A group of strangers, all descendants of a woman named Adèle Meunier, are gathered in Normandy. The town would like to purchase her long-abandoned property, and four “cousins” are tasked with overseeing the transaction. Thus begins a genealogical journey into the past, taking us to 1895 Paris, with the City of Light on the brink […]
Based on two manga by Yoshiharu Tsuge, who rose to underground celebrity thanks to his surrealist tales published in the pages of the bastion of Japanese avant-garde cartooning, Garo, Miyake’s bifurcated live-action feature observes (and draws parallels and contrasts from) a summertime meet-cute between Nagisa and Natsuo (Yuumi Kawai and Mansaku Takada) and a snowbound […]
A group of strangers, all descendants of a woman named Adèle Meunier, are gathered in Normandy. The town would like to purchase her long-abandoned property, and four “cousins” are tasked with overseeing the transaction. Thus begins a genealogical journey into the past, taking us to 1895 Paris, with the City of Light on the brink […]
For over a decade, Dr. Steve Boyes, conservation biologist and National Geographic Explorer, has been in search of a mysterious, elusive herd of Ghost Elephants in the highlands of Angola, deep within its forests. From acclaimed director Werner Herzog (“Grizzly Man”), GHOST ELEPHANTS follows Boyes on an epic journey as he sets out with some of the best master trackers […]
One of international cinema’s most fearless and provocative filmmakers, Nadav Lapid has long been an outspoken critic of his birth country’s government policies, channeling a lifetime of fury and frustration into vital films like Synonyms and Ahed’s Knee that brim with righteous anger, spite, and shame. In Yes, Lapid once again takes vigorous critical aim […]
The Black Cinema Series is graciously curated by guest programmer Anpa’o Locke. PASSING: Adapted from the celebrated 1929 novel of the same name by Nella Larsen, PASSING tells the story of two Black women, Irene Redfield (Tessa Thompson) and Clare Kendry (Academy Award nominee Ruth Negga), who can “pass” as white but choose to live […]
A group of strangers, all descendants of a woman named Adèle Meunier, are gathered in Normandy. The town would like to purchase her long-abandoned property, and four “cousins” are tasked with overseeing the transaction. Thus begins a genealogical journey into the past, taking us to 1895 Paris, with the City of Light on the brink […]
For over a decade, Dr. Steve Boyes, conservation biologist and National Geographic Explorer, has been in search of a mysterious, elusive herd of Ghost Elephants in the highlands of Angola, deep within its forests. From acclaimed director Werner Herzog (“Grizzly Man”), GHOST ELEPHANTS follows Boyes on an epic journey as he sets out with some of the best master trackers […]
Inspired by a true story, TOW follows the irrepressible Amanda Ogle, living in her car on the streets of Seattle who, armed only with grit, unfiltered candor and sheer determination, finds the courage to challenge a system stacked against her. CAST: Rose Byrne, Octavia Spencer, Corbin Bernsen, Simon Rex, Demi Lovato, Ariana DeBose, Elsie Fisher, […]
From award-winning filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi comes Pompei: Below the Clouds, a striking portrait of life in Naples, a city living in the shadow of Vesuvius. Beneath the quiet threat of eruption, people go about their days: archaeologists unearth the past, children learn as the earth hums, firefighters wait for the next call. The result is a portrait […]
Set in 1937, at the height of Stalin’s Great Purge, Two Prosecutors is adapted from a novella by Georgy Demidov, a physicist who spent fourteen years in the Soviet gulag. Aleksandr Kuznetsov stars as Kornyev, an idealistic young lawyer who comes across an urgent letter written in blood by an imprisoned aging prosecutor Kornyev admires, Stepniak (Alexander […]
A CCA EXCLUSIVE!! An anxious law school dropout (Matthew Shear) stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist’s three granddaughters and falls for the girls’ mother (Amanda Peet), an actress in a rocky marriage. A smart, New York-set romantic comedy co-starring Alessandro Nivola, Judd Hirsch, Bob Balaban, Andrea Martin, Zosia Mamet, and Holland Taylor. Winner of […]
A young poet drops his girlfriend off at her parents’ house and is amazed by its size. He bumps into her father, meets her mother and sister, and they all end up spending a long day together; fueled by conversation, food and libations. Hong Sang-soo (born October 25, 1960) is a South Korean writer-director. He has […]
A CCA EXCLUSIVE!! An anxious law school dropout (Matthew Shear) stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist’s three granddaughters and falls for the girls’ mother (Amanda Peet), an actress in a rocky marriage. A smart, New York-set romantic comedy co-starring Alessandro Nivola, Judd Hirsch, Bob Balaban, Andrea Martin, Zosia Mamet, and Holland Taylor. Winner of […]
Set in 1937, at the height of Stalin’s Great Purge, Two Prosecutors is adapted from a novella by Georgy Demidov, a physicist who spent fourteen years in the Soviet gulag. Aleksandr Kuznetsov stars as Kornyev, an idealistic young lawyer who comes across an urgent letter written in blood by an imprisoned aging prosecutor Kornyev admires, Stepniak (Alexander […]
A CCA EXCLUSIVE!! An anxious law school dropout (Matthew Shear) stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist’s three granddaughters and falls for the girls’ mother (Amanda Peet), an actress in a rocky marriage. A smart, New York-set romantic comedy co-starring Alessandro Nivola, Judd Hirsch, Bob Balaban, Andrea Martin, Zosia Mamet, and Holland Taylor. Winner of […]
From award-winning filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi comes Pompei: Below the Clouds, a striking portrait of life in Naples, a city living in the shadow of Vesuvius. Beneath the quiet threat of eruption, people go about their days: archaeologists unearth the past, children learn as the earth hums, firefighters wait for the next call. The result is a portrait […]
Set in 1937, at the height of Stalin’s Great Purge, Two Prosecutors is adapted from a novella by Georgy Demidov, a physicist who spent fourteen years in the Soviet gulag. Aleksandr Kuznetsov stars as Kornyev, an idealistic young lawyer who comes across an urgent letter written in blood by an imprisoned aging prosecutor Kornyev admires, Stepniak (Alexander […]
A young poet drops his girlfriend off at her parents’ house and is amazed by its size. He bumps into her father, meets her mother and sister, and they all end up spending a long day together; fueled by conversation, food and libations. Hong Sang-soo (born October 25, 1960) is a South Korean writer-director. He has […]
A young poet drops his girlfriend off at her parents’ house and is amazed by its size. He bumps into her father, meets her mother and sister, and they all end up spending a long day together; fueled by conversation, food and libations. Hong Sang-soo (born October 25, 1960) is a South Korean writer-director. He has […]
