Moxie Cinema

Screen Daily calls LOOK INTO MY EYES "a celebration of human empathy and the power of shared connection." One of the best movies out of Sundance 2024, LOOK INTO MY EYES, opens this Friday Sept. 13 at Moxie Cinema. Showtimes in the comments.
A group of New York City psychics conduct deeply intimate readings for their clients, revealing a kaleidoscope of loneliness, connection, and healing. [A24]
"Wilson’s truly masterful work with Look Into My Eyes cements her as a powerhouse documentary filmmaker." (Sundance Film Festival)
"By diving into each psychic’s journey to the oft-mocked practice, as well as the clients’ desperate pleas for any semblance of closure, Wilson explores the grief and humanity of those who are left behind." (The Washington Post)

“Superb. A delicious thriller. A masterclass from Ian McKellen.” (The Daily Mail) THE CRITIC opens this Friday, Sep. 13 at Moxie Cinema. Set during the rise of fascism in pre-WWII England, this scintillating tale of ambition and deceit in the theatre world stars Gemma Arterton and Ian McKellen as adversaries forced to take desperate measures to save their careers. (R, 95 min.)
"A wonderful prestige drama that should garner praise for Ian McKellan’s performance. Gemma Arterton is a stand-out as well, as she skillfully navigates how a stage actress tries to overcome personal demons and self-doubt." (Film Threat)
Showtimes in the comments.

Matthew Bourne’s magical dance production of Edward Scissorhands has carved a place in the hearts of audiences worldwide since its premiere in 2005.
Based on the classic Tim Burton movie and featuring the hauntingly beautiful music of Danny Elfman and Terry Davies, Bourne and his New Adventures Company return to this witty, bittersweet story of an incomplete boy left alone in a strange new world. EDWARD SCISSORHANDS: MATTHEW BOURNE’S DANCE VERSION OF TIM BURTON’S CLASSIC screens Wednesday, September 25th @ 6:30p & Sunday, September 29th @ 1:30p at Moxie Cinema. The Moxie: On Stage is a series showcasing world class performances from stages across the globe. 🎟️ are $20/adults; $15/members & students. 🎟️ are on sale now!

EDWARD SCISSORHANDS: MATTHEW BOURNE’S DANCE VERSION OF TIM BURTON’S CLASSIC (NR, 94 min.)
Filmed live in March 2024 at the Wales Millenium Centre, Cardiff, this ’visually arresting and ceaselessly inventive’ (★★★★★ Metro) production is ‘the perfect treat for all the family’ (★★★★★ The Times). In a castle high on a hill lives Edward; a boy created by an eccentric inventor. When his creator dies he is left alone and unfinished with only scissors for hands until a kindly townswoman invites him to live with her suburban family.
Can Edward find his place in the well-meaning community which struggles to see past his curious appearance to the innocence and gentleness within?

FilmStubs returns this month with the perfect back to school flick! WONDER BOYS (2000) screens next Wednesday, Sept. 11 @ 7pm. "Michael Douglas digs deep and delivers one of his best performances in Wonder Boys -- a comic dazzler of roguish wit and touching gravity that is driven by characters, not jokes." (Rolling Stone) The FilmStubs series is Free courtesy of the Springfield Greene County Library, thanks to a grant from Friends of the Library. Stick around for a post show discussion with Zach Hollingshad.
"Michael Douglas gives the best performance of his career in this screwball comedy about a college professor who's pushed into maturity by forces beyond his control; a well-acted coming-of-age saga for adults." (Variety)
Based on the novel by Michael Chabon, WONDER BOYS stars Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Katie Holmes, Robert Downey Jr., Rip Torn, and Richard Thomas.

"CLOSE TO YOU soars on waves of raw feeling thanks to the deeply felt, deeply moving performance of Elliot Page in a role he wears like a second skin." (ABC New)
CLOSE TO YOU opens this Friday (9/6) at Moxie Cinema. Showtimes in the comment.
"Living authentically is one of those phrases that gets used a lot these days, but when Sam says it in the film, it feels layered with such joy, such truth, and such genuine calm that I got chills." (Barry Levitt, The Daily Beast)
Academy Award Nominee Elliot Page (Juno, The Umbrella Academy, Inception) stars as a trans man who returns to his hometown for the first time in years. On his journey, he confronts his relationship with his family, reunites with a first love, and discovers a newfound confidence in himself. A Toronto International Film Festival premiere. [Greenwich Entertainment]

Now Playing: August 30 - September 5
Green Border, Between the Temples, Widow Clicquot, Big Screen Classics: A League of Their Own (9/3 @ 7p - free for Members), Local Filmmaker Showcase: Darkroom & Night Shift (9/1 @ 5:30p)

Coming Soon: Close to You, Sisi & I, The Critic, Look into My Eyes, Big Screen Classics: An American in Paris (free for Members), Moxie Flix: The Dark Crystal (free screening), FilmStubs: Wonder Boys (free screening), The Essentials: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (free for Members)

🎥 🎞️ 🍿The Moxie's Executive Director, Joe Dull, is back with another review of a must-see charmer. BETWEEN THE TEMPLES starring Jason Schwartzman & Carol Kane - now playing at The Moxie. Showtimes below
Coming Soon to The Moxie: Green Border, Look Into My Eyes, Local Filmmaker Showcase: Darkroom & Night Shift, Big Screen Classics: A League of Their Own (free for Members), FilmStubs: Wonder Boys (free), Moxie Flix: The Dark Crystal (free), The Essentials: Ali: Fear Eats The Soul (free for Members)

Between the Temples Showtimes�
Wednesday, August 28 - 4:30, 7:00 PM
Thursday August 29 - 4:30, 7:00 PM
Friday August 30 - 5:00, 7:15 PM
Saturday August 31 - 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 7:45 PM
Sunday September 1 - 2:30, 5:00 PM
Monday September 2 - 4:30, 7:30 PM
Tuesday September 3 - 4:15, 6:30 PM
Wednesday September 4 - 4:30 (OC), 7:30 PM
Thursday September 5 - 5:00, 7:15 PM

★★★★ GREEN BORDER starts this Friday, August 30th at The Moxie. "A devastating dramatic triumph." (Hollywood Reporter)
"Green Border is unforgettable, in all senses of the word." (Vulture)
"Green Border strikes me as the best and most important film to be released in the U.S. so far this year." (RogerEbert.com)
Thirty years after Europa Europa, three-time Oscar® nominee Agnieszka Holland brings a masterful eye for realism and deep compassion to this blistering critique of a humanitarian calamity that continues to unfold. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, Green Border is a poignant and essential work of cinema that opens our eyes and speaks to the heart, challenging viewers to reflect on the moral choices that fall to ordinary people every day. [Kino Lorber]

A family of refugees from Syria, an English teacher from Afghanistan and a border guard all meet on the Polish-Belarusian border during the most recent humanitarian crisis in Belarus. (NR, 152min.)

“If there is a single sequence in the history of film that tells you what watching a movie on a big screen really means, and how that larger-than-life way of experiencing a movie can be so important, it's in LAWRENCE OF ARABIA.” (Cine-file)

A hero in the eyes of others, a mystery to himself...
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
BIG SCREEN CLASSICS SERIES KICKOFF
AUG. 27 @ 6:30 PM
FREE FOR MEMBERS
@ MOXIE CINEMA
*with a 15 min intermission

"BETWEEN THE TEMPLES is a thrillingly alive, nimble piece of filmmaking. [It's] is a witty, biting portrait of finding one’s footing in both faith and friendship." (The Film Stage) Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane star in the Sundance darling, BETWEEN THE TEMPLES, opening this Friday, August 23 at The Moxie.

Ben (Schwartzman), a young widower reeling from the sudden death of his wife, lives at home with his meddling mothers who not-so-subtly push him to start dipping a toe back into the dating scene. As a cantor at the local synagogue, suddenly a sense of purpose and unexpected connection shows up in the form of Carla (Kane), his septuagenarian elementary school music teacher who yearns to become a bat mitzvah. While he initially balks at the idea, Carla's off-kilter yet refreshing takes on the world prove to be the shake-up he needs to start participating in his own life. Their work studying Torah morphs into a friendship that begins to bleed into the personal as they find surprising solace in each other's presence. (Liza Domnitz, Tribeca Film Festival)

"Between the Temples is a wonderfully observed (and often very funny) film about the faith we have in a higher power and each other." (Little White Lies)

"A spiky, hilarious, and thoroughly unorthodox screwball comedy... played by a note-perfect Jason Schwartzman... [Between the Temples] tends to feel like a 100 discrete sprints, each of them full of killer details and non-kosher gags." (Indiewire)

★★★★ WIDOW CLICQUOT - Now Playing at The Moxie!
Showtimes
Saturday August 17 - 12:30, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00 PM
Sunday August 18 - 3:00, 5:30 PM
Monday August 19 - 4:30, 7:00 PM
Tuesday August 20 - 7:30 PM
Wednesday August 21 - 4:00 (OC), 6:30 PM
Thursday August 22 - 5:00, 7:30 PM

Also screening at The Moxie this week:
Burden of Dreams (opening weekend), Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger, The Essentials: Smooth Talk (1985)
Coming Soon: Green Border, Between the Temples, Look Into My Eyes & Big Screen Classics (Free for Members)

The Moxie’s own Joe Dull (and Flat Moxie) joined Blake Haynes TV to discuss some exciting films now playing at The Moxie, our upcoming Big Screen Classics series, and the special experience of enjoying movies together in a theater. Thanks for having us! Check out the full interview.

"Les Blank's BURDEN OF DREAMS is one of the most remarkable documentaries ever made about the making of a movie." - Roger Ebert
Join us at The Moxie for a special 4K restoration run of Burden of Dreams (opening Friday, August 16th), courtesy of Argot Pictures. Don’t miss what The New York Times called “one of the most candid, most fascinating portraits ever made of a motion picture director at work,” on the big screen. 🎟️ on sale now! Showtimes in the comments.
Burden of Dreams captures legendary director Werner Herzog’s filming of his most ambitious film Fitzcarraldo, in which an entrepreneur (Klaus Kinski) endeavors to push a steamship over a mountain to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. For nearly five years, Herzog desperately tried to complete one of the most ambitious and difficult films of his career, Fitzcarraldo, the story of one man’s attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. The result is an extraordinary document of the filmmaking process and a unique look into the single-minded mission of one of cinema’s most fearless directors. [Argot Pictures]
(NR, 95 min.)

"MADE IN ENGLAND is not only a richly rewarding journey exploring the movies of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, it's also a tribute to cinema history. Martin Scorsese's narration makes this retrospective film feel academic yet personal." (Culture Mix) "This is an examination of cinema history so rich in detail and observation that it rivals most current film school curricula while being uncommonly watchable and entertaining." (RogerEbert.com) MADE IN ENGLAND: THE FILMS OF POWELL AND PRESSBURGER opens this Friday (August 9) at Moxie Cinema.
Showtimes in the comments.
Drawing on a rich array of archive material, Scorsese explores in full the collaboration between the Englishman Powell and the Hungarian Pressburger - two romantics and idealists, who thrived in the face of adversity during World War II but were eventually brought low by the film industry of the 1950’s. Scorsese celebrates their ability to create “subversive commercial movies” and describes how deeply their films have influenced his own work. [Cohen Media Group]
"Martin Scorsese is the ideal moviegoing companion: His fandom is so exuberant, so well-informed, and so contagious, that he makes you want to see every work he mentions (or see it again) to luxuriate in the images as he does." (Wall Street Journal)
"A movie master class for the price of a movie ticket." (AARP)