Films
Now Playing
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Holy Cow (Vingt-dieu)
Directed by Louise Courvoisier
(France, 2024, 90 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digitalCarefree teen Totone spends his time drinking with friends and chasing romance. However, he must soon care for his precocious younger sister while trying to keep their dairy farm afloat.
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Blue Sun Palace
Directed by Constance Tsang
(USA, 2024, 116 minutes, in English, and Min Nan with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digitalWorkers at a massage parlor in New York navigate romance, happiness, and the obligations of family thousands of miles from home. Despite the physical and emotional toll their work extracts, the women who live at the parlor have fortified an impenetrable sisterhood.
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Misericordia (Miséricorde)
Directed by Alain Guiraudie
(France/Spain/Portugal, 2024, 104 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
Lynn Wyatt Theater, digitalAfter an absence of ten years Jérémie returns to his hometown of Saint-Martial, for the the funeral of his beloved former boss. Staying with the widow, Jérémie begins to insinuate himself into his mentor’s family, while making a surprising—and ultimately beneficial—friendship with a local priest.
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The Slender Thread
Directed by Sydney Pollack
(USA, 1965, 120 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digitalSydney Pollack’s directorial debut stars Sidney Poitier as a young crisis-center volunteer and Anne Bancroft as a suicidal woman who calls the hotline. This dramatic thriller follows their unlikely conversation, the story of her unmooring, and a race against time to save her.
- Friday, June 6, 2025
- 7 p.m.
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Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Directed by Johan Grimonprez
(Belgium/France/Netherlands, 2024, 150 minutes, in English, French, Dutch, and Russian with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digitalJohan Grimonprez’s Oscar-nominated essay film examines how jazz and geopolitics collided in a nefarious chapter of Cold War history. This propulsive cinematic collage illuminates the political machinations behind the assassination of Congo’s first democratically elected leader, Patrice Lumumba.
- Sunday, June 8, 2025
- 5 p.m.
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Ornette: Made in America
Directed by Shirley Clarke
(USA, 1985, 120 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digitalShirley Clarke’s portrait of Texas jazz visionary Ornette Coleman chronicles the musician’s story and captures the premiere of a new work in his hometown of Fort Worth in 1983.
- Friday, June 13, 2025
- 7 p.m.
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Mo’ Better Blues
Directed by Spike Lee
(USA, 1990, 130 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digitalSpike Lee’s stylish film stars Denzel Washington as a trumpet player attempting to balance craft, career, and cool while juggling relationships with two women.
- Saturday, June 14, 2025
- 7 p.m.
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Killer of Sheep
Directed by Charles Burnett
(USA, 1977, 80 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, 4K digital restorationKiller of Sheep examines life in Watts, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, in the mid-1970s through the eyes of Stan (Houston native Henry G. Sanders), a sensitive dreamer who is growing detached from the psychic toll of working at a slaughterhouse.
Coming Soon
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Art Blakey: The Jazz Messenger
Directed by Dick Fontaine and Pat Hartley
(USA, 1988, 78 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digitalArt Blakey formed the Jazz Messengers in the mid-1950s, and the evolving group became a rite of passage for talented young musicians for the next 35 years. This documentary portrait of Blakey captures the legendary drummer, bandleader, and teacher in the 1980s as he leads workshops and performances in London and New York City.
- Friday, June 20, 2025
- 7 p.m.
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The Pawnbroker
Directed by Sidney Lumet
(USA, 1964, 116 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digitalDirector Sidney Lumet’s groundbreaking 1964 drama stars Rod Steiger as a German-Jewish immigrant who lives a bitter, lonely existence running a pawn shop in Harlem. Quincy Jones’s first Hollywood film score features musicians Dave Grusin, Freddie Hubbard, Elvin Jones, and Oliver Nelson.
- Saturday, June 21, 2025
- 7 p.m.
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Grand Theft Hamlet
Directed by Sam Crane and Pinny Grylls
(UK/USA, 2024, 89 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digitalA documentary about two British out-of-work actors attempting the impossible task of mounting a full production of Hamlet inside the ruthless world of Grand Theft Auto.
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