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OPENS FRIDAY, MARCH 8

NEVER LOOK AWAY

Drama/History/Thriller – 2018 – Germany/Italy – 188 Minutes – Sony Pictures Classics – In German & Russian with English Subtitles – Rated R

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A sweeping romantic historical drama, NEVER LOOK AWAY follows thirty years in the life of a great artist – loosely based on Gerhard Richter, one of the 20th century’s most admired visual artists – played by Tom Schilling (Woman in Gold, Generation War). The film goes from a childhood witnessing Nazi Germany, to post-war East Berlin, where he falls in love with a young woman (Paula Beer, Frantz, The Dark Valley, Transit) whose father is an ex-Nazi murderer in hiding (Sebastian Koch, The Lives of Others, Homeland, Blackbook), to escaping to the West at the time of the Berlin Wall, and ultimately being part of the exciting new movement in contemporary art.

Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Starring Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer

Academy Award Nominee: Best Foreign Language Film and Best Cinematography

An epic, intergenerational tale of art, love, tragedy and politics spanning three turbulent decades of 20th-century German history. – Variety

Gorgeous, engaging drama that takes its painter hero from Nazi-era youngster through the Cold War years and goes even deeper into the complexities of art and creativity than into Germany’s troubled past. – Film Journal International

Admirably restrained, this is nonetheless a historical drama on an expansive canvas that, even though it runs over three hours, is always engaging. – Hollywood Reporter

A powerful, enthralling and sweeping saga with breathtaking cinematography and stellar, charismatic performances by Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch and Paula Beer. – NYC Movie Guru

An epic masterwork that bears witness to 3 decades of totalitarian rule in Germany and its effects on art and love and family bonds. – Big Apple Reviews

OPENS FRIDAY, MARCH 8

Dan Savage’s HUMP! FILM FESTIVAL 2019

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The HUMP! Film Festival has been bringing audiences a new kind of porn since 2005. The festival features short dirty movies—each less than five minutes—all created by people who aren’t porn stars but want to be one for a weekend. The filmmakers and stars show us what they think is hot and sexy, creative and kinky, their ultimate turn-ons and their craziest fantasies. Our carefully curated program is a cornucopia of body types, shapes, ages, colors, sexualities, genders, kinks, and fetishes—all united by a shared spirit of sex-positivity. HUMP! is a celebration of creative sexual expression. You will see films at HUMP! that shock you. You will see films at HUMP! that make you laugh. And you will see films at HUMP! that turn you on. You will also be touched by the sincerity and vulnerability with which these films are lovingly made. HUMP!’s main mission is to change the way America sees—and makes and shares—porn. Visit www.humpfilmfest.com for more information.

Tickets can only be purchased though HUMP! Click HERE to purchase tickets.

Wednesday, March 13 at 8:00 pm

Thursday, March 14 – Saturday, March 16 at 7:00 pm & 9:15 pm

OPENS FRIDAY, MARCH 15

BIRDS OF PASSAGE

Drama – 2019 – Colombia – 125 Minutes – The Orchard – In Spanish with English Subtitles – Unrated

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From the Oscar-nominated team behind the genre-defying Embrace of the Serpent, comes an equally audacious saga centered on the Wayúu indigenous people during a crucial period in recent Colombian history. Torn between his desire to become a powerful man and his duty to uphold his culture’s values, Rapayet (José Acosta) enters the drug trafficking business in the 1970s and finds quick success despite his tribe’s matriarch Ursula’s (Carmiña Martínez) disapproval. Ignoring ancient omens, Rapayet and his family get caught up in a conflict where honor is the highest currency and debts are paid with blood. A sprawling epic about the erosion of tradition in pursuit of material wealth, Birds of Passage is a visually striking exploration of loyalty, greed, and the voracious nature of change.

Directed by Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra

Starring José Acosta, Natalia Reyes, Carmiña Martínez, John Narváez, Greider Meza, José Vicente Cote, Juan Bautista Martínez, Miguel Viera, Sergio Coen

A beautifully crafted, slow-burn crime saga steeped in native traditions. – Hollywood Reporter

A visually stunning and often surprising true story that charts the rise of the Colombian drug business back before Escobar from its unexpected roots, among an indigenous clan in way over their heads… Few films have captured quite so powerfully the tension between the old and new worlds — a feat Birds of Passage accomplishes while simultaneously allowing audiences to channel the Wayuu’s surrealistic view of their surroundings, where spirits walk the earth, and wise women interpret their dreams. – Variety

You feel for these fathers, mothers and children as they endure their mythic rise and fall, but the ruthless, eternal cycle of violence begetting violence leaves no room for sentimentality. – Los Angeles Times

Guerra and Gallego’s film is no dusty period piece, it is wildly alive, yet it reminds us that no matter how modern we are, there are ancient songs our forebears knew whose melodies still rush in our blood. We are not creatures of one era or another or of one place or another, we are only ever birds of passage between our mythic pasts and our unwritten futures, being tossed around by the wind. – The Playlist

Birds of Passage is an enthralling, powerful statement and lamentation on the drugs trade’s inevitable encroachment upon on indigenous peoples and how gangsters casually destroyed them. – CineVue

The impact of modern vice upon the Wayuu is a captivating tale never told before, and the final few minutes are brutal in the best possible way. – Globe and Mail

As effectively violent and entertaining as Birds may be, there is a real current of bitterness and tragedy running through it. That bitterness speaks not of the physical colonization we saw with the conquistadors and rubber barons of Serpent, but more of a sort of colonization of ideas. – The Film Stage

Notwithstanding the bleak trajectory down which any film about blood feuds must spiral, this is an engrossing narco-thriller which deftly balances the storytelling tradition of the Wayuu with the genre conventions of the crime movie and the western . – Screen International

This is a story about power, but it’s also a story about place. More than that, you’ve really got to see it to believe it. – The Wrap

OPENS FRIDAY, MARCH 15

The New York Times Review: An Epic Narco Tale That Will Open Your Eyes

OPENS FRIDAY, MARCH 22

GLORIA BELL

Drama/Romance – 2019 – USA/Chile – 102 Minutes – A24 Films – Rated R

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Gloria (Julianne Moore) is a free-spirited divorcée who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. After meeting Arnold (John Turturro) on a night out, she finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love and the complications of dating, identity and family. From Academy Award-winning writer/director Sebastián Lelio (A Fantastic Woman, Gloria, Disobedience). Starring Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Michael Cera, Caren Pistorius, Brad Garrett, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Rita Wilson, Sean Astin, and Holland Taylor.

Moore’s compassionate performance confirms the strength of the original and its beloved heroine’s universal appeal. More than that, Gloria Bell proves that the best stories can be told endlessly, so long as they’re told well. – IndieWire

Gloria Bell pairs perhaps the best portrayer of troubled or lost women with a director who has built a career building stories around them, and the result is a film that comfortably banishes any fears of some neutered US remake. – The Guardian

It’s a remarkably enjoyable movie, downright cathartic in its presentation of a three-dimensional character. – RogerEbert.com

Lelio weaves some casual visual poetry into the film, bursts of color and motion that briefly hint at something surreal just on this film’s margins. He mostly relies on Moore, though. With good reason! – Vanity Fair

Moore’s performance means that we are with Gloria every step of the way, sharing in the little victories and the jolting setbacks. – Screen International

OPENS FRIDAY, MARCH 22