A once-beloved Third Reich–era starlet, Veronika Voss (Rosel Zech) lives in obscurity in postwar Munich. Struggling for survival and haunted by past glories, she encounters sportswriter Robert Krohn (Hilmar Thate) in a rain-swept park and intrigues him with her mysterious beauty. As their unlikely relationship develops, Robert comes to discover the dark secrets that brought about the decline of Veronika’s career. Based on the true story of a World War II Ufa star, filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s penultimate film of his legendary career, VERONIKA VOSS is wicked satire disguised as a 1950s melodrama.
BLADE RUNNER: The Final Cut
Ridley Scott
117 minutes
1982
English
Friday March 29
4:15pm
Saturday March 30
8pm
Sunday March 31
4:15pm
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Visually spectacular, intensely action-packed and powerfully prophetic, Ridley Scott’s definitive Final Cut of his sci-fi classic BLADE RUNNER is one of the most influential and achingly beautiful films of all time. A dazzling fusion of retro-noir and futuristic paranoia, the film is set in a decaying Los Angeles and follows a government-sanctioned killer (Harrison Ford) as he hunts down Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) and his rogue band of genetically engineered replicants and is drawn to a mystery woman whose secrets may undermine his soul. Based on Phillip K Dick’s cult novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
THEY SHOT THE PIANO PLAYER
Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal
103 minutes
2023
English
Sunday March 31
7pm
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Special Event Screening! One Night Only!
A New York music journalist (voiced by Jeff Goldblum) goes on a quest to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of young Brazilian piano virtuoso Tenorio Jr. A celebratory origin story of the world-renowned Latino musical movement Bossa Nova, THEY SHOT THE PIANO PLAYER captures a fleeting time bursting with creative freedom at a turning point in Latin American history in the 60s and 70s, just before the continent was engulfed by totalitarian regimes. Animated in visually exuberant playful riot of colors, THEY SHOT THE PIANO PLAYER is a mystery story, history and celebration of a rich musical era, told through the words of some of its leading musicians.
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