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135 min
2025
Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom
Joachim Trier
Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star. Suddenly, the two sisters must navigate their complicated relationship with their father — and deal with an American star dropped right into the middle of their complex family dynamics.
Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
Nov 30
Dec 4
Dec 5
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Dec 7
Dec 11
164 min
2017
Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America
Denis Villeneuve
Officer K (Ryan Gosling), a new blade runner for the Los Angeles Police Department, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. His discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former blade runner who's been missing for 30 years.
Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
Nov 30
116 min
1981
United Kingdom
Terry Gilliam
Every screening in our Terry Gilliam Filmmaker Focus Series includes a short introduction and a post screening discussion with UAB Film Professor and Sleep In Cinema co-host Gareth Jones.
Film Synopsis: Young history buff Kevin (Craig Warnock) can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being (Ralph Richardson), they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon (Ian Holm), Robin Hood (John Cleese) and King Agamemnon (Sean Connery) before the Supreme Being catches up with them.
Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
Nov 30
180 min
🎮 1UP Game Night 🕹️ is turning into a family affair for the 🎄 holidays! Join us for a fun interactive Jackbox game experience in the theatre...with opportunities to win amazing prizes! Plus, board games, card games, puzzles, arcade favorites and vintage video game zones in the lobby. Specialty cocktails + mocktails at the bar.
*This is a free event. Reservations are strongly recommended but not required. SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED.*
Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
Dec 3
96 min
1989
United States of America
Rob Reiner
In collaboration with Knit B'ham, join us for a special screening of Rob Reiner's When Harry Met Sally. Lights will be a little brighter than usual in the theater so you can bring your knitting, crochet or any other craft project!
Film Synopsis: During their travel from Chicago to New York, Harry and Sally debate whether or not sex ruins a friendship between a man and a woman. Eleven years later, and they’re still no closer to finding the answer.
Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
Dec 4
118 min
1982
Hong Kong, United Kingdom, United States of America
Ridley Scott
Deckard (Harrison Ford) is forced by the police Boss (M. Emmet Walsh) to continue his old job as Replicant Hunter. His assignment: eliminate four escaped Replicants from the colonies who have returned to Earth. Before starting the job, Deckard goes to the Tyrell Corporation and he meets Rachel (Sean Young), a Replicant girl he falls in love with.
Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
Dec 4
60 min
Filmmaking amateurs and pros alike compete for a grand prize in our weekend long filmmaking competition. Teams will take on 48 hours of writing, directing, and editing your own short film from scratch December 5-7. CASH PRIZES for Jury and Audience award winners + screening during the 28th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival.
Join us for Kickoff Meeting to get the rules and requirements of this edition of the Sidewalk Scramble! Only 1 person per team needs to attend the kick off meeting and only one person per team needs to register. Teams can be any size. ATTENDING THE KICKOFF MEETING IS REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE. THE KICK OFF MEETING WILL BE *VIRTUAL* OPEN TO TEAMS IN ANY GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION. Email [email protected] with any questions.
Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema - Classroom
Dec 5
174 min
2000
Japan, Taiwan
Edward Yang
The extraordinary, internationally embraced Yi Yi (A One and a Two . . .), directed by the late Taiwanese master Edward Yang, follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Whether chronicling middle-age father NJ’s tentative flirtations with an old flame or precocious young son Yang-Yang’s attempts at capturing reality with his beloved camera, the filmmaker deftly imbues every gorgeous frame with a compassionate clarity. Warm, sprawling, and dazzling, this intimate epic is one of the undisputed masterworks of the new century.
Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
Dec 5
Dec 6
Dec 7
Dec 11
143 min
1985
United Kingdom, United States of America
Terry Gilliam
Every screening in our Terry Gilliam Filmmaker Focus Series includes a short introduction and a post screening discussion with UAB Film Professor and Sleep In Cinema co-host Gareth Jones. Film Synopsis: Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle (Robert De Niro), he meets the woman from his daydream (Kim Greist), and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema
Dec 7
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