THE BIRDCAGE 1996 117 minutes Given the recent “Don’t say Gay” initiative of Florida’s governor, here is a film set on Miami’s South Beach belting the word out in grand style. Based on the 1978 La Cage aux Folles, the...
CAROL 2015 118 minutes Based on novel The Price of Salt and set in 1952, when same-sex love stories were expected to end in shame and tragedy, Patricia Highsmith’s tale broke with convention in its depiction of two very different...
THE WINGS OF THE DOVE 1997 102 minutes This film could be described as one of the best “Merchant & Ivory” films––even if neither of them had anything to do with it. Based on the Henry James novel and with cinematography...
THE NAMESAKE 2006 122 minutes Based on the novel by Jhumpa Lahiri and directed by Mira Nair, this film tells the story of a Bengali couple (Irrfan Khan and Tubu) who emigrate to suburban New York. As they try to...
HONEYLAND 2019 87 minutes On first impression, this documentary would strike the viewer as an exceptionally realistic dramatic feature, as the filmmakers Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov shot 400 hours of footage over three years documenting Hatidže Muratova, the last of the wild...
BABETTE’S FEAST 1987 102 minutes In the spirit of the Film Club’s series “641.5 Food on Film,” we are now able to present this adaptation of Isak Dinesen’s short story about two sisters in a desolate 19th century Danish fishing...
THIS BEAUTIFUL FANTASTIC 2016 92 Minutes With some challenging films planned for the coming weeks, it seemed only right to start August with a confectionary fable starring Downtown Abbey alum Jessica Brown Findlay as an obsessive-compulsive librarian struggling to cope...
LEAVE NO TRACE 2018 109 minutes Debra Granik, an alumni of Brandeis and Mass Art, follows up on her directorial debut Winter’s Bone with an adaptation of the Peter Rock novel My Abandonment, a story about a teenage girl (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie) living in...
THE JOURNEY 2016 94 minutes In 2006, after years of stalled initiatives, the Protestant Unionist and Catholic Nationalist leaders of Northern Ireland met in Scotland to hammer out a power sharing agreement. Then Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish...
Please note that this film will NOT be screened at the AIC but at the Weston Library Community Room on Thursday, August 25th at 1:30. ON THE BASIS OF SEX 2018 120 minutes As a companion piece to the documentary RGB,...
A GOOD YEAR 2006 117 minutes Directed by Ridley Scott of Alien and Blade Runner fame, this comparatively “small” film came about when Scott and his neighbor in Provence, the writer Peter Mayle collaborated on a fish-out-of-water story involving an Englishman who inherits a French...
MY MAN GODFREY (1936) 94 minutes An American screwball comedy, directed by Gregory La Cava and starring William Powell and Carole Lombard. Set during the Great Depression. Godfrey "Smith" Parke is unemployed, living with other homeless men down on their...
