BULLHEAD

Opens February 24th

Oscar Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.

Perhaps the year’s most stunning international debut, Michael R. Roskam’s BULLHEAD is a harrowing tale of revenge, redemption and fate. Domineering cattle farmer Jacky Vanmarsenille (Mattias Schoenaerts in a ferocious breakout performance), constantly pumped on steroids and hormones, initiates a shady deal with a notorious mafioso meat trader. When an investigating federal agent is assassinated and a woman from his traumatic past resurfaces, Jacky must confront his demons and face the far-reaching consequences of his decisions. Acclaimed at festivals worldwide including the Berlin Film Festival, AFI Fest and Fantastic Fest, the award-winning BULLHEAD is visceral thriller bursting with rage that TwitchFilm calls “one of the most original crime films in recent memory.”

126 min. • R • Dir. Michael R. Roskam

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RAMPART

Opens February 24th

At the heart of Oren Moverman’s RAMPART is a riveting parable about what happens to a man who refuses to change, even when change is the only thing that can save him. That man is Dave Brown, played by two-time Academy Award® nominee Woody Harrelson. Though the film is set in the 1990s, when scandal rocked the LAPD’s Rampart division, the film hones in on a single fictional cop: Dave Brown, a man who has taken the “no guts, no glory” American mythos to heart, without questioning what it is doing to him and those he holds dear. He is a cop whose personal life is propelled into a dizzying downward spiral when he comes under suspicion for roughing up a suspect. More than just a police officer who plays things fast and loose, Brown exposes the inner workings of a certain type of personality everyone recognizes around them, a personality very much part of American culture, yet not often examined. He is the kind of man inexorably drawn to authority and power, yet seems destined to abuse it; a man who has dreams of being a great masculine hero, yet is beholden to women; who has undeniable charm, yet whose stubborn refusal to take responsibility for his actions becomes a destructive force against family, community and ultimately himself.

108 min. • R • Dir. Oren Moverman

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THE PRUITT-IGOE MYTH

Opens March 9th

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth tells the story of the wholesale changes that took place in the American city in the decades after World War II, through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing development in St. Louis.At the film’s historical center is an analysis of the massive impact of the 1949 Housing Act, which built Pruitt-Igoe and other high-rise public housing of the Fifties and Sixties.  This critical piece of legislation also initiated the so-called urban renewal program and prompted the process of mass suburbanization, which emptied American cities of their residents, business and industry. Those that were left behind faced a destitute, rapidly de-industrializing St. Louis, parceled out to downtown interests and increasingly segregated by class and race.  The residents of Pruitt-Igoe were among the hardest-hit.  Their gripping stories of survival, adaptation and success are at the emotional heart of the film.  The domestic turmoil wrought by punitive public welfare policies, the frustrating interactions with a paternalistic and cashstrapped Housing Authority, and the downward spiral of vacancy, vandalism and crime, led to resident protest and action during the 1969 Rent Strike, the first in the history of public housing. And yet, despite this complex history, Pruitt-Igoe has often been stereotyped, with help from a world-famous image of its implosion, and used as an argument against Modernist architecture or public assistance programs.  The Pruitt-Igoe Myth seeks to set the historical record straight, to examine the interests in Pruitt-Igoe’s creation, to re-evaluate the rumors and the stigma, to implode the myth.

83 min. • Not Rated • Dir. Chad Freidrichs

**Advance tickets will be available online and at the box office beginning March 6th**

OPERA IN CINEMA: CENDRILLON (CINDERELLA)

Special Screenings: Sunday, March 11th at 11am & Tuesday, March 13th at 7pm

For the first time ever, The Royal Opera presents the story of Cinderella as told in Massenet’s opera Cendrillon. Joyce DiDonato stars in the virtuosic titular role, with mezzo-soprano Alice Coote in the trouser role of Prince Charming. Dazzling runs and sparkling coloratura shimmer throughout the evening, with French music specialist Bertrand de Billy at the podium.

170 min. with intermission • Music by Jules Massenet • Sung in French with English Subtitles

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THE TURIN HORSE

Opens March 16th

On January 3, 1889 in Turin, Italy, Friedrich Nietzsche steps out of the doorway of number six, Via Carlo Albert. Not far from him, a cab driver is having trouble with a stubborn horse. The horse refuses to move, whereupon the driver loses his patience and takes his whip to it. Nietzsche puts an end to the brutal scene, throwing his arms around the horse’s neck, sobbing. After this, he lies motionless and silent for two days on a divan until he mutters the obligatory last words, and lives for another ten years, silent and demented, cared for by his mother and sisters. Somewhere in the countryside, the cab driver lives with his daughter and the overworked horse. Outside, a windstorm rages. The horse refuses to move, and the man and his daughter struggle through their daily schedule. Food and water grow scarce. Beggars and gypsies come to their door. The horse stops eating. Slowly, the apocalypse approaches.Immaculately photographed in Tarr’s renowned long takes, THE TURIN HORSE is the final statement from a master filmmaker.

146 min. • Not Rated • Dir. Bela Tarr • Hungarian with English Subtitles

**Advance tickets will be available online and at the box office beginning March 6th**

BALLET IN CINEMA: LE CORSAIRE

Special Screenings: Sunday, March 18th at 11am & Tuesday, March 20th at 7pm

In the Bolshoi Ballet’s new staging of Le Corsaire, Petipa’s original choreography is revived and refreshed by Alexei Ratmansky and Yuri Burlaka to breathe new life into this production. The ballet follows Medora, a young Greek girl, and Conrad, a dashing pirate, as they journey through a tapestry of dramatic events, culminating in a shipwreck considered to be one of ballet’s most dazzling spectacles.

215 min. with intermissions • Music by Jules Henri de Saint-Georges & Jospeh Mazilier • Choreography by Marius Petipa

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OPERA IN CINEMA: LA BOHEME

Special Screenings: Sunday, March 25th at 11am & Tuesday, March 27th at 7pm

A warm coat, a glowing fire, a true friend, a lover’s kiss – La Boheme is the most romantic opera ever written. Puccini’s beloved melodies perfectly convey the heartbreak and passion of young, poor, Parisian artists falling in love. Let La Boheme break your heart for the hundredth time, or the very first time, in this intimate and moving production from the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona. Starring Fiorenza Cedolins as Mimi, Christopher Maltman as Marcello and Ramon Vargas as Rodolfo.

170 min. with intermissions • Music by Giacomo Puccini • Sung in Italian with English Subtitles

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BALLET IN CINEMA: ROMEO & JULIET

Special Screenings: Sunday, April 1st at 11am & Tuesday, April 3rd at 7pm

With Romeo and Juliet, Kenneth MacMillan’s first full-length work for The Royal Ballet, both he and the Company struck artistic gold. The timeless story, best known from Shakespeare, matched to the fine score by Prokofiev provided the starting point for what has become a 20th- century ballet classic: an international calling card for the choreographer and a signature work of The Royal Ballet. Starring Lauren Cuthbertson.

180 min. with intermissions • Music by Sergey Prokofiev • Choreography by Kenneth MacMillan

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OPERA IN CINEMA: AIDA

Special Screenings: Sunday, April 8th at 11am & Tuesday, April 10th at 7pm

Tragic, passionate, and extravagant, Verdi’s Aida is catapulted to new levels of drama in this dazzling staging from the Bregenz Festival. Singers and scenery alike are floating – not only on waves of beautiful music, but in the middle of Austria’s Lake Constance! Experience grand opera like never before in this unconventional and brilliantly sung production.

131 min. with intermission • Music by Giuseppe Verdi • Sung in Italian with English Subtitles

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OPERA IN CINEMA: RIGOLETTO

Special Screenings: Sunday, April 22nd at 11am & Tuesday, April 24th at 7pm

A classic of opera, Verdi‘s famous score is loved for its melody and its drama. David McVicar‘s immensely popular production, in period costume, brings the 15th-century court of Mantua alive: its womanizing Duke, the court jester Rigoletto bent on revenge and his daughter, Gilda, who the Duke loves but still destroys. A celebrated score of familiar music conducted by John Eliot Gardiner, and a drama of the passions of love and hate. LIVE from the Royal Opera House.

129 min. with intermission • Music by Giuseppe Verdi • Sung in Italian with English Subtitles

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BALLET IN CINEMA: THE BRIGHT STREAM

Special Screenings: Sunday, May 6th at 11am & Tuesday, May 8th at 7pm

A laugh-out-loud comical ballet in two acts, The Bright Stream celebrates the maddening, baffling disillusion of love with both hilarious deceptions and joyful resolutions. The libretto, by Adrian Piotrovsky and Fyodor Lopukhov, tells the story of the members of a Russian farm collective in the 1930's and their humorous interactions with a group of visiting performers during the harvest festival. Known for his precise characterization in movement, Ratmansky uses Shostakovich’s robust folk music to tell this zany tale, broadcast from the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow.

125 min. with intermission • Music by Dmitry Shostakovitch • Choreography by Alexei Ratmansky

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