Glass + One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

• Friday, August 29 at 1:30pm (Glass) + 4:00pm (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
• Wednesday, September 3 at 6:00pm (Glass) + 8:30pm (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)

Glass
M. Night Shyamalan, 2019, U.S., 129m
M. Night Shyamalan’s close to the Eastrail 177 trilogy is a defiantly low-key chamber thriller set almost entirely within the confines of a psychiatric facility. David Dunn (Bruce Willis), Unbreakable’s quiet vigilante; Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy), whose “split” personas make up the Horde; and Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), the brittle-boned mastermind known as Mr. Glass, come under the watch of a state-appointed psychiatrist (Sarah Paulson) who insists their powers are delusional. What follows isn’t a clash of titans but a tightly wound psychological standoff over belief, perception, and control. Premiering just months before Avengers: Endgame, Glass deliberately countered the genre’s maximalism with practical effects, in-camera stunts, and formal restraint. The result is a tragic finale that doubles as a meditation on authorship in an era of endless franchises, and the cost of surrendering personal vision.

Followed by:

New 4K Restoration
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Miloš Forman, 1975, U.S., 135m
Miloš Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest remains one of the defining works of New Hollywood cinema, a fiercely acted and unsparingly observed chamber drama set within a psych ward. Jack Nicholson’s McMurphy, a swaggering trickster figure, clashes with the institution’s quiet tyrant, Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher), in a battle not just of wills, but of worldviews: chaos versus order, freedom versus conformity. Forman’s film transforms its clinical setting into a crucible of psychological warfare, where belief, identity, and dissent are pathologized. With a devastating final turn and an unforgettable supporting cast (Danny DeVito, Brad Dourif, Christopher Lloyd), it’s a tragic portrait of resistance in the face of institutional control.