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Cinema Arts Centre Happenings for the Week: January 26 - February 1, 2024
Arts and Entertainment
January 27, 2024
From: Cinema Arts CentreCelebrating 50 years as Long Island’s Premier Not-for-Profit, Member-Supported, Independent Community Cinema
This week at the Cinema, we are opening the winner of the Grand Prix and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, Jonathan Glazer’s 'The Zone of Interest'. The film is an unrelenting portrait of the banality of evil. Following the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), and his wife Hedwig (Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall), as they strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp
You can also still see the brilliant satirical comedy, 'American Fiction' - which won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, and the beautiful French drama, 'Driving Madeleine'
Special events this week include a fascinating documentary screening & panel discussion exploring the dangers of the cosmetics industry, the first program of our new Pride Cinema series, two special screenings of films from legendary filmmaker Godfrey Reggio, a screening of the 4x Academy Award winning film 'Network', as well as a screening of the beloved family classic, 'The Wizard of Oz'.
Make sure to check out our calendar for all of the screenings and special events coming up!
The Zone of Interest
Winner of both the Grand Prix and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival
Nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture!
In his chilling, oblique study of evil, British director Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin, Sexy Beast) situates the viewer at the center of frighteningly familiar banality. It’s summer in the mid-1940s, and a German family merrily idles by a river. Father Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel) and mother Hedwig (Sandra Hüller) tuck their kids in bed at night. They entertain family and guests in their vast backyard garden on the weekends. In the mornings, she oversees chores with a cadre of housekeepers and cooks; he goes to work as head Commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Their domestic life is paradisiacal. Yet over the wall abutting their home, we can see smokestacks, and at night we hear screams and occasional gunshots. Loosely inspired by the 2014 novel of the same name by Martin Amis, Glazer has created a singular, unsettlingly timeless representation of inhumanity and our capacity for indifference in the face of atrocity, filmed and edited with aptly cold precision and punctuated with an ominous score by Mica Levi.
‘These people absolutely could be us’: Jonathan Glazer on his film about the mastermind of Auschwitz
The Real History Behind ‘The Zone of Interest’ and Rudolf Höss
How Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The Zone Of Interest’ Recreated The Horrors Of Auschwitz Purely Through Sound
Showtimes
Fri: 1:45; 4:15; 6:50; 9:20
Sat: 1:45; 4:15; 6:50 (With post film discussion); 9:45
Sun: 12:00; 2:15; 4:45; 7:15
Mon: 2:05; 4:35; 7:10
Tues: 2:05; 4:35; 7:10
Wed: 2:05; 4:35; 7:10
Thurs: 2:05; 4:35; 7:10
Driving Madeleine
With mounting debts, his marriage struggling, and in danger of losing his license, Charles (Dany Boon), a taxi driver in Paris is running out of hope. Enter Madeleine (Line Renaud), a charming 92-year-old woman, who informs Charles that she is moving into a care home and would like to make some stops on what might be her last car ride through the city. Initially exasperated, Charles softens as their ride takes them through the locations of her life and we discover that she has had a very dramatic journey indeed.
‘Driving Madeleine’ Review: A Nonagenarian in Paris
Showtimes
Fri: 1:40; 3:55
Sat: 1:35; 3:50; 7:00
Sun: 5:25; 7:45
Mon: 2:10; 4:25; 7:00
Tues: 2:10; 4:25
Wed: 2:10; 4:25; 7:00
Thurs: 2:10; 4:25
American Fiction
Winner of People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
Nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture!
American Fiction is Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish “Black” book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
NY Times Critic's Pick: ‘American Fiction’ Review: The Pen Is Mighty, the Pressures Mightier
Showtimes
Fri: 1:30 (Open Captions); 4:10; 6:55; 9:10
Sat: 1:30 (Open Captions); 4:10; 6:55; 9:15
Sun: 12:05 (Open Captions); 2:45; 5:00; 7:40
Mon: 2:00 (Open Captions); 4:40; 7:20
Tues: 2:00 (Open Captions); 4:40; 7:20
Wed: 2:00 (Open Captions); 4:40
Thurs: 2:00 (Open Captions), 4:40; 7:20
This Week Special Events
Godfrey Reggio’s Once Within a Time
With in-theater Zoom discussion with director Godfrey Reggio
If previous works by Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass brought the destructive force of human activities to the fore, this new collaboration provides an injection of innocence and the possibility of hope. In this imaginative work, children inhabit a surreal and whimsical world created in a studio—a departure from the duo’s previous body of work, which draws primarily from real-world images. Dreamlike scenes guide us through a journey into the subconscious, where youngsters take center stage. Shot digitally but designed to evoke the celluloid aesthetic, the film appears as nostalgic sci-fi tying together past and future.
Once Within a Time Review: Godfrey Reggio and Jon Kane’s Bardic Fantasy of the Real
$10 Members | $16 Public
With post-film in-theater Zoom discussion with director Godfrey Reggio
Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi
An unconventional work in every way, Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi was a sensation when it was released in 1983. This first work of The Qatsi Trilogy wordlessly surveys the rapidly changing environments of the Northern Hemisphere, in an astonishing collage created by the director, cinematographer Ron Fricke, and composer Philip Glass. It shuttles viewers from one jaw-dropping vision to the next, moving from images of untouched nature to others depicting human beings’ increasing dependence on technology - offering a look at our world from a truly unique angle.
Why 1982 Experimental Documentary 'Koyaanisqatsi' Is Still A Must-See In This Time Of Climate Change
Friday, January 26th at 9:30 PM
$10 Members | $16 Public
Holocaust Remembrance Day
The Zone of Interest
With discussion and Q&A with Author & Holocaust Historian Dr. Jud Newborn
Nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture!
In his chilling, oblique study of evil, British director Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin, Sexy Beast) situates the viewer at the center of frighteningly familiar banality. It’s summer in the mid-1940s, and a German family merrily idles by a river. Father Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel) and mother Hedwig (Sandra Hüller) tuck their kids in bed at night. They entertain family and guests in their vast backyard garden on the weekends. In the mornings, she oversees chores with a cadre of housekeepers and cooks; he goes to work as head Commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Their domestic life is paradisiacal. Yet over the wall abutting their home, we can see smokestacks, and at night we hear screams and occasional gunshots. Loosely inspired by the 2014 novel of the same name by Martin Amis, Glazer has created a singular, unsettlingly timeless representation of inhumanity and our capacity for indifference in the face of atrocity, filmed and edited with aptly cold precision and punctuated with an ominous score by Mica Levi.
‘These people absolutely could be us’: Jonathan Glazer on his film about the mastermind of Auschwitz
The Real History Behind ‘The Zone of Interest’ and Rudolf Höss
How Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The Zone Of Interest’ Recreated The Horrors Of Auschwitz Purely Through Sound
Saturday, January 27th at 6:50 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
With discussion and Q&A with Author & Holocaust Historian Dr. Jud Newborn
Cult Cafe
David Cronenberg’s Crash
For this icily erotic fusion of flesh and machine, David Cronenberg adapted J. G. Ballard’s future-shock novel of the 1970s into one of the most singular and provocative films of the 1990s. A traffic collision involving a disaffected commercial producer, James (James Spader), and an enigmatic doctor, Helen (Holly Hunter), brings them, along with James’s wife, Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger, in a sublimely detached performance), together in a crucible of blood and broken glass—and it’s not long before they are all initiated into a kinky, death-obsessed underworld of sadomasochistic car-crash fetishists for whom twisted metal and scar tissue are the ultimate turn-ons. Controversial from the moment it premiered at Cannes—where it won a Special Jury Prize “for originality, for daring, and for audacity”—Crash has since taken its place as a key text of late-twentieth-century cinema, a disturbingly seductive treatise on the relationships between humanity and technology, sex and violence, that is as unsettling as it is mesmerizing.
Saturday, January 27th at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
Cinema for Kids
The Wizard of Oz
In this classic musical fantasy, Judy Garland stars as Dorothy Gale, a young Kansas farm girl who dreams of a land "somewhere over the rainbow." Dorothy's dream comes true when she, her dog, Toto, and her family's house are transported by a tornado to a bright and magical world unlike anything she has seen before. Unfortunately, she makes a mortal enemy of a wicked witch when the house falls on the hag's sister. Now, befriended by a scarecrow without a brain, a tin man with no heart and a cowardly lion—and protected by a pair of enchanted ruby slippers—Dorothy sets off along a yellow brick road for the Emerald City to beseech the all-powerful Wizard of Oz for his help to return home. Winner of Academy Awards for the classic song, "Over The Rainbow" and for "Best Score," the family classic also received an Oscar nomination for "Best Picture." A special Oscar for "the best juvenile performer of the year" was awarded to Judy Garland.
Sunday, January 28th at 12 PM
$7 Members | $13 Public | $5 Kids
Co-Presented with Green Inside and Out
Toxic Beauty
With post-film panel discussion!
Toxic Beauty reveals the truth about harmful health consequences of chemicals found in everyday beauty products, the huge corporations that knowingly use them and the lack of governmental regulations to protect consumers.
Each morning we spritz and slather ourselves in over 100 different chemicals – yet the cosmetics and personal care industry in North America is not required to prove an ingredient is safe for human health before it is on the shelves. So when we run a bath, lather cream for a shave, apply our makeup or deodorize our underarms, we could be exposing our bodies to myriad toxic chemicals. Hormonal disruption in baby boys, developmental delays, ADHD, low sperm count in men – the cosmetic industry isn’t pretty. "Toxic Beauty" is a documentary feature that follows the class action lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson and the plaintiffs; people fighting for justice in a race against time.
This Screening will be followed by an action-oriented fundraising activity benefitting the nonprofit Green Inside and Out, preceded by a panel discussion regarding the Toxic Free Cosmetics Act, featuring:
Elizabeth Reyes, Toxics Policy Campaigns Coordinator, WE ACT for Environmental Justice
Briana Carbajal, State Legislative Manager at WE ACT for Environmental Justice.
Moderator:
Beth Fiteni, MSEL, Director of Green Inside and Out
The New Toxic Beauty Documentary Asks: Are Skin-Care Products the New Cigarettes?
Sunday January 28th at 2:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
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!
Pride Cinema
The Mattachine Family
With in-theater Zoom discussion with director Andy Vallentine
A touching tale about love, loss, and forging your own path, The Mattachine Family proves that family is what you make it. When their foster child is returned to his birth mother, the lives of Thomas (Nico Tortorella) and Oscar (Juan Pablo Di Pace) are dramatically altered. Oscar throws himself into work, traveling across the country to film a TV show while Thomas finds himself lost, and without a family. Thrust on a journey of self-discovery, must reevaluate his current path and what he wants from life.
In conversation with director Andy Vallentine and star Nico Tortorella of ‘The Mattachine Family’
Tuesday, January 30th at 7:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
Pet Shop Boys Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live at The Royal Arena Copenhagen
Pet Shop Boys bring their critically-acclaimed greatest hits tour, Dreamworld, to movie theatres worldwide for two nights only! Captured live at Copenhagen’s Royal Arena, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe put on an exhilarating performance, featuring a lavish stage show, full back-up band and mesmerizing visual backdrops, in front of an exuberant, sold-out audience. This new concert film includes all of Pet Shop Boys' greatest hits including West End Girls, Suburbia, Left to My Own Devices, Rent, Love Comes Quickly, Always on My Mind, and It's a Sin.
Wednesday, January 31st at 7:30 PM
& Sunday, February 4th at 7 PM
$18 Public | $12 Members
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, January 31st at 7 PM
Sign-up at 6:30 PM
Free!
This Just In!: The love-hate relationship between Hollywood and the News Media
Network
Hosted by Wallace Matthews former columnist for Newsday, the New York Post and ESPN
4x Academy Award Winner!
Sidney Lumet’s stinging rebuke of network television stars Peter Finch as Howard Beale, a veteran anchorman who is being forced out of his post after 25 years. At the end of his rope, he announces on air that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Beale’s rants lead to a spike in ratings, opening the door for ambitious producer Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway) to develop even more outrageous programming. Nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning four including Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor for Finch.
Network Got It Right: The Legacy of a Scorching Satire
Hollywood Flashback: In 1976, ‘Network’ Predicted News as Entertainment
Thursday, February 1st at 7:30 PM
$10 Members | $16 Public