Past Events

Oscar® Nominated Documentary Shorts 2017 West Mall 7 Theatres - Doors Open 3:00pm - Film Begins 3:30pm Academy allows doc shorts to be up to 40 minutes in length. Rated: These films are unrated, but content is rigorous and not suitable for children. PLEASE only exit between films. All five documentary shorts for $15. This is your chance to see the five documentary shorts nominated for an Academy Award®. While for some the big category Oscar winners become predictable, this…

I Am Not Your Negro - (dir. Raoul Peck) West Mall 7 Theatres - Doors Open 6:00pm - Film Begins 6:30pm TRT: 93 min Rating: PG-13 for disturbing violent images, thematic material, language and brief nudity. Genre: Documentary Film Summary: I Am Not Your Negro is a 2017 Oscar® Nominated documentary that offers an incendiary snapshot of James Baldwin's crucial observations on American race relations -- and a sobering reminder of how far we've yet to go. In 1979, James…

Neruda - (dir. Pablo Larraín) West Mall 7 Theatres - Doors Open 6:00pm - Film Begins 6:30pm TRT: 107 min Rating: R (for sexuality/nudity and some language) Genre: Crime, Drama Starring: Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Morán. Film Summary: Inventive, intelligent, and beautifully filmed, Neruda transcends the traditional biopic structure to look at the meaning beyond the details of its subject's life. Nobel Prize-winning poet, statesman and communist Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco) plays cat-and-mouse with his police inspector nemesis…

Deconstructing the Beatles' Sgt Pepper Back by Audience Demand! Our next presentation in the Beatles lecture series! Icon Lounge - Doors Open 6:30pm - Film Begins 7:00pm TRT: 95 min DECONSTRUCTING SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is one of the most influential albums of our time. Rolling Stone described it as “the most important rock & roll album ever made, an unsurpassed adventure in concept, sound, songwriting, cover art and studio…

The Salesman - (dir. Ashgar Farhadi) 2017 Winner - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film West Mall 7 Theatres - Doors Open 6:00pm - Film Begins 6:30pm TRT: 124 min Rating: PG13 Genre: Drama, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller Film Summary: Ambitious. Thought provoking. Well acted. After their old flat becomes damaged, Emad (Shahab Hosseini) and Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti), a young couple living in Tehran, are forced to move into a new apartment. Eventually, an incident linked to the previous tenant…

1984 - (dir. Michael Radford) Icon Lounge - Doors Open 6:150pm - Film Begins 6:45pm TRT: 113 min Rating: R Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi On April 4, 2017, over 140 art house movie theatres across the country in 124 cities and in 41 states, plus four locations in Canada, will be participating collectively in a NATIONAL EVENT DAY screening of the 80's movie 1984 starring John Hurt, who sadly died January 25, 2017. This date was chosen because it's the day…

Land of Mine - (dir. Martin Zandvliet) 2017 Academy Award Nominee - Best Foreign Language Film West Mall 7 Theatres - Doors Open 6:00pm - Film Begins 6:30pm TRT: 100 min Rating: R (violence, images, language) Genre: Drama, Thriller In German/English/Danish - with English Subtitles Film Summary: Based on extraordinary true events, writer/director Martin Zandvliet’s stunning, multi award-winning new film is a nail-bitingly tense thriller about a group of young German prisoners of war in Denmark in the immediate aftermath…

Alive and Kicking - (dir. Susan Glatzer) West Mall 7 Theatres - Doors Open 6:00pm - Film Begins 6:30pm TRT: 88 min Rating: NA Genre: Documentary Film Summary: Alive and Kicking is a feature-length documentary that takes an inside look into the culture of swing dancing and the characters who make it special. This toe-tapping movie explores the culture surrounding Swing dance from the emergence of the Lindy Hop to the modern day international phenomenon. The film follows the growth…

Their Finest - (dir. Lone Scherfig) West Mall 7 Theatres - Doors Open 6:00pm - Film Begins 6:30pm TRT: 117 min Rating: R for some language and a scene of sexuality. Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama Starring: Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy. Film Summary From Manohla Dargis New York Times: "Love and laughter flow so naturally in “Their Finest” that it is almost (almost) easy to forget there’s a war on. An unalloyed charmer, the movie tells a story of…

SCORE: A Film Music Documentary - (dir. Matt Schrader) West Mall 7 Theatres - Doors Open 6:00pm - Film Begins 6:30pm TRT: 93 min Rating: Not Rated (Similar to PG13 - Scenes from Psycho, Language) Genre: Documentary Ticket includes state, city, and entertainment tax, and processing fees. Tickets are $13.50 at the door. Film Summary:  Not all primers on the history of film making are as fascinating, fun and well paced as this one. SCORE: A Film Music Documentary takes you behind…