“It has every right to be a furious tragedy. Instead, it’s a slacker comedy that swaps punchlines for laid-back, lived-in absurdities. The jokes land so feather-light you’re not sure if you should laugh.” —Amy Nicholson, New York Times
With subtlety and authenticity, War Pony tracks the lives of two young Indigenous men and cements the two women behind the lens, Riley Keough and Gina Gammell, as talents to watch.
R; 115 minutes
From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them—a damaged, brainy troublemaker (newcomer Dominic Sessa)—and with the school's head cook (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
R; 133 minutes
“Eileen is a stylish and wild ride that never lets up from its first frame to its shocking finale.” —The A.V. Club
Kore-eda Hirokazu‘s film Monster premiered in competition at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, winning best screenplay (for Yuji Sakamoto). A critically acclaimed Japanese master, Kore-eda previously won Cannes’ Palme d’Or with Shoplifters (2018) and returned to the competition last year with Broker, which earned best actor (for Song Kang-ho).
In the final hours of April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic, on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, collided with an iceberg and ‘the unsinkable ship’ slowly sank. It was one of the most tragic disasters of the 20th Century. Fifteen hundred seventeen men, women, and children lost their lives.
One Day on Earth is the first film made in every country of the world on the same day. We see both the challenges and hopes of humanity from a diverse group of volunteer filmmakers assembled by a participatory media experiment. The world is greatly interconnected, enormous, perilous, and wonderful. A documentary that captures the same 24-hour period throughout every country in the world.
A public tour focused specifically on current special exhibitions is available at 2 pm on the second Saturday of each month. This tour does not require prior arrangements and begins in the Museum lobby.
“Shepherd dug deep into herself and her process to figure out how to make paintings that would essentially make themselves instead of her superimposing images on them.
John Huston, 1987
PG; 87 minutes
A festive holiday dinner in Ireland at the turn of the twentieth century leads to epiphanies for a married couple. At the home of his spinster aunts, the socially maladroit Gabriel Conroy (Donal McCann) and his reserved wife, Gretta (Anjelica Huston), reflect on their marriage, Gretta's memories of her first love, and what it means both to live and to love. Director John Huston's final film is a faithful adaptation of the James Joyce short story.
Morton DaCosta, 1958
143 minutes
Mame Dennis (Rosalind Russell), a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick (Jan Handzlik/Roger Smith) after his wealthy father dies. Dwight Babcock (Fred Clark), Patrick's assigned executor, objects to Mame's unconventional way of living and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.
