Violet Crown

TV at VCC

Directed by Scott Hornbacher

Our favorite drama about one of New York's most prestigious ad agencies at the beginning of the 1960s, focusing on one of the firm's most mysterious but extremely talented ad executives.

Violet Crown Cinema invites you to view the newest episode inside one of our auditorium' s intimate settings while sipping on cocktails inspired by the show.

Admission is free and is on a first-come, first-served basis. To ensure the seat you want, please feel free to purchase a $5 voucher which can be redeemed for food/beverage during the event.

Holiday Road

Directed by Various

Presented in partnership with Toy Joy.

A comedy anthology film in which thirteen filmmakers each take on a different American holiday. 13 Directors. 12 Holidays. 1 Mind Blowing Cinematic Experience.

This comedic anthology features short films by Todd Berger, Michael Suter, Doug Manley, Bobby Miller, Daron Nefcy, Bill Palmer, Ben Grinell, Ian Eastin, Mary McIlwain, Aaron Arendt, Helena Wei, Andrew Putschoegl, and Dee Austin Robertson.

Before Midnight

Directed by Richard Linklater

In this follow-up to Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, we meet Jesse and Celine nine years later in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.

Directed by Richard Linklater and starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy who also co-wrote the screenplay.

Frances Ha

Directed by Noah Baumbach

A valentine to New York City from acclaimed director Noah Baumbach with a wildly inventive comic performance from Greta Gerwig, who also co-wrote the script. The film follows an aspiring dancer as she attempts to finally become independent in her life and in her career. Greta Gerwig is embraceable, unpredictable and possessed of gifts for physical comedy.

Stories We Tell

Directed by Sarah Polley

In this inspired, genre-twisting new film, Oscar-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who's telling it. Polley is both filmmaker and detective as she investigates the secrets kept by a family of storytellers. She playfully interviews and interrogates a cast of characters of varying reliability, eliciting refreshingly candid, yet mostly contradictory, answers to the same questions. As each relates their version of the family mythology, present-day recollections shift into nostalgia-tinged glimpses of their mother, who departed too soon, leaving a trail of unanswered questions. Polley unravels the paradoxes to reveal the essence of family: always complicated, warmly messy and fiercely loving.

Stories We Tell explores the elusive nature of truth and memory, but at its core is a deeply personal film about how our narratives shape and define us as individuals and families, all interconnecting to paint a profound, funny and poignant picture of the larger human story.

The East

Directed by Zal Batmanglij

Sarah Moss is a brilliant operative for an elite private intelligence firm whose top objective is to ruthlessly protect the interests of their A-list corporate clientele. She is assigned to go undercover to infiltrate an anarchist collective known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations. Living amongst them in an effort to get closer to their members, Sarah finds herself unexpectedly torn between two worlds as she starts to fall in love with the group's charismatic leader, finding her life and her priorities irrevocably changed.

Things To Come

Directed by William Cameron Menzies

A landmark collaboration between writer H. G. Wells, producer Alexander Korda, and designer and director William Cameron Menzies, Things to Come is a science fiction film like no other, a prescient political work that predicts a century of turmoil and progress. Skipping through time, Things to Come bears witness to world war, disease, dictatorship, and, finally, utopia. Conceived, written, and overseen by Wells himself as an adaptation of his own work, this megabudget production, the most ambitious ever from Korda’s London Films, is a triumph of imagination and technical audacity.

This film is part of the ARTHOUSE MONTHLY series presented in partnership with THE CRITERION COLLECTION.

Much Ado About Nothing

Directed by Joss Whedon

Shakespeare's classic comedy is given a contemporary spin in Joss Whedon's film, "Much Ado About Nothing". Shot in just 12 days (and using the original text), the story of sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick offers a dark, sexy and occasionally absurd view of the intricate game that is love.

The Bling Ring

Directed by Sofia Coppola

Inspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the internet to track celebrities' whereabouts in order to rob their homes.

Written and directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Emma Watson, Taissa Farmiga and Israel Broussard.

I'm So Excited

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar

A technical failure has endangered the lives of the people on board Peninsula Flight 2549. The pilots are striving, along with their colleagues in the Control Center, to find a solution. The flight attendants and the chief steward are atypical, baroque characters who, in the face of danger, try to forget their own personal problems and devote themselves body and soul to the task of making the flight as enjoyable as possible for the passengers, while they wait for a solution. Life in the clouds is as complicated as it is at ground level, and for the same reasons, which could be summarized in two: sex and death.

Prince Avalanche

Directed by David Gordon Green

Driven by striking performances from Rudd and Hirsch, Prince Avalanche is an offbeat comedy about two men painting traffic lines on a desolate country highway that's been ravaged by wildfire. Against this dramatic setting, the men bicker and joke with each other, eventually developing an unlikely friendship.

Funny, meditative and at times surreal, Prince Avalanche features a score by Explosions in the Sky and David Wingo.