COMING SOON

Meeting with Pol Pot
OPENS AUGUST 1 | Three French journalists accept a risky invitation from the Khmer Rouge to visit Cambodia in 1978. Their journey becomes a dangerous odyssey as they witness the regime’s brutality and struggle to report the truth.

Weapons
OPENS AUGUST 8 | When all but one child from the same classroom mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley
OPENS AUGUST 8 | Rising musician Jeff Buckley had only released one album when he died suddenly in 1997. A portrait of a generation-defining singer by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg.

Cloud
OPENS AUGUST 8 | Yoshii, a young man who resells goods online, finds himself at the center of a series of mysterious events that put his life at risk. The new thriller from suspense-maverick Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure, Pulse).

Shin Godzilla
OPENS AUGUST 14 | New 4K Remaster of the 2016 kaiju flick. Something has surfaced in Tokyo Bay. As the Prime Minister of Japan pleads with the public to remain calm, a horrific creature of tremendous size makes landfall in the city, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Then it evolves.

The Last Class – Aug. 16-17
SPECIAL SCREENINGS | Saturday, August 16 at 4:30 and Sunday, August 17 at 12:00pm | American political economist and professor Robert Reich teaches his final “Wealth and Poverty” class at UC Berkeley, ending a 40-year career that reached 40,000 students.

Highest 2 Lowest
COMING SOON | When a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington) is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-of-death moral dilemma in modern New York City. Directed by Spike Lee, and based on Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low.”

Boys Go To Jupiter – Aug. 28-31
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.

Caught Stealing
OPENS AUG. 29 | Burned-out ex-baseball player Hank Thompson unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous struggle for survival amidst the criminal underbelly of 1990s New York City, forced to navigate a treacherous underworld he never imagined. Directed by Darren Aronofsky.

The Roses
OPENS THIS SEPTEMBER | A tinderbox of competition and resentments underneath the façade of a picture-perfect couple is ignited when the husband’s professional dreams come crashing down.

Lurker
OPENS SEPTEMBER 5 | A retail employee infiltrates the inner circle of an artist on the verge of stardom. As he gets closer to the budding music star, access and proximity become a matter of life and death.

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
OPENS SEPTEMBER 12 | As the beloved cast of characters navigate how to lead Downton Abbey into the future, the Crawley family and their staff enter the 1930s and must embrace change and welcome a new chapter.

One Battle After Another
COMING SOON | When their evil enemy resurfaces after 16 years, a group of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue one of their own’s daughter. The new film from Paul Thomas Anderson.
UPCOMING EVENTS

CatVideoFest 2025 – Aug. 1-3
CATS! | Aug. 1-3 | A triumph! A spectacle! A fuzzy wuzzy cuddle puddle! CatVideoFest is all that and more. Our favorite family-friendly cat-themed film event is back Aug. 1-3. Benefits local cats in need. Tickets are on sale now!

Jumanji – Aug. 2
SATURDAY NIGHT REWIND | Aug. 2 at 8pm | PROJECTED ON 35MM FILM | When two kids find and play a magical board game, they release a man (Robin Williams) trapped in it for decades – and a host of dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game.

Rochester Teen Film Festival 2025 – Aug. 7
SCREENING + AWARDS | Thursday, August 7 at 5:30pm | The annual Rochester Teen Film Festival honors the work of urban, suburban, and rural teen filmmakers and provides young people an authentic opportunity to have their work viewed by a jury and screened in a theater.

The Handmaiden – Aug. 8
EROTIC THRILLERS | Friday, August 8 at 7:30pm | With help from an orphaned pickpocket (Kim Tae-ri), a Korean con man (Ha Jung-woo) devises an elaborate plot to seduce and bilk a Japanese woman (Kim Min-hee) out of her inheritance.

The Brave Little Toaster Goes To Mars – Aug. 10
STAFF PICKS | Sunday, Aug. 10 at Noon | Selected by Will (staff manager) | Whilst trying to protect their new “Little Master” the anthropomorphic appliances set off on an epic adventure and make many new friends along the way. Based on the book by Thomas M. Disch.

Throne of Blood – Aug. 10
KUROSAWA SERIES | Sunday, August 10 at 7:30pm | A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, Throne of Blood, directed by Akira Kurosawa, sets Shakespeare’s definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan.

Attack the Block – Aug. 13
BY JOE CORNISH | Wednesday, August 13 at 7:30pm | South London teenagers (John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Leeon Jones) defend their neighborhood from malevolent extraterrestrials. Effortlessly mixing scares, laughs, and social commentary, with a distinctly British flavor.

Ghost Almanac (with live score) – Aug. 15
LIVE SCORE | Friday, August 15 at 7:30pm | What if the devil was a VJ? What if MTV broadcast from hell? Ghost Almanac features the best scenes from classic silent horror films, with a live score by the vintage synthesizer enthusiasts of Montopolis. Tales from the Crypt meets VH1 in this 80 minute roller coaster ride of terror and old school beats.