The Teachers' Lounge

The Teachers’ Lounge is a pulse-pounding exploration of the ways we draw lines between enemies and friends, and the courage it takes to blur them.” —Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter

A dedicated sports and math teacher (Leonie Benesch) starts her first job at a high school and stands out among the new staff because of her idealism. When a series of thefts occur at the school and one of her students is suspected, she decides to get to the bottom of the matter on her own.

PG-13; 94 minutes; German with English subtitles

Driving Madeleine

Madeleine (Line Renaud), 92 years old, calls a taxi to take her to the retirement home where she will be living. Charles (Dany Boon), a disillusioned driver with a tender heart, agrees to drive by the places that affected Madeleine's life. Through the streets of Paris, her extraordinary past is revealed. They don't know it yet, but they will forge a friendship during this drive that will change their lives forever.

91 minutes; French with English subtitles

The Boy and the Heron

A young boy yearning for his mother ventures into a world shared by the living and the dead. There, death comes to an end, and life finds a new beginning. From the mind of Hayao Miyazaki comes this semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, death, and creation, in tribute to friendship.

PG-13; 124 minutes

Freud's Last Session

On the eve of the Second World War two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, C. S. Lewis (Matthew Goode) and Sigmund Freud (Anthony Hopkins), converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God. Freud’s Last Session interweaves the lives of Freud and Lewis—past, present, and through fantasy—bursting from the confines of Freud’s study on a dynamic journey.

PG-13; 108 minutes

No Barriers

The Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth welcomes back the brilliant young pianist, Orion Weiss one of the most profound interpreters of Brahms. He will be heard in Brahms' Piano Quartet in A major and the Faure Piano Quartet no.1. Joining him will be Ani Aznavoorian, making her long awaited CMSFW debut and charter ensemble members Gary Levinson and Michael Klotz.

“When you’re named after one of the biggest constellations in the night sky, the pressure is on to display a little star power — and the young pianist Orion Weiss did exactly that...”
The Washington Post

Sounds Modern: Maps of Music and Memory

In conjunction with Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map, Sounds Modern features works by Pulitzer and MacArthur winning composer Raven Chacon.

The most up-to-the-minute and least predictable concert music series in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Sounds Modern has been exploring links between contemporary music and visual arts for over a decade. Sounds Modern reaches beyond the traditional context of classical music, collaborating with modern art presenters and other non-traditional venues to share adventurous new music with adventurous new audiences.

Making the Modern

This compelling film captures the story of the extraordinary design and construction of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. The documentary includes on-site construction footage; the process behind Mr. Ando’s signature concrete; his greatest buildings in Japan; the key to his Modernist and Japanese influences; and interviews with the architects Frank Gehry and Richard Meier and the artist Richard Serra.

The Winslow Boy

David Mamet, 1999
G; 104 minutes

When 14-year-old Ronnie Winslow (Guy Edwards) is expelled from the Royal Naval College for theft, his father, Arthur (Nigel Hawthorne), is convinced that Ronnie was wrongly accused. After acquiring the talented lawyer Sir Robert Morton (Jeremy Northam), Arthur doggedly pursues the case, which becomes a sensationalized public story. As the case wears on, the Winslows' finances are drained, adversely affecting the older Winslow children.

Cold Comfort Farm

John Schlesinger, 1995
104 minutes

In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste (Kate Beckinsale), a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.