This screening includes The Mahabharata
7 pm
A captivating adaptation of the Hindu epic as imagined by award-winning director Peter Brook.
- Year released:
- 1989
- Series:
- Michael A. McRobbie's Choice
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This screening includes The Mahabharata
7 pm
A captivating adaptation of the Hindu epic as imagined by award-winning director Peter Brook.
This screening includes Otherness: The Films of Priyanka Das
7 pm
Director Priyanka Das will re-familiarize you with the experience of otherness, her films stunning visual journeys in search of a definition of oneself among others.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes The Hottest August
7 pm
Named one of the best films of 2019, The Hottest August is a film about climate change disguised as a portrait of collective anxiety. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow!
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
4 pm
With its vignettes of communities desperate for prison jobs, people paying huge fines for minor offenses, and more, Brett Story's film weaves a portrait of a culture where jail is part of daily life. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series Presents Brett Story
7 pm
A conversation with award-winning documentarian Brett Story.
This screening includes Lord of the Flies
7 pm
When a group of schoolboys are marooned on a desert island, anarchy abounds as the thin veneer of "civilization" quickly erodes.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels
7 pm
Told through intimate interviews, archival footage, and diary excerpts, discover the incredible and forgotten history of Yugoslav cameraman Stevan Labudović's mission to make films to support the Algerian anti-colonial effort and counter French propaganda in the 1960s. Q&A with filmmaker Mila Turajlić to follow.
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This screening includes Between the Rains
7 pm
With unprecedented access to the Turkana people, this moving and stunningly photographed coming-of-age story reveals the grave threats facing one of the world's oldest communities. Q&A with filmmakers Andrew H. Brown and Moses Thuranira to follow.
4 pm
A poetic and unflinching cinematic memoir in which a young Afro-Latina stares down historical, societal, and generational trauma. Q&A to follow.
This screening includes The Taste of Mango
7 pm
In this cinematic love letter flowing through time and generations, director Chloe Abrahams probes raw questions her mother and grandmother have long brushed aside, tenderly untangling painful knots in her family's unspoken past. Q&A to follow.
7 pm
A breathtaking documentary that serves as both a poignant exploration of one family's pain and a thoughtful indictment of the prison-industrial complex.
This screening includes Pitch Black
7 pm
Get in the mood for the April 8 total solar eclipse with our special First Thursdays screening of this eclipse-centric 2000 sci-fi classic!
World Premiere, Live Music Event
This screening includes Double Exposure 2024
7 pm
Experience world premieres of new short films with original scores, the result of the magic which happens when pairing film-production students with student composers and sound designers who collaborate on the creation of a new film.
Sold Out, Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear, Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill
8 pm
All tickets have been distributed for this event. There will be no standby line for this sold-out screening. The definitive documentary about cultural icon William Shatner, with director Alexandre O. Philippe and star William Shatner in person.
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This screening includes Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series Presents Thomas Antonic
4 pm
Spend an evening with filmmaker, poet, and scholar Thomas Antonic.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes One More Step West Is the Sea: ruth weiss
7 pm
A triumphant portrait of the pioneering Beat poet, jazz performer, writer, and painter ruth weiss who continued breaking rules until the end. Q&A with filmmaker Thomas Antonic to follow!
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes AAPI Movement Short Film Festival
7 pm
Showcasing the Asian American and Pacific Islander community through film. Q&A with one of the filmmakers to follow!
This screening includes The Muppets
7 pm
The Muppets' biggest fan reunites the gang to save their theater in this heartwarming family classic.
This screening includes All That Jazz
4 pm
Musing on his own obsessions with sex, pills, art, and death, Bob Fosse's sublime musical goes beyond the razzle dazzle of show business to spectacular effect. 45th anniversary screening.
This screening includes Robby Müller: Living the Light
7 pm
Intertwining archival material with excerpts of his oeuvre, this extraordinary film essay about cinematographer Robby Müller exemplifies why his groundbreaking work has inspired generations.
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear, Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
7 pm
Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the classic Hoosier football story with a brand-new Director's Cut with director David Anspaugh and writer Angelo Pizzo in person!
This screening includes The Greenest Building
7 pm
Is demolition in the name of sustainability really the best use of natural, social, and economic resources? Or is it resulting in devastating environmental and cultural consequences?
New 2K Restoration
This screening includes Reefer Madness
4 pm
Becoming an ironic cult hit in the '70s, this 1936 camp classic hysterically warns the public of the horrors of marijuana and is an early example of the exploitation genre.
New 4K Restoration, Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes A Question of Color
7 pm
One of the first documentaries to interrogate the attitudes that Black Americans have about their own appearances. Q&A with filmmaker Kathe Sandler to follow!
Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
This screening includes The Exiles
7 pm
Revisiting her unfinished documentary about the exiled leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, filmmaker Christine Choy reckons with the legacy of that moment in China's history. Q&A with Choy to follow.
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This screening includes Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series Presents Christine Choy
6 pm
An evening with acclaimed director Christine Choy, one of the first major Chinese American woman filmmakers.
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This screening includes Who Killed Vincent Chin?
8 pm
An Oscar-nominated documentary chronicling the web of racism, capitalism, violence, and civil rights that lie at the heart of one family's search for justice. Q&A with the filmmaker to follow.
New 4K Restoration
4 pm
Creating brilliance out of its simple premise, this early Spielberg thriller heralded the arrival of a filmmaking giant.
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This screening includes Is There Anybody Out There?
7 pm
This Accessibility Awareness Month, follow filmmaker Ella Glendining as she explores what it takes to love yourself fiercely as a disabled person in a non-disabled world. Q&A to follow.
This screening includes Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
12 pm
Two teens go on a quest to make the ultimate school history report after receiving a time machine. 35th anniversary screening!
1:40 pm
Pop quiz, hotshot: what happens when you combine Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, and a bomb on a bus? An iconic action classic, of course! 30th anniversary screening.
This screening includes The Lake House
3:40 pm
Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock reunite in this romantic drama about two people who exchange letters despite living two years apart.
This screening includes Point Break
5:25 pm
The human spirit is very much alive in Kathryn Bigelow's absurdly thrilling and thrillingly absurd film about an undercover F.B.I. agent pursuing a gang of surfers who may be bank robbers.
This screening includes Bram Stoker's Dracula
7:35 pm
Francis Ford Coppola sinks his teeth into Stoker’s immortal tale, crafting a lavish and operatic spectacle unlike any Dracula adaptation you’ve ever seen.
This screening includes John Wick
9:45 pm
The bruising, stylish revenge flick that kicked off the sleekly violent franchise. 10th anniversary screening!