2024 (Italy, Germany, USA) 124 minutes

Directed by: Pablo Larrain

Following his acclaimed historical biopics Jackie and Spencer, about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Princess Diana, respectively, Chilean director Pablo Larraín has made his third entry in an unofficial trilogy about world-famous women dealing with the blinding glare of celebrity while at an emotional crossroads. In an all-consuming performance at once poignant and imperious, Angelina Jolie becomes Maria Callas, the American-born Greek opera singer whose voice and intensely dramatic life captivated millions before her death from a heart attack at the age of 53. Set in Paris in September 1977, during the final week of her life, MARIA follows the legendary soprano as she negotiates her public image and private self and reckons with the increasingly blurred boundaries between the venerated “La Divina” and the vulnerable human being, Maria.

2024 Venice Film Festival – Nominated – Best Film
2024 Critics Choice Awards – Won – Best Director Latino Cinema

Incline Village Cinema – December 5 – 6:00pm

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2024 (USA) 121 minutes

Directed by: Marc Forster

From the best-selling author of Wonder, the book that sparked a movement to “choose kind,” comes the inspirational next chapter. In WHITE BIRD, we follow Julian (Bryce Gheisar), who has struggled to belong ever since he was expelled from his former school for his treatment of Auggie Pullman. To transform his life, Julian’s grandmother (Helen Mirren) finally reveals to Julian her own story of courage — during her youth in Nazi-occupied France, a boy shelters her from mortal danger. They find first love in a stunning, magical world of their own creation, while the boy’s mother (Gillian Anderson) risks everything to keep her safe. From director Marc Forster (Finding Neverland and Christopher Robin), screenwriter Mark Bomback, and based on R.J. Palacio’s book, White Bird: A Wonder Story, like Wonder before it, is an uplifting movie about how one act of kindness can live on forever.

Filmmakers present

Incline Village Cinema – December 6 – 7:15pm

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2024 (Germany) 91 minutes

Directed by: Tim Fehlbaum

Set during the 1972 Munich Olympics, SEPTEMBER 5 follows the ABC sports broadcasting team as it quickly adapts from sports reporting to live news coverage after Israeli athletes are taken hostage, revealing a decisive moment that forever changed live media. Ambitious producer Geoff Mason (John Magaro) leads the on-air coverage in an effort to prove himself to his boss, legendary TV executive Roone Arledge (Peter Saarsgard). As narratives shift, time ticks away, and conflicting rumors spread—with the hostages lives hanging in the balance—Geoff grapples with tough decisions while confronting his own moral compass in this taut and entertaining thriller. A Paramount Pictures release.

2024 Venice Film Festival – Nominated Audience Award
2024 Telluride Film Festival
2024 Hamptons International Film Festival

Incline Village Cinema – December 7 – 4:00pm

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2024 (Australia) 131 minutes

Directed by: Michael Gracy

This exuberant musical biopic charts Robbie Williams’ journey as a child raised to worship at the altar of Frank Sinatra, who finds his own voice first as a teenager with Take That and later as a solo artist. No hagiography, the drama frankly portrays the addictions and demons that accompany Williams’ rise to acclaim as well as the impostor syndrome that vividly manifests as he performs. The Greatest Showman director Michael Gracey’s sophomore feature contrasts Williams’ personal struggles with the absolute joy of his music, adding to the mix of recording sessions, club dates, arena shows, and extravagant and irresistible song-and-dance sequences. But the film’s biggest strengths are its unconventional approach to an artist’s life and Jonno Davies’ soulful, cheeky, and self-lacerating performance that proves he is a “better man,” as is Williams himself.

2024 Telluride Film Festival – Premiere
2024 Toronto Film Festival

Incline Village Cinema – December 8 – 7:00pm

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1954 (USA) 108 minutes

Directed by: Elia Kazan

Terry Malloy has been a pawn for others his entire adult life. A former boxer, he was controlled by his older brother Charley Malloy, who told him subtly when to take a fall in having big bets against him in return for a small cut. He is now a longshoreman working on the docks controlled by Michael Skelly, aka mobster Johnny Friendly, for whom Charley works in the upper ranks. In doing Johnny’s bidding, Terry is not only assured work in the day-to-day calls but is given what are considered cushy jobs. Conversely, anyone who crosses Johnny in talking or threatening to talk to the authorities ends up in the morgue in what are considered “accidents”. The latest such victim is Joey Doyle, who was considered a good kid and who was Terry’s friend. Terry got Joey into the situation of being on his building’s roof, from where he “fell”, Terry not knowing Johnny’s end goal of having Joey pushed off. Catholic priest Father Barry is the moral voice of the docks, he tries to get the longshoremen to talk about what they know in situations such as the cause of Joey’s death. He is supported in this specific matter by Joey’s younger sister Edie Doyle, who only wants the truth in what happened. Concurrently, Terry and Edie start to fall for each other, and Terry is served with a subpoena to testify in a commission investigating crime on the waterfront. Terry has to confront the matter of telling Edie the truth about what happened to Joey including his role which may threaten their relationship, the one good thing that has ever happened in his life, and in association with testifying against Johnny at the commission, which has its own consequences beyond his life being in jeopardy at Johnny’s hands.

1955 Academy Awards – Best Actor – Marlon Brando
1955 Academy Awards – Best Motion Picture
1955 Golden Globes – Best Actor – Marlon Brando
1955 Golden Globes – Best Motion Picture

Crystal Bay Casino Crown Room – December 7 – 8:30pm

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2024 (USA) 105 minutes

Directed by: Bill Fishman

WALTZING WITH BRANDO is the story of Marlon Brando and architect Bernard Judge living and working together on an unpopulated island near Tahiti between 1970 and 1974. It is an account of the four years they were developing a plan for, and later building, a small hotel on the Polyneisian atoll of Tetiaroa. Based on the book Waltzing with Brando: Planning a Paradise in Tahiti, the film tells a compelling story of a young architect who found himself, quite unexpectedly, living with Brando on a tiny speck of land within a crashing coral reef. The story includes a wealth of wild, funny and at times dangerous exploits. The narrative covers the joys, as well as the trials and tribulations of building a paradise in the midst of limpid lagoons, swaying palms and brilliant, white sand beaches.

US Premiere

Filmmakers present

Incline Village Cinema – December 7 – 6:15pm

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2024 (USA) 90 minutes

Directed by: Steven Latham, Conrad Stanley

This feature documentary is executive produced by Robert Redford, Patti Scialfa Springsteen and Jessica Springsteen with songs by Bruce Springsteen, Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson and an original song written by Diane Warren and performed by Blanco Brown. We are taken on an odyssey throughout America to places few people have seen or even know about. There are more than 80,000 wild horses on our federal lands and more than 50,000 in government corrals. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Philipps says, “The wild horse is so ingrained in the American imagination that even for those who have never seen one know what it stands for: fierce independence, unbridled freedom, the bedrock ideals of the nation. From car ads to high school mascots, the wild horse – popularly known as the mustang – is the enduring icon of America. But in modern times it has become entangled in controversy and bureaucracy, and now its future is in question.” Executive Producer Robert Redford says, “America’s wild horses are fighting their last stand. Increasing competition for our natural resources threatens our wilderness areas, our wild horses and other wildlife species. Horses are interwoven into the very fabric of what is America. What threatens them threatens us all.” This film will make you fall in love with America all over again and understand why the protection of our wild horses and our public lands are worth fighting for.

Filmmakers present

Incline Village Cinema – December 6 – 5:00pm

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2024 (USA) 100 minutes

Directed by: Nanette Burstein

Elizabeth Taylor’s life was spent under the microscope: a whirlwind arrival on the studio film scene as a child, a series of truncated marriages that filled the pages of gossip rags around the world, plaguing health issues and decades-long friendships with a group of men whose secrets and lives she honored as if they were her own. But most of all, Elizabeth Taylor’s off-and-on relationship with whom many considered her true love, Richard Burton, became the stuff of Hollywood legend as its romantic highs and dramatic lows were followed fanatically by fans around the world. What more is there to know about an icon dissected ten times over? The answer lies within celebrated filmmaker Nanette Burstein’s mesmerizing documentary ELIZABETH TAYLOR: THE LOST TAPES.Via audio tapes discovered in the archive of journalist Richard Meryman, we are guided by Taylor’s voice as she walks the audience from the first step of her career through her time with Burton in the 1970s. As she reveals intimacies about her relationships, romantic and otherwise, she peels back the layers of a beloved public figure to reveal a vulnerable, funny and tenacious woman who persevered despite a life led almost entirely under the scrutiny of public opinion.

2024 Cannes Film Festival – Nominated – The Golden Eye
2024 Tribeca Film Festival

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Incline Village Cinema – December 8 – 3:00pm

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2024 (Canada, USA) 107 minutes

Directed by: Emily Kassie, Julian Brave NoiseCat

Essential viewing. This gripping investigation, beginning in 2021, of unmarked graves at the notorious and now closed St. Joseph’s Mission residential school unearths secrets below and above ground, igniting a reckoning in the lives of survivors and their descendants on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve, including the film’s co-director, first-time feature filmmaker Julian Brave NoiseCat (Canim Lake Band Tsq’escen and a descendant of the Lil’Wat Nation of Mount Currie), whose father is a survivor of the school. SUGARCANE reminds us that Indigenous history is essential in understanding the complete landscape of historical truths across Turtle Island, also known as North America.

2024 Sundance Film Festival – Won – Directing Award
2024 Seattle International Film Festival – Won – Grand Jury Prize
2024 San Francisco Int’l Film Fest – Won – Golden Gate
2024 Mpls St. Paul Int’l Film Fest – Won – Best Documentary

Incline Village Cinema – December 7 – 2:00pm

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2024 (USA) 83 minutes

Directed by: Daniel Roher, Edmond Stenson

In the wake of a shocking diagnosis that three of their four kids had retinitis pigmentosa, a rare genetic disease that causes blindness, Edith and Sébastien Pelletier decided to take their family on a whirlwind year of travel so their children could fill up a visual memory bank of beautiful images around the world before they lost their sight completely. Following a bucket list written by the kids, the Pelletiers embark on a safari in Namibia, horseback riding in Mongolia, surfing in Indonesia, and countless other escapades, all while processing the disease that’s taking their vision. Working with National Geographic, Oscar-winning directors Daniel Roher and Edmund Stenson (Navalny) capture breathtaking vistas, the far-ranging beauty of planet Earth in a way most of us will never experience first-hand, but also cultivate a powerfully inspirational vision of family and the resiliency of the human spirit. What begins as globe-trotting adventures becomes a bittersweet journey of reflection, self-discovery, and heartwarming family connection.

2024 Telluride Film Festival
2024 Vancouver International Film Festival

Incline Village Cinema – December 8 – 1:00pm

2024 (USA) 98 minutes

Directed by: Maisie Crow, Abbie Perrault

This urgent documentary reveals the devastation inflicted on pregnant Texans, effectively barred from emergency obstetric care, due to the state’s draconian post-Roe abortion ban. Women push back, giving their suffering purpose by engaging in an epic legal battle against the state. With a maternal instinct to protect others, the three phenomenal women profiled in this indelible film share harrowing stories of loss and survival. The plaintiffs unite as they heal and move forward in their unique mothering journeys, while their attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights challenges the Texas Supreme Court to clarify medical exemptions that allow patients and their doctors to make informed choices based on medicine, not fear of retaliation. A blend of verité scenes and courtroom footage underline the high stakes involved, especially for poor women. The movement for reproductive justice for all is gaining momentum, and these lawsuits are just the beginning.

2024 Telluride Film Festival
2024 Chicago International Film Festiva
2024 Hamptons Int’l Film Fest – Won – Social Impact

Northstar Village Cinemas – December 7 – 2:00pm

2024 (USA) 93 minutes

Directed by: Errol Morris

Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Errol Morris confronts one of the darkest chapters in recent American history: family separations at the US-Mexico border. Based on Jacob Soboroff’s book ‘Separated: Inside an American Tragedy,’ Morris merges bombshell interviews with government officials and artful narrative vignettes to trace one migrant family’s plight, revealing that the cruelty at the heart of this policy was its very purpose. Morris confronts the U.S. government’s role in this unthinkable violation of human rights, speaks for the hundreds of families that remain separated years later, and warns that the country is on the verge of allowing it all to happen again.

2024 Venice Film Festival
2024 Telluride Film Festival

Northstar Village Cinemas – December 7 – 4:00pm

2024 (USA) 95 minutes

Directed by: Alessandra Lacorazza

Two sisters grapple with their relationship with their well-meaning but troubled father during their summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Told in four snapshots spanning two decades, Alessandra Lacorazza’s directorial debut is a quietly powerful look at the fragile mosaic that underlies the relationship between parent and child. The cracks in the seams that get ignored, the events that shatter the relationship, and ultimately, the attempts to put it back together again, though it’s never quite the same. The film is anchored by a heartrending performance from René Pérez Joglar as the affable but deeply troubled Vicente, who struggles with inner demons that keep him from fully connecting with his daughters. The sisters Violeta and Eva are presented by three sets of actresses, including Sasha Calle and Lío Mehiel, who brilliantly embody the growing chasm between their hopes and the reality of their father.

2024 Sundance Film Festival – Won – Grand Jury Prize
2024 Sundance Film Festival – Won – US Directing Award
2024 Miami Film Festival – Won – First Feature Prize
2024 Deauville Film Festival – Won – Grand Special Prize

Northstar Village Cinemas – December 6 – 7:00pm

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2024 (France, Germany, Iran) 146 minutes

Directed by: Mohammad Rasoulof

Iranian writer-director Mohammad Rasoulof won the FIPRESCI prize and a Special jury award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for this gripping drama about the paranoia that slowly eats away at one Tehran family. Misagh Zareh stars as Iman, a seemingly honorable man recently promoted to investigating judge, which brings with it a hefty raise and a bigger apartment for him, his wife, and his daughters. But he soon realizes he’s made a Faustian bargain—his new job requires him to sign the death warrants of protesters—which angers the women in his family. Meticulously building in tension until it becomes a harrowing thriller, the film is the latest act of defiance from Rasoulof (There Is No Evil), jailed several times by Iranian authorities for his politically outspoken films. (In fact, he fled the country to avoid imprisonment prior to the film’s premiere.) The filmmaker’s fury and sorrow suffuse his latest stunner, which brilliantly details how an oppressive regime obliterates the souls of its citizens.

2025 Academy Award Submission from GERMANY

2024 Cannes Film Festival – Won – FIPRESCI Prize
2024 Cannes Film Festival – Won – Special Jury Award
2024 San Sebastian Int’l Film Fest – Won – Audience Award
2024 Sydney Film Fest – Won – Best Int’l Feature

Northstar Village Cinemas – December 8 – 1:30pm

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2024 (Mexico) 126 minutes

Directed by: Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez

Four-year-old Sujo is left orphaned when his father, a sicario, is brutally murdered. He is left in the care of his aunt, who makes it her mission to protect him from drug traffickers and takes Sujo to live with her in an isolated house in the mountains. They are safe there for a few years, but when Sujo becomes a teenager, he realizes the tentacles of the cartels are almost inescapable, and he is forced to migrate to the capital and start a new life. When he settles in Mexico City, everything seems to work out—he gets a job, attends classes, and begins a friendship with a university professor. Then one day, an old friend from the gang back home shows up asking for his help. Sujo brings a breath of fresh air to themes widely addressed in cinema and the media—the brutal cycle of violence transmitted from generation to generation, and a fatal heritage hard to get rid of. But this film tells a different story, a more humanistic and hopeful tale of alternative paths to violence.

2025 Academy Award Submission from MEXICO

2024 Sundance Film Fest – Won – Grand Jury World Cinema
2024 San Sebastian Film Fest – Won – Espanola  Award

Incline Village Cinema – December 5 – 8:30pm

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2024 (France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg) 118 minutes

Directed by: Payal Kapadia

Crafted with visual poetry and emotional empathy, this 2024 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winner from Payal Kapadia shines a light on three nurses as they negotiate love and life in the teeming Mumbai metropolis. Prabha has a husband living overseas, her younger roommate Anu is carrying on a secret relationship with a Muslim boy, and Parvati plans to leave the big city after her husband dies. Without the support of men, these women forge bonds of mutual support while dispensing much-needed information and advice to their female patients. Cinematographer Ranabir Das tracks their days from work to home with a shimmering beauty, especially in the nighttime scenes. As the film moves from city to country in its second half, the women’s relationships shift and deepen as Kapadia finds the small but wondrous epiphanies in everyday life.

2024 Cannes Film Festival – Won – Grand Prize
2024 San Sebastian Film Fest – Won – Otra Mirada Award

Northstar Village Cinemas – December 7 – 8:30pm

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2024 (USA) 115 minutes

Directed by: Kelly O’Sullivan, Alex Thompson

Deeply human, unexpectedly funny, and incomparably moving, this portrait of a family piecing itself back together is a soulful testament to the healing power of art. Adrift after a family tragedy, Chicago construction worker Dan finds himself drawn into a ragtag community theater that is preparing an unorthodox adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. When one of the actors drops out, the group convinces Dan to step up and take his role, much to his family’s—and his own—surprise. In co-director Kelly O’Sullivan’s nuanced script, Dan’s personal transformation is treated with abundant warmth, grace, and humor. Fittingly for a film about the stage, Ghostlight rests on four absolutely superb performances. A veteran of Steppenwolf and Goodman theaters, Keith Kupferer brings this character to vivid life and is matched by Tara Mallen and Katherine Mallen Kupferer as his wife and daughter—who they happen to be in real life. Meanwhile, Dolly de Leon (Triangle of Sadness) gives a spirited and spiky turn as the head of the theater troupe.

2024 Sundance Film Festival – Premiere
2024 Seattle Int’l Film Fest – Won – Golden Needle
2024 Berkshire Int’l Film Fest – Won – Best Film
2024 Berkshire Int’l Film Fest – Won – Audience Award 
2024 SXSW Film Festival – Nominated – Audience Award

Northstar Village Cinemas – December 7 – 6:30pm

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2024 (Australia) 94 minutes

Directed by: Adam Elliot

Director Adam Elliot’s exquisitely crafted, beautifully scripted stop-motion animation geared to an adult audience is a basket of wonders, from Elena Kats-Chernin’s brilliant musical score to the voiceover talents of Australian luminaries Sarah Snook (Succession), Eric Bana (Full Frontal) and Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog). It’s Australia, 1970s. Life is no bowl of cherries for young Grace Pudel and her twin brother Gilbert. Bullied at school, Grace imagines growing a shell, curling her soft center into a ball of protection—just like her beloved pet snail, Sylvia. After their street musician dad dies in a busking accident, Grace is left alone when the twins are shunted off to separate parts of the continent. Enter Pinkie, an ebullient, cigar-smoking octogenarian whose colorful past includes stints as an exotic dancer in a schnitzel bar, ping pong matches with Fidel Castro, and now, a leading role in Grace’s life as her first human friend. Whimsical, irreverent, totally charming.

2024 London Film Festival – Won – Best Film
2024 Mill Valley Film Festival – Won – Animation Award

Northstar Village Cinemas – December 8 – 4:00pm

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2024 (Norway, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden) 117 minutes

When six-year-old Armand is accused of crossing boundaries with his best friend Jon at school, it sets off a chain of events that drags parents and school staff into a gripping battle for redemption. Winner of this year’s Caméra d’Or at Cannes, Norwegian writer-director Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, grandson of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann, masterfully constructs a narrative that slowly unveils its secrets as the incident remains shrouded in mystery. No one truly knows what happened between the boys, and as perceptions shift, the story keeps you on the edge of your seat, observing every subtle expression and gesture. Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in The World) delivers a stunning performance as Armand’s mother. With perfect pacing and a foreboding atmosphere, Armand is a captivating exploration of human nature and the complexities of parenthood. Enhanced by an evocative score and striking cinematography, this stylistically gripping debut promises to leave you breathless.

2025 Academy Award Submission from NORWAY

2024 Cannes Film Festival – Won – Golden Camera
2024 Hampton Int’l Film Fest – Won – Golden Starfish
2024 Chicago International Film Festival

Northstar Village Cinemas – December 8 – 6:00pm

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2024 (USA) 106 minutes

Directed by: Tyler Taormina

On Christmas Eve, the Balsano family gathers for what could be their last holiday in their ancestral home on Long Island. As the night wears on and generational tensions arise, teenager Emily (Matilda Fleming) and her cousin Michelle (Francesca Scorsese) sneak out with their friends to claim the wintry suburb for their own. In a comedy-drama packed to the brim with the glittering nostalgia of the holidays in the suburbs, director Tyler Taormina’s Cannes breakout hit weaves Christmas magic with a delightful ensemble cast, including Michael Cera, Maria Dizzia, Elsie Fisher, and Sawyer Spielberg.

2024 Cannes Film Festival – Nominated – SACD Prize
2024 Hampton Int’l Film Fest – Won – Next Exposure
2024 Vancouver International Film Festival

Northstar Village Cinemas – December 8 – 8:30pm

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2024 (New Zealand) 103 minutes

Directed by: James Ashcroft

Stefan Mortensen (Geoffrey Rush), an elderly judge, moves into a retirement home after a near-fatal stroke leaves him partially paralyzed. There, Mortensen clashes with another resident, the slightly off-kilter Dave Crealy (John Lithgow), who secretly terrorizes the residents with a sadistic, doll-based game called “The Rule of Jenny Pen.” Although it’s supposed to be used for dementia therapy, in Crealy’s hand, the puppet is an instrument of torture. As Crealy’s actions escalate, Mortensen must struggle against his own aging body and mind to put an end to Crealy’s reign of terror. In one of the most unexpected performances of the year, Oscar-nominated actor John Lithgow delivers a marvelously menacing performance as the perverse Crealy, while Oscar-winner Rush (Shine) is a formidable match. Full of creepily twisted and originally unsetting set pieces, The Rule of Jenny Pen doesn’t just tap into the universal fear of death but also the perils of getting old.

2024 Catalonian Int’l Film Fest – Won – Best Film
2024 Catalonian Int’l Film Fest – Won – Best Actor
2024 Fantastic Fest
2024 Chicago International Film Festival

Incline Village Cinema – December 7 – 9:00pm

2024 (USA) 113 minutes

Directed by: Frank Marshall, Thom Zimny

A celebration of the legendary band that revolutionized pop music and the iconic harmonious sound they created that personified the California dream, captivating fans for generations and generations to come. The documentary traces the band from humble family beginnings and features never-before-seen footage and all-new interviews with band members and other luminaries in the music business.

Primetime Emmy Awards – Won – Outstanding Sound Mixing

Filmmakers present

Incline Village Cinema – December 8 – 5:00pm

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2024 (USA) 93 minutes

Directed by: Don Hardy

As one of the most recognizable artists of the last 30 years, Linda Perry became an icon with her signature hat, attitude, and chart-topping hit “What’s Up” with her band 4 Non Blondes. Since then, she has gone on to make a name for herself as a Grammy-nominated songwriter and producer, creating hits for artists such as Adele, Christina Aguilera, Brandi Carlisle, Miley Cyrus, Celine Dion, Ariana Grande, Alicia Keys, Dolly Parton, Pink and Gwen Stefani. In his film, award-winning Don Hardy takes viewers on an intimate and revealing journey, exploring the life of this pioneering and talented artist. The film features extraordinary access to Perry herself as she shares some of her most intimate moments, struggling with the past and present as well as obligations to family and her profession, all while questioning the meaning of her life. Combining interviews with colleagues, family, and friends with new performance and recording footage, the story unfolds as one of strength and resilience of a gifted artist, daughter, and mother, who is finally able to embark on a search to find her own voice.

2024 Tribeca Film Festival
2024 Nashville Film Festival – Nominated – Grand Jury Prize

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Crystal Bay Casino Crown Room – December 8 – 7:30pm

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2024 (USA) 101 minutes

Directed by: Dawn Porter

New York native Luther Vandross was born to be a star, and his undeniable talent was positive proof of that. Starting off in the house band at the Apollo Theater, Luther would go on to support David Bowie, Roberta Flack, Bette Midler and many more before breaking through as the dynamic solo vocalist who would dominate R&B charts for decades. Acclaimed director Dawn Porter handles Luther’s story with care, providing insight to the illustrious singer’s career and personal life. His consummate professionalism, his hard work and his diligence are all captured, but so are his frustrations and his loneliness. With stunning archival footage that provides intimate access to Luther and interviews with those who knew him best, a full picture of him is constructed in this jubilant celebration of the one and only Luther.

2024 Sundance Film Festival
2024 Tribeca Film Festival
2024 Sarasota Film Festival – Won – Audience Award
2024 San Francisco Int’l Film Fest – Nominated
2024 Seattle Int’l Film Festival – Nominated

Crystal Bay Casino Crown Room – December 5 – 7:30pm

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2023 (USA) 105 minutes

Directed by: Sean Kusanagi

Witness the awe-inspiring ODESZA live show as an immersive concert film. With jaw-dropping visuals and a captivating set list of fan favorites as well as unreleased remixes; see one of electronic music’s biggest acts as you’ve never seen them before. The film provides a look behind-the-curtain into the process of creating ODESZA’s wildly successful return to the touring stage. Since they started making music in the basement of a college house, Harrison & Clay (ODESZA) have bucked the industry trends and built a creative and dedicated production team of longtime close friends. Through personal interviews with the band, their fans, and members of their creative team, the film provides an entertaining and heartfelt look at the connection between the band and their fans, how life experiences shaped the creation of their latest album, and how ODESZA grew from small-town aspiring musicians to a three-time Grammy Award nominated and major festival headlining icon.

Crystal Bay Casino Crown Room – December 6 – 7:45pm

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2024 (USA) 96 minutes

Directed by: Laurent Bouzereau

MUSIC BY JOHN WILLIAMS is a comprehensive look at the prolific life and career of legendary composer John Williams. From his early days as a jazz pianist to his 54 Oscar® nominations and five wins, the documentary celebrates Williams’ countless contributions to the moving image arts, music for the concert stage as well as his indelible impact on popular culture. The film features interviews with Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Kate Capshaw, Gustavo Dudamel, J.J. Abrams, Chris Martin, Ron Howard, Chris Columbus, George Lucas, Itzhak Perlman, Lawrence Kasdan, Yo-Yo Ma, Ke Huy Quan, James Mangold, Alan Silvestri, David Newman, Thomas Newman, Seth MacFarlane, Anne-Sophie Mutter and Branford Marsalis, whose lives have been touched by Williams’ timeless music. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Laurent Bouzereau, the documentary is produced by Steven Spielberg, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey, Sara Bernstein, Justin Wilkes, Meredith Kaulfers, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Laurent Bouzereau, with Markus Keith and Michael Rosenberg serving as executive producers.

AFI Fest – World Premiere

Incline Village Cinema – December 6 – 9:00pm

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2011 (USA) 89 minutes

Directed by: Alex Stapleton

Roger Corman passed away on May 9, 2024 at the age of 98. CORMAN’S WORLD is a tantalizing and star-studded tribute to Roger, Hollywood’s most prolific writer-director-producer, and seminal influencing force in modern moviemaking over the last 60 years. Featuring interviews with Hollywood icons and cinematic luminaries, some who launched their careers with Corman’s unforgettable world of filmmaking, including Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Jonathan Demme, Robert De Niro, Ron Howard, Peter Bogdanovich, Bruce Dern, Peter Fonda, William Shatner along with many others, this documentary chronicles how Corman created his cult film empire, one low-budget success at a time, capitalizing on undiscovered talent, and pushing the boundaries of independent filmmaking

Crystal Bay Casino Crown Room – December 8 – 9:00pm

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