AFI Silver Theatre Cultural Center
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Silent Friend ()
Cast: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Lea Seydoux
Runtime: 2 hr. 27 mins.
At the heart of a German university grows a majestic ginkgo tree, its lifespan measured in centuries. As the years pass, the distinguished plant bears witness to the private lives of those who seek shade under its boundless branches, forming a nexus that connects three generations of students and teachers across time and space. In 2020, a visiting neuroscientist conducts a series of experiments into the possibilities of botanical consciousness. In 1972, a young student is profoundly changed by studying the behavior of a simple geranium. And in 1908, the university’s first female student’s photographic inquiries reveal sacred patterns of the universe hidden within the humblest of plants. Over time, each is transformed by the quiet, enduring, and mysterious power of nature.

Mulholland Drive (R)
Cast: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring
Runtime: 2 hr. 26 mins.
Along Mulholland Drive nothing is what it seems. In the unreal universe of Los Angeles, the city bares its schizophrenic nature, an uneasy blend of innocence and corruption, love and loneliness, beauty and depravity. A woman is left with amnesia following a car accident. An aspiring young actress finds her staying in her aunt's home. The puzzle begins to unfold, propelling us through a mysterious labyrith of sensual experiences until we arrive at the intersection of dreams and nightmares.

Blue Velvet (R)
Cast: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan
Runtime: 2 hr. 0 mins.
This sensual mystery thriller is about strange happenings in a small North Carolina town. A college student stumbles across a bizarre mystery and wants to know more, perhaps too much more. The strange world he's found lurking beneath his hometown's picture-postcard veneer is about to become much stranger. It is also an unforgettably fascinating and foreboding world.

Girls in Uniform (Madchen in uniform) ()
Cast: Dorothea Wieck, Hertha Thiele
Runtime: 1 hr. 36 mins.

Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes ()


The Delinquents (Los golfos) ()
Cast: Manolo Zarzo, Jose Luis Marin
Runtime: 1 hr. 28 mins.

The House With Laughing Windows (La Casa dalle finestre che ridono) ()
Cast: Lino Capolicchio, Gianni Cavina
Runtime: 1 hr. 50 mins.
A scholar attempts to restore a gruesome painting and uncovers a past of blood sacrifice and paganism in this Italian horror tale of Catholicism gone horribly wrong.
