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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Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World
May 29-31
Friday 6 and 8 pm; Saturday 5 pm; Sunday noon, 2 pm, and 4 pm
Surrealist artist H. R. Giger terrified audiences with his Oscar-winning monsters in Ridley Scott's Alien. Sci-fi, horror, music, album covers, tattoos, and fetish art have been influenced by his dark, intricate paintings and sculptures depicting birth, death, and sex. Belinda Sallin's definitive documentary shares the intimate last years of the artist's life and reveals how deeply he resided within his own artistic visions.
95 minutes
Saint Laurent
June 5-7
Friday 6 and 8:45 pm; Saturday 4:30 pm; Sunday 11:15 am, 2 pm, and 4:45 pm
Bertrand Bonello's documentary focuses on iconic fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent's life from 1967 to 1976, the peak of his career.
150 minutes; R; French/English subtitles
Iris
June 12-14
Friday 6 and 8 pm; Saturday 5 pm; Sunday noon, 2 pm, and 4 pm
"Fascinating fashion original Iris Apfel holds forth on her nine decades of life and times in Albert Maysles' rousing salute to iconoclasm. . . . A joyous celebration of creativity and razor-sharp wit sustained into old age, as evinced by outspoken nonagenarian fashion icon Iris Apfel, Iris also offers proof of Albert Maysles' continued vitality as a documentarian. Doubtless a close collaboration between filmmaker and subject, this character study proves as visually strong as it is verbally compelling." Ronnie Scheib, Variety..
83 minutes; PG-13
Sunshine Superman
June 19-21
Friday 6 and 8 pm; Saturday 5 pm; Sunday noon, 2 pm, and 4 pm
Marah Strauch's heart-racing documentary creates a vivid portrait of Carl Boenish, the father of the BASE jumping movement, whose early passion for skydiving led him to ever more spectacular - and dangerous - feats of foot-launched human flight.
100 minutes; PG
About Elly
June 26-28
Friday 6 and 8:15 pm; Saturday 5 pm; Sunday noon, 2:15 pm, and 4:30 pm
"A thriller perched right on the fault line between modern thinking and Islamic tradition." Bob Mondello, NPR. From the Academy Award winning director of A Separation comes this gripping mystery set among a group of old friends on a holiday retreat.
119 minutes
Aloft
July 3 & 5
Friday 6 pm; No Saturday showings; Sunday noon, 2 pm, and 4 pm
Accompanied by a documentary filmmaker, a falconer (Cillian Murphy) sets out across a frozen landscape to find his mother (Jennifer Connelly), a faith healer he has not seen in many years.
112 minutes; R
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