Twin Peaks: Season 1 – Episodes 3 – 5
The ByTowne Cinema invites you to a small town, where the burning question on everyone’s lips is: “Who killed Laura Palmer?” Bi-weekly, we will be screening episodes of the iconic series created by the visionary minds of David Lynch and Mark Frost. The story continues with season 1 episode 3-5. “Twin Peaks” (1990) follows FBI […]
The President’s Cake
Golden Camera for Best First Feature at Cannes 2025 & Shortlisted for the Best International Feature Film Oscar Set against the backdrop of 1990s Iraq, where war and food shortages are everyday struggles, a president demands that every school prepare a cake for his birthday. Nine-year-old Lamia, selected from her classmates, must navigate challenges to […]
Spectacle: Days of Heaven
One of the most critically acclaimed films of all time. Days Of Heaven is a moving story about two men who love the same woman. Richard Gere, a fugitive from the slums of Chicago, finds himself pitted against a shy, rich Texan (Sam Shepard) for the love of Abby (Brooke Adams). Writer/director Malick’s first film […]
L’Étranger
“L’Étranger”, based on Albert Camus’s 1942 novella “The Stranger”, frames the arbitrary killing of an Arab by a French colonial in Algiers as an act of existential alienation. Meursault, a quiet and unassuming employee in his early thirties, attends his mother’s funeral without shedding a tear. The next day, he begins a casual affair with Marie, […]
