SEPTEMBER 18 - 19

PINK FLOYD THE WALL is absolutely one of the best of all rock music fiction films and seeing it now it looks even more daring than in did in 1982. Alan Parker’s brilliant adaptation of Roger Waters’ classic rock opera combines wickedly powerful animation with a surrealistic trip through the memory and hallucinations of sadly deranged rock star Pink (Bob Geldof) as he builds his metaphorical wall to cope with his trauma and alienation. Touching on authoritarianism, the agony of war, sex, childhood feelings of abandonment and the lifestyle of a rock star at the end of his rope, THE WALL is a raw, theatrical primal scream. This film will be played LOUD.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 --- 7:30pm

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 --- 8pm

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SEPTEMBER 19 - 20

One of the bravest and most subversive comedies ever made, as nervy as it is hilarious, this screwball masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch stars Jack Benny and, in her final screen appearance, Carole Lombard as husband-and-wife thespians in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who become caught up in a dangerous spy plot. TO BE OR NOT TO BE is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production right before the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled. Beneath the laughter lies a fearless critique of authoritarianism, exposing the absurdity of tyranny by stripping it of its false grandeur, proof that comedy can be both hilarious and morally defiant. The film’s humor never trivializes the stakes; instead, it asserts that laughter itself can be a form of resistance.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 --- 5:30pm

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 --- 2pm

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SEPTEMBER 24

Join us for a night of spectacular environmental short films — all about bird conservation, research, and habitat restoration. A powerful line up of short avian themed films with beautiful cinematography and inspiring storylines featuring films hand selected from the renowned Wild & Scenic Film Festival. All proceeds from the festival go towards Friends of Butte Creek’s work to protect, restore and enhance the natural habitats of wildlife in the Butte Creek Watershed. Co-Sponsored by AltaCal Bird Alliance

ADVANCE TICKETS FOR THIS SPECIAL EVENT HAVE SOLD OUT - THERE WILL BE VERY LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR - ALL SEATS $25

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 --- 6pm

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SEPTEMBER 25 - 26

Featuring indelible performances from Raul Julia and an Academy Award–winning William Hurt, KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN is a work of radical compassion that boldly expands notions of love, gender, and revolution. In the film—directed by Héctor Babenco following his international breakthrough with Pixote, and adapted from the novel by the iconoclastic writer Manuel Puig—Julia and Hurt play Valentin and Molina, a militant leftist activist and a queer, cinema-obsessed window dresser, imprisoned together under a repressive military dictatorship. The two gradually forge a bond that transforms the way they both understand politics, sexuality, and masculinity. Blending raw realism with Molina’s imaginative escapes into sumptuous movie fantasy, this searing human drama offers a powerful vision of personal liberation embedded within broader political struggle.

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SEPTEMBER 26 - 27

In 1940, Alfred Hitchcock made his official transition from the British film industry to Hollywood. And it was quite a year: his first two American movies, Rebecca and FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT, were both nominated for the best picture Oscar. Though Rebecca prevailed, FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT is the more quintessential Hitch film. A full-throttle espionage thriller, starring Joel McCrea as a green Yank reporter sent to Europe to get the scoop on the imminent war, it’s wall-to-wall witty repartee, head-spinning plot twists, and brilliantly mounted suspense set pieces, including an ocean plane crash climax with astonishing special effects. FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT deserves to be mentioned alongside The 39 Steps and North by Northwest as one of the master’s greatest adventures.

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OCTOBER 2 - 3

With DEAD MAN, his first period piece, Jim Jarmusch imagined the nineteenth-century American West as an existential wasteland, delivering a surreal reckoning with the ravages of industrialization, the country’s legacy of violence and prejudice, and the natural cycle of life and death. Accountant William Blake (Johnny Depp) has hardly arrived in the godforsaken outpost of Machine before he’s caught in the middle of a fatal lovers’ quarrel. Wounded and on the lam, Blake falls under the watch of the outcast Nobody (Gary Farmer), who guides his companion on a spiritual journey, teaching him to dispense poetic justice along the way. Featuring austerely beautiful black-and-white photography by Robby Müller and a live-wire score by Neil Young, DEAD MAN is a profound and unique revision of the western genre.

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OCTOBER 3 - 4

A family’s downfall becomes a stark elegy for the ideals of the American frontier in this quietly subversive reimagining of western myths. In HUD, the fourth of his six collaborations with the progressive director Martin Ritt, Paul Newman created his darkest role yet as Hud Bannon, a charismatic but ruthlessly unprincipled rancher. Hud’s ambition to seize control of an ailing cattle business from his tradition-bound father (Melvyn Douglas) drives the family—including his worshipful nephew (Brandon de Wilde) and worldly-wise housekeeper (Patricia Neal)—toward collapse. Winner of Academy Awards for Best Actress (Neal), Supporting Actor (Douglas), and Cinematography—courtesy of James Wong Howe, whose austere black-and-white lensing lends psychological dimension to the desolate western vistas—Hud daringly rewrites the image of the heroic cowboy for a disillusioned generation.

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