Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.

Please join CCA for our ongoing Community Reading Series in the Munoz Waxman Gallery. This event features Richard Chess, Emily Hyland, Priyanka Kumar, and Santana Shorty. Readings are curated by former Santa Fe poet laureate Elizabeth Jacobson with support from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry.

A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play.

The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation— flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.

Our hero (voiced by rapper ACE COOL), called by a different name in each chapter of his life, becomes a J-pop idol, an outcast, a leader, and an oracle in this hundred-year chronicle spanning the past, present, and future. Through a chance encounter with a transfer student, he trains to become an idol, starting his search for self-identity and a journey toward greatness beyond superstardom. Written, directed, edited and entirely hand-drawn by newcomer Ryuya Suzuki over eighteen months, JINSEI (meaning “life” in Japanese) is an anime tour-de-force that announces Suzuki to the world as a bold new talent in independent animation.

A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.

A story of amour fou. Walt is madly in love/lust with a young illegal Mexican immigrant. However, the object of his unrequited affection doesn't even speak any English and finds Walt really strange and undesirable.

A woman's life unravels after her husband's betrayal isolates her from elite society. Embracing disregarded communities, she embarks on a transformative journey, challenging norms through a daring culinary venture that redefines her life.

“A study of acceptance, revelation and reconciliation; it is about cinema’s relationship with the past and its power to reshape and cohere memory as a means of coming to terms with it.” –Cinevue The latest film by the legendary Spanish filmmaker and Oscar winner Pedro Almodóver (VOLVER, THE SKIN I LIVE IN). Salvador (Antonio Banderas, winner of Best Actor at Cannes) is a filmmaker facing his decline. When a decades old project is set for a remaster right at the edge of a mental and emotional breakdown, he calls upon the lead actor of the project to help lead him through the event. A series of flashbacks follow of Salvador’s life: his immigration and early childhood, his first love, his first heartbreak, all how all these roads now lead to his creative crisis that feels impossible to overcome without a hard study at the world that created him. (Spain, 2019, 113m)

Saturday, July 11, 2-3:30p In-person in the CCA Conference Room In this class, we will explore the idea of poems as ecological entities that integrate several dimensions of consciousness. We will travel to the "poem country," our vast interior landscapes that connect our minds to the natural world, discuss the crafting of "living" poems, look at several poems as examples of this, write from prompts and share what we have written. Please bring your writing tools. Kyce Bello is a poet, herbalist, and nurse. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Refugia, winner of the Test Site Poetry Prize and recipient of a New Mexico Book Award, and Far Country, both published by University of Nevada Press. She also edited the anthology The Return of the River: Writers, Scholars, and Citizens Speak on Behalf of the Santa Fe River, a work of literary activism. This program is supported by the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry

Howard Hawks directed Paul Muni as the ruthless Tony Camonte, who shoots his way to the top of the underworld, aided by his sidekick Rinaldo, played by George Raft.

Capturing a year in the life of a rural, lakeside community in Ireland in the 1970’s, That They May Face The Rising Sun is an adaptation of the final novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland’s greatest novelists. Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among the small, close-knit community near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters around them unfolds through the rituals of work, play and the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an everywhere. 

A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.

The remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

Shooting in Swedish on a set replicating a lovely 18th-century theatre, Bergman begins his wonderfully warm, witty and sensuous movie by focusing on the faces of a rapt audience (momentarily including his own) enjoying the overture. Thereafter, as the (abridged and intriguingly amended) tale of Tamino, Pamina et al proceeds, he highlights the piece’s exuberant theatrical illusionism, at the same time deploying close-ups to enhance the emotions conveyed by an excellent young cast. An admirably light touch is applied throughout, making for a performance of musical excellence, dramatic vitality and enormous, effortless charm.

A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

A wealthy but neurotic Southern belle finds herself trapped in the hideout of a gang of vicious bootleggers. The gang's leader lusts after her, and is determined not to let anything stand in the way of his having her.

A gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme.

Married artists Joel and Maggie share a loving bond, but Maggie feels overshadowed. This brave film explores their extraordinary confrontations as they navigate love, aging, and the creative process.

Rachel doesn't realize she has grown up in captivity working for an advertising agency where her job is to assess Mommy 6.0 - her favorite pop star.