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Derek Jarman’s final film premiered just months before his death from AIDS-related complications which had rendered him partially blind. BLUE, whose title and striking monochrome image were inspired by the flashes of blue caused by the lesions in Jarman’s eyes, is a daring cinematic work that finds the iconoclastic artist laying bare his physical and spiritual state as he poignantly narrates his experience with the virus while also reflecting on his life.
June 15, 3:45 p.m.

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Wes Anderson’s latest film is a dark tale of espionage following a strained father-daughter relationship within a family business. Starring: Benicio del Toro as Zsa-zsa Korda, one of the richest men in Europe; Mia Threapleton as Liesl, his daughter/a nun; Michael Cera as Bjorn, their tutor. With: Riz Ahmed, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Mathieu Amalric, Richard Ayoade, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rupert Friend and Hope Davis.

After surviving a murder attempt, an amnesiac actress (Laura Harring) plays detective with a Hollywood hopeful (Naomi Watts), and the two uncover shady doings in the movie biz, an attraction to one another and the idea that they may just be two characters in someone else’s dream. In many ways the culmination of Lynch’s oeuvre, this surrealistic film noir masterfully revisits his signature themes of identity, desire and dream logic.
June 13, 9:00 p.m.; June 14, 6:40 p.m.; June 15, 5:30 p.m.; June 17, 6:00 p.m.; June 18, 8:15 p.m.; June 19, 11:45 a.m.

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70mm screenings June 13–15 & 19
From Academy Award^®-nominated filmmaker Ryan Coogler — director of BLACK PANTHER and CREED — comes a new vision of fear starring Michael B. Jordan. Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Jordan) return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
70mm screenings June 13–15 & 19; DCP screenings June 17 & 18.

FREE Juneteenth screening!
In 2018, Beyoncé became the first Black woman to headline Coachella, delivering an epic two-hour visual and aural feast. Luckily for anyone who missed this generation-defining moment — and for members of the “Beyhive” wishing to relive its glory — Beyoncé also directed HOMECOMING, an intimate look at the landmark performance from concept to realization, featuring behind-the-scenes excerpts and extended concert footage that demands to be seen on the big screen.
June 19, 11:30 a.m.

This week: Cheryl Dunye’s THE WATERMELON WOMAN, a landmark work of New Queer Cinema, follows a Black lesbian navigating upheavals in her personal life as she struggles to make a documentary about an elusive ‘30s Black film actress; BORN IN FLAMES, a DIY fantasia of female rebellion set in American 10 years after a cultural revolution; and RAFIKI, a tender love story that was initially banned in Kenya for its positive portrayal of queer romance before it won a landmark supreme court case, chipping away at Kenyan anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.

New Restorations
This week: The 50th anniversary of COOLEY HIGH, a deeply felt recollection of adolescent life on Chicago’s Near North Side in 1964 that follows a pair of high school seniors (Glynn Turman and Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs) as they prepare for life post-graduation; Charles Burnett’s landmark film KILLER OF SHEEP, which New York Times critic David Kehr called “one of the finest American films, period”; and Sidney Lumet’s Motown-produced adaptation of THE WIZ, starring Diana Ross, Lena Horne and Richard Pryor.

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The latest film from acclaimed director Alex Ross Perry is an unconventional documentary about a highly unconventional band — the ‘90s American alternative group Pavement — that incorporates elements of a stage musical, rock biopic and gallery exhibition, as well as archival footage and contemporary observational footage, to create a film as irreducible, uncharacterizable, and entertaining as the band and its music.

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Agathe (Camille Rutherford) works at the legendary Shakespeare & Company bookshop in Paris. She dreams of being a successful writer, and of experiencing romance ripped from the pages of a Jane Austen novel, but she finds herself desperately single and plagued by writer's block. When Agathe’s best friend (Pablo Pauly) gets her invited to the Jane Austen Writers’ Residency in England, she finally has her Jane Austen moment…and is caught in a very unexpected romantic triangle.

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In 1960, five Howard students sat down on the gilded horses of a whites-only carousel. When members of the white community near Glen Echo Amusement Park joined the Black students en masse and set up picket lines, an unprecedented collaboration was born. With never-before-seen footage and immersive storytelling from Emmy^®-award winning director Ilana Trachtman, this documentary features four living protesters and voiceover by actors Jeffrey Wright and Mandy Patinkin, among others.

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