Movies

Friday, May 29 @ 7 pm
THE POWER OF THE DOG (2021)
The Screening Room

Jane Campion returned to the mythic frontier landscape to plumb the masculine psyche, becoming only the third woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director. She charts this story’s repressed desires and psychic violence with the control of a master at the height of her powers.

Saturday, May 30 @ 7 pm
OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
The Screening Room

A high-water mark in the genre, Out of the Past has everything you want in a film noir: a tenacious detective (Robert Mitchum) spinning his wheels to make good, a drop-dead beauty (Jane Greer) up to no good, and a moneyed mobster (Kirk Douglas) with a shark’s grin, plus double crosses, fall guys, shadowy rooms, and bleak souls.

Monday, June 1 @ 7 pm
LOST IN AMERICA (1985)
The Screening Room

In this hysterical road comedy, an acerbic send up of Reagan-era values, a successful Los Angeles ad exec (Albert Brooks) and his wife (Julie Hagerty) decide to quit their jobs, buy a Winnebago, and hit the open road—you know, “like in Easy Rider.”

Sunday, June 7 @ 3 pm
SUN RA: A JOYFUL NOISE (1980)
The Film House

Acclaimed musicologist and documentarian Robert Mugge’s most celebrated portrait captures the visionary artist-philosopher-Afrofuturist and his avant-garde jazz Arkestra in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. between 1978 and 1980. VTIFF is thrilled to welcome filmmaker Robert Mugge for a post-screening Q&A.

Wednesday, June 10 @ 7 pm
THAT NIGHT’S WIFE (1930)
The Screening Room

Live improvised score by Matt Hagen + a special guest. Unfolding over the course of one night, Yasujiro Ozu’s That Night’s Wife combines suspense with the emotional domestic drama one associates with the filmmaker’s later masterpieces.

Thursday, June 11 @ 7 pm
HORSESHOE (2025)
The Screening Room

Horseshoe is a deliciously prickly dramedy set in the wild west of Ireland. When the head of the Canavan family dies suddenly, his four estranged adult children return to handle the family estate, but more than one Canavan sibling is harboring secrets.

Saturday, June 13 @ 4 pm
HORSESHOE (2025)
The Screening Room

Horseshoe is a deliciously prickly dramedy set in the wild west of Ireland. When the head of the Canavan family dies suddenly, his four estranged adult children return to handle the family estate, but more than one Canavan sibling is harboring secrets.

Saturday, June 13 @ 7 pm
NO PICNIC (1986)
The Screening Room

Featuring very early parts for Steve Buscemi and Luis Guzmán (not to mention a prominent turn from Richard Hell), Philip Hartman’s forgotten indie is an invaluable artifact of New York’s pre-gentrification East Village, finally unearthed and given the 4K restoration treatment.

Sunday, June 14 @ 2 pm
NO PICNIC (1986)
The Screening Room

Featuring very early parts for Steve Buscemi and Luis Guzmán (not to mention a prominent turn from Richard Hell), Philip Hartman’s forgotten indie is an invaluable artifact of New York’s pre-gentrification East Village, finally unearthed and given the 4K restoration treatment.

Sunday, June 14 @ 7 pm
SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)
The Film House

With a whip-smart script by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, and the sparking chemistry of Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, and Tony Curtis, Some Like It Hot is as deliriously funny and fresh today as it was when it first knocked audiences out in the fifties.

Thursday, June 18 @ 4 pm
STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE (2025)
The Film House

Includes a Q&A with journalist Amy Goodman moderated by David Goodman, host of VTDigger’s Vermont Conversation, and Ken Ellingwood, consulting editor at Seven Days. A gripping portrait of the trailblazing journalist Amy Goodman, whose unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history, from the frontlines of global conflicts to the organized chaos of her daily news show Democracy Now!

Thursday, June 18 @ 7 pm
STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE (2025)
The Film House

Includes a Q&A with journalist Amy Goodman moderated by David Goodman, host of VTDigger’s Vermont Conversation, and Ken Ellingwood, consulting editor at Seven Days. A gripping portrait of the trailblazing journalist Amy Goodman, whose unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history, from the frontlines of global conflicts to the organized chaos of her daily news show Democracy Now!

Saturday, June 20 @ 1 pm
STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE (2025)
The Film House

A gripping portrait of the trailblazing journalist Amy Goodman, whose unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history, from the frontlines of global conflicts to the organized chaos of her daily news show Democracy Now!

Saturday, June 20 @ 4 pm
DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (1995)
The Screening Room

Denzel Washington has charisma to burn as Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, an ex-GI prowling L.A. who sees a chance to make some quick cash when he’s recruited to find the missing lover of a wealthy mayoral candidate.

Saturday, June 20 @ 7 pm
HARD BOILED (1992)
The Screening Room

John Woo’s seminal bullet opera, which capped his run of classic Hong Kong actioners, remains a crown jewel of the heroic bloodshed genre and arguably the pinnacle of Woo’s legendary collaboration with star and muse Chow Yun-fat.

Saturday, June 27 @ 4 pm
MAD BILLS TO PAY (OR DESTINY, DILE QUE NO SOY MALO) (2025)
The Screening Room

Shot guerilla-style in 14 days in the Bronx, Joel Alfonso Vargas’ debut feature is a one of the most visually striking movies of the year, a life-on-the-margins comedy about a teenage “nutty” hustler unceremoniously thrust into adulthood.

Saturday, June 27 @ 7 pm
MANAS (2024)
The Screening Room

Island of Marajó, Amazon rainforest. 13-year-old Marcielle lives by the riverbanks with her father, mother, and three siblings. As Tielle matures, her idealized visions shatter, leaving her trapped between two abusive environments.

Sunday, June 28 @ 1 pm
MANAS (2024)
The Screening Room

Island of Marajó, Amazon rainforest. 13-year-old Marcielle lives by the riverbanks with her father, mother, and three siblings. As Tielle matures, her idealized visions shatter, leaving her trapped between two abusive environments.

Sunday, June 28 @ 3:30 pm
MAD BILLS TO PAY (OR DESTINY, DILE QUE NO SOY MALO) (2025)
The Screening Room

Shot guerilla-style in 14 days in the Bronx, Joel Alfonso Vargas’ debut feature is a one of the most visually striking movies of the year, a life-on-the-margins comedy about a teenage “nutty” hustler unceremoniously thrust into adulthood.

Wednesday, July 8 @ 7 pm
THE GOLEM (1920)
The Screening Room

Live improvised score by Matt Hagen + Will Andrews (aka Willverine). Widely recognized as the source of the Frankenstein myth, the ancient Hebrew legend of the Golem provided actor/director Paul Wegener with the substance for one of the most adventurous films of the German silent cinema.

Wednesday, August 5 @ 7 pm
HELL’S HINGES (1916)
The Screening Room

Live improvised score by Matt Hagen + Avery Cooper. This violent, morally shocking early feature-length Western features America’s first cinematic cowboy hero, William S. Hart, who became one of silent cinema’s most famous actors.

Thursday, September 17 @ 7 pm
THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (1928)
The Film House

Live improvised score by Freeway Clyde. Spiritual rapture and institutional hypocrisy come to stark, vivid life in one of the most transcendent masterpieces of the silent era.