This week at the Cinema we are opening a hilarious new dark-comedy starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, 'Moving On'! You can also still catch the first Irish language film nominated for an Academy Award, the outstanding drama, 'The Quiet Girl', as well as the Cannes Film Festival stand-out, 'Return to Seoul', and the Judd Hirsch and Carol Kane led 'iMordecai'.

Special events this week include the Long Island premiere of a new documentary on Julian Assange, featuring a Q&A with his father and brother, a screening of new local documentary about homeless veterans, 'Long Island's Forgotten Heroes', our March Sunday Schmooze, an Anything But Silent screening of a newly restored silent comedy from director Ernst Lubitsch, and a Rock Legends Live tribute to David Crosby

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

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Moving On

Starring Jane Fonda & Lily Tomlin

Two old friends, Claire (Jane Fonda) and Evelyn (Lily Tomlin), reconnect at a funeral of their recently deceased best friend and decide to get revenge on the petulant widower (Malcolm McDowell), who messed with them decades before. Along the way, Claire reunites with her great love (Richard Roundtree) as each woman learns to make peace with the past and each other.

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Showtimes

Fri: 2:00; 4:10; 6:20

Sat: 1:45; 3:55; 6:30; 9:50

Sun: 2:40; 5:00; 7:25

Mon: 2:50; 5:00; 7:10

Tues: 2:00; 4:10; 7:15

Wed: 2:00; 4:10; 7:15

Thurs: 2:00; 4:10; 7:15

The Quiet Girl

Nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

The first Irish-language film to be nominated for an Oscar!

Rural Ireland. 1981. Nine-year-old Cait is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. Quietly struggling at school and at home, she has learned to hide in plain sight from those around her. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.

NPR: This tender Irish drama proves the quietest films can have the most to say

NY Times: In ‘The Quiet Girl,’ an Irish Loneliness Rarely Seen Onscreen

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Showtimes

Fri: 1:50; 6:50; 9:10

Sat: 2:00; 4:20; 6:40; 9:00

Sun: 2:20; 4:40; 7:00

Mon: 2:30; 4:50; 7:20

Tues: 2:20; 4:40; 7:05

Wed: 2:20; 4:40; 7:05

Thurs: 2:20; 4:40; 7:05

Return to Seoul

Born in South Korea and raised in France by adoptive parents, Frédérique, a.k.a. Freddie (Ji-min Park), is an unyielding 25-year-old in search of answers. Unfamiliar with her native language or the intricacies of Korean culture, she spontaneously travels “home” to connect with her biological parents, and experience the country of her birth. Cambodian-French filmmaker Davy Chou elegantly probes the psychology of a character whose feelings of not belonging have kept her at an emotional distance from nearly everyone in her life.

Vox: Return to Seoul: The best movie you didn’t see last year is finally out

NPR: 'Return to Seoul' is about reinvention, not resolution

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Showtimes

Fri: 4:10

Sat: 8:40

Sun: 7:20

Mon: 7:15

Tues: 4:30

Wed: 4:30

Thurs: 4:30

iMordecai

Starring Judd Hirsch and Carol Kane

Based on a true story, iMordecai stars Oscar nominee and Emmy, Tony & Golden Globe winning actor Judd Hirsch (Taxi, Ordinary People, A Beautiful Mind, Dear John, The Fabelmans) as Mordecai Samel and Academy Award-nominated actress Carol Kane (Hester Street, Scrooged, The Princess Bride, Taxi) as his wife, Fela – both Holocaust survivors from Poland, who are now living in Miami. Their son, Marvin, played by Academy Award-nominated actor Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings, Stranger Things), is an ambitious cigar maker trying to support his own family while still being there for his aging parents. But when Mordecai's ancient flip phone breaks, his son buys him a brand-new iPhone and this sets off a series of unexpected events and magically changes both Mordecai and the people closest to him. Mordecai starts to take lessons from Nina (newcomer Azia Dinea Hale), a young employee of Ultratech. She tutors Mordecai on his new iPhone, opening him up to all kinds of novel experiences and adventures, which makes him feel like a kid again. An uplifting comedy and a love letter to the city of Miami, iMordecai urges us all to live the one life we have to the fullest. 

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Showtimes

Fri: 1:40; 4:05

Sat: 1:40; 4:05

Sun: 12:05; 2:30; 4:55

Mon: 2:20; 4:45

Tues: 2:05

Wed: 2:05

Thurs: 2:05

The Room

With the star of The Room & author of The Disaster Artist, Greg Sestero, in-person

Experience the cult phenomenon on the big screen! THE ROOM, which inspired James Franco's award-winning adaptation THE DISASTER ARTIST, follows Johnny – a successful banker who lives happily in a San Francisco townhouse with his fiancée, Lisa. One day, inexplicably, she gets bored with him and decides to seduce his best friend, Mark (Greg Sestero). From there, nothing will be the same again. 

Greg Sestero is the New York Times best-selling author of the Oscar - nominated The Disaster Artist and Co-Star of the cult classic The Room. Greg also recently wrote and produced Best F(r)iends Volume 1 and Volume 2 (Lionsgate) and was recently seen in Netflix's popular gothic-drama mini-series The Haunting of Bly Manor. His directorial/ horror genre debut, Miracle Valley, is currently streaming on Tubi. It is the first very first film to ever shoot at Frank Lloyd Wright’s world-renowned masterpiece Falling Water.

Greg's 2013 memoir “The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made” was published by Simon & Schuster and adapted into a Golden Globe-winning film by Warner Bros and A24. It showcases an all-star cast including James Franco, Seth Rogen, Dave Franco, Sharon Stone, Bryan Cranston, and Alison Brie. The hilarious and heartfelt film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2018 Oscars.

Items available for Sale/Signature:

THE DISASTER ARTIST paperback

THE ROOM original screenplay 

BEST F(R)IENDS Volume 1-2 Blu-ray *limited edition

THE ROOM / DISASTER ARTIST Posters

OH, HI MARK t shirts

The 7:00 PM Show time is SOLD OUT!

Friday, March 17th at 8:30 PM

$20 Members | $25 Public

Includes Q&A and meet and greet!

Long Island Premiere!

Ithaka

With Julian Assange's Father and Brother, John and Gabriel Shipton, in-person

The world's most famous political prisoner, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, has become an emblem of an international arm wrestle over freedom of journalism, government corruption and unpunished war crimes. Now with Julian facing a 175-year sentence if extradited to the US, his family members are confronting the prospect of losing Julian forever to the abyss of the US justice system. This David-and-Goliath struggle is personal – and, with Julian's health declining in a British maximum-security prison, the clock is ticking. Now it's up to Julian's father, John Shipton, and fiancé Stella Moris, to join forces to advocate for Julian on this international odyssey. As they rally a world-wide network of supporters and politicians, they cautiously step into the media's glare – and are forced to confront the events that made Julian a global flashpoint.

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Saturday, March 18th at 7 PM

$14 Members | $20 Public

with Julian Assange's Father and Brother, John and Gabriel Shipton in-person

Cult Cafe

Real Genius (1985)

Starring Val Kilmer

When science whiz Mitch Taylor (Gabe Jarret) arrives at Pacific Tech as a freshman, he's paired up with genius senior Chris Knight (Val Kilmer) to work on a laser project. Mitch initially doesn't care for Knight's slacker attitude, but is eventually won over, and their friendship allows them to make new progress on the laser project. It's only when the boys learn that the government intends to use the laser as a weapon that they start to question what they've actually been working for.

Saturday, March 18th at 10 PM

$5 Members | $7 Public

Sunday Schmooze

Babel

Hosted by Fred Craden

 

Academy Award winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga reunite for this Oscar-nominated drama that spans the globe with intertwined stories of four groups of strangers unable to communicate with those around them: a husband (Brad Pitt) desperately tries to save the life of his wife (Cate Blanchett) during a Moroccan holiday gone tragically wrong; back home in California, their housekeeper disastrously crosses the Mexican border with the couple's children; and in Japan, a young girl rebels, acting out her grief over her mother's death.

Sunday, March 19th

Brunch at 10 AM | Movie at 11 AM

$12 Members | $17 Public

Cinema for Kids

Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971)

Based on the book by Roald Dahl

The last of five coveted "golden tickets" falls into the hands of a sweet but very poor boy. He and his grandpa then get a tour of the strangest chocolate factory in the world. The owner (Gene Wilder) leads five young winners on a thrilling and often dangerous tour of his factory.

Sunday, March 19th at 12 PM

$7 Members | $12 Public | $5 Kids

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!

Anything But Silent - New Restoration

Ernst Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle

With live accompaniment by Ben Model

Ernst Lubitsch’s marriage movies are sophisticated and timeless, and one of the best is The Marriage Circle. The film follows a quintet of professionals and their wives as they engage in a series of marital missteps. Professor Stock (Adolphe Menjou) and his wife Mizzi (Marie Prevost) enjoy a relaxed rapport of domestic tranquility, give or take a hole in his socks. But when Mizzi learns her friend Charlotte (Florence Vidor) has moved to Vienna with her husband, everyone finds themselves up to their ears in romantic entanglements. Restored by The Museum of Modern Art, with the financial support of Matthew and Natalie Bernstein.

Tuesday, March 21st at 7:30 PM

$12 Members | $17 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, March 22nd at 7 PM

Sign-up at 6:30 PM

Free!

Local Documentary Screening!

Long Island's Forgotten Heroes

Featuring Q&A with director Matthew Simoni, in-person

Long Island’s Forgotten Heroes is a self-funded documentary that exposes the truth about the living conditions of many veterans and the way they are currently in positions of mental, social, and economic despair.

Bravo Foxtrot United Veterans commissioned Hazy Sun Productions, in Glen Cove, to produce the film. The filmmakers follow Matthew Simoni and his wife Jade Pinto as they track down veterans across Long Island, some living in the woods.

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Wednesday, March 22nd at 7:30 PM

$15 Members | $20 Public

Featuring Q&A with director Matthew Simoni, in-person

David Crosby: A Celebration

Join us for a one-night-only celebration of the legendary singer-songwriter David Crosby, featuring numerous rare performance clips.

David Crosby was a crucial part of two iconic 1960s bands, The Byrds (1964-1967), and Crosby Stills Nash & Young (1969 onward). His open tuning guitar style and love of vocal harmonies were essential to the legendary sounds of both groups. With The Byrds, his unique guitar work blended perfectly with Roger McGuinn’s 12 string jangly electric folk guitar sound. Their recording of Pete Seeger’s “Turn Turn Turn” and Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man” established The Byrds as America’s answer to The Beatles. Among Crosby’s hits with them were “Eight Miles High” (which is considered the first psychedelic song and incorporated an Indian drone sound, thanks to Crosby), “Bells Of Rhymney,” “Mr. Spaceman,” “So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star?,” “Chimes Of Freedom,” “My Back Pages,” and more. Ultimately, Crosby’s creative need for artistic control, along with having written great songs and having them relinquished to b-sides of 45rpm records, led to his parting with the group.

While spending some time with members of Jefferson Airplane, he discovered a kinship with the group. They recorded an early version of “Wooden Ships,” bringing Crosby’s musical songwriting skills further success.

However, it was at a dinner party in 1968 at Cass Eliot’s home, that David met Graham Nash, Steven Stills and Neil Young as well as Joni Mitchell. The musicians listened to Stills play his new composition, “You Don’t Have To Cry,” and the others joined in with guitars and harmonies and the results were pure magic. They formed the group Crosby Stills Nash and Young, or more commonly known as CSN&Y. The groups first album, minus Young, was a tremendous success, and got them invited on numerous television shows as well as the original 1969 Woodstock concert. More albums and hit songs, many written by David Crosby continued, such as the anti-establishment anthem “Almost Cut My Hair,” “Long Time Gone,” “Déjà vu,” “Guinneverre,” among others.

CSN&Y’s constant on again, off again relationship, lead to Crosby’s solo career, as well as a musical partnership with his close friend Graham Nash. He continued writing and recording albums, as well as giving live performances, right up to his last days as a creative genius. David Crosby is a two-time member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Graham Nash, wrote of his longtime friend, “David was fearless, he spoke his mind, his heart, and his passion through his beautiful music.”

Presented by Shelley Archives Inc.

Thursday, March 23rd at 7:30 PM

$10 Members | $15 Public