Weekly features & showtimes April 18, Cinema Detroit

 

TONIGHT Wednesday, April 18, Cinema Detroit hosts a reception, screening, and

Q & A with artist and activist

Emory Douglas in person.

 

All proceeds go to the Emory Douglas Youth and Family Art Program, a project of Feedom Freedom that we are proud to support.

 

The short film Emory Douglas: The Art of the Black Panthers and the featureThe Eyes of the Rainbow are included. Refreshments will be served.

 

Tickets are $25 and are available at the box office during business hours or online here.

 

Made possible with the support of Black Lives Matter, the Charles Wright Museum, and the James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History at Wayne State University. 

Last chances

Russia, 1953: The mood under Stalin's regime is one of rampant paranoia. Spouses inform on one another, the secret police are always listening, and death squads roam the streets executing "traitors." One morning, the dictator is found comatose after a massive stroke, triggering a deadly power grab among his closest sycophants and confidants. Who will take power after The Death of Stalin?

 

Rated R | Running time 1hr 47min | Comedy

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Thurs, April 19: 7:00 | 9:15

Last chances — ORDINARY MAN

An infamous war criminal and former General is moved to a new hideout, where he forms a relationship with his only connection to the outside world – his maid. Starring Ben Kingsley, Hera Hilmar, and Peter Serafinowicz.

 

Rated R | Running time 1hr 40min | Drama, mystery, thriller

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Weds, April 18: 7:30 | 9:30

Thurs, April 19: 7:30 | 9:30

ISLE OF DOGS starts this Friday, April 20

Tickets are now on sale for Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs, which starts Friday, April 20. It's about Atari Kobayashi, 12-year-old ward of the corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When, by Executive Decree, all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast garbage-dump, Atari sets off alone in a miniature Junior-Turbo Prop and flies to Trash Island in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots. There, with the assistance of a pack of newly-found mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture.

 

Featuring the voices of Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban,

Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Kunichi Nomura, Akira Takayama, Greta Gerwig, Frances McDormand, Akira Ito, Scarlett Johansson, Harvey Keitel, F. Murray Abraham, Yoko Ono, Tilda Swinton, Ken Watanabe, Mari Natsuki, Fisher Stevens, Nijirô Murakami, Liev Schreiber, and Courtney B. Vance.

 

"The 48-year-old auteur proves that even the drollest dog can learn new tricks, plumbing fresh depths of feeling and tenderhearted eccentricity." – Entertainment Weekly

 

Rated PG-13 | Running time 1hr 41min | Animation, adventure, comedy

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Fri, April 20: 5:00 | 7:00 | 9:00 p.m.

Sat, April 21: 5:00 | 7:00 | 9:00

Sun, April 22: 5:00 | 7:00

Mon, April 23: 5:00 | 7:00 | 9:00

Tues, April 24: 3:00 | 5:00

Weds, April 25: 5:00 | 7:00 | 9:00

Thurs, April 26: 5:00 | 7:00 | 9:00

 

Member discounts in effect. No other passes, discounts, or special offers apply.

One show only — Saturday, April 21

Nineteen ­years­ in­ the­ making, Icepick to the Moon is a feature-length documentary about

Rev. Fred Lane, the pants-­less, Band Aid­-adorned performer who achieved a worldwide cult following, starting in the Eighties on college radio, when the Shimmy Disc label made Lane’s records easier to find.

 

Rev. Lane is described by his obsessed fans as “subversive,” “completely satirical,” “the Dada Duke Ellington,” and “Demon Frank Sinatra.” They've spent years examining every detail of his albums, only to be led deeper into blissful confusion. Icepick to the Moon pulls the curtain back on both the cult of Lane and the mysterious artist himself, from his early involvement with the Raudelunas arts collective to his current occupation making whirligigs to sell on the arts and crafts show circuit. You’ve never seen Lane like this!

 

Director Skizz Cyzyk (above right) will be in town to play with Mink Stole’s band and will be with us in person for a Q & A after the show. Who knows, you may meet some very special guests!

 

Tickets are $9 each. Member discounts in effect. No other passes, discounts, or special offers apply.

 

Not rated | Running time 1hr 44min | Documentary, music

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Saturday, April 21 at 3:00 p.m. only

One night only — Tuesday, April 24

If you’re reading this on your phone, thank Hedy!

 

Hedy Lamarr, the screen siren deemed “the most beautiful woman in the world” in the 1930s and ’40s. also invented a form of wireless communication called “frequency hopping” that revolutionized mobile communications all over the world. This feat would directly lead to the creation of secure communications for wireless phones, Bluetooth, GPS, and WiFi technology itself. And that’s just a fraction of her amazing story.

 

Join us on Tuesday, April 24 at 7:00 p.m. as we pay tribute to an unusual and accomplished woman, spurned as too beautiful to be smart, but a role model to this day. This event includes

 

Tickets are $15 are available at the box office or online at bit.ly/thankhedy.

Part of the 20th Annual Lenore Marwil Detroit Jewish Film Festival presented by JCC of Metro Detroit.

THE ENDLESS starts Friday, April 27

Following their Lovecraftian cult classic Spring, acclaimed filmmakers Moorhead and Benson return with The Endless. This mind-bending thriller follows two brothers who receive a cryptic video message that inspires them to revisit the UFO death cult they escaped a decade earlier. Hoping to find the closure that they couldn’t as young men, they’re forced to reconsider the cult’s beliefs when confronted with unexplainable phenomena surrounding the camp. As the members prepare for the coming of a mysterious event, the brothers race to unravel the seemingly impossible truth before their lives become permanently entangled with the cult.

 

Rated R | Running time 1hr 51min | Horror, thriller

Showtimes TBD

 

 

Winners have been randomly chosen for our

Bill Murray, Jan Vogler and Friends giveaway.

This unique show happens at the Fillmore on Wednesday, April 18. That's tonight! So if you didn't get that email, tickets are still available here,

Detroit's truly independent cinema, delivering an eclectic, quirky and quality mix of contemporary, indie, cult, genre, and classic movies in the heart of the city. We feature a unique setting - in a former furniture store - and freshly made popcorn, Faygo pop, and occasionally other locally-made treats. We are located in Midtown at 4126 Third Street, Detroit, Michigan, 48201, between Willis and Alexandrine, on the east side of the street.

 

Our hours are as scheduled; theater doors open 30 minutes before the first showtime.

 

Park in the FREE monitored off-street lot adjacent to the building and enter through the glass doors under the green awning.

 

Visit our web site http://cinemadetroit.org for the most extensive and current information on features and showtimes or call 313.482.9028 for the current week's showtimes.