Percussionist Tom Teasley performs his original live music accompaniment to a screening of Fritz Lang’s classic science fiction film Metropolis. In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Come dressed as a robot and get a Halloween surprise!
Join us for a free, advanced screening of a new yet-to-be aired episode of Modern Family. One of the most successful shows of the last decade, Modern Family has collected 22 Emmys and a Golden Globe, now beginning its 9th season.
Ty Burrell will join us for the screening and will offer a Q&A following the screening. Burrell is a two-time Emmy-winner for famously playing Phil Dunphy. The episode will air later this fall on ABC.
Silent horror movie classic Nosferatu, with live accompaniment by Tom Teasley. What better motion picture is there for Halloween eve? Nosferatu was directed by F. W. Murnau and is based on Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula.
Dress like a vampire and receive a Halloween surprise after the film!
Presented in partnership with the Reston Community Center: CenterStage.
When home entertainment enters the market in 1990s Beijing, a former projectionist ropes his young son into starting their own pirate movie company, but easy money comes with its own price tag.
What Children Do is a comedy about two estranged sisters who are thrust back into each other’s lives by the impending death of their grandmother and forced to try to repair their feral relationship.
Filmmakers will participate in a Q&A following the screening.
Join us for a free screening of Deep – Mare Nostrum.
When Sofia’s twin brother accidentally dies during a diving championship, the media claim his death was due to his own negligence. Against her mother’s advice, Sofia trains to dive in hopes of avenging her brother’s honor—but pride is hardly a good teacher at 100 meters. Deep is a breathtaking plunge into the underwater world of freediving.
Koji is bewildered by a sudden phone call from his brother telling him that he has located their father. You see, it has been thirteen years since their dad stepped out of the house never to return. Moreover, Koji is stunned to hear that their father has cancer and been given three months to live. When the inevitable day of their father’s funeral arrives, Koji and his brother must confront both the thirteen-year blank created by his absence as well as a collection of odd acquaintances who have come to pay their last respects.
In this 2017 SXSW Audience Award Winner for Best Feature Narrative, Bonnie, a young and successful Latina architect, is sexually assaulted while walking home from an evening out with friends in Brooklyn, NY. At first she attempts to keep the assault a secret from her long-term boyfriend Matt, but the truth quickly emerges. Bonnie emphatically denies the impact of what has just happened to her. She fights to regain normalcy and control of her life, but returning to her old life is more complicated than expected. Her attempt to recapture the intimacy she previously had with Matt falters, and cracks begin to surface in their relationship. Another attack in the neighborhood drives Bonnie further into denial before an encounter with an at-risk woman causes her to face the truth and confront her own self-blame.
