“The Shrouds,” about a widower who deals with his grief by creating a new kind of cemetery where the living can observe the decay of their loved ones’ bodies, is a Cronenbergian body horror of integrity and force. **** - RogerEbert.com

In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Vincent Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth. While Karsh is still reeling from the loss of his wife (Diane Kruger) from cancer—and falling into a peculiar sexual relationship with his wife’s sister (also Kruger)—a spate of vandalized graves utilizing his “shroud” technology begins to put his enterprise at risk, leading him to uncover a potentially vast conspiracy. Written following the death of the director’s wife, the new film from David Cronenberg is both a profoundly personal reckoning with grief and a descent into noir-tinged dystopia, set in an ominous world of self-driving cars, data theft, and A.I. personal assistants. Offering Cronenberg’s customary balance of malevolence and wit, The Shrouds is a sly and thought-provoking consideration of the corporeal and the digital, the mortal and the infinite.

 2 Hrs

 R for strong sexual content, graphic nudity, language and some violent content

FREE EVENT! Come see the works of 4 local students and hear them discuss their films.

*films by

Alex Lucier

Delaney DeNorscia

Andrew Lucier

Julia Forest

An expansive and revelatory inside look at the 18 months John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent living in Greenwich Village in the early 1970s, ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO delivers an immersive cinematic experience that brings to life electrifying, never-before-seen material and newly restored footage of Lennon's only full-length, post-Beatles concert. With mind-blowing remastered audio overseen by their son, Sean Ono Lennon, the film is a seismic revelation that will challenge pre-existing notions of the iconic couple.

“fun, fierce, full-blooded portrait of Lennon and Ono” – The Guardian

MEANWHILE is a docu-poem in six verses about artists breathing through chaos. In dynamic collaboration, Jacqueline Woodson (text), Meshell Ndegeocello (soundscape), Erika Dilday (support), M. Trevino (structure), and Catherine Gund (direction), combine artists' expressions with historical and observational footage to unveil a rare cinematic mediation about identity, race, racism and resistance as they shape our shared breath. Centering breath as a symbol of resilience, Meanwhile captures raw, unfinished moments--dancers in rehearsal, artists midway through their work--focusing on the act of creation. Rooted in the upheavals of 2020, the film uses breath as its through-line to symbolize collective survival. It invites viewers to witness the process of liberation and be present in the "meanwhile"--a moment of creation, struggle, and hope that transcends fixed identities.

“‘Meanwhile’...feels like both a provocation and a request to consider what flourishing looks like in this chaotic moment — for Black Americans, and for anyone who finds themselves drowning, struggling to breathe.”

“...the movie suggests freedom is something you can experience while also working toward freedom’s creation. Artists know that for sure — ‘Meanwhile’ aims to make it clear to everyone.” “...this is, indeed, poetry.” – New York Times

 1 Hr 28 Min

Maria Schneider (Anamaria Vartolomei) is a promising, young French actress. When she gets the lead in a feature film directed by an acclaimed Italian filmmaker and starring one of America's most beloved actors, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. Her collaborators, director Bernardo Bertolucci and star Marlon Brando (Matt Dillon) seem to be bringing out the best in Maria, sharing a warm rapport and mentorship with the 19-year old girl. Until one day, when the two men conspire to shoot a crucial sex scene as a harrowing assault without letting Maria in on the plan. The film goes on to be lauded as a fearless artistic breakthrough, but for Maria, it’s the beginning of a living hell. Based on the behind-the-scenes true story of the making of Last Tango in Paris, Jessica Palud's sensitive biopic centers Maria's story for the first time.

In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside the busy Providence Place Mall and kept it going for four years, filming everything along the way. Far more than just a wild prank, the secret mall apartment became an incredibly meaningful act for all the participants, at once an act of defiance against local gentrification, a boundary-pushing work of public/private art, and a 750 square foot space that sticks it to the man.

"Deliriously entertaining and moving."
–Bilge Ebiri, Vulture

"Fascinating...A delightful, thought-provoking movie that’s about a lot of things at the same time. It’ll make you see the world with fresh eyes."
-Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com

“Impossibly compelling... Has the tension and fun of a crime caper”
–Paste Magazine

“Remarkable...A dazzling doc that’s a kiss-off to gentrification.”
–The Daily Beast

A look at the all-too-short life and career of enigmatic comedy legend Andy Kaufman, including never-before-seen footage and intimate interviews with friends, colleagues and family members.

1 HR 39 Min

An elegantly assembled diary of the Palestinian experience, No Other Land is a harrowing document that leaves traces of hope for a better future.

For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with a journalist from the other side who joins his fight.

1 HR 36 Min

Loving Vincent's dazzling visual achievements make this Van Gogh biopic well worth seeking out.

In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.

PG-13

1 HR 34 Min

A vibrant exploration of family and social mores, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl marks another superb effort from writer-director Rungano Nyoni.

On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family, in filmmaker Rungano Nyoni's surreal and vibrant reckoning with the lies we tell ourselves.

PG-13 (Thematic Material|Sexual Abuse|Suggestive References|Some Drug Use)

1 HR 39 Min

““Presence” is less of a horror movie or even a traditional ghost story than a drama about personal morality, responsibility, self-inquiry, and personal evolution, told from the perspective of someone who’s not alive anymore. If that doesn’t make sense now, it will after you’ve seen the movie. 3 1/2 stars.” Rogerebert.com

A family moves into a suburban house and becomes convinced they're not alone.

R (Sexuality |Language |Drug Material  |Teen Drinking |Violence)

1 HR 25 Min

Avid cinema history buff Jared Wager screens and discusses this surrealist take on Alice in Wonderland.

In Czech director Jan Svankmajer's surreal adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic children's book, Alice (Kristyna Kohoutova) follows her stuffed rabbit through a portal inside her dresser to be whisked away to Wonderland. While the White Rabbit, Mad Hatter and Cheshire Cat are still present, the familiar magical world and bizarre characters have undergone an unsettling transformation in the director's vision through the stop-motion animation of dead animals, puppets and other assorted objects.

In 1874, a group of scorned, penniless artistic mavericks held their own exhibition outside official channels, launching the Impressionist movement and changing the art world forever. Made in close collaboration with the Musee d’Orsay in Paris and the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., this documentary relates the story of that groundbreaking show and the movement’s birth, told in the words of those who witnessed it: the artists, the press, and the people of 19th-century Paris.

1 HR 30 Min

Structurally beautiful and suffused with Adrien Brody's soulful performance, writer-director Brady Corbet's The Brutalist is a towering tribute to the immigrant experience.

Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes. On his own in a strange new country, László settles in Pennsylvania, where the wealthy and prominent industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren recognizes his talent for building. But power and legacy come at a heavy cost....

R (Graphic Nudity |Drug Use |Rape |Some Language |Strong Sexual Content)

3 HR 35 Min (with intermission)

A comedy of improbable encounters and unlikely language lessons, A Traveler's Needs marks the third collaboration between Hong and Isabelle Huppert (following 2012's In Another Country and 2017's Claire's Camera). This time Huppert plays Iris, a woman who finds herself adrift in Seoul and without any means to make ends meet, turns to teaching French via a très peculiar method. Through a series of encounters, as we grow to know more about Iris and her situation, the mysteries of her circumstances only deepen.

James Ashcroft’s The Rule of Jenny Pen is a psychological horror film set in the unsettling confines of a retirement home where the lines between reality and delusion blur.

The story follows Judge Stefan Mortensen (Geoffrey Rush), a once-powerful legal mind now weakened by a stroke and struggling to adjust to life in the facility. There, he encounters Dave Crealy (John Lithgow), a seemingly harmless resident who uses a hand puppet named Jenny Pen to exert a disturbing influence over the other inhabitants. As Mortensen begins to suspect that Crealy’s antics are more sinister than they appear, he faces skepticism from staff and fellow residents, forcing him into a desperate battle to uncover the truth before he too falls under Jenny Pen’s rule.

With a creeping sense of dread and a haunting exploration of power, manipulation, and isolation, The Rule of Jenny Pen delivers a chilling commentary on the vulnerabilities of old age and the horrors that can lurk behind closed doors.

R (Sexual Assault |Violent Content |Some Language)

1 HR 43 Min