Cinecenta Films

WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION
Aug 11: 5:00 & 7:15
Billy Wilder Series! RT 100%
…amateur inventor and professional heel Leonard Vale (Tyrone Power) is accused of murdering an older woman with whom he had been keeping company. The crafty barrister Sir Wilfrid Robarts (Charles Laughton) believes he’s innocent and takes the case, but his defense gets more complicated when Vale’s only alibi, his wife Christine (Marlene Dietrich), proves to be a most unusual witness…-Film Frenzy

“Marlene Dietrich, Billy Wilder, Agatha Christie: What’s not to like?”-Nitrate Online

Witness for the Prosecution (1957) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p] Directed by Billy Wilder. Starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich a...

EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET
August 9 & 10: 5:00 pm, 7:00 pm
The extraordinary story of Glasgow’s Kenmure Street uprising in 2021 is retold in this absorbing documentary from film-maker Felipe Bustos Sierra. Kenmure Street is now a location to resonate with London’s Cable Street. An immigration detention van had been sent in to this diverse community on 13 May, the morning of the Muslim festival of Eid, to arrest two men of Indian Sikh background. Maybe that date was pure chance, which protesters could exploit to rally their own side, or maybe it was chosen because the Home Office calculated that the community would be largely at home on this holiday and more vulnerable. Either way, it was a crucial strategic error, consolidating the community view that this was heavy-handed policing against a proud, close-knit Scottish community by the Westminster authorities. Moreover, as the day progressed, the fact that the men would have no legal representation underscored the impression of unfair play.

“…an exceptional documentary, both in the story it tells and in the way it tells it, about what happened that day.”-New York Times

EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET Trailer A film by Felipe Bustos Sierra / An Icarus Films Release https://icarusfilms.com/if-kenmur In May 2021, a U.K. Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Scotland’s most diverse neighborhood, hundreds of residents rush to...

ONCE UPON A TIME IN A CINEMA
August 5 - 7: 5:00 pm, 7:00 pm
August 8: 7:00 pm
Can one regional Irish cinema survive the financial and social turbulence of the 1980s? In Once Upon A Time In A Cinema, owner/manager (Colin Morgan) and his fellow employees are under siege from burst pipes, rodents, unruly customers, ageing equipment, inebriated projectionists, financial pressure and the unstoppable march of new technology in the form of the dreaded Video Home System (VHS) tape machine. This tale of encroaching change is timely and the story presents an unyielding trial, where of course you will end up rooting for the cinema and all its history and stories. Hopefully it will live on to fight another day. This film is an immersive trip back in time to the days when a weekly visit, preferably Friday night, to the local cinema was de rigueur. This creative team collaborated on Once Upon A Time In A Cinema to evoke a wonderful atmosphere amid the very real images of a slightly run-down regional cinema of the era. The location is distinctly authentic because it was filmed at the defunct Royal Cinema on Cecil Street in Limerick. If you are of a certain age you will get a mild chuckle at the idea of a cinema audience enveloped in cigarette smoke. There is a real sense of fun and conviviality throughout the film. There are so many extras involved in the action as the cinema audience; it’s a delight to watch the spirited heckling scenes and chaos as the projector caused hiccups. Rarely does a movie capture a mood and time so perfectly… Embrace the popcorn – and the moment – and sit back and enjoy.-Film Ireland Magazine

NETWORK
July 30: 5:00 pm, 7:15 pm
ART HOUSE THEATRE DAY!
The time has come to say … is ‘dehumanisation’ such a bad word?” The speaker is Howard Beale, the sweat-drenched, swivel-eyed TV news anchor in this classic 1976 satire from screenwriter Paddy Chayevsky and director Sidney Lumet, now on rerelease. Depressed by the loss of his wife and by getting fired due to dwindling audiences, Beale proclaims he will kill himself live on air and is then re-hired as a colossal popular and then populist success, his celebrity delirium turning him into a crazy prophet, telling millions of Americans to scream out of the window that they are as mad as hell and not going to take it any more.…Having begun as a five-seconds-into-the-future satire, Network becomes an anatomy of American discontent, born of inflation and rocketing gasoline prices and not especially aware of any boost from the forthcoming bicentennial.-Guardian

Network - Original Theatrical Trailer Newscaster Howard Beale has a message for those who package reports...

ROSE OF NEVADA
July 28: 5:00 pm, 7:15 pm
Three decades ago, the Rose of Nevada vanished at sea, along with its crew. Now, it has returned. In a remote fishing village, its reappearance is embraced as an auspicious sign, with the local citizens convinced the luck of their economically devastated community may turn, if only the ship sails again. Joining the crew is Nick (George MacKay), desperate to provide for his young family, and Liam (Callum Turner), a mysterious drifter eager to escape his past. After a successful voyage, they return to harbor, only to find that nothing is as they remember it. Shooting on a 16mm Bolex camera and constructing all the sound in post, Mark Jenkin writes, directs, edits and scores a haunting and hallucinatory time-travel mystery that further solidifies him as one of the most distinct, singular artists working in film today. Jenkin conducts a cinematic séance, conjuring a portal into another world that forces us to confront the past and our relationship to it. -Rotten Tomatoes 93%

Rose of Nevada (2026) | Official Trailer | Sci-Fi Mystery Film A mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Tw...

THE SHEEP DETECTIVES
July 26 &27: 5:00 pm, 7:00 pm
Director Kyle Balda finds a level of charm and wit that eluded him helming three movies in the “Despicable Me”/“Minions” franchise, striking a tone that’s similar to “Babe” or the “Paddington” films. Also give credit to screenwriter Craig Mazin — who co-created “The Last of Us” for HBO, as radically different a project from this as you could imagine — for adapting German crime writer Leonie Swann’s novel, “Three Bags Full.” “The Sheep Detectives” is the kind of movie that sneaks up on you as you watch. You think you’re settling in to watch a sweet, slightly odd little comedy about farm animals and murder, and things unfold that deliver a surprising gentleness and emotional heft. It’s as perfectly delightful as a movie can be.-The Movie Cricket

I Shot Andy Warhol (30th Anniversary Restoration)
July 24 & 25: 5:00 pm, 7:00 pm
Smack in the middle of sensation and observation is Mary Harron’s trailblazing debut film, “I Shot Andy Warhol,” released 30 years ago this month, with a timely restoration from Janus Films rolling out theatrically this summer. Unlike so many retellings of famous assassinations, attempted or otherwise, Harron’s movie gets to the heart of its subject’s discontent without dwelling on dramatizations of Valerie Solanas’ fragile psyche. It’s compelling, but not overblown, unconcerned with convincing the viewer that the film knows anything more intimate about Solanas than is readily available through a bit of old-fashioned research. Instead, Harron engages with Solanas’ work inside the context of the world in which Solanas created it, depicting her with far more empathy than the tabloids ever afforded.-Salon

I SHOT ANDY WARHOL - Official 4K Restoration Trailer The scintillating feature debut of Mary Harron (American Psycho) an...