Director: Kevin Shaw Run Time: 82 min. Release Year: 2022

A predominantly African-American community in Chicago comes together to fight city planners and gentrification when they learn their high-performing elementary school’s curriculum is at risk of being phased out.

Director: Julie Taymor Run Time: 123 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2002

Starring: Alfred Molina, Diego Luna, Mía Maestro, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Salma Hayek

Oscar nominee Salma Hayek stars in this biopic about Frida Kahlo’s life. 

Director: Reginald Hudlin Run Time: 106 min. Release Year: 2022

Starring: Halle Berry, Harry Belafonte, Oprah Winfrey, Quincy Jones, Sidney Poitier

From producer Oprah Winfrey, comes this insightful and celebratory documentary about screen legend, director, and civil rights activist, Sidney Poitier.

Sun, Oct 9 @ 5:00 pm: Q&A w/ director Oualid Mouaness

Director: Oualid Mouaness Run Time: 100 min. Release Year: 2020 Language: Arabic w/ English subtitles; English

Starring: Aliya Khalidi, Ghassan Maalouf, Mohammad Dali, Nadine Labaki, Rodrigue Sleiman

"1982" is a life-affirming coming-of-age tale set at an idyllic school in Lebanon’s mountains on the eve of a looming invasion. It unfolds over a single day and follows an 11-year-old boy’s relentless quest to profess his love to a girl in his class. As the invasion encroaches on Beirut, it upends the day, threatening the entire country and its cohesion. Within the microcosm of the school, the film draws a harrowing portrait of a society torn between its desire for love and peace and the ideological schisms unraveling its seams. 

Director: Patricio Guzmán Run Time: 83 min. Release Year: 2022 Language: Spanish w/ English subtitles

One day, without warning, a revolution exploded. It was the event that master documentarian Patricio Guzmán had been waiting for all his life: a million and a half people in the streets of Santiago, Chile, demanding justice, education, health care, and a new constitution to replace the strident rules imposed on the country during the Pinochet military dictatorship.

Director: Neil Marshall Run Time: 99 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2005

Starring: Alex Reid, MyAnna Buring, Natalie Mendoza, Saskia Mulder, Shauna Macdonald

Scream your last breath.

Director: Lena Stahl Run Time: 94 min. Release Year: 2021 Language: German

Starring: Anke Engelke, Hannah Herzsprung, Jonas Dassler, Karsten Mielke, Max Hopp

Love and loss are in close proximity in Lena Stahl's feature debut about a teenager and his mother setting off on a journey together after they almost lost one another.

Director: Sam Raimi Run Time: 99 min. Release Year: 2009

Starring: Alison Lohman, David Paymer, Dileep Rao, Justin Long, Lorna Raver

Christine Brown has a good job, a great boyfriend, and a bright future. But in three days, she's going to hell.

Director: David Lynch Run Time: 134 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1997

Starring: Balthazar Getty, Bill Pullman, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Patricia Arquette, Robert Blake

“We’ve met before, haven’t we?” A mesmerizing meditation on the mysterious nature of identity, Lost Highway, David Lynch’s seventh feature film, is one of the filmmaker’s most potent cinematic dreamscapes. Starring Patricia Arquette and Bill Pullman, the film expands the horizons of the medium, taking its audience on a journey through the unknown and the unknowable. As this postmodern noir detours into the realm of science fiction, it becomes apparent that the only certainty is uncertainty. New restoration.

Director: Claudio Cupellini Run Time: 118 min. Rating: Unrated Release Year: 2021 Language: Italian w/ English subtitles

Starring: Fabrizio Ferracane, Leon de La Vallée, Maria Roveran, Maurizio Donadoni, Paolo Pierobon

The end of civilization has arrived. The apocalypse has wiped out a large part of humanity and the earth has stopped bearing fruit. It is not known what caused this cataclysm, whether it was a nuclear holocaust, a devastating war or a virus that wiped out so much life on our planet. A Father and his Son are among the few survivors. The Son grows up like a wild beast, because the Father thinks this is the only way he can help his child survive in a world where human relationships have become extremely dangerous. When the Father dies, the Son decides to undertake a journey beyond the confines of the sluice and the reservoir, along a mysterious river, moved by the desire to discover the world that was forbidden to him, but above all in search of someone who can read the words written by The Father in a notebook. The Son’s journey will turn into a coming-of-age story, where beauty and wonder have to fight against the darkness of a world which seems implacably hostile.

Director: George A. Romero Run Time: 96 min. Release Year: 1968

Starring: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman, Keith Wayne, Marilyn Eastman

If it doesn't scare you, you're already dead! Coming to the DIGITAL GYM CINEMA on glorious 16mm film presented by SEE IT ON 16MM! The 60’s shocker classic, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968).

Director: Jennifer Kent Run Time: 94 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2014

Starring: Barbara West, Daniel Henshall, Essie Davis, Hayley McElhinney, Noah Wiseman

If it's in a word, or it's in a look, you can't get rid of the Babadook.

Director: Emily Burns Run Time: 180 min. Release Year: 2022

Starring: James Corrigan, Kelvin Fletcher, Kerry Howard, Laurie Davidson, Peter Forbes

Synopsis: A rollicking new comedy by Richard Bean (One Man, Two Guvnors) and Oliver Chris (Twelfth Night). After an aerial dog fight, Pilot Officer Jack Absolute flies home to win the heart of his old flame, Lydia Languish. Back on British soil, Jack’s advances soon turn to anarchy when the young heiress demands to be loved on her own, very particular, terms. Emily Burns directs this spectacularly entertaining new version of Sheridan’s The Rivals. Featuring a cast including Caroline Quentin, Laurie Davidson, Natalie Simpson and Kelvin Fletcher.

Director: John Carpenter Run Time: 91 min. Rating: R Release Year: 1978

Starring: Charles Cyphers, Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Kyes, P.J. Soles

The Night He Came Home!

Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell Run Time: 133 min. Rating: Unrated Release Year: 1948

Starring: Adolf Wohlbrück, Léonide Massine, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann

This Powell and Pressburger classic is widely considered to be one of the greatest films ever made and winner of two Oscars. It focuses on Vicky, a young ballerina starring in a ballet The Red Shoes. Like her character in the ballet, she is irresistibly drawn to dancing. Her life becomes split between her simple human passion and artistic devotion to her profession. The film contains ballet sequences of stylistic mastery, and is visually one of the most innovative and beautiful works of cinema ever created.

Director: Jamie Lloyd Run Time: 150 min. Release Year: 2022

Starring: Daniel Monks, Emilia Clarke, Indira Varma, Sophie Wu, Tom Rhys Harries

Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) makes her West End debut in this 21st century retelling of Anton Chekhov’s tale of love and loneliness.  A young woman is desperate for fame and a way out. A young man is pining after the woman of his dreams. A successful writer longs for a sense of achievement. An actress wants to fight the changing of the times. In an isolated home in the countryside, dreams lie in tatters, hopes are dashed, and hearts broken. With nowhere left to turn, the only option is to turn on each other. Following his critically acclaimed five-star production of Cyrano de Bergerac, Jamie Lloyd brings Anya Reiss’ adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s classic play to stage. Filmed live in London’s West End with a cast including Tom Rhys Harries (White Lines), Daniel Monks (The Normal Heart), Sophie Wu (Fresh Meat) and Indira Varma (Game of Thrones).

Director: Simon Godwin Run Time: 180 min. Release Year: 2022

Starring: David Fynn, Eben Figueiredo, Ioanna Kimbook, John Heffernan, Katherine Parkinson

Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd) and John Heffernan (Dracula) lead the cast in Shakespeare’s romcom of sun, sea and mistaken identity. The legendary family-run Hotel Messina on the Italian Riveria has been visited by artists, celebrities and royalty. But when the owner’s daughter weds a dashing young soldier, not all guests are in the mood for love. A string of scandalous deceptions soon surround not only the young couple, but also the adamantly single Beatrice and Benedick. Following the award-winning success of National Theatre Live’s Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night and Antony and Cleopatra, director Simon Godwin returns with this irresistible comedy, broadcast live from the National Theatre stage.