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FILMS THAT FUELED DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS

To celebrate the release of Drive-Away Dolls, filmmakers Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke shared a list of films that influenced them during the process. Among them were the 1950 noir-charged B-movie Gun Crazy and Pedro Almodóvar’s zany dark comedy Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

Hayao Miyazaki - Forces of Nature

Hayao Miyazaki - Forces of Nature invites you to celebrate the wonder of five Miyazaki masterpieces November 24 through December 4 at The Main Cinema in advance of his new film The Boy and the Heron, opening December 7. Become immersed in these stories of nature, resilience, and new worlds before you see the latest hand-drawn, original story written and directed by the Academy Award®-winning director himself.

David Lynch: Behind the Curtain

David Lynch: Behind the Curtain invites you to revisit three Lynch classics (Wild at Heart | Mulholland Dr. | Blue Velvet) in celebration of Lynch/Oz, a new documentary that inspires a fresh appreciation for Lynch’s body of work by exploring how it intersects and communicates with The Wizard of Oz, his greatest influence.

MSPIFF42 Award Winners Announced

The Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival celebrates an exciting array of new film every year. Along with several highly competitive juried competitions, we are also pleased to present the audience choice awards: the fiction feature, documentary feature, and short films that were ranked highest by festival audiences.

MSPIFF42 Programmers Picks

All of the programmers of the Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival bring a personal eye to the curation of the fest. We asked our programmers for 5 picks playing in MSPIFF42 to highlight some of these can't-miss films and to spotlight their own unique tastes.

The Great Northern Brings Action and Reflection

The Great Northern celebrates our cold, creative winters through ten days of diverse programming that invigorate mind and body. In an era of changing climate that threatens our signature season, we seek to create community, inspire action, and share the resilient spirit of the North with the world.

Predator: A Memoir, a Movie, an Obsession

In his first memoir, Ander Monson guides readers through a scene-by-scene exploration of the 1987 film Predator, which he has watched 146 times. Some fighters might not have time to bleed, but Monson has the patience to consider their adventure, one frame at a time. He turns his obsession into a lens through which he poignantly examines his own life, formed by mainstream, White, male American culture.

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Special Screenings 1/16 and 1/17 at The Main Cinema

See contemporary dance like never before in 3D!

Tickets: mspfs.info/Pina

Opens 12/25 at The Main Cinema

Opens 12/25 at The Main Cinema

Opens at The Main Cinema Thursday, Dec. 21

Liked reviews

Really clicked into this one when I realized it was deadpan, understated Sirk. It's got grand, sweeping emotions tucked under detached irony and that all came together really well for me. And Kaurismäki's view of the struggling, marginalized people is so well observed. It really hit me in a way I wasn't expecting given it's tone. I loved this quite a bit.

Oscars Death Race 26/53

Harrowing. Not a single noise uttered from the crowd as the credits rolled. A sort of collective, stunned silence. One I’m glad I watched, will never rewatch, and could only really say an exasperated “damn” as I left the theater. 

There have been many films exploring the Holocaust and the immeasurable evil of the Nazis, but not like this. Day to day life with jerk neck reminders of pure, unabridged evil in the most mundane moments.…

The Really Bad Times at El Royale

Really captures the claustrophobia of a question.

Great performances, especially by the dog Snoop who honestly was maybe the best dog actor I've ever seen

Don't know if the zooms were excessive and distracting or added to the feeling of being on trial