CHELSEA LATE NIGHTS A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (Stanley Kubrick, 1971, 136min, United Kingdom, R) Friday, 2/20 @ 10PM Saturday, 2/21 @ 10PM Sunday, 2/22 @ 10:30AM Staff Pick: Shelli Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange is his most misanthropic film, depicting a future in which nearly everyone is contemptible except for Alex, a charismatic delinquent whose love of “ultra-violence” and Beethoven marks a stark reversal from the guarded optimism of 2001: A Space Odyssey. After Alex is imprisoned, he submits to an experimental behavioral therapy that conditions him to feel physical pain at the thought of violence, raising troubling questions—shared by novelist Anthony Burgess—about the moral cost of eliminating free will. Decades later, the film’s anxieties about government mind control feel less immediate in an era dominated by corporate influence over thought and behavior, leaving Kubrick’s striking production design and wide-angle compositions as its most enduring pleasures. The film also functions as a dark meditation on spectatorship, using scenes of forced viewing, classical music, and projected violence to blur ethical critique with mischievous provocation, resulting in a work that is visually meticulous but thematically unresolved.

CHELSEA LATE NIGHTS ALL THAT JAZZ (Bob Fosse, 1979, 123min, United States, R, Twentieth Century Fox) Friday, 4/17 @ 10PM Saturday, 4/18 @ 10PM Sunday, 4/19 @ 10:30AM Staff Pick: Sophia Juggling an exhausting work schedule and a broken home life while mounting an ambitious production for his ex-wife and editing his newest film, Joe Gideon--an unapologetic pill-popping, chain-smoking philanderer, movie director, and Broadway choreographer--is flirting with cardiac arrest. And, more and more, pestered by desirous wannabes, desperate starlets, panic-struck producers, lovelorn lovers, and a neglected daughter, Gideon wrestles with the concept of death and mortality. His ex-wife, his girlfriend, and his daughter attempt to bring him back from the brink, but it's too late for his exhausted body and stress-ravaged heart. Now the drugs don't work, and as an eventful life filled with amphetamines, alcohol, and sex flashes before his eyes, Gideon converses with eerie Angelique. Scenes from his past life start to encroach on the present as he becomes increasingly aware of his own mortality. After all, Joe deserves to meet his doom. Isn't death the final curtain everyone must face?

Screenings in this series are free and open to the public. RESERVE YOUR SEAT // SEATING IS LIMITED Screenings will feature discussion/Q&A with UNC Global Studies faculty. GLOBAL BIG SCREEN: A FILM SERIES ON IMMIGRATION & MOBILITY DIGITAL DETENTION – (Carolina Sanchez Boe, 2025, 53 Minutes) Show Dates: Mon, 4/6 @ 7 PM DIGITAL DETENTION unveils a booming industry in the surveillance of immigrants, where GPS ankle monitors and facial recognition apps turn migrants and asylum-seekers into data for profit. The film exposes the personal and societal impacts of this new form of control using invasive technologies, highlighting the stories of asylum-seekers living under constant surveillance in Austin, Texas, a city transformed by the tech boom. Part of - GLOBAL BIG SCREEN: A FILM SERIES ON IMMIGRATION & MOBILITY Brought to you by the Chelsea Theater and The Curriculum in Global Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. Join us for a compelling film series that brings the global realities of immigration into sharp and contemporary focus. Through powerful storytelling and critical perspectives, Global Big Screen Film Series explore the human cost of displacement, the courage and danger embedded in migration journeys, and the lasting emotional impact of leaving home in search of safety and opportunity. The series also examines how modern technologies and surveillance are reshaping borders, detention, and control in the digital age. Screenings in this series are free and open to the public. They will feature discussion/Q&A with UNC Global Studies faculty. Also in this series: IO CAPITANO – (Matteo Garrone, 2023, 121 Minutes) Show Dates: Mon, 2/2 @ 7 PM A Homeric fairy tale that tells the adventurous journey of two young boys, Seydou and Moussa, who leave Dakar to reach Europe. FLEE – (Jonas Poher Rasmussen, 2021, 89 Minutes) Show Dates: Mon, 3/2 @ 7 PM A man looks back over his life as he grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband. FLEE tells the story of Amin Nawabi as he grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband. Recounted mostly through animation to director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, he tells for the first time the story of his extraordinary journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan. *ADMISSION IS FREE FOR FILMS IN THIS SERIES*

Screenings in this series are free and open to the public. RESERVE YOUR SEAT // SEATING IS LIMITED Screenings will feature discussion/Q&A with UNC Global Studies faculty. GLOBAL BIG SCREEN: A FILM SERIES ON IMMIGRATION & MOBILITY FLEE – (Jonas Poher Rasmussen, 2021, 89 Minutes) Show Dates: Mon, 3/2 @ 7 PM A man looks back over his life as he grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband. FLEE tells the story of Amin Nawabi as he grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband. Recounted mostly through animation to director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, he tells for the first time the story of his extraordinary journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan. Part of - GLOBAL BIG SCREEN: A FILM SERIES ON IMMIGRATION & MOBILITY Brought to you by the Chelsea Theater and The Curriculum in Global Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. Join us for a compelling film series that brings the global realities of immigration into sharp and contemporary focus. Through powerful storytelling and critical perspectives, Global Big Screen Film Series explore the human cost of displacement, the courage and danger embedded in migration journeys, and the lasting emotional impact of leaving home in search of safety and opportunity. The series also examines how modern technologies and surveillance are reshaping borders, detention, and control in the digital age. Screenings in this series are free and open to the public. They will feature discussion/Q&A with UNC Global Studies faculty. Also in this series: IO CAPITANO – (Matteo Garrone, 2023, 121 Minutes) Show Dates: Mon, 2/2 @ 7 PM A Homeric fairy tale that tells the adventurous journey of two young boys, Seydou and Moussa, who leave Dakar to reach Europe. DIGITAL DETENTION – (Carolina Sanchez Boe, 2025, 53 Minutes) Show Dates: Mon, 4/6 @ 7 PM DIGITAL DETENTION unveils a booming industry in the surveillance of immigrants, where GPS ankle monitors and facial recognition apps turn migrants and asylum-seekers into data for profit. The film exposes the personal and societal impacts of this new form of control using invasive technologies, highlighting the stories of asylum-seekers living under constant surveillance in Austin, Texas, a city transformed by the tech boom. *ADMISSION IS FREE FOR FILMS IN THIS SERIES*

From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, HAMNET tells the powerful love story that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet. Starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal.

Screenings in this series are free and open to the public. RESERVE YOUR SEAT // SEATING IS LIMITED Screenings will feature discussion/Q&A with UNC Global Studies faculty. GLOBAL BIG SCREEN: A FILM SERIES ON IMMIGRATION & MOBILITY IO CAPITANO – (Matteo Garrone, 2023, 121 Minutes) Show Dates: Mon, 2/2 @ 7 PM A Homeric fairy tale that tells the adventurous journey of two young boys, Seydou and Moussa, who leave Dakar to reach Europe. Nominated for Best International Feature at the 96th Academy Awards! In this acclaimed film which won top directing and acting prizes at the Venice Film Festival, writer-director Garrone presents a “reverse shot” of the immigration experience while unfurling an epic, cinematographically magnificent odyssey from West Africa to Italy. The story is told through the mind’s eye and experiences of two Senegalese teenagers living in Dakar who yearn for a brighter future in Europe. Yet between their dreams and reality lies a treacherous journey through a labyrinth of checkpoints, the scorched Saharan desert, a fetid North African prison and the vast waters of the Mediterranean where thousands have died packed inside vessels barely fit for passage. Part of - GLOBAL BIG SCREEN: A FILM SERIES ON IMMIGRATION & MOBILITY Brought to you by the Chelsea Theater and The Curriculum in Global Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. Join us for a compelling film series that brings the global realities of immigration into sharp and contemporary focus. Through powerful storytelling and critical perspectives, Global Big Screen Film Series explore the human cost of displacement, the courage and danger embedded in migration journeys, and the lasting emotional impact of leaving home in search of safety and opportunity. The series also examines how modern technologies and surveillance are reshaping borders, detention, and control in the digital age. Also in this series: FLEE – (Jonas Poher Rasmussen, 2021, 89 Minutes) Show Dates: Mon, 3/2 @ 7 PM A man looks back over his life as he grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband. DIGITAL DETENTION – (Carolina Sanchez Boe, 2025, 53 Minutes) Show Dates: Mon, 4/6 @ 7 PM DIGITAL DETENTION unveils a booming industry in the surveillance of immigrants, where GPS ankle monitors and facial recognition apps turn migrants and asylum-seekers into data for profit. The film exposes the personal and societal impacts of this new form of control using invasive technologies, highlighting the stories of asylum-seekers living under constant surveillance in Austin, Texas, a city transformed by the tech boom.

IS THIS THING ON? (Bradley Cooper, 2025, 124min, United States, R) As their marriage quietly unravels, Alex (Will Arnett) faces middle age and an impending divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene while Tess (Laura Dern) confronts the sacrifices she made for their family—forcing them to navigate co-parenting, identity, and whether love can take a new form.

KAILI DREAMSCAPE: THE WORLD OF BI GAN We have added the following encore screenings for KAILI BLUES and LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT: LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT Sat, 1/31, Sun, 2/1, Wed, 2/4, Thu, 2/5 ALL SHOWS AT 10AM LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT w/ Post-Film Discussion Monday, 2/2 @ 1PM KAILI BLUES Sat, 1/31, Sun, 2/1, Wed, 2/4, Thu, 2/5 ALL SHOWS AT 10:30AM The Buddha told Subhati, “I know the mind of every sentient being in all the host of universes, regardless of any modes of thought, conceptions or tendencies. For all modes, conceptions and tendencies of thought are not mind. And yet they are called ‘mind.’ Why? It is impossible to retain a past thought, to seize a future thought, and even to hold onto a present thought” - The Diamond Sutra In the mystical, subtropical province of Guizhou, there is a small county clinic surrounded by fog. At the Kaili clinic, there are two doctors who live quiet, lonely lives. One of the doctors, Chen Sheng, embarks on a journey by train to find his nephew, who had been abandoned by his brother. On the way to Zhenyuan, Chen Sheng came across a place called Dang Mai, where time seemed to flow both forwards and backwards, the lives of the local people a complete mystery. He experiences his own past and future, lending him insight into his own life. Key images: Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, the source material for Andrei Tarkovsky’s STALKER (1979), a disco ball, the shadow of a nail protruding from a wall. KAILI DREAMSCAPE: THE WORLD OF BI GAN Have you ever had a dream so real it feels like a memory? Maybe as time passes an object, person, or place opens a door to a dream remembered. Suddenly that feeling or sensual experience is connected to waking life, and that dream is tossed in amongst memories, mixed together like a pile of chaotic puzzle pieces your mind tries to fit together sensibly. If you live life long enough in one place, around the same people, your mind can recreate a dreamscape out of those familiarities. The doors that blur memory and dream, time and space, mark the thresholds filmmaker and poet, Bi Gan, is unafraid to cross. For Bi Gan, that syrupy, uncanny dreamscape in his mind, hinging on familiarity, is a remembrance of Kaili, Guizhou, China, his birthplace. His major feature films are all set and filmed in Kaili. Bi Gan’s films are doors into that sensual, poetic world - At the Chelsea, these doors are open. Welcome to the World of Bi Gan. Monday, 1/19 @ 7PM - KAILI BLUES (Bi Gan, 2015, 113min, China, NR) Featuring a post-film discussion led by Chelsea Film Programmer, Matt Brown. Monday, 1/26 @ 7PM - LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (Bi Gan, 2019, 138min, China, NR) + A SHORT STORY (Bi Gan, 2022, 15min, China, NR) Featuring a post-film discussion led by Chelsea Film Programmer, Matt Brown. Friday, 1/30 - RESURRECTION (Bi Gan, 2025, 160min, China, NR) Full weekly schedule begins Friday, 1/30!

We have added the following encore screenings for KAILI BLUES and LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT: LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT Sat, 1/31, Sun, 2/1, Wed, 2/4, Thu, 2/5 ALL SHOWS AT 10AM LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT w/ Post-Film Discussion Monday, 2/2 @ 1PM KAILI BLUES Sat, 1/31, Sun, 2/1, Wed, 2/4, Thu, 2/5 ALL SHOWS AT 10:30AM LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (Bi Gan, 2019, 138min, China, NR, Kino Lorber) Bi Gan follows up KAILI BLUES, with this noir-tinged stunner about a lost soul (Jue Huang) on a quest to find a missing woman from his past (Wei Tang, Lust, Caution). Following leads across Guizhou province, he crosses paths with a series of colorful characters, among them a prickly hairdresser played by Taiwanese superstar Sylvia Chang. When the search leads him to a dingy movie theater, the film launches into an hour-long, gravity-defying shot that plunges its protagonist—and us—into a labyrinthine cityscape. Key images: A burnt photograph hidden in time, pomelo fruit, an apple eaten core and all, a ping pong paddle, 3D glasses, a shattered mirror. + A SHORT STORY (Bi Gan, 2022, 15min, China, NR, Kino Lorber) A SHORT STORY is a self-described fairy tale that finds the director trading the virtuosity of his features for a different kind of experimentation. Commissioned by Pidan, a Chinese company specializing in cat products, the 15-minute short centers on a black Maine Coon that sets out, on advice of a mysterious scarecrow, to find “the most precious thing in the world.” Over three chapters, the cat (walking upright in a black trench coat) encounters a weird trio of figures who may hold the answer: a dying robot, a demon magician, and a woman who eats noodles to forget her lover. Taking each scene as an imaginative challenge, Bi fashions the film as a kind of modern day Cinema of Attractions, complete with rear projection, scale models and miniatures, scenes that unfold in reverse, and an abundance of neon lights. As these techniques might suggest, A Short Story has strong links with surrealism, and as such adds points of reference including René Clair, Germaine Dulac, and Luis Buñuel to the director’s longstanding connections to Alain Resnais, Wong Kar-wai, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. - Jordan Cronk, Metrograph KAILI DREAMSCAPE: THE WORLD OF BI GAN Have you ever had a dream so real it feels like a memory? Maybe as time passes an object, person, or place opens a door to a dream remembered. Suddenly that feeling or sensual experience is connected to waking life, and that dream is tossed in amongst memories, mixed together like a pile of chaotic puzzle pieces your mind tries to fit together sensibly. If you live life long enough in one place, around the same people, your mind can recreate a dreamscape out of those familiarities. The doors that blur memory and dream, time and space, mark the thresholds filmmaker and poet, Bi Gan, is unafraid to cross. For Bi Gan, that syrupy, uncanny dreamscape in his mind, hinging on familiarity, is a remembrance of Kaili, Guizhou, China, his birthplace. His major feature films are all set and filmed in Kaili. Bi Gan’s films are doors into that sensual, poetic world - At the Chelsea, these doors are open. Welcome to the World of Bi Gan.

CHELSEA LATE NIGHTS MAGIC MIKE XXL (Gregory Jacobs, 2015, 115min, United States, R, Warner Bros.) Friday, 4/3 @ 10PM Saturday, 4/4 @ 10PM Sunday, 4/5 @ 10:30AM Staff Pick: Sam Retired male stripper Magic Mike (Channing Tatum) decides to help his friends put on one last show, as the crew embark on a road trip to Myrtle Beach to perform at an exotic-dance convention. Along the way, they brighten the lives of several women, including an aspiring photographer (Amber Heard) and a diva (Jada Pinkett Smith) from Mike's past.

(Park Chan-wook, 2025, 139min, South Korea, R) From director Park Chan-wook and based on Donald E. Westlake's novel THE AX, the story follows Man-su on his desperate hunt for a new job after his abrupt layoff from the paper company he served for 25 years. Directed By: Park Chan-wook Written By: Park Chan-wook, Don McKellar, Lee Kyoung-mi, Lee Ja-hye Starring: Lee Byung Hun, Son Yejin, Park Hee Soon, Lee Sung Min, Yeom Hye Ran, Cha Seung Won

CHELSEA LATE NIGHTS OBEX (Albert Birney, 2025, 90min, United States, NR, Oscilloscope Laboratories) Friday, 3/27 @ 10PM Saturday, 3/28 @ 10PM Sunday, 3/29 @ 10:30AM Staff Pick: Matt Conor Marsh's secluded life is disrupted when he plays a game called OBEX. His dog Sandy disappears, blurring reality and game. Conor enters the world of OBEX to rescue Sandy, navigating its strange realms.

CHELSEA LATE NIGHTS OPENING NIGHT (John Cassavetes, 1977, 144min, United States, PG-13) Friday, 2/6 @ 10PM Saturday, 2/7 @ 10PM Sunday, 2/8 @ 10:30AM Staff Pick: Ali Opening Night (1977) is the Rowlands–Cassavetes film that most directly interrogates Gena Rowlands’s craft, with Rowlands delivering a bravura, self-reflexive performance as Myrtle Gordon, a middle-aged stage actress struggling to play a role that mirrors her own fears about aging. Despite being filmed between her Oscar-nominated A Woman Under the Influence and the studio success Gloria, the film received no Academy recognition, largely because it barely played theatrically due to Cassavetes’s fully independent production and distribution model and the commercial failure of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. Effectively unbookable upon release, Opening Night did not screen publicly in New York until a 1980 MoMA retrospective and did not receive a proper New York theatrical run until 1991, after Cassavetes’s death. Even so, its strange, unsentimental power lies in its deliberately unstable form, blurring actor, character, and performance through overlapping narratives, improvisation, a play-within-a-film staged before real audiences, and a haunting ghost-story element that deepens its meditation on identity, performance, and loss of control.

CHELSEA LATE NIGHTS PARTY GIRL (Daisy von Scherler Mayer, 1995, 94min, United States, R) Friday, 2/27 @ 10PM Saturday, 2/28 @ 10PM Sunday, 3/1 @ 10:30AM Staff Pick: Mimi Mary (Parker Posey) is a free-spirited young woman with a run-down New York apartment and a high fashion wardrobe. She calls her godmother, a librarian, for bail money after being arrested for throwing an illegal party. To repay the loan, she begins working as a library clerk. At first she hates it, but when challenged decides to master the Dewey Decimal System and become a great library clerk, while romancing a falafel vendor and helping her roommate in his goal to become a professional DJ.

KAILI DREAMSCAPE: THE WORLD OF BI GAN RESURRECTION (Bi Gan, 2025, 160min, China, NR, Variance Films) In a world where humanity has lost the ability to dream, one creature remains entranced by the fading illusions of the dreamworld. This monster, adrift in reverie, clings to visions no one else can see—until a woman appears. Gifted with the rare power to perceive these illusions for what they truly are, she chooses to enter the monster’s dreams, determined to uncover the truth that lies hidden within. In a wild and brutal era people have discovered that the secret to eternal life is to no longer dream! People not dreaming is like candles that do not burn, they can exist forever! Those who secretly continue to dream are known as “Deliriants”. They bring pain to reality and chaos to history. They send time into spasms. Starring Jackson Yee and Shu Qi with an entrancing score by M83, Bi Gan's RESURRECTION, his most ambitious and visually sumptuous film yet, burns through the silver screen and beckons us through a portal into dreams. You won’t regret stepping through it! KAILI DREAMSCAPE: THE WORLD OF BI GAN Have you ever had a dream so real it feels like a memory? Maybe as time passes an object, person, or place opens a door to a dream remembered. Suddenly that feeling or sensual experience is connected to waking life, and that dream is tossed in amongst memories, mixed together like a pile of chaotic puzzle pieces your mind tries to fit together sensibly. If you live life long enough in one place, around the same people, your mind can recreate a dreamscape out of those familiarities. The doors that blur memory and dream, time and space, mark the thresholds filmmaker and poet, Bi Gan, is unafraid to cross. For Bi Gan, that syrupy, uncanny dreamscape in his mind, hinging on familiarity, is a remembrance of Kaili, Guizhou, China, his birthplace. His major feature films are all set and filmed in Kaili. Bi Gan’s films are doors into that sensual, poetic world - At the Chelsea, these doors are open. Welcome to the World of Bi Gan. Monday, 1/19 @ 7PM - KAILI BLUES (Bi Gan, 2015, 113min, China, NR) Featuring a post-film discussion led by Chelsea Film Programmer, Matt Brown. Monday, 1/26 @ 7PM - LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (Bi Gan, 2019, 138min, China, NR) + A SHORT STORY (Bi Gan, 2022, 15min, China, NR) Featuring a post-film discussion led by Chelsea Film Programmer, Matt Brown. Friday, 1/30 - RESURRECTION (Bi Gan, 2025, 160min, China, NR) Full weekly schedule begins Friday, 1/30!

Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star. Suddenly, the two sisters must navigate their complicated relationship with their father — and deal with an American star dropped right in the middle of their complex family dynamics.

CHELSEA LATE NIGHTS THE PUNK SINGER (Sini Anderson, 2013, 81min, United States, NR) Friday, 4/24 @ 10PM Saturday, 4/25 @ 10PM Sunday, 4/26 @ 10:30AM Staff Pick: Sheela A look at the life of activist, musician, and cultural icon Kathleen Hanna, who formed the punk band Bikini Kill and pioneered the "riot grrrl" movement of the 1990s.

NOTE: ALL SCREENINGS WILL HAVE OPEN CAPTIONS (English subtitles and descriptions of certain sounds). From award-winning writer-director Mona Fastvold (The World to Come, The Brutalist) comes the extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers. Academy Award nominee Amanda Seyfried stars as the Shaker's irrepressible leader, who preached gender and social equality and was revered by her followers. The Testament of Ann Lee captures the ecstasy and agony of her quest to build a utopia, featuring more than a dozen traditional Shaker hymns reimagined as rapturous movements with choreography by Celia Rowlson-Hall (Vox Lux) and original songs & score by Academy Award winner Daniel Blumberg (The Brutalist). NOTE: ALL SCREENINGS WILL HAVE OPEN CAPTIONS (English subtitles and descriptions of certain sounds).