When Ojai Film Society brings you Eye in the Sky this Sunday, it will be showing an important, timely movie about the state of modern warfare and the questions and conundrums that exist within that paradigm. It will also be showing you Alan Rickman’s final live action film after the sad loss of one of our finest performers earlier this year. His director for the film, Gavin Hood, had some wonderful things to say about working with Rickman. Read about it here.
Our Fall/Winter Schedule is Here!
Hello, film lovers of Ojai! We are very excited to present our fall/winter schedule, 13 outstanding films ranging from excellent documentaries to some hard to find theatrical presentations of the best indies to a Halloween weekend showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show to a special screening of Alan Rickman’s last film. See below or our schedule poster hanging at the Ojai Playhouse for full details.
We start it all off with a very special screening of City of Gold, complete with a Q&A with the man who inspired the movie, LA Times food critic Jonathan Gold!
Look for ticket links, coming soon to this website. And as always, tickets will be available at the door as well. Most screenings will be at Matilija Auditorium, but we will be hosting two back-to-backs — movies of a similar theme on the same weekend — at the Ojai Art Center theater as well.
We look forward to seeing you at the movies!
FULL SCHEDULE:
SEPT. 11 CITY OF GOLD USA 2015
(1 hr, 36 min.) Rated R Documentary
At Matilija Auditorium
Special Guest: Food critic Jonathan Gold!
Follow Los Angeles Times food critic Jonathan Gold as he combs busy avenues and colorful neighborhoods in his pickup truck to find the best that LA restaurants have to offer.
Sept. 18 DOUGH UK/Hungary 2015
(1 hr., 34 min.) Not Rated Drama/Comedy
At Matilija Auditorium
In a modern world plagued by anger, fear, xenophobia, racism and intolerance of religious differences, Dough serves as a sweet antidote to age-old afflictions. Just add a little cannabis into the challah dough!
Sept. 25 EYE IN THE SKY UK 2015
(1 hr., 43 min.) Rated R Drama
At Matilija Auditorium
Eye In the Sky is a taut thriller with riveting performances by an all-star cast (Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul and Alan Rickman in his final film) about the moral ambiguities of modern warfare.
Oct. 2 BORN TO BE BLUE UK 2016
(1 hr., 38 min.) Rated R Drama /Biopic
At Matilija Auditorium
Special Guest: Composer Steve London!
A look at jazz trumpeter Chet Baker’s (Ethan Hawke in a defining role) tumultuous life, seen through his 1970s comeback. Inventive and surreal, the film serves as an honest portrait of a vulnerable man.
Oct. 9 THE KIND WORDS Israel 2015
(1 hr., 58 min.) Not Rated Drama
At Matilija Auditorium
Bittersweet self-discovery is woven throughout The Kind Words, as three Israeli siblings join together in the aftermath of their mother’s death after learning a startling familial revelation.
Oct. 16 LAST CAB TO DARWIN Australia 2015 (2 hrs., 3 min.)
Not Rated Drama
At Matilija Auditorium
A terminally Ill, curmudgeonly cab driver, Rex (Michael Caton), drives across Australia to arrange his own death in Darwin, where euthanasia is legal. His internal isolation is captured in shots of the desert and the small towns huddled across it.
OCT. 22 SONG OF LAHORE USA/Pakistan 2015 (1 hr., 22 min.)
Rated PG Documentary
At Ojai Art Center Theater
A soul-stirring profile of the Sachel Studios Pakistani band in New York City performing their sitar-and-tabla reinterpretations of jazz standards with Wynton Marsalis at Lincoln Center.
Oct. 23 SING STREET Ireland 2016
(1 hr., 46 min.) Rated PG-13 Drama
At Ojai Art Center Theater
Sing Street is the best film about being young, gifted and Irish since The Commitments. A buoyant celebration of the power of music, this is the third delightfully entertaining musical romance from John Carney, who also wrote and directed Once and Begin Again.
Nov. 6 IXCANUL GUATEMALA 2015
(1 hr., 40 min.) Not Rated Drama
At Matilija Auditorium
When Maria, a young Guatemalan farm girl living at the base of a volcano, chooses her love interest over her betrothed, an entire community is forced to confront its customs and culture.
Nov. 12 WEST OF THE WEST USA 2016
(1 hr., 0 min.) Not Rated Documentary
At Ojai Art Center Theater
Special Guest: Director Brent Sumner!
Our coastal Channel Islands prove to be extremely historically significant, going all the way back to man’s first footsteps on the North American continent.
Nov. 13 SALERO USA/Bolivia 2015
(1 hr., 16 min.) Not Rated Documentary
At Ojai Art Center Theater
A Bolivian salt miner confronts the reality of progress when his livelihood is threatened by commercial forces impacting his government.
“An immersive personal encounter with destiny rewritten.” Natalie Roterman, Latin Times
Dec. 18 THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY UK 2015 (1 hr., 54 min.) Rated PG-13 Drama
At Matilija Auditorium
A poor but brilliant Indian mathematician (Dev Patel) is brought to Cambridge in the midst of WWI. Jeremy Irons also stars. Patel and Irons capture the very dynamics of intellectual and historical change in intimate scenes of emotional and psychological growth. Based on a true story.