The Last First: Winter K2

Wednesday, September 30: Q&A with dir. Amir Bar-Lev after 7:00 show!

Thursday, October 1: Q&A with dir. Amir Bar-Lev after 6:50 show!

Friday, October 2: Q&A with dir. Amir Bar-Lev after 7:00 show!

In “The Last First: Winter K2,” Amir Bar-Lev tells a complex, harrowing and moving story that unpacks the industry of extreme mountain climbing and its changing culture. Focusing on a 2021 expedition, mountaineers John Snorri Sigurjónsson, an Icelander, and the Pakistani father-son team of Ali and Sajid Sadpara set out to be the first to summit K2 in the winter, when the mountain’s conditions are the cruelest. The men soon find themselves sharing the treacherous ascent with influencer climbers and their film crews, commercial expedition clients and Nims, a Nepalese celebrity mountaineer, and his team of Sherpas. “The Last First: Winter K2” takes us to the icy heights and unpredictable weather of K2 and reveals a surprising and layered story — one of strategy and determination, class and caste, money and power — all under life and death circumstances.

 

Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie (Open Captioning)

Please note that there are additional showtimes of KNIFE that screen without open captions (on-screen display of dialogue and sounds). For those showtimes, click here.

More than 30 years after Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini called for the death of author Salman Rushdie over the publication of The Satanic Verses, Rushdie traveled to Chautauqua, NY to speak about the US as a sanctuary for exiled artists. At his talk, a young man rushed the stage, intent on killing him with a knife. Using Rushdie’s works, including his powerful memoir Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, Oscar winning documentarian Gibney crafts a striking testament to freedom of expression and a defiant response to the attempt on Rushdie’s life.

Begotten

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BEGOTTEN has no characters in the ordinary sense. Its final credits name three principal figures:

God Killing Himself.

Mother Earth.

Son of Earth – Flesh on Bone.

The entire film is what those names do to each other and to the earth.God Killing Himself tears open his body and dies. Mother Earth rises from what remains andtakes his seed into herself. She gives birth to Son of Earth Flesh on Bone. He is cast into abarren world, seized by the Nomads, tortured, killed, and briefly returned to life by his mother.The Nomads destroy her too. The Robed Figures gather what remains of mother and son, grindtheir bodies down, and return them to the soil. The ground flowers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grey Gardens

Staff Pick by Bella Baynard, Assistant Manager

creening as part of our series Staff Picks 2026

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Staff Pick by Chuckie

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Spring Breakers

“I usually choose staff picks that are personal favorites of mine, but I only watched this one once when it was originally released in 2013, and I was pretty ambivalent about it at the time. This might be a natural (or even intended) reaction to a film that both traffics in and satirizes the most garish and nihilistic parts of American culture, a mix of hedonism, bad taste and petty corruption that are epitomized in this film and in our national consciousness by the state of Florida — which also serves as a mecca for the eponymous spring breakers. Korine smartly (and controversially) cast Disney Channel icons Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez to play against type, and James Franco is arguably at his best here playing the most Florida of all Florida Men ever put on the big screen. Cinematographer Benoît Debie (Enter the Void, Climax) renders it all in neon pinks, pool blues and Florida rays that shift rapidly from dreamy to nightmarish.

Despite my initial mixed feelings, I’ve started to feel this film scratching at my brain 13 years later. Perhaps it’s because video game violence, cheap pop aesthetics and reality TV bravado have now moved into the very center of power on this planet, and the people wielding that power treat the chaos they unleash with even less weight than the players in this film — something Korine seems to have seen coming a bit earlier than the rest of us. This mid-career entry from Korine is seldom revisited and hasn’t been embraced by younger cinephiles as much as his earlier work, despite (or perhaps because of) it being arguably his most approachable film. I think it’s time for a rewatch.”

Staff Pick by Christine Kecher, Business & Systems Manager

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Cloverfield

Screening on 35mm!

“There is an undeniable truth that 2008’s cryptic found footage creature feature CLOVERFIELD would eventually spawn a vague franchise of dwindling returns thanks to producer and mystery-box obsessive J.J. Abrams. However, that shouldn’t undermine the timeless ingenuity of director Matt Reeves’ original film.

 Part of what made GODZILLA the cultural zeitgeist it is was how it portrayed real tragedy so genuine to its time and place while also being fantastical. During WWII, information was sent and received to the public through wartime propaganda, news headlines, and documentaries. GODZILLA utilized this by being filmed and presented like a wartime documentary. CLOVERFIELD subsequently uses its style and aestheticism in a similar way, albeit in relation to a tragedy specific to its respective time and place.

September 11, 2001 was a day of fear and confusion. People were completely in the dark and slowly receiving information through loved ones’ phone calls, news footage from ground zero, and bystanders’ camcorder footage. CLOVERFIELD incorporates this to a T. It’s hard to see the creature most of the time, the visuals are shaky and unclear, and the very nature of the film being found footage perfectly reflects the feelings on that day in 2001 while also acting in service of a simple, sleek, and scary monster movie. It’s pure, unadulterated, obstructed spectacle.” 

Staff Pick by Heather Landsman, Usher

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Redline

Staff Pick by CJ

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Popstar: Never Stop Stopping

Staff Pick by Nick Pels, Usher

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Paris Is Burning

Staff Pick by James

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