What’s Playing
Materialist
July 11-14
Rated R | 117 Min
A young New York City matchmaker's lucrative business gets complicated as she finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex.
Summer Series: Batteries Not Included
JuLY 17
Rated PG | 106 Min
Frank (Hume Cronyn) and Faye Riley (Jessica Tandy) are an elderly New York City couple living in a depressed part of town. There, they run a diner as well as an apartment building, which is home to a poor but friendly group of people. One day, Frank and Faye learn that a property developer wants them to sell the apartment. When they refuse, their diner is vandalized. However, Frank, Faye and their tenants are aided by mysterious flying saucers, which help them repair the diner and fight back.
Summer Series is in collaboration with our summer exhibition, High Strangeness: Encounters with the Unexplained in Kansas and Beyond.
Summer Series is sponsored by Wedel Financial Group.
Everything’s Going to Be Great
July 18-21
Rated R | 95 Min
As the Smart family wrestle with their oversized dreams, they come to realize that the struggle to find your voice and your place in the world can happen no matter what stage of life you're in.
Reel Film Fans: Kim’s Video
July 24 | 6 PM
FREE WITH A LIBRARY CARD
ALL FILMS AT 6 PM WITH DISCUSSION AFTER
150 S SANTA FE
REGISTRATION ENCOURAGED.
A tribute to the iconic video store in New York City that inspired a generation of cinephiles before it mysteriously closed its doors and sent its legendary film archive to a small Sicilian village for safekeeping.
Bad Shabbos
July 25-28
Not Rated | 84 Min
An interfaith engaged couple plans a Shabbat dinner for their parents' first meeting. An unexpected death interrupts their plans.
The Dundee Project & Love & Saucers
JuLY 29 | 6PM | FREE
The Dundee Project, a short film by Mark Borchardt that explores the UFO Daze gathering in Dundee, Wisconsin, followed by Love & Saucers, the story of David Huggins, a 72-year-old artist who expresses his interspecies romance through his artwork.
In collaboration with our summer exhibition, High Strangeness: Encounters with the Unexplained in Kansas and Beyond.
Minersville
JuLY 30 | Showings at 6PM and 7PM
$5 admission
Minersville is a true story of an early coal mining town located northeast of Concordia, Kansas. It had a population of around 500 and a colorful, pioneering character that created a strong regional economy, supporting the growth of communities like Concordia and Belleville; however, it no longer exists today.
Shadows in the Desert: High Strangeness in the Borego Triangle
AUGUST 12 | 6PM
Screening of Shadows in the Desert: High Strangeness in the Borego Triangle, with Q&A with filmmakers to follow. Derek Hayes and David Flora investigate the SoCal Desert, where cryptids, ghosts and UFOs have been reported.
In collaboration with our summer exhibition, High Strangeness: Encounters with the Unexplained in Kansas and Beyond.
Summer Series: Super 8
August 21
Rated PG-13 | 112 Min
In 1979 Ohio, several youngsters (Elle Fanning, Joel Courtney, Gabriel Basso) are making a zombie movie with a Super-8 camera. In the midst of filming, the friends witness a horrifying train derailment and are lucky to escape with their lives. They soon discover that the catastrophe was no accident, as a series of unexplained events and disappearances soon follows. Deputy Jackson Lamb (Kyle Chandler), the father of one of the kids, searches for the terrifying truth behind the crash.
Summer Series is in collaboration with our summer exhibition, High Strangeness: Encounters with the Unexplained in Kansas and Beyond.
Summer Series is sponsored by Wedel Financial Group.
FIRST RUN FILMS’ showtimes
Fridays | 6pm
Saturdays & Sundays | 2pm & 6pm
Mondays | 6pm
Starting in April, Cinema will be closed Tuesdays & Wednesdays.