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After the Hunt
From Academy Award®-nominated visionary filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, After the Hunt is a gripping psychological drama about a college professor (Academy Award® winner Julia Roberts) who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star student (Emmy® winner Ayo Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (two-time Academy Award® nominee Andrew Garfield). Faced with the blurred lines between morality and power dynamics, a dark secret from her own past threatens to come into the light.
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Bugonia
A Yorgos Lanthimos film, starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons.
Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
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Capri First Thursday Films: 40 Acres
Capri Theater Address: 2027 W Broadway Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55411
Conversation Leader: Author David Grant
After a series of plagues and wars leaves society in ruins, the Freemans are surviving — even thriving — on a farm in the middle of nowhere... so long as they repel the occasional raiding party. Former soldier Hailey (Danielle Deadwyler) and her partner Galen (Michael Greyeyes) fled the collapse along with their children, training them to fight (and, yes, kill). But now Hailey’s eldest Emanuel (Kataem O’Connor) is a young man, and when he meets a young woman (Milcania Diaz-Rojas) in the forest beyond the fence, his need for human contact could place the whole family in jeopardy.
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Capri First Thursday Films: Acts of Reparation
Capri Theater Address: 2027 W Broadway Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55411
Conversation Leader: Selina Lewis Davison, Director of Acts and Reparation
Two filmmaking friends, Selina, a Black woman, and Macky, a white man, head south together to explore their roots and the insidious legacy of slavery. Visiting with family in Louisiana, Selina discusses the secret histories of her family, while Macky, in Georgia, confronts his family’s inherited privilege. What emerges is an eye-opening story of hope and redemption.
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Capri First Thursday Films: Assembly
Capri Theater Address: 2027 W Broadway Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55411
Conversation Leader: Musical composer M. Jamison
Visionary artist Rashaad Newsome has always been on the cutting edge, eluding nearly every label, as he creates incredible works of multidisciplinary art. With a group of diverse artists, performers and collaborators (including a non-binary AI named Being), he transforms a former military armory into a utopian dream.
Art and performance meet at New York’s Park Avenue Armory. As Newsome notes, this one time “bastion of white military power” is turned on its head and into an exuberant celebration of Black and queer culture. At once a vision of intergenerational resilience, a raucous display of human expression and liberation, and a mind-blowing dive into the soul of Being, an AI character whose emotional complexity will surprise you, Assembly is truly like nothing you will ever see,
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Capri First Thursday Films: Bob Marley: One Love
Capri Theater Address: 2027 W Broadway Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55411
Conversation Leader: Star Tribune Arts reporter Rohan Preston
Join us at 6pm for a pre-show celebration of The Capri & MSP Film Society partnership, with light bites, drinks and a DJ in The Capri lobby.
Bob Marley: One Love celebrates the life and music of an icon who inspired generations through his message of love and unity. On the big screen for the first time, discover Bob’s powerful story of overcoming adversity and the journey behind his revolutionary music.
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Capri First Thursday Films: Putney Swope
Capri Theater Address: 2027 W Broadway Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55411
Conversation Leader: Professor Dr. John Wright
New 50th Anniversary restoration! An unforgettable masterpiece of late-’60s counterculture, Robert Downey Sr.’s Putney Swope remains a vital provocation on race, pop culture and America.
Putney Swope, the only African-American exec at his firm, is unexpectedly elected its president and turns the industry on its ear through a series of outrageous, taboo-busting TV commercials (strewn throughout the film like comedic landmines.) As Swope becomes the Generalissimo of Madison Avenue, Downey takes no prisoners and skewers the entire political spectrum. Essential viewing.
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Capri First Thursday Films: Sinners
Capri Theater Address: 2027 W Broadway Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55411
Conversation Leader: Filmmaker D.A. Bullock
From Ryan Coogler—director of Black Panther and Creed—and starring Michael B. Jordan comes a new vision of fear: Sinners.
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Jordan) return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
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Capri First Thursday Films: Souleymane’s Story
Capri Theater Address: 2027 W Broadway Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55411
Conversation Leader: Attorney Francois Ecclesiaste
Racing through the streets of Paris making food deliveries on his bicycle, Guinean immigrant Souleymane (Sangare) is struggling to stay afloat. In two days, he has to report for an asylum application interview, where he must plead his case to an immigration officer (Nina Meurisse) who will determine his future in France. As he rides, he repeats his story. But Souleymane is not ready. Drawing inspiration from Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and evoking the humanist films of the Dardennes, Boris Lojkine’s urgent, propulsive third feature never leaves Souleymane’s side in a deeply affecting account of the daily trials and uncertain futures faced by migrants in France and around the world.
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Cinema Club: Sentimental Value
November Cinema Club
Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star. Suddenly, the two sisters must navigate their complicated relationship with their father — and deal with an American star dropped right into the middle of their complex family dynamics.
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Encore Screening - WHAT YOU CAN'T KEEP - A Three Part Film
WHAT YOU CAN’T KEEP is a tender, poetic, and humorous exploration of modern love, told in three lyrical acts. Written by Harrison David Rivers and directed by Tyler Michaels King, this “meet-cute-meets-art-house” film follows Lizzie and Lucas—two young artists whose relationship blooms fast and burns bright, then slowly complicates under the weight of time, memory, and self-discovery. Shot over five years, this deeply personal trio of short films reflects the evolution of both its characters and the artists behind them.
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Frankenstein
Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley's classic tale of scientist Victor Frankenstein. A brilliant but madly scientist, obsessed with bringing back to life a monstrous creature in an experiment that ultimately leads the creator and his beyond-the-grave creation to a tragic finale. Starring Oscar Isaac as Dr. Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as the creature, Del Toro’s reimagining of Mary Shelley’s Gothic classic has been a 30-year journey for Del Toro who’s said he’s wanted to make this film since he was a child.
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Green Blah! The History of Green Bay Punk Rock
GREEN BLAH! THE HISTORY OF GREEN BAY PUNK ROCK chronicles the punk rock and independent music of Green Bay, Wisconsin from the late 1970s, through the 1980s and into the 1990s. We have interviewed band members, fanzine authors, promoters, agents, and individual participants making up the scene.
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
With her life crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne) attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.
From writer/director Mary Bronstein and starring Rose Byrne, Conan O'Brien, Danielle Macdonald, and A$AP Rocky.
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Jay Kelly
Famous movie actor Jay Kelly embarks on a journey of self-discovery, confronting his past and present with his devoted manager Ron. Poignant and humor-filled, pitched at the intersection of regrets and glories.
George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, and Billy Crudup star in Jay Kelly, a Noah Baumbach Picture hailed as “a masterpiece.”
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KPop Demon Hunters A Sing-Along Event
We're goin' up, up, up — and now it's YOUR moment! Back by popular demand on Halloween weekend, seal the Honmoon and sing your favorite "KPop Demon Hunters" songs with HUNTR/X and the Saja Boys in this full-length, sing-along version of the Netflix hit film.
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The Mastermind
In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B. Mooney (Josh O’Connor) sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks. From celebrated filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy, First Cow, Certain Women), The Mastermind is a quirky '70s-set caper featuring Josh O'Connor as a hapless thief.
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Midnight Mayhem: The Silence of the Lambs
Midnight Mayhem featuring your host Chaz Kangas.
The Silence of the Lambs is a cultural touchstone of American cinema and remains as vital and horrific more than three decades on. A recent restoration of Jonathan Demme's Oscar®-sweeping chiller thriller screens this Halloween weekend at The Main Cinema.
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Nouvelle Vague
A playful, poignant love letter to cinema, Nouvelle Vague reimagines the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless in an exuberant exploration of the youthful rebellion and creative chaos that shaped the French New Wave. Directed by Richard Linklater, starring Zoey Deutch, Guillaume Marbeck, and Aubry Dullin.
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Nuremberg
From writer/director James Vanderbilt and based on Minneapolis writer Jack El-Hai’s 2013 non-fiction book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist.
The Allies, led by the unyielding chief prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson (Michael Shannon), have the task of ensuring the Nazi regime answers for the unveiled horrors of the Holocaust while a US Army psychiatrist (Rami Malek) is locked in a dramatic psychological duel with former Reichsmarschall Herman Göring (Russell Crowe).
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One Battle After Another
Written, directed and produced by Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another stars Academy Award and BAFTA winners Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro, and Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor and Chase Infiniti.
Washed-up revolutionary Bob (DiCaprio) exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa (Infiniti). When his evil nemesis (Penn) resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past.
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The Secret Agent (O Agente Secreto)
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son but soon realizes that the city is far from being the non-violent refuge he seeks. Master filmmaker Kleber Mendonca Filho teams up with renowned actor Wagner Moura - giving an extraordinary, career-defining performance - to craft a thrillingly unpredictable, playfully shape-shifting epic steeped in history even as it feels remarkably contemporary, paying affectionate tribute to the movies of Filho’s youth while unfolding against the backdrop of political turmoil and palpable danger.
Brazil's official submission to the Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film.
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Sentimental Value (Affeksjonsverdi)
Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star. Suddenly, the two sisters must navigate their complicated relationship with their father — and deal with an American star dropped right into the middle of their complex family dynamics.
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere chronicles the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 "Nebraska" album when he was a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggling to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past. Recorded on a 4-track recorder in Springsteen’s New Jersey bedroom, the album marked a pivotal time in his life and is considered one of his most enduring works—a raw, haunted acoustic record populated by lost souls searching for a reason to believe.
Starring Jeremy Allen White as the Boss, the film is written for the screen and directed by Scott Cooper based on the book "Deliver Me from Nowhere" by Warren Zanes.
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Greetings from Mars (Grüße von Mars)
The 4th Twin Cities German Film Festival is presented by the Germanic-American Institute in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut.
Free Screening
Ten-year-old Tom is different from other kids. He doesn’t like change, red things and anything loud quickly becomes too much for him. But his specialty is space. When he is sent with his siblings to spend a month at their grandparents’ rural home, it feels like landing on another planet.
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Bonjour Switzerland (Bon Schuur Ticino)
The 4th Twin Cities German Film Festival is presented by the Germanic-American Institute in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut.
One of the most viewed Swiss films of all time! Presented as part of the Germanic-American Institute’s Spotlight on Switzerland.
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Excavator Drama (Bagger Drama)
The 4th Twin Cities German Film Festival is presented by the Germanic-American Institute in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut.
Presented as part of the Germanic-American Institute’s Spotlight on Switzerland.
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Everything's Fifty Fifty (Alles Fifty Fifty)
The 4th Twin Cities German Film Festival is presented by the Germanic-American Institute in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut.
In this family comedy, divorced parents Marion and Andi pride themselves on being the perfect co-parenting team until a family holiday in Italy exposes cracks beneath their carefully balanced arrangement. Between their son’s first crush, awkward revelations, and the presence of Marion’s overly eager new boyfriend, simmering emotions resurface. Warm, witty, and full of sun-soaked charm, Everything’s Fifty Fifty is a heartfelt comedy about love, rivalry, and rediscovering what truly holds a family together.
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Elbow (Ellbogen)
The 4th Twin Cities German Film Festival is presented by the Germanic-American Institute in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut.
Ellbogen is a raw and compelling coming-of-age story about Hazal, a 17-year-old Berliner on the cusp of adulthood, yearning for a life beyond the confines of job center training and closed doors. On her 18th birthday, a night of celebration with friends turns into a moment of reckoning after a violent confrontation shatters the illusion of belonging. Forced to flee to Istanbul, the film follows Hazal’s fight for recognition, equality, and a future of her own making. Adapted from Fatma Aydemir’s award-winning novel, Asli Özarslan’s powerful debut is a gripping portrait of a young woman on the run, awake to the tensions of multicultural Berlin and unafraid to confront uncomfortable truths about identity, justice, and belonging.
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Circusboy (Zirkuskind)
The 4th Twin Cities German Film Festival is presented by the Germanic-American Institute in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut.
Eleven-year-old Santino is a child of the circus. He loves to spend time with his eighty-year-old great-grandfather, one of Europe‘s last great circus directors, who has become his best friend. Together, they share heartwarming stories: Stories of friendship with an elephant, of farewells, of new beginnings and life on the road. Circusboy chronicles the lives of these modern nomads, capturing a young boy‘s experience growing up among an extended family and animals – a life without a safety net, as free as a bird.
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Twin Cities Jewish Film Festival: Fantasy Life
The 31st Twin Cities Jewish Film Festival is presented by the Minnesota Jewish Community Center. Co-presented by MSP Film Society and The Main Cinema.
Post-screening conversation featuring writer/director/actor Matthew Shear (Virtual).
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Wicked: For Good
And now whatever way our stories end, I know you have rewritten mine by being my friend…
Last year’s global cinematic cultural sensation, which became the most successful Broadway film adaptation of all time, now reaches its epic, electrifying, emotional conclusion in Wicked: For Good.
Directed once again by award-winning director Jon M. Chu and starring the spectacular returning cast, led by Academy Award® nominated superstars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, the final chapter of the untold story of the witches of Oz begins with Elphaba and Glinda estranged and living with the consequences of their choices.
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