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Oscar Nominated – Best Foreign Language Film Directed By Ciro Guerra At once blistering and poetic Embrace of the Serpent centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the…
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Presented in partnership with Hampton Coffee Company Directed by: Rock Baijnauth Five top baristas find themselves pushing the limits of coffee perfection to win the National Barista Championship – a surreal competition where even one mistake is far too many. Come early to enjoy the complimentary Pour-Over Brew Bar in our Gallery Lounge provided by…
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Directed by Matthew Brown
The Man Who Knew Infinity is the true story of friendship that forever changed mathematics. In 1913, Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel), a self-taught Indian mathematics genius, traveled to Trinity College, Cambridge, where over the course of five years, forged a bond with his mentor, the brilliant and eccentric professor, G.H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons), and fought against prejudice to reveal his mathematic genius to the world.
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Directed by Jin Moyoung
“100 – year old Lovebirds” Byong-man Jo and Gye-Yeul Kang have been inseparable companions for the past 76 years. Living in their small home by the river, they wear traditional Korean clothes, go shopping at the local market, have picnics with neighbors, and enjoy dance parties. Every night they go to sleep holding each other’s hands. A blockbuster in its native Korea, the film presents an unforgettable story of true love that transcends both generations and cultures.
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Directed by Stéphane Brizé
An unemployed everyman must submit to a series of quietly humiliating ordeals stripping down his identity and self-respect in his search for work. The film monitors the progress of its stoic protagonist until at last he lands a job on the front line in surveillance and control of his fellow man and finally faces one too many moral dilemmas.
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Directed by Terence Davies
Set in a rural community in the early years of the twentieth century, Sunset Song is driven by the young heroine Chris and her intense passion for life, for the unsettling Ewan and for the unforgiving land. The First World War reaches out from afar, bringing the modern world to bear on the community in the harshest possible way, yet in a final moment of grace, Chris endures, now a woman of remarkable strength in this emotional and deeply romantic film.
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Directed by Morgan Neville
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble follows an ever-changing lineup of performers drawn from the ensemble’s more than 50 instrumentalists, vocalists, composers, arrangers, visual artists and storytellers as they explore the power of music to preserve tradition, shape cultural evolution and inspire hope.
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Directed by Taika Waititi
Raised on hip-hop and foster care, defiant city kid Ricky gets a fresh start in the New Zealand countryside. He quickly finds himself at home with his new foster family: the loving Aunt Bella, the cantankerous Uncle Hec, and dog Tupac.
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Directed by Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
Hank is stranded on a deserted island, having given up all hope of ever making it home again. One day everything changes when a corpse named Manny washes up on shore; the two become fast friends, and ultimately go on an epic adventure that will bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams. A wholly original, enormously…
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Directed by Hirokazu Koreeda
In this story depicting the irreplaceable moments that form a true family, three twenty-something sisters live together in a large old house in the seaside town of Kamakura. When they learn of their estranged father’s death, they decide to travel to the countryside for his funeral…
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Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
In this highly imaginative, delightfully absurdist comedy, Colin Farrell stars as David, a man who has just been dumped by his wife. To make matters worse, David lives in a society where single people have 45 days to find true love, or they are turned into the animal of their choice.
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Directed by Christian Carion
May 1940. To escape the imminent German invasion, the inhabitants of a small village in northern France flee their homes.
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This is your chance to sing-along to the most successful movie musical of all time! Get ready to belt out “My Favorite Things,” “Do-Re-Mi’” and “Edelweiss” with your friends and family. Costumes are encouraged and admission is free.
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Directed by Menachem Daum & Oren Rudavsky
Discovering that his parents’ Holocaust experiences may have distorted his views of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Menachem–the filmmaker and an Orthodox Jew from Brooklyn–sets out to establish a personal relationship with a Palestinian.
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Directed by Hannes Holm
Ove is the quintessential angry old man next door. Enter a boisterous young family next door – an unlikely friendship forms and we come to understand Ove’s past happiness and heartbreaks.
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Directed by Park Chan-wook
This ravishing new crime drama presents a gripping and sensual tale of two women – a young Japanese Lady living on a secluded estate, and a Korean woman who is hired to serve as her new handmaiden. The servant is secretly plotting with a con-man to defraud her mistress of a large inheritance.
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Written and Directed by Barry Jenkins
A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
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Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Clara (Sonia Braga) a 65-year-old widow and retired music critic, is the last resident of the Aquarius, one of the few buildings of its age and character that remains in a rapidly changing seaside Recife neighborhood. Now that the other apartments have been swept up by a company with ambitious plans for redevelopment, pressures to move on surround Clara from all sides. The resulting confrontation is mysterious, tingeing even Clara’s most familiar routines with the tension of a thriller.
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A film by Jaco Van Dormael
God exists, and He’s a jerk. He lives in a high-rise apartment in Brussels and never gets out of His pajamas. Ea, his overshadowed daughter, has had enough of her Father’s abuse. During this comical and witty journey they learn to celebrate life and love, and provide us with Jaco Van Dormael’s dark and eccentric answer to the loaded question: what would you do if you knew exactly how much time you had left to live?
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Directed by Paul Verhoeven
The critically acclaimed actress Isabelle Huppert plays Michèle, a seemingly indestructible head of a large company is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant. Michèle resolutely tracks the man down in a curious and thrilling game of cat and mouse – a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control.
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Written and Directed by Maren Ade
Winfried doesn’t see much of his serious career focused daughter Ines, so when he decides to surprise her with a visit chaos ensues. The father and daughter reach an impasse, and when Winfried agrees to leave, enter the flashy “Toni Erdmann” – Winfried’s smooth-talking alter ego.
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Lights, Camera, Action!
It’s that time of the year again… OSCAR Season! This is your chance to get up to date on a year of Live Action Short Films and see who that little gold man will go to.
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Directed by Asghar Farhadi
Based on Arthur Miller’s classic play Death of a Salesman, this film follows a young couple living in Tehran, who are forced to move into a new apartment after their old flat becomes damaged. Eventually, an incident linked to the previous tenant of their new home dramatically changes the couple’s life.
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Directed by Raoul Peck
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends—Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only thirty completed pages of his manuscript.
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Directed by Kris Avedisian
When Peter (Jesse Wakeman) finally comes home, he finds himself in a bind. He turns to the only person he can think of to help him out – his next door neighbor and former childhood friend Donald (played by Avedisian). The ever-eccentric Donald hasn’t changed a bit, and what starts as a simple favor turns into a long and unhinged van ride into their past.
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Directed by Brett Haley
Lee Haden (Sam Elliott) is a Western icon with a golden voice, but his best performances are decades behind him. He spends his days reliving old glories and smoking too much weed with his former co-star until a surprise diagnosis brings his priorities into focus. We follow Haden on his journey for one final role to cement his legacy.
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Directed by Dominique Abel & Fiona Gordon
When Fiona’s orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her 88-year-old Aunt Martha (delightfully portrayed by Academy Award®-nominee Emmanuelle Riva) who is living in Paris, Fiona hops on the first plane she can and arrives only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an avalanche of spectacular disasters, she encounters Dom, the affable but annoying tramp who just won’t leave her alone.
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Directed by Miguel Arteta
Beatriz (Salma Hayek), an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a spiritual health practitioner in Los Angeles. Doug Strutt (John Lithgow) is a cutthroat, self-satisfied billionaire real estate developer. When these two opposites meet at a dinner party their worlds collide and neither will ever be the same.
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Directed by Aisling Walsh
Follow the unlikely romance between crippled housekeeper turned folk artist Maud Lewis (Sally Hawkins) and Everett Lewis (Ethan Hawke), a hardened, reclusive bachelor. Based on a true story.
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Directed by Martin Provost
Two of French cinema’s biggest stars shine in this bittersweet drama about the unlikely friendship that develops between Claire (Catherine Frot), a talented but tightly wound midwife, and Béatrice (Catherine Deneuve), the estranged, free-spirited mistress of Claire’s late father.
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Directed by Kirsten Tan
On a chance encounter, a disenchanted architect bumps into his long-lost elephant on the streets of Bangkok. Excited, he takes his elephant on a journey across Thailand, in search of the farm where they grew up together – only to discover the truth about himself.
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Directed by Nicole Garcia
Based on the international best-selling novel and starring Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard, From the Land of the Moon is the story of a free-spirited woman fighting for passionate dreams of true love against all odds.
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Directed by Roger Sherman
In Search of Israeli Cuisine is a portrait of the Israeli people told through food. Profiling chefs, home cooks, farmers, vintners, and cheese makers drawn from the more than 100 cultures that make up Israel today – Jewish, Arab, Muslim, Christian, Druze a rich, complex and human story emerges. Through scenes that are mostly cinema verité— interviews, farms, markets, restaurants, kitchens, landscapes, and history—audiences will discover that this hot, multi-cultural cuisine has developed only in the last 30 years.
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Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton
Oscar winner Brie Larson bring Jeannette Walls’s best-selling memoir to life as a young women who, influenced by the joyfully wild nature of her deeply dysfunctional father (Woody Harrelson), found the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
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Andrew Botsford of Quogue will once again introduce our summer films each Tuesday night and discuss them afterwards with guest commentators, followed by an informal audience discussion.
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