Selected by Mitchell Kaplan In this captivating and philosophical film directed by Louis Malle, actor and playwright Wallace Shawn sits down with his friend the theater director André Gregory at a restaurant on New York’s Upper West Side, and the pair proceed through an alternately whimsical and despairing confessional about love, death, money, and all the superstition in between. Playing variations on their own New York–honed personas, Shawn and Gregory, who also cowrote the screenplay, dive in with introspective intellectual gusto, and Malle captures it all with a delicate, artful detachment. A fascinating freeze-frame of cosmopolitan culture, My Dinner with André remains a unique work in cinema history.

Red Carpet Opening Night Event - February 6 Reception at 7:30 PM Film followed by Q&A with director Simón Mesa Soto at 8:00 PM Middle-aged and erratic, Oscar is a failed writer who has given up on life. Unemployed and living with family, he wanders the streets of Medellín in a drunken stupor, lamenting the state of literature in his home country, where he has succumbed to the cliché of the tortured artist. However, the opportunity to mentor a young student offers a chance at redemption, if he doesn’t screw it up first. Tickets: $8 (members), $12.75 and under (nonmembers) Join now to save up to $4.75 per ticket—plus, skip the online service fees!

Red Carpet Opening Night Event - February 6 Reception at 7:30 PM Film followed by Q&A with director Simón Mesa Soto at 8:00 PM Middle-aged and erratic, Oscar is a failed writer who has given up on life. Unemployed and living with family, he wanders the streets of Medellín in a drunken stupor, lamenting the state of literature in his home country, where he has succumbed to the cliché of the tortured artist. However, the opportunity to mentor a young student offers a chance at redemption, if he doesn’t screw it up first. Tickets: $8 (members), $12.75 and under (nonmembers) Join now to save up to $4.75 per ticket—plus, skip the online service fees!