SECRETARY 2022
SECRETARY follows Lee Holloway (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a socially awkward young woman recently released from a mental health institution, who takes a job as a secretary for the demanding and enigmatic lawyer E. Edward Grey (James Spader). As their professional relationship evolves into an unorthodox BDSM dynamic, Lee begins to reclaim her sense of agency and identity, while Edward confronts his own vulnerabilities and desires.
Balancing dark humor with tenderness, Secretary earned critical acclaim for its sensitive handling of complex themes and for Gyllenhaal’s breakout performance.
Saturday, February 7
Director: Steven Shainberg
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Starring: James Spader, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeremy Davies
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Runtime: 111 min., USA
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Language: English
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PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE 2002
Chaos lurks in every corner of this giddily off-kilter foray into romantic comedy by Paul Thomas Anderson. Struggling to cope with his erratic temper, novelty-toilet-plunger salesman Barry Egan (Adam Sandler, demonstrating remarkable versatility in his first dramatic role) spends his days collecting frequent-flier-mile coupons and dodging the insults of his seven sisters. The promise of a new life emerges when Barry inadvertently attracts the affection of a mysterious woman named Lena (Emily Watson), but their budding relationship is threatened when he falls prey to the swindling operator of a phone sex line and her deranged boss (played with maniacal brio by Philip Seymour Hoffman). Fueled by the careening momentum of a baroque-futurist score by Jon Brion, the Cannes-award-winning Punch-Drunk Love channels the spirit of classic Hollywood and the whimsy of Jacques Tati into an idiosyncratic ode to the delirium of new romance.
Friday, February 13
Sunday, February 15
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
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Starring: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Phillip Seymour Hoffman
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Runtime: 96 min., USA
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Language: English
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EX MACHINA 2015
A computer programmer (Domhnall Gleeson), summoned to the secluded home of his millionaire boss (Oscar Isaac), agrees to participate in a weeklong project testing the artificial-intelligence program the boss has installed in a sexy cyborg (Alicia Vikander). However, the programmer is less an examiner than an instrument: if he develops feelings for the robot, then it will have succeeded in simulating an independent consciousness. (Chicago Reader)
Friday, February 20
Saturday, February 21
Director: Alex Garland
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Starring: Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander
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Runtime: 108 min., UK/USA
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Language: English
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DEEP COVER 1992
Film noir hits the mean streets of 1990s Los Angeles in this stylish and subversive underworld odyssey from veteran actor-director Bill Duke. Laurence Fishburne stars as Russell Stevens, a police officer who goes undercover as “John Hull,” the partner of a dangerously ambitious cocaine trafficker (Jeff Goldblum), in order to infiltrate and bring down a powerful Latin American drug ring operating in LA. But the further Stevens descends into this ruthless world of money, violence, and power, the more disillusioned he becomes—and the harder it is to make out the line between right and wrong, crime and justice. Steeped in shadowy, neon-soaked atmosphere and featuring Dr. Dre’s debut solo single, Deep Cover is an unsung gem of the nineties’ Black cinema explosion that delivers a riveting character study and sleek action thrills alongside a furious moral indictment of America and the devastating failures of the war on drugs.
Saturday, February 21
Sunday, February 22
Director: Bill Duke
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Starring: Laurence Fishburn, Jeff Goldblum, Victoria Dillard
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Runtime: 108 min., USA​
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Language: English
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