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The Lighthouse

Accessibility: Closed Captions, Assisted Listening, Descriptive Audio

Starring: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman

From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind modern horror masterpiece The Witch, comes this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

Parasite

Starring: Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo

Bong Joon Ho brings his singular mastery home to Korea in this pitch-black modern fairytale.

Meet the Park Family: the picture of aspirational wealth. And the Kim Family, rich in street smarts but not much else. Be it chance or fate, these two houses are brought together and the Kims sense a golden opportunity.

Masterminded by college-aged Ki-woo, the Kim children expediently install themselves as tutor and art therapist, to the Parks. Soon, a symbiotic relationship forms between the two families. The Kims provide “indispensable” luxury services while the Parks obliviously bankroll their entire household. When a parasitic interloper threatens the Kims’ newfound comfort, a savage, underhanded battle for dominance breaks out, threatening to destroy the fragile ecosystem between the Kims and the Parks.

By turns darkly hilarious and heart-wrenching, Parasite showcases a modern master at the top of his game.

Joker

Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Bill Camp, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen

Joker centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone fictional story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fractured society. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night, but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study.

Marriage Story

Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, Laura Dern, Alan Alda, Ray Liotta, Julie Hagerty

Marriage Story is Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Noah Baumbach’s incisive and compassionate portrait of a marriage breaking up and a family staying together.

Ad Astra

Starring: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Liv Tyler, Donald Sutherland, Loren Dean

Astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his missing father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. His journey will uncover secrets that challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos.

The Goldfinch

Starring: Ansel Elgort, Oakes Fegley, Aneurin Barnard, Finn Wolfhard, Ashleigh Cummings, Willa Fitzgerald

The Goldfinch is the film adaptation of Donna Tartt’s globally acclaimed bestseller of the same name, which won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and spent more than 30 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list. Theodore “Theo” Decker (Ansel Elgort) was 13 years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love. Through it all, he holds on to one tangible piece of hope from that terrible day: a painting of a tiny bird chained to its perch. The Goldfinch.

Hustlers

Starring: Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez, Lili Reinhart, Julia Stiles, Madeline Brewer, Keke Palmer

Hustlers follows a crew of savvy former strip club employees who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients. The film is inspired by the article published by New York Magazine entitled “The Hustlers at Scores” written by Jessica Pressler.

Official Secrets

Starring: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Indira Varma, Rhys Ifans

She risked everything to stop an unjust war. Her government called her a traitor. Based on world-shaking true events, Official Secrets tells the gripping story of Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), a British intelligence specialist whose job involves routine handling of classified information. One day in 2003, in the lead up to the Iraq War, Gun receives a memo from the NSA with a shocking directive: the United States is enlisting Britain’s help in collecting compromising information on United Nations Security Council members in order to blackmail them into voting in favor of an invasion of Iraq. Unable to stand by and watch the world be rushed into an illegal war, Gun makes the gut-wrenching decision to defy her government and leak the memo to the press. So begins an explosive chain of events that will ignite an international firestorm, expose a vast political conspiracy, and put Gun and her family directly in harm’s way.

Olivia

Starring: Edwige Feuillère, Simone Simon, Yvonne de Bray, Suzanne Dehelly, Marie-Claire Olivia, Marina de Berg

Neglected for almost 70 years, Olivia is a remarkable work by one of France’s groundbreaking female filmmakers, Jacqueline Audry. It is set in a 19th century boarding school for girls, a space somewhat reminiscent of Hitchcock’s Rebecca. While not addressing lesbianism directly, it is the story of the two mistresses of the house, their competition for the affections of their students, and the students’ discovery of the dangerous game of love and attraction.

Moving Pictures with Marcel Dzama and Art21

Art21 and Nitehawk present an evening of films with artist Marcel Dzama. Dzama (subject of Art21’s upcoming Marcel Dzama: Making Movies with Amy Sedaris & Friends) creates drawings that feature a cast of humans, animals, and hybrid creatures rendered in pencil, ink, watercolor, and, at times, root-beer syrup. Dzama draws upon a mix of influences—from childhood monsters, like the Wolfman and Dracula, to the work of artists like Marcel Duchamp, Francisco Goya, William Blake, and Francis Picabia—to create unique worlds that are at once surreal and familiar, sweet and violent, and chaotic and elegant.

PROGRAM
MARCEL DZAMA: ORGANIZING CHAOS by Art21. 2018. (8 min)
In this documentary short, artist Marcel Dzama is shown at work at his Brooklyn studio, discussing the evolution of his drawings, from his time growing up in his native Winnipeg, to his move to New York in 2004, to his more recent responses to U.S. politics and media.

MARCEL DZAMA: MAKING MOVIES WITH AMY SEDARIS & FRIENDS by Art21. 2019. (5:30 min)
On set with friends like Amy Sedaris and Raymond Pettibon, artist Marcel Dzama directs his latest film and discusses the importance of collaboration in contrast to his more solitary drawing practice.

GHOSTS BEFORE BREAKFAST by Hans Richter. 1928. (9 min)
A German Dada classic, this short film utilizes stop motion and animation to explore fantasy, revolt, and the surreal.

ENTR’ACTE by René Clair. 1924. (18 min)
Originally premiered as the intermission film for the Ballets Suédois and heralded as a cinematic masterpiece, this short was written by Francis Picabia and features cameo appearances by many of Dada artists of the time in a series of zany, disconnected scenes.

SAD GHOST/GARAGE VIDEOS by Spike Jonze and Marcel Dzama. 2006 (27:18 min)
Made in collaboration with Spike Jonze and other artists, Sad Ghost/Garage Videos depicts a series of short vignettes, featuring Dzama’s childlike costumes, Dada film references, and absurdist humor.

UNE DANSE DES BOUFFONS by Marcel Dzama. 2013. (17:30 min excerpt)
Featuring Kim Gordon, this film depicts a fictionalized, ill-fated, romantic affair between Marcel Duchamp and Brazilian sculptor Maria Martins, who served as the model for Duchamp’s last major art
work Étant donnés.

PAX (& THE GODDESS OF THE SEA) by Marcel Dzama. 2008. (6 min)
A short tale of sea goddess and her comrades.