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 Monday, 1/19 @ 7PM - KAILI BLUES (Bi Gan, 2015, 113min, China, NR) Featuring a post-film discussion lead by Chelsea Film Programmer, Matt Brown. 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 lead 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 lead by Chelsea Film Programmer, Matt Brown. Friday, 1/30 - RESURRECTION (Bi Gan, 2025, 160min, China, NR) Full weekly schedule begins Friday, 1/30!

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 lead by Chelsea Film Programmer, Matt Brown. 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. Monday, 1/19 @ 7PM - KAILI BLUES (Bi Gan, 2015, 113min, China, NR) Featuring a post-film discussion lead 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 lead by Chelsea Film Programmer, Matt Brown. Friday, 1/30 - RESURRECTION (Bi Gan, 2025, 160min, China, NR) Full weekly schedule begins Friday, 1/30!

From Writer/Director Josh Safdie (UNCUT GEMS, GOOD TIME, HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT) comes a table-top dream fit for a Wheaties box. Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness. Starring Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A'zion, Tyler the Creator, Kevin O'Leary, Fran Drescher, and Sandra Bernhard.

(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

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 lead 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 lead by Chelsea Film Programmer, Matt Brown. Friday, 1/30 - RESURRECTION (Bi Gan, 2025, 160min, China, NR) Full weekly schedule begins Friday, 1/30!

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).