Lightbox Underground
Lightbox Underground
Online, PA
Lightbox Underground is a weekly Zoom chat with Lightbox Film Center’s Director/Curator. Every Thursday at 7pm members will have a chance to discuss issues and topics related to cinema’s past, present, and future in an informal online setting. Whether you are a casual filmgoer or a serious cineph...
Thu, Oct 1 2020
7:00 PM
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Thu, Nov 19 2020
8:00 PM
Raining in the Mountain
Raining in the Mountain
Philadelphia, PA
During the Ming Dynasty, a Buddhist abbot charged with protecting the sacred scroll of Tripitaka prepares to name his successor. An aristocrat and a general arrive at his secluded mountaintop monastery promising to help in his search, but are in fact scheming to secure the scroll for themselves. ...
Friday, July 17 2020
7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
Varda by Agnès
Varda by Agnès
Philadelphia, PA
The final film from the late, beloved Agnès Varda is a characteristically playful, profound, and personal summation of the director’s own brilliant career. At once impish and wise, she acts as our spirit guide on a free-associative tour through her six-decade artistic journey, shedding new light ...
Friday, June 26 2020
7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
Jacquot de Nantes
Jacquot de Nantes
Philadelphia, PA
Agnès Varda’s tender evocation of the childhood of her husband, Jacques Demy—a dream project of his that she realized when he became too ill to direct the film himself—is a wonder-filled portrait of the artist as a young man and an enchanting ode to the magic of cinema. Shot in Demy’s hometown of...
Saturday, June 20 2020
8:00 PM
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10:00 PM
One Hundred and One Nights
One Hundred and One Nights
Philadelphia, PA
Simon Cinéma (Michel Piccoli) is one hundred years old and lives alone in a mansion. As his memory is beginning to fade, he hires a film student to help him reconstruct his past through reminiscences of movie history. With a star-studded cast that includes Robert De Niro, Jane Birkin, and Marcell...
Saturday, June 20 2020
5:00 PM
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7:00 PM
Mur Murs
Mur Murs
Philadelphia, PA
After returning to Los Angeles from France in 1979, Agnès Varda created this kaleidoscopic documentary about the striking murals that decorate the city. Bursting with color and vitality, Mur Murs is as much an invigorating study of community and diversity as it is an essential catalog of unusual ...
Friday, June 19 2020
7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
Daguerréotypes
Daguerréotypes
Philadelphia, PA
Turning her lens on the inhabitants of Rue Daguerre, the street where she lives, Varda documents daily life as local merchants and patrons intersect in a ritual of commerce and camaraderie. Subtle juxtapositions and quirky characters transform Varda’s anthropological study into a celebration of c...
Thursday, June 18 2020
7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
Lions Love (...and Lies)
Lions Love (...and Lies)
Philadelphia, PA
Agnès Varda brings New York counterculture to Los Angeles. In a rented house in the sun-soaked Hollywood Hills, a woman and two men—Viva, of Warhol Factory fame, and James Rado and Gerome Ragni, who created and starred in the rock musical Hair—delight in one another’s bodies while musing on love,...
Friday, June 12 2020
8:00 PM
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10:00 PM
The Beaches of Agnes
The Beaches of Agnes
Philadelphia, PA
“If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes. If we opened me up, we’d find beaches.” Originally intended to be Agnès Varda’s farewell to filmmaking, this enchanting self-portrait, made in her eightieth year, is a freewheeling journey through her life, career, and artistic philosophy. Revisiting...
Friday, June 5 2020
7:00 PM
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9:30 PM
Beyond the Visible - Hilma af Klint
Beyond the Visible - Hilma af Klint
Philadelphia, PA
Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the riches of the natural world around her, began in 1906 to reel out a series of huge, colorful, sensual, strange works without precedent in painting...
Saturday, May 16 2020
7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
