The Magnolia at the Modern is an ongoing series featuring critically acclaimed films. Regular show times are Friday at 6 and 8 pm, Saturday at 5 pm, and Sunday at noon, 2 and 4 pm (exceptions are noted). Tickets are $8.50; $6.50 for Modern members. The Sunday noon show time is half price. Advance sales begin two hours prior to each show.

Film Schedule   

Gerhard Richter Painting

July 20-22

Friday 6 pm, no 8 pm screening; Saturday 5 pm; Sunday noon, 2 pm, and 4 pm

"Gerhard Richter may not fling paint at the canvas, Jackson Pollock-style, but as Corinna Belz shows in her documentary Gerhard Richter Painting, he can be his own kind of action painter." Rachel Saltz, The New York Times.

97 minutes; German and English

Your Sister's Sister

July 27-29

Friday 6 and 8 pm; Saturday 5 pm; Sunday noon, 2 pm, and 4 pm

Iris (Emily Blunt) invites her friend Jack to stay at her family's island getaway after the death of his brother. At their remote cabin, Jack's drunken encounter with Hannah, Iris' sister, kicks off a revealing stretch of days.

R for language and some sexual content; 90 minutes

Neil Young Journeys

August 3-5

Friday 6 and 8 pm; Saturday 5 pm; Sunday noon, 2 pm, and 4 pm

Jonathan Demme's soulful documentary follows iconic singer songwriter Neil Young as he performs and travels throughout Ontario.

PG for language including some drug references, and brief thematic material; 87 minutes

Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present

August 10-12

Friday 6 and 8 pm; Saturday 5 pm; Sunday noon, 2 pm, and 4 pm

"Performance artist Marina Abramovic's unique four-decade career receives its mainstream platform in The Artist is Present, an intelligent overview that makes a radical artist's work comprehensible to audiences with no previous awareness of her or her chosen path." Robert Koehler, Variety. Matthew Akkers' documentary follows the Serbian performance artist as she prepares for a retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

107 minutes

Searching for Sugarman

August 17-19

Friday 6 and 8 pm; Saturday 5 pm; Sunday noon, 2 pm, and 4 pm

Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez , in this winning musical detective story about a failed, forgotten early '70s rocker who became a huge success halfway across the world-in absentia.

85 minutes

Russian Films at the Modern

August 24-26

Friday 6 and 8 pm; Saturday 5 pm; Sunday noon, 2 pm, and 4 pm

The Lone Star Film Society and the Modern have partnered with the Russian Ministry of Culture, the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, and the City of Fort Worth Mayor's Office to present a cultural exchange of some of the newest and most exciting films and filmmakers from the U.S. and Russia. In June, three U.S. films and filmmakers traveled to the Moscow International Film Festival; and in August and September, three Russian filmmakers will present their work to U.S. audiences in Fort Worth, New York, and San Francisco. The filmmakers presented in this series represent bold new voices in both American and Russian independent cinema.

Schedule and ticketing information will be available at www.themodern.org.

Come early or stay late on Friday for dinner or Sunday for brunch at Cafe Modern!