Cinema

Dean Otto currently serves as the Curator of Film. To learn more about Dean and the Speed Cinema, read the full press release here. Photo by Rafael Gamo.

Speed Cinema entrance update: Our South Cinema entrance has reopened for all Cinema guests! Follow the Speed Cinema signs while exiting the Museum garage to the entrance while enjoying a small part of the Art Park that is now open.

The Peasants (Chlopi)

March 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, & 17

The Peasants tells the story of Jagna, a young woman determined to forge her own path within the confines of a late 19th century Polish village – a hotbed of gossip and on-going feuds, held together, rich and poor, by pride in their land, adherence to colorful traditions and deep-rooted patriarchy.

March 13 at 6 pm, CINEMA+ Hugh Welchman will participate in a post-screening discussion with Speed Curator of Film Dean Otto via Zoom.

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Harlan Jacobson's Talk Cinema: Wicked Little Letters

March 16

A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a farcical and occasionally sinister scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than fiction true story, Wicked Little Letters follows two neighbors: deeply conservative local Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley).

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The Music Room (Jalsaghar)

March 17

With The Music Room, Satyajit Ray brilliantly evokes the crumbling opulence of the world of a fallen aristocrat (the beloved actor Chhabi Biswas) desperately clinging to a fading way of life. His greatest joy is the music room in which he has hosted lavish concerts over the years—now a shadow of its former vivid self.

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About Dry Grasses (Kuru Otlar Üstüne)

March 22, 23, & 24

Nestled away in wintry East Anatolia, public-school art teacher Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu) yearns to leave the sleepy village for cosmopolitan Istanbul. Further disenchanted when he and Kenan (Musab Ekici), a colleague, come under public scrutiny, Samet fears circumstances will keep him in Anatolia and his dreams of a new life permanently out of reach.

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The War is Over (La guerre est finie)

March 24

The War is Over begins three decades after the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s fascist military coup, with Communist operative Yves Montand (Best Actor, National Society of Film Critics), juggling multiple identities as he continues his dangerous missions, while reflecting on a life of political struggle. Though increasingly disillusioned, his determination to help a possibly captured comrade and chance encounter with impetuous student terrorist Geneviève Bujold, keep his commitment to the cause alive.

CINEMA+ With a post-screening discussion led by Nathan Viner, Founder of Lamplighter Film Union.

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Pandora’s Box (Die Büchse der Pandora)

March 29 & 30

Sensationally modern, the film follows the downward spiral of the fiery, brash, yet innocent showgirl Lulu, whose sexual vivacity has a devastating effect on everyone she encounters.

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A Woman of Paris

March 30 & 31

A Woman of Paris centers around the title character (actor Edna Purviance), who is betrayed by her lover and then cast aside by her would-be fiancé (Adolphe Menjou).
Having built his career as both an actor and director of silent cinema with comedic short films starring his wildly popular “Little Tramp” character, Charles Chaplin confounded audiences when he followed up his first feature, The Kid, with a serious melodrama—without the Tramp!

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Wildcat

May 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, & 26

Directed and co-written by four-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke and filmed in and around Louisville, Wildcat invites the audience to weave in and out of celebrated Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor’s mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing: Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing?

May 15, CINEMA+ with a post-screening discussion with Ethan Hawke in person.

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