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A soul-stirring, foot-stomping, hand-raising experience, Amazing Grace is a long-lost documentary and concert film from 1972 featuring the incomparable Aretha Franklin singing Gospel songs while supported by members of her band and the Southern California Community Choir founded by gospel music legend, the Rev. James Cleveland.

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87 MIN

Ask Dr. Ruth chronicles the incredible life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor who became America’s most famous sex therapist. With her diminutive frame, thick German accent, and uninhibited approach to sex therapy and education, Dr. Ruth transformed the conversation around sexuality. As she approaches her 90th birthday and shows no signs of slowing down, Dr. Ruth revisits her painful past and unlikely path to a career at the forefront of the sexual revolution.

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100 MIN

A narrative biopic about legendary director Michael Curtiz and his time spent on set filming Casablanca.

On November 4, 2019 starting at 7 pm, we will be screening the Hungarian feature film CURTIZ, a narrative biopic about legendary director Michael Curtiz and his time spent on set filming Casablanca. The movie is in English. After the screening, there will be a panel discussion and Q&A with the film’s screenwriter Zsuzsanna Bak and supporting actors Lili Bordán and József Gyabronka. They will discuss the controversial character at the heart of this film, and share the process of production, the festival run of the film (which has already won several prestigious awards including the Grand Prix at the Montréal World Film Festival) and plans for distribution and future collaborations..

As America prepares to enter WW2, Hungarian film director Michael Curtiz grapples with political intervention and a dysfunctional relationship with his estranged daughter, amidst the troubled production of Casablanca in 1942.

Director: Tamás Yvan Topolánszky

Producer: Claudia Sümeghy

Free admission. All are welcome! With the generous support of Arts for Ohio.

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98 MIN

Monte (Robert Pattinson) and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to the outer reaches of the solar system.The crew death-row inmates led by a doctor (Juliette Binoche) with sinister motives has vanished. As the mystery of what happened onboard the ship is unraveled, father and daughter must rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole. A staggering and primal film about love and intimacy, suffused with anguished memories of a lost Earth, High Life is a haunting, thrilling achievement from visionary director Claire Denis.

Winner of IndieWire Critics’ Poll Best Films Opening in 2019

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110 MIN

Becky Something (Elisabeth Moss) is a ’90s punk rock superstar who once filled arenas with her grungy all-female trio Something She. Now she plays smaller venues while grappling with motherhood, exhausted bandmates, nervous record company executives, and a new generation of rising talent eager to usurp her stardom. When Becky’s chaos and excesses derail a recording session and national tour, she finds herself shunned, isolated and alone. Forced to get sober, temper her demons, and reckon with the past, she retreats from the spotlight and tries to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.

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134 MIN

Gloria (Julianne Moore) is a free-spirited divorcée who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. After meeting Arnold (John Turturro) on a night out, she finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love and the complications of dating, identity and family.

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102 MIN

Set in postwar Germany in 1946, Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley) arrives in the ruins of Hamburg in the bitter winter, to be reunited with her husband Lewis (Jason Clarke), a British colonel charged with rebuilding the shattered city. But as they set off for their new home, Rachael is stunned to discover that Lewis has made an unexpected decision: They will be sharing the grand house with its previous owners, a German widower (Alexander Skarsgård) and his troubled daughter. In this charged atmosphere, enmity and grief give way to passion and betrayal.

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108 MIN

An unusually bitter Arctic blast has made its way to downtown Cincinnati and the front doors of the public library. At odds with library officials over how to handle the extreme weather event, some homeless patrons turn the building into a shelter for the night by staging an “Occupy” sit in. What begins as an act of civil disobedience becomes a stand-off with police and a rush-to-judgment media constantly speculating about what’s really happening. This David versus Goliath story tackles some of our nation’s most challenging issues, homelessness and mental illness and sets the drama inside one of the last bastions of democracy-in-action: your public library.

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122 MIN

One soldier. One voice. One story at a time.

The Veterans’ Project is a feature-length documentary that weaves together the testimonies of injured or ill combat veterans who navigate the complexities of military, VA, and civilian medical seeking treatment and reintegration into civilian life. The project is a first for director Todd Fredricks and the collaborative group, Media in Medicine. The film is co-directed and co-produced by Brian Plow and narrated by Gary Sinise.

Free admission. Q&A with filmmakers after the show!

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85 MIN