Written and directed by Ava DuVernay, ORIGIN portrays the tragedy and triumph of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson, played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, who experiences unfathomable personal loss and love as she crosses continents and cultures to craft one of the defining American books of our time.
When the Muscogee Nation suddenly begins censoring their free press, a rogue reporter fights to expose her government’s corruption. An enthralling, edge-of-your-seat documentary that unfurls with the energy and suspense of a political thriller, BAD PRESS is a timely and unprecedented story about the battle for freedom of the press.
Minneapolis car salesman Jerry Lundegaard hatches an elaborate plot to extort a ransom from his father-in-law by hiring two vicious but inept criminals to kidnap his wife. When the plan goes horribly wrong, Minnesota police chief Marge Gunderson is hot on their trail in the Coen Brothers’ brilliant snowbound noir.
The improbable but true story of Jamaica's first bobsled team — comprising a helicopter pilot, a reggae singer, and a sprinter — which took part in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
A crew in Antarctica finds a neighboring camp destroyed and its crew dead. Whatever killed them is nowhere to be found, unless it's hidden in plain sight.
When a litter of Dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the owners search wintery London to find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement. One of Disney’s most enduring, entertaining animated films.
Rescued from a car accident during a Colorado snowstorm and being nursed by his number-one fan, a best-selling author of a series of romance novels finds himself writing for his life. Adapted from Stephen King’s bestselling novel and directed by Rob Reiner. Screening in 35mm
In commemoration of the centenary of the “father of African cinema,” Senegalese novelist/filmmaker Ousmane Sembène — both a sharp critic of modern Africa and passionate advocate for its autonomy, whose filmography spans 40 years — we offer these new restorations of three revolutionary films from the 1970s.
In Dakar, a French delegation is shown the door and local government officials claim autonomy — but is some light embezzlement and a backdoor deal with the French to blame for El Hadji’s newfound impotence on the night he’s to be wed to a third bride? Sembène’s satire of an inept patriarchy lopes along to the breezy sounds of the wedding band until truth exacts its retribution.
Banned in Senegal upon its original release, CEDDO is an ambitious, multilayered historical epic that explores the combustible interstices between a pre-colonial village’s Muslim majority and its outsiders, followers of an Indigenous religion who act upon the suspicion that they’re being targeted for religious conversion.