Party Like It’s 1999 continues with Election, Alexander Payne’s dark teen comedy.
Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) is an overachieving student determined to win the student body presidency at all costs. However, her campaign is disrupted by Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick), a frustrated teacher who holds a personal grudge against her and convinces popular but apathetic jock Paul Metzler (Chris Klein) to run against her. What ensues is a battle of wits, sabotage, and unintended consequences, highlighting the complexities of ambition, morality, and personal failure.
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Fall in love all over again with Anora, the Palme d’Or and Oscar-winning new film from writer/director Sean Baker (Tangerine, The Florida Project, Red Rocket). On Oscar night, Anora shook up the entire movie world as it took home five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress In A Leading Role, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Editing! Don’t miss your chance see the most acclaimed film of 2024 on the big screen!
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
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Closing out our Bogie Fest series, celebrating the legendary performances of Hollywood icon Humprey Bogart, is Nicholas Ray’s 1950 masterpiece In A Lonely Place!
Bogart plays Dixon Steele, a Hollywood screenwriter with talent to spare and a temper he can’t quite control. When a young woman he briefly encounters turns up dead, suspicion settles on him almost immediately. And the unsettling part is…it doesn’t feel entirely misplaced.
What makes In a Lonely Place stand out in a filmography stacked full of classics is how it subverts expectations of the noir genre. Directed with a quiet intensity, letting silences stretch and emotions simmer, the violence occasionally erupts in very upsetting aways. And Bogart, often the embodiment of control, lets something fray at the edges here. His Dix is charming enough…until he’s not.
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There NEVER was a woman like Gilda!
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Our Edward Yang Retrospective closes with A Confucian Confusion, the director’s 1994 comedy.
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Up next in our Slumber Party Parties series is 13 Going on 30, Gary Winick’s 2004 fantasy romcom!
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Our Page to Screen series returns with Brooklyn, John Crowley’s heartfelt 2015 drama!
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Up next in our Edward Yang Retrospective is the director’s magisterial A Brighter Summer Day!
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Up next in our Classic Movie Nights series is The Adventures of Robin Hood, Michael Curtiz’s swashbuckling 1938 adventure!
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