Broadcast live from the National Theatre, Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power.
Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love.In a tragic fight between devotion and duty, obsession becomes a catalyst for war.
“An acrobatic, larkish globetrotting adventure about paintings and psychotherapy that defies easy categorization save inclusion on any adult animation fan's must-see list.” Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times. A psychotherapist suffering violent nightmares inspired by legendary works of art joins forces with four of his patients (expert thieves) to steal the paintings, believing that once he owns them, the nightmares will disappear.
“There are no cut corners, no overly blatant only-in-the-movies gambits. Mikkelsen's stranded pilot has little to rely on beyond his will, so we feel at every step that he could truly be us.” Owen Gleiberman,
“With Transit, director Christian Petzold creates a Second World War adventure that is not a sentimental costume drama and a contemporary political parable that is not a didactic sermon - and produces a highly entertaining film into the bargain.” Kate Taylor, Globe and Mail. As fascism spreads, a German refugee flees to Marseille and assumes the identity of the dead writer whose transit papers he is carrying.
In the latest from UK director/writer Michael Winterbottom, Dev Patel stars as a man with a secret forced to go on the run across East Asia after he kidnaps a bride-to-be.
R; 94 minutes
Magnolia at the Modern is an ongoing series featuring critically acclaimed films. Tickets are $10; $8 for Modern members; $7 for Reel People. The Sunday noon show time is half price. Advance sales begin two hours prior to each show.
“The past hangs over Diane not just as burden or nostalgia (though it can be that, too) but as an enthralling and entangling reminder of life's mystery.” Owen Gleiberman, Variety. A woman (Mary Kay Place) fills her days helping others and desperately attempting to bond with her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her life, she is left to reckon with past
Set during the tumultuous times of the early 1920s, a Kansas woman (Elizabeth McGovern, Downton Abbey) is forever changed when she chaperones a beautiful and talented 15-year-old dancer, Louise Brooks (Haley Lu Richardson, Split), to New York for the summer.
“The sorrow inherent in this tale would be unbearable without the film's flashes of humor and performances by a cast of nonprofessionals that are moving beyond measure.” Peter Travers, Rolling Stone. After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime, and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him. Capernaum was the winner of the Grand Jury prize at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.
R; 121 minutes
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Oscar Shorts schedule has been updated.
Friday 3:45 pm ANIMATED, 8 pm LIVE ACTION
Saturday noon and 5 pm ANIMATED; 2 pm LIVE ACTION
Sunday noon and 4:15 pm ANIMATED; 2 pm LIVE ACTION
For the 14th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films, a perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world. The Academy Awards take place Sunday, February 24. This is your chance to predict the winners!
“For while this may be a film about how Wilde's life -- and genius -- were cruelly curtailed by the stigma of his homosexuality, it's also about lives lived, enduring friendships and the relentless passing of time.” Matthew Bond, The Mail.
Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, and Emily Watson star in the untold story of the last days of Oscar Wilde, a man who observed his own failure with ironic distance and regarded the difficulties that beset his life with detachment and humor.
