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Hester Street (1975)
PG
HESTER STREET (Joan Micklin Silver, 1975, 89min, United States, PG, Drama/Romance, Cohen Media Group) The Carolina Center for Jewish Studies is co-sponsoring with Durham’s “Jewish For Good” a showing of the 1975 film Hester Street at the Chelsea Theater (1129 Weaver Dairy Rd., Chapel Hill) with a special appearance by the London-based writer Julia Wagner, who will talk about her 2025 book that honors the film’s 50th anniversary. The film vividly portrays the immigrant experience through the eyes of Gitl (Carol Kane), a young, Orthodox Jewish woman who arrives in New York City from Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th century and faces the challenges of her new life in America. Much of the dialogue of the film is in Yiddish, and Kane won an Academy Award nomination for her role. A recent 4K restoration from the original negative of Joan Micklin Silver's theatrical feature debut. Gitl (Carol Kane in her Acadamy Awatd nominated role) and her son arrive on the lower East side of New York in 1896 to join her husband Jake (Steven Keats). While Jake, who has a job in a sweatshop and an English-speaking girlfriend, has completely embraced America, Gitl clings to her old country ways. Jake is embarassed to be seen with her as he struggles to assimilate by shedding his ethnic heritage. Gitl finds a way to become victor instead of victim. "A magnificent performance by Carol Kane. An unconditionally happy achievement." - The New York Times.
Ken Russell's The Devils Director's Cut (1971)
NC-17for sexual content/graphic nudity.
KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS (Ken Russell, 1971, 114min, United Kingdom, NC-17, Drama, Warner Bros Clockwork) **Tickets on sale Wednesday, 9/16 @ 12pm!** An enduring, singular masterpiece of cinema starring Academy Award®-winner Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed, KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is a prescient epic of obsession and corruption – and a defining work of art from seminal filmmaker Ken Russell. Assembled from the original camera negative, this new 4K restoration presents Ken Russell’s definitive vision of THE DEVILS by referencing the edit he privately constructed in 2004. KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is the uncut and unfiltered theatrical experience that Russell always envisioned – and the first time the film will be presented restored and in 4K.
PJ PARTY: THE CRAFT (1996) + THE CROW (1994)
R
PJ PARTY DOUBLE FEATURE: THE CRAFT (Andrew Fleming, 1996, 101min, United States, R, Horror/Fantasy) + THE CROW (Alex Proyas, 1994, 102min, United States, R, Drama) SAT, 10/31 @ 9:30PM + SUN, 11/1 @ 10:30AM Total Runtime: 218min (Including 15min Intermission) THE CRAFT (1996) - The Craft (1996) remains a defining entry in 1990s teen horror: a sharply styled, emotionally direct story about four alienated girls discovering that solidarity can feel like power—and that power can become its own form of cruelty. Directed by Andrew Fleming and written by Peter Filardi and Fleming, it turns Catholic-school ostracism, misogyny, racism, class precarity, bodily shame, and adolescent desire into the raw material of a supernatural morality tale. The film’s lasting strength is its refusal to treat its heroines merely as “bad girls” receiving a horror-film comeuppance. Each is responding to a recognizable injury: isolation, racist bullying, economic hardship and domestic abuse, beauty standards, sexual humiliation, and despair. The magic gives those injuries visible form. It lets the characters act on impulses that teen films often trivialize or suppress: the desire to be beautiful, desired, feared, safe, and no longer powerless. That framework also makes Nancy one of the era’s great teen-horror antagonists. Fairuza Balk plays her not simply as a villain but as someone for whom power initially looks like liberation. Her eventual descent is frightening precisely because the film establishes why she finds domination so irresistible. Contemporary reassessments have emphasized the film’s sympathy for all four girls—even Nancy—rather than treating her rage as inherently monstrous. + THE CROW (1994) - The Crow (1994) is a rain-soaked Gothic revenge romance whose pop-cultural afterlife is inseparable from Brandon Lee’s tragic final performance. Directed by Alex Proyas, it turns James O’Barr’s comic into an expressionist action film: less interested in superhero mechanics than in grief, urban ruin, mourning, and the fantasy that love might survive death.
Sense and Sensibility (2026)
PGfor some thematic elements, partial nudity and brief violence.
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (Georgia Oakley, 2026, 131min, United Kingdom/United States, PG, Drama/Romance, Focus Features) From Focus Features and Working Title comes an irresistible new take on Jane Austen’s iconic Sense and Sensibility: a charming, witty, and deeply relatable story of love and sisterhood starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles.
Wicker (2026)
Rfor sexual content, language and brief full nudity.
WICKER (Alex Huston Fischer/Eleanor Wilson, 2026, 105min, United Kingdom/United States/Australia/Hungary, R, Comedy/Drama/Fantasy, Black Bear) On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman; smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbors, she commissions herself a husband to be made from wicker. In an otherwise conservative town, this unconventional romance sparks outrage, jealousy and chaos.
You Can See Everything (2026)
Rfor language and some graphic nudity.
YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING (Nathan Fielder/Lance Oppenheim, 2026, 174min, United States, R, Documentary, A24) Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss. From boundary-pushing directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim comes You Can See Everything.