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You Say You Want a Revolution?
In the right hands, a camera can be a weapon—a weapon of liberation, an instrument of freedom. In the 60s and 70s, filmmakers of the Global South began to radically confront ideas of decolonization, revolution, and class inequalities both of their past and present. These directors were as varied in their approaches as they were in the topics they covered and parts of the world that they came from. Decades later, the elites that were satirized, liberation movements documented, and…
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FilmScene Top 10 2023 10 films
And now... we meet in the present. Let's be honest, the top 3 shouldn't come as any surprise, but we…
FilmScene Top 10 2022 10 films
In 2022, FilmScene was undeniably back in business. Five screens, monthly park shows, animation camp, and, of course, the best…
FilmScene Top 10 2021 10 films
And then, as quickly as we left, we all came back! 2021 was our first full year in the Chauncey,…
FilmScene Top 10 2020 10 films
And now, for a year that changed our lives, 2020. Like many arthouse theaters, it was business as usual until…
FilmScene Top 10 2019 10 films
In 2019, FilmScene was hit by a huge storm. A Korean film called Parasite came in and was a certified…
Recent reviews
When d'Artagnan (Michael York) arrives in Paris from the country, he falls in with three musketeers in service to King Louis XIII, allying with them against the power-hungry Cardinal Richelieu (Charlton Heston). Between duels and capers, d'Artagnan has an affair with his landlord's wife, Constance Bonacieux (Raquel Welch), and seeks to thwart the Cardinal's threat to the King.
Professor Anna Barker will discuss the film after the screening in the context of the novel's 180th anniversary and the 50th anniversary of this cinematic adaptation!
The Old Oak is the last pub standing in a once thriving mining village in northern England, a gathering space for a community that has fallen on hard times. There is growing anger, resentment, and a lack of hope among the residents, but the pub and its proprietor TJ are a fond presence to their customers. When a group of Syrian refugees move into the floundering village, a decisive rift fueled by prejudices develops between the community and its newest…
Directed and co-written by four-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke, the film invites the audience to weave in and out of celebrated Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor’s mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing: Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, Flannery (Maya Hawke) visits her mother Regina (Laura Linney) in Georgia when she is diagnosed with lupus at twenty-four years old. Struggling with the same…
After 50 years together, Grant (Gordon Pinset) and Fiona's (Julie Christie) marriage is tested when she is moved into a nursing home after her Alzheimer's begins to be exacerbated. With her memory fading fast, she begins to develop a new relationship with one of the other residents, transferring her affections to another man. Sarah Polley's (Women Talking) feature directorial debut is a beautifully affecting story adapted from Alice Munro's The Bear Came Over the Mountain.
Presented on 35mm and with a a pre-show presentation, Losing Our Selves: Dementia in Real Life.
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yes i cry :,( i wish to live in a world free of homophobia and fear,
anyway my root was being in the catholic church and that time i watched blue is the warmest color possibly didn’t help
a film that dares to let everyone win
makes you feel like the entire weight of the universe rests on a tennis match between two twinks, all scored to music that will throb your puss into oblivion. instant classic
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