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The Hi-Desert Cultural Center is proud to present a special screening of ENO, the first-ever generative documentary film in a one-night-only event featuring an introduction by Orian Williams, one of the revolutionary film’s producers.
Elvis, the award-winning 2022 musical spectacle by master showman Baz Luhrmann, remains fresh and vital in 2025. Looking back at the criticism of the film, high praise as well as dim dismissal, everyone seems to have undersold the theme of the artist as chattel in the entertainment industry, which has only become more urgent in the two years since.
The American film director William Friedkin, a devotee who introduced Blow-Up to audiences numerous times over the course of his life, described the film as “a mystery without a solution.” The struggle to reconcile image and reality is part of why Blow-Up resonated so strongly with audiences in 1967. Unsettled and searching, Thomas presents as an archetypal lost soul of the era.
Filmed in only 16 days and earning the coveted Best Actor award at Cannes, Perfect Days tells the story of a quiet and alert man who lives in solitude in one of the world’s densest cities, vacillating between beatific contentment and cold dread.
As soon as David Byrne walked onto the screen with his boombox, the energy in the room was electric.
Throughout Francois Truffaut’s 1973 masterpiece Day For Night, a callow movie star played by Jean-Pierre Leaud asks “Are women magic?” The most agreed-upon interpretation is that Leaud’s character, Alphonse, is really asking whether movies are magic.
All films publicly presented through special licensing with SWANK Motion Pictures, Inc.
