Magnolia at the Modern is an ongoing series featuring critically acclaimed films. Tickets are $9; $7 for Modern members; $6 for Reel People. The Sunday noon show time is half price. Advance sales begin two hours prior to each show.
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TAMPOPO
January 13-15
Friday 6 and 8 pm; Saturday 5 pm; Sunday noon, 2 pm, and 4 pm
"A rare blend of culinary and cinematic excitement returns to theaters with a glorious new 4K restoration that only makes it easier to savor its flavors."
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire. Considered one of the best food movies of all time, this humorous paean to the joys of food focuses on a trucker who rides into town like a modern-day Shane to help Tampopo set up the perfect noodle soup restaurant.
114 minutes; Japanese with English subtitles
THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT
January 20-22
Friday 6 and 8 pm; Saturday 5 pm; Sunday noon, 2 pm, and 4 pm
"A film with a big heart and an even bigger imagination." Cath Clarke, Time Out.
"An irreverent but otherwise harmless ontological satire that puts a cartoonish spin on the Christian origin story.
" Peter Debruge,
Variety.The Brand New Testament is a 2015
fantasy/
dark comedy in which God lives in an apartment in Brussels with his meek wife and his 10-year-old daughter.
Includes controversial adult subject matter; 113 minutes; French and German
THINGS TO COME
January 27-29
Friday 6 and 8 pm; Saturday 5 pm; Sunday noon, 2 pm, and 4 pm
"Huppert's warm, wry performance as an academic facing a crisis at home powers Mia Hansen-Løve's intimate, intellectual film." Mark Kermode, The Guardian.
A passionate middle-aged philosophy professor (Isabelle Huppert) rethinks her already much-examined life after an unforeseen divorce.
PG-13; 102 minutes; French with English subtitles
JULIETA
February 3-5
Friday 6 and 8 pm; Saturday 5 pm; Sunday noon, 2 pm, and 4 pm
Pedro Almodovar seduces his audience from the opening credits of this fertile Spanish melodrama about love, loss and reinvention."
Vicky Roach,
Daily Telegraph.In the latest drama from Spanish master Pedro Almodóvar, a middle-aged Julieta (Emma Suárez) learns that her long-lost daughter has resurfaced in Madrid. Thus begins a painful reflection into her checkered past, flashing back to the moments of torment that defined her current life.
R; 96 minutes; Spanish with English subtitles
TONI ERDMANN
February 10-12
Friday 5:30 and 8:30 pm; Saturday 4:30 pm; Sunday 11 am, 2 pm, and 5 pm
"A slow-burning thing of beauty, ultimately as moving as it is implausibly funny."
Leslie Felperin,
Hollywood Reporter."To say
Toni Erdmann is funny doesn't even begin to capture the out-there texture of the jokes, and of the actors' timing.
"Stephanie Zacharek,
Time.
A reluctant career woman must spend time with her estranged father when he comes for a surprise visit.
R; 162 minutes; German with English subtitles
OSCAR SHORTS
February 17-19
Friday 6 pm Animated program, 8 pm Live Action program; Saturday 5 pm Animated program; Sunday noon Animated program, 2 pm Live Action program, 4 pm Animated program
Enjoy this opportunity to see the 2017 Academy Award nominees for Best Animated and Best Live Action short films.
