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Friday March 29 2024

They Shot the Piano Player

Grand Illusion Cinema
Fri, Mar 29 7:00 PM
A New York music journalist (voiced by Jeff Goldblum) goes on a quest to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976. A celebratory origin story of the world-renowned Latino musical movement Bossa Nova, THEY SHOT THE PIANO PLAYER captures a fleeting time bursting with creative freedom at a turning point in Latin American history in the 60s and 70s, just before the continent was engulfed by totalitarian regimes.
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Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

Grand Illusion Cinema
Fri, Mar 29 9:15 PM
Long unavailable anywhere, the Zellner Brothers’ cinematic gem KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER returns for a 10th Anniversary Re-Release! A Tokyo office worker (Rinko Kikuchi) finds a battered VHS tape of a fictional film, dontcha know, and becomes convinced the movie’s lost satchel of money is real. Believing she solved the mystery of the buried fortune, she abandons everything and embarks on a quest to frozen Minnesota in search of the mythical treasure, discovering the line between reality and fantasy may be even harder to locate.
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