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Fire Music: The Story of Free Jazz Directed by Tom Surgal TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “Crammed with exhilarating sounds, moving reminiscences and stimulating arguments that is not just music, but vital music.”—Glenn Kenny, New York Times In the late 1950s, after the Abstract Expressionists had taken the art world by storm and the … Continued

Exhibition on Screen The Danish Collector: Delacroix to Gauguin Directed by David Bickerstaff TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “A quiet, reflective film.”—Andrew Pulver, The Guardian For many years no-one was interested in the art of the Impressionists. Artists like Monet, Degas and Renoir were vilified, attacked, and left penniless as a result. Then, something … Continued

Fire Music: The Story of Free Jazz Directed by Tom Surgal TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “Crammed with exhilarating sounds, moving reminiscences and stimulating arguments that is not just music, but vital music.”—Glenn Kenny, New York Times In the late 1950s, after the Abstract Expressionists had taken the art world by storm and the … Continued

Exhibition on Screen The Danish Collector: Delacroix to Gauguin Directed by David Bickerstaff TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “A quiet, reflective film.”—Andrew Pulver, The Guardian For many years no-one was interested in the art of the Impressionists. Artists like Monet, Degas and Renoir were vilified, attacked, and left penniless as a result. Then, something … Continued

Sunday Showcase How They Got Over Directed by Robert Clem Performance from soloist Kellye D. Cunningham will begin in Gallery 3 at 3:30 pm, followed by the screening at 4 pm. Free “Smile inducing!”—Lisa Kennedy, New York Times How They Got Over tells the story of how Black gospel quartet music became a primary source of … Continued

Exhibition on Screen The Danish Collector: Delacroix to Gauguin Directed by David Bickerstaff TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “A quiet, reflective film.”—Andrew Pulver, The Guardian For many years no-one was interested in the art of the Impressionists. Artists like Monet, Degas and Renoir were vilified, attacked, and left penniless as a result. Then, something … Continued

Drive My Car (Doraibu mai kâ) Directed by Ryûshuke Hamaguchi CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER $12 / $8 Speed members “At the simplest of its many intricate levels, Ryûshuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car is a masterpiece–haunting and true, melancholy and wise–inspired by another.”—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short story, Ryûshuke Hamaguchi’s Drive … Continued

Drive My Car (Doraibu mai kâ) Directed by Ryûshuke Hamaguchi TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “At the simplest of its many intricate levels, Ryûshuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car is a masterpiece–haunting and true, melancholy and wise–inspired by another.”—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short story, Ryûshuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car is … Continued

Drive My Car (Doraibu mai kâ) Directed by Ryûshuke Hamaguchi TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “At the simplest of its many intricate levels, Ryûshuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car is a masterpiece–haunting and true, melancholy and wise–inspired by another.”—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short story, Ryûshuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car is … Continued

Drive My Car (Doraibu mai kâ) Directed by Ryûshuke Hamaguchi TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “At the simplest of its many intricate levels, Ryûshuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car is a masterpiece–haunting and true, melancholy and wise–inspired by another.”—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short story, Ryûshuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car is … Continued

Sunday Showcase  Bree Wayy: Promise Witness Remembrance Directed by Dawn Porter  Sunday, January 9, 3:30 pm  CINEMA+  Free, seating is limited and first-come-first-serve.  Dawn Porter’s (John Lewis: Good Trouble) short documentary looks at how the art world responded to the murder of Breonna Taylor through Amy Sherald’s now-iconic portrait and the development of the Speed … Continued

A Hero (Ghahreman) Directed by Asghar Farhadi TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “The movie’s brilliance is in how it questions the very concept of a good deed.”—A.A. Dowd, AV Club Writer-director Asghar Farhadi triumphantly returns to form he employed in is Oscar-winning film A Separation: A tiny conflict, little more than an anecdote, quietly … Continued

Drive My Car (Doraibu mai kâ) Directed by Ryûshuke Hamaguchi TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “At the simplest of its many intricate levels, Ryûshuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car is a masterpiece–haunting and true, melancholy and wise–inspired by another.”—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short story, Ryûshuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car is … Continued

A Hero (Ghahreman) Directed by Asghar Farhadi TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “The movie’s brilliance is in how it questions the very concept of a good deed.”—A.A. Dowd, AV Club Writer-director Asghar Farhadi triumphantly returns to form he employed in is Oscar-winning film A Separation: A tiny conflict, little more than an anecdote, quietly … Continued

A Hero (Ghahreman) Directed by Asghar Farhadi TICKETS  $12 / $8 Speed members “The movie’s brilliance is in how it questions the very concept of a good deed.”—A.A. Dowd, AV Club Writer-director Asghar Farhadi triumphantly returns to form he employed in is Oscar-winning film A Separation: A tiny conflict, little more than an anecdote, quietly … Continued

Drive My Car (Doraibu mai kâ) Directed by Ryûshuke Hamaguchi TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “At the simplest of its many intricate levels, Ryûshuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car is a masterpiece–haunting and true, melancholy and wise–inspired by another.”—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short story, Ryûshuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car is … Continued

A Hero (Ghahreman) Directed by Asghar Farhadi TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “The movie’s brilliance is in how it questions the very concept of a good deed.”—A.A. Dowd, AV Club Writer-director Asghar Farhadi triumphantly returns to form he employed in is Oscar-winning film A Separation: A tiny conflict, little more than an anecdote, quietly … Continued

New Year/New Restorations Miracle in Milan (Miracolo a Milano) Directed by Vittorio De Sica TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “The mood is buoyant and satirical, but the social commentary comes packed in grenades.”—Michael Atkinson, The Village Voice Vittorio De Sica’s follow-up to his international triumph Bicycle Thieves is an enchanting neorealist fairy tale in … Continued

New Year/New Restorations Miracle in Milan (Miracolo a Milano) Directed by Vittorio De Sica TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “The mood is buoyant and satirical, but the social commentary comes packed in grenades.”—Michael Atkinson, The Village Voice Vittorio De Sica’s follow-up to his international triumph Bicycle Thieves is an enchanting neorealist fairy tale in … Continued

New Year/New Restorations Chess of the Wind (Shatranj-e baad) Directed by Mohammad Reza Aslani TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “Aslani’s vision is still breathtakingly distinctive, an incisively devastating social critique embedded in a complex tale of intrigue, greed, oppression, and murder.”—Godfrey Cheshire, RogerEbert.com Screened publicly just once before it was banned and then lost … Continued

New Year/New Restorations Chess of the Wind (Shatranj-e baad) Directed by Mohammad Reza Aslani TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “Aslani’s vision is still breathtakingly distinctive, an incisively devastating social critique embedded in a complex tale of intrigue, greed, oppression, and murder.”—Godfrey Cheshire, RogerEbert.com Screened publicly just once before it was banned and then lost … Continued

New 4K Restoration Chameleon Street Directed by Wendell B. Harris Jr. TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “The film addresses issues of race, economics, sex, anger, and pride in ways that are both savagely funny and poignant.”—Rolling Stone Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival—yet criminally underseen for over three … Continued

New 4K Restoration Chameleon Street Directed by Wendell B. Harris Jr. TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “The film addresses issues of race, economics, sex, anger, and pride in ways that are both savagely funny and poignant.”—Rolling Stone Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival—yet criminally underseen for over three … Continued

Faya Dayi Directed by Jessica Beshir TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “The feel is dreamlike, like a falling dusk, even when the concerns are concrete.”—Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times In her hypnotic documentary feature, Ethiopian-Mexican filmmaker Jessica Beshir explores the coexistence of everyday life and its mythical undercurrents. Though a deeply personal project—Beshir … Continued

Sunday Showcase Oh, Sun (Soleil Ô) Directed by Med Hondo Sunday, January 30, 1 pm Free in the Speed Cinema “Bitterly insightful, artistically freewheeling.”—Richard Brody, The New Yorker A furious howl of resistance against racist oppression, the debut from Mauritanian director Med Hondo is a bitterly funny, stylistically explosive attack on Western capitalism and the legacy … Continued

Faya Dayi Directed by Jessica Beshir TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “The feel is dreamlike, like a falling dusk, even when the concerns are concrete.”—Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times In her hypnotic documentary feature, Ethiopian-Mexican filmmaker Jessica Beshir explores the coexistence of everyday life and its mythical undercurrents. Though a deeply personal project—Beshir … Continued