A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charlie Swan III

Roman Coppola’s strange and wondrous comedy of lost love, friendship, revenge fantasies, and Brandy Alexanders follows Charles (Charlie Sheen), a successful graphic designer whose fame, money and charm have provided him with a seemingly perfect life. When his true love breaks off their relationship, Charles' life falls apart. His downward spiral of doubt, confusion and reflection is eased by friends (Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray) and his sister (Patricia Arquette), as Charles begins—gasp!—to grow up. (U.S., 2012, 86m, 35mm, A24 Releasing)

February 2013

Only The Young

“Captures the lyricism of late childhood and the bewilderment of the road ahead." –Village Voice
Three young people in a California desert community go about their business, riding their skateboards, flirting with romance and living in one of the most refreshingly honest, casual portraits of American teenage life. (U.S., 2012, 70m, digital video, Oscilloscope Labs)

February 2013

Landscape Dreams, A New Mexico Portrait

Please join Garcia Street Books at the CCA Cinematheque at 6pm on Friday, October 26th for a free debut presentation and signing of New Mexico photographer, Craig Varjabedian’s newest book, Landscape Dreams published by the University of New Mexico Press. 

This collection of elegantly composed black-and-white images by one of New Mexico’s most accomplished photographers, celebrates the state’s captivating physical variety and enduring allure. With subject matter ranging from some of the state’s most iconic landforms–including the White Sands desert and Carlsbad Caverns–to the people who work the land, Varjabedian’s images pay homage to New Mexico’s ancient history and to the homely details of everyday life. In photographing his subjects, whether epic or mundane, Varjabedian seeks the moments when the light, shadow, composition, and other elements combine to express the beauty of the place. Craig a will be joined by award winning poet Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, who will read from her essay that defines the particular quality of the artist’s imagery.

6:00p Friday, October 26 • Free to the public

Chasing Ice

“A documentary put together with grace and artistry. Its proof is undeniable and its visuals unparalleled.” –Film 4
Once a skeptic, the legendary National Geographic photographer James Balog sets off to investigate global climate change. His project deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers, creating hauntingly beautiful videos that compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear. Filled with adventure, mind-bending visuals and a quest of the utmost importance, Jeff Orlowski’s is essential and unforgettable. Winner, SXSW, Big Sky, Full Frame, Sundance, HotDocs festivals. (U.S., 2012, 74m, digital video, Submarine Deluxe)

December 2012-March 2013

New Mexico Filmmaker's Experience: Black History Month

The New Mexico Film Office, in partnership with the Santa Fe Center for Contemporary Arts, announces a new initiative: The New Mexico Filmmakers Experience, a program of film screenings and panel discussions, will explores various aspects of the filmmaking experience for New Mexico filmmakers. The program, which begins February 22, features a meet-the-filmmaker screening and a panel discussion each month. The series kicks off with a panel discussion providing insights into being an African-American filmmaker in New Mexico.
See the work of African American filmmakers, and hear their views, opinions and experiences. Panelists include: Gene Grant (a playwright, independent filmmaker, host of New Mexico In Focus and columnist for the Weekly Alibi);  Diana Gaitirira (SAG Eligible actress, producer and filmmaker, with credits including Not On Board and Terrible Angels); Allan Gaitirira (SAG Eligible actor, producer, and filmmaker, with credits including BBC’s The Heart of No Where);  Shaun Scott (a certified engineer with uPUBLIC and director of the 30-minute talk show The Shepherd’s Voice); and Sandi K Shelby (an actor, writer producer and assistant director, with credits including The Boxer).

Showtimes:
Sun Feb 17: 11:00a* - FREE and open to the public!
* indicates screening is in The Studio

Birth Story: Ina May Gaskins and The Farm Midwives

Winner, Audience Award, Los Angeles Film Fest
“Affectionate and insightful … A celebratory tribute to the endangered art of midwifery and its most influential practitioner.” –Variety
Sara Lamm and Mary Wigmore’s feature-length documentary follows a counterculture heroine as she teaches friends to deliver babies, and think outside the medical box. In so doing, Gaskin and her commune The Farm challenged the medical perception of birth and fertility. As the corporatization of birth rises (nearly one-third of U.S. births happen via C-section) this film celebrates childbirth—unadorned, unabashed, and awe-inspiring—and the visionary who supports a mother’s right to do it naturally. (U.S., 2012, 94m, digital video)

March 2013

Tchoupitoulas

“Hypnotic” –A.V. Club
The second feature from the rising documentary filmmakers and Spirit Award winners Bill and Turner Ross, this lyrical documentary follows three adolescent brothers as they journey through one night in New Orleans, encountering a vibrant kaleidoscope of dancers, musicians, hustlers, and revelers parading through the lamplit streets. This is an immersive, lively, luminous portrait of adolescence and America’s most magical city. (U.S., 2012, 80m, digital video, Oscilloscope Labs)

January 2013

Amour

2013 Oscar Winner for Best Foreign Language Film!
“Transfixing and extraordinarily touching, perhaps the most hauntingly honest movie about old age ever made.” –Entertainment Weekly
We open at a recital, watching a happily married pair of music teachers (the remarkable 85-year-old Emmanuelle Riva, HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR), and the 82-year-old Jean-Louis Trintignant (THE CONFORMIST). That’s the last we’ll see of them outside of their apartment. After Anne suffers a series of debilitating strokes, Georges patiently but futilely attempts to keep her alive with as much dignity as possible, his efforts doomed by what Yeats calls “the discourtesy of death.” Though known for his often dark, sometimes absurdist visions (THE WHITE RIBBON), Michael Haneke weaves dream and memory into a simple and devastatingly moving vision. AMOUR, Haneke’s second Palme d’Or winner in three years, is an inarguable masterpiece, unsurpassed in its weave of emotion, story, tone and form. (Austria, 2012, 127m)

February - April 2013

Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival presents

TEVYE

“A rare opportunity to see (Maurice) Schwartz in what may have been his most magnificent role.” - San Francisco Chronicle
“One of the Top 10 Jewish Films” - Los Angeles Times

Based on the Yiddish folk tales by Sholem Aleichem that inspired Fiddler on the Roof, Tevye is a story of the clash between modernity, parental authority and love, customs and enlightenment. Restored in Yiddish with English subtitles, Tevye was the first non-English language film deemed “culturally significant” by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Underwritten by Marcia and Len Torobin in Memory of Dr. Martin Garfield.
Advanced Tickets are ONLY available at http://www.santafejff.org/tickets/

3:30p Sunday February 3. Followed by Skype discussion with Avinoam Patt, PhD, Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Hartford!

Chuck Jones 100th Birthday Party

Bugs Bunny, Wile E. Coyote, Daffy Duck – all came from the mind and pen of the late, great Chuck Jones, one of the 20^th century’s unsung artists. In addition to being engrained in the brains of grown-up kids around the world, Chuck’s films have been included in the National Registry, which includes the best of American cinema. Celebrate our favorite animator with his daughter Linda and grandson Craig, as they tell stories, share clips from a documentary about Chuck and show favorites and rarities on 35mm. 

6:30p Wednesday August 22 • $10/5 children

The Gatekeepers

2013 Oscar Nominee for Best Documentary Feature!
How does Israel keep control over the stateless Palestinians who live amongst them for nearly 50 years? The most vital, and lethal, means lurk beneath the surface, via the vast and ubiquitous intelligence network of the Shin Bet, Israel’s feared internal security organization. Dror Moreh’s Oscar-nominated film combines startling interviews with all six of the prior Shin Bet directors, each of whom had refused to discuss their work prior to this film. Describing in chilling detail how they work—and how the elected leaders of Israel have failed their people—this is a portrait of a quagmire of perpetual occupation and conflict. (Israel, 2012, 97m, digital video, Sony Pictures Classics)

March-April 2013

Wagner & Me

“A dazzling emotional whirlwind of a documentary” –Vancouver International Film Festival
The actor and writer Stephen Fry (the star of WILDE) is both Jewish and a Richard Wagner fan. Can he—and all of us—come to terms with his appreciation for Hitler’s favorite composer? This personal journey takes us to the Bayreuth Festival (a Wagner extravaganza), plays a song on Wagner’s piano and meets the composer’s great granddaughter, the keeper of his legacy. As we learn more about the man, including insights into his masterpiece The Ring, we are treated to Fry’s wit, intelligence and insights. (U.K., 2012, 89m, digital video)

Santa Fe Wagner Society presents a Special Screening and talk-back session for WAGNER & ME, preceded by coffee & cookies! - RESCHEDULED FOR SUNDAY, JANUARY 13 at 3:00p! With Craig Barnes, Bernard Rubenstein, and Rabbi Marvin Schwab!

Warrior Woman

“Remarkable" - Local IQ
In this made-in-New Mexico film, Alice (Karen Young) survives cancer only to find her marriage and finances falling apart. Tormented by vivid, disturbing dreams and emotionally raw, she feels compelled to protect her student Thuy from an abusive husband. Alice and Thuy drive into the desert, destination unknown. When Alice’s decrepit car dies, the journey for both women begins and Alice discovers that emotional healing has a different timetable than physical scars. (U.S., 2012, 97m, digital video)

1:00p Sunday, March 24, writer-director Julie Reichart in person!

Ginger and Rosa

“**** … This is a teenage movie that could in other hands have been precious; instead it has delicacy and intelligence.” –The Guardian
While tied to the hip of her best friend Rosa (Alice Englert), Ginger (a superlative Elle Fanning) is beset by two crises: the collapse of her parents’ marriage and the growing worldwide anxiety concerning nuclear Armageddon. It’s then that she begins experiencing the joys and terrors of discovering her sexual identity and her creative ambitions. Writer-director Sally Potter’s vivid Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman is simultaneously lyrical and nostalgic and utterly clear-eyed and honest. Timothy Spall, Oliver Platt and Annette Bening are wonderful as Ginger’s intellectual godfathers and mother and Alessandro Nivola and Christina Hendricks are equally strong as her flesh-and-blood parents caught in the whirlwind of 1960s Britain’s Bohemian-radical atmosphere. (England, 2012, 89m)

April 2013

The Santa Fe Timebank presents Fixing the Future

David Brancaccio (host of PBS’s NOW) visits locations across America attempting a revolution: the reinvention of the American economy. Featuring communities using sustainable and innovative approaches to create jobs and build prosperity—including Santa Fe—the film inspires hope and renewal in a people overwhelmed by economic collapse. The screening is be followed by a taped panel discussion hosted by David Brancaccio, featuring Bill McKibben, Majora Carter and Richard Rockefeller. 

6:00p & 8:00p Thursday July 19

Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey

The iconic 80s rock band Journey was on the ropes. Frustrated by the lack of a lead singer, they stumble upon an unconventional audition tape: a YouTube video from a shy Filipino singer: Arnel Pineda—despite speaking no English—sure could sing. Ramona Diaz follows this unlikely hero as he takes the stage in front of huge crowds, reinvigorating the band and growing up quickly under the brightest of lights. (U.S.-Philippines, 2012, 113m, digital video)

March 2013

Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home

A riveting story of transformation and healing, PEACEABLE KINGDOM: THE JOURNEY HOME explores the awakening conscience of several people who grew up in traditional farming culture and who have now come to question the basic assumptions of their way of life. Presented through a woven tapestry of memories, music, and breathtaking accounts of life-altering moments, the film provides insight into the farmers' sometimes amazing connections with the animals under their care, while also making clear the complex web of social, psychological and economic forces that have led them to their present dilemma.

1:00p Saturday and Sunday, April 13 & 14 only! With free refreshments and pizza following the film!

LUNAFEST

Presented by Girls Inc.

LUNAFEST®, the fundraising film festival dedicated to promoting awareness about women's issues, highlighting women filmmakers, and bringing women together in their communities, will be hosted by Girls Inc. of Santa Fe at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe on November 3, 2012.

LUNAFEST connects women, their stories and their causes through film. This unique film festival highlights women as leaders in society, illustrated through nine short films by women filmmakers.This season’s films will compel discussion, make you laugh, tug at your heartstrings and motivate you to make a difference in your community. This season’s program will travel to over 150 cities and screen in front of 20,000 people. For more information about LUNAFEST, visit www.lunafest.org/santafe

3:30p Saturday, November 3

A Very Chaplin Holiday: Modern Times

Charlie Chaplin’s films remain among the most masterful, creative, funny and moving ever made. But experiencing them on the big screen remains a rarity. Celebrate the Tramp’s humor and pathos with this series of recently restored 35mm masterpieces.

“There are just too many funny moments to mention, some of them big, some tiny … The sweetness of life was becoming lost, and this was Chaplin's comic response.” –San Francisco Chronicle
Inside a modern factory, the gears turn while workers manically try to keep up. The Tramp’s nervous breakdown bounces him into the ranks of the unemployed, where he teams with a street waif (Paulette Goddard) to find misadventures as a roller-skating night watchman, a singing waiter and a jailbird. In the end, the Tramp and waif walk arm and arm into an insecure future. Though they’ve yet to find bliss or a paycheck, they have each other. (U.S., 1936, 87m, 35mm) 

6:00p Wednesday Jan 2 with a lecture by Lois Rudnick!

Tickets: $9.50 general/$8.50 members/$7 students and military
Series passes: $30 adults / $20 children under 12

Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival presents

THE FORGOTTEN REFUGEES

“An eye-opening documentary” -New York Theater Wire
“An exceptional documentary … one of the least recognized refugee groups  –Camera.Org

This rich history of the ancient Jewish communities of the Middle East and North Africa, and their rapid demise, use archival footage to follow the exodus of the 900,000 Jews from Arab lands. Employing extensive testimony of refugees from Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Iraq and Iran, the film recounts stories of joy and suffering and reveals the contributions of Middle Eastern Jews to politics, business and music. Advanced Tickets are ONLY available at http://www.santafejff.org/tickets/

4:00p Sunday, April 14
UPDATE: This film is SOLD-OUT! You can get on a waiting list by emailng This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , with your name and the number of tickets.

A Place at the Table

Fifty million people in the U.S.—including one in five children—don’t know where their next meal is coming from. Directors Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush follow three hungry Americans: Barbie, a single Philadelphia mother who grew up in poverty and is trying to provide a better life for her two kids; Rosie, a Colorado fifth-grader who often has to depend on friends and neighbors to feed her and has trouble concentrating in school; and Tremonica, a Mississippi second-grader whose asthma and health issues are exacerbated by the largely empty calories her hardworking mother can afford. A PLACE AT THE TABLE suggests the deeper implications of hunger, suggesting how we can solve this problem, together, once and for all. (U.S., 2012, 95m, Magnolia Pictures)

March 2013

Harvest of Empire

Harvest of Empire is based on the ground-breaking book by award-winning journalist and Democracy Now! co-host Juan González. Featuring real life stories and rare archival footage, Harvest of Empire is a gripping documentary that reveals the political and social roots that have driven millions to migrate from Latin America to the United States. At a time of heated and divisive debate over federal immigration policy, producers Eduardo López and Wendy Thompson-Marquez felt it was important to offer a rare and powerful glimpse into the enormous sacrifices and rarely-noted triumphs of the millions of Latino immigrants who are transforming the cultural and economic landscape of the nation. (U.S., 2012, 90m, digital video)
March 2013

Santa Fe International Folk Art Market presents:

Folk/Art/Cinema

Opening night party with DEVI (The Goddess)

is SOLD OUT!!!

“Ray's feeling for the intoxicating beauty within the disintegrating way of life of the 19^th-century landowning class makes this one of the rare, honest films about decadence.” –Pauline Kael
Celebrate Indian culture with food from India Palace, a Kathak dance performance, a Skype interview with market artist Reema Nanavaty and a rare screening of Satyajit Ray’s rarely seen masterpiece. DEVI follows the story of Kalikinkar, an aging patriarch who dreams that his daughter-in-law Doyamoyee is an incarnation of the goddess Kali. After Kalikinkar insists the villagers worship her, Doyamoyee miraculously heals a sick child. As believers line up, Doyamoyee begins to believe in her own powers. Despite its anti-establishment message, the gorgeous, haunting DEVI won the prestigious President’s Gold Medal in 1961. (India, 1960, 97m, digital video courtesy of Janus Films)

Doors open at 5:30p, event begins at 6:00p Wednesday, April 17
Tickets: $20, no passes UPDATE: As of 4:30p on Thursday, April 11, DEVI has SOLD OUT!

American Institute of Architects and artSCREEN present: Unfinished Spaces

Followed by Skype interview with Filmmaker!

In 1961, three young, visionary architects were commissioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to create Cuba's National Art Schools on the grounds of a former golf course in Havana, Cuba. Construction of their radical designs began immediately and the school's first classes soon followed. Dancers, musicians and artists from all over the country reveled in the beauty of the schools, but as the dream of the Revolution quickly became a reality, construction was abruptly halted and the architects and their designs were deemed irrelevant. Forty years later, with the schools unfinished and decaying, Castro invites the exiled architects back to finish their unrealized dream. (Directors: Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray, 2011, Cuba-U.S., 86m, digital video)

6:30p Tuesday September 18

Nuke Free Now!

A Day of Films and lectures at CCA! Click Here for Full Schedule of Events

11:00am - The Forgotten Bomb
12:40-1:00pm - Q&A
1:15pm - White Light
3:00p - Forgotten Bomb
4:40-5:00pm - Q&A
5:15pm - White Light
All screenings are free and open to the public, and will be held in The Studio at CCA.

Saturday August 4 from 11am to 7pm

Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival presents

a Sneak Preview of 

The Gatekeepers - SOLD OUT!

2013 Oscar Nominee for Best Documentary Feature!
How does Israel keep control over the stateless Palestinians who live amongst them for nearly 50 years? The most vital, and lethal, means lurk beneath the surface, via the vast and ubiquitous intelligence network of the Shin Bet, Israel’s feared internal security organization. Dror Moreh’s Oscar-nominated film combines startling interviews with all six of the prior Shin Bet directors, each of whom had refused to discuss their work prior to this film. Describing in chilling detail how they work—and how the elected leaders of Israel have failed their people—this is a portrait of a quagmire of perpetual occupation and conflict. Regular screenings begin March 22. (Israel, 2012, 97m, digital video, Sony Pictures Classics)

7:00p Sunday, March 17 • $12 - UPDATE (3-13-13 at 11:00a): THIS SCREENING IS SOLD OUT! THERE WILL BE A WAITING LIST AT THE CCA BOX OFFICE OPENING AT 5:00P SUNDAY TO SELL ANY UNFILLED SEATS. Thank you! 

Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival presents

PORTRAIT OF WALLY

“A cinematic masterwork about a painted masterpiece.”   Huffington Post
Followed by a Skpye interview with director Andrew Shea!

Portrait of Wally, Egon Schiele’s  tender picture of his mistress, Valerie Neuzil, was the pride of the Leopold Museum in Vienna. But until recently the 1912 painting was locked up in New York, caught in a legal battle between the Austria museum and the Jewish family from whom the Nazis seized the painting in 1939. The film traces the history of this iconic image – from Schiele’s gesture of affection toward his young lover, to the theft of the painting from Lea Bondi, a Jewish art dealer fleeing Vienna for her life, to the post-war confusion and subterfuge that evoke The Third Man, to the surprise resurfacing of “Wally” on loan to the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan in 1997 and the legal battle that followed. (U.S., 2012, 90min, digital video, Seventh Art Releasing)

4:00p Sunday October 7th. Tickets will be sold exclusively through Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival's website here

AIA Santa Fe & Ed Mazria present DETROPIA

Edward Mazria, the internationally recognized architect, researcher, and educator is author of books including the ‘bible’ of solar design, The Passive Solar Energy Book. He has reshaped the national and international dialogue on energy and climate change as the founder of Architecture 2030, an innovative and flexible research organization. He’ll introduce this film about urban decay. See the full description below.

7:30p Thursday October 4

The Sacred Science

7:30p Wednesday, September 12 • $10 • Followed by Q&A with healer Roman Hanis

DO SOMETHING REEL Film Series: Watershed

Presented by Whole Foods Market! All proceeds benefit the NM Acequia Association!

It's the most dammed and diverted river in the world. As the Colorado struggles to support 30 million people, questions arise: Can we meet the needs of a growing population in the face of rising temperatures and lower rainfall? Can we find harmony amongst the competing interests of cities, agriculture, industry, recreation, wildlife, and indigenous communities with rights to the water? Executive produced and narrated by Robert Redford and directed by Mark Decena, WATERSHED tells the story of the threats to the once-mighty Colorado River and the American West. (U.S., 2012, 56m).

6:30p Tuesday May 29 • $5 by donation

Folk/Art/Cinema: Maria Candelaria

The Santa Fe International Folk Art Market and CCA proudly present Folk/Art/Cinema.  Curated by Emmy-winning writer-producer Kirk Ellis and CCA Cinematheque Director and Sundance Fellow Jason Silverman, this series of five hosted films explores the enduring spirit and cultural tensions of traditional societies in a changing world. Folk/Art/Cinema introduces works by world cinema’s unsung heroes and offers new perspectives into the arts and cultures of the global community.

Maria Candelaria - 7:30pm Thursday, May 10

Preceded by an introduction by Mexican film expert Michael Donnelly

The first Mexican film screened at Cannes, where it won the Grand Prize, Emilio Fernandez’s film tells the story of a painting of an indigenous woman (the magnificent Dolores Del Rio) who, we learn in flashback, led a tragic yet intensely romantic life with her lover and supporter (Pedro Armendariz). Richly nuanced, with brilliant camerawork by the legendary Gabriel Figueroa, the film is a rarely seen classic of world cinema. (Mexico, 1944, 90m, 35mm print courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art)

Israel Vs. Israel

“A powerful documentary that will stir up discussion and debate." -The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle

Terje Carlsson’s award-winning documentary follows four Jewish peace activists—a Rabbi, a soldier, a grandmother and an anarchist—who, despite skepticism and criticism from their fellow Israeli citizens, share the common goal of ending the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories. Winner of awards from Al Jazeera, The One Shot Festival, the Turkish Documentary Awards and the Ojai Film Festival.

7:00p February 16, $10, Director in person!!

Princess Mononoke

“Exotically beautiful … breathtakingly rendered … it’s the film's stirring use of nature, myth and history that make it so special.“ –New York Times
Animation’s unsurpassed epic, Hayao Miyazaki’s film follows a battle between humans, gods and nature. It includes several iconic characters: a demonic boar—drawn as a furious tangle of pulsating wormlike strands; the hero Ashitaka, cursed after being wounded; the god-like Princess Monokoke, with her blood-smeared face, astride a white wolf; and the Forest Spirit, who brings the earth to life with each step he takes. Featuring the voices of Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Gillian Anderson, Minnie Driver, Billy Bob Thornton, Jada Pinkett Smith, and John DiMaggio. (Japan, 1997, 134m, new 35mm print, recommended for ages 11 and up; features intense battle scenes)

Friday July 6 at 5:30p, Sat-Sun July 7-8 at 10:30a & 12:45p

Pom Poko

In this brilliant but overlooked masterpiece, the forests are filled with groups of magical tanuki, mischievous raccoon-like animals from Japanese folklore that are capable of shape-shifting from their standard raccoon form to practically any object. Spending their days playing idly in the hillsides and squabbling over food, their way of life is threatened with the construction of a huge new Tokyo suburb … until they find a magical way to fight back. Featuring the voices of John DiMaggio and J.K. Simmons. (d. Isao Takahata, Japan, 1994, 119m, recommended for ages 8 and up)

Friday June 8 at 5:30p

Sat-Sun June 9-10 at 10:30a, 12:45p, & 3:15p

Bataan Memorial Day Event:
Forgotten Soldiers

Hosted by General Jack Fox, Director of the Bataan Memorial Museum

It was the first major battle of World War II: the Battle of Bataan. A poorly equipped collection of National Guard Units, a regiment of Marines and largely untrained Phillippine Army soldiers, along with one U.S. Army infantry division miraculously held off heavy attacks from the Japanese army for more than three months. Without food or ammunition, these brave soldiers eventually surrendered in March, 1942, with the 76,000 POWs dwindling as they were marched without food or water to prison camps. This stirring documentary film, narrated by Lou Diamond Phillips, features ten survivors telling their story over rare footage and photographs. In honor of Bataan Memorial Day, we celebrate America's forgotten heroes. (directed by Donald Plata, U.S., 2012, 56m)

5:30p Monday April 9, Free to the public!

Do Something Reel Film Festival: Queen of the Sun

This piercing examination of the global bee crisis, from the creator of THE REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN, offers the perspective of beekeepers, scientists, farmers, and philosophers. Featuring Michael Pollan, Vandana Shiva, Gunther Hauk and dedicated beekeepers from around the world, QUEEN OF THE SUN weaves a dramatic story that uncovers the problems and solutions in renewing a culture in balance with nature. (U.S., 2010, 90m, digital video) Proceeds benefit our June community partner: Pollinator Partners Project

6:30p Monday June 18, $5 by donation

Everett Reuss: Wilderness Song

Open to members of CCA: a FREE, private, work-in-progress screening of a documentary feature by local filmmaker, Lindsay Jaeger (in attendance), produced by Academy Award winner Jonathan Demme. The screening will coincide with the kick-off of a fundraising window for the film!!!

6:00p Monday, March 19

The Cup

A Fundraiser for CCA presented by the Santa Fe Film Festival. Producer Lance Hool in person!!

Australia’s most talented family of jockeys seems cursed: not long before the Melbourne Cup, the world’s biggest race, Jason Oliver falls in a crash, a tragedy eerily similar to one that killed his father 27 years earlier. Can Jason’s brother Damien overcome this tragedy, along with discouraging defeats of his own, to win in front of a global audience? THE CUP, directed by Simon Wincer (LONESOME DOVE, COMANCHE MOON, PHAR LAP), follows one of the most inspirational stories in sports history. Brendan Gleeson heads a talented cast, but the real star here is the phenomenal footage of horses at work and play. Santa Fe’s Lance Hool produced this film, arriving in the U.S. after a strong run in Australia. (Australia, 2012, 106 minutes, 35mm) All proceeds benefit the CCA Cinematheque thanks to the generosity of Santa Fe Studios.

7:00p Wednesday June 6 • $10

Critical Massacre: Tucker & Dale vs. Evil

Chainbreaker Collective and CCA bring you the absolute best in contemporary horror/gore/slasher flicks with this late-nite film series. Join us the last Friday of every month at 8pm, starting March 30, for a screaming good time.

Tucker and Dale are two best friends on vacation at their dilapidated mountain house, who are mistaken for murderous backwoods hillbillies by a group of obnoxious, preppy college kids. When one of the students gets separated from her friends, the boys try to lend a hand, but as the misunderstanding grows, so does the body count. (U.S., 2010, 89min, digital video, Magnet Releasing)

8:00p Friday August 31

Critical Massacre: 13 Assassins

Chainbreaker Collective and CCA bring you the absolute best in contemporary horror/gore/slasher flicks with this late-nite film series. Join us the last Friday of every month at 8pm, starting March 30, for a screaming good time.

Cult director Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer, Audition) delivers a bravado period action film set at the end of Japan’s feudal era. 13 Assassins - a “masterful exercise in cinematic butchery” (New York Post) – is centered around a group of elite samurai who are secretly enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord in order to prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war torn future. (Japan, 2010, 141min, digital video, Magnet Releasing)

8:00p Friday July 27

Critical Massacre: Black Death

Chainbreaker Collective and CCA bring you the absolute best in contemporary horror/gore/slasher flicks with this late-nite film series. Join us the last Friday of every month at 8pm, starting March 30, for a screaming good time.

The year is 1348. Europe has fallen under the shadow of the Black Death. As the plague decimates all in its path, fear and superstition are rife. There are rumors of a village hidden in marshland that the plague cannot reach. Ulric (Sean Bean), a fearsome knight, is charged by the church to investigate these rumors. Joined by a young monk and a small consort of soldiers, the journey ahead will lead them into the heart of darkness where faith is challenged and put to the ultimate test. (U.K., 2010, 102min, digital video, Magnet Releasing)

8:00p Friday June 29

Critical Massacre: I Saw The Devil

Chainbreaker Collective and CCA bring you the absolute best in contemporary horror/gore/slasher flicks with this late-nite film series. Join us the last Friday of every month at 8pm, starting March 30, for a screaming good time.

I SAW THE DEVIL is a shockingly violent and stunningly accomplished tale of murder and revenge. The embodiment of pure evil, Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. On a freezing, snowy night, his latest victim is the beautiful Juyeon, daughter of a retired police chief and pregnant fiancée of elite special agent Soo-hyun. Obsessed with revenge, Soo-hyun is determined to track down the murderer, even if doing so means becoming a monster himself. And when he finds Kyung-chul, turning him in to the authorities is the last thing on his mind, as the lines between good and evil fall away in this diabolically twisted game of cat and mouse. (S. Korea, 2010, 141min, digital video, Magnet Releasing)

8:00p Friday May 25

Santa Fe Institute presents: Science on Screen series: Groundhog Day - SOLD OUT

This eye-opening series provides new contexts for classic films, with a luminary from the Santa Fe Institute’s renowned research center curating a film and giving an introductory lecture connecting the film’s content with elements of his or her current research. The Science on Screen series puts an innovative, science-rich spin on cinema, bringing fresh insights to wonderful films.

Murray Gell-Mann presents

GROUNDHOG DAY

A Nobel prize-winning physicist and founder of the Institute gives this classic comedy a novel spin: Can Bill Murray help us understand the essence of scientific practice? Dr. Gell-Mann and screenwriter Danny Rubin discuss one of cinema's most enjoyable mind-bending films. Generously Sponsored by Ringo and the Tanoroadgang.

7:00p Thursday, May 17 - THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT

Science On Screen: Chris Wood presents MEMENTO

Before directing The Dark Knight and Inception, Christopher Nolan created this Oscar-nominated deconstruction of the film noir thriller, following a man who tries to solve and avenge his wife’s murder despite his own severe memory loss.  Neuroscientist Chris Wood will explore Memento’s compelling and confounding depiction of human memory.  How it works.  And doesn’t.  (U.S., 113m, 2000, 35mm)

7:00p Wednesday, October 17 (Reservations highly recommended)

In Search of Anonymous: The Shakespeare Controversy

A Multimedia Lecture by Bruce Hutchison, Ph.D.

Who wrote the plays and sonnets attributed to William Shakespeare? Was it the Bard himself? Or one of the 90 or so other candidates presented by authors and scholars over the years? Could it have been, as is suggested in the blockbuster new film Anonymous, Edward de Vere, a confidant of Queen Elizabeth I? Dr. Bruce Hutchison, a forensic psychologist, has dug through the evidence, and will present the facts, along with his own theories, in this entertaining investigation of what some believe is literature’s greatest conspiracy. So who wrote the plays? Come listen, ask questions and join the discussion!
7:00p Friday, November 4 • $5 Suggested Donation

Santa Fe Institute’s Science on Screen:
Murray Gell-Mann presents The Gods Must Be Crazy

A wayward Coca-Cola bottle upsets the balance in a paradise-like African village, setting off a chain of unlikely events, including bewildering confrontations between a chief and “modern culture.” Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann—himself a world traveler—supplies his distinctive insight and wit in an analysis of Jamie Uys’ groundbreaking comedy. (South Africa, 1980, 109m)

7:00pm Thursday, December 13, 2012

Santa Fe Film Festival

The Santa Fe Film Festival returns for its 13th year, presenting a wide range of features, documentaries and short films from New Mexico and around the world. Many filmmakers will be in person with their films. A full schedule is available at www.santafefilmfestival.com. Tickets can be purchased through the Lensic Box Office by calling 988-1234, or at ticketssantafe.org.
December 7-9

Santa Fe Institute’s Science on Screen:
George J. Gumerman presents 
Raiders of the Lost Ark

30 years after its premiere, Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning tale of archaeological derring-do remains one of cinema’s most thrilling adventures. Dr. George Gumerman, the founding director of the School for Archeological Investigations, shares his own stories of risk and reward on the road to scientific discover. (U.S., 1981, 115m, 35mm)

7:00pm Wednesday, November 28, 2012 • $10 / $7 for CCA or SFI Members

A Conversation with David Barsamian

Award-winning author, globe-trotting journalist and legendary raconteur David Barsamian returns to the CCA with another entertaining, timely analysis of international politics. He’ll join Cinematheque Director Jason Silverman in a wide-ranging conversation, from Iran to Pakistan, from sports to participatory democracy. Barsamian is founder and director of Alternative Radio and author of books with Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Howard Zinn and Arundhati Roy and the winner of the Media Education Award, the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Award and the Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation.

5:30p Tuesday, Dec 4 • $5 Suggested Donation

A Very Chaplin Holiday: Short Films!

Charlie Chaplin’s films remain among the most masterful, creative, funny and moving ever made. But experiencing them on the big screen remains a rarity. Celebrate the Tramp’s humor and pathos with this series of recently restored 35mm masterpieces.

These perfect, fully formed comedic gems showcase Chaplin’s physical and conceptual hu­mor. In SUNNYSIDE (U.S., 1919, 30m), the Tramp falls off of a cow, and into reverie about his sweetie. THE IDLE CLASS (U.S., 1921, 32m) follows the Tramp as he embarks upon an illicit golfing expedition. And in PAY DAY (U.S., 1922, 21m), a bricklayer plans to visit the saloon after work. Please don’t tell his wife.

12:30pm Saturday and Sunday Dec 15 & 16; 6:00p Tuesday Dec 18

Tickets: $9.50 general/$8.50 members/$7 students and military
Series passes: $30 adults / $20 children under 12