2023

New Releases

Fremont

Friday, Sep 8th

Now Playing Cinema Club Moderator Megan Feeney will be in conversation with Micaela Schuneman, JD, Senior Director of Immigration and Refugee Services at the International Institute of Minnesota (IIMN), where she oversees the departments that provide immigration legal services and social services for newly-arrived refugees and other immigrants. Cinema Club screenings are Free for MSP […]

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2023

New Releases

Oppenheimer

Friday, Sep 8th

Now Playing About the Film Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is an IMAX®-shot epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it. The film stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Emily Blunt as his wife, biologist […]

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2023

New Releases

Theater Camp

Friday, Sep 8th

Now Playing About the Film Tony Award winner Ben Platt and Molly Gordon star in the original comedy Theater Camp as Amos and Rebecca-Diane – lifelong best friends and drama instructors at a rundown camp in upstate New York. When clueless tech-bro Troy (Jimmy Tatro) arrives to run the property (into the ground), Amos, Rebecca-Diane […]

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2023

New Releases

Barbie

Friday, Sep 8th

Now Playing About the Film To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you’re a Ken. Created by Oscar-nominated writer/director Greta Gerwig (Little Women, Lady Bird) from a screenplay by Gerwig & Oscar nominee Noah Baumbach. From extraordinary international cinema […]

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2023

New Releases

Bottoms

Friday, Sep 8th

Now Playing About the Film Directed and co-written by Emma Seligman (Shiva Baby), starring Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri. In this refreshingly unique comedy, two girls, PJ and Josie, start a fight club as a way to lose their virginities to cheerleaders. And their bizarre plan works! The fight club gains traction, and soon the […]

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2023

New Releases

Joan Baez I Am A Noise

Friday, Oct 13th

Now Playing About the Film Joan Baez I Am A Noise is an unusually intimate psychological portrait of legendary folk singer and activist Joan Baez. Neither a conventional biopic nor a traditional concert film, this immersive documentary moves back and forth through time as it follows Joan on her farewell tour and delves into her […]

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2023

New Releases

The Exorcist: Believer

Friday, Oct 13th

Now Playing About the Film Exactly 50 years ago this fall, the most terrifying horror film in history landed on screens, shocking audiences around the world. Now, on Friday, October 13, a new chapter begins. From Blumhouse and director David Gordon Green, who shattered the status quo with their resurrection of the Halloween franchise, comes […]

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2023

New Releases

A Haunting in Venice

Friday, Oct 13th

Now Playing About the Film A Haunting in Venice, an unsettling supernatural thriller based upon the novel “Hallowe’en Party” by Agatha Christie and directed by and starring Oscar® winner Kenneth Branagh as famed detective Hercule Poirot, will open in cinemas nationwide September 15, 2023. With a screenplay by Oscar® nominee Michael Green, A Haunting in […]

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2023

New Releases

Stop Making Sense

Friday, Oct 13th

Now Playing About the Film Newly restored in 4K to coincide with its 40th anniversary, the 1984 film was directed by renowned filmmaker Jonathan Demme and is considered by critics as the greatest concert film of all time. Stop Making Sense stars core band members David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison along with Bernie […]

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2023

Cine Latino

Strange Way of Life + The Human Voice

Friday, Oct 13th

Now Playing Two star-studded short films by legendary Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar. About Strange Way of Life2023 | 31 min. | Starring Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal A man rides a horse across the desert that separates him from Bitter Creek. He comes to visit Sheriff Jake. Twenty-five years earlier, both the sheriff and Silva, the […]

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2023

New Releases

TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR

Friday, Oct 13th

Now Playing About the Film The cultural phenomenon continues on the big screen! Immerse yourself in this once-in-a-lifetime concert film experience with a breathtaking, cinematic view of the history-making tour. Taylor Swift Eras attire and friendship bracelets are strongly encouraged! From extraordinary international cinema to Hollywood’s latest; must-see American indies to groundbreaking documentaries, big screen experiences daily at […]

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2023

New Releases

Killers of the Flower Moon

Friday, Nov 10th

Now Playing About the Film At the turn of the 20th century, oil brought a fortune to the Osage Nation, who became some of the richest people in the world overnight. The wealth of these Native Americans immediately attracted white interlopers, who manipulated, extorted, and stole as much Osage money as they could before resorting […]

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2023

New Releases

Anatomy of a Fall

Friday, Nov 10th

Now Playing Palme d’Or Winner at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. About the Film For the past year, Sandra, her husband Samuel, and their eleven-year-old son Daniel have lived a secluded life in a remote town in the French Alps. When Samuel is found dead in the snow below their chalet, the police question whether […]

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2023

New Releases

Four Daughters

Friday, Nov 10th

Now Playing About the Film A riveting exploration of rebellion, memory, and sisterhood, Oscar-nominated director Kaouther Ben Hania’s Four Daughters reconstructs the story of Olfa Hamrouni and her four daughters, unpacking a complex family history to examine how the Tunisian woman’s two eldest daughters were radicalized — by watching the family relive key events in […]

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2023

New Releases

The Killer

Friday, Nov 10th

Now Playing About the Film After a fateful near-miss an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn’t personal. From director David Fincher and starring Michael Fassbender and Tilda Swinton. Based on the graphic novel The Killer by Alexis “Matz” Nolent, illustrated by Luc Jacamon. From extraordinary international cinema to […]

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2023

New Releases

Priscilla

Friday, Nov 10th

Now Playing About the Film When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend. Through Priscilla’s eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American […]

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2023

New Releases

Dream Scenario

Friday, Dec 8th

Now Playing About the Film Hapless family man Paul Matthews (Nicolas Cage) finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. But when his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to navigate his newfound stardom, in this wickedly entertaining comedy from writer-director Kristoffer Borgli […]

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2023

New Releases

Eileen

Friday, Dec 8th

Now Playing About the Film Based on the book of the same name by literary powerhouse Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen follows a peculiar young woman whose dreary life stretches on toward unending misery. In frigid 1960s Boston, Eileen (Thomasin McKenzie) shuffles between her father’s dingy, emotionally haunted home and the prison where she works alongside colleagues […]

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2023

New Releases

The Holdovers

Friday, Dec 8th

Now Playing About the Film From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — […]

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2024

Hayao Miyazaki - Forces of Nature

The Boy and the Heron (SUB)

Friday, Dec 8th

Now Playing Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. You are viewing info for the original Japanese language cast version. For showings of the English language cast version, click here. About the Film Hayao Miyazaki’s first feature film in 10 years, The Boy and the Heron is a hand-drawn, original story written and directed […]

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2023

New Releases

Maestro

Friday, Dec 8th

Now Playing About the Film Maestro is a towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between cultural icon Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper) and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein (Carey Mulligan). A love letter to life and art, Maestro, at its core, is an emotionally epic portrayal of family and love. From extraordinary international cinema […]

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2024

Hayao Miyazaki - Forces of Nature

The Boy and the Heron (DUB)

Friday, Dec 8th

Now Playing Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. You are viewing info for the English language cast version. For showings of the original Japanese language cast version, click here. About the Film Hayao Miyazaki’s first feature film in 10 years, The Boy and the Heron is a hand-drawn, original story written and directed […]

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2024

Cinema Club

Fallen Leaves

Friday, Jan 12th

Now Playing Official Selection for Finland – Best International Feature Film, 96th Academy Awards January Cinema Club Cinema Club Screening: Saturday, January 13 at 11am Cinema Club screenings are Free for MSP Film Society Members. Not a Member? Join here. More info on Cinema Club here. Members: Remember to sign-in to make your reservation. About […]

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2024

New Releases

Ferrari

Friday, Jan 12th

Now Playing About the Film It is the summer of 1957. Behind the spectacle of Formula 1, ex-racer Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) is in crisis. Bankruptcy threatens the factory he and his wife, Laura (Penélope Cruz) built from nothing ten years earlier. Their volatile marriage has been battered by the loss of their son, Dino […]

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2024

New Releases

The Iron Claw

Friday, Jan 12th

Now Playing About the Film The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports. Starring Zac Efron, […]

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2024

New Releases

American Fiction

Friday, Jan 12th

Now Playing Nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score. About the Film American Fiction is Cord Jefferson’s hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with […]

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2024

New Releases

The Promised Land (Bastarden)

Friday, Feb 9th

Now Playing Official Selection for Denmark – Best International Feature Film, 96th Academy Awards About the Film In 18th century Denmark, Captain Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen) – a proud, ambitious, but impoverished war hero — sets out to tame a vast, uninhabitable land on which seemingly nothing can grow. He seeks to start farming crops, […]

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2024

New Releases

Poor Things

Friday, Feb 9th

Now Playing Nominated for 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing. About the Film From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the incredible tale and fantastical […]

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2024

New Releases

Origin

Friday, Feb 9th

Now Playing About the Film Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Ava DuVernay, Origin chronicles the tragedy and triumph of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson as she investigates a global phenomenon of epic proportions. Portrayed by Academy Award nominee Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (“King Richard”), Isabel experiences unfathomable personal loss and love as she crosses […]

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2024

New Releases

Dune: Part Two

Thursday, Feb 29th

Now Playing About the Film The saga continues as award-winning filmmaker Denis Villeneuve embarks on Dune: Part Two, the next chapter of Frank Herbert’s celebrated novel Dune, with an expanded all-star international ensemble cast. The film, from Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures, is the highly anticipated follow-up to 2021’s six-time Academy Award-winning Dune. The […]

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2024

New Releases

The Teachers’ Lounge

Friday, Mar 1st

Now Playing | The Main Cinema Nominated for an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (Germany). An idealistic middle school teacher who advocates for a student accused of stealing becomes embroiled in conflict when she becomes the target of a theft herself.

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2024

New Releases

Robot Dreams

Wednesday, Mar 6th

Special One-Night Screening | March 6 at 7pm | The Main Cinema Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film. DOG lives in Manhattan and he’s tired of being alone. One day he decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Their friendship blossoms, until they become inseparable, to the rhythm of 80s […]

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2024

New Releases

Io Capitano

Friday, Mar 8th

Now Playing Nominated for an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (Italy). About the Film In this acclaimed film which won top directing and acting prizes at the Venice Film Festival, writer-director Matteo Garrone presents a “reverse shot” of the immigration experience while unfurling an epic, cinematographically magnificent odyssey from West Africa to Italy. […]

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2024

New Releases

Love Lies Bleeding

Thursday, Mar 14th

Now Playing About the Film From Director Rose Glass comes an electric new love story; reclusive gym manager Lou (Kristen Stewart) falls hard for Jackie (Katy O’Brian), an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family. […]

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2024

New Releases

One Life

Thursday, Mar 14th

Now Playing About the Film One Life tells the incredible true story of Nicholas “Nicky” Winton, a young London broker who helps rescue hundreds of predominantly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia in a race against time before Nazi occupation closes the borders on the verge of World War II. Fifty years later, Nicky (Sir Anthony Hopkins) […]

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2024

New Releases

Problemista

Thursday, Mar 21st

Starts March 21 Alejandro (Julio Torres) is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City. As time on his work visa runs out, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast (Tilda Swinton) becomes his only hope to stay in the country and realize his dream. […]

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2024

New Releases

Perfect Days

Tuesday, Mar 26th

Now Playing Nominated for an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (Japan). About the Film From writer/director Wim Wenders. Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on […]

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2024

New Releases

The Taste of Things (La passion de Dodin Bouffant)

Tuesday, Mar 26th

Now Playing Official Selection for France – Best International Feature Film, 96th Academy Awards About the Film Set in France in 1889, the film follows the life of Dodin Bouffant (Benoît Magimel) as a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie (Juliette Binoche). They share a long history of gastronomy and love but […]

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2024

New Releases

Drift

Friday, Mar 29th

Starts March 29 Jacqueline (Cynthia Erivo), a young refugee, lands alone and penniless on a Greek island, where she tries first to survive and then to cope with her past. While gathering her strength, she begins a friendship with a rootless tour-guide (Alia Shawkat) and together they find the resilience to forge ahead.

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2024

New Releases

Remembering Gene Wilder

Friday, Apr 5th

Starts April 5 This loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an extraordinary string of film roles, from his first collaboration with Mel Brooks in The Producers, to the enigmatic title role in the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, to his inspired on-screen partnership with […]

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2024

New Releases

Food, Inc. 2

Tuesday, Apr 9th

One Night Only: April 9 In Food, Inc. 2, the sequel to the 2008 Oscar®-nominated and Emmy®-award winning documentary, Food, Inc., filmmakers Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo reunite with investigative authors Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) to take a fresh look at our efficient yet vulnerable food system. Since […]

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2024

New Releases

Indigo Girls: It’s Only Life After All

Wednesday, Apr 10th

The 2023 MSPIFF Closing Night Film returns for one night only: April 10 With forty years of making music as the iconic folk-rock band Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have made their mark as musicians, songwriters, and dedicated activists. They have represented radical self-acceptance to many, leading multiple generations of fans to say, […]

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2024

New Releases

The Beast

Friday, Apr 26th

Starts April 26 MSPIFF43 Official Selection The year is 2044: artificial intelligence controls all facets of a stoic society as humans routinely “erase” their feelings. Hoping to eliminate pain caused by their past-life romances, Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) continually falls in love with different incarnations of Louis (George MacKay). Set first in Belle Époque-era Paris, Louis […]

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2024

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La Chimera

Friday, Apr 26th

Opens April 26 About the film Everyone has their own Chimera, something they try to achieve but never manage to find. For the band of tombaroli, thieves of ancient grave goods and archaeological wonders, the Chimera means redemption from work and the dream of easy wealth. For Arthur, the Chimera looks like the woman he […]

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2024

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Limbo

Friday, Apr 26th

Starts April 26 MSPIFF43 Official Selection Jaded police detective Travis (Simon Baker) arrives in the remote Australian Outback town of Limbo to investigate the cold case murder of a local Indigenous girl 20 years ago. As truths about the crime begin to unfold, Travis gains new insight into the unsolved case from the victim’s fractured […]

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2024

New Releases

The Old Oak

Friday, Apr 26th

Starts April 26 MSPIFF43 Official Selection The Old Oak is the last pub standing in a once thriving mining village in northern England, a gathering space for a community that has fallen on hard times. There is growing anger, resentment, and a lack of hope among the residents, but the pub and its proprietor TJ […]

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