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FALL 2026
The Christophers
Wednesday, September 9th @ 7PM
In this compelling dramatic masterpiece, director Steven Soderbergh skillfully contrasts many seemingly contrary views: farcical verses elegiac aspects of old age, artistic integrity verses commercial art success, and ultimately truth verses illusion.
Talented but struggling artist Lori Butler is hired by Barnaby and Sallie to complete eight paintings, stored in the attic by their eccentric and combative father, Julian Sklar, a famous but no longer productive artist. As her empathy for Julian slowly deepens, she must determine whether the work that she is hired to do on The Christophers will be forgery or ultimately restoration.
Tuner
Wednesday, September 23rd @ 7PM
Apprentice tuner Niki Wright and his uncle, veteran piano tuner Harry Horowitz tune pianos for rich clients who prize their instruments as ornaments and hardly ever touch the keyboard. Although talented Niki’s auditory hypersensitivity bars him from pursuing (like Ruthie) a promising career as a musician, surprisingly it opens the door to successfully applying his remarkable talent to the more unconventional if less respectable career of safe-cracker.
How will it all end for the young tuner? In harmony or discord? Tune in to find out!
The Art of Adventure
Wednesday, October 7th @ 7PM
In 1957, two young Canadian trailblazers set out to explore the wild half way around the globe: in Africa, India, South East Asia and Australia. Armed with paint brushes, canvas and a 16 mm camera, they covered 30, 000 kilometres in their dusty old Land Rover. Driven by curiosity and courage, they transformed their tour into the adventure of a lifetime. Inevitably, it inspired their future impressive career paths. Director Alison Reid’s film offers more than an entertaining account of Bateman and Foster’s early travel, it also gives a fascinating tour of their lives in the decades that follow, lives truly dedicated to nature, art and activism.
Photo: Game Theory Films
The Wizard of the Kremlin
Wednesday, October 28th @ 7PM
Based on Giuliano da Empoli’s darkly satirical bestseller, this ambitious film sets out the unlikely transformation of Vladimir Putin, from the disciplined but dull KGB agent to ruthless autocrat. It is a story told from the perspective of Vadim Baranov the Kremlin insider and spin doctor credited with Putin’s extraordinary political rise. Baranov is a bohemian 1990’s TV producer turned media manipulator and power broker who backs Putin, ultimately setting in motion Russia’s dramatic evolution from Perestroika to Putin, from the chaos and cowboy capitalism of the 1990’s, to the country’s one man show in today’s totalitarian propaganda state.
To Be Announced
Wednesday, November 11th @ 7PM
To be announced.
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Wednesday, December 9th @ 7PM
Harry Lehman is an old school pickpocket who skilfully plies his trade on the streets and in the subway stops of Manhattan. Harry lives in a modest walk up in the Bronx, where he takes care of his wife. In many ways, Harry comes across as a regular working-class guy, friendly and familiar to others whom he passes by every day. An older guy who hasn’t quite kept up with all of the high-tech changes, he struggles to survive in the Big Apple. One day he makes a big mistake. He plugs in a USB stick that he has lifted from the car of Dylan, an obnoxious brat who comes from a serious crime family. Using digital surveillance, Dylan is able to trace the theft back to Harry. Now the fun begins!
