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March at the Trylon and Willow Creek
The corrosive meaninglessness of corporate greed has defined modern society. These nineteen films call out the most shameful of human endeavors by focusing on entities ranging from the tobacco industry to a future global supercorporation in the process of securing an extraterrestrial bioweapon. Join us and our friends at Emagine Willow Creek as we unmask big-business malfeasance.
(2007, 119m) dir Tony Gilroy w/George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson. Chemical company U-North hires a law firm to help conceal something in their product, and the lead attorney’s conscience won’t stay quiet. Enter Michael Clayton (Clooney), the firm’s fixer, who has to contend with the company and his own firm before a wider truth…
Screenings: March 1 7:00, March 2 7:00, 9:30, March 3 7:00, 9:30
(1995, 104m) dir Rachel Talalay w/Lori Petty, Ice-T, Naomi Watts, Malcolm McDowell. The corporate superpower Water and Power holds control over all the planet’s water except for one well. Kesslee (McDowell) is consumed by the need to complete the monopoly and has his henchmen use any means to seize the last well. Only a resistance…
Screenings: March 5 7:30
(1973, 97m) dir Richard Fleischer w/Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young. The year is 2022. Salvation comes to a starving, overpopulated New York City in the form of plankton-based wafers from the Soylent Corporation. When one of the board members is murdered, Detective Thorn (Heston) is called in to investigate and finds something heinous…
Screenings: March 6 7:00, March 7 9:15, March 8 3:00
(1988, 104m) dir Robert Zemeckis w/Charles Fleischer, Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Bob Hoskins. Cloverleaf Industries is trying to move into Toontown. Marvin Acme (Stubby Kaye), who was standing in Cloverleaf’s way, has been murdered. Roger Rabbit (Fleischer) has been implicated and must reveal the true killer before he is arrested. FRI 9:00 SAT 7:00 SUN…
Screenings: March 6 9:00, March 7 7:00, March 8 5:00, 12:45
(1982, 117m) dir Ridley Scott w/Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young. In 2019 Los Angeles, detective Rick Deckard (Ford) tracks down renegade replicants: beings genetically engineered by the Tyrell Corporation and indistinguishable from humans. This is the definitive version of Scott’s 1982 classic. 7:30
Screenings: March 7 7:30
(1999, 158m) dir Michael Mann w/Russell Crowe, Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer. When a whistleblower comes forward, CBS forces the producers of 60 Minutes to censor a program due to fear of reprisal from a tobacco company. Mann’s searing indictment of the tobacco industry and national media is more relevant than ever. SUN 7:15 MON/TUE 7:00
Screenings: March 8 7:15, March 9 7:00, March 10 7:00
(2009, 97m) dir Duncan Jones w/Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott. Helium-3 has been discovered as the new fuel for humanity’s needs. Lunar Industries provides it via Sarang Station—a mining facility on the moon. Sam Bell (Rockwell) is nearing the end of his three-year contract to harvest helium-3 when he realizes that the company is…
Screenings: March 12 7:30
Show ALIEN on Sunday March 15. Priority One. All other priorities rescinded.(In other words, yes, we're open.) (1979, 117m) dir Ridley Scott w/Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Harry Dean Stanton, Yaphet Kotto. NOW HIRING: The Weyland-Yutani Corporation seeks a results-oriented, adventurous crewmember for a voyage into deep space. Must ensure safe passage of starship to a…
Screenings: March 13 7:00, 9:30, March 14 7:00, 9:30, 4:30, March 15 3:00, 5:30, 12:30
(1985, 132m) dir Terry Gilliam w/Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro. The big eye is always watching, so be sure to file paperwork correctly and protect renegade ductworker allies. Gilliam’s satire stands on a tower of bad companies, and late capitalism is well represented in its bureaucratic hellscape. 7:30
Screenings: March 14 7:30
(1960, 150m, Japanese w/English subtitles) dir Akira Kurosawa w/Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa. Kôichi Nishi (Mifune) marries into a land development corporation that he believes is responsible for his father’s death. Kurosawa’s blistering takedown of Japanese corporate culture is one of the great films noir. SUN 8:00 MON/TUE 7:00
Screenings: March 15 8:00, March 16 7:00, March 17 7:00
(2001, 98m) dirs Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan w/Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, Rosario Dawson. An all-woman trio, sitting at the top of the charts, discovers a nefarious backing track on their most recent hit. And Parker Posey is just outstanding. Spot all the fun Target product placement! 7:30
Screenings: March 19 7:30
(1987, 102m) dir Paul Verhoeven w/Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Kurtwood Smith. In a dystopian Detroit, OmniCorp rules with an iron fist and has sinister plans for downtown. After police officer Alex Murphy (Weller) is brutally murdered in the line of duty, he’s transformed into a cyborg hell-bent on justice. FRI/SAT 7:00 9:15 SUN 3:00 5:15
Screenings: March 20 7:00, 9:15, March 21 7:00, 9:15, March 22 3:00, 5:15
(1988, 94m) dir John Carpenter w/Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster. A homeless man STAY ASLEEP discovers that the world is run by hideous MARRY AND REPRODUCE alien capitalists who have hypnotized humans OBEY via subliminal messages. 7:30
Screenings: March 21 7:30
(1987, 135m) dir John Sayles w/Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell. Joe Kenehan arrives in the small mining community of Matewan, West Virginia, determined to help them unionize in the face of the oppressive Stone Mountain Coal Company. Beautifully photographed and deeply nerve-wracking, Matewan is one of the best films of the 1980s. SUN…
Screenings: March 22 7:30, March 23 7:00, March 24 7:00
(1984, 92m) dir Alex Cox w/Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Tracey Walter. Suburban punk Otto (Estevez) falls in with a motley crew of car repossessors and joins the hunt for a 1964 Chevy with a mysterious radioactive briefcase in its trunk. 7:30
Screenings: March 26 7:30
(1976, 121m) dir Sidney Lumet w/Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch. Ratings keep falling for the Union Broadcasting System until a rogue newscaster has a mental breakdown on the air, resulting in a bump. Cutthroat executive Diana Christensen (Dunaway) will cross any moral boundary to bring more eyes to UBS. FRI 7:00 SAT 9:30 SUN…
Screenings: March 27 7:00, March 28 9:30, March 29 3:00
(2002, 129m, French, English, Japanese w/English subtitles) dir Olivier Assayas w/Connie Nielsen, Gina Gershon, Chloë Sevigny. Diane (Nielsen) works for VolfGroup, a media conglomerate, and is securing European rights to TokyoAnime, a Japanese company that specializes in animated pornography. Unbeknownst to her, TokyoAnime is also collaborating with demonlover.com, a pirate website that traffics in torture,…
Screenings: March 27 9:30, March 28 7:00, March 29 5:30
(1984, 107m) dir James Cameron w/Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Hunted by an implacable robot designed by Cyberdyne Systems, Sarah Connor (Hamilton) discovers that she is destined to give birth to the leader of a future rebellion against malevolent machines. 7:30
Screenings: March 28 7:30
(1999, 105m) dir Renny Harlin w/Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, Samuel L. Jackson. Aquatica, an underwater research facility, believes it has found the cure for Alzheimer’s disease through studying supersharks created at the facility. However, Aquatica’s greed may lead to some supershark revenge. SUN 8:00 MON/TUE 7:00 9:15
Screenings: March 29 8:00, March 30 7:00, 9:15, March 31 7:00, 9:15