Evil Does Not Exist

Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi's follow-up to his Academy Award®-winning Drive My Car is a foreboding fable on humanity's mysterious, mystical relationship with nature. In a rural village not far from Tokyo, the townsfolk become aware of a company’s plan to build an opulent campsite, offering city residents a comfortable “escape” to the snowy wilderness. As sinister gunshots echo from the forest, both the locals and company representatives confront their life choices and the haunting consequences they have.

106 minutes; Japanese with English subtitles

Nowhere Special

“It’s tender and poignant but might be a bit cloying were it not for Norton, who underplays it beautifully with a performance of tremendous depth and empathy.” —Cath Clarke, The Guardian

John (James Norton), a 35-year-old window cleaner, has dedicated his life to bringing up his four-year-old son, Michael, after the child's mother left them soon after giving birth. When John is given only a few months left to live, he attempts to find a new, perfect family for Michael, determined to shield him from the terrible reality of the situation.

96 minutes

Wildcat

Directed and co-written by four-time Academy Award® nominee Ethan Hawke, Wildcat invites the audience to weave in and out of celebrated Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor's mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing: Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, a 24-year-old Flannery (Maya Hawke) is diagnosed with lupus and visits her mother Regina (Laura Linney) in Georgia.

Gallery Talk: Elliot and Erick Jiménez

 

Gallery Talk: Elliot and Erick Jiménez

1 pm
Q&A following
 

Join us for a gallery talk with artists Erick and Elliot Jiménez discussing their background and their artwork Blue Chapel (Rejection, Acceptance, Advocacy, Interdependence), featured in the Modern’s special exhibition Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940 on view through July 28. The talk will be moderated by Curator María Elena Ortiz.

La Chimera

“This film is clever, ambitious, and funny throughout, but it also works as an intelligent meditation on our attitudes toward life, love, and death.” —Peter Sobczynski, RogerEbert.com

Remembering Gene Wilder

This loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an extraordinary string of film roles, including his first collaboration with Mel Brooks in The Producers, the enigmatic title role in the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and his inspired on-screen partnership with Richard Pryor in movies like Silver Streak.

Problemista

“It’s a marvelous mixture of surrealism and social satire that depicts the American dream as a nightmare of bureaucracy and phone calls to customer service. There’s nothing more absurd, the film argues, than the mundane.” —Shirley Li, The Atlantic

Dear England

Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale) plays Gareth Southgate in James Graham’s (Sherwood) gripping examination of nation and game. The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern of loss. Why can’t England’s men win at their own game? With the worst track record for penalties in the world, Gareth Southgate knows he needs to open his mind and face up to the years of hurt, to take team and country back to the promised land.

42nd Street

One of Broadway’s most classic and beloved tales, 42nd Street, comes cinema screens in the largest-ever production of the breathtaking musical. The musical, set in 1933, tells the story of Peggy Sawyer, a talented young performer with stars in her eyes who gets her big break on Broadway.