The Pageant Theatre

ANORA

Sean Baker

  • 139 minutes
  • 2024
  • English
      • Friday December 6
      • 7:30pm
      • Saturday December 7
      • 7:30pm
      • Sunday December 8
      • 4pm

      HELD OVER! Sean Baker's Palme d'Or winner ANORA is an audacious, thrilling, and comedic variation on a modern day Cinderella story. Mikey Madison captivates as Ani, a young sex worker from Brooklyn whose life takes an unexpected turn when she meets and impulsively marries Vanya, the impetuous son of a Russian billionaire. However, when Vanya's parents catch wind of the union, they send their henchmen to annul the marriage, setting off a wild chase through the streets of New York. Another marvelous chronicle of America's strivers by writer-director Baker given some extra pizzazz by Madison's brassy performance, ANORA is a romantic drama on the bleeding edge. And yes, it’s as good as everyone is saying it is.

ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND

Raoul Peck

  • 106 minutes
  • 2024
  • English
      • Friday December 6
      • 5pm
      • Saturday December 7
      • 5pm
      • Sunday December 8
      • 1:30pm FREE SCREENING

      Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck’s ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND is a new documentary chronicling the life and work of Ernest Cole, one of the first Black freelance photographers in South Africa, whose early pictures, shocking at the time of their first publication, revealed to the world Black life under apartheid. Cole fled South Africa in 1966 and lived in exile in the U.S., where he photographed extensively in New York City, as well as the American South, fascinated by the ways this country could be at times so vastly different, and at others eerily similar, to the segregated culture of his homeland. During this period, he published his landmark book of photographs denouncing the apartheid, House of Bondage which, while banned in South Africa, cemented Cole’s place as one of the great photographers of his time at the age of 27. After his death, more than 60,000 of his 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these forever lost, especially the thousands of pictures Cole shot in the U.S. Telling his own story through his writings, the recollections of those closest to him, and the lens of his uncompromising work, the film is a reintroduction of a pivotal Black artist to a new generation.

      Sunday 1:30pm showing is a FREE community screening!


BIRD

Andrea Arnold

  • 120 minutes
  • 2024
  • English
      • Sunday December 8
      • 7pm

      ENCORE SCREENING! The long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking from Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold (American Honey, Fish Tank), BIRD is a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable about marginalized life in the fringes of contemporary society. 12-year-old Bailey (astounding newcomer Nykiya Adams) lives with her devoted but chaotic single dad Bug (an incredible performance from Barry Keoghan) and wayward brother Hunter in a squat in Gravesend, north Kent. Approaching puberty and seeking attention and adventure, Bailey’s fractured home life is transformed when she encounters Bird (Franz Rogowski), a mysterious stranger on a journey of his own. A wondrous portrait of the transition from childhood to adolescence that remains grounded in her typically empathetic social realism, Arnold’s latest strides to the wildly poetic rhythm of her own drum. Beautiful, unique and full of surprises. Not to be missed!

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