WXXI CLASSICAL PRESENTS | Saturday, May 2 at 3:00pm | A young woman arrives in San Francisco’s Chinatown from Hong Kong with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers. This adaptation of the 1958 Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical was the first major Hollywood feature to have a majority Asian-American cast in a contemporary Asian-American story.
WORLD OF ANIMATION | Sunday, May 3 at 7:30pm | An enterprising producer believes he has hit upon a winning concept: a program of original animated shorts set to classical music. Undeterred by warnings that this has already been done by an American named ‘Prisney,’ he rallies an orchestra. What could go wrong?
MAY THE FOURTH | Monday, May 4 at 7:00pm | In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire’s ultimate weapon of destruction. The story connecting “Andor” to “A New Hope.”
SPECIAL SCREENING | Sunday, May 10 at 3:30pm | A new documentary exploring the life and art of one of the most important female artists of the 20th century. O’Keeffe became famous for her paintings of flowers, bones and emerged as an iconic role model for women, worldwide.
MOTHER’S DAY | Sunday, May 10 at 7:00pm | Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.
BLACK CINEMA SERIES | Monday. May 11 at 7:00pm | Grieving hairdresser Justice goes on a road trip from South Central L.A. to Oakland on a mail truck alongside her friend and an obnoxious postal worker. Starring Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur, and Regina King. Written and Directed by John Singleton.
FOAM, FELT & FROGS | Friday, May 15 and Sunday, May 17 | In the Muppets’ big-screen debut film, Kermit and his newfound friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog legs merchant is after Kermit.
STAFF PICKS | Monday, May 18 at 7:30pm | A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak in this Federico Fellini classic.
SCIENCE ON SCREEN | Sunday, May 31 at 3:30pm | In a world where people collect Pokémon to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent talking Pikachu who seeks to be a detective, and they join forces to unravel a tangled mystery. | With a presentation: “Animal Detectives: Problem Solving in Orangutans and Otters” by Caroline DeLong, PhD, Professor of Psychology at the Rochester Institute of Technology
FOAM, FELT & FROGS | Tuesday, June 2 at 7:00pm | A Muppet fanatic with some help from his 2 human compatriots must regroup the Muppet gang to stop an avaricious oil mogul from taking down one of their precious life-longing treasures.
SAVE THE DATES: June 5-11 at The Little | Presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque, ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair’ is an annual film festival showcasing some of the greatest works of cinema from across the globe that venture into the darkest sides of humanity and the bleakest points in human history.
An event taking place at The Little. | Ticketing not run by The Little, so Little discounts / member benefits do not apply to this event.
SPECIAL SCREENING | 35MM FILM | Sunday, June 28 at 7:30pm | Returning from LV-426, Ellen Ripley crash-lands on the maximum-security prison Fiorina 161, where she discovers that she has unwittingly brought along an unwelcome visitor.
BLACK CINEMA SERIES | Monday, June 29 at 7:00pm | The exhilarating story of the legendary Grammy-winning musician whose signature sound shaped the work of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, Sly Stone, Aretha Franklin, and countless others.
SPECIAL SCREENING | 35MM FILM | Seven on 7/7 at 7 | Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives in David Fincher’s “feel-bad” classic.