BLACK CINEMA SERIES | Wednesday, March 26 at 7:30pm | In a dystopian near future in Brazil, an authoritarian government orders all citizens of African descent to move to Africa – creating chaos, protests, and an underground resistance movement that inspires the nation.
LITTLE CRAFT NIGHT: Friday, March 21 | TRADITIONAL SCREENING: Thursday, March 27 | Bella Swan is on the cusp of her 18th birthday and blissfully happy with her undead beau Edward Cullen. While celebrating her birthday with Edward’s family of `vegetarian’ vampires, a frightening incident convinces Edward that he’s simply too dangerous to be around his sweetheart. He decides to leave the town of Forks in order to ensure her safety – leaving her behind, angry and depressed.
95 YEARS OF THE LITTLE | Friday, March 28 at 7:30pm | A sexually repressed woman’s husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.
FAMILY FLICKS | Saturday, March 29 at 11am | Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker named Miss Finch. Unhappy, he runs away from there, prompting the rest of the Sesame Street gang to go on a cross-country journey to find him.
WXXI CLASSICAL PRESENTS | Saturday, March 29 at 3pm | Shirley MacLaine gives one of her greatest performances in this spectacular musical based on Neil Simon’s smash Broadway hit. Director Bob Fosse broke new cinematic ground with this freewheeling, visually stunning story of a lovelorn New York dance hall hostess who dreams of old-fashioned romance. “Roadshow” screening includes an overture, intermission, and exit music!
SPECIAL SCREENING | Sunday, March 30 | A classmate introduces teenage Owen to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack. Screening in celebration of Trans Day of Visibility.
NT LIVE | Max Webster directs a joyful and flamboyant reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy. Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; Doctor Who) is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) and Hugh Skinner (W1A; Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) in this hilarious story of identity, impersonation and romance, in this brand-new production from London’s National Theatre in 2024.
SPECIAL SCREENINGS | Friday, April 4 and Saturday, April 5 | A woman (Lynn Redgrave) who believes a dead composer is in love with her falls in love with a man (James Earl Jones) who constantly fights an imaginary man named Hank. A new 4K restoration of Charles Burnett’s previous unreleased film.
SPECIAL SCREENING | Saturday, April 5 at 4:30pm | Grab your fellow “Brockobros” to watch this Oscar-winning classic celebrating its 25th anniversary! Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts) is a woman in a tight spot. Following a car accident in which Erin is not at fault, Erin pleads with her attorney Ed Masry (Albert Finney) to hire her at his law firm, where she discovers a cover-up involving contaminated water in a local community which is causing devastating illnesses among its residents.
SPECIAL SCREENING | 35mm Film | Saturday, April 5 at 8:00pm | Dapper Danny Ocean (George Clooney) is a man of action. Less than 24 hours into his parole from a New Jersey penitentiary, the wry, charismatic thief is already rolling out his next plan. Following three rules: Don’t hurt anybody, don’t steal from anyone who doesn’t deserve it, and play the game like you’ve got nothing to lose. Danny orchestrates the most sophisticated, elaborate casino heist in history.
SCREENING & DISCUSSION | Sunday, April 6 at 11am | Jamshid Khajavi, an extraordinary 65-year-old Iranian American public school counselor, uses the sport of Ultimate Frisbee to help children heal. In an America where many families are quietly, barely getting by, Mr. Jamshid coaches an underdog team of kids on their way to compete in the world’s largest youth tournament.
SPECIAL SCREENING | Sunday, April 6 at 3:00pm | Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) is an American ex-GI who stays in post-war Paris to become a painter, and falls for the gamine charms of Lise Bouvier (Leslie Caron). However, his paintings come to the attention of Milo Roberts, a rich American heiress, who is interested in more than just art.
WORLD OF ANIMATION | Sunday, April 6 at 7:00pm | Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the town to build an amusement park, Black and White engage in the fight of their life.
SPECIAL SCREENING | Wednesday, April 9 at 7:30pm | A feature documentary about the life and music of singer-songwriter Diane Luckey, also known as Q Lazzarus. Q sang the hit song ‘Goodbye Horses’, which appeared in the Jonathan Demme films Married to the Mob and Silence of the Lambs. There will be a Q&A with director Eva Aridjis following the screening.
ONE TAKE | Thursday, April 10 at 7pm and Saturday, April 12 at 3pm | In 2003, eight young Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment in a hidden space inside the Providence Place Mall and lived in it for four years, filming everything along the way. Far more than just a wild prank, the secret apartment became a deeply
meaningful place for all its inhabitants.