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2013 Oscar Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film!
“The closest thing to a masterpiece that I’ve seen so far here in Cannes.” –David Fear, Time Out New York
Can cheesy TV commercials dethrone one of the world’s most brutal dictators? In 1988, as Chilean voters prepare to head to the polls to vote on the future of the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet, an opportunistic ad exec (Gael García Bernal) is asked to mastermind a media campaign against Pinochet. His glitzy, pop-driven pieces, with their catchy jingles, drive both the opposition and the anti-Pinochet hardliners nearly beserk. Shot on 80s-era equipment by Pablo Larrain (POST MORTEM, TONY MANERO) this prizewinner at Cannes paints a vivid, funny depiction of true-life heroism, showing how crisis can elevate even the most unexpected of us to be our best selves. (Chile, 2012, 117m, 35mm, Sony Pictures Classics)

April-May 2013

Santa Fe Pro Musica presents a special event with A LATE QUARTET

"Deeply moving ... shows us how music can utterly transport us to another place." –Seattle Times

In honor of the Brentano Quartet's visit to Santa Fe, we'll present this story of a beloved string quartet that receives a shock, opening the floodgates to suppressed emotions, competing egos, and uncontrollable passions. Can their shared love of music and performance save them on the eve of their 25th anniversary concert? Inspired by and structured around Beethoven's Opus 131 String Quartet in C-sharp minor, A LATE QUARTET stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, Anne Sofie von Otter and Wallace Shawn, with music performed by the Brentano Quartet.
Advanced Tickets are highly reccomended by calling 982-1338, or click here. 

Visit http://www.santafepromusica.com/ or call 988-4640 for tickets and information about the Brentano String Quartet concert sponsored by Santa Fe Pro Musica on Friday, March 1.

5:45p Thursday, February 28 only!

The Santa Fe Opera presents

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Celebrate the world premiere of Theodore Morrison’s opera OSCAR with this series of films, inspired by Wilde’s most beloved works!
“Among the many film adaptations, this 1945 MGM version is without a doubt the best … a classic slice of cinema.” –BBC
Albert Lewin’s legendary macabre adaptation—winner of the best cinematography Oscar, and Golden Globes for best drama and best supporting actress—follows a wealthy man (Hurd Hatfield) who falls in with a glamorous hedonist (George Sanders). An ill-fated wish stops his aging process, and he turns into a man whose outer beauty hides a hideous soul. (U.K., 1945, 107m, 35mm, print courtesy of Park Circus)

7:00p Wednesday, May 1

Santa Fe International Folk Art Market presents:

Folk/Art/Cinema

The Story of Qiu Ju

“Mr. Zhang's keen and universal view of human nature raises his work far above its own visual beauty and into the realm of timeless storytelling.” –New York Times
Zhang Yimou, China’s greatest living filmmaker, tells the story of a young village woman (the radiant Gong Li) living in traditional ways. After her husband is insulted by a local official, she travels to the big city in search of justice, navigating the baffling modern world. Zhang has created one of the most striking films about the challenges of contemporary China, featuring a keen sense of its rhythms and landscapes and providing a miraculous balance of the absurd and the poignant. (China, 1992, 100m, 35mm print courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)

7:00p Wednesday, May 15
Tickets: $12, no passes

Santa Fe International Folk Art Market presents:

Folk/Art/Cinema

Central Station

“A richly tender and moving experience … Salles, like De Sica and Renoir, displays a pure and unpatronizing feel for the poetry of broken lives. His movie is really about that most everyday of miracles: the rebirth of hope.” –Entertainment Weekly
In Rio, the callous Dora (the legendary Fernanda Montenegro, nominated for an Oscar) writes letters for a parade of the poor and the illiterate. After hearing the story of a recently orphaned nine-year-old boy, she decides to take him on a search through the countryside for his father. In this Golden Globe-winning road movie, Walter Salles (MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, ON THE ROAD) shows us the peoples and cultures of Brazil—both traditional and modern—as you’ve never seen them, and celebrates our potential for rebirth. (Brazil, 1998, 113m, 35mm print courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)

7:00p Wednesday, June 12
Tickets: $12, no passes

Santa Fe Opera presents

Wilde

“Exemplary … this deeply moving Wilde is likely to remain the definitive screen treatment of Oscar Wilde for years to come.” –L.A. Times
Oscar Wilde, a brilliant, witty, incisive writer, remains one of literature’s best known icons. But his personal struggles are somewhat less familiar. Brian Gilbert, adapting Richard Ellmann’s Pulitzer-winning biography, begins with Wilde (the uncanny Stephen Fry) as a loving family husband and father carrying his homosexuality as a dark secret. After he begins a hidden love life (including with Alfred Lord Douglas, played by Jude Law), Wilde becomes increasingly at war with himself … and the Crown. (U.K., 1998, 117m, 35mm, Sony Pictures Classics)

FREE SCREENING! 7:00p Wednesday, June 5 - First come first served seating

Santa Fe Institute’s Science on Screen:
Simon DeDeo presents Sneakers

Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier and Ben Kingsley headline an all-star cast in this hacker version of Ocean’s 11, in which a team of computer security experts are recruited to steal a very powerful little box. Astrophysicist and mathematician Simon DeDeo shares his knowledge of the history of hacking to put this cult film in perspective. (U.S., 1992, 126m, 35mm)

7:00pm Wednesday, May 8, 2013

A Fierce Green Fire

“Spans the broad scope of environmental history, connecting its origins with the variety of issues still challenging society today.”  –The Hollywood Reporter
Oscar-winning director Mark Kitchell (BERKELEY IN THE SIXTIES) turns his focus to the 50 years of environmental action that have transformed our understanding of the world. From halting dams in the Grand Canyon to battling 20,000 tons of toxic waste at Love Canal; from Greenpeace saving the whales to Chico Mendes and the rubbertappers saving the Amazon; from climate change to new modes of thinking, this documentary tells the inspiring story of individuals who joined together, against enormous odds, to make the world a better place. (U.S., 2012, 114m)

April 2013

Renoir

“An impeccably crafted, tenderly felt period piece.” –Screen InternationalThe Côte d’Azur, 1915: a free-spirited young woman enters the world of Auguste Renoir—still mourning the death of his wife—and his son, the aspiring artist Jean. Andree, blazing with life and radiantly beautiful, is the model of his dreams. As Jean recovers from his war wounds, he too falls under her spell. Director Gilles Bourdos paints a gorgeous, meditative but emotionally deep film about aging, mortality, inspiration and the force of the creative spirit. (France, 2012, 111m, digital video, Samuel Goldwyn Films)
May-June 2013

The Source Family

It was Hollywood’s favorite commune. The Source Family ran a restaurant popular with celebrities, created a rock band and lured an endless stream of beautiful women. But the controversial ideas of Father Yod, their spiritual leader, helped send them into exile. Years later, filmmakers Jodi Wille and Maria Demopoulos revisit the group, weaving together interviews, archival music and film and original music to tell a mysterious, unexpected and sometimes shocking tale of one of America’s most infamous utopian experiments. (U.S., 2012, 98m, digital video)

May 2013

Jackie

“A real honest-to-goodness charmer … beautifully performed, warm and funny and looks terrific.” ­–Screen International
Carice van Houten (the Netherlands’ leading actress) and her sister Jelka play twins on a quest to find the mother (Oscar winner Holly Hunter) that they’ve never met. Traveling through the wilds of New Mexico, they learn more about each other and about the redemptive power of family. This heartwarming, gorgeously shot film is one of the recent box-office champions in the Netherlands. (Netherlands-U.S., 2012, 96m, digital video)

May 2013

New Mexico Filmmakers Experience:
What Are The Kids Doing?

Each month, in partnership with the Santa Fe Center for Contemporary Arts the Film Office will present a panel discussion on various aspects of New Mexico filmmaking. These panels will be the third Sunday of each month from 11 am to 1 pm and are free and open to the public. Additionally each month there will be screenings of significant films with Skype interviews and Q and A with the filmmakers. This will be a great opportunity for New Mexico filmmakers to get insights from other filmmakers from around the world.

What Are The Kids Doing? - A panel of middle and high school age film students talk about what they are learning and what they are producing. Click Here for More information!

11:00am Sunday, April 21, free and open to the public!

Gimme The Loot

“A lovingly retro look at teenage life in the Bronx by an intriguing new director, built around two tremendously engaging central characters … a scrappy, funny, warmly observed delight from start to finish.” –Variety
When a rival gang buffs their latest masterpiece by two determined teens, they hatch a plan to get revenge by tagging an iconic NYC landmark. But they need to raise $500 to pull off their spectacular scheme. Over the course of two whirlwind, sun-soaked summer days, Malcolm and Sofia travel on an epic urban adventure involving black-market spray cans, illicit bodegas, stolen sneakers, a high wire heist, and a beautiful, rich girl’s necklace—all part of the puzzle as they strive to become the biggest writers in the City. Adam Leon’s film, winner of the top prize at SXSW, was a favorite at both Cannes and New Directors/New Films. (U.S., 2013, 79m, digital video, IFC Films)

April-May 2013

To The Wonder

“A ramble through the ecstasies of the natural world as experienced or ignored by little people on a giant, gorgeous planet.” –Richard Corliss, Time
In the latest from master director Terrence Malick (THIN RED LINE, TREE OF LIFE), Marina (Olga Kurylenko) and Neil (Ben Affleck) meet in France and move to Oklahoma to start a life together, but problems soon arise. While Marina makes the acquaintance of a priest and fellow exile (Javier Bardem), who is struggling with his vocation, Neil renews a relationship with a childhood sweetheart, Jane (Rachel McAdams). This bold lyrical film provides a moving, gorgeously shot exploration of love in its many forms. (U.S., 2012, 112m, digital video, Magnolia Films)

May 2013

Salt of the Earth

This is our “home. The house is not ours,” a voice tells us at the opening of this classic film of resistance. “But the flowers... the flowers are ours. This is my village. When I was a child, it was called San Marcos. The Anglos changed the name to Zinc Town, New Mexico. Our roots go deep in this place, deeper than the pines, deeper than the mine shaft..." Created by a team of blacklisted writers, SALT OF THE EARTH revisits the true story of Latino miners who go on strike to protest the deadly, slave-like conditions at their workplace. Suppressed upon its initial release, it is now recognized as an essential chapter in independent film history. (U.S. 1954, 111m, 35mm courtesy of Museum of Modern Art)

7:00p Monday April 1, with an introduction by Lois Rudnick, PLUS A FREE SCREENING FOR STUDENTS 11:30a Thursday, April 4th

The Angels' Share

“Politics underlie every aspect of this funny, warm-hearted, deftly plotted film.” –The Observer
An ex-offender and new father embarks on an adventure with his new-found friends. Upon discovering a famed whisky distillery, he discovers that turning to drink might just change his life. Famed social realist—and famed political filmmaker—Ken Loach makes comedy the focus in this joyful romp. (U.K., 2012, 106m, digital video, IFC Films)

May 2013

Upstream Color

Kris is derailed from her life after being drugged by a small-time thief. But something bigger is going on. She is unknowingly drawn into the life cycle of a presence that permeates the microscopic world, moving to nematodes, plant life, livestock, and back again. Along the way, she finds another being—a familiar, who is equally consumed by the larger force. The two search urgently for a place of safety within each other as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of their wrecked lives. Carruth’s PRIMER won the Sundance Film Festival 2004 Grand Jury Prize, and his follow-up is a truly remarkable film that lies beyond the power of language to communicate while it delivers a cohesive sensory experience: an original, mythic, romantic thriller that goes in search of truths that lie just beyond our reach. (U.S., 2013, 96m, digital video)

April 2013

Santa Fe Institute’s Science on Screen:
Cris Moore presents Primer

Working after hours, two young inventors craft a machine in their garage that opens up a universe of possibility … and severe consequences. Cris Moore, a computer scientist, mathematician, physicist and author of an acclaimed book on computation, provides a window into Shane Carruth’s twisty and unforgettable cult film. (U.S., 2004, 77m)

7:00pm Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival presents

PRECIOUS LIFE - SOLD OUT!

“Remarkable!” - The New York Times

“One of the most moving films of the last several years.” -Variety

Director Shlomi Eldar directs this story of compassion among enemies and cruelty among neighbors, tracking Mohammed, a 4-month-old Palestinian baby suffering from a rare immune deficiency. The race by Israeli doctors and Palestinians to save one life is embedded in the larger routine of the two communities grinding each other up, reflecting the complexities of the Middle East. Sponsored by Baksim Goddard, Bonnie Ellenger, and Paul Golding.
Advanced Tickets are ONLY available at http://www.santafejff.org/tickets/

Encore Screening Tuesday, March 12-THIS SCREENING IS SOLD OUT!!

Midnight's Children

“An epic, visually pleasing tale weaving politics, colorful splendor, romantic love and magic.” –Toronto Star
Saleem was born at the exact moment when India declared independence from England, and his life is appropriately tumultuous. Deepa Mehta’s adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s novel—generally considered one of the best of the century—follows as he is wapped into a wealthy family at birth, learns to use his telepathic powers and finds himself in the thick of the conflicts, magic and tragedies of modern India. It is an astonishing combination of family chronicle, political allegory and magical-realism. (Canada-Sri Lanka, 2012,  35mm, 149m)

June 2013

Becoming Traviata

“Riveting … a treat for fans of opera.” –Variety
Director Philippe Béziat follows the legendary soprano Natalie Dessay —who first sang Violetta at the Santa Fe Opera in 2009—as she works with diligence and inspiration on the way to opening night of La Traviata at France’s Aix-en-Provence Festival. Dessay, director Jean-François Sivadier and musical director Louis Langrée pore over Verdi’s classic, trying to find clues that will allow a richer interpretation, and the film shows the production from all angles, leading towards a triumphant opening night. (France, 2012, 108m, digital video, mTuckman Media)

June 2013

Room 237

“One of the great movies about movies.” –Variety
Of the many movies that lend themselves to dramatic interpretations, few have drawn the obsession that Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING does. Rodney Ascher goes deep into the far-reaching theories, spending those who believe they have decoded the hidden symbols and buried messages. The best trick in this outrageous, engaging and provocative film is reworking Kubrick to match the theories, and intercutting with layers of dreamlike imagery that illustrate the fans’ streams of consciousness. (U.S., 2012, 104m, digital video)

May 2013

Gene Youngblood presents

Secession from the Broadcast:

The Internet and the Crisis of Social Control

Today’s alternative media environment surpasses the wildest utopian dreams of twentieth-century media activism. This lecture by legendary theorist and critic Gene Youngblood (Expanded Cinema) explores the epic struggle for control of the Internet, and what we must do to release its revolutionary potential.

7:30p Friday, May 31 • $5 Suggested Donation

Who Bombed Judi Bari?

“Tough and intriguingly well-told.” –The Village Voice
Before Occupy, there was the Redwood Summer. In an infamous case, two Earth First! activists survived a bomb blast in the back of their car. The FBI accused Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney of carrying explosives (both known pacifists); many suspected corporate terrorism by those whose financial interests were put at risk by Earth First. Cherney and co-director Mary Liz Thompson follow the victim-suspects as they sue in search of the truth behind a still-relevant unsolved crime. Winner of festival awards at five festivals; preceded by live music by Eric George. (U.S., 2012, 93m, digital video)

7:30p Sunday January 27, Producer Darryl Cherney in person!

It's A Disaster

“Doomsday delight! One of the funniest films of recent vintage.” –Hollywood Reporter
Worst. Brunch. Ever. Eight friends meet for their monthly get-together but, as they air their domestic grievances, there is a surprise: L.A. is under attack. Trapped in the house and unsure of their fates, these seemingly normal people become increasingly unhinged with gut-busting, shocking and revealing results. The eggs are cold, tensions are high and the end is near. An all-star cast (America Ferrara, Julia Stiles, David Cross) transform an uneasy meal into an unforgettably hilarious one. (U.S., 2012, 88m, digital video, Oscilloscope Labs)

May 2013

SITE Santa Fe Young Curators presents

Waking Life

“I have seen Waking Life three times now. I want to see it again—not to master it, or even to remember it better—but simply to experience all of these ideas, all of this passion, the very act of trying to figure things out.” –Roger Ebert

Richard Linklater shot this film in semi-improvisational fashion, and then transformed it with a creative overlay of playful and at times trippy animation. A wanderer follows a chain of seemingly linked conversations about everything from existentialism to cinema, with Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Adam Goldberg, Steven Soderbergh, Louis Black and colorful Austin personalities, creating a dream-like exploration of human consciousness. (U.S., 2001, 98m, digital video)

3:30p Sunday, April 28 • $5

This Must Be The Place

“Sparked by a nutty but quite wonderful, can’t-take-your-eyes-off-him performance by Sean Penn, this unpredictable film carries you along on a wave of surprise and visual beauty.” –Film Journal
Cheyenne (Oscar winner Sean Penn) is a former rock star. At 50, he still dresses 'Goth' and lives in Dublin off his royalties. But he acknowledges to feeling “a tad depressed.” The death of his father, with whom he wasn't on speaking terms, brings him back to New York. He discovers his father had an obsession: to seek revenge for a humiliation he had suffered during World War II. Cheyenne decides to pick up where his father left off, and starts a journey, at his own pace, across America. Paolo Sorrentino (director of the masterpiece IL DIVO) has crafted a funny, distinctive and unforgettable road movie. (Italy, 2012, 118m, 35mm, The Weinstein Company)

January 2013

The Cat Returns

After rescuing a cat in traffic, a quiet suburban schoolgirl is paid a visit by the King of Cats, and then pulled into a fantastical feline world. Asked to make a choice—to become someone truly special in a hidden universe, or return home—she must find her inner strength. the voices of Anne Hathaway, Cary Elwes, Peter Boyle, Elliott Gould, Tim Curry, Andy Richter, Kristen Bell and Avril Lavigne. (d. Hiroyuki Morita, Japan, 2002, 75m, new 35mm print, recommended for age 6 and up) 

Friday July 27 at 5:30p, Sat-Sun July 28-29 at 11:00a and 12:45p

New Mexico Film Office presents

Woven Stories: Weaving Traditions of Northern

New Mexico

Director Andrea Heckman in person!! Winner, Silver City Film Festival Audience Award

Shot in Mora, Taos, Tierra Amarilla, El Rito, Espanola, Truchas and Chimayo, Andrea Heckman’s documentary follows local weavers and shares their stories, demonstrating how these artists have combined traditional practices and materials, modern pressures and a strong sense of place into an enduring form. (U.S., 2011, 58 min.)

1:00p Sunday, April 28

The Central Park Five

New York, April 1989: A white, middle-class investment banker is brutally assaulted and raped while jogging in Central Park. Five teenage boys from Harlem, held by the NYPD for hours until they confess, become scapegoats for the city’s skyrocketing crime and intensifying racial antagonisms. With full access to four of the five suspects, Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns and David McMahon tell a tragic story of a crime, its highly compromised investigation and trials and the aftermath, including how the media fanned the flames, introducing the phrase “wilding” and summoning nightmares of rampaging black men. (U.S., 2012, 119m, digital video, IFC Films)

January 2013

2nd Annual Youth Creating Change Film Festival!

Presented by EarthCare and Adelante

Featuring original thought-provoking short films made by young people from around the city different. For more information, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

11:30a Saturday May 11 • Free for students, $5 suggested donation!

Ocean Keeper

Local filmmaker Eileen Torpey premiered her 26-minute film Ocean Keeper at the prestigious Hamptons International Film Festival in October 2012. It is currently broadcasting on WNET, Thirteen, New York City. The documentary is a captivating blend of archival and contemporary footage and a historical gem. The Amagansett Life-­-Saving Station has been a unique centerpiece of Long Island history since it was built in 1902. The film journeys through the Station's extraordinary 100-year-plus history and arrives at its present day incarnation on Atlantic Avenue.

Precedes 7:30 screening of CHASING ICE on Friday, January 4. Filmmaker Eileen Torpey IN PERSON!!

Dead Man's Burden

“The kind of movie you'd stumble onto watching TCM late at night and get sucked into against your will, amazed that something you'd never heard of could be this absorbing.” –A.V. Club
As the Civil War winds down, Martha (Clare Bowen) and her husband Heck (David Call) struggle to make ends meet on the rural New Mexico frontier. When a mining company expresses interest in buying their land, Martha and Heck see their ticket to a better life … until a surprise guest complicates their plans. Filmed on location in Northern New Mexico, Jared Moshe’s film offers a throwback to the golden age of the American Western. (U.S., 2013, 93m, DCP, Cinedigm)
June 2013

Upcycle Santa Fe with Only Green Design

Join Only Green Design this March 8th at CCA (and March 9th at Warehouse 21 and Zia Diner) to cultivate a positive and collaborative response to issues of pollution, community disintegration and lack of fresh engagement in design/build processes. Upcycle Santa Fe will feature educational presentations to demonstrate some of the vast alternatives found in the creative reuse (upcycling) of wasted materials, and a panel discussion entitled Culture at the Crossroads. Come make rehabilitation a celebration, participate in an open source exchange of knowledge and materials to empower at the grassroots level, and support Only Green Design’s Ecological Design Education projects. Click HERE for more information!
5:30 – 6:00 – Opening Reception with lite fare, libations, and live music from Matthew Andrae
6:00 – 6:15 – South African Trash to Treasure Festivals with Joseph Stodgel
6:15 – 6:30 – Only Green Design· in Kosovo with James Stodgel
6:30 – 7:00 – Alexi Dzurec of Autotroph Design – International Relevance to Local Design Applications
7:00 – 8:00 – Axle Contemporary’s Mobile Gallery N(o)stalgia Opening in front of CCA
7:30 – 8:00 – Live Music with Alamo Sun

5:30 - 8:00p Friday, March 8 • $10, Tickets available by calling 982-1338. 

AIA Santa Fe presents

16 Acres

"Riviting and emotional." - NY Post
It may be the most architecturally, politically, and emotionally complex urban renewal project in American history: From the beginning, the effort to build at Ground Zero been fraught with controversy, delays and politics. But, eleven years, nineteen government agencies, a dozen projects and over $20 billion later, it is happening. Richard Hankin’s documentary follows the construction, including four giant skyscrapers, a train station, a museum and an arts center, from the start. (U.S., 2012, 95m, digital video)

7:00p Wednesday, April 10 • $10 general/$8 for CCA and AIA Members! Introduced by John Barton, AIA Santa Fe!

Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival presents Hava Nagila

"A toe-tapping, entertaining celebration.” –San Francisco Chronicle
Roberta Grossman’s documentary romp shares the history, mystery and meaning of the great Jewish standard, featuring interviews with Harry Belafonte, Leonard Nimoy, Connie Francis, Glen Campbell and Regina Spektor, and following the ubiquitous party song on its fascinating journey from the shtetls of Eastern Europe to the kibbutzim of Palestine to the cul-de-sacs of America. (U.S., 2013, 78m, digital video)

4:00p Sunday, June 16 - Advance tickets available exclusively at www.santafejff.org/tickets for $15. Tickets will be $20 at the door. Screening will be followed by a Q&A with Dyanna Taylor, the film's cinematographer! “Deli bites” reception with live Klezmer music following the Q&A!

The Santa Fe Opera presents Lady Windermere's Fan

Celebrate the world premiere of Theodore Morrison’s opera OSCAR with this series of films, inspired by Wilde’s most beloved works!
“It seems incredible that Lubitsch’s silent was an improvement on Oscar Wilde’s original. He redeemed Wilde’s silly melodramatics through the sardonic wit of his images and players.” –Andrew Sarris
They call it “the Lubitsch touch”: an urbane, efficient and often brilliantly incisive wit that perhaps found its inspiration in…Oscar Wilde? Two great and very funny artists come together in this silent film, in which the marriage of an upper-class couple is nearly destroyed by the suspicion of adultery. Featuring live accompaniment by the legendary pianist Hank Troy. (U.S., 1925, 86m, 35mm, provided by the Museum of Modern Art)

7:00p Wednesday, March 6, with live accompaniment by Hank Troy!

SITE Santa Fe Young Curators presents

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

“May be the first movie I've seen that bends your brain and breaks your heart at the same time.” –Owen Glieberman, Entertainment Weekly

This Oscar-winning cult classic from Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman follows a man struggling to come to terms with his ex-girlfriend’s decision: surgically removing all memories of their relationship from her brain. Kate Winslet (nominated for an Oscar), Jim Carrey, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Ruffalo, Kirsten Dunst, David Cross, Jane Adams and Elijah Wood star in this mind-bending tale of heartbreak and the human brain. (U.S., 2004, 108 min., digital video)

7:30p Sunday, April 20 • $5

New Mexico Filmmakers Experience:
Native American New Mexico Filmmakers

Each month, in partnership with the Santa Fe Center for Contemporary Arts the Film Office will present a panel discussion on various aspects of New Mexico filmmaking. These panels will be the third Sunday of each month from 11 am to 1 pm and are free and open to the public. Additionally each month there will be screenings of significant films with Skype interviews and Q and A with the filmmakers. This will be a great opportunity for New Mexico filmmakers to get insights from other filmmakers from around the world.

Native American New Mexico Filmmakers - get the unique perspective of Native American filmmakers in New Mexico. What does that mean? What are their experiences? Click Here for More information!

11:00am Sunday, May 19, free and open to the public!

Santa Fe Institute’s Science on Screen:
Paula Sabloff presents Never Cry Wolf

Dropped alone into the Arctic Circle to study the hunting patterns of wolves, a biologist discovers the deeper mysteries of the wild. Anthropologist Paula Sabloff brings her expert perspective to Carroll Ballard’s Oscar-nominated classic. (U.S.-Canada, 1983, 105m, 35mm)

7:00pm Wednesday, March 13, 2013

The Santa Fe Opera presents

The Importance of Being Earnest

Celebrate the world premiere of Theodore Morrison’s opera OSCAR with this series of films, inspired by Wilde’s most beloved works!
“Filmed in unashamedly glorious Technicolor … director and writer Anthony Asquith serves up a truly delightful screen version of Oscar Wilde’s frighteningly witty play.” –BBC
This charming, star-studded version of Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy, directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Michael Redgrave and Joan Greenwood, follows two wealthy bachelors in love. Complications arise with the arrival of an imaginary brother. (U.K., 1952, 95m, 35mm, print courtesy of Warner Brothers)

7:00p Wednesday, April 3

The Rabbi's Cat

"Colorful, witty, and inspired!" –Variety
In 1930s Algeria—an intersection of Jewish, Arab and French culture—a cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his beautiful daughter, eats the family parrot. Suddenly, he has the gift of gab … and of a biting wit. Joann Sfar adapts her popular graphic novel in collaboration with Antoine Delesvaux, following cross-continental adventure from the tiled terraces, fountains, quays and cafes of colonial Algiers to Maghrebi tent camps, dusty trading outposts, and deep blue Saharan nights in search of a lost Ethiopian city and capturing the colors, textures, flavors and music of Mediterranean Africa. Winner, Best Animation, French Cesar awards. (France, 2011, 89m, in French with subtitles)

January-February 2013

Do Something Reel Film Festival: Lunch Line

Lunch Line takes a new look at the school lunch program by exploring its past, its current challenges, and its opportunities for the future. The National School Lunch Program began in 1946, and now, more than 60 years later, the program feeds more than 31 million children every day. In the film, leaders from all sides of the school food debate, including government officials, school foodservice experts, activists, and students, weigh in on the program and discuss ways to continue nourishing America’s children for another 60 years. Presented by Cooking with Kids. (U.S., 2010, 63m, digital video)

6:30p Monday September 10

How To Survive A Plague

“Served powerfully, with minimal adornment... moving and meticulous.” –A.O. Scott, The New York Times “An epic celebration of heroism and tenacity.” –David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
With no scientific training, an improbable group of young men and women infiltrate government agencies and the pharmaceutical industry, helping identify promising new compounds, moving them through trials and into drugstores in record time. This inspiring celebration of citizen activism celebrates the heroes who helped end the darkest days of the AIDS epidemic, emptying AIDS wards in American hospitals and ushering a new era of empowered health-care interventions that’s since been used to fight breast cancer to heart disease. David France’s film is a celebration and a call-to-arms. (U.S., 2012, 109m)

October 2012 & January 2013

Searching for Sugar Man

2013 Oscar Winner for Best Documentary Feature!!
Winner, Jury Prize & Audience Award, Sundance Film Festival

“Morphs unexpectedly but wondrously from tragedy to triumph, from mourning to celebration … worth seeing just to hear Rodriguez’s unjustly forgotten music … earns its happy ending by alchemizing pain into transcendent beauty.” –A.V. Club

He was the greatest '70s US rock icon who never was. Compared by music execs to Dylan, worshipped by insiders, the artist known as Rodriguez released to studio albums to deafening silence. But in a very unlikely place—South Africa—his music was, and remains, as big as the Beatles. After a group of musicologists set off to try and find his legacy—did he really self-immolate on stage?—we find a deeper, even more surprising story of this unsung legend. Director Malik Bendjelloul tells an unforgettable story of hope, inspiration and the power of music. (Sweden-U.K., 2012, 85m, 35mm, Sony Pictures Classics)

October 2012 - March 2013

Seat Launch Party!!

FREE to Seat Campaign Supporters!!

We’ll unveil our brand new seats!! Join us for food, drink and a preview screening of Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present for the many who purchased a seat and supported our campaign. Seats are still available. Email Jason at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

7:30p Monday, July 2

New Mexico Filmmakers Experience:
Composing for Film

Each month, in partnership with the Santa Fe Center for Contemporary Arts the Film Office will present a panel discussion on various aspects of New Mexico filmmaking. These panels will be the third Sunday of each month from 11 am to 1 pm and are free and open to the public. Additionally each month there will be screenings of significant films with Skype interviews and Q and A with the filmmakers. This will be a great opportunity for New Mexico filmmakers to get insights from other filmmakers from around the world.

Composing for Film - Panel discussion of film composers, what composing means for film, how it is done. Screening of films with and without a score. With Ck Marlow, Jeff Mettling, John Rangel, Andy Gabrys, and Sue Lucas. Click Here for More information!

11:00am Sunday, March 17, free and open to the public!

On The Road

“Beautifully staged and acted.” –Leonard Maltin
Oscar-nominated director Walter Salles (CENTRAL STATION, THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES) transforms Jack Kerouc's beloved novel into an unforgettable journey through America. Sal (Sam Riley), an aspiring New York writer, Dean (Garrett Hedlund), a devastatingly charming ex-con; and the very liberated and seductive Marylou (Kristen Stewart) bond instantly, quit their lives and hit the road. Thirsting for freedom, the three discover the world and themselves. With Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams, Terrence Howard, Steve Buscemi and Viggo Mortensen. (U.S., 2012, 124m, digital video, IFC Films)

April 2013

La Rafle

“A straightforward, heartfelt drama, well acted and well produced.” –The Guardian
Winner, 12 audience awards!!
In picturesque Montmarte, three children wearing a yellow star play in the streets, oblivious to the darkness spreading over Nazi-occupied France. Thought their parents seem unconcerned, Hitler and the French government are planning a roundup of French Jews to send them to the extermination camps in the East. And on July 16th, 1942, 13,000 Parisian Jews, including 4,000 children, are sent to their fate. Writer/director Rose Bosch and leading actors Jean Reno (THE DAVINCI CODE) to Mélanie Laurent (INGLORIOUS BASTERDS) star in one of France’s most surprising box-office hits in years (France, 2011, 124m, Menemsha Films)

January 2013

The Sundance Film Festival presents
Upstream Color Premiere Event

New York, Chicago, L.A. … and Santa Fe. A special Sundance Film Festival tour with the latest film by cult director Shane Carruth comes to the Lensic as a fundraiser for the CCA!
“Kris is derailed from her life after being drugged by a small-time thief. But something bigger is going on. She is unknowingly drawn into the life cycle of a presence that permeates the microscopic world, moving to nematodes, plant life, livestock, and back again. Along the way, she finds another being—a familiar, who is equally consumed by the larger force. The two search urgently for a place of safety within each other as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of their wrecked lives. Carruth’s PRIMER won the Sundance Film Festival 2004 Grand Jury Prize, and his follow-up is a truly remarkable film that lies beyond the power of language to communicate while it delivers a cohesive sensory experience: an original, mythic, romantic thriller that goes in search of truths that lie just beyond our reach.” –Sundance Film Festival. (U.S., 2013, 96m, digital video)

7:00pm Friday, February 22, 2013 at The Lensic Performance Center with Director Shane Carruth In Person!!