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This Week At The Cinema : December 9 - 15, 2022
Arts and Entertainment
December 7, 2022
From: Cinema Arts Centre
This week, we open new films from three of the Hollywood's top directors: Academy Award winner Sam Mendes' (American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Skyfall, 1917), 'Empire of Light', starring Oscar winner Olivia Colman, Steven Spielberg's semiautobiographical coming-of-age tale, 'The Fabelmans', & Noah Baumbach's 'White Noise'.
Special events this week include a Sunday Schmooze screening of the final film in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colours trilogy, a screening of the beloved holiday musical 'White Christmas', and the final entry to our Fall 2022 Preview Club series!
Make sure to check out our calendar for all of the screenings and special events coming up!
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Steven Spielberg's
The Fabelmans
Starring Paul Dano & Michelle Williams,
A deeply personal portrait of 20th Century American childhood, Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans is a coming-of-age story about a young man’s discovery of a shattering family secret and an exploration of the power of movies to help us see the truth about each other and ourselves.
The film’s ensemble cast includes four-time Academy Award® nominee Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea, My Week with Marilyn); Paul Dano (The Batman, There Will Be Blood); Seth Rogen (Steve Jobs, An American Pickle); Gabriel LaBelle (The Predator, American Gigolo series); Oscar® nominee Jeannie Berlin (The Heartbreak Kid, Inherent Vice); Julia Butters (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, 13 Hours); Robin Bartlett (Moonstruck, Lean on Me); Keeley Karsten (Hunters, Evil Lives Here) and Academy Award® nominee Judd Hirsch (Uncut Gems, Ordinary People).
Inspired by Spielberg’s own childhood, The Fabelmans is written by Spielberg and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America, Caroline, or Change), who has earned Oscar nominations for his screenplays for Spielberg’s Lincoln and Munich. The film is produced by three-time Oscar® nominee Kristie Macosko Krieger (West Side Story, The Post), Spielberg and Kushner.
Showtimes
Fri: 1:30; 4:45; 8:00
Sat: 1:30; 4:45; 8:00
Sun: 2:00; 5:15; 8:05
Mon: 4:00; 7:15
Tues: 4:05; 7:20
Wed: 4:00; 7:15
Thurs: 4:00; 7:15
Empire of Light
From Academy Award Winning Director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition, Skyfall, 1917)
Oscar Winner Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward star in this poignant story about human connection and the magic of cinema, directed by Sam Mendes and captured by cinematographer Roger Deakins. Hilary (Colman) works the front of the house, opening the theater every morning and overseeing a brimming concession stand. When Stephen (Ward) arrives as an eager new employee, the two form a quick, if outwardly unlikely, connection. Hilary hides a troubled past, struggling with mental health, while Stephen, a young Black man, grapples with the racism rampant in 1980s Britain.
Showtimes
Fri: 1:10; 3:55; 6:40; 9:25
Sat: 1:10; 3:55; 6:40; 9:25
Sun: 12:05; 2:50; 5:35; 8:20
Mon: 4:45; 7:30
Tues: 4:45; 7:30
Wed: 4:45; 7:30
Thurs: 4:45; 7:30
Noah Baumbach's
White Noise
Starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, & Don Cheadle
At once hilarious and horrifying, lyrical and absurd, ordinary and apocalyptic, White Noise dramatizes a contemporary American family's attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world. Jack Gladney, is a professor of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill, and husband to Babette and father to four children. Their world is torn asunder by "the Airborne Toxic Event", a cataclysmic train accident that casts chemical waste over his town.
Showtimes
Fri: 1:40; 4:40; 7:40
Sat: 12:50; 3:50; 6:50; 9:50
Sun: 2:05; 5:05; 8:30
Mon: 3:50
Tues: 4:00
Wed: 4:30
Thurs: 4:30
Cult Café
Starship Troopers
25th Anniversary Screening!
Directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier, based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert A. Heinlein. Set in the 23rd century, Starship Troopers follows the exploits of teenager, Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien), and his friends while serving in the military under the Earth world government, the United Citizen Federation. Humanity's exploration and colonization of outer space brings them into conflict with an alien species, known as Arachnids, leading to an interstellar war. Also Starring: Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Muldoon, and Michael Ironside.
Saturday, December 10th at 10 PM
$5 Members | $7 Public
Sunday Schmooze
Three Colours: Red
Krzysztof Kieslowski closes his Three Colors trilogy in grand fashion, with an incandescent meditation on fate and chance, starring Irène Jacob as a sweet-souled yet somber runway model in Geneva whose life dramatically intersects with that of a bitter retired judge. Meanwhile, just down the street, a seemingly unrelated story of jealousy and betrayal unfolds. Red is an intimate look at forged connections and a splendid final statement from a remarkable filmmaker at the height of his powers.
Sunday, December 11th
Brunch at 10 AM | Movie at 11 AM
$12 Members | $17 Public
Cinema for Kids
Paddington
After a deadly earthquake destroys his home in a Peruvian rainforest, a young bear (Ben Whishaw) makes his way to England in search of a new home. The bear, dubbed "Paddington" for the London train station, finds shelter with the family of Henry (Hugh Bonneville) and Mary Brown (Sally Hawkins). Although Paddington's amazement at urban living soon endears him to the Browns, someone else has her eye on him: Taxidermist Millicent Clyde (Nicole Kidman) has designs on the rare bear and his hide.
Sunday, December 11th at 12 PM
$7 Members | $12 Public | $5 Kids
Cinema Arts Centre Preview Club
Special Advanced Screening Series!
As a member of the Cinema Arts Preview Club, you will attend special advance screenings of major new films prior to their New York release. The club features outstanding films from the festival circuit, always accompanied by discussions with guest speakers. Club members are invited to participate in the discussion. Films and guest speakers are a surprise until the night of the screening; where you will be introduced to a wide range of high-quality, discussion-provoking movies. The club is also a great social experience. Come early and schmooze. Members will fill out comment cards at each film, and the results and choice opinions will be read at the next film. The Cinema Arts Preview Club promises many unforgettable evenings this season and for years to come.
Our new host, Isil Bagdadi-Sergio is an indie film producer, programmer, distributor and publicist. In 2001, Isil and her partner Michael Sergio started CAVU Pictures to produce and distribute cutting-edge, critically acclaimed and award-winning independent films. Isil has shepherded dozens of films into the marketplace and continues to champion independent filmmakers, artists and storytellers in every way she can. She frequently serves as a panelist, moderator, mentor and juror at numerous film festivals throughout the year.
Monday, December 12th at 7:00PM
$20 General Admission
The Winter 2023 Season of Preview Club is now on Sale! Get your pass for the upcoming season here!
Movie Trivia Night: IN-PERSON!
Hosted by Daniel French
50 questions based all around film, actors and actresses, awards, and everything else associated with the world of film. Challenge like-minded film fans in a battle of wits for cash and other prizes. You can form teams, so bring some friends and work together. Feel free to come alone and play solo, or join a team!
1st Prize – $100 cash to the winning team!
2nd Prize – Up to 4 CAC gift cards! (a value of $24 each)
Monday, December 12th at 8:00 PM
$10 Public | $7 Members
Sign up now!
Tai Chi in the Sky Room!
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
White Christmas
New Restoration!
Join us for a big screening showing of one of the most beloved holiday movies of all time! Bob (Bing Crosby) and Phil (Danny Kaye) meet during the Second World War, where the latter persuades the former, a Broadway performer, that they should become an entertainment duo. Following the War, the two become a huge hit, eventually becoming musical producers. When the pair audition sisters Betty (Rosemary Clooney) and Judy (Vera-Ellen), they are smitten, though Bob needs some persuading before he will let Betty know how he feels. When the foursome ends up at a Vermont inn owned by the men’s former commanding officer, now fallen on hard times, Bob puts out a call on national television for their former division to come to the inn on Christmas Eve. With a treasury of songs by Irving Berlin, including, of course, White Christmas (first heard in 1942’s Holiday Inn), enjoying this on the big screen is a must for any fan of musicals.
Tuesday, December 13th at 7:00 PM
$10 Members | $15 Public
Riotsville, U.S.A.
Featuring discussion and Q&A with director Sierra Pettengill
Welcome to Riotsville, USA – a point in American history when the nation’s rulers – politicians, bureaucrats, police – were faced with the mounting militancy of the late-1960s, and did everything possible to win the war in the streets. Using training footage of Army-built model towns called “Riotsvilles” where military and police were trained to respond to civil disorder, in addition to nationally broadcast news media, director Sierra Pettengill connects the stagecraft of “law and order” to the real violence of state practice. Recovering an obscured history whose effects have shaped the present in ways both insidious and explosive, RIOTSVILLE, USA is a poetic and furious reflection on the rebellions of the 1960s – and the machine that worked to destroy them.
Sierra Pettengill is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker and archivist. Her 2017 feature-length film, the all-archival documentary The Reagan Show, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival before airing on CNN. Her 2018 all-archival short film, Graven Image, aired on POV and is held at the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, and her 2020 short Business of Thought premiered at the Sheffield Documentary Festival. In 2013 she produced the Academy Award–nominated film Cutie & the Boxer, which also won an Emmy Award for Best Documentary, and codirected Town Hall for PBS. She has also worked as an archival researcher for many filmmakers including Jim Jarmusch, Mathieu Amalric, and Mike Mills. Pettengill was a Sundance Institute Art of Nonfiction Fellow, and a fellow at the Yaddo and MacDowell colonies.
With director Sierra Pettengill in-person
Wed, December 14th at 7:30PM
$10 Members | $15 Public
FMSH & NOOM Present
Open Mic Night!
Join us most Wednesdays in the Sky Room for our new Open Mic Night! Hosted by the Folk Music Society of Huntington (FMSH) and Northshore Original Open Mic (NOOM), open mic is welcome to performers of any kind!
Wednesday, December 14th at 7 PM
Sign-up at 6:30 PM
Free!
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
“If the camera is predatory, then the culture is predatory.” In this eye-opening documentary, celebrated independent filmmaker Nina Menkes explores the sexual politics of cinematic shot design. Using clips from hundreds of movies we all know and love – from Metropolis to Vertigo to Phantom Thread – Menkes convincingly makes the argument that shot design is gendered. Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power illuminates the patriarchal narrative codes that hide within supposedly “classic” set-ups and camera angles, and demonstrates how women are frequently displayed as objects for the use, support, and pleasure of male subjects. Building on the essential work of Laura Mulvey and other feminist writers, Menkes shows how these not-so-subtle embedded messages affect and intersect with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse and assault, as well as employment discrimination against women, especially in the film industry. The film features interviews with an all-star cast of women and non-binary industry professionals including Julie Dash, Penelope Spheeris, Charlyne Yi, Joey Soloway, Catherine Hardwicke, Eliza Hittman, Maria Giese, and Rosanna Arquette. The result is an electrifying call-to-action that will fundamentally change the way you see, and watch, movies.
Thurs, December 15th at 7:30 PM
$10 Members | $15 Public