Anna Hints’ Sundance-winning documentary celebrates the centuries-old smoke sauna tradition and what it means to a group of Estonian women.
Programmed by Farihah Zaman
Where Hollywood so often endeavors to present the powdered face of perfection, the stinking, visceral, undeniably human sight of perspiration on-screen is a refreshing subversion—and a telling choice. Films that sweat are often introducing us to the most taboo contours of a character’s interior landscape—lust, terror, greed, guilt—or the circumstances of those who must labor against a harsh land or social construct. Sweat can represent rising tension or sweet release, burning desire or ruthless ambition. Deep into the most humid month of New York’s stickiest season, SWEAT! revels in the moments that leave us wrung out and dripping wet.
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Almayer's Folly
Aug 16—Aug 22, 2024
Almayer's Folly
Aug 16—Aug 22, 2024Somewhere in Southeast Asia, a European man clings to pipe dreams out of love for his daughter in this screen adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s novel, directed by Chantal Akerman.
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Angel Heart
Aug 16—Aug 21, 2024
Angel Heart
Aug 16—Aug 21, 2024A private investigator is hired to track down a legendary singer in this mystery thriller starring Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro.
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Magic Mike XXL
Aug 16—Aug 22, 2024
Magic Mike XXL
Aug 16—Aug 22, 2024The second entry into the holy trinity of stripper films finds a road tripping Mike and friends on a mission to give women exactly what they want.
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Sweat
Aug 17—Aug 20, 2024
Sweat
Aug 17—Aug 20, 2024This riveting portrait of modern celebrity strips away the digital veneer to reveal the human cost of influencer culture.
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Do the Right Thing
Aug 17—Aug 22, 2024
Do the Right Thing
Aug 17—Aug 22, 2024Spike Lee’s Oscar-nominated Brooklyn classic swings effortlessly from satire to social commentary as the streets of Bed-Stuy boil and tensions run high on the hottest day of the year.
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All That Jazz
Aug 17—Aug 19, 2024
All That Jazz
Aug 17—Aug 19, 2024The preternaturally gifted director and choreographer Bob Fosse (Cabaret) uses his own life as inspiration for this madly imaginative, self-excoriating musical masterpiece.
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Fallen Angels
Aug 17—Aug 19, 2024
Fallen Angels
Aug 17—Aug 19, 2024Swinging between hardboiled noir and slapstick lunacy, director Wong Kar Wai depicts the intersecting fates of a handful of urban loners in the glimmering night world of Hong Kong.
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La Ciénaga
Aug 18—Aug 21, 2024
La Ciénaga
Aug 18—Aug 21, 2024A dissolute, bourgeois extended family whiles away the hours of one sweaty, sticky summer in this astonishing cinematic marvel.
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Timbuktu
Aug 18—Aug 20, 2024
Timbuktu
Aug 18—Aug 20, 2024A man comes face to face with religious extremism in this stunning 2015 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Stray Dog
Aug 18—Aug 20, 2024
Stray Dog
Aug 18—Aug 20, 2024In Kurasawa’s sweltering crime thriller, a detective goes undercover in the hot summer streets of post-WWII Tokyo to recover his stolen gun.
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Stranger By the Lake
Aug 18—Aug 21, 2024
Stranger By the Lake
Aug 18—Aug 21, 2024When a young man is killed on the shores of a lake in rural France, two vacationers become prime suspects in this award-winning erotic thriller.