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Polls Open WEDNESDAY, Jan 22nd, 2025

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Oscar Season Gems
Re-OPENING FRIDAY,
January 17th, 2025

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Follows one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events -- selecting the new Pope. Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with running this covert process after the unexpected death of the beloved Pope. Once the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders have gathered from around the world and are locked together in the Vatican halls, Lawrence uncovers a trail of deep secrets left in the dead Pope’s wake, secrets which could shake the foundations of the Church.
PG | 2h 0m

Reviews: 
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/conclave

Divine G (Colman Domingo), imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men, including a wary newcomer (Clarence Maclin), in this stirring true story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art. Based on the real-life Rehabilitation Through the Arts program at Sing Sing Maximum Security Prison, the film stars professional actors alongside many real-life formerly incarcerated men who were themselves alumni of the program during their incarceration, including Clarence "Divine Eye" Maclin and Sean San José.
R | 1h 45m

Reviews: 
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sing_sing

Pre-Opening Screening
THURS 1/23
Tickets Available NOW!
Officially Opens 1/24

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Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth (Adrian Brody) Yarrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones) after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes. On his own in a strange new country, László settles in Pennsylvania, where the wealthy and prominent industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pierce) recognizes his talent for building. But power and legacy come at a heavy cost.
R | 3h 35m

Reviews:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_brutalist

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The Jewish Film Festival returns to Magic Lantern!

Jan. 25 - Feb. 2 at Magic Lantern Theatre and online

Spokane’s annual celebration of Jewish life and culture onscreen.

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The Spokane Jewish Film Festival is the annual community film event hosted by Spokane Area Jewish Family Services featuring films from around the world, presented both in person and online. This year the festival will return to Spokane’s Magic Lantern Theatre for nine days of seven full-length films, four in-person screenings, and four online screenings, as well as four short films.

Spokane’s annual Jewish Film Festival is an event for both Jewish and non-Jewish community members alike, and the festival is an entertaining and fun way to be introduced to Jewish culture and life.

 

OPENING NIGHT: Don’t miss the film festival premiere of Carla the Rescuer, a new documentary about Spokane’s own Carla Peperzak and her role in the Dutch resistance during World War II.

The evening will begin with a cocktail hour at 5:30 p.m. followed by remarks from Carla herself and the premiere screening.

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All proceeds from the Spokane Jewish Film Festival go towards supporting the work of SAJFS.

Learn more at www.sajfs.org.

 

Spokane Area Jewish Family Services (SAJFS) is a local nonprofit that provides programs, support, and services to seniors, low-income households, and people with disabilities in our region. SAJFS provides these services for those in need regardless of religious affiliation or background, while incorporating Jewish principles and values like tikkun olam — repairing the world.​​

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New York, 1961. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota named Bob Dylan arrives with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music. He forges intimate relationships with music icons of Greenwich Village on his meteoric rise, culminating in a groundbreaking and controversial performance that reverberates worldwide. Timothée Chalamet stars and sings as Bob Dylan in James Mangold's A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, the electric true story behind the rise of one of the most iconic singer-songwriters in history.
R | 2h 21m

Reviews:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_complete_unknown

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The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut. Centering on two roommates who also work together in a city hospital--head nurse Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and recent hire Anu (Divya Prabha)--plus their coworker, cook Parvaty (Chhaya Kadam), Kapadia's film alights on moments of connection and heartache, hope and disappointment. Prabha, her husband from an arranged marriage living in faraway Germany, is courted by a doctor at her hospital; Anu carries on a romance with a Muslim man, which she must keep a secret from her strict Hindu family; Parvaty finds herself dealing with a sudden eviction from her apartment. Kapadia captures the bustle of the metropolis and the open-air tranquility of a seaside village with equal radiance, articulated by her superb actresses and by the camera with a lyrical naturalism that occasionally drifts into dreamlike incandescence. All We Imagine as Light is a soulful study of the transformative power of friendship and sisterhood, in all its complexities and richness.
(In Malayalam, Hindi & Marathi with English subtitles.)
NR | 1h 58m

Reviews:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/all_we_imagine_as_light

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A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood. Teaming up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog to navigate a boat in search of dry land, they must rely on trust, courage, and witsto survive the perils of a newly aquatic planet. From the boundless imagination of the award-winning Gints Zilbalodis (Away) comes a thrilling animated spectacle as well as a profound meditation on thefragility of the environment and the spirit of friendship and community.
PG | 1h 24m

Reviews:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/flow_2024

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Dates subject to change.
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Opens 1/31

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Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
PG-13 | 1h 47m

Reviews:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_room_next_door

Opens TBD

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During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
R | 1h 34m

Reviews:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/september_5

Opens 2/14

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Oscar Nominated ANIMATED Shorts:
 

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Oscar Nominated DOCUMENTARY Shorts:

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Oscar Nominated LIVE-ACTION Shorts:

 

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Opens 2/28

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Original Title: Ainda Estou Aqui

A mother (Fernanda Torres) is forced to reinvent herself when her family's life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence during the tightening grip of a military dictatorship in Brazil, 1971. The film is based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's biographical book and tells the true story that helped reconstruct an important part of Brazil’s hidden history.
(In Portuguese with English subtitles)
PG-13 | 2h 15m

Reviews:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/im_still_here_2024

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