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Director: Maren Ade
Writer(s): Maren Ade
Cast: Sandra Hüller, Peter Simonischek, Michael Wittenborn
Language: German, English, Romanian
A practical joking father tries to reconnect with his hard working daughter by creating an outrageous alter ego and posing as her CEO’s life coach.
162 MIN
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Director: Ritesh Batra
Writer(s): Julian Barnes, Nick Payne
Cast: Matthew Goode, Michelle Dockery, Emily Mortimer
Tony Webster, divorced and retired, leads a reclusive and relatively quiet life.
One day, he learns that the mother of his university girlfriend, Veronica, left in her will a diary kept by his best friend who dated Veronica after she and Tony parted ways.
Tony’s quest to recover the diary, now in Veronica’s possession, forces him to revisit his flawed recollections of his friends and of his younger self. As he digs deeper into his past, it all starts to come back; the first love, the broken heart, the deceit, the regrets, the guilt… Can Tony bear to face the truth and take responsibility for the devastating consequences of actions he took so long ago?
108 MIN
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Director: James Mangold
Writer(s): James Mangold, Scott Frank
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen
In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hide out on the Mexican border. But Logan’s attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are up-ended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces.
Logan is a punch in the gut in all the right ways. – Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice
137 MIN
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Director: Barry Jenkins
Writer(s): Barry Jenkins
Cast: Naomie Harris, Mahershala Ali, Trevante Rhodes, Janelle Monáe
Awards: 2017 ACADEMY AWARDS WINNER - Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man in Miami and his struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
“An astonishing film of exquisite lyricism and deep feeling,” says A.O. Scott of The New York Times
“A Masterpiece. We leave the theater as different people than we came in,” raves David Fear of Rolling Stone
110 MIN
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Director: Paul Verhoeven
Writer(s): Philippe Djian, David Birke
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny
Awards: 2017 GOLDEN GLOBE WINNER - Best Actress (Drama), Best Foreign Film
Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a leading video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle’s life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game—a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control.
130 MIN
Director: Lois Weber
Writer(s): Germain Delavigne, Eugène Scribe, Lois Weber
Cast: Anna Pavlova, Rupert Julian, Wadsworth Harris
Introduction by Amy Heller & Dennis Doros, co-founders of Milestone Films. Amy and Dennis will discuss the restoration and amazing career of one of the earliest women filmmakers.
The Dumb Girl of Portici is a previously unseen film long overdue for recognition as one of Weber’s finest creations and a landmark in women’s cinema. The production was one of Universal’s most expensive to date and featured an enormous cast, many large-scale sets, and an ambitious story. It was the first blockbuster ever directed by a woman — and arguably the only epic shot by a woman in the 20th century. (2K DCP)
In the early 20th century, no woman had greater worldwide fame than ballet dancer and choreographer Anna Pavlova. Unlike movie actresses, whose celebrity spread with the international distribution of their films, Pavlova’s renown had to be earned theater by theater, performance by performance. Her legendary art was, by its nature, ephemeral. Still, no one traveled farther or worked harder than this slight daughter of a Russian laundress.
Acting as star, choreographer, producer, and boss of a large dance company constantly touring the globe, Pavlova was a consummate artist and a canny businesswoman. A generation marveled and cherished the memory of her scintillating brilliance on stage. The restoration of The Dumb Girl of Portici — with the dazzling new score by dance and silent film composer John Sweeney — will give today’s audiences a chance to experience the energy, the expressive face, and the grace of the great Pavlova.
About Milestone Film and Video:
“They care and they love movies.”— Martin Scorsese
“Milestone Film & Video is an art-film distributor that has released some of the most distinguished new movies (along with seldom -seen vintage movie classics) of the past decade.”
—Stephen Holden, New York Times
115 MIN
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Director: Raoul Peck
Writer(s): James Baldwin, Raoul Peck
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends—Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only thirty completed pages of his manuscript.
Now, in his incendiary new documentary, master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words and flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of these three leaders, Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.
Baldwin’s words, Jackson’s reading and Peck’s elegant and scorching composition will resonate for years to come. — Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press
While Peck’s work brims over with anger and horror, it is also a work of sweeping poetry. This story still isn’t pretty, but it’s delivered in a captivating and gorgeous manner. — Alonso Duralde, TheWrap
93 MIN
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Director: Chan-wook Park
Writer(s): Seo-Kyung Chung, Chan-wook Park, Sarah Waters
Cast: Min-hee Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Jin-woong Jo
Language: Korean, Japanese
A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.
“Go see it. If you love cinema at all, go see it.” -Tom Long, Detroit News
“Chan-wook Park’s The Handmaiden is deliciously perverse, delightfully twisty, and unapologetically erotic.” -James Berardinelli, ReelViews
“You have, I promise, never seen a movie quite like Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden.” -Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
144 MIN
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Director: Pablo Larraín
Writer(s): Noah Oppenheim
Cast: Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig
Jackie is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman). Jackie places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband’s assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady as she struggles to maintain her husband’s legacy and the world of “Camelot” that they created and loved so well.
“Chilean director Larraín’s status as the most daring and prodigious political filmmaker of his generation remains undimmed.” — Guy Lodge, Variety
“There’s a mesmeric intensity to Jackie that’s unlike any biopic of its kind, marked by a deliberate effort to narrow the scscope to one woman’s actions and reactions over the course of a few fraught days.” — Scott Tobias, NPR
100 MIN
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Director: Craig Johnson
Writer(s): Daniel Clowes
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Sandy Oian, Shaun Brown
Woody Harrelson stars as Wilson, a lonely, neurotic and hilariously honest middle-aged misanthrope who reunites with his estranged wife (Laura Dern) and gets a shot at happiness when he learns he has a teenage daughter (Isabella Amara) he has never met. In his uniquely outrageous and slightly twisted way, he sets out to connect with her.
94 MIN
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