FILMS
SENTIMENTAL VALUE
With Blue Talon Bistro Prix Fixe Dinner
Monday, March 16, 5:00 PM Dinner at Blue Talon Bistro, 7:00 PM Film at Kimball Theatre, Tickets
2025, Norway, Germany, Denmark, France, Sweden, UK, Turkey, Norwegian, English, French, 133 min, R, Dir. Joachim Trier
Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. Nora turns it down, but soon discovers he's given the part to an eager young Hollywood star. The film is an intimate exploration of family, memories, and the reconciliatory power of art.
ABOUT THE DINNER
The Blue Talon prix fixe dinner offers a three course menu. The ticket price ($75) includes the meal, meal taxes, gratuity, and a film ticket. Film only tickets ($12) are also available.
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
With the W&M Middle Eastern Music Ensemble
Tuesday, March 17, 7:00 PM, Kimball Theatre, $12
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2025, Iran, France, Luxembourg, USA, Persian, 102 min, PG-13, Dir. Jafar Panahi
An unassuming mechanic is reminded of his time in an Iranian prison when he encounters a man he suspects to be his sadistic jailhouse captor. Panicked, he rounds up a few of his fellow ex-prisoners to confirm the man's identity.
Preceded by live music performed by the W&M Middle Eastern Music Ensemble from 6:30 - 7:00 PM
MARCELLA
With Director Peter Miller
Tuesday, March 17, 7:00 PM, Tucker Theater, Free
2024, USA, English, Italian, 97 min, Not Rated, Dir. Peter Miller
Marcella Hazan changed how we cook and experience Italian food. A disabled woman trained as a scientist, Marcella never cooked until she immigrated to America. But through her cookbooks and teaching - and an uncompromising commitment to Italian tradition - her impact was felt in millions of American home kitchens. This film tells her extraordinary, improbable, delicious story.
Featuring a Q&A discussion with director Peter Miller following the film
Presented in partnership with W&M Italian Studies Department, College of Arts & Sciences, & W&M FMST Department
WICKED: FOR GOOD
With Writer Dana Fox
Wednesday, March 18, 7:00 PM, Kimball Theatre, Free
2025, USA, Canada, Australia, English, 137 min, PG, Dir. Jon Chu
Now demonized as the Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba lives in exile in the Ozian forest, while Glinda resides at the palace in Emerald City, reveling in the perks of fame and popularity. As an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, she'll need to reunite with Glinda to transform herself, and all of Oz, for good.
Featuring a Q&A discussion with writer Dana Fox before the film.
SHOWING UP
Thursday, March 19, 2:00 PM, Kimball Theatre, Free
2022, USA, English, 107 min, R, Dir. Kelly Reichardt
In Portland, sculptor Lizzy prepares for an upcoming exhibition while navigating daily frustrations—from her artist-landlord’s distractions to family pressures and a wounded pigeon. As the show approaches, tensions quietly mount in her carefully balanced life.
Presented in partnership with the Muscarelle Museum of Art in honor of their special exhibit Abstract Expressionists: The Women, on display January 23 - April 26.
SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS
With Live Musical Accompaniment
Thursday, March 19, 7:30 PM, Comey Recital Hall, Free
1965, Soviet Union, Ukrainian with English subtitles, 97 min, Not Rated, Dir. Sergei Parajanov
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is considered to be the most internationally heralded Ukrainian film in history, and a classic of Ukrainian magical realist cinema. The story follows a Romeo-and-Juliet-style romance between Ivan and Marichka from their childhood bond, through a devastating family feud that separates them, to Ivan's grief-stricken marriage to another woman, all while haunted by Marichka's spirit and surreal, supernatural forces.
Featuring live musical accompaniment performed by Dr. Taras Filenko
Presented in partnership with the W&M Russian Studies Department
THE ROOM RETURNS
With Actor Greg Sestero
Friday, March 20, 9:00 PM, Kimball Theatre, $12, Tickets
2025, USA, 100 min, Not Rated, Dir. Brando Crawford
A tribute to the infamous cult classic. The Room Returns is a remake of The Room, featuring most of the original scenes, produced by the charity foundation Acting for a Cause. Starring Bob Odenkirk, Mike Flanagan, & Kate Siegel.
Featuring a Q&A discussion with actor Greg Sestero following the film
ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY
With Actress Lisa Brenner
Friday, March 20, 2:00 PM, Kimball Theatre, Free
2025, USA, English, 82 min, Not Rated, Dir. Matt Sohn
On her 40th birthday, Rachel Torres, an anxious actress, braces herself to speak at her daughter’s Bat Mitzvah, only to have her sense of identity shaken when a DNA test reveals she’s only half-Jewish and has a mysterious half-brother. As her eccentric mother arrives and confesses that Rachel’s beloved father isn’t biologically hers, she embarks on a chaotic quest to find her “real” father while her family splinters and new siblings appear by the minute. Throughout this journey, Rachel redefines family and selfhood, and learns to celebrate the beautifully unexpected family she’s had all along.
Featuring a Q&A discussion with actress Lisa Brenner following the film
NO OTHER CHOICE
Saturday, March 21, 2:30 PM, Kimball Theatre, $12
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2025, South Korea, English, Korean, 139 min, R, Dir. Park Chan-wook
Abruptly laid off after 25 years at the same company, a desperate man goes to extreme lengths to eliminate the competition for the job he wants. Based on Donald E. Westlake’s novel The Ax.
FAIRYLAND
With Author Alysia Abbott
Saturday, March 21, 7:00 PM, PBK Hall Studio Theater, Free
2025, France, USA, English, French, 116 min, R, Dir. Andrew Durham
Directed by Andrew Durham and produced by Sofia Coppola, this film is a tender portrait of a gay single father and his daughter as their relationship evolves through an era of bohemian decadence in 1970s San Francisco to the sober and heartbreaking era of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. Based on Alysia Abbott’s memoir, Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father.
Featuring a Q&A discussion with author Alysia Abbott following the film
LITTLE AMÉLIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN
Sunday, March 22, 11:00 AM, Kimball Theatre, $12,
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2025, France, Belgium, French, Japanese, 75 min, PG, Dir. Maïlys Vallade & Liane-Cho Han Jin Kuang
Amélie, a Belgian child in Japan, explores life with her companion Nishio-san. Her third birthday becomes a turning point, marking the beginning of life-altering events that shape her understanding of the world.
THE SECRET AGENT
Sunday, March 22, 1:00 PM, Kimball Theatre, $12
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2025, Brazil, France, Netherlands, Germany, Portuguese, German, English, 158 min, R, Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
Amid the raucous revelry of Carnival week, a widower named Marcelo (Wagner Moura) arrives in 1977 in Recife, Brazil, a city as vibrant as it is violent. A technology researcher who suddenly finds himself an unwitting target in the heart of the dictatorship's political maelstrom, Marcelo is a man on the run from mercenary killers and from ghosts of the past. In the midst of these mounting threats, Marcelo, with the help of a mysterious woman named Elza and her compatriots in the country's growing underground resistance, remains primarily focused on escaping Brazil with his young son.
JONAS MEKAS FILM SCREENING & CONVERSATION
Sunday, March 22, 4:30 PM, Kimball Theatre, Free
This screening brings together three short works by Jonas Mekas that reveal his ability to transform fleeting encounters into poetic time capsules. Shot on 16mm with his signature lightness of touch, the films offer intimate glimpses into the lives of artists, cultural figures, and family woven through with memory, tenderness, and lived history. A panel discussion and audience Q&A will follow the screening.
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol 35 minutes
A luminous diary of Andy Warhol’s circle from 1966 to 1982. Mekas captures the Factory, gallery openings, and downtown New York through spontaneous footage of Warhol alongside Lou Reed, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Allen Ginsberg. This is not a documentary so much as a lived presence warm, unfiltered, and immediate.
Happy Birthday to John 24 minutes
Filmed on Lennon’s 32nd birthday, this work blends scenes from a Fluxus exhibition in Syracuse with a private hotel room celebration. Ono, Ringo Starr, Warhol, and Ginsberg gather in a moment that is at once informal and historically resonant.
This Side of Paradise 35 minutes
A quiet, elegiac portrait centered on the Kennedy family during summers in Montauk. Shot in the early 1970s at a beach house shared by Jackie Kennedy and Lee Radziwill, the film observes John F. Kennedy Jr., Caroline Kennedy, their mother, and friends in candid moments of play and rest. The result is a meditation on innocence, intimacy, and the fragile beauty of everyday life.
This project is presented in conjunction with OUTPOST NYC DCG.