CHELSEA CLASSICS - CINEMA ICONS: CATHERINE O'HARA (1954 - 2026) A MIGHTY WIND (Christopher Guest, 2003, 91min, United States, PG-13) SATURDAY, 8/1 @ 4:30PM + WEDNESDAY, 8/5 @ 7PM Mockumentary captures the reunion of 1960s folk trio the Folksmen as they prepare for a show at The Town Hall to memorialize a recently deceased concert promoter. When folk icon Irving Steinbloom passed away, he left behind a legacy of music and a family of performers he has shepherded to folk stardom. To celebrate a life spent submerged in folk, Irving's loving son Jonathan has decided to put together a memorial concert featuring some of Steinbloom's best-loved musicians. There's Mitch and Mickey, who were the epitome of young love until their partnership was torn apart by heartbreak; classic troubadours The Folksmen, whose records were endlessly entertaining for anyone able to punch a hole in the center to play them; and The New Main Street Singers, the most meticulously color-coordinated neuftet ever to hit an amusement park. Now for one night only in New York City's Town Hall, these three groups will reunite and gather together to celebrate the music that almost made them famous.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - "PRESS TO POWER" The historical events depicted in THE POST lead directly into the events in ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN. ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (Alan J. Pakula, 1976, 138min, United States, PG) SUNDAY, 9/6 @ 10:30AM & 4:30PM + THURSDAY, 9/10 @ 7PM Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star as newsmen Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward in Pakula’s riveting retelling of the startling series of true events whereby the assignment of two Washington Post reporters to investigate the suspiciously urgent Republican response to what appears to be just an amateurish break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters at the Watergate Hotel would lead to the toppling of a president. The process of investigative journalism rendered as high drama, its unerring eye for realistic detail extending to a scrupulous reproduction of the Post’s newsroom floor."

CHELSEA CLASSICS - FREDERICK WISEMAN (1930 - 2026) BALLET (Frederick Wiseman, 1995, 170min, United States, NR) Saturday, 7/11, Sunday, 7/12, Wednesday, 7/15, Thursday, 7/16 (All shows at 10AM) + Monday, 7/13 @ 4:00PM BALLET is a profile of the American Ballet Theatre, an important classical ballet company. The film presents the company in rehearsal in their New York studio and on tour in Athens and Copenhagen. Choreographers, ballet masters and mistresses are shown at work with principal dancers, soloists and the corps de ballet. Other sequences involve the administration and fundraising aspects of the company.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - ANNIVERSARIES BIG NIGHT (Campbell Scott/Stanley Tucci, 1996, 109min, United States, R) SATURDAY, 8/22 @ 10:30AM & 4:30PM + WEDNESDAY, 8/26 @ 7PM Primo and Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save their struggling restaurant. In a restaurant run by two Italian immigrants, the tables sit empty despite the extraordinary talents of Primo the chef (Tony Shalhoub, "Monk") and the ambitious efforts of his brother Secondo (Stanley Tucci, The Devil Wears Prada). A celebrity night at their restaurant promises not only to turn their business around but to change their lives. It's a five-course gourmet experience filled with rich, delicious characters including the marriage-minded girlfriend (Oscar* Nominee* Minnie Driver), the seductive mistress (Isabella Rossellini) and the successful rival (Oscar* Nominee** Ian Holm). From the first bite to the last, this critically-acclaimed movie dishes up an irresistible evening of scrumptious entertainment.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - ART HOUSE SPECIAL SCREENINGS BLACK GIRL (Ousmane Sembène, 1966, 65min, Senegal/France, NR) SUNDAY, 7/26 @ 10:30AM & 4:30PM + WEDNESDAY, 7/29 @ 7PM Ousmane Sembène, one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived and the most internationally renowned African director of the twentieth century, made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring Black Girl (La noire de . . .). Sembène, who was also an acclaimed novelist in his native Senegal, transforms a deceptively simple plot—about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white couple and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a figurative and literal prison—into a complex, layered critique on the lingering colonialist mindset of a supposedly postcolonial world. Featuring a moving central performance by Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Black Girl is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement—and one of the essential films of the 1960s.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - CINEMA ICONS: ROBERT REDFORD (1936 - 2025) BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (George Roy Hill, 1969, 110min, United States, PG) SUNDAY, 6/21 @ 10:00AM & 4:30PM + THURSDAY, 6/25 @ 7PM Paul Newman and Robert Redford set the standard for the "buddy film" with this box office smash set in the Old West. The Sundance Kid (Redford) is the frontier's fastest gun. His sidekick, Butch Cassidy (Newman), is always dreaming up new ways to get rich fast. If only they could blow open a baggage car without also blowing up the money-filled safe inside... Or remember that Sundance can't swim before they escape a posse by leaping off a cliff into rushing rapids... Times are changing in the west and life is getting tougher. So Butch and Sundance pack their guns, don new duds, and, with Sundance's girlfriend (Katharine Ross), head down to Bolivia. Never mind that they don't speak Spanish - they'll manage somehow. A winner of four Academy Awards (including best screenplay and best song), here is a thoroughly enjoyable blend of fact and fancy done with true affection for a bygone era and featuring the two flashiest, friendliest funniest outlaws who ever called out "hands up!"

CHELSEA CLASSICS - FREDERICK WISEMAN (1930 - 2026) CANAL ZONE (Frederick Wiseman, 1977, 174min, United States, NR) Saturday, 8/8, Sunday, 8/9, Wednesday, 8/12, Thursday, 8/13 (All shows at 10AM) + Monday, 8/10 @ 4:00PM CANAL ZONE is about the people who live and work in the Panama Canal Zone and shows both the operation of the Canal and the various governmental agencies — business, military, and civilian — related to the functioning of the Canal and the lives of the Americans in the zone. The film includes sequences of ships in transit, the work of special canal pilots, aspects of the civil government, work of the military, and the social, religious and recreational life of the Zonians.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - QUEER CINEMA ANNIVERSARIES CARAVAGGIO (Derek Jarman, 1986, 93min, United Kingdom, NR) SUNDAY, 6/14 @ 10:30AM & 4:30PM + THURSDAY, 6/18 @ 7PM A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld. Featuring Tilda Swinton's screen debut, a captivating turn from Shakespearean thespian, Nigel Terry, and a young Sean Bean. John Berger, the celebrated writer and critic, wrote a personal letter to Derek Jarman after he had watched Caravaggio (1986). “You have made a masterpiece,” he wrote, “easily the best film about a painter.” Such praise must have delighted Jarman, especially after the rather lukewarm reception of his film by professional reviewers in the British press. [Caravaggio] is about the closing of an open, adventurous cultural era. The sense of an ending is heavy throughout the film. At the time of its making, there was an additional chill aside from, but involving, the mistakes and reprehensible moral failings of the British Government. HIV/AIDS had begun to emerge as a terrifying threat in 1983-4. Already, by 1985, an old friend of Jarman’s, the painter Mario Dubsky, had died of AIDS. Death cast its shadow over an era of carefree sexual activity that had only started as recently as 1967, with the Parliamentary Act that decriminalized sexual activity between consenting adult men. In the 1980s the Government neglected to act fast to combat the threat of the new virus, and seemed indifferent to the problem. This uneasy background throws into higher relief Caravaggio’s attempts to navigate through constraints emanating from the powerful. Among other things, the film refers to the eclipse of the freer, more accepting and venturesome era of the Renaissance by a repressive and militant Counter-Reformation centred in papal authority and intolerance of difference. In this unpromising context arose a painter who was able to redeem his life in the extraordinary lifelikeness of a series of lovingly painted works full of humanity, compassion, acceptance and understanding. - Michael Charlesworth, Senses of Cinema

CHELSEA CLASSICS - ANNIVERSARIES CERTAIN WOMEN (Kelly Reichardt, 2016, 107min, United States, R) SUNDAY, 8/23 @ 10:30AM & 4:30PM + THURSDAY, 8/27 @ 7PM The expanses of the American West take center stage in this intimately observed triptych from Kelly Reichardt. Adapted from three short stories by Maile Meloy and unfolding in self-contained but interlocking episodes, CERTAIN WOMEN navigates the subtle shifts in personal desire and social expectation that unsettle the circumscribed lives of its characters: a lawyer (Laura Dern) forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother (Michelle Williams) whose plans to construct her dream home reveal fissures in her marriage; and a night-school teacher (Kristen Stewart) who forms a tenuous bond with a lonely ranch hand (Lily Gladstone), whose longing for connection delivers an unexpected jolt of emotional immediacy. With unassuming craft, Reichardt captures the rhythms of daily life in small-town Montana through these fine-grained portraits of women trapped within the landscape’s wide-open spaces.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - ANNIVERSARIES CITY LIGHTS (Charles Chaplin, 1931, 87min, United States, G) SATURDAY, 6/6 @ 4:30PM + WEDNESDAY, 6/10 @ 7PM City Lights, the most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin, is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street (a magical Virginia Cherrill) and mistakes him for a millionaire. Though this Depression-era smash was made after the advent of sound, Chaplin remained steadfast in his love for the expressive beauty of the pre-talkie form. The result was the epitome of his art and the crowning achievement of silent comedy.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - FREDERICK WISEMAN (1930 - 2026) EX LIBRIS (Frederick Wiseman, 2017, 197min, United States, NR) Saturday, 9/5, Sunday, 9/6, Wednesday, 9/9, Thursday, 9/10 (All shows at 10AM) + Monday, 9/1 @ 4:00PM In this, the 42nd documentary by Frederick Wiseman (recipient of an Honorary Oscar in 2016), the legendary filmmaker brings his incisive vision behind the scenes of one of the world’s greatest institutions of learning, capturing the vast programmatic scope of NYC’s library system. The NYPL is blessed with uniformly passionate staff and deeply devoted, appreciative bibliophiles and beneficiaries across its 92 branches. The film reveals a venerable place of welcome, cultural exchange, and intellectual creativity.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - ANNIVERSARIES FARGO (Joel Coen/Ethan Coen, 1996, 98min, United States, R) SATURDAY, 6/27 @ 10:30AM & 4:30PM + WEDNESDAY, 7/1 @ 7PM In this seven-time Oscar®-nominated film, things go terribly awry when small-time Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) hires two thugs (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife so he can collect the ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. Once people start dying, the very chipper and very pregnant Police Chief Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand, who won an Oscar® for her performance) takes the case. Is she up for this challenge? You betcha.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - CINEMA ICONS: CATHERINE O'HARA (1954 - 2026) FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION (Christopher Guest, 2006, 86min, United States, PG-13) SATURDAY, 8/15 @ 4:30PM + WEDNESDAY, 8/19 @ 7PM Debut feature director Jay Berman (Christopher Guest), steers cast and crew through a typically tumultuous independent film Home for Purim, an intimate period drama about a Jewish family's turbulent reunion on the occasion of the dying matriarch's favorite holiday. When Internet-generated rumors begin circulating that three of Purim's stars -- faded luminary Marilyn Hack (Catherine O'Hara), journeyman actor and former hot dog pitchman Victor Allan Miller (Harry Shearer), and ingenue Callie Webb (Parker Posey) -- may be perpetrating Award-worthy performances, a rumble of excitement rattles the cast. Once "Hollywood Now" anchors Chuck Porter (Fred Willard) and Cindy Martin (Jane Lynch) pick up the buzz, Award fever infects the entire production. Unit publicist Corey Taft (John Michael Higgins), talent agent Morley Orfkin (Eugene Levy), and producer Whitney Taylor Brown (Jennifer Coolidge) all smell the sudden potential for a sleeper hit. As does Sunfish Classics President Martin Gibb (Ricky Gervais), who suggests some last-minute changes to the film that he feels will broaden the film's appeal. Meanwhile, Purim's screenwriters, Lane Iverson (Michael McKean) and Philip Koontz (Bob Balaban) grow steadily more horrified as they watch the first film adaptation of their work diverge from their original story. As the hopeful Purim team careens toward the end of production and the upcoming Award season, tenuous relationships and brittle dreams play out in unexpected ways...

CHELSEA CLASSICS - ANNIVERSARIES HAROLD AND MAUDE (Hal Ashby, 1971, 91min, United States, PG) MONDAY, 6/1 @ 1PM & 7PM Come kick off Chelsea Classics with this lovable if unlikely duo of misfits! Featuring songs by Cat Stevens! Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral. In honor of the late Bud Cort (1948 - 2026).

CHELSEA CLASSICS - SETTLING THE SCORE HIGH NOON (Fred Zinnemann, 1952, 85min, United States, PG) SATURDAY, 7/11 @ 10:30AM & 4:30PM + WEDNESDAY, 7/15 @ 7PM - Featuring a presentation on the use of music and score by author and musicologist, Dr. Bryan Gilliam PhD! Gary Cooper stars in this real-time western as a sheriff looking forward to retirement and marriage whose plans are upended by the news that a gang of outlaws are on their way to gun him down. Though his Quaker bride (Grace Kelly, in her first major film role) wants him to flee and the townspeople refuse to help him, his sense of duty compels him to stand his ground until the fateful hour. Shot through with political resonance—the screenplay was written by Carl Foreman, a victim of the Hollywood blacklist—HIGH NOON reimagined the most quintessentially American movie genre as a moral testing ground for the individual conscience.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - FREDERICK WISEMAN (1930 - 2026) HIGH SCHOOL (Frederick Wiseman, 1968, 75min, United States, NR) Saturday, 6/27, Sunday, 6/28, Wednesday, 7/1, Thursday, 7/2 (All shows at 10AM) + Monday, 6/29 @ 4:00PM HIGH SCHOOL was filmed at a large urban high school in Philadelphia. The film documents how the school system exists not only to pass on "facts" but also transmits social values from one generation to another. HIGH SCHOOL presents a series of formal and informal encounters between teachers, students, parents, and administrators through which the ideology and values of the school emerge.

I LOVE BOOSTERS (Boots Riley, 2026, 105min, United States, R, NEON Rated) From Boots Riley (SORRY TO BOTHER YOU), this year's Art House Theater Ambassador. A crew of professional shoplifters takes aim at a cutthroat fashion maven. It's like community service.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - CINEMA ICONS: ROBERT REDFORD (1936 - 2025) INCIDENT AT OGLALA (Michael Apted, 1992, 89min, United States, PG) Saturday, 7/4, Sunday, 7/5, Wednesday, 7/8, Thursday, 7/9 (All shows at 10AM) + Monday, 7/6 @ 4:00PM From the very beginning, Pelter's case has been dogged with controversy. Were the charged trumped up? Was the evidence falsified? Were witnesses pressured to change their testimony? Many people, including some of today's greatest legal minds, believe that Peltier is an innocent man. Twelve years ago, Robert Redford visited Leonard Peltier in prison. Today, after years of struggle with the FBI and the prison system, he and director Michael Apted (GORILLAS IN THE MIST, COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER) are able to present INCIDENT AT OGLALA- a riveting examination of the case and the real story of what may be one of the most outrageous abuses of justice in American history. Produced and narrated by the late legend, Robert Redford.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - ANNIVERSARIES LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE (Jean Cocteau, 1946, 96min, France, NR) SUNDAY, 8/2 @ 10:00AM & 4:30PM + THURSDAY, 8/6 @ 7PM Jean Cocteau’s surreal and sublime adaptation of Mme. Leprince de Beaumont’s fairy-tale masterpiece—in which the pure love of a beautiful girl melts the heart of a feral but gentle beast—is a landmark of motion picture fantasy, with unforgettably romantic performances by Jean Marais and Josette Day. The spectacular visions of enchantment, desire, and death in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE) have become timeless icons of cinematic wonder.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - ANNIVERSARIES LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais, 1961, 94min, France/Italy NR) SUNDAY, 8/9 @ 10:30AM & 4:30PM + THURSDAY, 8/13 @ 7PM Not just a defining work of the French New Wave but one of the great, lasting mysteries of modern art, Alain Resnais’ epochal Last Year at Marienbad (L’année dernière à Marienbad) has been puzzling appreciative viewers for decades. Written by radical master of the New Novel Alain Robbe-Grillet, this surreal fever dream, or nightmare, gorgeously fuses the past with the present in telling its ambiguous tale of a man and a woman (Giorgio Albertazzi and Delphine Seyrig) who may or may not have met a year ago, perhaps at the very same cathedral-like, mirror-filled château they now find themselves wandering. Unforgettable in both its confounding details (gilded ceilings, diabolical parlor games, a loaded gun) and haunting scope, Resnais’ investigation into the nature of memory is disturbing, romantic, and maybe even a ghost story.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - ANNIVERSARIES LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (Jonathan Dayton/Valerie Faris, 2006, 101min, United States, R) SUNDAY, 8/30 @ 10:30AM & 4:30PM + THURSDAY, 9/3 @ 7PM Father Richard (Greg Kinnear) is desperately trying to sell his motivational success program... with no success. Meanwhile, "pro-honesty" mom Sheryl (Toni Collette) lends support to her eccentric family, including her depressed brother (Steve Carell), fresh out of the hospital after being jilted by his lover. Then there are the younger Hoovers - the seven-year-old, would-be beauty queen Olive (Abigail Breslin) and Dwayne (Paul Dano), a Nietzsche-reading teen who has taken a vow of silence. Topping off the family is the foul-mouthed grandfather (Alan Arkin), whose outrageous behavior recently got him evicted from his retirement home. When Olive is invited to compete in the "Little Miss Sunshine" pageant in far-off California, the family piles into their rusted-out VW bus to rally behind her - with riotously funny results.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - ANNIVERSARIES MEPHISTO (István Szabó, 1981, 146min, Hungary/West Germany/Austria, NR) MONDAY, 8/10 @ 1PM & 7PM Winner of Best Foreign Language Film at the 1982 Academy Awards and nominated for a Palme d'Or at Cannes, István Szabó's "Mephisto" follows a passionate, but struggling actor (Klaus Maria Brandauer) who remains in Germany during the Nazi regime and reaps the rewards of this Faustian pact by finally achieving the stardom he has long craved. “What do they want from me now? After all, I am just an actor.” So how did an up-and-coming thespian with a mixed-race mistress and left-wing sympathies make it to the top of Nazi Germany’s theatrical world? Klaus Maria Brandauer’s Hendrik Hoefgen overwhelmingly triumphs in the role of Mephistopheles, the demonic tempter in Goethe’s Faust. Adapted from Klaus (son of Nobel laureate Thomas) Mann’s 1936 novel, so transparently about his brother-in-law Gustaf Gründgens (the bowler-hatted criminal boss in Lang’s M and one of Germany’s greatest stage actors) that it couldn’t be published in Germany until 1971. Hungary’s first-ever Foreign Film Oscar winner, keyed by Brandauer’s riveting performance.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - ANNIVERSARIES MISSISSIPPI MASALA (Mira Nair, 1991, 118min, United States/United Kingdom, R) SUNDAY, 8/16 @ 10:00AM & 4:30PM + THURSDAY, 8/20 @ 7PM The vibrant cultures of India, Uganda, and the American South are blended and simmered into a rich and fragrant fusion feast in Mira Nair’s luminous look at the complexities of love in the modern melting pot. Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, twentysomething Mina (Sarita Choudhury) finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It’s there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius (Denzel Washington) challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region’s Indian and African American communities. Tackling thorny issues of racism, colorism, culture clash, and displacement with big-hearted humor and keen insight, Nair serves up a sweet, sexy, and radical celebration of love’s power to break down the barriers between us.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - ANNIVERSARIES MODERN TIMES (Charles Chaplin, 1936, 87min, United States, G) SATURDAY, 6/13 @ 10:30AM & 4:30PM + TUESDAY, 6/16 @ 7PM Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin’s last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette Goddard). With its barrage of unforgettable gags and sly commentary on class struggle during the Great Depression, Modern Times—though made almost a decade into the talkie era and containing moments of sound (even song!)—is a timeless showcase of Chaplin’s untouchable genius as a director of silent comedy.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - ANNIVERSARIES MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (Louis Malle, 1981, 110min, United States, PG) SATURDAY, 8/8 @ 10:30AM & 4:30PM + WEDNESDAY, 8/12 @ 7PM In this captivating and philosophical film directed by Louis Malle, actor and playwright Wallace Shawn sits down with his friend the theater director André Gregory at a restaurant on New York’s Upper West Side, and the pair proceed through an alternately whimsical and despairing confessional about love, death, money, and all the superstition in between. Playing variations on their own New York–honed personas, Shawn and Gregory, who also cowrote the screenplay, dive in with introspective intellectual gusto, and Malle captures it all with a delicate, artful detachment. A fascinating freeze-frame of cosmopolitan culture, My Dinner with André remains a unique work in cinema history.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - QUEER CINEMA ANNIVERSARIES MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (Gus Van Sant, 1991, 104min, United States, R) SUNDAY, 6/7 @ 4:30PM + THURSDAY, 6/11 @ 7PM River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves star in this haunting tale from Gus Van Sant about two young street hustlers: Mike Waters, a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and Scott Favor, the wayward son of the mayor of Portland and the object of Mike’s desire. Navigating a volatile world of junkies, thieves, and johns, Mike takes Scott on a quest along the grungy streets and open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home. Visually dazzling and thematically groundbreaking, My Own Private Idaho is a deeply moving look at unrequited love and life on society’s margins.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - FREDERICK WISEMAN (1930 - 2026) NATIONAL GALLERY (Frederick Wiseman, 2014, 180min, France/United States/United Kingdom, NR) Saturday, 8/22, Sunday, 8/23, Wednesday, 8/26, Thursday, 8/27 (All shows at 10AM) + Monday, 8/24 @ 4:00PM Frederick Wiseman’s NATIONAL GALLERY takes the audience behind the scenes of a London institution, on a journey to the heart of a museum inhabited by masterpieces of Western art from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century. NATIONAL GALLERY is the portrait of a place, its way of working and relations with the world, its staff and public, and its paintings. In a perpetual and dizzying game of mirrors, film watches painting watches film.

PRESSURE (Anthony Maras, 2026, 100min, United Kingdom/France/United States, PG-13, Focus Features) In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, and the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, PRESSURE follows General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg as they face an impossible choice—launch the largest and most dangerous invasion in history or risk losing the war altogether.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - BÉLA TARR (1955 - 2026) SÁTÁNTANGÓ (Béla Tarr, 1994, 439min, Hungary/Germany/Switzerland, NR) MONDAY, 8/24/2026 @ 11AM RUN OF SHOW SCHEDULE: 11AM - 1PM 30MIN INTERMISSION 1:30PM - 3:30PM 30MIN INTERMISSION 4PM - 6PM 45MIN INTERMISSION (FOR DINNER) 6:45PM - 8:15PM Total Program Runtime: 544min (9hr4min) One of the greatest achievements in recent art house cinema and a seminal work of “slow cinema,” Sátántangó, based on the book by László Krasznahorkai, follows members of a small, defunct agricultural collective living in a post-apocalyptic landscape after the fall of Communism who, on the heels of a large financial windfall, set out to leave their village. As a few of the villagers secretly conspire to take off with all of the earnings for themselves, a mysterious character, long thought dead, returns to the village, altering the course of everyone’s lives forever. Shot in stunning black-and-white by Gábor Medvigy and filled with exquisitely composed and lyrical long takes, Sátántangó unfolds in twelve distinct movements, alternating forwards and backwards in time, echoing the structure of a tango dance. Tarr’s vision, aided by longtime partner and collaborator Ágnes Hranitzky, is enthralling and his portrayal of a rural Hungary beset by boozy dance parties, treachery, and near-perpetual rainfall is both transfixing and uncompromising. Sátántangó has been justly lauded by critics and audiences as a masterpiece and inspired none other than Susan Sontag to proclaim that she would be “glad to see it every year for the rest of [her] life”. Sátántangó has been restored in 4K from the original 35mm camera negative by Arbelos in collaboration with The Hungarian Filmlab. #36 on the Sight & Sound / British Film Institute’s Critic’s Poll of the 100 Greatest Films Ever Made.

**LAST CHANCE - THURSDAY, 5/28!** SILENT FRIEND (Ildikó Enyedi, 2025, 147min, Germany/Hungary/France/China, NR, 1-2 Special) At the heart of a German university grows a majestic ginkgo tree, its lifespan measured in centuries. As the years pass, the distinguished plant bears witness to the private lives of those who seek shade under its boundless branches, forming a nexus that connects three generations of students and teachers across time and space. In 2020, a visiting neuroscientist conducts a series of experiments into the possibilities of botanical consciousness. In 1972, a young student is profoundly changed by studying the behavior of a simple geranium. And in 1908, the university’s first female student’s photographic inquiries reveal sacred patterns of the universe hidden within the humblest of plants. Over time, each is transformed by the quiet, enduring, and mysterious power of nature. From Ildikó Enyedi, the director of Academy Award-nominated On Body and Soul, comes Silent Friend, an epic, awe-inspiring exploration of the natural world. Featuring an ensemble cast that includes Tony Leung, Léa Seydoux and Venice Prize-winning newcomer Luna Wedler, Enyedi crafts a thoughtful meditation on the essential question of what it means to be human.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - ART HOUSE SPECIAL SCREENINGS ART HOUSE THEATER DAY - THURSDAY, 7/30 @ 7PM Art House Theater Day (AHTD) is an annual program of AHC that brings audiences together to celebrate all that art house theaters - and independent film - contribute to our cultural landscape: ambitious and innovative art that provokes, challenges, entertains, and inspires. SORRY TO BOTHER YOU (Boots Riley, 2018, 112min, United States, R) In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a macabre universe.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - CINEMA ICONS: ROB REINER (1947 - 2025) STAND BY ME (Rob Reiner, 1986, 89min, United States, R) SUNDAY, 6/28 @ 4:30PM + THURSDAY, 7/2 @ 7PM After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four boys decide to go see the body. On the way, Gordie, Vern, Chris and Teddy encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, as they also learn more about one another and their very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the boys' adventure evolves into a defining event in their lives.

**LAST CHANCE - THURSDAY, 5/28!** STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE! (Carl Deal/Tia Lessin, 2025, 98min, United States/Nigeria, NR, MTuckman) TABLING & INTRODUCTIONS: FRI, 5/15 @ 1PM - RALEIGH UNITED MUTUAL AID HUB + CLIMATE ACTION FRI, 5/15 @ 7PM - WCOM 103.5 FM, Carrboro, NC SAT, 5/16 @ 4PM - JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE TRIANGLE, NC Undeterred by armed soldiers, smooth-talking politicians, and riot police, journalist Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our time. Steal This Story, Please. is a gripping portrait of the trailblazer whose unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history. From the front lines of global conflicts to the organized chaos of her daily news show Democracy Now!, Goodman broadcasts stories and voices routinely silenced by commercial media. Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin (Trouble the Water, The Janes) take us behind the scenes with the warm, wisecracking granddaughter of an Orthodox rabbi - raised in a tradition of asking hard questions - as she navigates a news landscape reshaped by technology, corporate consolidation, and political assaults on truth itself. Urgent, provocative and unexpectedly funny, Steal This Story, Please. is both a call to action and a celebration of resistance, posing the question: what happens to democracy when the press surrenders to power?

CHELSEA CLASSICS - ANNIVERSARIES SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (Preston Sturges, 1941, 90min, United States, Passed, Paramount) MONDAY, 6/15 @ 1PM & 7PM Tired of churning out lightweight comedies, Hollywood director John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea) decides to make O Brother, Where Art Thou?—a serious, socially responsible film about human suffering. After his producers point out that he knows nothing of hardship, Sullivan hits the road disguised as a hobo. En route to enlightenment, he encounters a lovely but no-nonsense young woman (Veronica Lake)—and more trouble than he ever dreamed of. This comic masterpiece by Preston Sturges is among the finest Hollywood satires and a high-water mark in the career of one of the industry’s most revered funnymen.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - ANNIVERSARIES TAXI DRIVER (Martin Scorsese, 1976, 114min, United States, R) SATURDAY, 7/18 @ 4:30PM + WEDNESDAY, 7/22 @ 7PM A landmark of American cinema, Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver is a searing plunge into the mind of Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), a lonely Vietnam veteran prowling the nocturnal streets of a decaying 1970s New York. Written by Paul Schrader, the film fuses Catholic guilt, Calvinist rigor, and pulp noir fatalism into an unsettling portrait of alienation curdling into violent fantasy. Scorsese’s restless camera and Bernard Herrmann’s final score track the city as infernal dreamscape—at once seductively atmospheric and suffocatingly claustrophobic—as Travis’s vigilante impulses fixate on a child sex worker (Jodie Foster) and a political campaign he barely understands. Long read as an x‑ray of post‑Vietnam disillusionment, a study in radicalization, and a disquieting critique of media hero‑making, Taxi Driver remains as disturbing and hypnotic today as when it first jolted audiences in 1976.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - CINEMA ICONS: ROBERT DUVALL (1931 - 2026) TENDER MERCIES (Bruce Beresford, 1983, 92min, United States, PG) SUNDAY, 7/19 @ 10:00AM & 4:30PM + THURSDAY, 7/23 @ 7PM Nominated for six Academy Awards and winning two: Best Actor - Robert Duvall, and Best Screenplay - Horton Foote. Robert Duvall delivers a poignant performance as protagonist Mac Sledge, a man wondering where it all went wrong who, finds love in single mother Rosa Lee (Tess Harper), owner of a remote gas station motel. The film’s modest location on the flat plains of Texas, serves as the basis of starting again for our characters, symbolic of the freshly harvested lands that surrounds them. Horton Foote’s screenplay is one of pondering nature, which asks the simplest of life’s questions whilst exploring a person’s need for answers and sense of identity. Allan Hubbard as Rosa Lee’s child, Sonny, is a connecting spark between Mac and his mother, while portraying a matureness realistic among children raised by a single parent.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - CINEMA ICONS: ROBERT REDFORD (1936 - 2025) THE CANDIDATE (Michael Ritchie, 1972, 110min, United States, PG) SATURDAY, 7/4 @ 10:30AM & 4:30PM + WEDNESDAY, 7/8 @ 7PM OSCAR WINNER: Best Original Screenplay More powerful today than at the time of its 1972 release, The Candidate is a timeless tale of contemporary politics; expertly written by Oscar winner Jeremy Larner. Robert Redford plays Bill McKay, an idealistic California attorney running for office in this marvelous, biting, satire on media-age political campaigns. The stellar cast includes Peter Boyle and Melvyn Douglas, who also give memorable performances.

**LAST CHANCE - THURSDAY, 5/28!** THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 (David Frankel, 2026, 120min, United States, PG-13, Disney) Twenty years after making their iconic turns as Miranda, Andy, Emily and Nigel—Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci return to the fashionable streets of New York City and the sleek offices of Runway Magazine in 20th Century Studios’ “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” the eagerly awaited sequel to the 2006 phenomenon that defined a generation. The film is directed by David Frankel, written by Aline Brosh McKenna, produced by Wendy Finerman, and executive produced by Michael Bederman, Karen Rosenfelt and Aline Brosh McKenna.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - ART HOUSE SPECIAL SCREENINGS THE HERO "NAYAK" (Satyajit Ray, 1966, 117min, India, NR) SATURDAY, 7/25 @ 10:30AM & 4:30PM + TUESDAY, 7/28 @ 7PM In this psychologically rich character study, written and directed by Satyajit Ray, Bengali film star Uttam Kumar draws on his real-world celebrity to play Arindam Mukherjee, a matinee idol on the brink of his first flop. When Mukherjee boards an overnight train to Delhi to accept an award, a journalist (Sharmila Tagore) approaches him seeking an exclusive interview, which initiates a conversation that sends the actor reeling down a path of self-examination. Seamlessly integrating rueful flashbacks and surreal dream sequences with the quietly revelatory stories of the train’s other passengers, THE HERO is a graceful meditation on art, fame, and regret from one of world cinema’s most keenly perceptive filmmakers.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - ANNIVERSARIES THE LIVES OF OTHERS (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006, 137min, Germany/France, R) MONDAY, 8/17 @ 1PM & 7PM Academy Award Winner - Best Foreign Language Film (Best International Feature) At once a political thriller and human drama, THE LIVES OF OTHERS begins in East Berlin in 1984, five years before Glasnost and the fall of the Berlin Wall and ultimately takes us to 1991, in what is now the reunited Germany. THE LIVES OF OTHERS traces the gradual disillusionment of Captain Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Muhe, best known for his lead roles in Michael Haneke's FUNNY GAMES and as Dr. Mengele in Costa-Gavras' AMEN), a highly skilled officer who works for the Stasi, East Germany's all-powerful secret police. His mission is to spy on a celebrated writer and actress couple, Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) and Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck).

CHELSEA CLASSICS - "PRESS TO POWER" The historical events depicted in THE POST lead directly into the events in ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN. THE POST (Steven Spielberg, 2017, 116min, United States, PG-13) SATURDAY, 9/5 @ 10:30AM & 4:30PM + WEDNESDAY, 9/9 @ 7PM Steven Spielberg directs Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks in The Post, a thrilling drama about the unlikely partnership between The Washington Post’s Katharine Graham (Streep), the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, and editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks), as they race to catch up with The New York Times to expose a massive cover-up of government secrets that spanned three decades and four U.S. Presidents. The two must overcome their differences as they risk their careers – and their very freedom – to help bring long-buried truths to light. The Post marks the first time Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg have collaborated on a project. In addition to directing, Spielberg produces along with Amy Pascal and Kristie Macosko Krieger. The script was written by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer, and the film features an acclaimed ensemble cast including Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, David Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Paulson, Jesse Plemons, Matthew Rhys, Michael Stuhlbarg, Bradley Whitford and Zach Woods.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - CINEMA ICONS: ROB REINER (1947 - 2025) THE PRINCESS BRIDE (Rob Reiner, 1987, 98min, United States, PG) SUNDAY, 7/5 @ 10:30AM & 4:30PM + THURSDAY, 7/9 @ 7PM While home sick in bed, a young boy's grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love. You've yet to hear the tale? Inconceivable! Join Westley (Carey Elwes) on his epic adventure to rescue the fair Buttercup (Robin Wright) from the clutches of the evil Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon) in director Rob Reiner's delightful classic!

CHELSEA CLASSICS - ANNIVERSARIES THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (Wes Anderson, 2001, 110min, United States, R) SATURDAY, 8/29 @ 4:30PM + WEDNESDAY, 9/2 @ 7PM Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father's fault. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the story of the family's sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - CINEMA ICONS: ROBERT REDFORD (1936 - 2025) THE STING (George Roy Hill, 1973, 129min, United States, PG) MONDAY, 7/6 @ 1PM & 7PM A massive popular success in the 1970s, THE STING reunited Newman, Redford, and Hill after Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and went on to win seven Oscars, including Best Picture, cementing the caper film as a mainstream genre. Marvin Hamlisch’s adaptation of Scott Joplin rags gives the film its instantly recognizable aural identity, while Edith Head’s costumes and the production design offer a nostalgically stylized 1930s that is more fable than history. That blend of charm, precision engineering, and gentle melancholy is why The Sting still plays today as the definitive big‑screen grifter tale rather than just another twisty thriller.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - CINEMA ICONS: ROBERT REDFORD (1936 - 2025) THE WAY WE WERE (Sydney Pollack, 1973, 118min, United States, PG) SUNDAY, 7/12 @ 4:30PM + THURSDAY, 7/16 @ 7PM Sydney Pollack’s The Way We Were remains one of the defining Hollywood romantic melodramas of the 1970s, precisely because it keeps refusing to give its audience the fantasy it seems to promise. Barbra Streisand’s Katie Morosky, a fiercely committed Jewish leftist, and Robert Redford’s Hubbell Gardiner, a golden-boy WASP novelist-turned-screenwriter, keep finding each other across decades and coasts, but history, class, and temperament never quite let them stay together. Beginning in a 1930s college milieu and moving through wartime New York into Hollywood during the blacklist era, the film threads a star-driven love story through the fault lines of American liberalism, asking what must be sacrificed—politically, aesthetically, emotionally—for a couple to survive in an industry built on compromise. Pollack and screenwriter Arthur Laurents use an almost screwball opposites‑attract setup—she’s all agitation and argument, he’s all ease and charm—only to watch that chemistry curdle as the context shifts and Katie’s refusal to mute her convictions becomes intolerable to the Hollywood system that flatters Hubbell. The movie’s famous closing encounter carries its power because the film has earned the sense that love and shared history still matter, even when they cannot override structural inequities or ideological rifts. In the end, The Way We Were is less a nostalgic weepie than a glittering, wounded memory piece about how two people can be right for each other in feeling and wrong for each other in time—an artifact of New Hollywood that still understands the old studio grammar of close-ups, star wattage, and a song you can’t get out of your head.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - CINEMA ICONS: ROBERT DUVALL (1931 - 2026) THX 1138 (George Lucas, 1971, 86min, United States, R) SATURDAY, 6/20 @ 4:30PM + WEDNESDAY, 6/24 @ 7PM Before Star Wars, director George Lucas created this haunting vision of the future starring Academy Award winner Robert Duvall. Lucas was looking for an actor with enough presence to hold the screen for an entire feature film. When Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope agreed to fund THX 1138, a decision that would eventually bankrupt the independent operation, Coppola recommended this guy Robert Duvall he'd just worked with on The Rain People (1969) and was about to work with on The Godfather Part I (1972). Though initially unsuccessful, this film is now recognized as one of George Lucas' greatest films as well as one of the great science fiction films of all time. In the 25th century, humans exist in a computer-controlled world where emotions are outlawed, mind-numbing drugs are mandated and no one has a name, only an alphanumeric designation. But one man, THX 1138 (Duvall), secretly resists his drug regimen and commits the cardinal crime against the state--he experiences love.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - FREDERICK WISEMAN (1930 - 2026) TITICUT FOLLIES (Frederick Wiseman, 1967, 84min, United States, NR) Saturday, 6/13, Sunday, 6/14, Wednesday, 6/17, Thursday, 6/18 (All shows at 10AM) + Monday, 6/15 @ 4:00PM The film is a stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts. TITICUT FOLLIES documents the various ways the inmates are treated by the guards, social workers and psychiatrists.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - CINEMA ICONS: ROBERT DUVALL (1931 - 2026) TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Robert Mulligan, 1962, 129min, United States, Approved) MONDAY, 6/8 @ 1PM & 7PM Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice. Robert Duvall's screen debut as the reclusive neighbor, Boo Radley, is a quietly devastating performance, and one that shot Duvall into the spotlight and launched a career spanning six decades. He even got the novel's author Nelle Harper Lee's attention. She sent him a letter. All it read was, "Hey, Boo!"

TUNER (Daniel Roher, 2026, 109min, Canada/United States, NR, Black Bear) A talented piano tuner's life is turned upside down when he discovers that his meticulous skills for tuning pianos can equally be applied to cracking safes in this jazz-infused crime drama about love, loss, and the lengths we’ll go to for the people who matter most.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - FREDERICK WISEMAN (1930 - 2026) WELFARE (Frederick Wiseman, 1975, 167min, United States, NR) Saturday, 7/25, Sunday, 7/26, Wednesday, 7/29, Thursday, 7/30 (All shows at 10AM) + Monday, 7/27 @ 4:00PM WELFARE shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, and the elderly. These issues are presented in a context where welfare workers as well as clients struggle to cope with and interpret the laws and regulations that govern their work and life.

CHELSEA CLASSICS - BÉLA TARR (1955 - 2026) WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES (Béla Tarr/Ágnes Hranitzky, 2000, 145min, Hungary/Italy/Germany/France, NR) MONDAY, 8/3 @ 1PM & 7PM This mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by László Krasznahorkai, WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES unfolds in an unknown time in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circus—complete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Prince—arrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens that builds inexorably toward violence. In thirty-nine hypnotic long takes engraved in ghostly black and white, auteur Béla Tarr and codirector-editor Ágnes Hranitzky conjure an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty.