An encore Staff Picks presentation following our Aug. 8 sold out show.
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, Hayao Miyazaki’s wondrous fantasy adventure is a dazzling masterpiece from one of the most celebrated filmmakers in the history of animation.
SPECIAL SCREENING! | Friday, September 2, 7:30pm | A comedic send-up of the grim circumstances of the Middle Ages as told through the story of King Arthur and framed by a modern-day murder investigation. “Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!”
SPECIAL SCREENING | Thursday, September 8 at 7:00pm | Join WXXI and Garth Fagan Dance for the world-premiere screening of this new documentary exploring the life and career of Tony award winning choreographer Garth Fagan…
BLACK CINEMA SERIES | Friday, September 9 at 7:30pm | A coming-of-age comedy-drama about three Black women living in Brooklyn. Ayoka Chenzira’s feature film explores the life of teenager Rainbow Gold (Victoria Gabrielle Platt) who is entering womanhood and navigating conversations and experiences around standards of beauty, self-image, and the rights Black women have over their bodies.
That’ll do pig! An eccentric little pig, raised by canines, trains to be a champion sheep herder in this classic family comedy. Oscar winner for best visual effects.
HIGH FALLS WOMEN IN FILM | Wednesday, September 14 at 7:30pm | The female wrestlers of Ciudad Juárez fight in both the ring and their daily lives to redefine what it means to be a woman in Mexico.
An event taking place at The Little. | Ticketing not run by The Little, so Little discounts / member benefits do not apply to this event.
WXXI CLASSICAL PRESENTS | Wednesday, September 21 | A new opera. INTIMATE APPAREL, set in 1905 in turn of the century New York, tells the story of Esther, a lonely, single African-American woman who makes her living sewing beautiful corsets and ladies’ undergarments.
ONE TAKE | LIVE SCORE | Friday, September 23 at Kilbourn Hall at Eastman | The untold story of Ethel Kennedy comes alive in this family-made documentary, complete with a live score composed by Miriam Cutler.
SPECIAL SCREENING | Sunday, September 25 | A celebration of stop-motion animation legend Will Vinton, father of Claymation. Join us for a rare theatrical screening of the Will Vinton Studio’s only theatrical film, “The Adventures of Mark Twain” (1985) followed by the new documentary about Vinton’s studio and life, “Clay Dream” (2022). It’s a celebration of Claymation!
In New York City’s Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that she can re-route her life in a better direction.
WXXI CLASSICAL PRESENTS | Saturday, October 1 at 3pm | Love, family, and cooking swirl together as Tita’s powerful emotions begin to surface in fantastical ways through her cooking.
SATURDAY NIGHT REWIND x SPOOKY SEASON | Saturday, October 1 at 8 p.m. Beetlejuice in glorious 35mm. The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.
FREE screening | Little discounts / member benefits do not apply to this event.
SPOOKY SEASON | Wednesday, October 5 at 7:30pm | In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world. Written and directed by Guillermo del Toro.