Image caption: Alex Honnold in Free Solo
COLD WAR
Written and directed by Pawel Pawlikowski | In Polish with English subtitles
Starring Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, and Borys Szyc
89 min | Drama/Music/Romance | 2018
February 22–28
| FRI | 7:30 | ||
| SAT | 2:30 | 7:30 | |
| SUN | 4:00 | ||
| MON | No showing | ||
| TUE | 7:30 | ||
| WED | No showing | ||
| THU | 2:00 | ||
About the Film
In the ruins of post-WWII Poland, pianist Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) is commissioned by the Soviet state to form a musical ensemble to help rekindle national pride. Whilst touring the villages in search of talent he meets the much younger Zula (Joanna Kulig, in a luminous star-making turn), a fiery and charismatic singer with a past, and the two fall passionately in love. When a performance in Berlin offers the pair an opportunity for escape to the West, a last-minute decision finds them stranded on either side of the Iron Curtain. As the years march on, Wiktor and Zula—whether through political circumstance or personal impetuosity—struggle to find their moment in time.
Spanning 15 years across Warsaw, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, and inspired by the real-life story of the director’s own parents, Cold War meticulously recreates the era with virtuosic black-and-white visuals, and a terrific soundtrack that is used judiciously to signify the passage of time and shifting relationships. Warmly lyrical, impossibly romantic and visually stunning,Cold War is one of the films of the year.
FREE SOLO
Directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin | In English
Starring Alex Honnold, Tommy Caldwell, and Jimmy Chin
100 min | Documentary | 2018
February 22–28
| FRI | 2:00 | ||
| SAT | 5:00 | ||
| SUN | 1:30 | ||
| MON | No showing | ||
| TUE | 2:00 | ||
| WED | 7:30 | ||
| THU | 7:30 | ||
About the Film
From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi (Meru) and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin comes National Geographic Documentary Film’s Free Solo, a stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of the free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the world’s most famous rock … the 3,000 ft El Capitan in Yosemite National Park … without a rope.
Celebrated as one of the greatest athletic feats of any kind, Honnold’s climb set the ultimate standard: perfection or death. Succeeding in this challenge, Honnold enters his story in the annals of human achievement. Free Solo is both an edge-of-your seat thriller and an inspiring portrait of an athlete who exceeded our current understanding of human physical and mental potential. The result is a triumph of the human spirit.