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Thursday, October 29

Films
The Samurai and the Prisoner
Oct 29
this thursday
The Samurai and the Prisoner
this thursday

Screening times:
Sunday October 25, 7:45 PM
Thursday, October 29, 6:30 PM

Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan | 2026 | 147m
Japanese with English subtitles

Inside a sealed castle during a rebellion, a besieged rebel and a captive strategist engage in a battle of wits to solve mysterious crimes.

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this thursday
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Friday, October 30

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Rocky Horror Double! Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror (2025)
Oct 30
friday early
Rocky Horror Double! Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror (2025)
friday early

Screening times:
Friday, October 30, 6:30 PM

Linus O’Brien | USA | 2025 | 90m

In this SXSW hit, the cult phenomenon of Rocky Horror is explored in depth like never before with an extraordinary cast of contributors. RIP Tim Curry! We remember this icon fondly with a Double Feature. Come in costume! We will be giving away a six-punch pass to the best Rocky Horror character in the audience!

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friday early
Films
Thrills & Chills: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Oct 30
friday late
Thrills & Chills: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
friday late

Screening times:
Sunday, October 11, 8:00 PM - show added!
Friday, October 23, 9:00 PM - show added! SOLD OUT
Friday, October 30, 8:45 PM - SOLD OUT

Jim Sharman | UK, USA | 1975 | 100m

A couple of squares, Brad and Janet, land at a mansion with weirdos. RIP Tim Curry! We remember this icon fondly with a Double Feature. Come in costume! We will be giving away a six-punch pass to the best Rocky Horror character in the audience!

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friday late

Saturday, October 31

Films
A Page of Madness + Live Score from Mini Worlds
Oct 31
this saturday
A Page of Madness + Live Score from Mini Worlds
this saturday

A reminder this event takes place at BUS STOP THEATRE and not Carbon Arc’s usual venue.

Screening times:
Saturday, October 31, 6:00 PM - at Bus Stop Theatre!

Teinosuke Kinugasa | Japan | 1926 | 70m
Silent film with live score improvised by jazz ensemble Mini Worlds

A 100 year old Japanese silent experimental horror film, lost for 45 years until it was rediscovered by Kinugasa in his storehouse. The film is set in a psychiatric hospital in modern Japan. Mini Worlds will improvise a live score to this avant-garde masterpiece.

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Sunday, November 1

Films
The Eyes of Ghana
Nov 1
this sunday
The Eyes of Ghana
this sunday

Screenings:
Sunday, November 1, 2:00 PM

Ben Proudfoot | USA | 2026 | 90m

Ben Proudfoot’s stunning new feature documentary follows 93-year-old documentarian Chris Hesse as he races against blindness and time to rescue and repatriate a secret trove of over 1,300 films that captured the birth of African independence in the fifties and sixties. Yet unseen by the public, these films may not only rewrite Ghanaian and African history - but world history itself.

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this sunday
Films
American Doctor
Nov 1
sunday early
American Doctor
sunday early

Screening times:
Saturday, October 24, 6:00 PM
Sunday, November 1, 5:30 PM

Poh Si Teng | USA | 2026 | 91m
English & Arabic with English subtitles

When three American doctors, Palestinian, Jewish and Zoroastrian, enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.

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sunday early
Films
Chronovisor
Nov 1
sunday late
Chronovisor
sunday late

Screening times:
Thursday, October 22, 6:30 PM
Sunday, November 1, 7:45 PM

Jack Auen, Kevin Walker | USA | 2026 | 99m

An academic becomes obsessed with the allegedly true story of the Chronovisor, a device invented by a Vatican priest to reproduce visuals from any point in history on a TV screen.

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sunday late

COMING SOON:

Films
ICYMI: Hope
Nov 5
coming soon
ICYMI: Hope
coming soon

Screening times:
Thursday, November 5, 6:30 PM

Na Hong-jin | Korea | 2026 | 156m
Korean with English subtitles

A mysterious creature is laying waste to a Korean village and must be stopped. Once it gets going, there’s no stopping this sci fi thriller as it takes viewers through the thrilling twists and turns of an alien invasion filled with equal parts humor and horror. ICYMI is our second-run series, where we screen films we don't think got enough love at the multiplex!

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coming soon
NAZA
Nov 6
coming soon
NAZA
coming soon

Screening times:
Friday, November 6, 6:30 PM - SOLD OUT
Friday, November 6, 8:30 PM - show added
Saturday, November 14, 6:30 PM

Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor | USA | 2026 | 77m

From Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the 2024 Oscar-winning directors of No Other Land, comes NAZA, a film examining the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

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coming soon
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
Nov 7
coming soon
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
coming soon

Screening times:
Saturday, November 7, 6:30 PM
Thursday, November 19, 6:30 PM

William Greaves, David Greaves | USA | 2026 | 100m

Conceived in 1972 by legendary filmmaker William Greaves and completed fifty years later by his son David, Once Upon a Time in Harlem is an essential work of living archive, documenting a lively gathering of luminaries from the Harlem Renaissance during a cocktail party at Duke Ellington’s home.

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Wim Wenders Retrospective: The American Friend
Nov 7
coming soon
Wim Wenders Retrospective: The American Friend
coming soon

Screening times:
Saturday, November 7, 8:30 PM

Wim Wenders | Germany | 1977 | 125m

American expatriate Tom (Dennis Hopper) treats Germany like it's the Wild West and decides to take part in a murder plot for extra cash. He finds the perfect partner in a dying cancer patient (Bruno Ganz).

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coming soon
Barbara Forever
Nov 8
coming soon
Barbara Forever
coming soon

Screening times:
Sunday, November 8, 5:30 PM
Saturday, November 21, 6:00 PM

Brydie O’Connor | USA | 2026 | 90m

A kaleidoscopic exploration of the life, work, and legacy of pioneering lesbian avant-garde filmmaker Barbara Hammer, told through her own voice and films.

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coming soon
Queen at Sea
Nov 12
coming soon
Queen at Sea
coming soon

Screening times:
Thursday, November 12, 6:30 PM
Friday, November 20, 6:30 PM

Lance Hammer | UK | 2026 | 121m

Amanda (Juliette Binoche) and her stepfather Martin (Tom Courtenay) struggle with a moral issue that divides them. Has Amanda’s mother Leslie, who has dementia, lost the ability to consent?

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Citizen Kane
Nov 13
coming soon
Citizen Kane
coming soon

85th Anniversary Screening

Screening times:
Friday, November 13, 6:00 PM

Orson Welles | USA | 1941 | 119m

An enduring masterpiece of Hollywood’s Golden Age celebrates 85 years this year. Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'

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Wim Wenders Retrospective: Paris, Texas
Nov 14
coming soon
Wim Wenders Retrospective: Paris, Texas
coming soon

Screening times:
Saturday, November 14, 8:30 PM

Wim Wenders | USA | 1984 | 145m

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out and disappeared years earlier.

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Lucid Toons presents... South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Nov 15
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Lucid Toons presents... South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
coming soon

Screening times:
Sunday, November 15, 5:30 PM

Trey Parker | USA | 1999 | 81m

The third-graders of South Park sneak into an R-rated film by ultra-vulgar Canadian television personalities Terrance (Matt Stone) and Phillip (Trey Parker), and emerge with expanded vocabularies that leave their parents and teachers scandalized. When outraged Americans try to censor the film, the controversy becomes a call to war with Canada.

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Carbon Arc’s behind the scenes boss died April 7th, 2020. We were so lucky to have him order us around and keep us sensible. He was the best.

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