BLACK CINEMA SERIES | Saturday, January 13 at 7pm | In this hilarious new satire, novelist Monk (Jeffrey Wright) is frustrated by an industry that limits Black storytelling to Black trauma. He writes an outlandish book of his own, which accidentally propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he despises.
JANUARY GIALLO | Thursday, January 18 at 7:30pm | Unhappy women are being murdered by Emile, a psychotic young man suffering from the delusion that his acts are mercy killings. The detective assigned to track down the killer resorts to seriously unorthodox and even unethical methods to get his man.
JANUARY GIALLO | Friday, January 26. at 7:30pm | A jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the brutal murder of a psychic, in Dario Argento’s classic of the giallo genre.
FREE screening | Monday, Jan. 29 at 6:30pm | Liberty City, Miami, was home to one of the oldest segregated public housing projects in the U.S. Now with rising sea levels, the neighborhood’s higher ground has become something else: real estate gold.
BLACK CINEMA SERIES | Thursday, February 1 at 7:00pm | Director Ava DuVernay’s newest film, about author Isabel Wilkerson writing her seminal book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” about the unspoken system that has shaped America and defined lives by a hierarchy of human divisions.
SATURDAY NIGHT REWIND | Saturday, June 17 at 8pm | The Dude abides, but don’t mess with the rug, man (it really ties the room together). This quotable Coen Brothers 1998 classic celebrates its 25th anniversary with a special Little screening. Wear your best bowling shoes.
STAFF PICKS | Monday, February 12 at 7:30pm | Picked by Katie G. | Little Popcorn, but designed as a triumphant “Z”
ONE TAKE DOC SERIES | Thursday, Feb. 15 at 7:15pm + Saturday, Feb. 17 | Filmmaker Wim Wenders creates a portrait of Anselm Kiefer, one of the most innovative and important painters and sculptors of our time.
BLACK CINEMA SERIES | Thursday, June 22 at 7:30pm | A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
SATURDAY NIGHT REWIND | Saturday, February 24 at 8pm | During a visit to Transylvania, an African prince (William Marshall) gets turned into a vampire by Count Dracula. Sealed in a coffin for several lifetimes, “Blacula” reawakens in 1970s Los Angeles, and begins pursuing a women bearing a striking resemblance to his dead wife, leaving a trail of bloodless victims in his wake.
INDIE LENS POP-UP | Monday, February 26 | Frustrated by the lack of representation in the media, a group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists launched The 19th*, a digital news startup whose work is guided by elevating the voices often left out of the American story.
INDIE LENS POP-UP | Monday, March 27 | Theatre 5 | The rollercoaster life story of Chol Soo Lee, a Korean immigrant wrongfully convicted of murder.
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE | Saturday, February 24 and Sunday, March 3 | Andrew Scott (Fleabag, All Of Us Strangers) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, filmed live during its sold-out run in London’s West End. Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust into sharp focus in this one-man adaptation which explores the complexities of human emotions.
STAFF PICKS | Monday, March 4 at 7:30pm | Frank Capua (Paul Newman) is a rising star on the race circuit who dreams of winning the big one–the Indianapolis 500. Picked by Jim!
ONE TAKE DOC SERIES | Thursday, March 7 at 7pm & Saturday, March 9 at 3pm | Five incredible women from around the world, who are boldly breaking glass ceilings in the male-dominated world of orchestral conducting, take center stage.