KPAC and the UI Department of Politics and Philosophy present HER as part of our Science on Screen® series, showcasing films with introductions by notable figures from the world of science, technology, and medicine. Sweet, soulful, and smart, Spike Jonze’s Her uses its just-barely-sci-fi scenario to impart wryly funny wisdom about the state of...
Extraordinary soprano Asmik Grigorian tackles the demanding role of Cio-Cio-San, the loyal geisha at the heart of Puccini’s devastating tragedy. Tenor Jonathan Tetelman stars as the callous American naval officer Pinkerton, whose betrayal destroys her. Mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong reprises the role of the steadfast maid Suzuki, and baritone Lucas Meachem...
Moscow Film Society presents WILD AT HEART as part of their No Stream/Big Screen series featuring films you can’t stream or rent online. Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula’s mom has hired to kill Sailor. Wild at Heart is distinctly Lynchian while also standing apart from the rest of...
KPAC presents REAR WINDOW as part of their Hitchcock Fest series! A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window and, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend, becomes convinced one of them has committed murder. Hitchcock is the master of suspense and Rear Window just might be his most suspenseful...
KPAC presents the all time classic zombie movie DAWN OF THE DEAD. A quartet of characters escape the collapse of civilization and hole up in a mall where they temporarily find peace. But when the outside world comes knocking on the mall’s glass doors, all hell breaks loose in a bloody,...
KPAC presents the indie hit film HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS. A slapstick epic about a frostbitten battle between JEAN KAYAK and DIABOLICAL BEAVERS–hundreds of them–who stand between him and survival. In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become the greatest fur trapper...
Moscow Film Society presents PINK FLOYD: THE WALL as part of their No Stream/Big Screen series featuring films you can’t stream or rent online. A confined but troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone. Pink Floyd’s expression of generational angst is given striking visual...
KPAC presents VERTIGO as part of their Hitchcock Fest series! A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed. A hypnotizing, enigmatic thriller that doubles as a mournful meditation on love, loss,...
KPAC presents TRAINSPOTTING as part of our Staff Picks series chosen by our very own Kenworthy Staff! This month’s film was picked by Sophie Gomulkiewicz. Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out despite the allure of drugs and the influence of friends....
KPAC presents the classic family film WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY. A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka’s mysterious chocolate factory. A whimsically captivating film that enchants audiences with its eccentric charm and...
Moscow Film Society presents ALL THAT JAZZ as part of their No Stream/Big Screen series featuring films you can’t stream or rent online. The preternaturally gifted director and choreographer Bob Fosse turned the camera on his own life for this madly imaginative, self-excoriating musical masterpiece. Roy Scheider gives the performance of his career as...
tKPAC presents PSYCHO as part of their Hitchcock Fest series! A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer’s client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother. Psycho is the iconic horror film because of the way it skillfully weaves together psychological...