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135 min
2025
Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom
Joachim Trier
Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star. Suddenly, the two sisters must navigate their complicated relationship with their father — and deal with an American star dropped right into the middle of their complex family dynamics.
Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
Dec 7
Dec 11
174 min
2000
Japan, Taiwan
Edward Yang
The extraordinary, internationally embraced Yi Yi (A One and a Two . . .), directed by the late Taiwanese master Edward Yang, follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Whether chronicling middle-age father NJ’s tentative flirtations with an old flame or precocious young son Yang-Yang’s attempts at capturing reality with his beloved camera, the filmmaker deftly imbues every gorgeous frame with a compassionate clarity. Warm, sprawling, and dazzling, this intimate epic is one of the undisputed masterworks of the new century.
Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
Dec 7
Dec 11
143 min
1985
United Kingdom, United States of America
Terry Gilliam
Every screening in our Terry Gilliam Filmmaker Focus Series includes a short introduction and a post screening discussion with UAB Film Professor and Sleep In Cinema co-host Gareth Jones. Film Synopsis: Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle (Robert De Niro), he meets the woman from his daydream (Kim Greist), and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
Dec 7
60 min
Welcome to Sidewalk's new Monthly Student Movie Night! Join us in the lobby before the film for board games, Wii, and a social hour from 5pm - 6pm. Followed by a discounted screening of a different film each month. The screening is open to the public, but students get discounted tickets with a Valid Student ID (must present in box office for discount)
Sidewalk Cinema Lobby
Dec 11
103 min
2012
United States of America
Stephen Chbosky
Welcome to Sidewalk's new Monthly Student Movie Night! Join us in the lobby before the film for board games, Wii, and a social hour from 5pm - 6pm. The screening is open to the public, but students get discounted tickets with a Valid Student ID (must present in box office for discount)
Film Synopsis: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.
Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
Dec 11
120 min
Get ready to fa-la-la-la this December for Soundtrack Karaoke! 🛷 We're breaking out the holiday 🎄 songbook with over 200+ songs from beloved movies (National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, The Holiday, Love Actually, Home Alone 1 & 2) and newer stocking stuffers like Last Christmas, The Holdovers. Hosted by J Matthew Cobb.
Holiday party essentials while supplies last. Ugly sweater + holiday apparel encouraged! *This is a free event. Reservations are strongly recommended but not required. SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED.*
Sidewalk Cinema Lobby
Dec 11
120 min
Some hack
All we can tell you is that it's a movie and it's bad. Join us for our celebration of bad cinema. Surprises + Fun and it's free! Grab a drink at our bar, you're going to need it.
*This is a FREE event and SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED. Registering is strongly recommended to help with the check in process but does not guarantee a seat, and due to the popularity of this event seats can not be saved for folks who have not arrived yet. As always, our lobby bar & concessions are open to the public so if you arrive after the theatre has hit capacity please feel free to stick around for some food, drink, and board games. Also please note that these screenings often have audience engagement occurring during the film.
Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
Dec 12
76 min
2025
Argentina, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom, United States of America
Ira Sachs
Ira Sachs’s new film, Peter Hujar’s Day, stars Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall in a richly cinematic rendering of a conversation recorded in 1974 between photographer Peter Hujar and writer Linda Rosenkrantz. Their talk that day focused on a single 24 hours in the life of Hujar, the brilliant and famously uncompromising artist who was one of the most important figures in downtown New York’s legendary cultural scene of the 70s and 80s. Set entirely in Linda’s Manhattan apartment, the film freely and imaginatively recreates that long-ago afternoon and the wonderfully discursive exchange between these two singular individuals. As the photographer vividly describes interactions with leading cultural figures of the day, including Allen Ginsberg and Susan Sontag, as well the challenges of living on limited financial resources in 70s New York, Peter Hujar’s Day transforms unexpectedly into a Bloomsday-like rumination on both an artist’s life and time itself.
Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
Dec 12
Dec 13
Dec 14
Dec 18
134 min
1978
United States of America
Sidney Lumet
When Harlem schoolteacher Dorothy (Diana Ross) tries to save her dog from a storm, she's miraculously whisked away to an urban fantasy land called Oz. After accidentally killing the Wicked Witch of the East upon her arrival, Dorothy is told about the Wiz (Richard Pryor), a wizard who can help her get back to Manhattan. As Dorothy goes in search of the Wiz, she's joined by the Scarecrow (Michael Jackson), the Tin Man (Nipsey Russell) and the Cowardly Lion (Ted Ross). This film is part of our Holiday Classic Musicals Series.
Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
Dec 12
Dec 13
Dec 14
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