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You can see a free movie in New York practically every day! At this point New York gives you an option to attend 75 movies free of charge. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides with non-ending amount of free things to do, free events to go to!
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The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
75 free movies in New York City (NYC) Tue, 04/23/2019 - and on...
These movies are among the many free events of the highest quality that saturate New York City's everyday life!
Film | Avengers: Infinity War (2018): Superhero Movie Based On The Marvel Comics
The Avengers and their allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe. 149 min. Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo. Avengers: Infinity War has an Academy Award nomination for Best Visiul Effects. The movie grossed $678.8 million in the United States and Canada, and $1.370 billion in other territories, for a worldwide total of $2.048 billion. It became the fourth highest-grossing film of all time, as well as the highest-grossing film of 2018, and the highest-grossing superhero film.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Apr 23
11:30 am
Free
11:30 am
Free
Film | The Mule (2018): Crime Drama By And With Clint Eastwood
A 90-year-old horticulturist and Korean War veteran turns drug mule for a Mexican cartel. 116 min. Director: Clint Eastwood. Starring Clint Eastwood, Patrick L. Reyes, Cesar De León. The Mule has grossed $103.8 million in the United States and Canada, and $62.9 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $166.7 million, against a production budget of $50 million.
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Tue, Apr 23
12:00 pm
Free
12:00 pm
Free
Film | Vertigo (1958): Two Time Oscar Nominated Psychological Thriller By Alfred Hitchcock
A former police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with a hauntingly beautiful woman. 128 min. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes. Vertigo has two Academy Award nominations for Best Art Dircetion and Best Sound. The movie replaced Citizen Kane (1941) as the greatest film ever made, in the 2012 British Film Institute's Sight & Sound critics' poll. It has appeared repeatedly in polls of the best films by the American Film Institute, including a 2007 ranking as the ninth-greatest American movie of all time.
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Tue, Apr 23
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
Free
Film | First Man (2018): Story Of The First Person To Walk On The Moon Starring Ryan Gosling
A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969. 141 min. Director: Damien Chazelle. Starring Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke. First Man received four Academy Award nominations for Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Production Design, and Best Visual Effects at the 91st Academy Awards. It is based on the book First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen. First Man grossed $44.9 million in the United States and Canada, and $55.6 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $100.5 million, against a production budget of $59 million.
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Tue, Apr 23
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Screening | Shakespeare's Birthday Film Fest!
An evening of short films from the award-winning The Sonnet Project. All 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets, each performed by a different actor in a New York City location. Starring Carey Van Driest, Peter Francis James, Rich Sommer. The screening will be followed by a conversation the performers and directors. Plus... Birthday cake!
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Tue, Apr 23
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Film | Sorry, Wrong Number (1948): Oscar Nominated Thriller With Barbara Stanwyck
While on the telephone, an invalid woman overhears what she thinks is a murder plot and attempts to prevent it. 89 min. Director: Anatole Litvak. Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards. For her role in the film, Stanwyck was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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Wed, Apr 24
11:15 am
Free
11:15 am
Free
Film | The Iron Giant (1999): Agent Wants To Destroy A Robot Friend
A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy. 86 min. Director: Brad Bird. Starring Eli Marienthal, Harry Connick Jr., Jennifer Aniston. Through home video releases and television syndication, the film gathered a cult following and is now widely regarded as a modern animated classic. A cult following comprises a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a work of culture, often referred to as a cult classic.
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Wed, Apr 24
11:30 am
Free
11:30 am
Free
Screening | Dance on Film: Japanese/Pacific Dance
A guest host will screen films from the Dance Division's Japanese and Pacific dance works.
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Wed, Apr 24
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
Free
Film | Dead Man Walking (1995): Oscar Winning Drama Starring Sean Penn By Tim Robbins
A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families. 122 min. Director: Tim Robbins. Starring Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky. At the 68th Academy Awards, Dead Man Walking was nominated in four different categories: Susan Sarandon won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role, Sean Penn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, Tim Robbins was nominated for Best Director and its main track "Dead Man Walkin'" by Bruce Springsteen was nominated for Best Original Song.
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Wed, Apr 24
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
Free
Film | Creed II (2018): Rocky Balboa Trains Apollo Creed's Son
Under the tutelage of Rocky Balboa, heavyweight contender Adonis Creed faces off against Viktor Drago, son of Ivan Drago. 130 min. Director: Steven Caple Jr. Starring Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson. The movie is a sequel to Creed (2015) and the eighth installment in the Rocky film series.
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Thu, Apr 25
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
Free
Film | Green Book (2018): Three Time Oscar Winning Biographical Drama
A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South. 130 min. Director: Peter Farrelly. Starring Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini. Green Book won the National Board of Review award for the best film of 2018, and was also chosen as one of the top 10 films of the year by the American Film Institute. The film received numerous accolades and nominations, and at the 91st Academy Awards won Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor for Mahershala Ali.
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Thu, Apr 25
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
Free
Film | That Certain Age (1938): Two Time Oscar Nominated Musical
A young girl singer falls for an older, unattainable man. 95 min. Director: Edward Ludwig. Starring Deanna Durbin, Melvyn Douglas, Jackie Cooper. That Certain Age has two Academy Award nominations for Best Original Song and Best Sound Recording.
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Thu, Apr 25
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
Free
Film | The Human Element (2018): Climate Change and Everyday Life
We humans are a force of nature. At the same time human activities alter the basic elements of life – earth, air, water, and fire – those elements change human life. In The Human Element, environmental photographer James Balog captures the lives of everyday Americans on the front lines of climate change. 76 min.
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Thu, Apr 25
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Film | Makala (2018): Everyday Life in Congo
Makala is an extraordinarily revealing and surprisingly gorgeous look at everyday life for a charcoal salesman in the Democratic Republic of Congo. French documentary filmmaker Emmanuel Gras follows 28-year-old Kabwita Kasongo through the entire process of making and selling charcoal: finding and cutting down a tree in the vast plains near his village in the southern region of Katanga, burying and burning the wood to create charcoal, loading multiple bulging bags of charcoal onto a rickety bicycle and walking it several days to the city of Kolwezi, where he hopes to sell his merchandise on its markets and streets. 96 min. In French with English subtitles
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Thu, Apr 25
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Screening | That Slapstick Show, with 2 Laurel & Hardy Comedies
Nelson Hughes presents "That Slapstick Show" featuring Laurel & Hardy's A Perfect Day (1929) and Way Out West (1937). Nelson Hughes who is a film researcher, curator and collector, curates the evening. His series "That Slapstick Show" is in its fifth year and this evening will be its second show in Manhattan. Hughes' co-organizer over the years, Tommy Jose Stathes, a curator of rare animated silent cartoons, will be in attendance. A panel will follow including Steve Massa of the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts and author of Slapstick Divas; Grand Sheik Jack Roth, who leads the New York chapter of its Laurel and Hardy society, called "Sons of the Desert"; comedian Bob Greenberg; and Charlie Judkins, a practitioner of Ragtime, Traditional Jazz and Blue Piano.
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Thu, Apr 25
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Film | Creed II (2018): Rocky Balboa Trains Apollo Creed's Son
Under the tutelage of Rocky Balboa, heavyweight contender Adonis Creed faces off against Viktor Drago, son of Ivan Drago. 130 min. Director: Steven Caple Jr. Starring Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson. The movie is a sequel to Creed (2015) and the eighth installment in the Rocky film series.
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Fri, Apr 26
1:30 pm
Free
1:30 pm
Free
Film | My Left Foot (1989): Two Time Oscar Winning
Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot. 103 min. Director: Jim Sheridan, Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan. Day-Lewis won the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor, while Brenda Fricker won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The film was additionally nominated for three other Oscars, including Best Adapted Screenplay for Shane Connaughton and Jim Sheridan, Best Director for Sheridan and the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Fri, Apr 26
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
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Film | Serena (2014) With Bradley Cooper And Jennifer Lawrence: Business Goes Down After Marriage
In Depression-era North Carolina, the future of George Pemberton's timber empire becomes complicated when he marries Serena. 109 min. Director: Susanne Bier. Starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Rhys Ifans. Serena is based on the 2008 novel of the same name by American author Ron Rash.
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Fri, Apr 26
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
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Film | The Breakfast Club (1985): Friendship In Detention
Five high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought. 97 min. Director: John Hughes. Starring Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald. In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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Fri, Apr 26
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
Free
Film | The Iron Giant (1999): Agent Wants To Destroy A Robot Friend
A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy. 86 min. Director: Brad Bird. Starring Eli Marienthal, Harry Connick Jr., Jennifer Aniston. Through home video releases and television syndication, the film gathered a cult following and is now widely regarded as a modern animated classic. A cult following comprises a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a work of culture, often referred to as a cult classic.
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Fri, Apr 26
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
Free
Film | Me and Kaminski (2015): German Comedy-Drama
Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on his article. Director: Wolfgang Becker Stars: Daniel Brühl, Jesper Christensen, Amira Casar 124 min. In German with English subtitles.
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Fri, Apr 26
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Screening | The Show About the Show: Season 2 of Web Series
A sneak preview of the second season of Professor Caveh Zahedi's autobiographical BRIC TV webshow. Named one of the top TV shows of 2015 by Indiewire, this self-referential series centers on a Brooklyn filmmaker (Zahedi) trying to make a TV show. Season 2 picks up where the first season left off, as Caveh’s marriage begins to fall apart because of his prioritization of the needs of the show over those of his wife. A discussion and Q&A will follow the screening. Presented by the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts
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Fri, Apr 26
8:30 pm
Free
8:30 pm
Free
Film | Green Book (2018): Three Time Oscar Winning Biographical Drama
A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South. 130 min. Director: Peter Farrelly. Starring Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini. Green Book won the National Board of Review award for the best film of 2018, and was also chosen as one of the top 10 films of the year by the American Film Institute. The film received numerous accolades and nominations, and at the 91st Academy Awards won Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor for Mahershala Ali.
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Sat, Apr 27
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
Free
Film | Stand and Deliver (1988): Oscar Nominated True Story Of A High School Math Teacher
The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout prone students to learn calculus. 103 min. Director: Ramón Menéndez. Starring Edward James Olmos, Estelle Harris, Mark Phelan. Edward James Olmos was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 61st Academy Awards. The film was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2011.
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Sat, Apr 27
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
Free
Film | The Birds (1963): Hitchcock At His Scariest
A young woman visits a seaside town, which is attacked by a terrifying force of nature in the form of birds gone wild. 120 min. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Starring: Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy and Tippi Hedren. In 2016, The Birds was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress, and selected for preservation in its National Film Registry. The movie was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Special Effects.
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Sat, Apr 27
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
Free
Film | Bumblebee (2018): Return Of The Hero From Transformers
On the run in the year of 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. 114 min. Director: Travis Knight. Starring Hailee Steinfeld, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., John Cena. Bumblebee grossed $127.2 million in the United States and Canada, and $336.1 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $463.3 million, against an estimated production budget of $135 million.
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Mon, Apr 29
11:00 am
Free
11:00 am
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Film | Lizzie (2018): Accused Of Murdering Parents
A psychological thriller based on the infamous 1892 murders of the Borden family. 105 min. Director: Craig William Macneill. Starring Chloë Sevigny, Kristen Stewart, Jeff Perry. It is based on the true story of Lizzie Borden, who was accused and acquitted of the axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1892.
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Mon, Apr 29
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
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Film | The Wife (2017): Husband Getting Nobel Prize Starring Oscar Nominated Glenn Close
A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm to see her husband receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. 99 min. Director: Björn Runge. Starring Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Max Irons. Glenn Close won the Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress for her performance, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress.
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Mon, Apr 29
6:15 pm
Free
6:15 pm
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Film | On the Basis of Sex (2018): The Struggle Of A Woman For Equal Rights
The true story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights, and the early cases of a historic career that lead to her nomination and confirmation as U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice. Director: Mimi Leder. Starring Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux.
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Tue, Apr 30
12:00 pm
Free
12:00 pm
Free
Film | The Birds (1963): Hitchcock At His Scariest
A young woman visits a seaside town, which is attacked by a terrifying force of nature in the form of birds gone wild. 120 min. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Starring: Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy and Tippi Hedren. In 2016, The Birds was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress, and selected for preservation in its National Film Registry. The movie was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Special Effects.
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Tue, Apr 30
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
Free
Screening | Scenes through the Cinema Lens: A Connoisseur’s Guide to Dance in the American Cinema
Over the years, this series has featured memorable scenes from American musicals in which dancers display incredible agility and grace. For this program, they have distilled it down to the absolute best. Watch the Nicholas Brothers, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Gene Kelley, and Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers, all of them defying gravity and making it seem very simple.
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Tue, Apr 30
7:30 pm
Free
7:30 pm
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Film | The China Syndrome (1979): Four Time Oscar Nominated Drama Starring Fonda, Douglas And Lemmon
A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant. 122 min. Director: James Bridges. Starring Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas. The China Syndrome received four nominations at the 52nd Academy Awards: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Art Direction, and Best Original Screenplay.
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Wed, May 1
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
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Film | Baby Face (1933): Woman Wants To Go To The Top
A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank - by gleefully sleeping her way to the top. 71 min. Director: Alfred E. Green. Starring Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook. In 2005 it was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation in the United States Library of Congress National Film Registry.
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Wed, May 1
5:00 pm
Free
5:00 pm
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Film | Going in Style (2017): Lifelong Friends Plan To Rob A Bank After Their Pensions Cancelled
Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money. Director: Zach Braff. Starring Michael Caine, Alan Arkin, Ann-Margret. This is a remake of the 1979 film Going in Style. Going in Style grossed $84 million worldwide against its $25 million budget.
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Thu, May 2
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
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Film | Mortal Engines (2018): Fantasy From The Filmmakers Of Lord Of The Rings
In a post-apocalyptic world where cities ride on wheels and consume each other to survive, two people meet in London and try to stop a conspiracy. 128 min. Director: Christian Rivers. Starring Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan, Hugo Weaving.
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Thu, May 2
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
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Film | The 39 Steps (1935): Thriller By Alfred Hitchcock
A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage Agent. But when the Agent is killed, and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring which is trying to steal top secret information. 86 min. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim. The British Film Institute ranked it the fourth best British film of the 20th century. In 2004, Total Film named it the 21st greatest British movie ever made.
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Fri, May 3
12:30 pm
Free
12:30 pm
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Film | Wonder (2017): Oscar Nominated Drama Starring Julia Roberts And Owen Wilson
Based on the New York Times bestseller, this movie tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters the fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time. 113 min. Director: Stephen Chbosky. Starring Jacob Tremblay, Owen Wilson, Julia Roberts. At the 90th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Wonder grossed $132.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $173.2 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $305.6 million, against a production budget of $20 million.
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Sat, May 4
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
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Film | Wake in Fright (1971): Australian Psychological Thriller
After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent. 109 min. Director: Ted Kotcheff. Starring Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty. Wake in Fright was one of two Australian films to be nominated for the Grand Prix du Festival at the 24th Cannes Film Festival.
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Sat, May 4
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
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Film | Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972): A Biographical Documentary
A film diary divided into three episodes. In the first part Jonas Mekas tells about his time as emigrant in New York in 1950s, after leaving the home country of Lithuania. The second part depicts his first trip back there, while the last is filmed during a stay in Vienna shortly afterwards. 88 min. Director: Jonas Mekas. Starring Jonas Mekas, Adolfas Mekas, Pola Chapelle. In 2006, the film was selected to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, for its "cultural, aesthetic, or historical significance".
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Mon, May 6
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Film | Documentary: Retracing Steps: American Dance Since Postmodernism (1988)
The nine choreographers featured in Retracing Steps eloquently illustrate the eclecticism found in American dance. Made in 1988, The movie mirrors the best of the New York dance scene. 89 min. Director: Michael Blackwood. Starring: Johanna Boyce, Blondell Cummings, Molissa Fenley.
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Tue, May 7
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Film | Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974): Oscar Winning Mystery Thriller With Jack Nicholson
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder. 130 min. Director: Roman Polanski. Starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston. In 1991, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" and it is frequently listed as one of the greatest films of all time. At the 47th Academy Awards, it was nominated for 11 Oscars, with Towne winning Best Original Screenplay.
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Wed, May 8
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
Free
Film | The Life of Emile Zola (1937): Three Time Oscar Winning Biographical Movie On French Writer
The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair. 116 min. Director: William Dieterle. Starring Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut. In 2000, The Life of Emile Zola was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The movie won three Academy Awards for Best Picture; Best Supporting Actor - Joseph Schildkraut; Best Screenplay.
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Thu, May 9
12:00 pm
Free
12:00 pm
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Film | The Children Act (2017): Drama with Emma Thompson
As her marriage crumbles, a judge must decide a case involving a teenage boy who is refusing a blood transfusion on religious principle. 105 min. Director: Richard Eyre. Starring Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Ben Chaplin. Production was set to begin in London in October 2016, and it was reported on December 8, 2016 that filming had wrapped. The Children Act had its world premiere at the 42nd Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2017.
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Thu, May 9
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
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Film | The Magnificent Ambersons by Orson Welles (1942): Four-Time Oscar Nominee
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved. 88 min. Director: Orson Welles. Starring Tim Holt, Joseph Cotton, Dolores Costello. The Magnificent Ambersons is often regarded as among the best U.S. films ever made, a distinction it shares with Welles' first film, Citizen Kane. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture and it was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1991.
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Thu, May 9
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
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Film | Instant Family (2018): Couple Adopts Three Children
A couple find themselves in over their heads when they foster three children. 118 min. Director: Sean Anders. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne, Isabela Moner. Instant Family grossed $67.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $52.4 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $118.8 million, against a production budget of $48 million.
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Thu, May 9
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
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Film | The Notebook (2004): Romantic Drama Two Passionate Lovers
A poor yet passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman, giving her a sense of freedom, but they are soon separated because of their social differences. 123 min. Director: Nick Cassavetes. Starring Gena Rowlands, James Garner, Rachel McAdams. The film grossed a total of $115,603,229 worldwide, $81,001,787 in Canada and the United States and $34,601,442 in other countries. It is the 15th highest-grossing romantic drama film of all time.
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Fri, May 10
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
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Screening | Silent Movies With Live Music
Students from Mannes School of Music and the School of Jazz and Contemporary Music perform live scores to classic and contemporary films. Program: A Page of Madness (1926) 70 min. Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa. Music by The NYC Composers Ensemble, directed by Mary Halvorson and Nir Felder. The Rink (1916) 30 min. Director: Charlie Chaplin. Music by Matt Wilson's Student Ensemble. Lovesong (2001) 11 min. Dir: Stan Brakhage & The Impossible Voyage (1904) 24 min. Dir: George Méliès Music by The Film Ensemble, led by Angelica Sanchez.
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Fri, May 10
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
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Film | Smallfoot (2018): Animation Brings Together Yetis And Humanbeings
A Yeti is convinced that the elusive creatures known as "humans" really do exist. 96 min. Directors: Karey Kirkpatrick, Jason Reisig. Starring Channing Tatum, James Corden, Zendaya, Danny DeVito. Smallfoot is based on the unpublished children’s book Yeti Tracks by Sergio Pablos. The movie has grossed $83.2 million in the United States and Canada, and $130.9 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $214.1 million.
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Sat, May 11
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
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Film | Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage (1936): Spies In London
A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester. The story is is loosely based on Joseph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent. In 2017 a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine saw Sabotage ranked the 44th best British film ever.
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Sat, May 11
2:00 pm
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2:00 pm
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Film | Documentary: Dread Beat an' Blood (1978): Portrait Of A Black Poet And Activist
A portrait of Black poet and political activist, Linton Kwesi Johnson. 45 min. Director: Franco Rosso. Starring Linton Kwesi Johnson. Johnson's poems, written in Jamaican creole, are chanted to reggae beat and reveal his feelings on racism and urban life in the Black working-class community of Brixton, London.
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Sat, May 11
2:00 pm
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2:00 pm
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Film | Ben Is Back (2018): Son Returns Home From Rehabilitation Starring Julia Roberts
A drug addicted teenage boy shows up unexpectedly at his family's home on Christmas Eve. 103 min. Director: Peter Hedges. Starring Julia Roberts, Lucas Hedges, Courtney B. Vance.
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Sat, May 11
2:30 pm
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2:30 pm
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Screening | Digital Theatre And Matinee: The Comedy of Errors
Do you love theatre? Monday mornings you have an opportunity to watch a handful of the finest theatre productions from over the pond. One of Shakespeare’s early comedies, The Comedy of Errors is a fast-paced farce exploring mistaken identities and relations lost and found. The Comedy of Errors (87 min.) was devised specifically for schools and families by the Royal Shakespeare Company in collaboration with critically acclaimed theatre company, Told by an Idiot. Directed by Paul Hunter, it features a cast made up from the RSC’s ensemble and uses a pared down script, props, live music and physical comedy to convey the story.
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Mon, May 13
11:30 am
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11:30 am
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Film | Chungking Express (1994): Hong Kong Drama On Two Different Love Stories
Two melancholy Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant he frequents. 102 min. Director: Kar-Wai Wong. Starring Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung. "Chungking" in the title refers to Chungking Mansions in Tsim Sha Tsui, where the director grew up in the 1960s. "Express" refers to the food stand Midnight Express, located in Lan Kwai Fong, an area in Central, Hong Kong.
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Tue, May 14
5:30 pm
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5:30 pm
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Film | Four Time Oscar Winning Network (1976): Tv Will Never Be The Same
A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit. 121 min. Director: Sidney Lumet. Starring Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch. Network won four Academy Awards, in the categories of Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Original Screenplay. In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2007, the film was 64th among the 100 greatest American films as chosen by the American Film Institute.
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Wed, May 15
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
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Screening | Sorry I Missed Your Show: Dance Screening and Discussion
In its 50th year, Dance Theatre of Harlem has a long history of redefining the look and feel of classical ballet. Artistic Director Virginia Johnson brings together three generations of DTH dance artists for a conversation on the impact of the company and school on the Harlem community and the field at large. The presentation includes brief current and past repertory excerpts and video. A dance screening and discussion series, Sorry I Missed Your Show highlights dance works from the recent past to explore their canonical historicity and relationship to contemporary practice.
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Wed, May 15
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Film | Three Short Movies By Australian Filmmaker
Paul Winkler is an Australian who was associated with Corinne and Arthur Cantrill, Albie Thoms and David Perry in pioneering local experimental film production in the 1960s. Brick Wall (1975). 22 min. Conjoining his life as a bricklayer and filmmaker, Winkler constructs a film which, on one level simply records the temporal process of bricklaying, but on another is a highly abstract study that transforms the wall's structural identity. Red Church (1976) 17 min. This structural film joins a study of light and color with a sense of spirituality. The film involves a complex transposition of that image through multiple exposures within the camera. The images become more abstract and blurred, almost liquid. As the film emulsion wears down, the image becomes lighter and more translucent. Sydney Harbour Bridge (1977) 13 min. Winkler uses an in-camera matting technique to present a choreographic study of Australia's Sydney Harbour Bridge. Beginning with a panoramic view of the bridge popular in tourist postcards, the filmmaker manipulates the image in complex transpositions.
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Wed, May 15
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Film | George Cukor's Sylvia Scarlett (1936): Romantic Comedy
A free-spirited young woman wants to run away with her con artist father to France, but needs to pretend to be a boy to do it. 95 min. Director: George Cukor. Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne. Sylvia Scarlett was the first pairing of Grant and Hepburn, who later starred together in Bringing Up Baby (1938), Holiday (1938), and The Philadelphia Story (1940).
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Thu, May 16
2:00 pm
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2:00 pm
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Film | Creed II (2018): Rocky Balboa Trains Apollo Creed's Son
Under the tutelage of Rocky Balboa, heavyweight contender Adonis Creed faces off against Viktor Drago, son of Ivan Drago. 130 min. Director: Steven Caple Jr. Starring Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson. The movie is a sequel to Creed (2015) and the eighth installment in the Rocky film series.
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Thu, May 16
3:00 pm
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3:00 pm
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Film | A Star Is Born (2018): Oscar Winning Story Of A Musician And A Singer Starring Bradley Cooper And Lady Gaga
A musician helps a young singer find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral. Director: Bradley Cooper. Starring Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott. The film received eight nominations at the 91st Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Cooper), Best Actress (Gaga) and Best Supporting Actor (Elliott), and won for Best Original Song ("Shallow"). It received five nominations at the 76th Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture-Drama and was chosen by both the National Board of Review and American Film Institute as one of the Top 10 Films of 2018.
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Sat, May 18
2:00 pm
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2:00 pm
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Film | George Cukor's Holiday (1938): Romantic Comedy With Katharine Hepburn
A young man in love with a girl from a rich family finds his unorthodox plan to go on holiday for the early years of his life met with skepticism by everyone except for his fiancée's eccentric sister and long-suffering brother. 95 min. Director: George Cukor. Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction.
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Sat, May 18
2:00 pm
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2:00 pm
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Film | The Front Runner (2018): Political Drama On U.S. Presidential Candidate With Hugh Jackman
In 1987, U.S. Senator Gary Hart's presidential campaign is derailed when he's caught in a scandalous love affair. 113 min. Director: Jason Reitman. Starring Hugh Jackman, Vera Farmiga, J.K. Simmons. The Front Runner is based on the 2014 book All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid by Matt Bai.
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Sat, May 18
2:30 pm
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2:30 pm
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Film | If Beale Street Could Talk (2018): Oscar Winning Drama Based On A Novel
A woman in Harlem embraces her pregnancy while she and her family struggle to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime. 119 min. Director: Barry Jenkins. Starring KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King. If Beale Street Could Talk is based on James Baldwin's novel of the same name. The film received numerous accolades and nominations, including Best Supporting Actress wins for King at the Academy Awards and Golden Globes. It was also nominated for Best Motion Picture, Drama and Best Screenplay at the 76th Golden Globe Awards and Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Score at the 91st Academy Awards.
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Tue, May 21
11:30 am
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11:30 am
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Film | Mary Poppins Returns (2018): The Magical Nanny
Decades after her original visit, the magical nanny returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children through a difficult time in their lives. 130 min. Director: Rob Marshall. Starring Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw. Mary Poppins Returns received four Academy Award nominations for Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Production Design, and Best Costume Design at the 91st Academy Awards. It was chosen by both the National Board of Review and American Film Institute as one of the top ten films of 2018. It is based on the book series Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers.
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Tue, May 21
11:30 am
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11:30 am
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Film | All The President's Men (1976): Four Time Oscar Winning Drama Starring Dustin Hoffman And Robert Redford
The Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation. 138 min. Director: Alan J. Pakula. Starring Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford and Jack Warden. In 2007, the movie was added to the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) list at No. 77. AFI also named it No. 34 on its America's Most Inspiring Movies list and No. 57 on the Top 100 Thrilling Movies. The characters of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein shared the rank of No. 27 (Heroes) on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains list. In 2010, All The President's Men was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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Wed, May 22
2:00 pm
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2:00 pm
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Film | Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974): Oscar Winning Mystery Thriller With Jack Nicholson
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder. 130 min. Director: Roman Polanski. Starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston. In 1991, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" and it is frequently listed as one of the greatest films of all time. At the 47th Academy Awards, it was nominated for 11 Oscars, with Towne winning Best Original Screenplay.
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Thu, May 23
12:00 pm
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12:00 pm
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Film | Mary Queen of Scots (2018): Two Time Oscar Nominated Power Struggle Between Cousins
Mary Stuart's attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I, Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution. 124 min. Director: Josie Rourke. Starring Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden. Mary Queen of Scots two nominations for Best Costume Design and Best Makeup and Hairstyling at the 91st Academy Awards. For her performance, Robbie earned nominations for a SAG Award and BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Thu, May 23
2:00 pm
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2:00 pm
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Film | Oscar Nominated Alice Adams (1935): Comedy Drama Based On A Novel
A young girl hoping to marry well in the 20s soon finds out some of the realities of love and life. 99 min. Director: George Stevens. Starring Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone. The film was adapted from the novel Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington. The film received two Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Actress.
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Thu, May 23
2:00 pm
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2:00 pm
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Film | Boy Erased (2018): Drama With Nicole Kidman And Russell Crowe
The son of a Baptist preacher is forced to participate in a church-supported gay conversion program after being forcibly outed to his parents. 115 min. Director: Joel Edgerton. Starring Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe. The movie is based on Garrard Conley's 2016 memoir of the same name. Boy Erased received two Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor for Hedges and Best Original Song for Revelation.
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Thu, May 23
3:00 pm
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3:00 pm
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Film | Singin' in the Rain (1952): Two Time Oscar Nominated Musical Romantic Comedy
A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound. 103 min. Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly. Starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds. In 1989, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry. It topped the AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals list and is ranked as the fifth-greatest American motion picture of all time in its updated list of the greatest American films in 2007. Singin' in the Rain was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and Best Music.
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Thu, May 23
4:00 pm
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4:00 pm
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Film | A Star Is Born (2018): Oscar Winning Story Of A Musician And A Singer Starring Bradley Cooper And Lady Gaga
A musician helps a young singer find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral. Director: Bradley Cooper. Starring Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott. The film received eight nominations at the 91st Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Cooper), Best Actress (Gaga) and Best Supporting Actor (Elliott), and won for Best Original Song ("Shallow"). It received five nominations at the 76th Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture-Drama and was chosen by both the National Board of Review and American Film Institute as one of the Top 10 Films of 2018.
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Thu, May 23
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Film | A Simple Plan (1998): Money Creates Trust Problems Among The Group
When three blue collar acquaintances come across millions of dollars in lost cash they make a plan to keep their find from the authorities but find complications and mistrust weaving its way into their plan. 121 min. Director: Sam Raimi. Starring Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda. A Simple Plan earned multiple awards and nominations, among them two Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor (Thornton) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Smith).
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Fri, May 24
1:00 pm
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1:00 pm
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Film | Spotlight (2015): Two Time Oscar Winning Story Of The Boston Globe
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core. 129 min. Director: Tom McCarthy. Starring Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams. Spotlight won the Academy Award for Best Picture, along with Best Original Screenplay, from six total nominations. Spotlight grossed $45.1 million in the United States and Canada and $53.2 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $98.3 million, against a production budget of $20 million.
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Wed, May 29
2:00 pm
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2:00 pm
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Film | Ball of Fire (1941): Four Time Oscar Nominated Romantic Comedy
A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia encounter a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover. 111 min. Director: Howard Hawks. Starring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka. Ball of Fire was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic Picture, Best Sound, Recording and Best Story. In 2016, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress, and selected for preservation in its National Film Registry.
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Thu, May 30
2:00 pm
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2:00 pm
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Film | Bumblebee (2018): Return Of The Hero From Transformers
On the run in the year of 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. 114 min. Director: Travis Knight. Starring Hailee Steinfeld, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., John Cena. Bumblebee grossed $127.2 million in the United States and Canada, and $336.1 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $463.3 million, against an estimated production budget of $135 million.
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Thu, May 30
2:00 pm
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2:00 pm
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Film | Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk (2017): 3-Time Oscar Winner
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II. Stars: Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance. 106 min. Movie begins at sunset, weather permitting.
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Fri, May 31
7:00 pm
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