Eternity - Romantic Comedy - 114 min. - United States - English - Director: David Freyne - Trailer - Tickets
Fri. 12/12 - 12:25, 2:40, 4:30, 7:00, 9:15
Sat. 12/13 - 12:25, 2:40, 4:30, 7:00, 9:15
Sun. 12/14 - 12:25, 2:40, 4:30, 7:00
Mon. 12/15 - 1:55, 4:10, 6:00, 8:30
Tues. 12/16 - 1:55, 4:10, 6:00, 8:30
Wed. 12/17 - 1:55, 4:10, 6:00, 8:15
Thurs. 12/18 - 1:55, 4:10, 6:00, 8:30
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.
Trifole - Drama - 100 min. - Italy - Italian (subtitled) - Director: Gabriele Fabbro - Trailer - Tickets
Fri. 12/12 - 12:10, 4:55, 6:45
Sat. 12/13 - 12:10, 4:55, 6:45
Sun. 12/14 - 12:10, 4:55
Mon. 12/15 - 1:40, 6:25
Tues. 12/16 - 1:40, 6:25
Wed. 12/17 - 1:40, 6:25
Thurs. 12/18 - 1:40, 6:25
In Italy’s Piedmont region, the rare white truffle hides deep in the forests around Alba. Igor, an aging truffle hunter, faces failing health and vanishing woodlands while struggling to keep pace with the modern truffle market. Into his quiet, tradition-bound world comes Dalia, his 28-year-old granddaughter from London, disconnected from her roots and searching for direction. Tasked with caring for him, their awkward reunion softens as she’s drawn into his passion for truffle hunting—and his world.
By the Stream - Drama - 111 min. - South Korea - Korean (subtitled) - Director: Hong Sang-soo - Trailer - Tickets
Fri. 12/12- 2:15, 8:50
Sat. 12/13 - 2:15, 8:50
Sun. 12/14 - 2:15, 6:45
Mon. 12/15 - 3:45, 8:15
Tues. 12/16 - 3:45, 8:15
Wed. 12/17 - 3:45
Thurs. 12/18 - 3:45, 8:15
In the wake of a scandal involving several of her students, Jeonim (Kim Minhee), an artist and lecturer at a women's university, asks her uncle Chu Sieon (Kwon Haehyo) to step in and direct a short play for the skit festival put on by her department. Her uncle is an actor-director, recently blacklisted after a scandal of his own. It doesn't take long before Sieon develops feelings for Jeonim's colleague, Professor Jeong (Cho Yunhee), a textile professor. Meanwhile, the circumstances surrounding the scandal grow more complicated, the moon waxes in the sky each night, and every morning Jeonim goes to the stream and sketches to grasp its patterns.
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 - 8:30
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.
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