Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre
Valley Girl
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre 508 S Main Street, Moscow, United StatesMoscow Film Society presents VALLEY GIRL as part of their Her Lens series featuring female directors! Julie, a girl from the valley, meets Randy, a punk from the city. They are from different worlds and find love. Somehow they need to stay together in spite of her trendy, shallow friends. With engaging performances from its… Continue Reading Valley Girl
Free Showing of the Documentary Religulous
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre 508 S Main Street, Moscow, United StatesOn Tues Jan 23 at 7 pm, the Palouse FreeThinkers will host a free showing of the documentary Religulous at the Kenworthy Theater in Moscow ID.. Religulous is a thought-provoking examination of the role of religion in society and some inconsistencies in religion. Narrator Bill Maher raises important questions about the impact of religion on… Continue Reading Free Showing of the Documentary Religulous
Wild and Scenic Film Festival
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre 508 S Main Street, Moscow, United StatesJoin the Idaho Chapter Sierra Club for our annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival! The curated selection of films highlights local stories of environmental action and communities coming together to create change. Plus, learn more about the important work that the Idaho Chapter is doing for climate justice in Idaho, and how you can get… Continue Reading Wild and Scenic Film Festival
Silent Film Festival: Sherlock Jr.
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre 508 S Main Street, Moscow, United StatesSpencer Cuppage concludes the festival with a new piano score featuring jazz improvisation and a modern rhythm section to complement Buster Keaton’s superlative comedy, Sherlock Jr. (1924). Stony-faced Keaton stars as a movie projectionist who imagines himself a famous sleuth literally inside the movies. Sponsored by University of Idaho Department of History. (44 min) Tickets:… Continue Reading Silent Film Festival: Sherlock Jr.
Silent Film Festival: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre 508 S Main Street, Moscow, United StatesLiam Marchant leads jazz-rock band Pumice Pocket in a tightly plotted, original composition that matches every beat and canted angle of Robert Weine’s expressionist horror, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari 1921). A carnival act turns deadly when a sleepwalker haunts the city at night. (78 min, mature audiences) Tickets: $15… Continue Reading Silent Film Festival: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Silent Film Festival: The Blood of a Poet
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre 508 S Main Street, Moscow, United StatesRuby Fulton continues the series with an original score for three keyboards and other surprises that recontextualize Jean Cocteau’s surreal fantasy, The Blood of a Poet (Le sang d’un poète 1930). The film is a puzzle box that defies easy summation: a male artist crosses a threshold into a world of memory play, symbolism, and… Continue Reading Silent Film Festival: The Blood of a Poet
Pan’s Labyrinth
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre 508 S Main Street, Moscow, United StatesMoscow Film Society presents PAN’S LABYRINTH as part of their Euro Horror series. In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world. PAN’S LABYRINTH is Alice in Wonderland for grown-ups, with the horrors of both reality and fantasy blended together into… Continue Reading Pan’s Labyrinth
Beau Is Afraid
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre 508 S Main Street, Moscow, United StatesFollowing the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic, Kafkaesque odyssey back home. BEAU IS AFRAID is the bold and ingeniously depraved new film from writer/director Ari Aster (Hereditary and Midsommar). The bravura of filmmaking on display combined with Joaquin Phoenix’s sheer… Continue Reading Beau Is Afraid
SPELLERS movie showing
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre 508 S Main Street, Moscow, United StatesInspired by the book Underestimated, the new full-length documentary SPELLERS challenges conventional wisdom regarding a group relegated to society’s margins: nonspeakers with autism, who most “experts” believe are cognitively disabled. As the film opening asks, “What if we’ve been wrong…about every single one of them?” SPELLERS answers that question, in convincing fashion, through the stories… Continue Reading SPELLERS movie showing
Silent Film Festival: The Wind
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre 508 S Main Street, Moscow, United StatesDylan Champagne opens the festival with Victor Sjöstrom’s unclassifiable melodrama, The Wind (1928), featuring a new score for string quartet and live electronics. In her most harrowing role, Lillian Gish stars as a woman who comes to a wrangler’s outfit on a bleak Western expanse, seeking shelter from the storms. (75 min, mature audiences) Tickets:… Continue Reading Silent Film Festival: The Wind
