Films

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Bonnie and Clyde

Directed by Arthur Penn
(USA, 1967, 111 minutes, in English)
Lynn Wyatt Theater, 35mm

Presented to honor two-time Oscar-winner Gene Hackman (1930–2025), this film showcases his breakout role in Bonnie and Clyde.

Saturday, May 3, 2025

7 p.m.

Sunday, May 4, 2025

5:30 p.m.
Don’t Look Now ... We’re Being Shot At! (La grande vadrouille)

Directed by Gérard Oury
(France, 1966, 132 minutes, in French in English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater

Louis de Funès and Bourvil team up again for this timeless comedic masterpiece about several ordinary Frenchmen experiencing an epic voyage through wartime-occupied France.

Friday, May 9, 2025

7 p.m.
Almost Legal (Presque légal)

Directed by Max Mauroux
(France, 2024, 82 minutes, in French in English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater

Pals decide to recruit a team of unlikely “experts” to turn a small local grocery store into an after-hours business for the summer holidays. Rest assured, none of this is completely legal!

Saturday, May 10, 2025

7 p.m.
Open Season (Chasse gardée)

Directed by Frédéric Forestier and Antonin Forlon
(France, 2022, 101 minutes, in French in English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater

Parisian hipsters and their two kids have outgrown their city apartment. They jump at the chance to purchase a spacious country home, but there’s a hitch: the deed of sale allows the entire village to hunt on their property! Before long, beasts start trampling into the house and bullets are flying.

Saturday, May 10, 2025

8:45 p.m.
Chicken for Linda! (Linda veut du poulet!)

Directed by Sébastien Laudenbach and Chiara Malta
(France, 2023, 73 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater

Chicken for Linda! is a sweet and funny story the whole family will enjoy: a film that speaks of childhood from a child’s perspective, detailed in vibrant hand-painted images and told with humor, music, mischief and poetry.

Sunday, May 11, 2025

3 p.m.
The Art of Nothing (L’art d’être heureux)

Directed by Stefan Liberski
(Belgium/France, 2024, 110 minutes, in French in English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater

A self-absorbed conceptual artist moves to a seaside village hoping to reinvent himself. Embraced by the town’s quirky creative community—including a flirtatious gallerist and a congenial plein-air painter—he finds himself pulled into interpersonal dramas as well as jokes that may be at his own expense.

Sunday, May 11, 2025

5 p.m.
Anora

Directed by Sean Baker
(USA, 2024, 139 minutes, in English)
Lynn Wyatt Theater, 35mm

Anora (Oscar-winner Mikey Madison), a young woman from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as her new husband’s parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.

Friday, May 16, 2025

7 p.m.

Saturday, May 17, 2025

7 p.m.

Sunday, May 18, 2025

5 p.m.
Holy Cow (Vingt-dieu)

Directed by Louise Courvoisier
(France, 2024, 90 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

Carefree teen Totone spends his time drinking with friends and chasing romance. After the sudden death of his father, he is compelled to care for his precocious younger sister while trying to keep their dairy farm afloat.

Friday, May 23, 2025

7 p.m.

Saturday, May 24, 2025

7 p.m.
Blue Sun Palace

Directed by Constance Tsang
(USA, 2024, 116 minutes, in English, and Min Nan with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

Workers 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.

Friday, May 30, 2025

7 p.m.

Saturday, May 31, 2025

7 p.m.

Coming Soon

Misericordia (Miséricorde)

Directed by Alain Guiraudie
(France/Spain/Portugal, 2024, 104 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
Lynn Wyatt Theater, digital

After 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.

Sunday, June 1, 2025

5 p.m.

Saturday, June 7, 2025

7 p.m.
The Slender Thread

Directed by Sydney Pollack
(USA, 1965, 120 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

Sydney 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.
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, digital

Johan 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.
Ornette: Made in America

Directed by Shirley Clarke
(USA, 1985, 120 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

Shirley 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.
Mo’ Better Blues

Directed by Spike Lee
(USA, 1990, 130 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

Spike 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.
Killer of Sheep

Directed by Charles Burnett
(USA, 1977, 80 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, 4K digital restoration

Killer 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.

Sunday, June 15, 2025

5 p.m.

Sunday, June 22, 2025

5 p.m.
Art Blakey: The Jazz Messenger

Directed by Dick Fontaine and Pat Hartley
(USA, 1988, 78 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

Art 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.
The Pawnbroker

Directed by Sidney Lumet
(USA, 1964, 116 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

Director 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.
Grand Theft Hamlet

Directed by Sam Crane and Pinny Grylls
(UK/USA, 2024, 89 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

A 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.

Friday, June 27, 2025

7 p.m.

Saturday, June 28, 2025

7 p.m.