
March 2023
Everything Everywhere All At Once
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We're giving you one more chance to see the 11-time Oscar nominee Everything Everywhere All At Once on the big screen! Evelyn Wong's life is unravelling - her laundromat is being audited by the IRS, her marriage with her timid husband Waymond is on shaky ground, her relationship with her daughter Joy is crumbling, and her demanding father is visiting from China. She is visited by a different, more confident version of her husband who explains that he is from…
Salem Film Fest 2023 – North Circular
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A Q&A with Director Luke McManus follows the screening. North Circular is a documentary musical that travels the length of Dublin's North Circular Road, from the Phoenix Park to Dublin Port, exploring the history, music and streetscapes of a street that links some of the country's most beloved and infamous places. Told in black and white 4:3 Academy ratio, the film evokes many narratives from the history of the city and nation, from colonialism, to mental health, to the struggle…
Salem Film Fest 2023 – The Kaiser of Atlantis
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A Q&A with Director Sebastián Alfie follows the screening. In 1943, a group of musicians imprisoned in the Terezin Nazi concentration camp did the unimaginable — they wrote and rehearsed an opera, ‘The Kaiser of Atlantis.’ The piece openly mocked Adolf Hitler and represents one of the bravest, least-known acts of artistic resistance during that period. Composer Viktor Ullman never saw its premiere; he was assassinated in Auschwitz two weeks after the first dress rehearsal. Long considered lost, the manuscript…
Salem Film Fest 2023 – Fantastic Negrito: Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?
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A Q&A with Co-Director Yvan Iturriaga follows the screening. Beyond the bombastic stage persona of Fantastic Negrito lies a 51-year-old survivor, hustler, and self-described ‘recovering narcissist’ named Xavier Dphrepaulezz. After his improbable midlife transformation from busking bluesman to back-to-back Grammy winner, Xavier is now ready to face his demons. Full of musical performances and featuring intimate and often hilarious interviews with philosopher-poet Xavier and his brilliant band of collaborators and close friends, the film traces his journey from early isolation…
Salem Film Fest 2023 – Still Working 9 to 5
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A Q&A with Co-Director Gary Lane and Co-Executive Producer Larry Lane follows the screening. When the highest grossing comedy, 9 TO 5, exploded on screens in 1980, the laughs hid a serious message about inequality in the workplace. In the film, three female employees (Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin) of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot (Dabney Coleman) find a way to turn the tables on him. Still Working 9 to 5 deconstructs the Hollywood film to examine…
80 for Brady
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80 for Brady is inspired by the true story of four best friends living life to the fullest when they take a wild trip to the 2017 Super Bowl LI to see their hero Tom Brady play. Starring Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, Sally Field, and, of course, Tom Brady. https://youtu.be/-UeGXB2NjR8 Rated PG-13. Run time approx. 1 hour 45 minutes.
April 2023
What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat and Tears?
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In June 1970, hot off their spectacular Grammy® win for Album of the Year (besting The Beatles’ “Abbey Road”), Blood, Sweat & Tears becomes the first American rock band to perform behind the Iron Curtain, doing concerts in Yugoslavia, Romania and Poland on a tour sponsored by the U.S. State Department. Like much of the youth in America, band members have been outspoken and critical of the Nixon administration and the Vietnam War. The Iron Curtain Tour seems to be a…
May 2023
Grease – 45th Anniversary Screening
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May 14th @ 4:00pm
May 14th @ 7:00pm
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The kids are cool, the cars are hot, and the tunes are always rockin' and rollin' when one of the most beloved comedies of all time comes back to theaters to celebrate its 45th anniversary! Good girl Sandy (Olivia Newton-John) is new to school, but ready to join the Pink Ladies. Bad boy Danny (John Travolta), the leader of the T-Birds, has just discovered their summer lovin' wasn't just a passing fling when they're reunited at Rydell High School. Rated…