40th anniversary 4K restoration At age 75, the great Akira Kurosawa made the samurai epic to end all samurai epics. That’s saying something considering he already made Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, and Kagemusha. Kurosawa’s take on Shakespeare’s King Lear—spliced with the legend of the daimyō Mōri Motonari—is the Japanese master’s most impressionistic and experimental film, filled […]
This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. A Weekend of Rainy Musicals For those who’ve been telling us that the movies have been a little heavy lately, here’s a huge, heaping dose of cinematic joy and optimism. […]
This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. A Weekend of Rainy Musicals There’s really nothing else like The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. A melancholy, sung-through musical with astonishing candy-color design and staggeringly gorgeous lead actors, it’s a singular […]
This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. A Weekend of Rainy Musicals There’s really nothing else like The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. A melancholy, sung-through musical with astonishing candy-color design and staggeringly gorgeous lead actors, it’s a singular […]
The preeminent dramatist of China’s rapid 21st-century growth and social transformation, Jia Zhangke has taken his boldest approach to narrative yet with his marvelous Caught by the Tides. Assembled from footage shot over a span of 23 years—a beguiling mix of fiction and documentary, featuring a cascade of images taken from previous movies, unused scenes, […]
This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. Guest curator Natalie Neuert This sweeping, delirious romance by Paweł Pawlikowski begins in the Soviet-ruled Polish countryside of late 1940s, where Wiktor (Tomasz Kot), a musician on a state-sponsored mission […]
This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. New Release Reveling in his youth in the gorgeous rural Jura region of Eastern France, Totone has few worries and is content to party with his friends as the family […]
This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. New Release Reveling in his youth in the gorgeous rural Jura region of Eastern France, Totone has few worries and is content to party with his friends as the family […]
As part of the nationwide Science on Screen initiative, VTIFF presents Food and Country, an investigation of American food systems by acclaimed food writer Ruth Reichl. The film is paired with a lecture/conversation by UVM’s Climate Kitchen (housed in UVM’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences), which brings together researchers, students, and communities at UVM […]
4K Restoration “Wryly funny, well acted and extremely moving.” —Sight & Sound “A blunt cinematic instrument of immense power.” —The New Yorker In 1981, Jessie Maple became the first African American woman to direct an independent film with this raw, unflinching portrait of heroin addiction and recovery. Shot on location in Harlem, Will stars Obaka […]
Guest hosts Tyler Sonic & Lisa Macaroni “Proudly wears its affection for crusty Sergio Leone archetypes and countdown-clock suspense sequences; Carpenter was Tarantino long before Tarantino was.” —Time Out New York Welcome to the movie that transformed Kurt Russell’s career, taking him from clean-cut Disney heartthrob to seriously grizzled action hero. Escape From New York […]
This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. Guest hosts Tyler Sonic & Lisa Macaroni The greatest movie ever made starring a professional wrestler, and—yeah, we’ll say it—one of the best political movies of the 1980s, They Live […]
This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. Celebrate Pride Month Banned in Vietnam for being “too dark,” that dismissive description is bound to give you the wrong impression of Việt and Nam. Trương Minh Quý’s brilliant film […]
Celebrate Pride Month The path to living as one’s authentic self is paved with trials and tribulations in this revelatory, assured feature debut by Dee Rees (Mudbound, Bessie)—the all-too-rare coming-of-age tale to honestly represent the experiences of queer Black women. Grounded in the fine-grained specificity and deft characterizations of Rees’s script, and built around a […]
Celebrate Pride Month Essentially the starting gun for the New Queer Cinema of the 1990s, Todd Haynes’ debut feature was a surprise hit that made all kinds of headlines. This groundbreaking American indie was the most fervently debated film of the 1990s and a trailblazing landmark of queer cinema. As a work of immense visual […]
Celebrate Pride Month Kid Flicks: Pride is a celebration of self-expression, community, legacy, and love. Curated specifically for ages nine and up, these shorts from around the world feature a wide range of LGBTQ+ identities and experiences in as many unique styles. Schoolyard matchmakers, a Belgian teen, a group of indigenous Hawaiian māhū, and more […]
Celebrate Pride Month Kid Flicks: Pride is a celebration of self-expression, community, legacy, and love. Curated specifically for ages nine and up, these shorts from around the world feature a wide range of LGBTQ+ identities and experiences in as many unique styles. Schoolyard matchmakers, a Belgian teen, a group of indigenous Hawaiian māhū, and more […]
Agathe (Camille Rutherford) is a hopelessly clumsy yet charming young woman who works in the legendary Shakespeare & Co. bookshop in Paris. While she dreams of being a successful writer, and of experiencing love akin to a Jane Austen novel, she finds herself desperately single and plagued by writer’s block. When she’s invited to the […]
Host Jason Gonzales At last, kung fu has arrived at The Screening Room, where barista extraordinaire and wuxia scholar Jason Gonzales hosts a weekend of two golden-age martial arts classics. Master of the Flying Guillotine (what a title!) is a classic martial-arts death match that pits two wuxia icons against each other—the famed One-Armed Boxer […]
Host Jason Gonzales At last, kung fu has arrived at The Screening Room, where barista extraordinaire and wuxia scholar Jason Gonzales hosts a weekend of two golden-age martial arts classics. This is the film that started the kung fu movie craze in the U.S. Originally released as King Boxer, then retitled Five Fingers of Death […]