David Lynch takes us back to the town of damned good cups of coffee and cherry pies in this film prequel to the television series where we actually meet Laura Palmer (Lee) for the first time. Brought in to investigate the mysterious death of nightshift waitress Teresa Banks, special agent Chester Desmond (Isaak) and later Special […]
Nuit Blanche: Inocente – ONE NIGHT ONLY
A personal and vibrant coming of age story about a young artist’s determination never to surrender to the bleakness of her surroundings. At 15, Inocente refuses to let her dream of becoming an artist be caged by being an undocumented immigrant forced to live homeless for the last nine years. Color is her personal revolution […]
Nuit Blanche: Finding Fela! – ONE NIGHT ONLY
Finding Fela tells the story of Fela Kuti’s life (1938 – 1997), his music, and his social and political importance. This in-depth look at the man who created Afrobeat (a fusion of Jazz, traditional West African rhythms, Funk, Highlife, and psychedelic rock) brings audiences close to Mr. Kuti’s fight against the dictatorial Nigerian government of […]
Nuit Blanche: Bill T. Jones A Good Man – ONE NIGHT ONLY
A Good Man follows acclaimed director/choreographer Bill T. Jones (Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Still/Here, FELA!) as he and his company create their most ambitious work, an original dance-theater piece in honor of Abraham Lincoln’s Bicentennial. Through two tumultuous years, we witness raw moments of frustration as Jones struggles to communicate his […]
The Zero Theorem: Last Day Thursday, October 16th
Terry Gilliam (Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)’s madcap science fiction epic The Zero Theorem stars two- time Academy Award-winner Christoph Waltz as Qohen Leth, an eccentric and reclusive computer genius plagued with existential angst. Living in isolation in a burnt-out church, Qohen is obsessively working on a mysterious project personally delegated […]
The Skeleton Twins: Last Day Thursday, October 23rd
After ten years of estrangement, twins Maggie and Milo (“Saturday Night Live’s” Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader) coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront how their lives went so wrong. As the twins’ reunion reinvigorates them both, they realize that the key to fixing their lives just may lie […]
When Night Comes – One Night Only Thursday, October 9th
Inspired by true events, a classic horror returns. Lark (Jason Miller) embraces his dark heritage and resumes the campaign of terror his grandfather started. Driven by his wife’s infidelity, Lark unleashes his rage on the cheating and unfaithful. As the body count rises, Detectives Hugh Evans (Alex Couladis) and Frank Sweeney (Mike Stene) relentlessly pursue […]
Dune: Let’s Do Lynch
Set in a distant future where life in the universe and space travel is dependent upon a spice found only on the planet Dune, this film tracks the rise of young Paul Atreides, son of noble Duke Leto, from the time of his father’s betrayal and murder by the evil Baron Harkonnen, to his discovery […]
Elephant Man: Let’s Do Lynch
John Hurt stars as John Merrick, the hideously deformed 19th century Londoner known as “The Elephant Man”. Treated as a sideshow freak, Merrick is assumed to be retarded as well as misshapen because of his inability to speak coherently. In fact, he is highly intelligent and sensitive, a fact made public when one Dr. Frederick […]
Southeast Asian Short Films: KLEX’s Tropical Seasonings
This fall, two collections of short films from Southeast Asia will be shown in Athena Cinema. Tropical Seasonings (2014) is a experimental film collection. It is curated by the director of Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film Festival (KLEX), Siew-wai Kok. This program features twelve videos from Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, the UK and the USA. Six of them come from […]
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