OCTOBER 9 - 10

How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s indescribable 1977 movie HOUSE (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava? Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip about a schoolgirl who travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home and comes face-to-face with evil spirits, a demonic house cat, a bloodthirsty piano, and other ghoulish visions, all realized by Obayashi via mattes, animation, and collage effects. Equally absurd and nightmarish, HOUSE might have been beamed to Earth from some other planet. into sumptuous movie fantasy, this searing human drama offers a powerful vision of personal liberation embedded within broader political struggle. Don't miss this one on the Pageant screen!

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9 --- 7:30pm

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10 --- 8pm

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OCTOBER 10 - 11

One-of-a-kind filmmaker-philosopher Terrence Malick has created some of the most visually arresting films of the last century, and his glorious period tragedy DAYS OF HEAVEN, featuring Oscar-winning cinematography by Nestor Almendros, stands out among them. In the mid-1910s, a Chicago steelworker (Richard Gere) accidentally kills his supervisor, and flees with his girlfriend (Brooke Adams) and his little sister (Linda Manz) to the Texas panhandle, where they find work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer (Sam Shepard). A love triangle, a swarm of locusts, a hellish fire—Malick captures it all with dreamlike authenticity, creating a timeless American idyll that is also a gritty evocation of turn-of-the-century labor. One of the great cinematic achievements of the 1970's

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10 --- 5:45pm

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 --- 2pm

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SPECIAL EVENT! OCTOBER 12

Stonewall Alliance Center invites you to celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month with an exclusive screening of TWO EYES. Three lives intertwine across time: a 19th-century artist with his Native guide in Montana, a teen meeting an exchange student in 1979 California, and a trans youth in therapy in modern Wyoming. Featuring Academy Award nominee LILY GLADSTONE, trans icons KATE BORNSTEIN and RYAN CASSATA, queer South African musician and actor NAKHANE, Two-Spirit artist SAMUEL JAXIN ENEMY-HUNTER, and KIOWA GORDON (Dark Winds). A live Zoom conversation with filmmaker Travis Fine will take place after the screening

More information and advance tickets (all seats $15) AVAILABLE HERE

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12 --- 6pm

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STARTS OCTOBER 16

THE MOST IMPORTANT FILM OF THE YEAR

In secret conversations on the rooftops of Tel Aviv at night, the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza are revealed by the people who designed and operated them.

FROM THE FILMMAKERS: We made this film out of a sense of obligation to use our position as Israeli filmmakers and journalists to examine the systems behind the mass killing of Palestinian civilians for which our country is responsible. While filming members of Israel’s military on rooftops at night in Tel Aviv over the past three years, we found ourselves asking the very questions that were asked by our grandparents’ generation and throughout the 20th century: how does one group of people allow the total dehumanization of another? What do the inner workings of such a system look like? Many of the revelations in the film were published almost immediately as we learned of them, in the months following the October 7th attacks, by The Guardian (one of NAZA’s producers), in collaboration with reporting partners +972 Magazine and Local Call. The film lets us explore something deeper than we could in our investigative journalism alone: not only the words being said but also those that are not said, the silence. It is up to all of us to break that silence.

After the Sunday 10/18 4:30pm showing Chico Palestinian Advocacy Network will host a discussion including Palestinian perspective and insights into the film's impact in Israeli society.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16 --- 7pm

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17 --- 5:15pm and 7:30pm

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18 --- 2pm and 4:30pm

OCTOBER 23 - 25

BEGOTTEN has no characters in the ordinary sense. Its final credits name three principal figures: God Killing Himself. Mother Earth. Son of Earth – Flesh on Bone. The entire film is what those names do to each other and to the earth. God Killing Himself tears open his body and dies. Mother Earth rises from what remains and takes his seed into herself. She gives birth to Son of Earth Flesh on Bone. He is cast into a barren world, seized by the Nomads, tortured, killed, and briefly returned to life by his mother.The Nomads destroy her too. The Robed Figures gather what remains of mother and son, grind their bodies down, and return them to the soil. The ground flowers.

Shot on 16mm and rephotographed frame by frame over four years, BEGOTTEN transforms bodies, landscape, darkness, light and grain into a physical world with its own laws. This new restoration presents the film in the complete photographic form it was always meant to possess. A mindbending exploration of life and death not for the faint of heart. You may find it hard to shake off the artistry and originality of this visionary effort. And if you're looking to be freaked out you shouldn't pass it up, a mandatory pilgrimage for fans of truly weird cinema.

Showtimes TBA