April 19 - 21

Everyone has their own Chimera, something they try to achieve but never manage to find. For the band of tombaroli, thieves of ancient grave goods and archaeological wonders, the Chimera means redemption from work and the dream of easy wealth. For Arthur, the Chimera looks like the woman he lost, Beniamina. To find her, Arthur challenges the invisible, searches everywhere, goes inside the earth -- in search of the door to the afterlife of which myths speak. In an adventurous journey between the living and the dead, between forests and cities, between celebrations and solitudes, the intertwined destinies of these characters unfold, all in search of the Chimera. Clever, ambitious, and funny throughout, an intelligent meditation on our attitudes toward life, love, and death, there’s nothing quite like LA CHIMERA. Starring Josh O'Connor, Carol Duarte, Alba Rohrwacher, and Isabella Rossellini

Friday April 19 --- 4pm and 7pm

Saturday April 20 --- 4pm and 7pm

Sunday April 14 --- 1pm and 4pm

PLEASE NOTE: FILMS BEGIN AT POSTED SHOWTIMES

April 25

Special one night only event! Filmmakers in person for intro and post film Q and A and local acoustic roots musicians THE FAMILY BAND will play a live pre-show set starting at 6:30! Co-presented with KZFR. All seats $10 a benefit for the PAGEANT THEATER!

OPEN COUNTRY is a journey into the roots of American Country music. Although one wouldn’t realize it from listening to today’s pop Country-Western radio stations, country music has been anything but a rightwing soundtrack. To the contrary, the roots of Country and Western lie firmly in classic American traditions of resistance to capital and defense of the right of workers, poor farmers, and the dispossessed to live their lives in dignity and freedom. OPEN COUNTRY repositions country music into its rightful place as a people’s music. Featuring interviews with Billy Bragg, Mat Callahan, Hazel Dickens, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Jon Langford, Utah Phillips, Pete Seeger and many more.

Thursday April 25 --- Doors and live music 6:30pm / film 7pm with post film Q & A

April 26 - 28

Return engagement for one of our absolute favorite films of the year! Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them. A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveal more of his past. A deeply moving and poetic reflection on finding beauty in the everyday world around us. Led by a remarkable Kôji Yakusho performance (Cannes Best Actor winner), PERFECT DAYS is a perfectly uplifting film of extraordinary subtlety and beauty and adds a quietly soaring gem to director Wim Wenders' estimable filmography.

Friday April 26 --- 7pm

Saturday April 27 --- 6:15pm

Sunday April 28 --- 4:15pm

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April 27 - 28

For this icily erotic fusion of flesh and machine, David Cronenberg adapted J. G. Ballard’s future-shock novel of the 1970s into one of the most singular and provocative films of the 1990s. A traffic collision involving a disaffected commercial producer, James (James Spader), and an enigmatic doctor, Helen (Holly Hunter), brings them, along with James’s wife, Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger, in a sublimely detached performance), together in a crucible of blood and broken glass—and it’s not long before they are all initiated into a kinky, death-obsessed underworld of sadomasochistic car-crash fetishists for whom twisted metal and scar tissue are the ultimate turn-ons. Controversial from the moment it premiered at Cannes—where it won a Special Jury Prize “for originality, for daring, and for audacity”—Crash has since taken its place as a key text of late-twentieth-century cinema, a disturbingly seductive treatise on the relationships between humanity and technology, sex and violence, that is as unsettling as it is mesmerizing.

Saturday April 27 --- 9pm

Sunday April 28 --- 7pm

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May 3 - 5

The year is 2044: artificial intelligence controls all facets of a stoic society as humans routinely “erase” their feelings. Hoping to eliminate pain caused by their past-life romances, Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) continually falls in love with different incarnations of Louis (George MacKay). Set first in Belle Époque-era Paris, Louis is a British man who woos her away from a cold husband, then in early 21st Century Los Angeles, he is a disturbed American bent on delivering violent “retribution.” Will the process allow Gabrielle to fully connect with Louis in the present, or are the two doomed to repeat their previous fates? Visually audacious director Bertrand Bonello (Saint Laurent, Nocturama) fashions his most accomplished film to date: a sci-fi epic, inspired by Henry James’ turn-of-the-century novella, suffused with mounting dread and a haunting sense of mystery. Punctuated by a career-defining, three-role performance by Seydoux, THE BEAST poignantly conveys humanity’s struggle against dissociative identity and emotionless existence.

Friday May 3 --- 7pm

Saturday May 4 --- 3:45pm and 7pm

Sunday May 5 --- 1:45pm and 5pm

PLEASE NOTE: FILMS BEGIN AT POSTED SHOWTIMES