The Friend
Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s inspiring adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s acclaimed National Book Award-winning novel is a remarkable contemporary American film—humane, philosophical, and curious—yet never detached in its exploration of loss, grief, and resilience. Iris (Naomi Watts) has had a long and complicated friendship with Walter (Bill Murray). Walter is an irresistible charmer, a brilliant […]
No Other Land
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight. “No Other Land” is an unflinching account of a community’s mass expulsion and acts as a creative resistance to […]
Detour: The Elephant Man
We continue our tribute to the great David Lynch with this rare screening of his poignant second feature, a film that showcases his atmospheric visual style and applies it to a notorious true story set in Victorian England. When the London surgeon Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) meets the freak-show performer John Merrick (John Hurt), who […]
