Based on Charlie Huston’s 2004 novel of the same name, it stars Austin Butler (Elvis) as a former high school baseball star who gets dropped into a chaotic underworld of mobsters, stolen loot, and increasingly dangerous entanglements. The film is set in the 1990s Lower East Side, with a cast that includes Zoë Kravitz, Liev Schreiber, Carol Kane, Griffin Dunne, and Bad Bunny. (dir. Darren Aronofsky, U.S., 2025, 107 min.)

CLOSE UP post-screening Q&A with dir. Gary Hustwit A movie event: this groundbreaking generative documentary about visionary musician Brian Eno is different every time it’s shown: presenting a different order, scenes, and music. This innovative approach echoes Eno’s iterative practice, his methods of using technology to compose music, and his deep dive into the mercurial essence of creativity. Beginning his career as an original member of the legendary Roxy Music, Eno released a series of classic solo records before pioneering the new genre of ambient music. As a producer, Eno also helped define and reinvent the sound of some of the most important artists in music, including David Bowie, U2, and Talking Heads. (dir. Gary Hustwit, USA, 2024, 100 min.) “A singular experience, impossible to replicate.” Rolling Stone “A template for how cinema can be re-defined in the digital age” -The Quietus

Three teenagers enroll in a traditional “folk high school” in the wilds of northernmost Norway. Freed from technology, social media, and the noise of modern life, they have an unexpected transformation amid the dogsleds. Heidi Ewing and Saugerties native Rachel Grady chaperone us inside a transcendent experience that’s both specific and oddly universal. (dir. Rachel Grady & Heidi Ewing, U.S., 2025, 106 min.)

In this Buddhist-themed drama set in Bhutan, a group of people don masks in a commune-like forest for 15 days of liberating anonymity. The film is directed by Tibetan lama Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche known across the world as Khyentse Norbu, who made the lauded football-themed The Cup (1999). Norbu’s films play with ideas of transgression and reinvention. “Hema Hema” translates as “long, long ago” or alternatively “Once upon a time,” thereby playing with audience perception of time and space. (dir. Khyentse Norbu, Bhutan, 2016, 96 min.)

Visionary director Spike Lee has made a modern, NY-based remake of Kurosawa’s masterpiece High and Low (1963). It’s reframed around a musical mogul David King (Denzel Washington) known for having the “best ears in the business, but the coldest heart.” On the same day that David attempts to sidestep a pre-negotiated deal to sell his company, he gets a horrifying phone call: his son has been kidnapped, and a hostage taker wants $17 million to release him. (dir. Spike Lee, U.S., 2025, 133 min.)

The first summer blockbuster celebrates a half-century of scaring swimmers. It’s a thrilling horror adventure that still manages to instill a sense of genuine terror to this very day. (dir. Steven Spielberg, U.S., 1975, 130 min.)

In 1970, 600,000 people descended on the Isle of Wight in England to watch a three-day music festival headlined by the Who, the Doors and Jimi Hendrix. Shot during the festival but only completed 25 years later, Murray Lerner's documentary is equal parts nostalgia and critique, contrasting the festival's classic-rock performances with its chaotic planning and financial failure. This film shows this collision between ideals and commerce at the end of an era of change.

The Adirondack 46ers are individuals who have climbed all 46 High Peaks of the Adirondacks. The first 46ers were an unlikely band of fellows: Adirondack Guide Herbert Clark and the young brothers Robert and George Marshall. They identified 46 mountains in Upstate New York with an elevation of 4,000 feet or higher. Between 1918 and 1925 they hiked to the top of all 46 peaks. Since then, over 7,000 people have done the same. Although subsequent surveys have found that four of these peaks are under 4,000 feet, these original peaks are still the basis for becoming a 46er. This documentary tells the stories of many ordinary men and women who have done the extraordinary. Through extensive nature footage the film will highlight the inspiring beauty of Upstate New York, educate the public about environmental conservation and safety, and encourage people of all ages to explore the beauty of these natural wonders.

Believed to have been lost until a copy was discovered in a Paris flea market in 2015, this silent gem from 1924 was painstakingly restored by Austria's national film archive. In the mythical republic of Utopia things have gone sour. The economy is stagnant, the currency has become worthless, protests by the hordes of unemployed workers are growing by the day. The ruling party turns to the usual scapegoat for the nation's problems: the Jews. An anti-Semitic law passes that forces all Jews to leave the country. At first, the decision is met with celebration. Though darkly comedic and influenced by German Expressionism, the film contains ominous sequences, such as the shots of freight trains transporting Jews out of the city. The stinging critique of Nazism in the film is part of the reason it no longer screened in public after 1933 (all complete prints were thought to be destroyed).

Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like "Stay Asleep", "No Imagination", "Submit to Authority". Even scarier is that he is able to see that some usually normal-looking people are in fact ugly aliens in charge of the massive campaign to keep humans subdued.