Films and Events

In the tiny, rural town of Carthage, TX, assistant funeral director Bernie Tiede was one of the town's most beloved residents.

HEADHUNTERS stars the talented Aksel Hennie (Max Manus) as Roger, a charming scoundrel and Norway's most accomplished headhunter.

A small group of British retirees learn that the life they want to live might not be the life they need to live after pooling their resources to spend their twilight years in India.

Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman explores one of the most mythic and colorful places dedicated to women, the Crazy Horse – a legendary Parisian cabaret club, founded in 1951 by Alain Bernardin.

Whit Stillman's DAMSELS IN DISTRESS is a comedy about a trio of beautiful girls as they set out to revolutionize life at a grungy American university – the dynamic leader Violet Wister (Greta Gerwig), principled Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and sexy Heather (Carrie MacLemore).

Enjoy two short films and live music with Django in June artists-in-residence Antoine and Sebastien Boyer.  Each film elaborates the history and development of the Gypsy jazz tradition, with a focus on key figures less familiar to the general public than the iconic Django Reinhardt.  Click here for a full list of Django in June area concerts and events.

The McCarthy-era "witch hunts" in the entertainment industry set the stage for this comedy drama set in the 1950s. Howard Prince (Woody Allen) is a cashier at a corner bar who works as a small-time bookie on the side, with little success.

A Woody Allen Manhattan mosaic, Hannah and Her Sisters concerns the lives, loves, and infidelities among a tightly-knit artistic clan.

One of Woody Allen's most seemingly biographical films, the story concerns the vicissitudes of two married couples who are friends (Allen and Mia Farrow play one couple, Sydney Pollack and Judy Davis the other),

Woody Allen's Love and Death is purportedly a satire of all things Russian, from Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky novels to Sergei Eisenstein films, but it plays more like a spin on Bob Hope's Monsieur Beaucaire.

Bob Marley's universal appeal, impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. MARLEY is the definitive life story of the musician, revolutionary, and legend, from his early days to his rise to international superstardom.

MY BUSINESS IS TO SING is based on Carolyn Cooley’s 2003 book, The Music of Emily Dickinson’s Poems and Letters, and is the third in a series, “Angles of a Landscape: Perspectives on Emily Dickinson,” which explores little-known aspects of Dickinson’s life and work.

Directed by two‐time Academy Award nominee Bruce Beresford, Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding stars Academy Award winning Jane Fonda, two‐time Academy Award nominated Catherine Keener, international heartthrob Chace Crawford, and Sundance's "breakout star" Elizabeth Olsen. A comedy about an uptight New York City lawyer who takes her two spirited teenagers to her hippie mother's farmhouse in the countryside for a family vacation. What was meant to be a weekend getaway quickly turns into a summer adventure of romance, music, family secrets, and self‐discovery.

Written and directed by Louis C.K, Pootie Tang is hands down one of the most overlooked comedies of the 2000's. Featuring amazingly hillarious performances by Chris Rock, Wanda Sykes and Jennifer Coolidge, this has to be one of the most quotable movies with a main character that speaks in almost total gibberish ever!

Frustrated punk rocker Otto quits his supermarket job after slugging a co-worker, and is later dumped by his girlfriend at a party. Wandering the streets in frustration, he is recruited in the repossession of a car by a repo agent. After discovering his parents have donated his college fund to a televangelist, he joins the repossession agency (Helping Hand Acceptance Corporation) as an apprentice "repo man".

From the beloved director of Chocolat and the Oscar®-winning screenwriter of Slumdog Millionaire comes the inspirational comedy SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN.

Following much preparation, Peter and Lorna are given an address. In the dead of night, they pull off the lonely road and await further instructions.

THE TEMPEST pits the desire for revenge against the demands of love and asks if man is capable of creating a brave new world. The story focuses on Prospero (Christopher Plummer), the banished Duke of Milan. Marooned on a distant island with his daughter, Miranda (Trish Lindström), Prospero has spent twelve years perfecting his magic arts. Now, with the help of the spirit Ariel (Julyana Soelistyo), he raises a storm at sea, bringing within his grasp the enemies who robbed him of his dukedom. 

Woody Allen hits a high note in this spicy comedy with Rebecca Hall and Scarlett Johansson as Cristina and Vicky, two life-long friends with opposing ideas relating to love and romance.