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Acropolis Cinema is a nonprofit screening series and microcinema dedicated to bringing classic and contemporary experimental films to screens across Los Angeles. Founded by Jordan Cronk, Acropolis Cinema's vision for the curation and presentation of film is one of wholly autonomous means, committed to facilitating under-represented film-art throughout the city. Our initial identity as a migrating organization will, we hope, embolden nascent arts communities typically removed from the epicenter of art house and repertory cinema distribution channels in Los Angeles, and in the process foster fresh developments in localized film discourse and dissemination. A topic of seemingly endless debate, the state of the Los Angeles art house scene is, in our view, less something to be fixed than fortified. The strides certain theaters and programmers have taken over the last few years to bridge some of the unfortunate lapses in programming is reflected by an increasingly vibrant local film community. Even so, these organizations can only do so much, leaving entire sectors of international and experimental film without a proper outlet in Los Angeles. Acropolis Cinema's goal is to alleviate at least some of these concerns by bringing important new films to eager Los Angeles audiences. Our focus will remain broad and inclusive, but will largely comprise experimental narratives, avant-garde shorts, nonfiction features, and undistributed films from festivals the world over. Jordan Cronk is a Los Angeles-based programmer, film critic, and regular contributor to Cinema Scope, Film Comment, Sight & Sound, Cineaste, Reverse Shot, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Hollywood Reporter. His work has also appeared in the Village Voice, MUBI Notebook, Fandor, Brooklyn Magazine, Little White Lies, Filmmaker Magazine, Indiewire, and the Brooklyn Rail.

Acropolis Cinema is a California Nonprofit Corporation with IRS 501(c)3 application pending. Acropolis Cinema Tax ID #81-4954649

22/05/2025

One week from today! ✨

Join us on May 29 for the Los Angeles premiere of AN EVENING SONG (FOR THREE VOICES), the second feature directed by Graham Swon (), the celebrated producer of films by Joanna Arnow, Ricky D’Ambrose, Matias Pineiro, Ted Fendt, and more!

Sneak peak above. See our bio link for tickets. 🎟️

About the film:
1939, somewhere in the American Midwest: to combat former child-prodigy writer Barbara Fowler’s (Hannah Gross) debilitating agoraphobia, she and her pulp-fiction scribe husband, Richard (Peter Vack), move to the countryside where they become entwined in a love triangle with their deeply religious maid (Deragh Campbell) in this trance-like examination of a world destined for extinction. An Evening Song (for three voices) is the second feature by acclaimed producer (The Cathedral, 2021; The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, 2023) and director Graham Swon, previously featured at Acropolis with The World Is Full of Secrets (2018).

TRT: 86 min
In person: Graham Swon

17/03/2024

March 26! 😱

24/06/2023

Join us at the Roxie Theater for a free screening of the award-winning Swiss thriller "De noche los gatos son pardos" by Valentin Merz

25/04/2023

📣 Announcing! 📣

On June 7, Acropolis presents the long-awaited Los Angeles premiere of French master Bertrand Bonello’s hallucinatory domestic fable COMA—one of recent cinema’s most significant unreleased films. ✨

A teenager has a special power: she can bring us into her dreams but also her nightmares. Locked in her room, her only relationship to the outside world is virtual. She begins to go back and forth between dreams and reality, guided by a disturbing and mysterious YouTuber, Patricia Coma.

Poised somewhere between essay and fantasy, this cinematic anomaly sheds light on Bonello’s fatherly efforts to connect with his daughter’s predicament and mirrors widespread anxiety about our children’s future. Making use of ever-changing formats that include animation and stop-motion, observations abound on global warming, geopolitics and our seeming inability to analyse what we see. Odd obsessions, nefarious role models and harmful perceptions of gender relations—there are many reasons why virtual life can terrify a parent. Unless, like Bonello, you know that trust is the most important gift you can bestow on your child.

Film to be preceded by an exclusive video introduction by Bonello—one night only at 2220 Arts + Archives! 🎟️👇

Acropolis Cinema presents *Coma* (Dir. Bertrand Bonello, 2022). Los Angeles premiere! ~ One of the sharpest minds in French cinema today, Bertrand Bonello ...

04/04/2023

📣 Announcing! 📣

On May 4 at 2220 Arts + Archives, Acropolis teams with Rotations and MUBI for a very special screening of Helena Wittmann’s mesmerizing sophomore feature HUMAN FLOWERS OF FLESH! 🌸

Q&A with Wittmann and Nina Menkes (QUEEN OF DIAMONDS) to follow the screening! 🌊

Acropolis Cinema presents *Human Flowers of Flesh* (Dir. Helena Wittmann, 2022). Co-presented by Rotations and MUBI Conversation with Helena Wittmann and N...

30/03/2023

“A minor masterwork of historical investigation.” —Richard Brody, The New Yorker

Using newly discovered footage from a 1969 French TV appearance, REWIND & PLAY offers a unique opportunity to see Thelonious Monk in a way that few people did.

One week from today, April 6 at 2220 Arts + Archives! Introduction by writer and artist Harmony Holiday. 🎟👇link.dice.fm/D26edcdb7043

Acropolis Cinema presents *Rewind & Play* (Dir. Alain Gomis, 2022). Los Angeles premiere! ~ In December 1969, legendary jazz pianist and composer Theloniou...

23/03/2023

📣 Just announced:

Our April 6 screening of the Thelonious Monk documentary REWIND & PLAY at 2220 Arts + Archives will be introduced by writer, archivist, and artist Harmony Holiday, whose excellent piece on Alain Gomis’ film was recently published by The New Yorker! 🎶

More info and tickets for the screening at 👉 link.dice.fm/D26edcdb7043

16/03/2023

Here we go! 🎉

Join us *tonight* at 2220 Arts + Archives for the opening of the sixth annual Locarno in Los Angeles and the local premiere of Alessandro Comodin’s prize-winning THE ADVENTURES OF GIGI THE LAW! 🐆

Free MUBI tote bags for the first 75 people in attendance. Reception to follow! 🍷🍺

Doors: 7:30pm
Screening: 8:00pm

Individual tickets and special discount packages are still available online at: locarnofestivalinlosangeles.com

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2220 Beverly Blvd

90057-2208

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http://www.acropoliscinema.com/

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