Arthouse Cinema at NPCC: A Film Screening Event Series
We welcome artists, the NPCC community, film buffs and film students from all over the city to come and enjoy these community screening. The collection of films selected for Arthouse Cinema at NPCC have been chosen to offer a source of inspiration, conversation, and connection, and to bring certain artistic elements to light and screen that may speak to artists looking for a creative spark.
A short Q&A session will be held at the end of each screening. Admission is free with a suggested small pay-what-you-can donation of $10.00, and snacks and refreshments (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) will be available for purchase. No outside food or drinks permitted. Enjoy responsibly.
Arthouse Cinema at NPCC – Film: Wings of Desire, Director: Wim Wenders
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| Friday, September 26, 2025 | 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM | F25AFILM1 | “Wings of Desire is one of cinema’s loveliest city symphonies. Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts—fears, hopes, dreams—of all the people living below. But when he falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, he is willing to give up his immortality and come back to earth to be with her. Made not long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, this stunning tapestry of sounds and images, shot in black and white and colour by the legendary Henri Alekan, forever made the name of director Wim Wenders synonymous with film art.” Description Source: Criterion Collection |
Arthouse Cinema at NPCC – David Lynch: The Art Life, Director: Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes, and Olivia Neergaard-Holm
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| Friday, October 24, 2025 | 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM | F25AFILM2 | Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi (1852–1926) designed some of the world’s most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks; Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara constructed some of the most aesthetically audacious films ever made. In Antonio Gaudi, their artistry melds in a unique, enthralling cinematic experience. Less a documentary than a visual poem, Teshigahara’s film takes viewers on a tour of Gaudi’s truly spectacular architecture, including his massive, still-unfinished masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona. With camera work as bold and sensual as the curves of his subject’s organic structures, Teshigahara immortalizes Gaudi on film. Description Source: Criterion Collection |
Arthouse Cinema at NPCC – Antonio Gaudi, Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
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| Friday, November 28, 2025 | 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM | F25AFILM3 | Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi (1852–1926) designed some of the world’s most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks; Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara constructed some of the most aesthetically audacious films ever made. In Antonio Gaudi, their artistry melds in a unique, enthralling cinematic experience. Less a documentary than a visual poem, Teshigahara’s film takes viewers on a tour of Gaudi’s truly spectacular architecture, including his massive, still-unfinished masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona. With camera work as bold and sensual as the curves of his subject’s organic structures, Teshigahara immortalizes Gaudi on film. Description Source: Criterion Collection |
Arthouse Cinema at NPCC – Basquiat, Director: Julian Schnabel
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| Friday, January 30, 2026 | 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM | F25AFILM4 | “Julian Schnabel’s tribute to his friend and fellow painter Jean-Michel Basquiat is less a conventional biopic than an impressionistic, sensory immersion into the much-mythologized downtown-Manhattan art world of the 1980s. Jeffrey Wright, in his first lead film role, stars as the visionary artist whose rise from graffiti tagger to art star forces him to confront the glare of sudden fame, along with racism, his own struggles with addiction, and the difficulties of being self-determining and free in America. Bolstered by an ensemble cast that includes a sublime performance by David Bowie channelling Andy Warhol, Schnabel’s directorial debut—presented here in the filmmaker’s own luminous black-and-white remastering—is a profoundly expressive elegy for a radiant life cut short.” Description Source: Criterion Collection |
Arthouse Cinema at NPCC – In the Mood for Love, Director: Wong Kar-wai
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| Friday, February 27, 2025 | 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM | F25AFILM5 | “Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) and Su Li-Zhen (Maggie Cheung Man Yuk) move into neighbouring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them. At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments. With its aching soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping Bing, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past two decades of cinema, and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career.” We invite guests to observe the use of colour and light in this film. Description Source: Criterion Collection |