Filmmaker Spotlight Series: Ang Lee – Brokeback Mountain at Real Art Ways

Come early to check out 4Ever Vintage’s pop-up shop featuring Western wear inspired by the film! 4Ever will be onsite starting at 4pm on Saturday. There will be a short intro and post-film conversation led by Ian Ally-Seals, film programming coordinator and curator for this series. — “We conclude the Filmmaker Spotlight: Ang Lee series with one of his most influential films to date. Brokeback Mountain‘s compassionate and unblinking look at its same-sex love story cleared a path for queer…

Join us Thursday, August 21, from 6 to 9 PM for our Creative Cocktail Hour. Admission is free. We’ll have music, a food truck, custom cocktails, hands-on art-making activities, and exhibitions on view! But most importantly, you’ll be there!   Solo Exhibitions: “thick, hazy, cleer, blew” Shona Macdonald “Megafauna (these desperate earthly forms)” Ezra Moth “After Progress” Adam Viens Music On & On Radio (DJ set) Esmer (Live Band) Food: Soulvadorian      

“When discussing his approach to making Hulk, Ang Lee stated that he was, “attempting to make filet mignon from American hamburger.” You can see this approach in every frame of the film. Ang Lee dives deep into the comic book form, bringing everything from complex panel structure to epic themes onto the big screen. It is a quirky, playful experiment in adaptation. The film also has bombastic and thrilling fight scenes. It is the Hulk, after all.” – Ian Ally-Seals,…

“For all of his genre-bending on display, Kurosawa is interested in something more real and more dark about humanity’s capacity for greed and bitterness, and the quiet ways that the internet can further mutate those diseases in us.” – New York Times “Unfolding at a hauntingly subdued register before unleashing its pent-up tension during its final act, director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud skewers the anonymity that characterizes our presence in online spaces.” – Chicago Reader 92% on Rotten Tomatoes A stylish,…

“Your mileage will vary according to your stomach for this stuff, but I found myself breathless with giggles at times, sometimes the therapeutic laugh of recognition and sometimes because Aster has a keen eye for what’s most absurd about human nature.” – New York Times “Aster’s vision of our simmering tensions and the grifters who profit from them is challenging and imperfect but never less than captivating.” – Detroit News “Aster manages to spike tension without losing the reins over…

“Neither too “oy vey” nor “Weekend at Bernie’s” but steeped in the best aspects of both Jewish and black comedy, “Bad Shabbos” is a treat any night of the week.” – The San Francisco Chronicle 90% on Rotten Tomatoes With an ensemble cast starring Jon Bass, Meghan Leathers, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Ashley Zukerman, Milana Vayntrub, Theo Taplitz, Catherine Curtin, John Bedford Lloyd, David Paymer and Kyra Sedgwick. An engaged interfaith couple is about to have their parents meet for…

“This film is a perfect place to kick off our Filmmaker Spotlight: Ang Lee series because it highlights a central theme in all of Lee’s work: Finding meaning through human relationships. While the framework of Eat, Drink, Man, Woman is art (in this case, cooking) it is the familial relationships that are both fulfilling and confounding.” – Ian Ally-Seals, Film Programming Coordinator & Curator for this series “This is a startlingly superior piece of craftsmanship, with the flavour of life…

We are celebrating Wong Kar Wai’s iconic IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE on its 25th anniversary with a stunning new 4K restoration! In addition to screening the original film, we will screen IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE 2001, an extended 9 minute short film, experienced only by audiences during Wong Kar Wai’s masterclass at Cannes in 2001. This short film, intended as the “dessert” for the main course, demonstrates the director’s elegant ability to generate palpable atmosphere and striking characterizations…

We are adding showtimes for a 2nd weekend (August 9 & 10) due to popular demand. Get your tickets fast – these screenings do sell out. — “Watching silly cat videos is good for you.”— The Wall Street Journal The world’s #1 cat video festival is back with screenings in theaters across the USA and around the world starting August 2025! Oscilloscope Laboratories presents CatVideoFest 2025, at Real Art Ways – a compilation of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic internet powerhouses. …

“This is the kind of film that sneaks up on you, funny when least expected and affecting without being cloying. And it officially announces the arrival of Victor as a performer and filmmaker to keep on your radar.” NPR “Tough, tender and observational, “Sorry, Baby” suggests that Victor’s promising career has been suitably launched. The best, with luck, is yet to come.” – Washington Post “This is a diamond of a screenplay. Based on just those merits alone, “Sorry, Baby”…