WORLD OF ANIMATION | LIMITED RUN August 28-31 | FILMMAKER Q&A Thursday, August 28 | A teenager in suburban Florida desperately hustles to make $5,000 in this dreamy and surreal animated coming-of-age comedy. With pastel 2000s video game aesthetics, aliens, the economics of fruit juice companies, and lo-fi musical numbers, The Little promises this is one of the most bizarrely-charming and original animated films you’ll see this year.
A LYTTLE LYNCH | Thursday, September 4 at 7:00pm | David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation. A Duke’s son leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father’s evil nemesis to free their desert world from the emperor’s rule.
FAMILY FLICKS | Sunday, September 7 at 12:00pm | Overly enthusiastic guitarist Dewey Finn (Jack Black) gets thrown out of his band. Posing as a substitute music teacher at an elite private elementary school, he exposes his students to the hard rock gods he idolizes and emulates — much to the consternation of the uptight principal (Joan Cusack).
ONE TAKE | Wednesday, Sept. 10 and Saturday, Sept. 13 | A coming-of-age documentary told from the perspective of Ku Stevens, a 17-year-old Native American runner, struggling to navigate his dream of becoming a collegiate athlete as the memory of his great grandfather’s escape from an Indian boarding school begins to connect past, present, and future.
Black Cinema Series Summertime Screening and Panel Discussion FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2021Little Theatre 1 (240 East Ave.) Standard ticket pricesTickets available online in advance, or at the door. PROOF OF VACCINATION REQUIRED TO ATTENDIMPORTANT: Proof of vaccination...
BLACK CINEMA SERIES | Sunday, September 21 | Three longtime Brooklynites navigate careers, love, loss, and friendship against the rapidly changing landscape of their beloved city.
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Black Cinema Series • “Ailey” Screening and Panel Discussion • Thursday, August 12, 2021 at 6:30pm • Little Theatre 1 (240 East Ave.)
A LYTTLE LYNCH | Friday, September 26 at 7:30pm | As an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal. Starring Laura Dern.
WXXI CLASSICAL PRESENTS | Saturday, September 27 | Four members of a world-renowned string quartet struggle to stay together in the face of death, competing egos and insuppressible lust.
WORLD OF ANIMATION | Sunday, September 28 at 7:30pm | Flying cows, mysterious gods and lyrical pandemonium: Don Hertzfeldt has made Animation Mixtape just for you. The dazzling 85-minute program features exciting, animated shorts from up-and-coming filmmakers, Academy Award nominees and classic pieces that originally inspired Don to start making his own iconic work. Including a new animated introduction from Don and never before seen work from famed underground animator Bruce Bickford.
ONE TAKE DOCS | Thursday, Oct. 2 at 7pm and Saturday, Oct 4 at 3pm | In China, a new industry has emerged devoted to helping couples stay married in the face of infidelity. Wang Zhenxi is part of this growing profession and is hired to go undercover and break up affairs by any means necessary; a “mistress dispeller.”
SPOOKY SEASON | 35mm screening | Friday, Oct. 3 at 7:30pm | Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of her dreams, and makes delightful new friends, and dangerous new enemies.
SPOOKY SEASON | One of the year’s most buzzworthy titles, GOOD BOY is a horror movie from the POV of a dog. Starring Indy, director Ben Leonberg’s own dog (presumably a good boy).
SPOOKY SEASON x SATURDAY NIGHT REWIND | Saturday, Oct. 4 at 8pm | Cue the iconic John Carpenter score, HALLOWEEN (1978), a Saturday Night Rewind staple featuring the ultimate final girl, Jamie Lee Curtis, is back!