Cinecenta Films

07/16/2026

The Death of Robin Hood
July 17 & 18: 5:00 pm, 7:20 pm
The Death of Robin Hood requires you to surrender your illusions at the door. Forget about the Robin Hood who robbed the rich and gave to the poor. Forget about the Lincoln green outfit and the feather in the cap. There’s not even a forest and there are certainly no merry men. This Robin is a grizzled recluse played by an unrecognisable Hugh Jackman draped in animal skins with a voluminous beard and a tangle of hair. He’s wandering the wintry crags of some wild and isolated part of England’s north and he’s very bitter about the life he’s led and the legends that have grown up around the acts of violence he’s committed.-Sydney Morning Herald

From writer/director Michael Sarnoski and starring Hugh Jackman, Jo...

07/14/2026

Once Upon a Time in China
July 15: 5:00 pm, 7:25 pm
Tsui Hark’s sprawling vision of a changing nineteenth-century China begins with this riotously entertaining epic, a blockbuster hit that cemented Jet Li’s status as the greatest martial-arts superstar of his generation. Li displays his stunning, fast-and-fluid fighting style as the legendary martial-arts teacher and doctor Wong Fei-hung, who, with a band of disciples, battles a host of nefarious forces—foreign and local—who are threatening Chinese sovereignty as British and American imperialists encroach upon the Mainland.

Jet Li plays legendary folk hero Wong Fei Hong, a late 19th century...

07/13/2026

The Player (Robert Altman Series)
July 14: 5:00 pm, 7:15 pm
One of the great films of the 1990s, this lacerating look at Hollywood also served as director Robert Altman’s comeback after spending the previous decade in self-imposed exile making micro-budgeted indies and TV movies. Employing the same level of acidity displayed in Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard and Blake Edwards’ S.O.B., Altman and screenwriter Michael Tolkin (adapting his own novel) focus on Griffin Mills (Tim Robbins), an assertive Tinseltown executive who finds his job security threatened by the studio heads and his life threatened by the person sending him ominous, anonymous postcards. A murder is committed, and this sets the stage for further shots at the film capital, from its unscrupulous denizens to its obsession with happy endings. The opening eight-minute tracking shot is justifiably celebrated, as is the obscene number of cameos by actors and directors appearing as themselves. Buck Henry pitches The Graduate: Part II, Alan Rudolph is mistaken for Martin Scorsese, and Burt Reynolds gets hilariously profane; you also get Peter Falk, Jack Lemmon, Julia Roberts, Bruce Willis, Cher, and approximately 50 others. As for the featured players, Lyle Lovett nearly steals the show as a detective with an affinity for Tod Browning’s Freaks. The Player did earn Oscar nominations for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Film Editing (Geraldine Peroni).–The Film Frenzy

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07/11/2026

Peter Asher: Everywhere Man
July 12 & 13: 5:00 pm, 7:15 pm
Peter Asher is one of several figures who served as the Forrest Gump or Zelig or Chance the Gardener of the counterculture — people who pop up in the background of seemingly every photograph taken across several decades, whose names grace the liner notes of every significant album, whose accomplishments merit acknowledgment in countless award show speeches. If you’re a devotee of Swinging London of the ’60s or the Sunset Strip folk rock scene of the ’70s, he’s already an icon. But even if you’re not, his integrality to countless pop culture narratives beggars belief, because he has, indeed, lived many lives both in the spotlight and immediately adjacent. The pleasure of Everywhere Man is that every time you think you’ve seen the wildest piece of Peter Asher adjacency, the next chapter proves you wrong…-The Hollywood Reporter

“…‘Everywhere Man: The Lives and Times of Peter Asher’ is a nostalgic ride of what it once meant to be a real rockstar.”-RogerEbert.com

07/09/2026

Trainspotting (30th Anniversary Restoration)
July 10 & 11: 5:00 pm, 7:00 pm
Adapted from Irvine Welsh’s 1993 novel of the same name, Trainspotting is equal parts horrifying and hilarious, one mood setting up the other in the way that a good horror comedy winds you up with scares to amplify the release of tension through laughter. We first meet central character Renton (Ewan McGregor) in Leith, a working-class suburb of Edinburgh (the film was mostly shot in Glasgow, however). It’s the late 1980s and he’s in rebellion against everything he’s been told to do—“choose life, choose a job, choose a career, choose a family, choose a fu***ng big television…”—and chose he**in instead. Renton hangs out with a group of friends, each carefully delineated with a central characteristic as if they were musicians in a boy band: Begbie (Robert Carlyle) is a violent psycho, Spud (Ewen Bremner) is a do**us, Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller) is a James Bond fanatic, and Tommy (Kevin McKidd) is a clean-living footballer.-The Arts STL

The official 30th anniversary 4K Restoration trailer of TRAINSPOTTI...

07/07/2026

Romería
July 8 & 9: 5:00 pm, 7:10 pm
Is biology destiny? Spanish film-maker Carla Simón brings to Cannes her very personal and in fact auto-fictional project Romería (meaning “pilgrimage”) – about an 18-year-old girl, arriving in Vigo in Galicia on Spain’s bracing Atlantic coast. She is on a mission to find out more about her biological father who died here of Aids after he split from her mum, who has since died, too, and about her dad’s extended – and very wealthy – family. Romería returns Simón (and her audiences) to the complex and painful subject of her mother and father, which she first approached in her wonderful autobiographical debut Summer 1993…-Guardian
“This is graceful, quietly intelligent filmmaking.”-Time

A beautifully rendered autobiographical tale, Romería is celebrated...

07/06/2026

3 Women
July 7: 5:00 pm, 7:20 pm
Robert Altman Series
The long-neglected middle child of art cinema’s triptych of psychodramas surrounding misplaced/mistaken/stolen female identities—between Ingmar Bergman’s refined and reserved Persona and David Lynch’s sexually uninhibited scene-stealer Mulholland Drive—is Robert Altman’s obtuse and brilliant 3 Women.-Slant Magazine

“The best assets are two extraordinary actresses, Shelley Duval and Sissy Spacek.”-AP

07/04/2026

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
July 5 & 6: 5:00 pm, 7:20 pm
Rest assured that in addition to the expected set pieces (a day at Ascot Racecourse!) and costumes showcasing the era’s bias-cut fashions, all series regulars are present and accounted for, even former butler Thomas Barrow (Robert James-Collier), who resigned his position and moved to California with film star and new romantic partner Guy Dexter (Dominic West). “The hereditary system cannot be sentimental,” Mary at one point declares. No, but this franchise finale can. A flashback in the last scene is a corny but nonetheless oddly touching tribute. (Be sure to stay through the credits to hear Coward’s own poignant performance of I’ll See You Again, over vignettes of the characters set in the near future.) It all makes for an emotional send-off, with the reassuring familiarity of those heart-stirring strings cuing the final glimpse of the estate in silhouette at magic hour.-Globe & Mail

07/02/2026

Not So Silent Films w/ Bruce Vogt
Reg Passes not accepted $11 in Advance/Student $16 Door per film
Pianist Bruce Vogt will introduce each film and improvise piano accompaniments.

Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton)
July 19: 3:30 pm
A man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.-IMDB

July 19: 7:00 pm
Molly (Mary Pickford) is the eldest child at a swamp “baby farm”, who must rescue the other children when the cruel Mr. Grimes decides that one of them will be dispatched. Mary Pickford’s timeless statement film was chosen in 2025 by the US Nat’l Film Registry for preservation for its significance to film history.

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07/02/2026

Tuner
July 3 & 4: 5:00 pm, 7:10 pm
At one point in this character-led drama, the protagonist is described as ‘Rain Man’ because he has a disability that is halfway to a superpower. Given that Dustin Hoffman is in a supporting role, it’s a distracting nod, but not inaccurate. Like Marvel’s Daredevil, piano tuner Nikki White (Leo Woodall) has exceptionally sensitive hearing, which has stymied his hopes of a career as a professional musician but comes in really handy for some off-the-books safecracking work. But can he maintain the criminal side hustle in the long term or will conscience, or circumstances, bring him down? … This is certainly Woodall’s best big-screen role to date and possibly his best full stop; he demonstrates real movie-star quality and holds the screen without a word for long stretches. -Cosmopolitian