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USA, 1968, Jules Dassin
Set against the backdrop of a community mourning the recent MLK assassination, Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own. Adapted from Liam O’Flaherty’s The Informer, Dassin moved the action from Dublin to Cleveland. UPTIGHT was shot on location in the Hough neighborhood. Anxious about its subject matter, the FBI closely monitored the making of the film. “Uptight is predicated on conflicts between Black and white, integrationists and separatists, the Old Left and the New. A pure product of its moment, the film manifests American social tumult and Hollywood’s confusion” –J. Hoberman, Tablet. 104 min, plus discussion.
Two by Jules Dassin. Post-film discussion with Robert Banks and Dennis Barrie.
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India, 1970, Satyajit Ray
Adapted from Sunil Gangopadhyay’s celebrated 1968 novel, DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST is one of director Satyajit Ray’s greatest achievements, a modern search for connection that conjures the timeless resonance of a folktale. Desperate to flee Calcutta’s rat race, four friends drive to Palamu, one of India’s rural "tribal lands," where they bribe a watchman into letting them stay at a sylvan guesthouse. Despite vowing to get away from it all, the crew soon mixes with the locals, including a woodland family. Filled with some of Ray’s most indelible characterizations and lavish images (shot by longtime cinematographer Soumendu Roy), the film touches on masculine vulnerabilities and Indian class divisions with the graceful complexity of a master at his peak. 115 min.
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Saturday 6:45 pm & Sunday 2:00 pm
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USA, 1990, Barbara Kopple
Winner of the 1991 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Barbara Kopple’s AMERICAN DREAM unflinchingly details the explosive 1985–86 labor strike against Hormel Foods in Austin, Minnesota, a city ripped apart in the tumult. Fed up with dangerous plant conditions and drastic wage cuts, Austin’s Local P-9 went against the advice of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and, with the help of labor activist Ray Rogers’s campaign to damage the meatpacking giant’s public reputation, conducted a nearly yearlong walkout. But as the strike dragged on, some workers found themselves desperate to make ends meet and ready to cross the picket line, dividing a community already betrayed by a once progressive company and roiled by blockades, riots, and the intervention of the National Guard. Following up her landmark documentary Harlan County USA with another engrossing report from the trenches of working-class America, Kopple poignantly captures the human and political costs of one of the most significant setbacks to organized labor amid the unchecked corporatism of the Reaganomics era. An International Worker's Day screening. 98 min.
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Friday 6:45 pm
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Tajikistan/United Arab Emirates, 2025, Shahram Mokri
BLACK RABBIT, WHITE RABBIT, the latest film from Iranian master Shahram Mokri (Fish & Cat), is another mysterious M.C. Escher-like meditation on reality and illusion, doubles and doppelgängers and uncanny synchronicities, involving stories-within-stories set during production of a film by a director named "Shahram" – already blurring the lines between film and reality. On the film set, we meet armorer Babak (Babak Karimi). This production marks his 40th, and he’s paranoid he won’t get through the day without a terrible accident (his mentor was killed in an explosion on his own 40th film.) Meanwhile, Sara (Hasti Mohammaï) is kept as a prisoner inside her house by her husband while she recovers from a near-fatal car accident. Slowly, fantastical elements begin to bleed through, like waking dreams intruding on the conscious world. Tajikistan's submission for the 98th Academy Awards. 139 min.
Cleveland premiere.
Thursday 8:50 pm & Sunday 6:10 pm
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| | DEAF CROCODILE, ANIMATED: GWEN AND THE BOOK OF SAND & THE BUBBLE BATH
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Gwen and The Book of Sand (1985): "Why search the sand for answers? It has told us everything," whispers Roseline, the 173-year-old desert nomad narrator of Jean-François Laguionie’s unforgettable animated tale of life after the apocalypse, where hardy few survivors walk on stilts from well to well, scorpions glow like lanterns and the mysterious Makou drops giant everyday objects – forks, eyeglasses, bathtubs – from the skies. In this surreal and Dune-esque post-post-modern landscape, our teen heroine Gwen refuses to stay silent and hide in the shadows.
The Bubble Bath (1980): Touching on a wide range of styles from 1920s Art Deco to 1960s Psychedelia and 1970s Roxy Music-style decadence, György Kovásznai's film is a hypercolored yet relatable Eastern European avant-garde opera about dating problems. This irresistible experience charts the romance between medical student Anikó (a more curvaceous post-modern Betty Boop) and shop window decorator/stoned hippie alleycat Zsolt: both unsure of their attraction to each other, the choices they’ve made, and what life has in store for them. Program total 146 min.
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Brazil/Mexico/Chile/Netherlands, 2025, Gabriel Mascaro
In the name of economic recovery, the Brazilian Government created a perennial system of compulsory vertical isolation for seniors over 80 to be confined in a colony. Teca is 77 and lives in the village of Muriti, in the Amazon, when she is surprised by the announcement of the age reduction, including her age group. Cornered, Teca makes an intriguing journey hidden from the officers amidst rivers, boats and the underworld to clandestinely try to fulfill her last dream, to take a plane ride. THE BLUE TRAIL was winner of the Silver Bear winner at Berlinale. 86 min.
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Thu., Apr. 30, 6:15 pm
UPTIGHT
Post-film discussion with Dennis Barrie and Robert Banks
$12/$9
Thu., Apr. 30, 8:50 pm
Sun., May 3, 6:10 pm
BLACK RABBIT, WHITE RABBIT
$12/$9
Fri., May 1, 6:45 pm
AMERICAN DREAM
New 4K Restoration
Film Club discussion
$12/$9
Fri., May 1, 8:45 pm
Sat., May 2, 4:00 pm
DEAF CROCODILE, ANIMATED: GWEN AND THE BOOK OF SAND & THE BUBBLE BATH
New Digital Restoration
$12/$9
Sat., May 2, 6:45 pm
Sun., May 3, 2:00 pm
DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST
New 4K Restoration
$12/$9
Sat., May 2, 9:05 pm
Sun., May 3, 4:20 pm
THE BLUE TRAIL
$12/$9
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Next Week
BUSHIDO
THE TASTE OF TEA
OMAHA
Kiyoshi Kurosawa Double Feature: CHIME & CURE
JIMMY & THE DEMONS
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