We are delighted that Cinema Detroit is a venue for the Freep Film Festival from April 01-03, 2016. Tickets for all shows are $10 and are available online here. You can also buy your tickets at the CD box office, but we recommend getting tickets ahead of time […]
Bullet dodged…or moment squandered? Screening as part of the Freep Film Festival, The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened explores the largely untold story of the almost-made film Superman Lives, which featured an early script by Kevin Smith, Tim Burton locked in as director and Nicholas Cage cast […]
Largely unchanged for more than a century, the projection of photochemical film faces an uncertain future in the digital age. The practice of handing and projecting film is in danger of being lost; and the role of film projectionist is nearing extinction. The Dying of the Light explores […]
Freep Film Festival Shorts Program No. 2 screens Saturday, April 2 at 4:30 p.m. and will include: Head of Joaquin Murrieta: With a jar that holds the head of Joaquin Murrieta, a legendary Mexican outlaw who was beheaded by bounty hunters in 1853, filmmaker John J. Valadez travels […]
T-Rex chronicles the journey of Flint’s Claressa “T-Rex” Shields as she pursues her goal of winning the gold in women’s boxing at the 2012 London Olympics. Shields, who’s just 17 in the documentary, is a confident champion whose strength belies her youth. She brings the same determination to […]
After the Sept. 11 attacks, Lebanese Canadian filmmaker Amber Fares put aside her career in marketing to focus on another topic: life in the Middle East, where her roots began. In 2007 she enrolled in a Canadian film program; by 2009 she had cofounded SocDoc Studios with fellow […]
Widely varied in subject, but all revealing in their own ways, the following short documentaries comprise Freep Film Festival Shorts Program #2. Playing the Part: Twenty years after its release, Playing the Part still captivates. The timeless coming-of-age story by filmmaker Mitch McCabe is thoughtful and funny with […]
We Came as Romans, the post-hardcore band from Troy, Michigan, has honed its fiercely powerful sound through relentless touring over the course of its ten-year career. Present, Future, and Past captures the six-piece band — vocalists Dave Stephens and Kyle Pavone, guitarists Joshua Moore and Lou Cotton, bassist […]
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, […]
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 […]
We are currently looking to make our screening room more comfortable and improve the picture and sightlines in the main theater. Any amount helps. Thank you!
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Now showing
Kill Your Friends
Starting Friday, April 08
Hello, My Name is Doris
Mr. Right
Starting Friday, April 15
The Invitation
Starting Friday, May 13
Blue Velvet 30th Anniversary Restoration
Movies listed as "Coming Soon" are films Cinema Detroit would like to show and is actively trying to book. However, we don't always know if or when we will be able to actually get them from the distributors. We set showtimes on a week-by-week basis and will announce them as soon as we can confirm them. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
