Moscow Film Society presents ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST as part of their Cinematic Sprawl series, featuring long films that are a must-see on the big screen. A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad....
KPAC presents the new music documentary BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN. The film traces the journeys of the four members of the Stairway To Heaven rockers through the music scene of the 1960s and their meeting in the summer of 1968, culminating in 1970. With laser focus on Led Zeppelin’s origins, Becoming Led Zeppelin is...
Following a string of awe-inspiring Live in HD performances, Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Leonore, the faithful wife who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny in Beethoven’s Fidelio. Completing the distinguished cast is British tenor David Butt Philip as the...
KPAC presents IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT as part of our Cinema Classics series, featuring films chosen by our Classic Films Committee. In Sparta, Mississippi, detective Virgil Tibbs is drawn into a murder case, forging a tense alliance with the bigoted police chief amid town hostility. Director Norman Jewison splices incisive social commentary...
Good Trouble and Extinction Rebellion Palouse present NO OTHER LAND, the Academy Award winner for Best Documentary. This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist...
KPAC and BookPeople present SENSE AND SENSIBILITY as part of our Movie Book Club series. Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Sense and Sensibility is an uncommonly deft and very funny Jane Austen adaptation, directed by Ang Lee and highlighted...
KPAC and Bans Off Moscow present the cult comedy favorite, LEGALLY BLONDE. Fashionable sorority queen Elle Woods follows her ex-boyfriend to law school, where she discovers that there is more to her than just looks. Reese Witherspoon’s funny, nuanced performance elevates an already hilarious script, adding charm and entertainment. Sponsored by Bans...
Moscow Film Society and UI Department of Politics and Philosophy present SOLARIS (1972) as part of their Cinematic Sprawl series, featuring long films that are a must-see on the big screen. Ground control has been receiving mysterious transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin...
Swing Devils of the Palouse are hosting a swing dance night featuring lessons, performances and a screening of documentary, ALIVE AND KICKING. Alive and Kicking gives the audience an intimate, insider’s view into the culture of the current swing dance world while shedding light on issues facing modern society. A life-affirming...
Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) in this joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy. While assuming the role of a dutiful guardian in the country, Jack lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy adopts...
KPAC presents CHILDREN OF MEN as part of our Science on Screen® series, showcasing films with introductions by notable figures from the world of science, technology, and medicine. In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have somehow become infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a...
