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Studio Ponoc’s The Imaginary portrays the depths of humanity and creativity through the eyes of young Amanda and her imaginary companion, Rudger. Their fantastical adventures launched from her attic, lead them to discover a magical world of creatures and places never before seen until a sinister force threatens to destroy their imaginary world and the friendship within it.
Directed by renowned animator Yoshiyuki Momose (Spirited Away), The Imaginary is an unforgettable adventure of love, loss, and the healing power of imagination.
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Tickets $5. Princess Mononoke: Inflicted with a deadly curse, the young warrior Ashitaka heads west in search of a cure. There, he stumbles into a bitter conflict between Lady Eboshi, the proud people of Iron Town, and the enigmatic Princess Mononoke, a young girl raised by wolves, who will stop at nothing to prevent the humans from destroying her home and the forest spirits and animal gods who live there.
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Tickets $15. Continue the Godzilla birthday celebration with a spectacular assembly of kaiju! Rodan, Mothra, King Ghidorah, and many more make an appearance in this battle of the century. Local VFX supervisor and production designer Joshua Cox will give a talk before the film, in honor of Godzilla’s recent VFX Oscar win.
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Tickets $15. Put your sneakers on and dance on down to the Tomorrow Theater for one of the most iconic displays of futuristic sneakers in cinema, presented in celebration of PAM’s Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks exhibition. This 1989 sequel managed to correctly predict numerous technological changes that would come to fruition 26 years later, including smart home technology, video chat systems, hands-free video games, and tablet computers with fingerprint scanners. The Nike Air Mag, depicted in Back to the Future II became an actual, self-lacing shoe in 2008, created by footwear innovators Tinker Hatfield and Tiffany Beers.
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Tickets $15. In this 17th-century, supernatural silent winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America’s greatest fur trapper by defeating, yes, HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS.
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Tickets $15. Zendaya & Timothée are cool, but have you seen David Lynch’s 1984 version of Dune, which Roger Ebert dubbed “the worst film of the year”? Come watch the original, and design your own sand art creation inspired by the golden terrain of Arrakis, the pinks and purples of a desert sky, and the cerulean blue of Spice users.
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Tickets $5. Join us for a Shrek party! Ogre ears and glowsticks strongly encouraged.
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Tickets $15. Local maximalist drag starlet Violet Hex returns to host another GAME-O-RAMA, this time featuring Heathers Bingo!
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Tickets $25. Don’t miss this night! Celebrate the start of the Winter Light Festival with the Rainbow Dance Theatre as they showcase “iLUMiDance,” a dazzling performance that blends the magic of electro-luminescent wire with the artistry of dance and storytelling, followed by a screening of the 1982 classic Tron. Immerse yourself in a spellbinding world where light, dance, film and technology come together in a performance suitable for all ages!
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FREE Event. The Carte Blanche weekend with Ruth E. Carter continues as we spotlight her groundbreaking work in Black Panther!
Black Panther: King T’Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country’s new leader. However, T’Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T’Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle to join with ex-girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan ‘special forces’) and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.
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