Chevalier Screening: Sunday, October 18, 7:00 pm, Uptown Theatre, Screen 1 Directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari Greece / 2015 / Comedy/Drama / Rated 18A for mature thematics, coarse language and male nudity / Greek with English subtitles / 99 min. A buddy movie with a non-traditional twist! On a luxury yacht in the middle of […]

Slow West Screening: Sunday, October 18, 9:00 pm, Uptown Theatre, Screen 1 Written and Directed by John Maclean UK/New Zealand / 2015 / Action/Thriller/Western / Rated 14A for graphic violence and brief coarse language / English and French with English subtitles / 84 min. Set in 19th century Colorado but undeniably European in sensibility, Slow […]

Unexpected Screening: Monday, October 19, 4:00 pm Uptown Theatre, Screen 1   Co-written and Directed by Kris Swanberg USA / 2015 / Comedy/Drama / Rated 14A for mature thematics and coarse language / 85 min. As spirited Chicago schoolteacher Samantha Abbott (Cobie Smulders) adjusts to an unexpected pregnancy and sudden marriage, she finds new perspective […]

Pawn Sacrifice Screening: Monday, October 19, 7:00 pm, Uptown Theatre, Screen 1 Directed by Edward Zwick USA / 2015 / Biography/Drama / Rated PG for some language and sexual content / 116 min. In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) finds himself […]

Sunshine Superman Screening: Tuesday, October 20, 4:00 pm, Uptown Theatre, Screen 1 Written and Directed by Marah Strauch Norway/USA / 2014 / Documentary/Biography / Rated PG for coarse language and tobacco use / 102 min. A heart-racing documentary portrait of Carl Boenish, the father of the BASE jumping movement, whose early passion for skydiving led […]

Francofonia Screening: Tuesday, October 20, 7:00 pm, Uptown Theatre, Screen 1 Written and Directed by Alexander Sokurov / France/Germany/Netherlands / 2015 / Drama / Rated PG / French, German, Russian with English subtitles / 87 min. June 1940: as German troops marched into Paris, Jacques Jaujard and Count Franziskus Wolff Metternich worked together to protect […]

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence Screening: Tuesday, October 20, 9:00 pm Uptown Theatre, Screen 1 Written and Directed by Roy Andersson Sweden/Germany/Norway/France / 2014 / Comedy/Drama / Rated PG for brief sexuality and some disturbing images / Swedish with English subtitles / 100 min. Master Swedish director Roy Andersson takes up […]

Court Screening: Wednesday, October 21, 4:00 pm, Uptown Theatre, Screen 1 Written and Directed by Chaitanya Tamhane India / 2014 / Drama / Rated G / Gujarati, Hindi, English and Marathi with English subtitles / 116 min. A sewage worker’s dead body is found inside a manhole in Mumbai and subsequently, an aging folk singer […]

Testament of Youth Screening: Wednesday, October 21, 7:00 pm, Uptown Theatre, Screen 1 Directed by James Kent United Kingdom / 2014 / Biography/Drama / Rated PG for mature material, including gory and disturbing war-related scenes / 129 min. A powerful story of love and remembrance, Testament of Youth is based on the First World War […]

Testament of Youth Screening: Thursday, October 22, 4:00 pm Uptown Theatre, Screen 1 Directed by James Kent United Kingdom / 2014 / Biography/Drama / Rated PG for mature material, including gory and disturbing war-related scenes / 129 min. A powerful story of love and remembrance, Testament of Youth is based on the First World War […]