June Events at Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre

Huntington, NY: In the month of June, Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre will be hosting a selection of special events that include screenings of beloved family classics, a series of films from today’s top Iranian women directors, a 50^th anniversary celebration with film star Jacqueline Bisset, legendary classic films, Science on Screen film and discussion programs, iconic LGBT cinema, and many cult classic screenings.

Puppets After Dark
Thursday, June 1^st at 7:30 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
Join Long Island’s only puppet slam, Puppets After Dark, for an evening of curated short-form puppetry acts intended for adult audiences. Ranging from weird and poignant to hysterical and shocking, audiences will enjoy a night of live, in-person and unusual entertainment. This June, the puppets are back at Cinema Arts Centre! For adults only!
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Night Owl Cinema
Party Girl
Friday, June 2^nd at 9:30 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
Nineties indie queen Parker Posey is at her effortlessly cool best in this irresistible comedy, a time capsule of the era’s Manhattan club scene. She stars as Mary, a hard-partying downtown scenester who, when she’s arrested for throwing an illegal rave, must take a job as a librarian in order to pay back her bail. Can the devil-may-care Mary conquer the Dewey decimal system while also finding love with a hunky food-cart vendor (Omar Townsend)? Posey’s scene-stealing vintage fashions and a soundtrack by quintessential club staples like Tom Tom Club, Deee-Lite, and Brooklyn Funk Essentials add flavor to this Gen X classic from director Daisy von Scherler Mayer. Also starring Liev Schreiber and The Lady Bunny. (USA, 1995, 94min., color, DCP, English, R | Dir. Daisy von Scherler Mayer)

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Science on Screen
From ‘Her’ to Here: ChatGPT & the New Age of AI Companionship

Saturday, June 3 at 7 PM
with Anthony Zador, MD, PhD, and Kyle Daruwalla, Cold Spring Harbor Labs
featuring a screening of HER
$15 Public | $10 Members

Join us for a mind-expanding exploration of the brave new world of AI, featuring a lecture by Anthony Zador, and a rare big-screen showing of Spike Jonze’s prophetic 2013 classic HER.

Set in the Los Angeles of the slight future, Her follows Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), a complex, soulful man who makes his living writing touching, personal letters for other people. Heartbroken after the end of a long relationship, he becomes intrigued with a new, advanced operating system, which promises to be an intuitive entity in its own right, individual to each user. Upon initiating it, he is delighted to meet Samantha (Scarlett Johansson), a bright, female voice, who is insightful, sensitive and surprisingly funny. As her needs and desires grow, in tandem with his own, their friendship deepens into an eventual love for each other. From the unique perspective of Oscar-nominated filmmaker Spike Jonze comes an original love story that explores the evolving nature–and the risks–of intimacy in an increasingly technological modern world. Also starring Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde, and Chris Pratt. (USA, 2013, 126 min., color, Rated R,DCP)
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Cult Cafe
Desert Hearts
Saturday, June 3^rd at 9:30 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
It is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver) arrives to get a quickie divorce. She’s unsatisfied with her marriage, and feels out of place at the ranch she stays on, she finds herself increasingly drawn to Cay Rivers (Patricia Charbonneau), an open and self-assured lesbian, and the ranch owner’s daughter. The emotions released by their developing intimacy, and Vivian’s insecurities about her feelings towards Cay, are played out against a backdrop of rocky landscapes and country and western songs. (US, 1985, 96min., English, R | Dir. Donna Deitch)

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Cinema for Kids
The Dark Crystal
Sunday, June 4^th at 12 PM
$12 Public | $7 Members | $5 Kids
Jen (Stephen Garlick), raised by the noble race called the Mystics, has been told that he is the last survivor of his own race, the Gelflings. He sets out to try to find a shard of the dark crystal, a powerful gem that once provided balance to the universe. After the crystal was broken, the evil Skeksis used sinister means to gain control. Jen believes that he can repair the dark crystal and bring peace back to the world, if he can only find the remaining shard. (UK/US, 1982, 93min., English, PG | Dir. Jim Henson & Frank Oz)

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Film Noir Classics
Night and The City
Tuesday, June 6^th at 7:30 PM
$17 Public | $12 Members
Hosted by professor Foster Hirsch
Two-bit hustler Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) longs for “a life of ease and plenty.” Trailed by an inglorious history of go-nowhere schemes, he tries to hatch a lucrative plan with a famous wrestler. But there is no easy money in this underworld of shifting alliances, bottomless graft, and pummeled flesh—and Fabian soon learns the horrible price of his ambition. Luminously shot in the streets of London while Hollywood blacklisters back home were closing in on director Jules Dassin, Night and the City, also starring Gene Tierney, is film noir of the first order, and one of Dassin’s crowning achievements. (UK, 1950, 96min., b/w, DCP | Dir. Jules Dassin)
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Comic Gems
A Hard Day’s Night
Wednesday, June 7^th at 7:00 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
With Q&A with Steve Matteo, Author of Act Naturally: The Beatles on Film
Pursued by their zealous fans, the Beatles – Paul, John, George, and Ringo – board a London-bound train to do a television program. They are accompanied by their manager, his assistant, and Paul’s cantankerous grandfather. What follows next is a series of misadventures that end with the gang rescuing Ringo from jail and a wild chase to return to the studio just in time for their next performance! Packed with hilarious cinematic gags, A Hard Day’s Night is one of the most influential of all musical films. (UK, 1964, 92min., English, G | Dir. Richard Lester)
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Cinema Arts Centre Preview Club

June 8^th | June 22^nd
at 7:00 PM
$20 General Admission
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; 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.

Hosted by Isil Bagdadi-Sergio, 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.

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Iranian Women Revolt
Titi
Friday, June 9^th at 7:00 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
Ida Panahandeh‘s moving and always surprising story of small lives and cosmic forces centers on a hospital cleaning woman. Titi accepts being overlooked by patients and families, but when a physics professor with a brain-tumor deliriously scribbles an equation he’s been working on his entire career, only to lose it in the trash, Titi sees destiny calling. Guided by visions, but beset by troubles, including her abusive boyfriend, Titi channels her mystical affinities to help this man of science find his way, and maybe, save the world. (Iran, 2020, 102min., In Persian with English subtitles, R | Dir. Ida Panahandeh)
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Night Owl Cinema
Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel
Friday, June 9^th at 9:30 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
The Grand Budapest Hotel recounts the adventures of Gustave H (Ralph Fiennes), a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori), the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. This wild story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune, all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent. With Tilda Swinton, Saoirse Ronan, Willem Dafoe, Adrien Brody, Jeff Goldblum, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, & Jason Schwartzman. (US/Germany, 2014, 99min., English, R | Dir. Wes Anderson)

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Iranian Women Revolt
Son-Mother
Saturday, June 10^th at 7:00 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
Iranian director and activist Mahnaz Mohammadi spent two years in Iran’s infamous Evin Prison after her arrest in 2014 for charges of endangering national security, based on her documentary filmmaking. Son-Mother is her first work of fiction and the first film she made after being released from Evin. In the film, Leila is a single working mom of two. When she loses her factory job, Kazem, the factory bus driver, proposes marriage to Leila, but she hesitates to accept his conditions, which will tear her family apart. (Iran, 2019, 102min., In Persian with English subtitles | Dir. Mahnaz Mohammadi)
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Cult Cafe
The Birdcage
Saturday, June 10^th at 9:30 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
In this remake of the classic French farce La Cage aux Folles, engaged couple Val Goldman (Dan Futterman) and Barbara Keeley (Calista Flockhart) shakily introduce their future in-laws. Val’s father, Armand (Robin Williams), a gay Miami drag club owner, pretends to be straight and attempts to hide his relationship with Albert (Nathan Lane), his life partner and the club’s flamboyant star attraction, so as to please Barbara’s father, controversial Republican Sen. Kevin Keeley (Gene Hackman). (US, 1996, 117min., English, R | Dir. Mike Nichols)
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Sunday Schmooze
Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers
Sunday, June 11^th
Bagels at 10 AM Film at 11 AM

$20 Public | $15 Members
In this moving contemporary melodrama, two women, a generation apart, find themselves inextricably linked by their brief time together in a maternity ward. The circumstances that brought them to the Madrid hospital are quite different—one accidental, the other traumatic—and a secret, hiding the truth of the bond that connects these two, is a powerful story that tackles a deep trauma in Spanish history. Penélope Cruz‘s Janis is a uniquely complex, flawed, but ultimately alluring lead character, who finds herself in a morally and emotionally treacherous situation. She’s viewed in contrast with Ana, radiantly portrayed by newcomer Milena Smit, a discovery who brings a palpable innocence, pain, and longing to this interwoven portrait of women and motherhood. These charismatic stars inhabit characters who are singular among those drawn by Almodóvar in a career defined by striking portraits of women. (Spain, 2021, 123min., In Spanish with English subtitles, R | Dir. Pedro Almodóvar).
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Cinema for Kids
Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox
Sunday, June 11^th at 12 PM
$12 Public | $7 Members | $5 Kids
After 12 years of bucolic bliss, Mr. Fox (George Clooney) breaks a promise to his wife (Meryl Streep) and raids the farms of their human neighbors, Boggis, Bunce and Bean. Giving in to his animal instincts endangers not only his marriage but also the lives of his family and their animal friends. When the farmers force Mr. Fox and company deep underground, he has to resort to his natural craftiness to rise above the opposition. (UK/US, 2009, 87min., English, PG | Dir. Wes Anderson)
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Iranian Women Revolt
Platform
Sunday, June 11^th at 2:00 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
“Becoming a champion is easy; staying one is hard.” In a Rocky-esque tale of determination and grit, the Iranian documentary Platform follows three Iranian sisters as they compete to become international champions of Wushu, a Chinese martial art. The sister’s thrilling underdog story explores not only their dedicated training, but also their surprising place in society as they challenge traditional gender roles on the path to success. (Iran, 2021, 86min., In Persian with English subtitles | Dir. Sahar Mosayebi)
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Iranian Women Revolt
Formerly Youth Square
Monday, June 12^th at 7:30 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
A sensation among Iranians, pioneering journalist Mina Akbari‘s documentary reviews the last 20 years of Iranian reformist press, opening with a photograph of a group of seventy journalists taken about twenty years ago in Tehran’s Javanan Square. Of those, only six continue to work in their profession —many of which have fled, been arrested, or left the field. Interviewing many of the journalists from the now-banned Jame’e newspaper, she uncovers the repression journalists have suffered in Iran. (Iran, 2019, 70min., In Persian with English subtitles | Dir. Mina Akbari)
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Movie Trivia Night

Monday, June 12th at 8:00 PM
$10 Public | $7 Members
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 as well!

1st Prize – $100 cash to the winning team!

2nd Prize – Up to 4 CAC gift cards! (a value of $24 each)
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Best of the Big Screen
Doctor Zhivago
Tuesday, June 13^th at 7:00 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
Introduction by film historian Philip Harwood
One of the greatest films of all time, a winner of five Academy Awards, this sweeping epic adapted from 1957 novel by Boris Pasternak, follows Russian doctor and poet, Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif), who falls in love with the beautiful Lara (Julie Christie), though the pair are kept apart by the forces of history. Set against Russia’s turbulent political changes of World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and Communism’s rise to power; Yuri spends the rest of his life searching for his lost love. (Italy/UK/US, 1965, 197min., English, PG-13 | Dir. David Lean)
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Iranian Women Revolt
The Art of Living in Danger
Wednesday, June 14^th at 7:30 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
In filmmaker Mina Keshavarz‘s award winning documentary, she follows a group of women fighting for change, and by doing so unveils the deep family secret of her grandmother’s death. Mina tells the story of her grandmother, a victim of domestic violence, through the context of a woman’s place in Iranian law, before and after the Islamic revolution. Exploring the story of a group of feminists in Iran, in 2016, who created a campaign called “Stop Domestic Violence Against Women”, where such campaigns are forbidden by law. (Iran, 2020, 87min., In Persian with English subtitles | Dir. Mina Keshavarz)
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National Theatre Live!
David Tennant in Good
Thursday, June 15^th at 7:00 PM
$25 Public | $20 Members
David Tennant (Doctor Who) makes a much-anticipated return to the West End in a blistering reimagining of one of Britain’s most powerful, political plays. As the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences. Olivier Award-winner Dominic Cooke (Follies) directs C.P. Taylor‘s timely tale, with a cast that also features Elliot Levey (Coriolanus) and Sharon Small (The Bay). Filmed live at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London. (Running Time: approx. 160 mins)
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Night Owl Cinema
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart At The River Styx
Friday, June 16^th at 9:30 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
While wandering through the wilds of Japan with his 3-year-old son, Daigoro, (Akihiro Tomikawa), assassin-for-hire Ogami Itto (Tomisaburô Wakayama) finds his next assignment – he’s hired to kill a merchant intent on revealing corporate secrets. On Ogami’s tail, however, is a trio of female ninjas who have been sent to kill him and his son. When Ogami is wounded in battle, the toddler rises to the occasion and helps nurse his father back to health in time for a second sword fight. (Japan, 1972, 81min., In Japanese with English subtitles, NR | Dir. Kenji Misumi)
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Science on Screen
Nikola Tesla And His Place In The American Renaissance
Saturday, June 17th at 7 PM
with Sebastian White, High Energy physicist, CERN
featuring a screening of TESLA
$15 Public | $10 Members

Join us for a mind-expanding exploration of the pioneering scientist Nikola Tesla, featuring a lecture by Sebastian White, and a rare big-screen showing of Michael Almereyda’s unconventional 2020 biopic.

Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla (Ethan Hawke) fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla’s uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison (Kyle MacLachlan) and his patron George Westinghouse (Jim Gaffigan).  Another thread traces Tesla’s sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P. Morgan (Donnie Keshawarz), whose daughter Anne (Eve Hewson) takes a more than casual interest in the inventor.  Anne analyzes and presents the story as it unfolds, offering a distinctly modern voice to this scientific period drama which, like its subject, defies convention. (USA, 2020, 102 min., color, DCP)
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Cult Cafe
Dog Day Afternoon
Saturday, June 17^th at 9:30 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
When inexperienced criminal Sonny Wortzik (Al Pacino) leads a bank robbery in Brooklyn, things quickly go wrong, and a hostage situation develops. As Sonny and his accomplice, Sal Naturile (John Cazale), try desperately to remain in control, a media circus develops and the FBI arrives, creating even more tension. Gradually, Sonny’s surprising motivations behind the robbery are revealed, and his standoff with law enforcement moves toward its inevitable end. (US, 1975, 125min., English, R | Dir. Sidney Lumet)
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Cinema for Kids
The Lion King
Sunday, June 18^th at 12 PM
$12 Public | $7 Members | $5 Kids
Disney’s The Lion King follows the adventures of the young lion Simba (Jonathan Taylor Thomas), the heir of his father, Mufasa (James Earl Jones). Simba’s wicked uncle, Scar (Jeremy Irons), plots to usurp Mufasa’s throne by luring father and son into a stampede of wildebeests. But Simba escapes, and only Mufasa is killed. Simba returns as an adult (Matthew Broderick) to take back his homeland from Scar with the help of his friends Timon (Nathan Lane) and Pumbaa (Ernie Sabella). (US, 1994, 88min., English, G | Dir. Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff)
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Anything But Silent
Metropolis
Tuesday, June 20^th at 7:00 PM
$17 Public | $12 Member
Featuring Live Theatre Organ Accompaniment by Ben Model
In a futuristic city, a wealthy utopia exists above a dystopian underworld where the mistreated working-class live in poverty. When the son of the city’s mastermind discovers the truth, he sets out to help the workers. Among the most influential of all silents, Metropolis had for 75 years been seen only in abridged versions until a damaged print was discovered in a museum in Argentina. The resulting restoration offers a nearly complete picture of this visual masterpiece, containing some of the most striking images in film history. (Germany, 1927, 148min., Silent, NR | Dir. Fritz Lang)
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Science on Screen
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
Wednesday, June 21^st at 7 PM
with Scientist Susan Pepper, Brookhaven National Laboratory
featuring a screening of the Stanley Kubrick classic
$15 Public | $10 Members

Join scientist Susan Pepper from Brookhaven National Laboratory for an entertaining and exciting evening exploring Stanley Kubrick‘s classic comedy as well as the timely issues it raises. At a moment when the US and Russia are once again engaging in nuclear brinksmanship, the number of nations with nuclear weapons is growing, and arms control treaties are becoming an endangered species, Kubrick’s brilliant. hilarious political satire remains as relevant as when it first premiered in 1964.

 

With the Soviet Union and U.S. on the verge of nuclear war, it only takes one loony general (Sterling Hayden), a Pentagon war room populated by maniacs (including an unhinged George C. Scott, with Peter Sellers playing the president, an RAF officer, and a Nazi scientist), and a patriotic B-52 bomber pilot carrying an atomic payload (the iconic Slim Pickens) to begin our mutual destruction. Crisply directed by Kubrick with the relentless pace of a thriller, Dr. Strangelove is not just a great black comedy, but one of the greatest films of all time. (USA, 1964, 95 min., b/w, DCP)

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Hard Luck Cafe
Toby Walker
Wednesday, June 21^st at 7:00 PM
$25 Public | $20 Members
Internationally and nationally acclaimed Toby Walker has been hailed as an award-winning, roots music fingerstyle guitar virtuoso and songwriter who has toured the US, the United Kingdom, Canada and Europe. Blending the styles of blues, ragtime, country, bluegrass, old-time jazz and rock, Walker has developed his own style and as such received numerous awards, including being the 1st-place recipient of the International Blues Challenge Award in Memphis and the NY Music Award for best instrumental CD. Walker has also been inducted into the NY Blues Hall of Fame. Walker is a nationally recognized guitar instructor, having taught at Jorma Kaukonen’s Fur Peace Ranch, Woody Mann’s Guitar Seminars, The Swanannoa Gathering, The New Jersey Big Guitar Camp and the Guitar Intensive in Maine. Walker also has eight instructional DVD’s on Happy Traum’s Homespun Music Instruction and has produced hundreds of instructional videos for his own website. Toby’s passion for blues, rags, folk, and other traditional American music drove him to leave an apartment crammed full of recordings, books and instruments for the Mississippi Delta, Virginia and the Carolinas, where he tracked down some of the more obscure — but immensely talented — music makers of an earlier era. He learned directly from Eugene Powell, James “Son” Thomas, Etta Baker, and R.L Burnside, among others.

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Grateful Dead Meet-Up At The Movies 2023
Thursday, June 22 at 7:05 PM & 7:10 PM

Saturday, June 24 at 7 PM

$17 Public | $12 Members
A year after Brent Mydland‘s passing, the Grateful Dead returned to the summer stadium circuit, playing Chicago’s Soldier Field for the first time, with two keyboard players filling the seat Brent left vacant.

Bruce Hornsby and Vince Welnick‘s presence and musical contributions reinvigorated and revitalized the Grateful Dead, and the inspiration of the Dead’s playing was palpable. On a Saturday night in front of 60,000 fans, the Dead played what is often considered one of the greatest shows of the Bruce-Vince era, up there with the second Giants Stadium show from a few days earlier. The Soldier field show was filled with favorites, including “Shakedown Street,””Brown-Eyed Women,” “Playing In The Band,” “Terrapin Station,” and “Dark Star.” From the original six-camera video feed that appeared on the stadium’s big screens and the pristine soundboard audio, Chicago 6/22/91 is an incredible performance start-to-finish. (USA, 1991/2023, 190 min., color, DCP / Cast: Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, Bruce Hornsby, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Vince Welnick / Director: Len Dell’Amico / Producer: Len Dell’Amico with Grateful Dead Productions / “Grateful Dead at Soldier Field, June 22, 1991” provided courtesy of Grateful Dead Productions and Rhino Entertainment LLC / Set design: Jan Sawka)
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Presented by the CAC Youth Advisory Board
But I’m A Cheerleader
Friday, June 23^rd at 7:00 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
Transgressive and ahead of its time, But I’m a Cheerleader is an inclusive tale of love and self-discovery. When her parents suspect that she’s a lesbian, a high-school student (Natasha Lyonne) is sent to a sexual-rehabilitation camp. Based on director Jamie Babbit’s own experiences as well as ones she had read about, But I’m a Cheerleader playfully confronts the homophobic practice of conversion therapy. With Cathy Moriarty, Bud Cort, Melanie Lynskey, Clea DuVall. (US, 1999, 85min., English, R | Dir. Jamie Babbit)

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Night Owl Cinema
Bound
Friday, June 23^rd at 9:30 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
Three years before the Wachowskis released The Matrix, their debut, Bound, was already one of the most visually stunning crime thrillers of the 1990s. This intense, erotic neo-noir crime thriller stars Gina Gershon as Corky, an ex-con who, after a torrid love affair with neighbor Violet (Jennifer Tilly), joins forces with her to dupe her gangster boyfriend Caesar (Joe Pantoliano) out of $2 million of laundered mob cash. This edge-of-your-seat thriller was a mold-breaker of queer cinema, as mainstream films featuring complex queer characters were still rare in 1990s Hollywood. (1996, USA, 109 mins, R, English | Dir. Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
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Cult Cafe
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Saturday, June 24^th at 9:30 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
Hedwig, born as Hansel in East Berlin, fell in love with an American G.I. and underwent a Gender Reassignment Surgery in order to marry him and flee to the West. Unfortunately, nothing worked out quite as it was supposed to – years later, Hedwig is leading her rock band on a tour of the U.S., telling her life story through a series of concerts at Bilgewater Inn seafood restaurants. Her tour dates coincide with those of arena-rock star Tommy Gnosis, a wide-eyed boy who once loved Hedwig – but then left with all her songs. (US, 2001, 92min., English/German, R | Dir. John Cameron Mitchell)
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Cinema for Kids
The Mighty Ducks
Sunday, June 25^th at 12 PM
$12 Public | $7 Members | $5 Kids
After reckless young lawyer Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) gets arrested for drunk driving, he must coach a kid’s hockey team for his community service. Gordon has experience on the ice, but isn’t eager to return to hockey, a point hit home by his tense dealings with his own former coach, Jack Reilly (Lane Smith). The reluctant Gordon eventually grows to appreciate his team, which includes promising young Charlie Conway (Joshua Jackson), and leads them to take on Reilly’s tough players. (US, 1992, 104min., English, PG | Dir. Stephen Herek)
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Cinema Arts Centre 50^th Anniversary Celebration

Legendary Movie Star Jacqueline Bisset In-Person, with Her New Movie Loren & Rose

Film Screening / Q&A

Sunday, June 25 at 3:30pm

$30 Public | $20 Members
Legendary movie star Jacqueline Bisset comes to the Cinema Arts Centre for a screening of her new movie, and a post-film Q&A. In Loren & Rose, a single meal frames this three-act story of the indelible bond between Loren (Kelly Blatz), a promising filmmaker, and Rose (Bisset), a storied actress looking to reinvigorate her career. From a lunch meeting to discuss a possible collaboration grows a years-long friendship between two people whose love of art, understanding of grief, and faith in life’s potential guide them through personal and creative hardships. Bisset and Blatz star with a chemistry that is at once authentic and intoxicating. (USA, 2023, 83 min., color, DCP)

Jacqueline Bisset began her film career in 1965 and first came to prominence in 1968 with roles in The Detective (starring Frank Sinatra), Bullitt (starring Steve McQueen), and The Sweet Ride, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination as Most Promising Newcomer. In the 1970s, she starred in Airport (1970), The Mephisto Waltz (1971), Francois Truffaut‘s Day for Night (1973), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Le Magnifique (1973), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), St. Ives (1976), The Deep (1977), The Greek Tycoon (1978) and Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. Bisset’s other film and TV credits include George Cukor‘s Rich and Famous (1981), Class (1983), her Golden Globe-nominated role in John Huston‘s Under the Volcano (1984), her CableACE Award-nominated role in Forbidden (1985), Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989), Wild Orchid (1990), her Cesar Award-nominated role in Claude Chabrol‘s La Cérémonie (1995), Dangerous Beauty (1998), her Emmy-nominated role in the miniseries Joan of Arc (1999), Britannic (2000), The Sleepy Time Gal (2001), Domino (2005), a guest arc in the fourth season of Nip/Tuck (2006), Death in Love (2008), and the BBC miniseries Dancing on the Edge (2013), for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. Bisset has since appeared in Welcome to New York (2014), Miss You Already (2015), The Last Film Festival (2016), Backstabbing for Beginners (2018) and Birds of Paradise (2021). She received France’s highest honour, the Legion of Honour, in 2010.

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Best of the Big Screen!
Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs

Tuesday, June 27^th at 7PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
As we celebrate our 50th anniversary we’re delighted to present one of the true milestone in film history, Walt Disney‘s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The story of a princess driven from the palace by her wicked stepmother and then saved by a group of seven descriptively-named dwarves, the 1937 film was at first dubbed “Disney’s Folly,” as no one had ever attempted a feature-length cel animation before. Facing a cost that eventually ran to $1.4 million—a huge amount back then—Disney even mortgaged his house to complete the film. At the end of its premiere in December, 1937, an audience composed of the cream of Hollywood rose to give it one of the longest standing ovations in anyone’s memory. A perennial on every list of greatest films ever made, Snow White returns with its brilliant colors, wonderful songs and unforgettable characters. (USA, 1937, 83 min., color, DCP)
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Cage Match – The Best of Nicolas Cage!
Vampire’s Kiss
Friday, June 30^th at 9:30 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members
In this wacky black-comedy, Nicolas Cage stars as an overworked and money obsessed literary agent, Peter Loew. He is greedy, narcissistic and slowly losing his mind. On a night out, he meets Rachel (Jennifer Beals) and brings her home. But after she pins him down, reveals her fangs and feeds on him, he begins to believe that he is changing into a vampire. Donning sunglasses and plastic fangs, he goes looking for victims. (US, 1988, 103min., English, R | Dir. Robert Bierman)
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