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This Week at the Cinema: December 23 - December 29, 2022

Arts and Entertainment

December 21, 2022

From: Cinema Arts Centre

Celebrating Over 45 years as Long Island’s Premier Not-for-Profit, Member-Supported, Independent Community Cinema

This week, we open the latest film from Academy Award winner Damien Chazelle (La La Land), 'Babylon', starring Brad Pitt & Margot Robbie. "Set in the early days of cinema, when talking pictures were a jaw-dropping phenomenon and Hollywood was still being created, Babylon suggests a deeper reality: the film industry's raw, self-destructive, narcissistic impulses and its glorious, magical results have always been opposite parts of the same whole." - Caryn James, The BBC

This week's special events include an encore screening of the never before seen documentary celebrating 50 years of Neil Young's legendary album Harvest: 'Neil Young: Harvest Time', as well as a Christmas day screening of the beloved animated stop-motion classic 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'.

Make sure to check out our calendar for all of the screenings and special events coming up!

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Babylon

Starring Brad Pitt & Margot Robbie

From Academy Award Winner Damien Chazelle (La La Land, Whiplash), Babylon is an original epic set in 1920s Los Angeles led by Brad PittMargot Robbie and Diego Calva, with an ensemble cast including Jovan AdepoLi Jun Li and Jean Smart. A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood. 

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Showtimes

Fri: 3:40; 7:30

Sat: 12:30; 4:20; 8:10

Sun: 12:05; 3:55; 7:15 

Mon: 12:00; 3:50; 7:40

Tues: 12:00; 3:50; 7:40

Wed: 12:00; 3:50; 7:40

Thurs: 12:00; 3:50; 7:40

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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.

Trailer

Showtimes
Fri: 4:20; 7:40
Sat:  1:30; 4:45; 8:00
Sun: 12:10; 3:25; 6:40
Mon: 12:40; 4:00; 7:20
Tues: 12:40; 4:00; 7:20
Wed: 12:40; 4:00; 7:20
Thurs: 12:40; 4:00; 7:20

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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.

Trailer

Showtimes
Fri: 3:55; 6:40
Sat: 1:10; 3:55; 6:40; 9:25
Sun: 1:45; 4:30; 7:45
Mon: 1:30; 4:30; 7:30
Tues: 1:30; 4:30; 7:30
Wed: 1:00; 4:00
Thurs: 1:30; 4:30; 7:30

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