MEMBER PARTY
Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 5-7 p.m.
OPEN HOUSE
Thursday, December 4, 2025, 5-7 p.m.
Partizanfilm’s doors will open first to members only on 12/03. Stop by for free food and a cash bar, check out our brand-new auditoriums, and meet new friends. After a two-hour party, we’ll show a couple of the greatest films of the 1970s, which share a certain thematic connection. Tickets for Wednesday night’s screenings are on sale now for members only. It’s not too late to join! If you’re a member and can’t stay for a movie, we hope you’ll still come to say hello.
The next night (12/04), we’ll do it all over again — more food, more mingling — but this time, everyone is invited. Members will have another chance to see The Last Picture Show or Kings of the Road, but for Thursday, non-members can buy tickets as well, just as they’ll be able to for all subsequent screenings.
New releases will begin on Friday, November 21, and will run seven days a week with both evening showtimes and matinees. We have a few additional repertory titles lined up as well. Scroll down for more information.
The Last Picture Show (1971) - Drama - 118 min. - United States - English - Director: Peter Bogdanovich - Tickets
Wed. 11/19: 7:20 p.m. (members only)
Thurs. 11/20: 7:20 p.m.
High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures, Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else.
Kings of the Road (1976) - Drama - 175 min. - West Germany - German - Director: Wim Wenders - Tickets
Wed. 11/19: 7:10 p.m. (members only)
Thurs. 11/20: 7:10 p.m.
A roving film projector repairman (Rüdiger Vogler) saves the life of a depressed psychologist (Hanns Zischler) who has driven his Volkswagen into a river, and they end up on the road together, traveling from one rural German movie theater to another. Kings of the Road, captured in gorgeous compositions by cinematographer Robby Müller and dedicated to Fritz Lang, is a love letter to the cinema, a moving and funny tale of male friendship, and a portrait of a country still haunted by war.
Eternity - Romantic Comedy - 114 min. - United States - English - Director: David Freyne - Trailer - Tickets
Fri. 12/05 - 12:25, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 8:35
Sat. 12/06 - 12:25, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 8:35
Sun. 12/07 - 12:25, 2:40, 4:55, 6:50
Mon. 12/08 - 1:40, 3:55, 6:10, 8:25
Tues. 12/09 - 1:40, 3:55, 6:10, 8:25
Wed. 12/10 - 1:40, 3:55, 6:10, 8:25
Thurs. 12/11 - 1:40, 3:55, 6:10, 8:25
In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with (Miles Teller) and her first love (Callum Turner), who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive.
Angel’s Egg (2025 remaster) - Animated - 71 min. - Japan - Japanese - Director: Mamoru Oshii - Trailer - Tickets
Fri. 12/05 - 3:35, 9:25
Sat. 12/06 - 3:35, 9:25
Sun. 12/07 - 12:10, 1:45, 7:10
Mon. 12/08 - 1:55, 3:30, 8:45
Tues. 12/09 - 1:55, 3:30, 8:45
Wed. 12/10 - 5:20, 8:45
Thurs. 12/11 - 1:55, 3:30, 8:45
In an underwater city, a young girl takes care of a large egg she holds carefully in her arms. A boy with a gun arrives in search of a bird he saw in his dream. At first, it seems as if feelings of sympathy are developing between the two. Forty years after the film’s original release, GKIDS is proud to present an all-new 4K restoration of the film, supervised by director Mamoru Oshii, in cinemas nationwide for the very first time.
Henry Fonda for President - Documentary - 184 min. - Austria, Germany - English, German - Director: Alexander Horwath - Trailer - Tickets
Fri. 12/05 - 12:10, 5:10
Sat. 12/06 - 12:10, 5:10
Sun. 12/07 - 3:20
Mon. 12/08 - 5:05
Tues. 12/09 - 5:05
Wed. 12/10 - 1:55
Thurs. 12/11 - 5:05
A personal essay about the United States, viewed through the life and work of a movie actor. Henry Fonda and the roles he played merge into a dazzling and conflicted figure. A very private man who thought he had “no good answers to anything” becomes the unlikely motor of a parallel history. His voice, recorded during his last interview in 1981, and his onscreen avatars guide us through America’s past and present – on a road trip from the village of Fonda, NY, across the Midwest to the Pacific; from 1651 to the 1980s and the presidency of another movie actor. It takes many places and times and characters to imagine an invisible republic – the United States of Fonda.
Building on our opening-night picks, the theme of our first weekly repertory series is movie theaters. During the construction of Partizanfilm, we had occasion to think about what they mean to us and to revisit some of the films whose narratives include them prominently.
Do we go to the movies for solitude or for community? To enter life through art or to escape it through entertainment? And for how much longer will we have a chance to do either?
Burlington wasn’t the only town that lost its moviehouse in recent years — the number of film auditoriums in the United States has declined by several thousand since the pandemic. But COVID-19 wasn’t the motion picture exhibition industry’s first killer. It has heard a variety of death knells over the last 75 years: first, television; then, VCR; and finally, streaming. It’s been dying almost as long as it’s lived.
Every cinema is a dreamworld — one always senses reality’s wrecking ball around the corner. Partizanfilm is our own tiny utopia, and we hope you’ll want to fight for it with us. Join us every Wednesday for a well-loved classic or a forgotten gem.
The Long Day Closes (1992) - Drama - 85 min. - United Kingdom - English - Director: Terence Davies - Tickets
Wed. 12/10 - 6:55
The Long Day Closes is the most gloriously cinematic expression of the unique sensibility of Terence Davies, widely celebrated as Britain’s greatest living filmmaker. Suffused with both enchantment and melancholy, this autobiographical film takes on the perspective of a quiet, lonely boy growing up in Liverpool in the 1950s. But rather than employ a straightforward narrative, Davies jumps in and out of time, swoops into fantasies and fears, summons memories and dreams.
Mary Jane’s Not a Virgin Anymore (1996) - Comedy - 95 min. - United States - English - Director: Sarah Jacobson - Trailer - Tickets
Wed. 12/17
Sarah Jacobson's punk-spirited DIY films from the 1990s combine B-movie aesthetics and riot grrrl feminism, standing as a testament to the vision, determination, and raw talent of the Queen of Underground Cinema. Her only feature is a vibrant and vital antidote to every phony Hollywood teen picture, bringing lo-fi realness to the coming-of-age genre.
Targets (1968) - Thriller - 90 min. - United States - English - Director: Peter Bogdanovich - Tickets
Wed. 12/24
After unhinged Vietnam vet Bobby Thompson (Tim O'Kelly) kills his wife and mother, he goes on a brutal shooting spree. Starting at an oil refinery, he evades the police and continues his murderous outing at a drive-in movie theater, where Byron Orlock (Boris Karloff), a retiring horror film icon, is making a promotional appearance. Before long, Orlock, a symbol of fantastical old-fashioned scares, faces off against Thompson, a remorseless psychopath rooted in a harsh modern reality.
A Useful Life - Comedy - 67 min. - Uruguay, Spain - Spanish - Director: Federico Veiroj - Trailer - Tickets
Wed. 12/31
Jorge still lives with his parents at the age of 45. He has been the film programmer and technical support at the cinematheque for 25 years. Because attendance is down, the cinematheque shuts down, leaving Jorge unemployed. With no other skill, for the first time he is forced to change his way of life in order to adapt to the new world he faces. In the end, maybe the movies will help him survive.
TICKET PRICES (pre-tax) — General Admission - Evening (starting at 5 p.m.): $12.00; Member Admission - Evening: $9.50; General Admission - Weekend Matinee: $8.50; Member Admission - Weekend Matinee: $6.00; General Admission - Weekday Matinee: $7.50; Member Admission - Weekday Matinee: $5.00. Members pay $5.00 for all Tuesday showtimes.
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