Community Screening Schedule
The full schedule for our new series of Free Community Screenings at the Borrego Springs Performing Arts Center is below. We want to give a big thanks to our partner, the Borrego Valley Endowment Fund, for underwriting the entire season.
WEDNESDAY, APR. 8, 7PM | 2025 | Rated R | 2h 43m | Bob is a washed-up revolutionary who lives in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited and self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces and Willa goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her as both father and daughter battle the consequences of their pasts.
WEDNESDAY, APR. 22, 7PM | 1943 | NR | 1h 15m | The Ox-Bow Incident is an American Western film directed by William A. Wellman, written by Lamar Trotti, and based on the novel of the same name by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. The film stars Henry Fonda and Dana Andrews, with Harry Morgan, Harry Davenport, Anthony Quinn, and Mary Beth Hughes. The story begins in a small town in Nevada, in 1885, where it is learned that a local rancher has been murdered. The townspeople immediately form a large posse and set out to pursue the murderers. That night, they find three men sleeping with what are presumed to be stolen cattle nearby. The posse interrogate them, and the men claim that they purchased the cattle but received no bill of sale. No one believes them, and the posse decide to hang the men at sunrise. When dissent develops among some members of the group, a vote is taken on whether to hang the trio or take them to town to stand trial, but the majority support a hanging. After the lynching, they return to town, and on the way, they encounter the town’s sheriT, who reveals the rancher is not dead and the men who shot him have been arrested. The Ox-Bow Incident is one of the earliest films to be called a psychological Western, because of its strong themes of morality and the rule of law. It received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture in 1943 but lost to Casablanca. In 1998, the film was selected for preservation in the United States Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 7PM | 1980 | Rated R | 2h 4m | Tormented by guilt following the death of his older brother, Buck, in a sailing accident, alienated teenager Conrad Jarrett (Timothy Hutton) attempts suicide. Returning home following an extended stay in a psychiatric hospital, Conrad tries to deal with his mental anguish and also reconnect with his mother, Beth (Mary Tyler Moore), who has grown cold and angry, and his emotionally wounded father, Calvin (Donald Sutherland), with the help of his psychiatrist, Dr. Berger (Judd Hirsch).
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 7PM | 1996 | NR | 1h 44m | A writer believes the key to solving his many troubles with the opposite sex can be found by retracing the steps of his youth. Science-fiction scribe John Henderson (Albert Brooks) can’t find a solid relationship, so he moves back in with his mother, Beatrice (Debbie Reynolds). John means well, and he seems to genuinely believe that a better understanding of his mom will lead to dating success. But when they begin to bicker, both start rethinking the arrangement.
WEDNESDAY, JUN. 3, 7PM | 1962 | NR | 2h 23m | Toshirō Mifune stars as a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a ruthless kidnapper in Akira Kurosawa’s exemplary film noir. Based on Ed McBain’s detective novel “King’s Ransom” & ”High and Low” is both a riveting thriller and a brilliant commentary on contemporary Japanese society. In Japanese with English Subtitles.
WEDNESDAY, JUN. 17, 7PM | 2024 | Rated R | 1h 37m | Pansy, angry and depressed, lashes out at family and strangers. Her constant criticism isolates her, except from her cheerful sister Chantelle, who remains sympathetic despite their differences.
WEDNESDAY, JUN. 17, 7PM
WEDNESDAY, JUL. 15, 7PM | 1940 | NR | 1h 22m | In a dive south of the border, bartender Dan McGinty (Brian Donlevy) stops a young man from committing suicide after a moment of dishonesty, and relates how a moment of honesty brought him down in a flashback. As a young man, McGinty joins a crooked political boss and rises from extortionist to alderman. Urged by the boss to marry his secretary to give respectability to his run for mayor, McGinty agrees -- only to fall in love with his wife and decide to do an honest thing for once in his life.
WEDNESDAY, JUL. 29, 7PM | 1998 | Rated R | 2h 1m | While in the woods near their small town, upstanding local Hank Mitchell (Bill Paxton), his dim brother Jacob (Billy Bob Thornton) and their friend Lou (Brent Briscoe) discover a crashed plane with two things in it -- a dead pilot, and a stash of more than four million dollars. Although Hank is reluctant to keep the money, Jacob and Lou convince him otherwise, and they devise a plan to split the fortune. Things quickly go wrong, however, dramatically affecting the trio and those around them.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 12, 7PM | 2018 | Rated R | 1h 47m | Lee Israel is a frustrated, hard-drinking author who can barely afford to pay her rent or bills in the 1990s New York. Desperate for money, Israel soon hatches a scheme to forge letters by famous writers and sell them to bookshops and collectors. When the dealers start to catch on, Lee recruits a dubious friend to help her continue her self-destructive cycle of trickery and deceit.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 26, 7PM | 1974 | Rated R | 2h 10m | When Los Angeles private eye J.J. Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) is hired by Evelyn Mulwray to investigate her husband’s activities, he believes it’s a routine infidelity case. Jake’s investigation soon becomes anything but routine when he meets the real Mrs. Mulwray (Faye Dunaway) and realizes he was hired by an imposter. Mr. Mulwray’s sudden death sets Gittes on a tangled trail of corruption, deceit and sinister family secrets as Evelyn’s father (John Huston) becomes a suspect in the case.
WEDNESDAY, SEP. 9, 7PM | 2004 | Rated R | 1h 41m | Seventeen-year-old Colombian Maria (Catalina Sandino Moreno) is desperate: pregnant and with a large family to care for, she’s forced to leave a demanding job after an altercation with her boss. Needing work as soon as possible, she encounters charming Franklin (John Álex Toro), who offers her a dangerous job as a drug mule. With cocaine pellets in her stomach, Maria flies to New York for the drug drop-off, but finds her new line of work may be far riskier than it initially seemed. In English and Spanish with English subtitles.
WEDNESDAY, SEP. 23, 7PM | 1948 | Not Rated | 2h 6m | In this classic adventure film, two rough-and-tumble wanderers, Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) and Curtin (Tim Holt), meet up with a veteran prospector, Howard (Walter Huston), in Mexico and head into the Sierra Madre mountains to find gold. Although they discover treasure, they also find plenty of trouble, not only from ruthless bandits lurking in the dangerous Mexican wilderness but from their own insecurities and greed, which threaten to bring conflict at any moment.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7, 7PM | 1955 | Not Rated | 1h 47m | In this classic of French suspense, the cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, becomes the target of a murder plot hatched by an unlikely duo — his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women, brought together by their mutual hatred for the man, pull off the crime but become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle’s corpse mysteriously disappears. In French with English subtitles.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 21, 7PM | 2023 | Rated R | 2h 21m | Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 4, 7PM | 1987 | Rated G | 1h 42m | Beautiful but pious sisters Martine (Birgitte Federspiel) and Philippa (Bodil Kjer) grow to spinsterhood under the wrathful eye of their strict pastor father on the forbidding and desolate coast of Jutland, until one day, Philippa’s former suitor sends a Parisian refugee named Babette (Stéphane Audran) to serve as the family cook. Babette’s lavish celebratory banquet tempts the family’s dwindling congregation, who abjure such fleshly pleasures as fine foods and wines. In French, Danish, and Swedish with English subtitles.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 18, 7PM | 1997 | Rated R | 1h 27m | Eliza D’Amico’s (Hope Davis) seemingly idyllic marriage to Louis (Stanley Tucci) changes dramatically when she discovers what she believes to be a love letter to him from someone else.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 2, 7PM | 1945 | Not Rated | 1h 26m | Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard). Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16, 7PM | 2023 | Rated R | 2h 13m | A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school remains on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere to go. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school’s head cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 30, 7PM | 1934 | Not Rated | 1h 33m | The story of a retired detective who, while spending much of his time managing his wife’s considerable fortune and consuming quantities of alcohol, is asked to follow the trail of a missing inventor. Although reluctant to interrupt his holiday in Manhattan, he is persuaded to investigate by his wife’s craving for adventure, and together they embark upon a case that leads to the disclosure of deception and murder.