Suns Cinema
BADLANDS
- Today, Jan 27
Director: Terrence Malick Run Time: 94 min. Release Year: 1973
Starring: Alan Vint, Martin Sheen, Ramon Bieri, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates
Burning Love on the Great Plains in 1959!
THIEF
- Today, Jan 27
Director: Michael Mann Run Time: 123 min. Release Year: 1981
Starring: James Caan, Jim Belushi, Robert Prosky, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson
Tonight, his take home pay is $410,000... tax free.
SOLEIL Ô
- Sat, Jan 28
Director: Med Hondo Run Time: 103 min. Release Year: 1973 Language: French
Starring: Akonio Dolo, Ambroise Mbia, Gabriel Glissant, Robert Liensol, Théo Légitimus
A furious howl of resistance against racist oppression, the debut from Mauritanian director Med Hondo is a bitterly...
MUNA MOTO
- Sat, Jan 28
Director: Jean-Pierre Dikongué-Pipa Run Time: 100 min. Release Year: 1975 Language: French
Starring: Arlette Din Beli, David Endene, Gisèle Dikongue-Pipa, Philippe Abia
Director Dikongué-Pipa forged a new African cinematic language with Muna moto, a delicate love story with profound emotional...
THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE
- Sat, Jan 28
Director: Dario Argento Run Time: 96 min. Release Year: 1970 Language: Italian
Starring: Enrico Maria Salerno, Eva Renzi, Suzy Kendall, Tony Musante, Umberto Raho
A stunning portrait in psycho-terror!
SHADOWS
- Wed, Feb 1
Director: John Cassavetes Run Time: 87 min. Release Year: 1958
Starring: Anthony Ray, Ben Carruthers, Dennis Sallas, Hugh Hurd, Lelia Goldoni
A film not to be missed.
ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS
- Wed, Feb 1
Director: Louis Malle Run Time: 91 min. Release Year: 1958 Language: French
Starring: Georges Poujouly, Jeanne Moreau, Lino Ventura, Maurice Ronet, Yori Bertin
Frantic for life and love, frantic for excitement.
LOSING GROUND
- Thu, Feb 2
Director: Kathleen Collins Run Time: 86 min. Release Year: 1982
Starring: Bill Gunn, Billie Allen, Duane Jones, Maritza Rivera, Seret Scott
The inimitable Kathleen Collins’s second film tells the story of two remarkable people, married and hurtling toward a...
JUST ANOTHER GIRL ON THE I.R.T.
- Thu, Feb 2
Director: Leslie Harris Run Time: 92 min. Release Year: 1993
Starring: Ariyan A. Johnson, Chequita Jackson, Ebony Jerido, Jerard Washington, Kevin Thigpen
If You Think You Know Her, Think Again.
MUSTANG
- Fri, Feb 3
Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven Run Time: 97 min. Release Year: 2015 Language: Turkish
Starring: Doğa Zeynep Doğuşlu, Elit İşcan, Güneş Nezihe Şensoy, Ilayda Akdoğan, Tuğba Sunguroğlu
Their spirit would never be broken.
THE VIRGIN SUICIDES
- Fri, Feb 3
Director: Sofia Coppola Run Time: 97 min. Release Year: 1999
Starring: James Woods, Josh Hartnett, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, Michael Paré
Beautiful, mysterious, haunting, invariably fatal. Just like life.
BUCK AND THE PREACHER
- Sat, Feb 4
Director: Sidney Poitier Run Time: 102 min. Release Year: 1972
Starring: Cameron Mitchell, Denny Miller, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier
With his rousingly entertaining directorial debut, Sidney Poitier, alongside actor-producer Harry Belafonte, helped rewrite the history of the...
GET OUT
- Sat, Feb 4
Director: Jordan Peele Run Time: 104 min. Release Year: 2017
Starring: Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Catherine Keener, Daniel Kaluuya
Just because you're invited, doesn't mean you're welcome.
NOPE
- Sat, Feb 4
Director: Jordan Peele Run Time: 130 min. Release Year: 2022
Starring: Brandon Perea, Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Michael Wincott, Steven Yeun
What’s a bad miracle?
FRAMING AGNES
- Wed, Feb 8
- Thu, Feb 9
Director: Chase Joynt Run Time: 75 min. Release Year: 2022
Starring: Angelica Ross, Jen Richards, Max Wolf Valerio, Silas Howard, Zackary Drucker
Agnes, the pioneering, pseudonymized, transgender woman who participated in Harold Garfinkel’s gender health research at UCLA in the...
DAYS OF HEAVEN
- Wed, Feb 8
Director: Terrence Malick Run Time: 94 min. Release Year: 1978
Starring: Brooke Adams, Linda Manz, Richard Gere, Robert J. Wilke, Sam Shepard
Your eyes... Your ears... Your senses... will be overwhelmed.
THE ELEPHANT MAN
- Thu, Feb 9
Director: David Lynch Run Time: 124 min. Release Year: 1980
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, John Gielgud, John Hurt, Wendy Hiller
I am not an animal! I am a human being! I … am … a man!
CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7
- Fri, Feb 10
Director: Agnès Varda Run Time: 90 min. Release Year: 1962 Language: French
Starring: Antoine Bourseiller, Corinne Marchand, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blanck, Michel Legrand
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in...
DAISIES
- Fri, Feb 10
Director: Věra Chytilová Run Time: 76 min. Release Year: 1966 Language: Czech
Starring: Ivana Karbanová, Jiřina Myšková, Jitka Cerhová, Julius Albert, Marie Češková
Upsa-daisy… downs-a-daisy… turned-ons-a-daisy
ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13
- Sat, Feb 11
Director: John Carpenter Run Time: 91 min. Release Year: 1976
Starring: Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer, Martin West, Tony Burton
L.A.'s deadliest street gang just declared war on the cops.
MEAN STREETS
- Sat, Feb 11
Director: Martin Scorsese Run Time: 112 min. Release Year: 1973
Starring: Amy Robinson, David Proval, Harvey Keitel, Richard Romanus, Robert De Niro
You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets...
JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES
- Tue, Feb 14
Director: Chantal Akerman Run Time: 202 min. Release Year: 1976 Language: French
Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Henri Storck, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Jan Decorte, Yves Bical
A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a...
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
- Wed, Feb 15
Director: Orson Welles Run Time: 88 min. Release Year: 1942
Starring: Agnes Moorehead, Anne Baxter, Dolores Costello, Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt
Real life screened more daringly than it’s ever been before!
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
- Wed, Feb 15
Director: Jean Cocteau Run Time: 96 min. Release Year: 1946 Language: French
Starring: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Marcel André, Mila Parély, Nane Germon
Once upon a time…
BLACK GOD, WHITE DEVIL
- Thu, Feb 16
Director: Glauber Rocha Run Time: 120 min. Release Year: 1964 Language: Portuguese
Starring: Geraldo del Rey, Maurício do Valle, Othon Bastos, Sonia dos Humildes, Yoná Magalhães
Wanted for killing his boss, Manuel (Geraldo del Rey) flees with his wife Rosa (Yoná Magalhães) to the...
EL TOPO
- Thu, Feb 16
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky Run Time: 125 min. Release Year: 1970 Language: Spanish
Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alfonso Arau, Brontis Jodorowsky, José Legarreta, José Luis Fernández
The definitive cult spaghetti western
A WOMAN IS A WOMAN
- Fri, Feb 17
Director: Jean-Luc Godard Run Time: 83 min. Release Year: 1961 Language: French
Starring: Anna Karina, Henri Attal, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Karyn Balm
Is this a tragedy or a comedy? Either way, it's a masterpiece.
THE NUN
- Fri, Feb 17
Director: Jacques Rivette Run Time: 140 min. Release Year: 1966 Language: French
Starring: Anna Karina, Francine Bergé, Francisco Rabal, Liselotte Pulver, Micheline Presle
In eighteenth century France, novice Suzanne (Anna Karina) is compelled to take her vows and become a nun....
STRANGER THAN PARADISE
- Sat, Feb 18
Director: Jim Jarmusch Run Time: 89 min. Release Year: 1984
Starring: Cecillia Stark, Danny Rosen, Eszter Balint, John Lurie, Richard Edson
Rootless Hungarian émigré Willie (John Lurie), his pal Eddie (Richard Edson), and visiting sixteen-year-old cousin Eva (Eszter Balint)...
LIVING IN OBLIVION
- Sat, Feb 18
Director: Tom DiCillo Run Time: 89 min. Release Year: 1995
Starring: Catherine Keener, Danielle von Zerneck, Dermot Mulroney, James Le Gros, Steve Buscemi
Nick is about to discover the first rule of filmmaking: if at first you don't succeed... PANIC!
DRUGSTORE COWBOY
- Sat, Feb 18
Director: Gus Van Sant Run Time: 98 min. Release Year: 1989
Starring: Heather Graham, James Le Gros, James Remar, Kelly Lynch, Matt Dillon
Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne,...
MORVERN CALLAR
- Wed, Feb 22
Director: Lynne Ramsay Run Time: 97 min. Release Year: 2002
Starring: Carolyn Calder, Dan Cadan, Kathleen McDermott, Raife Patrick Burchell, Samantha Morton
After her beloved husband’s suicide, a mourning supermarket worker and her best friend hit the road in Scotland,...
MANDABI
- Thu, Feb 23
Director: Ousmane Sembène Run Time: 90 min. Release Year: 1968 Language: Wolof
Starring: Isseu Niang, Makhouredia Gueye, Mouss Diouf, Mustapha Ture, Ynousse N'Diaye
This second feature by Ousmane Sembène was the first movie ever made in the Wolof language—a major step...
WALKABOUT
- Fri, Feb 24
Director: Nicolas Roeg Run Time: 95 min. Release Year: 1971
Starring: David Gulpilil, Jenny Agutter, John Meillon, Luc Roeg, Robert McDarra
A boy and girl face the challenge of the world's last frontier.
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK
- Fri, Feb 24
Director: Peter Weir Run Time: 117 min. Release Year: 1975
Starring: Helen Morse, Kirsty Child, Rachel Roberts, Tony Llewellyn-Jones, Vivean Gray
On St. Valentine's Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls set out to picnic at Hanging Rock ... Some were never to return.
RAISING ARIZONA
- Sat, Feb 25
Director: Joel Coen Run Time: 94 min. Release Year: 1987
Starring: Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Nicolas Cage, Trey Wilson, William Forsythe
Their lawless years are behind them. Their child-rearing years lay ahead...
NEAR DARK
- Sat, Feb 25
Director: Kathryn Bigelow Run Time: 94 min. Release Year: 1987
Starring: Adrian Pasdar, Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen
In one hot hungry kiss, he gave her everlasting love. She gave him everlasting life.
ROAD HOUSE
- Sat, Feb 25
Director: Rowdy Herrington Run Time: 114 min. Release Year: 1989
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Kelly Lynch, Marshall R. Teague, Patrick Swayze, Sam Elliott
Dalton lives like a loner, fights like a professional. And loves like there's no tomorrow.
MODERN ROMANCE
- Wed, Mar 1
Director: Albert Brooks Run Time: 93 min. Release Year: 1981
Starring: Albert Brooks, Bruno Kirby, Jane Hallaren, Kathryn Harrold, Tyann Means
Robert was madly in love with Mary. Mary was madly in love with him. Under the circumstances they did the only thing they could do... they broke up.
BROADCAST NEWS
- Wed, Mar 1
Director: James L. Brooks Run Time: 133 min. Release Year: 1987
Starring: Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Lois Chiles, Robert Prosky, William Hurt
It’s the story of their lives.
MY BROTHER’S WEDDING
- Thu, Mar 2
Director: Charles Burnett Run Time: 81 min. Release Year: 1983
Starring: Dennis Kemper, Everett Silas, Gaye Shannon-Burnett, Jessie Holmes, Ronnie Bell
In 1983, after many long months of shooting, Charles Burnett sent his rough-cut of My Brother’s Wedding to his producers....
MOONLIGHT
- Thu, Mar 2
Director: Barry Jenkins Run Time: 111 min. Release Year: 2016
Starring: André Holland, Ashton Sanders, Janelle Monáe, Jharrel Jerome, Trevante Rhodes
This is the story of a lifetime
RUSHMORE
- Fri, Mar 3
Director: Wes Anderson Run Time: 93 min. Release Year: 1998
Starring: Bill Murray, Brian Cox, Jason Schwartzman, Olivia Williams, Seymour Cassel
Love. Expulsion. Revolution.
ELECTION
- Fri, Mar 3
Director: Alexander Payne Run Time: 103 min. Release Year: 1999
Starring: Chris Klein, Jessica Campbell, Mark Harelik, Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon
Reading. Writing. Revenge.
THE FAREWELL
- Sat, Mar 4
Director: Lulu Wang Run Time: 100 min. Release Year: 2019
Starring: Awkwafina, Diana Lin, Hong Lu, Tzi Ma, Zhao Shuzhen
Based on an actual lie.
LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (with A SHORT STORY)
- Sat, Mar 4
Director: Bi Gan Run Time: 138 min. Release Year: 2018 Language: Chinese
Starring: Chen Yongzhong, Huang Jue, Lee Hong Chi, Sylvia Chang, Tang Wei
Preceded by special screening of A SHORT STORY by Bi Gan LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT – Bi...