Presented by City Cinema and The Benevolent Irish Society. Dir: Alan Parker, US, 2000, 145 min. Robert Carlyle, Emily Watson, Kerry Condon. An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.

This live concert performance will transform the City Cinema theatre into an intimate listening room. Bassist Adam Hill will lead an ensemble of five musicians in an exploration of improvisational music that crosses genre and style. The group will feature Roy Johnstone on fiddle, Caedda Enright on harp, Luisa Güiza on vocals, and Matt Bridges on drums. The program will present the premiere performance of a new composition by each member of the ensemble, as well as a few not-so-standards. Through the use of “structured improvisation” the performers will bring their diverse musical experiences together to create a common language that communicates across boundaries. Guaranteed to be a one-of-a-kind musical event.

Dir: Edward Berger, US, 2024. Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow. Based on Robert Harris 2016 novel 'Conclave' In English and Italian with English subtitles. “Conclave begins with Cardinal Thomas Lawrence rushing to the dying pope’s bedside. The cardinal’s panicked breathing echoes through the Vatican as he rushes through the darkened halls, and it’s a solemn opening to a film burdened with heavy questions about faith and ambition… As the dean of the College of Cardinals, it falls on Lawrence to put together a gathering within the Sistine Chapel of cardinals from around the world to vote on which of them will become the new pope… During the voting process, the cardinals have to be sequestered away from the world to ensure that no outside influences can affect their decision-making. It’s a cunning setup for a simmering locked-room thriller, trapping these men and their secrets in a single location that becomes more tense with each new round of voting. And it helps that the cardinals, though pious men of God, behave like jealous high schoolers vying to become class president, dividing themselves into canteen cliques and gossiping incessantly about their rivals... Watching the candidates rise and fall over the course of the election makes for a compelling spectacle, and Conclave has a knack for adding another wrinkle to the race at just the right time to maintain the suspense.” - Ross McIndoe, Slant Magazine

Dir: Milos Forman, US, 1975. Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd. 1976 Academy Award Winner for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Director, and Screenplay. “R.P. McMurphy, a convict who has himself transferred to a state mental institution by feigning insanity, draws a frighteningly persuasive portrait of a preeminently sane man being pushed to the outer limits of his sanity by the need to conform to hospital rules and regulations, as enunciated by Nurse Ratched... On his ward, McMurphy becomes a leader, pushing the mentally and physically disabled to rediscover their potential, testing hospital regulations to their limits, finding ways (generally extralegal) to break through the shuffling apathy of his ward-mates. And always, these adventures bring him up against the rigid, humorless, enormously efficient Nurse Ratched… On the surface, she is the model nurse, using her authority with a skill and impartiality that make her, in the words of the head of the hospital, ‘the best nurse we have.’ That she is also, in her daily encounter sessions, destroying the men on her ward is wholly beside the point.” — Arthur Knight, The Hollywood Reporter “An all but flawless film. It is a movie of numbing power with a raw humor that induces laughter made shrill by an undercurrent of despair.” - Desmond Ryan, The Philadelphia Enquirer

Dir: Tim Mielants, Ireland, 2024. Cillian Murphy, Emily Watson, Eileen Walsh. “The setting for Small Things Like These is the quiet town of New Ross in County Wexford, Ireland, and the year is 1985… We get the feeling this place has changed little through the decades; no doubt those omnipresent church bells have been ringing for a very long time… Bill Furlong is a taciturn and exceedingly decent family man who runs a coal and fuel business… On a regular stop to the Good Shepherd Convent, Bill witnesses a devastating scene: a teenage girl pleading and begging with her mother to not leave her at this place, to not force her to go inside with the nuns, to no avail. The mid-1980s setting is key here, as we are still a few years away from the closing of the notorious “Magdalene Laundries,” sometimes known as the Magdalene Asylums, where tens of thousands of “fallen young women” were sent for so-called “penance and rehabilitation.” The whole town knows of the suffering endured by these girls behind the closed walls of the convent, but little is said, and nothing is ever done about it. When Bill finds a freezing and distraught young mother named Sarah in a coal shed and she pleads for his help in escaping the convent, Bill is faced with an existential crisis… With Cillian Murphy’s quiet, almost small and yet grand performance carrying the story every step of the way, Small Things Like These is quite possibly the best movie I’ve seen so far this year.” - Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times

Presented by Atlantic Movies. Dir: MC Jithin, India, 2024. Basil Joseph, Nazriya Nazim. In Malayalam with English subtitles. Manual moves back to his childhood home with his mother, secretly planning a crime. His observant neighbor, Priyadarshini, grows suspicious of him. Using her clairvoyant abilities and help from friends, she investigates and uncovers his crime.