In 1996, Lansing mayor David Hollister was given the dire news that General Motors was going to pull up stakes and completely leave the city after production of the then-new Alero automobile ended in 2004. Faced with the impending loss of thousands of high-paying jobs and tax revenue, […]
Directed by Grand Rapids native Joel Potrykus, using Michigan filmmakers, Buzzard is the story of Marty, a caustic, small-time con artist drifting from one scam to the next. When his latest ruse goes awry, mounting paranoia forces him from his lousy small town temp job to the desolate […]
San Francisco-based Rick Prelinger follows up last year’s popular Lost Landscapes of Detroit with a focus on the American road trip. The filmmaker and archivist has pulled the most interesting clips from nearly 4,000 rolls of 16mm and 8mm home movie footage from the 1920s to the 1970s […]
For 19-year-old Jay (Maika Monroe), Autumn should be about school, boys, and weekends at the lake. Yet after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter, she suddenly finds herself plagued by nightmarish visions. She can’t shake the sensation that someone, or something, is following her and intends to kill her. […]
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant, women who founded the modern women’s movement from 1966 to 1971. She’s Beautiful takes us from the founding of the National Organization for Women, with ladies in hats and gloves, to the emergence […]
David Cronenberg’s latest film is a darkly comic tour of the heart of a Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another, and the relentless ghosts of their pasts. Meet the Weiss family, who are making their way in a Hollywood rife with money, fame, envy, and relentless hauntings. Stafford […]
Cinema Detroit is proud to bring the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) to Detroit! As part of UK-based Picturehouse Entertainment’s “Live from Stratford-upon-Avon” program, we are screening two productions recorded live in Shakespeare’s hometown: Love’s Labour’s Lost and Love’s Labour’s Won (usually known as Much Ado About Nothing). Longtime […]
Cinema Detroit is proud to bring the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) to Detroit! As part of UK-based Picturehouse Entertainment’s “Live from Stratford-upon-Avon” program, we are screening two productions recorded live in Shakespeare’s hometown: Love’s Labour’s Lost and Love’s Labour’s Won (usually known as Much Ado About Nothing). Longtime […]
In honor of John Waters’ visit to our city this week, we are presenting his 1974 classic, Female Trouble, in which spoiled schoolgirl Dawn Davenport (Divine) runs away from home because she didn’t get cha-cha heels for Christmas, gets pregnant while hitchhiking, and ends up as a fashion […]
A Spike Lee Joint, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus is a new kind of love story, one that centers on an addiction to blood that once doomed a long-forgotten ancient African tribe. When Dr. Hess Green (Stephen Tyrone Williams) is introduced to a mysteriously cursed artifact by an […]
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NOW SHOWING
Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery
A Sinner in Mecca
Wednesday, Sept. 23 ONLY
Arcade Fire: The Reflektor Tapes
Starting Friday, Sept. 25
Grandma
The Man Who Saved the World
Wednesday, Sept. 30 ONLY
Barbara Troy Double Feature
