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Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Writer(s): M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan
A single mother finds that things in her family’s life go very wrong after her two young children visit their grandparents.
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94 MIN
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Director: Robert Wiene
Writer(s): Carl Mayer, Hans Janowitz
Cast: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt and Friedrich Feher
THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (released in 1920) defined what it meant to be a horror movie. At a carnival in Germany, Francis (Friedrich Feher) and his friend Alan (Rudolf Lettinger) encounter the crazed Dr. Caligari (Werner Krauss). The men see Caligari showing off his somnambulist, Cesare (Conrad Veidt), a hypnotized man who the doctor claims can see into the future. Shockingly, Cesare then predicts Alan’s death, and by morning his chilling prophecy has come true — making Cesare the prime suspect. However, is Cesare guilty, or is the doctor controlling him?
67 MIN
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Director: Paul Schrader
Writer(s): Paul Schrader, Leonard Schrader
Cast: Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto
Language: English
Three guys, two African-American and one Polish, work on the production line in a Detroit automobile factory, and they are fed-up with the conditions. It dawns on them that their workers’ union is doing them no greater good than their screwed-up bosses. So the trio pulls off a clumsy robbery at union HQ, in which they only gain access to some suspicious documents that point to union links with organized crime. Suddenly they’re out of their league: violence, paranoia, rivarly, and recrimination erupt around them.
“Although the film does not tell us how to break out of the plantations we know too well, it does give us a vivid sense of the problems and the pitfalls of those who try.” – Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice
“Too downbeat, edgy and profane in its gritty reality to connect in the box office with a 1970’s audience, the film was nevertheless critically acclaimed. It’s intense, well-acted, gives one a good idea about everyday factory life and offers a clear-sighted muckraking take on blue collar types who cross-the-line when they discover that it’s not just management but their own union that is ripping them off.” – Dennis Schwartz, Ozus’ World Movie Reviews
114 MIN
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Director: Marielle Heller
Writer(s): Phoebe Gloeckner, Marielle Heller
Cast: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård, Kristen Wiig
Awards: Nominated for Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Work at Sundance
Like most teenage girls, Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley) is longing for love, acceptance and a sense of purpose in the world. Minnie begins a complex love affair with her mother’s (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend, “the handsomest man in the world,” Monroe Rutherford (Alexander Skarsgård). What follows is a sharp, funny and provocative account of one girl’s sexual and artistic awakening, without judgment.
“The first thing to know about The Diary of a Teenage Girl is that young British actress (Bel) Powley is staggeringly good in it.” -Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine
“A strikingly intimate look at a teenager’s sexual life in an outstanding debut film.” -Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter
“Big summer action movies can be thrilling, but if you really want to feel your heart pounding out of your chest, try being a 15-year-old girl for 101 minutes.” -Rebecca Keegan, Los Angeles Times
102 MIN
Director: Rakesh Sharma
Language: Gujarati, Hindi, Urdu
Final Solution is a 2004 documentary film directed by Rakesh Sharma concerning the 2002 Gujarat pogrom in which both Hindu and Muslims are targeted in the state of Gujarat by political extremists. In order to rationalize their violence, Hindu extremists had made the claim that their actions were in fact a “spontaneous response” to the Godhra Train Burning incident on February 27, 2002. But as the film proceeds with victims continuing to come forward and share their experiences, a more unsettling possibility seems to emerge- that far from being a spontaneous expression of outrage, the anti-Muslim violence had been carefully coordinated and planned.
88 MIN
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Director: Maya Forbes
Writer(s): Maya Forbes
Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldana, Imogene Wolodarsky
A manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters, who don’t make the overwhelming task any easier.
“Mark Ruffalo gives one of his most appealing performances in writer-director Maya Forbes’ irresistible feature debut.” -Justin Chang, Variety
“Ruffalo does a magnificent job of conveying Cam’s charm and undeniable love for his wife and children – as well as the devastating effects of serious, incurable mental illness.” -Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
“Ms. Forbes hasn’t made a movie about her father’s illness; she’s made one about her father, who, through hard and weird times, clearly helped give her what she needed so that one day she could tell this story.” -Manohla Dargis, New York Times
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90 MIN
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Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez
Writer(s): Tim Talbott
Cast: Ezra Miller, Tye Sheridan, Billy Crudup
Awards: Sundance 2015 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize Winner (Kyle Patrick Alvarez)
“Alvarez captures an emotional immediacy and risk that is deliberately excluded from academic debate.” -Andrew O’Hehir, Salon
“Tim Talbott’s dense script provides much to discuss and argue about, providing both left and right with talking points.” -Kyle Smith, New York Post
“Billy Crudup gives a fine performance as Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who engineered the whole thing and was then pulled into his own power trip.” -J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader
122 MIN
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Director: Sean Baker
Writer(s): Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch
Cast: Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian
It’s Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee (newcomer Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend (James Ransone, STARLET, “Generation Kill”) hasn’t been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra (newcomer Mya Taylor), embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles, including an Armenian family dealing with their own repercussions of infidelity.
“This is sublime filmmaking, a textbook example of how indies can tell groundbreaking stories in a way that Hollywood simply can’t match.” -David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle
“Shot on an iPhone 5 for practically no money, Tangerine jumps off the screen and wows you like nobody’s business.” -Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
“It’s the warmth and absence of judgment or condescension toward its marginalized characters that make Sean Baker’s film such a vibrant and uplifting snapshot.” -David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter
88 MIN
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Director: Asif Kapadia
Cast: Amy Winehouse, Mitch Winehouse, Mark Ronson
Amy tells the story of six-time Grammy-winner Amy Winehouse – in her own words. A once-in-a-generation talent, Amy Winehouse was a musician that captured the world’s attention. A pure jazz artist in the most authentic sense – she wrote and sung from the heart using her musical gifts to analyze her own problems. The combination of her raw honesty and supreme talent resulted in some of the most unique and adored songs of the modern era. Her huge success, however, resulted in relentless and invasive media attention which coupled with Amy’s troubled relationships and precarious lifestyle saw her life tragically begin to unravel. Amy Winehouse died from alcohol poisoning in July 2011 at the age of 27.
“Watching Amy is a torturous but endlessly hypnotic experience.” -Rex Reed, New York Observer
“Amy is alternately thrilling and devastating, throwing you back and forth until the devastation takes over and you spend the last hour watching the most supernaturally gifted vocalist of her generation chase and find oblivion.” -David Edelstein, New York Magazine
“Mr. Kapadia isn’t simply revisiting Ms. Winehouse’s life and death, but also – by pulling you in close to her, first pleasantly and then unpleasantly – telling the story of contemporary celebrity and, crucially, fandom’s cost.” -Manohla Dargis, New York Times
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128 MIN
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Director: Rob Meyer
Writer(s): Rob Meyer, Luke Matheny
Cast: Kodi Smit-McPhee, James Le Gros, Daniela Lavender
Awards: Best American Independent Feature Film, Cleveland Film Festival 2014
“The film is far from a melancholy wallow, but it does examine the ways we cope with loss and the conflicts that result when one person’s healing process is faster or different from another’s.” -Joel Arnold, NPR
“What’s there hits the mark, so much so that I’ll confess this one left me misty-eyed.” -Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
“Though it’s hardly an odd duck, ‘A Birder’s Guide to Everything’ has its own sweet call.” -Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
Science on Screen℠ is a project of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and The Coolidge Corner Theater. The Science on Screen program pairs with a short talk with a scientist or technology expert. The free Science on Screen events are fun and engaging and offer dynamic speakers an unexpected jumping point to teach their field of expertise in a way that is accessible to a diverse audience.
86 MIN
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