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New York
This Week At The Cinema: August 26 - September 1, 2022
Arts and Entertainment
August 24, 2022
From: Cinema Arts CentreThis week at the Cinema we have a special treat for any Star Wars fans! George Lucas's original trilogy comes back to the big screen for one week only! We are also opening George Miller's new fantasy epic 'Three Thousand Years of Longing'.
As for special events, our Sunday Schmooze program finally returns to CAC with a screening of the hit documentary 'The Automat' - featuring a discussion with the film's director Lisa Hurwtiz in person. Director Eva Vitija will also be joining us next week for an early access screening of a new documentary about the legendary author Patricia Highsmith. Other special events include a 50th anniversary screening of 'The Godfather', a screening and discussion of Otto Preminger's 'Bunny Lake is Missing', and a Cult Cafe showing of Martin Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver'.
Make sure to check out our calendar for all of the screenings and special events coming up!
Star Wars: A New Hope
Luke Skywalker begins a journey that will change the galaxy in Star Wars Episode IV – A New Hope. Nineteen years after the formation of the Empire, Luke is thrust into the struggle of the Rebel Alliance when he meets Obi-Wan Kenobi, who has lived for years in seclusion on the desert planet of Tatooine. Obi-Wan begins Luke’s Jedi training as Luke joins him on a daring mission to rescue the beautiful Rebel leader Princess Leia from the clutches of Darth Vader and the evil Empire.
Showtimes
Fri: 1:00; 3:50
Sat: 3:50
Sun: 1:50
Mon: 7:20
Tues: 1:20
Wed: 4:30
Thurs: 1:35
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Discover the conflict between good and evil in the electrifying Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. After the destruction of the Death Star, Imperial forces continue to pursue the Rebels. After the Rebellion’s defeat on the ice planet Hoth, Luke journeys to the planet Dagobah to train with Jedi Master Yoda, who has lived in hiding since the fall of the Republic. In an attempt to convert Luke to the dark side, Darth Vader lures young Skywalker into a trap in the Cloud City of Bespin.
Showtimes
Fri: 6:40
Sat: 1:00; 6:40
Sun: 4:40
Mon: 4:30
Tues: 4:10
Wed: 7:20
Thurs: 4:25
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Experience the triumph of the Force in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. In the epic conclusion of the original trilogy, the Empire prepares to crush the Rebellion with a more powerful Death Star, while the Rebel fleet mounts a massive attack on the space station. Luke Skywalker confronts Darth Vader in a final climactic duel before the evil Emperor.
Showtimes
Fri: 9:35
Sat: 9:35
Sun: 7:35
Mon: 1:35
Tues: 7:30
Wed: 1:35
Thurs: 7:20
Three Thousand Years of Longing
Dr Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic - content with life and a creature of reason. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. This presents two problems. First, she doubts that he is real and second, because she is a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The Djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually she is beguiled and makes a wish that surprises them both.
Showtimes
Fri: 1:20; 3:55; 6:30; 9:10
Sat: 1:20; 3:55; 6:30; 9:10
Sun: 12:10 ; 2:45; 5:20; 7:50
Mon: 2:00; 4:40; 7:25
Tues: 2:00; 4:40; 7:20
Wed: 2:00; 4:40; 7:25
Thurs: 2:00; 4:40; 7:25
Fire of Love
Fire of Love tells the story of two French lovers, Katia and Maurice Krafft, who died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of our planet, while simultaneously capturing the most explosive volcano imagery ever recorded. Along the way, they changed our understanding of the natural world, and saved tens of thousands of lives. Previously unseen hours of pristine 16-millimeter film and thousands of photographs reveal the birth of modern volcanology through an unlikely lens -- the love of its two pioneers.
Showtimes
Fri: 4:20; 9:30
Sat: 4:20; 9:30
Sun: 2:50
Mon: 2:30
Tues: 2:30
Wed: 5:10
Thurs: 5:05
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song
HALLELUJAH: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song is a definitive exploration of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, “Hallelujah.” This feature-length documentary weaves together three creative strands: The songwriter and his times; the song’s dramatic journey from record label reject to chart-topping hit; and moving testimonies from major recording artists for whom “Hallelujah” has become a personal touchstone. Approved for production by Leonard Cohen just before his 80th birthday in 2014, the film accesses a wealth of never-before-seen archival materials from the Cohen Trust including Cohen’s personal notebooks, journals and photographs, performance footage, and extremely rare audio recordings and interviews.
Showtimes
Fri: 1:40; 6:50
Sat: 1:40; 6:50
Sun: 5:10
Mon: 4:50
Tues: 4:50
Wed: 2:30; 7:30
Thurs: 2:25
This Week Special Events
Cult Cafe
Martin Scorsese's Taxi Drive
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city. When Travis meets pretty campaign worker Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), he becomes obsessed with the idea of saving the world, first plotting to assassinate a presidential candidate, then directing his attentions toward rescuing 12-year-old prostitute Iris (Jodie Foster).
Saturday, August 27th at 10:00 PM
$5 Members | $7 Public
Sunday Schmooze hosted by Fred Craden
The Automat
with director Lisa Hurwitz in-person!
Americans once sipped coffee and ate pie around communal tables, sharing their struggles and dreams with strangers at Horn & Hardart’s iconic Automat. Lifetimes ago, these working-class palaces nourished a sense of unity that bridged the diversity of class, language, gender and race in the urban melting pots of the East Coast. Travel back in time to experience this unique piece of America's history, an exciting story and one that may seem strangely familiar. More than just entertainment, THE AUTOMAT is a parable of how we once dined happily together before turning to the isolated and unhappy experience offered by fast food, a bad deal that no amount of advertising can disguise.
Sunday, August 28th
Brunch at 10 AM | Movie at 11 AM
$12 Members | $17 Public
Cinema for Kids
Princess Mononoke
From the legendary Studio Ghibli, and Academy Award®-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, comes an epic masterpiece that has dazzled audiences worldwide with its breathtaking imagination, exhilarating battles, and deep humanity. Inflicted with a deadly curse, the young warrior Ashitaka heads west in search of a cure. There, he stumbles into a bitter conflict between Lady Eboshi, the proud people of Iron Town, and the enigmatic Princess Mononoke, a young girl raised by wolves, who will stop at nothing to prevent the humans from destroying her home and the forest spirits and animal gods who live there. Featuring the voice talents of Gillian Anderson, Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Billy Bob Thornton.
English Dub:
Sunday, August 28th at 12:00 PM
$7 Members | $12 Public | $5 Kids
Japanese:
Sunday, August 28th at 7:55 PM
$7 Members | $12 Public | $5 Kids
Otto Preminger’s
Bunny Lake is Missing
hosted by professor Foster Hirsch, author of “Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King”
A parent's worst fear is a missing child, but what about when nobody believes that they existed in the first place? For Ann Lake (Carol Lynley), an American single mother who has just moved to England, this nightmare is quickly becoming a reality. Lake arrives in London with her daughter, nicknamed Bunny, to live with her brother Stephen (Keir Dullea). Ann leaves Bunny at a nursery school, but when she returns there is no sign of her daughter and no evidence that she was ever there. Stephen, a journalist, questions all who might have seen Bunny. As Ann engages in her search, she solicits the help of Inspector Newhouse (Laurence Olivier), a no-nonsense customer who begins to question her sanity. Featuring a memorable study-in-perversion cameo by Noël Coward — and The Zombies!
“Upon contact with an electric guitar, Otto Preminger, born in 1906, got a shock, which he conveys in this jangled psychological thriller from 1965, set in swinging London. The film’s real charge lies in Preminger’s view of a jolting, disoriented age of rock and roll. The mental chaos of the time is reflected in the behavior of the local solipsistic eccentrics (including a randy raconteur, played by Noël Coward), the nightmarish images, the backdrop of student protest and political crisis, and the frenzied soundtrack, which features the music of the Zombies.” — Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Foster Hirsch is a professor of film at Brooklyn College and the author of sixteen books on film and theater, including Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King, The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir, A Method to Their Madness: The History of the Actors Studio, and Kurt Weill on Stage: From Berlin to Broadway. He lives in New York City.
Copies of Foster Hirsch's books "Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King" and "The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir" will be on sale at the event.
Monday, August 29th at 7:30 PM
$10 Members | $15 Public
Tai Chi in the Sky Room!
After a brief hiatus, Tai Chi is back!
Enjoy some Tai Chi, Chi Gung, & Meditation classes in the Sky Room, every Tuesday at 10 am! Improve your balance, strength, and peace of mind. Free of charge!
Tuesdays at 10 AM in the Sky Room!
FREE!
Best of the Big Screen
The Godfather
50th Anniversary
This year the Academy Award-winning masterpiece, The Godfather, celebrates its 50th anniversary. Considered by many to be one of the greatest films of all time, the movie follows the saga of the Corleone crime family led by Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), then later his son Michael (Al Pacino). Gangster films were no longer a popular genre when Paramount optioned Mario Puzo’s novel about an aging head of a crime family and the son reluctant to join the family business, but Francis Ford Coppola’s faithful and emotionally resonant film version was a box office blockbuster as well as one of the most critically acclaimed American films of all time, with many of the finest actors of the modern era playing their first star-making roles.
Tuesday, August 30th at 7:00 PM
$10 Members | $15 Public
Early Access Screening!
Presented with the Long Island Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Loving Highsmith
with director Eva Vitija in-peson
Loving Highsmith is a unique look at the life of celebrated American author Patricia Highsmith based on her diaries and notebooks and the intimate reflections of her lovers, friends and family. Focusing on Highsmith’s quest for love and her troubled identity, the film sheds new light on her life and writing. Most of Highsmith’s novels were adapted into movies; the best known of these are Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train and Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley. Carol, a partly autobiographic novel, and the first lesbian story with a happy end in 1950s America, was later adapted for the big screen by Todd Haynes. But Highsmith herself was forced to lead a double life and had to hide her vibrant love affairs from her family and the public. Only in her unpublished writings she reflected on the ever-present subject for her. Excerpts from these notes voiced by Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones, Top of the Lake), beautifully interwoven with archive material of her and her most famous novel adaptions, create a vivid, touching portrait of one of the most fascinating female writers. (Switzerland/Germany, 2022, 83 min., color, DCP | Dir. Eva Vitija)
About Filmmaker Eva Vitija: Born 1973 in Basel. 2002 Diploma in screenwriting from the DFFB (German Film and Television Academy Berlin). She has been working as a screenwriter in Switzerland and Germany since her screenplay training. She has written many feature film scripts for cinema and television, including MEIER, MARILYN, MADLY IN LOVE as well as SOMMERVÖGEL. In 2015, as part of her Master’s degree at the ZHdK (Zurich University of the Arts), she made her first feature-length documentary film as a director: DAS LEBEN DREHEN. It was nominated as best documentary for the Swiss Film prize and for an award from the International Documentary Association, Los Angeles, and won various prizes, including the Prix de Soleure, the Basel film Prize and the Zurich Film Prize. Eva Vitija lives in Zurich.
Thursday, September 1st at 7:30 PM
$12 Members | $17 Public
Includes reception and Q&A!