VICTORIA AND ABDUL MIGHT PLAY FOR TWO WEEKS.  STAY TUNED!

FRI (10/13)  4:00 & 7:00

SAT (10/14)  7:30 (no matinees because of the Yellow Springs Fall Street Fair.)

SUN (10/15)  7:15

MON-THU  (10/16-19)  7:00

Biography | Comedy/Drama | History  112 min. PG-13. 2017

Director: Stephen Frears

Cast: Dame Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Tim Pigott-Smith, Eddie Izzard, Julian Wadham, Olivia Williams, Ali Fazal, Adeel Akhtar, Simon Callow, Ruth McCabe, Fenella Woolgar

Based on Shrabani Basu’s best-selling biography.

The extraordinary true story of an unlikely friendship in the later years of Queen Victoria’s (Judi Dench) remarkable rule. When Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal), a young clerk, travels from India to participate in the Queen’s Golden Jubilee, he is surprised to find favor with the Queen herself. As the Queen questions the constrictions of her long-held position, the two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance with a loyalty to one another that her household and inner circle all attempt to destroy. As the friendship deepens, the Queen begins to see a changing world through new eyes and joyfully reclaims her humanity.

Judi Dench can do no wrong, and playing Queen Victoria for the second time in the richly satisfying Victoria and Abdul is an acting lesson par excellence that proves how rapturous it is to watch this great artist do everything right.— Rex Reed, New York Observer

Start to finish, it’s a bloody delightful romp.—Roger Moore, Movie Nation

This funny, touching adap of Shrabani Basu’s 2010 biography has its own chemistry, withering wit and unsentimental message of acceptance. A royal treat.—Jamie Graham, Total Film

A sorta-sequel to Mrs Brown deals effectively with another of Queen Victoria’s unconventional friendships and reprises Judi Dench’s powerful and unparalleled portrayal. —Dan Jolin, Empire

VICTORIA AND ABDUL MIGHT PLAY FOR TWO WEEKS.  STAY TUNED!

FRI (10/13)  4:00 & 7:00

SAT (10/14)  7:30 (no matinees because of the Yellow Springs Fall Street Fair.)

SUN (10/15)  7:15

MON-THU  (10/16-19)  7:00

Biography | Comedy/Drama | History  112 min. PG-13. 2017

Director: Stephen Frears

Cast: Dame Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Tim Pigott-Smith, Eddie Izzard, Julian Wadham, Olivia Williams, Ali Fazal, Adeel Akhtar, Simon Callow, Ruth McCabe, Fenella Woolgar

Based on Shrabani Basu’s best-selling biography.

The extraordinary true story of an unlikely friendship in the later years of Queen Victoria’s (Judi Dench) remarkable rule. When Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal), a young clerk, travels from India to participate in the Queen’s Golden Jubilee, he is surprised to find favor with the Queen herself. As the Queen questions the constrictions of her long-held position, the two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance with a loyalty to one another that her household and inner circle all attempt to destroy. As the friendship deepens, the Queen begins to see a changing world through new eyes and joyfully reclaims her humanity.

Judi Dench can do no wrong, and playing Queen Victoria for the second time in the richly satisfying Victoria and Abdul is an acting lesson par excellence that proves how rapturous it is to watch this great artist do everything right.— Rex Reed, New York Observer

Start to finish, it’s a bloody delightful romp.—Roger Moore, Movie Nation

This funny, touching adap of Shrabani Basu’s 2010 biography has its own chemistry, withering wit and unsentimental message of acceptance. A royal treat.—Jamie Graham, Total Film

A sorta-sequel to Mrs Brown deals effectively with another of Queen Victoria’s unconventional friendships and reprises Judi Dench’s powerful and unparalleled portrayal. —Dan Jolin, Empire

VICTORIA AND ABDUL MIGHT PLAY FOR TWO WEEKS.  STAY TUNED!

FRI (10/13)  4:00 & 7:00

SAT (10/14)  7:30 (no matinees because of the Yellow Springs Fall Street Fair.)

SUN (10/15)  7:15

MON-THU  (10/16-19)  7:00

Biography | Comedy/Drama | History  112 min. PG-13. 2017

Director: Stephen Frears

Cast: Dame Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Tim Pigott-Smith, Eddie Izzard, Julian Wadham, Olivia Williams, Ali Fazal, Adeel Akhtar, Simon Callow, Ruth McCabe, Fenella Woolgar

Based on Shrabani Basu’s best-selling biography.

The extraordinary true story of an unlikely friendship in the later years of Queen Victoria’s (Judi Dench) remarkable rule. When Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal), a young clerk, travels from India to participate in the Queen’s Golden Jubilee, he is surprised to find favor with the Queen herself. As the Queen questions the constrictions of her long-held position, the two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance with a loyalty to one another that her household and inner circle all attempt to destroy. As the friendship deepens, the Queen begins to see a changing world through new eyes and joyfully reclaims her humanity.

Judi Dench can do no wrong, and playing Queen Victoria for the second time in the richly satisfying Victoria and Abdul is an acting lesson par excellence that proves how rapturous it is to watch this great artist do everything right.— Rex Reed, New York Observer

Start to finish, it’s a bloody delightful romp.—Roger Moore, Movie Nation

This funny, touching adap of Shrabani Basu’s 2010 biography has its own chemistry, withering wit and unsentimental message of acceptance. A royal treat.—Jamie Graham, Total Film

A sorta-sequel to Mrs Brown deals effectively with another of Queen Victoria’s unconventional friendships and reprises Judi Dench’s powerful and unparalleled portrayal. —Dan Jolin, Empire

VICTORIA AND ABDUL MIGHT PLAY FOR TWO WEEKS.  STAY TUNED!

FRI (10/13)  4:00 & 7:00

SAT (10/14)  7:30 (no matinees because of the Yellow Springs Fall Street Fair.)

SUN (10/15)  7:15

MON-THU  (10/16-19)  7:00

Biography | Comedy/Drama | History  112 min. PG-13. 2017

Director: Stephen Frears

Cast: Dame Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Tim Pigott-Smith, Eddie Izzard, Julian Wadham, Olivia Williams, Ali Fazal, Adeel Akhtar, Simon Callow, Ruth McCabe, Fenella Woolgar

Based on Shrabani Basu’s best-selling biography.

The extraordinary true story of an unlikely friendship in the later years of Queen Victoria’s (Judi Dench) remarkable rule. When Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal), a young clerk, travels from India to participate in the Queen’s Golden Jubilee, he is surprised to find favor with the Queen herself. As the Queen questions the constrictions of her long-held position, the two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance with a loyalty to one another that her household and inner circle all attempt to destroy. As the friendship deepens, the Queen begins to see a changing world through new eyes and joyfully reclaims her humanity.

Judi Dench can do no wrong, and playing Queen Victoria for the second time in the richly satisfying Victoria and Abdul is an acting lesson par excellence that proves how rapturous it is to watch this great artist do everything right.— Rex Reed, New York Observer

Start to finish, it’s a bloody delightful romp.—Roger Moore, Movie Nation

This funny, touching adap of Shrabani Basu’s 2010 biography has its own chemistry, withering wit and unsentimental message of acceptance. A royal treat.—Jamie Graham, Total Film

A sorta-sequel to Mrs Brown deals effectively with another of Queen Victoria’s unconventional friendships and reprises Judi Dench’s powerful and unparalleled portrayal. —Dan Jolin, Empire

Wednesday, October 25 at 4:30 PM

FREE ADMISSION

FILMMAKERS PRESENT

Q & A AFTER THE SCREENING

THE MODERN JUNGLE – 71 min.  2016.
a film by Antioch College professor Charles Fairbanks & Saul Kak

Set in the region of La Selva Negra (literally, the black jungle), which is named after the thick fog that’s so common there, The Modern Jungle is a portrait of globalization filtered through the fever dream of a Mexican shaman, don Juan, who falls under the spell of a pyramid-scheme-marketed nutritional supplement. Juan’s neighbor Carmen lives simply, in harmony with the land her martyred husband paid for with his life. This film documents their struggles and encounters with outside forces: from capitalism and commodity fetish, to the culture of cinema, and the directors of this film.

Five years in the making, THE MODERN JUNGLE is an intimate document of two people and their Zoque culture, yet simultaneously a story about consumerism, modernity and monoculture. It was made through my deep collaboration with Juan, Carmen, and a young Zoque artist named Saul Kak. Our initial desire for this project was to depict Zoque culture in an honest yet dignified light. We also hoped to show the Zoque people’s encounters with modernity and globalization. In this, the initial impulse for this project was fundamentally ethnographic.But I didn’t want to make a conventional ethnographic film. I wanted a film with teeth, a film that’s honest, a film that moves people. I wanted to show something real, but puncture viewers’ comfortable sense of reality. I decided to blend fiction with documentary. While they lubricate the story, the fictions are relatively prosaic: the most incredible scenes in THE MODERN JUNGLE are also its purest examples of documentary.

To integrate their Zoque cosmovisión, or worldview, with the language and potential of cinema, we incorporate a dream sequence into this documentary. For the Zoque, dreams are significant and prophetic; they weigh upon one’s life, actions, and existence. Some critics might insist that dreams are incompatible with documentary, but I contend that Juan’s dream in the film manifests real fears, desires, and the psychological effects of the culture clash that is his life. Crucially, the significance of this dream is left open to interpretation – for the dreamer himself, and for viewers of the film. ­—Charles Fairbanks

VICTORIA AND ABDUL MIGHT PLAY FOR TWO WEEKS.  STAY TUNED!

FRI (10/13)  4:00 & 7:00

SAT (10/14)  7:30 (no matinees because of the Yellow Springs Fall Street Fair.)

SUN (10/15)  7:15

MON-THU  (10/16-19)  7:00

Biography | Comedy/Drama | History  112 min. PG-13. 2017

Director: Stephen Frears

Cast: Dame Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Tim Pigott-Smith, Eddie Izzard, Julian Wadham, Olivia Williams, Ali Fazal, Adeel Akhtar, Simon Callow, Ruth McCabe, Fenella Woolgar

Based on Shrabani Basu’s best-selling biography.

The extraordinary true story of an unlikely friendship in the later years of Queen Victoria’s (Judi Dench) remarkable rule. When Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal), a young clerk, travels from India to participate in the Queen’s Golden Jubilee, he is surprised to find favor with the Queen herself. As the Queen questions the constrictions of her long-held position, the two forge an unlikely and devoted alliance with a loyalty to one another that her household and inner circle all attempt to destroy. As the friendship deepens, the Queen begins to see a changing world through new eyes and joyfully reclaims her humanity.

Judi Dench can do no wrong, and playing Queen Victoria for the second time in the richly satisfying Victoria and Abdul is an acting lesson par excellence that proves how rapturous it is to watch this great artist do everything right.— Rex Reed, New York Observer

Start to finish, it’s a bloody delightful romp.—Roger Moore, Movie Nation

This funny, touching adap of Shrabani Basu’s 2010 biography has its own chemistry, withering wit and unsentimental message of acceptance. A royal treat.—Jamie Graham, Total Film

A sorta-sequel to Mrs Brown deals effectively with another of Queen Victoria’s unconventional friendships and reprises Judi Dench’s powerful and unparalleled portrayal. —Dan Jolin, Empire

The world’s best short films show returns to Yellow Springs!

The 36^th Asbury Short Film Show reels in to The Little Art Theatre for one show only on

Thursday, October 26^th at 7:00!

Tickets are $12 and available now online at  TICKETSor at the box office.

Local Yellow Springs resident Joel Moss Levinson will host this year’s Asbury Short Films at the Little Art. “Joel Moss Levinson was the worlds first professional online video contest winner – a role which had him profiled on the front page of he NY Times and earned him a guest spot on The Tonight Show. For the past ten years he’s made his living creating original comedy content for the internet, and is now in post-production on his first feature, Boy Band, shot in Dayton and Yellow Springs which is the story of a Boy Band who are twenty years past their prime, and which was written about in Newsweek for its unusual approach to Indie filmmaking. Joel lives in Yellow Springs with his wife and two sons.”

Asbury Shorts, New York City’s longest running short film exhibition and touring show, returns to The Little Art for a third consecutive year to present their nationally recognized 36^th Short Film Show with the first film blasting onto the screen at 7:00pm. Asbury Short Film Shows are recommended for ages 16 and way above. This evening celebration of independent filmmaking is co –presented by The Yellow Springs Brewery and The Little Art Theatre.

Asbury Shorts shows combine classic, world-renowned shorts with new festival honorees, providing a rare opportunity for audiences to view globally honored films on a real cinema screen as opposed to YouTube, computers or smart phones. Academy Award nominated director Jason Reitman (JUNO, Up in the Air, Thank You for Smoking, Young Adult) calls Asbury Shorts: “The best short film show I’ve ever seen.” The fast-paced and highly entertaining showcase features the best in live action comedy, drama and outstanding animation. Highlights of the October screenings at The Little Art Theatre include:

“Reaching Home” is a new drama from Connecticut based filmmaker Kenneth Murphy. Debra Monk stars as a recent widow who has to make tough decisions with her family while dealing with grief.

“The Lunch Date” returns to The Asbury Short Film Concert after many years. A former Academy Award Winner for Best Live Action Short Film directed by Adam Davidson, who is now a prolific television director on such series as “Fear The Walking Dead” and “Hell on Wheels.”

“Drive” is a new production from Writer /Director Holly Hudson…who happens to reside in Yellow Springs! 13-year-old Athena has a secret and her neighbor Sabeen is studying for her driver’s test. Their unlikely friendship helps them both.

Asbury Shorts shows have been presented at The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Lake Shore Theatre in Chicago, The Vero Beach Museum of Art in Florida, Visions Cinema in Washington, D.C., Summer Stage in Central Park, The Director’s Guild Theater in Manhattan, The AERO in Santa Monica, CA, Royal Festival Hall in London, U.K. and the Leminske Theater in Berlin to name a few of the prestigious venues where audiences have enjoyed these amazing films.