Dark Star: HR Giger's World

Friday 6 and 8:00 pm; Saturday 5:00 pm; Sunday noon, 2:00 and 4:00 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 Dark Star: HR Giger's World shares the intimate last years of the artist's life and reveals how deeply he resided within his own artistic visions.

95 minutes

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The Wolfpack

Friday 6 and 8:00 pm; Saturday 5:00 pm; Sunday noon, 2:00 and 4:00 pm

“ALTOGETHER FASCINATING. It has been a while since I’ve seen something that demands to be talked about with such urgency." Jordan Hoffman, The Guardian. This 2015 documentary film, directed by Crystal Moselle, explores the lives of the Angulo Brothers, the Wolfpack. Home schooled and locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, they learn about the outside world through the films that they watch.

80 minutes; Rated R

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Still Alice

Friday 6 and 8 pm; Saturday 5 pm; Sunday noon, 2 pm, and 4 pm
“With a combination of power and grace, Julianne Moore elevates Still Alice above its made-for-cable-television trappings, and delivers one of the more memorable performances of her career.” Christy Lemire, RogerEbert.com. A vibrant and accomplished college professor (Julianne Moore) disappears in front of her friends, family, and herself as Alzheimer's disease slowly destroys her mind.

99 minutes; PG-13

Miss Julie

Friday 6 and 8:15 pm; Saturday 5 pm; Sunday noon, 2:15 pm, and 4:30 pm

“An austere, pared-down take that does one thing extremely well: It allows actors Jessica Chastain, Samantha Morton and especially Colin Farrell to shine.” Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News.

Elsa and Fred

Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer star as two people who, at the end of the road, discover that it's never too late to love and make dreams come true.
94 minutes; PG-13

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.

 

Two Days, One Night

Friday 6 and 8 pm; Saturday 5 pm; Sunday noon, 2 pm, and 4 pm

“A tense dramatic situation and a subtly magnificent central performance from Marion Cotillard add up to an outstanding new movie from the Dardenne brothers.” Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian. A woman and her husband have to convince her colleagues to give up their bonuses in order for her to keep her job.

95 minutes; PG-13; French with English subtitles

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Leviathan

Friday 6 and 8:30 pm; Saturday 5 pm; Sunday 11 am, 2 pm, and 4:30 pm

“Why should you suffer through a 140-minute Russian film that is basically a contemporary remake of The Book of Job? Because it's a stupendous piece of work, that's why, and because it represents the kind of challenging, intimate filmmaking that transcends language and borders.” Peter Travers, Rolling Stone.

A Russian fisherman fights back when a corrupt mayor tries to seize possession of his ancestral home.