounting dread, focusing on the devastating minutiae that allows fascism to function in our world.

A man witnesses UFOs in the night skies and — along with a single mother who believes her son has been abducted — begins an obsessive quest for the truth. Meanwhile, government agents track evidence that will lead mankind to the greatest discovery of all.

Live at the Belcourt: How Music Helped Us Rebuild traces the return of live music to our historic stage during our early, uncertain years as a nonprofit arts center. As we worked to rebuild audiences and stabilize the organization, local organizers, promoters and artists stepped forward, bringing concerts back to the theatre and restoring energy and community engagement. In the process, the 1925 Hall’s stage became an early home for a rising movement of artists who reshaped the city’s musical identity for a new century.

Steven Spielberg’s purposeful modern-day retelling of H.G. Wells' novel War of the Worlds is grand sci-fi spectacle and a key player in post 9/11 pop culture. Tom Cruise stars as Ray Ferrier, an ordinary man who summons extraordinary courage to protect his children when a global army of alien invaders set their sights and their devastating war machines upon Earth and the entire human population. Screening in 35mm

“Rest in Pain” — Cooper meets with Audrey, who confesses to leaving him the note about One Eyed Jack's. Cooper tells Truman he can't remember who the killer was in his dream, but insists the dream is a code to solving the crime.
“The One-Armed Man” — Cooper questions Dr. Jacoby, who suspects Leo Johnson is the killer. Gordon Cole, Cooper's supervisor, calls in with Albert's report. Josie Packard spies on Ben Horne and Catherine Martell. Hawk tracks down the One-Armed Man.
“Cooper’s Dreams” — Cooper and company have tea with the Log Lady, who tells them there was a third man following after Leo and Jacques the night Laura died. At Jacques Renault's cabin Cooper, Hawk, and Truman find Waldo the bird.

Accompanied by his feisty, independent ex-flame Marion Ravenwood, archaeologist Indiana Jones embarks on a thrilling quest to locate the mystical Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis do — dodging traps, snakes, and treachery along the way.

During a mission to Mars, American astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead and left behind. But he’s still alive. Against all odds, Watney must find a way to contact Earth in the hope that scientists can devise a rescue plan to bring him home.

Washington, D.C., 2054. Murder has been eliminated, and the guilty are punished before any crime has ever been committed. All evidence to convict is seen by “Precogs,” three psychic beings whose visions of murder have never been wrong. And no one works harder for the Justice Department’s elite Precrime unit than its top man, Chief John Anderton (Tom Cruise). Until he becomes its number-one suspect…

“Realization Time”— Audrey cons her way into working at the perfume counter where Laura worked and discovers that it's being used as a recruitment post for One Eyed Jack's. James, Donna and Maddy plan to lure Jacoby away from his office.
“The Last Evening”— Audrey is hired at One Eyed Jack's, but is caught in a trap when her father arrives. Cooper gets Jacques Renault to reveal the details of Laura's last night in the cabin. Deputy Andy saves Truman's life and apprehends Renault.