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LANDMARKTHEATRES.COM/MINNEAPOLIS MARCH 27 – MAY 7, 2020 TWIN CITIES FILMCALENDAR MOVIES OPENING EXCLUSIVELY AT UPTOWN THEATRE 2906 Hennepin Ave. at Lake St. (612) 823-3005 LAGOON CINEMA 1320 Lagoon Ave. in Uptown (612) 823-3020 EDINA CINEMA 3911 West 50th St. in Edina (952) 920-8796 /LTUptownTheatre @UptownTheatre /LagoonCinema @LandmarkLTC /EdinaCinema @TheUptownTheatre @LTMinneapolis Email sign up: filmclub.landmarktheatres.com Werner Herzog’s NOMAD: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BRUCE CHATWIN © 2020 Landmark Theatres Never Rarely Sometimes Always Deerskin STARTS FRIDAY, MARCH 27 • ONE WEEK STARTS FRIDAY, APRIL 3 • ONE WEEK WINNER! U.S. DRAMATIC SPECIAL JURY AWARD: NEO-REALISM 2020 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL “What an extraordinary film this is.”—Jason Bailey, THE PLAYLIST “Bat-sh*t crazy!”—Alex Saveliev, FILM THREAT “A quietly devastating gem.”—Andrew Barker, VARIETY “Enjoyably demented...Deerskin is a portrait of what happens when “A singular look at what it means to be a teenage girl today, and with all the technology falls into the wrong hands, made through technology that joy and pain that comes with it.”—Kate Erbland, INDIEWIRE clearly fell into the right ones.”—Justin Chang, LOS ANGELES TIMES “With stunning performances from two completely genuine young leads, “A loopy entertaining WTF lark…Dujardin gives an adventurous downbeat this is a movie people will talk about all year.” performance that tosses vanity—and sanity—right out the window.” —Brian Tallerico, ROGEREBERT.COM —Owen Gleiberman, VARIETY In this mad black comedy/crime thriller of middle-aged masculinity run amok, Academy Award winner Written and directed by Eliza Hittman (BEACH RATS), NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS is an intimate Jean Dujardin (THE ARTIST, OSS 117: CAIRO, NEST OF SPIES) plays Georges, a suave recent divorcé who becomes portrayal of two teenage girls trying to solve their problems on their own. Autumn (Sidney Flanigan), obsessed with a snazzy vintage fringed deerskin jacket (it has “killer style”!) that begins to exert an uncanny a quiet teenager who works as a cashier at a supermarket in rural Pennsylvania, finds herself facing hold on him, dominating his life and actions. Georges finds himself stranded without funds in a sleepy French an unintended pregnancy, with no local access to a termination. With her cousin and best friend Skylar alpine village, and makes the best of it. Asked his profession he is at a loss, but the possession of a recently (Talia Ryder) along for support, both financial and emotional, Autumn embarks by bus across state lines to New acquired movie camera prompts him to declare he is an independent filmmaker. This gives him status in the York City on a difficult journey of friendship, bravery and compassion. Both young actresses give remarkable eyes of a trusting bartender and aspiring film editor (Adèle Haenel, PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE) who becomes performances in a poignant and powerful story. Winner of a U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Neo-Realism his collaborator on a movie that will document a surprising new goal he sets himself. Written and directed by at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. (USA/UK, 2020) quirky maverick Quentin Dupieux (RUBBER). (France, 2019) focusfeatures.com/never-rarely-sometimes-always greenwichentertainment.com/film/deerskin Mr. Jones Radium Girls STARTS FRIDAY, APRIL 10 • ONE WEEK STARTS FRIDAY, APRIL 17 • ONE WEEK “Incredibly powerful…A fiery epic.”—Ian Mantgani, LITTLE WHITE LIES “A celebration of everyday women finding their strength in the unlikeliest of “A taut and stark thriller, one part espionage and one part survival.” circumstances.”—Mara Webster, TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL —Owen Richards, THE ARTS DESK “Powerful…It’s refreshing to see a film that so fervently and intelligently “Mr. Jones is a bold and heartfelt movie with a real [David] Lean-ian celebrates the female voice.”—Richard Propes, THE INDEPENDENT CRITIC sweep.”—Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN “Evocative...Radium Girls weaves rich historic details and archival footage into The new thriller from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Agnieszka Holland (EUROPA EUROPA) is [an] inspirational tale.”—Kathleen Phalen-Tomaselli, THE POST-STAR a gripping true story set in the mid-1930s, as Hitler rises to power and Stalin’s Soviet propaganda machine pushes their “utopia” to the Western world. Idealistic young Russian-speaking Welsh journalist Gareth Jones RADIUM GIRLS follows teen sisters Bessie and Jo Cavallo, who dream of Hollywood and Egyptian pyramids as (James Norton, LITTLE WOMEN) loses his job as advisor to prime minster Lloyd George, and decides to travel they paint luminous watch dials at the American Radium factory in 1920s New Jersey. When Jo (Emmy and to Moscow intending to interview Stalin. There he meets Ada Brooks (Vanessa Kirby, “The Crown”), a British Golden Globe nominee Joey King, “The Act,” THE KISSING BOOTH) loses a tooth, Bessie’s (Abby Quinn, “Mad journalist who reveals that the truth behind the regime is being violently repressed, but is too frightened to say About You” reboot, LITTLE WOMEN) world is turned upside down as a mystery slowly unravels. She discovers more. Determined to learn the truth, Jones eludes the authorities and travels clandestinely to Ukraine in snowy a corporate cover-up and, in a radical coming-of-age story, Bessie and the Radium Girls decide to take on mid-winter, where he discovers a secret more terrible than anything he had imagined. But he finds it nearly American Radium. Based on true events, the national sensation following the case of the Radium Girls ultimately impossible to get the story out to the world, as Western Moscow-based journalists supporting the Kremlin, led to significant and lasting impact in the area of workplace health and safety and the study of radioactivity. including smooth New York Times bureau chief Walter Duranty (Peter Sarsgaard), attack his credibility. Jones’ RADIUM GIRLS marks the feature directorial debuts of Emmy-winning and Academy-Award nominated producer life-or-death journey to uncover the truth behind the façade would later inspire George Orwell’s seminal book Lydia Dean Pilcher and filmmaker Ginny Mohler, who co-wrote the award-winning original screenplay with ANIMAL FARM. (Poland/UK/Ukraine, 2019) Brittany Shaw. (USA, 2020) samuelgoldwynfilms.com/mr-jones radiumgirlsmovie.com Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things STARTS FRIDAY, APRIL 24 • ONE WEEK STARTS FRIDAY, MAY 1 • ONE WEEK “Heartfelt…Conveys a sense of profound beauty and primordial mystery.” “A brilliant new documentary…Fascinating and mesmeric.”—BBC RADIO 2 —Nick Schager, VARIETY “An exhilarating and superbly filmed rags to riches tale of the supreme “A poignant testament to two friends’ shared curiosity about the world.” voice of jazz.”—Paul Davies, DAILY EXPRESS —John DeFore, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER “A study of a much loved but little understood musical icon that was “Despite walking many steps around the world and delivering many great touching but also very funny.”—John Lewis, THE GUARDIAN films in the process, he’s never quite made a self-portrait like this one. Werner’s latest might be his most Herzoggian film yet.”—Pat Mullen, POV Ella Fitzgerald was a 15-year-old street kid when she won a talent contest in 1934 at the Apollo Theatre in Werner Herzog, legendary director of GRIZZLY MAN, MEETING GORBACHEV, and CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS, Harlem. Within months she was a star. ELLA FITZGERALD: JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS follows her extraordinary turns the camera on himself and his decades-long friendship with the late travel writer and explorer journey over six decades as her sublime voice transforms the tragedies of her own life and the troubles of Bruce Chatwin, the prolific author of IN PATAGONIA and a champion of the nomadic lifestyle. He was a kindred her times into joy. The film uses never-before-seen images and unheard interviews to bring Ella Fitzgerald spirit whose quest for ecstatic truth carried him to all corners of the globe. Herzog re-visits places that Chatwin to life and to tell the story of her music. Here is an Ella the world never knew—tough, thoughtful, funny, a loved, including Patagonia, the Australian outback, and Ghana, where they worked together on Herzog’s 1987 dazzling musical innovator. The film also uncovers Ella’s commitment to the battle for Civil Rights; and it film COBRA VERDE, adapted from Chatwin’s novel. Herzog’s deeply personal portrait of Chatwin, illustrated with explores the conflicts that always haunted this intensely private woman: the struggle to reconcile her hunger insightful interviews, archival discoveries, film clips and a perplexing “brontosaurus skin,” encompasses their for adoring audiences with her longing for a domestic life with her husband and son. Featuring interviews with shared interest in aboriginal cultures, ancient rituals and the mysteries stitching together life on earth. Told in Tony Bennett, Jamie Cullum, Laura Mvula, Johnny Mathis, Smokey Robinson, Cleo Laine, Andre Previn, Herzog’s inimitable style and bursting at the seams with unforgettable characters and encounters, NOMAD takes Norma Miller, Patti Austin, Izsak Perlman, Margo Jefferson, Will Friedwald and a rare interview with Ella’s the viewer on a scenic journey to uncover stories of lost tribes, wanderers and dreamers. (UK, 2019) son, Ray Brown Jr. Directed by Leslie Woodhead. (UK/USA, 2019) musicboxfilms.com/film/nomad-in-the-footsteps-of-bruce-chatwin ellafitzgeraldmovie.com.