Theater Diaries: Ross Theater (Lincoln, Nebraska)
by HBSmith_Critic | created - 19 Apr 2023 | updated - 3 weeks ago | Public• 21 films total
• Short films
• Filmmaking
• Film festivals
• Preview screening of The Vietnam War (PBS and Nebraska Public Media)
Years
• 2014: 1
• 2017: 4–5
• 2018: 3 (Including events with Cinema 16; one event featured my short film Keeping Up With the Times)
(In July 2018, I originally planned to attend a screening of Yellow Submarine (1968), but tickets were sold out.)
• 2019: 8 (Including February 13, 2019: Live-Action Oscar Shorts, 2018) (Including events with Cinema 16)
• 2020: 1 (February 2020: Live-Action Oscar Shorts, 2019)
• 2023: 3–4 (No Man's Land Film Festival, November 10)
• 2024: 3
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1. Remission (I) (2014)
90 min | Drama, Horror
The Reverend Joseph Barnaby lost his church, his home, his wife and his faith. Driven by hope he is seeking his redemption. Will anyone listen?
Directors: Tyler Schmid, Joshua Weixelman | Stars: Eric Moyer, Derek Cook, Chianna, Michelle Schrage
Votes: 30
September 2014
2014 release
2. Julieta (2016)
R | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
After a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events involving her estranged daughter.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Emma Suárez, Adriana Ugarte, Daniel Grao, Inma Cuesta
Votes: 33,910 | Gross: $1.49M
March 22, 2017
2016 release
3. The Sense of an Ending (2017)
PG-13 | 108 min | Drama, Mystery
A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.
Director: Ritesh Batra | Stars: Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, Michelle Dockery
Votes: 7,324 | Gross: $1.24M
April 5, 2017
2017 release
4. Colossal (2016)
R | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Gloria is an out-of-work party girl forced to leave her life in New York City and move back home. When reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, she gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this phenomenon.
Director: Nacho Vigalondo | Stars: Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Austin Stowell, Tim Blake Nelson
Votes: 69,164 | Gross: $3.02M
May 11, 2017
2016 film; 2017 release
5. The Vietnam War (2017)
TV-MA | 99 min | Documentary, History, War
A comprehensive history of the United States' involvement in the bitterly divisive armed conflict in Southeast Asia.
Stars: Peter Coyote, Huy Duc, James Willbanks, Duong Van Mai Elliott
Votes: 27,971
September 11, 2017
Advanced screening of select episodes
Q&A session with Nebraska veterans
6. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
R | 115 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit.
Director: Martin McDonagh | Stars: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Caleb Landry Jones
Votes: 554,877 | Gross: $54.51M
December 20, 2017
7. The Breadwinner (2017)
PG-13 | 94 min | Animation, Drama, Family
In 2001, Afghanistan is under the control of the Taliban. When her father is captured, a determined young girl disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
Director: Nora Twomey | Stars: Saara Chaudry, Soma Chhaya, Noorin Gulamgaus, Laara Sadiq
Votes: 28,220 | Gross: $0.31M
February 24, 2018
2017 release
8. Final Portrait (2017)
R | 90 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The story of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti.
Director: Stanley Tucci | Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer, Tony Shalhoub, Sylvie Testud
Votes: 6,071 | Gross: $0.46M
May 6, 2018
2017 release
9. Wildlife (2018)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama
A teenage boy must deal with his mother's complicated response after his father temporarily abandons them to take a menial and dangerous job.
Director: Paul Dano | Stars: Ed Oxenbould, Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan, Travis W Bruyer
Votes: 31,379 | Gross: $1.03M
November 27, 2018
2018 release
10. At Eternity's Gate (2018)
PG-13 | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History
A look at the life of painter Vincent van Gogh during the time he lived in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France.
Director: Julian Schnabel | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen
Votes: 39,989 | Gross: $2.29M
January 13, 2019
2018 release
11. Burning (2018)
Not Rated | 148 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Jong-su bumps into a girl who used to live in the same neighborhood, who asks him to look after her cat while she's on a trip to Africa. When back, she introduces Ben, a mysterious guy she met there, who confesses his secret hobby.
Director: Lee Chang-dong | Stars: Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun, Jeon Jong-seo, Kim Soo-Kyung
Votes: 76,291 | Gross: $0.72M
February 2, 2019
2018 release
12. The Mustang (2019)
R | 96 min | Drama
While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront his violent past as he soothes an especially feisty horse.
Director: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre | Stars: Matthias Schoenaerts, Jason Mitchell, Bruce Dern, Gideon Adlon
Votes: 14,480 | Gross: $5.04M
April 29, 2019
2019 release
13. The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
R | 121 min | Drama
A young man searches for home in the changing city that seems to have left him behind.
Director: Joe Talbot | Stars: Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, Rob Morgan, Tichina Arnold
Votes: 21,957 | Gross: $4.52M
August 4, 2019
2019 release
14. Apocalypse Now (1979)
R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, War
A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest
Votes: 710,012 | Gross: $83.47M
Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut (2019)
August 30, 2019
1979 film; 2019 re-release
15. Greener Grass (2019)
Unrated | 95 min | Comedy
Suburban soccer moms find themselves constantly competing against each other in their personal lives as their kids settle their differences on the field.
Directors: Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe | Stars: Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe, Beck Bennett, Neil Casey
Votes: 5,618
November 11, 2019
2019 release
16. Parasite (2019)
R | 132 min | Drama, Thriller
Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly-formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-sik
Votes: 958,868 | Gross: $53.37M
December 4, 2019
2019 release
17. EO (2022)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama
Follows a donkey who encounters on his journeys good and bad people, experiences joy and pain, exploring a vision of modern Europe through his eyes.
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski | Stars: Hola, Tako, Marietta, Ettore
Votes: 14,415
February 8, 2023
2022 release
18. The Quiet Girl (2022)
PG-13 | 95 min | Drama
In rural Ireland, a quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer where she blossoms and learns what it is to be loved.
Director: Colm Bairéad | Stars: Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett, Catherine Clinch, Michael Patric
Votes: 22,115
March 28, 2023
2022 release
19. Stay Awake (2022)
94 min | Drama
Confronting a serious and common problem of rural families across the country with human mix of humor and levity.
Director: Jamie Sisley | Stars: Wyatt Oleff, Fin Argus, Chrissy Metz, Cree
Votes: 317
July 6, 2023
Premiered in 2022
20. Monster (2023)
PG-13 | 127 min | Drama, Thriller
A mother demands answers from her son's teacher when her son begins acting strangely.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Sakura Andô, Eita Nagayama, Soya Kurokawa, Hinata Hiiragi
Votes: 20,872
January 17, 2024
2023 release
21. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023)
PG | 92 min | Drama
A decades-spanning exploration of a woman's life in Mississippi and an ode to the generations of people, places, and ineffable moments that shape us.
Director: Raven Jackson | Stars: Kaylee Nicole Johnson, Chris Chalk, Jayah Henry, Sheila Atim
Votes: 981
February 6, 2024
2023 release
22. The Arc of Oblivion (2023)
105 min | Documentary
The Arc of Oblivion illuminates the strange world of archives, record-keeping, and memory through a filmmaker's quixotic quest to build an ark in Maine.
Director: Ian Cheney
Votes: 37
March 30, 2024
2023 release
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