Based on the runaway bestseller, this inspiring comedy about Bernadette Fox (Cate Blanchett), a loving mom who becomes compelled to reconnect with her creative passions after years of sacrificing herself for her family. Bernadette’s leap of faith takes her on an epic adventure that jump-starts her life and leads to her triumphant rediscovery. Directed by Richard Linklater (Bernie, Boyhood). (PG-13)

Billi (Awkwafina), a headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Her Chinese family, knowing that she has only a short while left to live, decide to keep her in the dark. They schedule an impromptu wedding as a pretense to gather everyone together one last time before she dies. Billi struggles with her traditional Chinese family and their decision to orchestrate the elaborate charade. Written and directed by Lulu Wang. (PG, 98 mins)

“Awkwafina has gone from rapper to comedic powerhouse, and now, most powerfully, to indie darling in ‘The Farewell.’ It’s one of the year’s sweetest films.” – Johnny Oleksinki, New York Post

“A funny, emotionally intricate and deeply moving tale of severed connections and renewed family ties.” – Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

“The Farewell is so unexpectedly and deliciously funny that watching it feels like a tonic — an immersion in love and art.” – Moira Macdonald, The Seattle Times

Voyage through the masterpieces and obsessions of the genius and founder of Impressionism, Claude Monet. An art-world disruptor at the turn of the 20th century whose obsession with capturing light and water broke all convention, Monet revolutionized Modern Art with his timeless masterpieces. An in-depth, exclusive tour led by Monet scholars of the museums that house the largest collections of the prolific artist’s paintings including the Musée Marmottan Monet, the Orsay Museum, the world-famous panels at L’Orangerie and concluding with Monet’s own house and gardens at Giverny. (85 mins)

Wednesday, August 21st, at 7:15pm

You thought you knew him – more than 50 years in the public eye as a founder of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. Meet the David Crosby you didn’t know in this portrait of a man with everything but an easy retirement on his mind – he’s had four new solo albums in the last five years. With unflinching honesty, self-examination, regret, fear, exuberance and an unshakable belief in family and the transformative nature of music, Crosby shares his often challenging journey. The title is a word play on his 1971 solo album, “If I Could Only Remember My Name.” (95 mins)

Introduction by: Jim Newsom is an award winning singer, songwriter and instrumentalist with multiple album releases. His new band is Jim Newsom and the Cloudless Sky.

“Crosby presents a reflective, irascible, observant and irresistibly candid figure in a documentary that ostensibly chronicles one of his many comeback tours but becomes something far more introspective.” – Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

“What makes David Crosby: Remember My Name one of the best rock documentaries of all time is the no-bull immediacy of the filmmaking.” – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Thursday, August 22nd, at 8:15pm

Sure to be a crowd pleaser, 6/17/91 is one of only two shows in the Grateful Dead’s archive recorded to 48-track analog tape, providing spectacular and unprecedented audio quality. The show features fan favorites such as “Eyes Of The World,” “Truckin’,” “Uncle John’s Band,” along with Grateful Dead rarities including “Saint Of Circumstance,” “Might As Well,” “New Speedway Boogie,” and much more. Mixed by Jeffrey Norman in glorious surround sound at Bob Weir’s TRI Studios, mastered by David Glasser at Airshow Mastering, with video from the multi-camera live edit, this will be the first time the Bruce Hornsby and Vince Welnick line-up has ever appeared on the big screen. (162 mins)

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Friday, August 23rd, at 9:15pm

With her marriage breaking up, Beverly Hills housewife Phyllis Nefler (Shelley Long) boosts her self-esteem by leading a local troop of Wilderness Girls. Although Phyllis’ version of roughing it is spending the night at the Beverly Hills Hotel, that suits her privileged troop members just fine. Unfortunately, when Phyllis falls afoul of a rival leader, the girls are threatened with having their group dissolved — unless they can prove their wilderness skills at the annual jamboree. (1989, PG, 106mins)

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Opens Friday, August 23rd

Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind. As he struggles to reconnect with his family and reconstruct the community he longs for, his hopes blind him to the reality of his situation. This beautiful story of love, family and loss in America was created by two childhood friends turned filmmakers. (R, 120 mins)

“Mostly, the movie has a cascade of images and ideas, reference points and glimpses of everyday beauty that flow and swirl and, over time, gather tremendous force.” – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

“A lyrical, visually stunning tone poem to loss, lies, reclamation and making peace with the past, The Last Black Man in San Francisco virtually defies conventional description. To see it is to believe it, even when it doesn’t strictly make sense.” – Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

Saturday, August 24th, at 11:00am
Wednesday, August 28th, at 1:00pm
All Seats $5

Both a classic movie for kids and a remarkable portrait of childhood, E.T. is a sci-fi adventure that captures that strange moment in youth when the world is a place of mysterious possibilities (some wonderful, some awful), and the universe seems somehow separate from the one inhabited by grown-ups.

After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott (Henry Thomas). Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother and his little sister, Gertie (Drew Barrymore), and the children decide to keep its existence a secret. Soon, however, E.T. falls ill, resulting in government intervention and a dire situation for both Elliott and the alien. (1982, PG, 121mins)

Wednesday, August 28th, at 7:15pm

In 1960, Leonard Cohen was a young struggling writer living in a bohemian community of ex-pat artists on the Greek island of Hydra with his lover and Norwegian muse, Marianne Ihlen, As Leonard’s musical career blossomed, the couple went their own ways yet remained friends for their entire lives until their deaths in 2016. This personal story is told by filmmaker Nick Broomfield, also a longtime friend of Marianne. (R, 97 mins)

“While Broomfield’s films often take a sardonic, close-to-cynical tone, ‘Marianne & Leonard’ is admiring, affectionate and a little awe-struck.” – Glenn Kenny, The New York Times

“Marianne Ihlen emerges as someone of enormous gentleness and dignity.” – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

“Fittingly, given that the film from Broomfield (who was also a former lover of Marianne’s) is nothing if not a love letter itself. So long, Marianne. So long, Leonard.” – Brad Wheeler, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Tuesday, August 27th, at 7:15pm
A benefit for the Norfolk SPCA

With over 500,000 streets cats struggling to survive in New York City, and city government unwilling to address the problem, spirited volunteers trap the cats, get them fixed, and if they can’t be socialized for adoption, return them to their colonies (called TNR). This program is ongoing right here in Hampton Roads, where caretakers of outdoor cat colonies work with area animal shelters to save many lives. (87 mins)

Post-film discussion: Kimberly Sherlaw is executive director of Norfolk SPCA. And Hampton Roads community cat caretakers.