Discover exceptional storytelling, new releases, documentaries, restored classics, foreign and art films at Tivoli. Curated by Jerry Harrington, the Nelson-Atkins is honored to be the home of the beloved theater.
THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL
Directed by: LUIS BUNUEL
In Spanish with English Subtitles
1962, Mexico, NR, 95 mins.
Screen dates:
Friday, March 24, 2023 | 7p.m.
Sunday, March 26, 2023 | 2 p.m.
Location: Atkins Auditorium
Tickets On Sale 02/21/23: $10 Public +fee | $7 Members +fee
A group of bourgeois cosmopolitans are invited to a mansion and inexplicably find themselves unable to leave. A head scratching though amusing display of the influence of surrealism on film culture. Bunuel was one of the original motley band of artists that created a manifesto of Surrealism. The master filmmaker used classical and traditional film technique to create a world that seemed normal but becomes more unsettling and stranger as the film reveals itself.
Cannes Film Festival, Palme d’Or nominee 1962.
The Exterminating Angel is screened in celebration of the exhibit Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure, to highlight the sculptor’s work as a surrealist and his association with Sartre and the Existentialists.
THE LUNCHBOX
Directed by: Ritesh Batra
In India/English with English Subtitles
2013, PG, Color, 104 minutes.
Screen dates:
Friday, April 21, 2023 | 7p.m.
Sunday, April 23, 2023 | 2 p.m.
Location: Atkins Auditorium
Tickets On Sale 02/21/23: $10 Public +fee | $7 Members +fee
This charming and restrained film, set in Mumbai, revolves around a mistaken delivery by the Dabbawallas (lunchbox service) of Mumbai, which leads to a friendship between Saajan, a lonely widower close to retirement, and Ila, an unhappy housewife, as they start exchanging notes through the daily lunchbox.
“What do we live for?” is the question that pops up in The Lunchbox, a romance set in Mumbai. The film, a first feature from Ritesh Batra, aims to offer a meaningful answer: We live, ideally, for love.” – Steven Rea, film critic, Philadelphia Inquirer
This Tivoli film is being screened in celebration with the Passport to India Performances, taking place at the museum on April 16, 2023.
the passenger
Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni
Screen dates:
Friday, May 19, 2023 | 7p.m.
Sunday, May 21, 2023 | 2 p.m.
Location: Atkins Auditorium
Tickets On Sale 02/21/23: $10 Public +fee | $7 Members +fee
In English with English Subtitles
1975, PG, 119 mins.
The great modernist filmmaker creates an enigmatic film about a war correspondent who assumes the identity of a dead man while in Morocco and using a new passport and papers chooses to live out the life as the dead man no matter where it leads. The film stars the then immensely famous Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider who give a Hollywood sheen to a mysterious film that is visually one of the most important of the 70’s.
“Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger. Like all of Antonioni’s films, The Passenger uses space, emptiness and architecture to create a sense of spiritual longing in an existential void. The film’s final scene is considered to be one of the great cinematic achievements in the history of the medium.” -Mark Campbell, musician/writer, Dangerous Minds
To celebrate the new exhibit of Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure, the Tivoli at Nelson-Atkins presents The Passenger. This film correlates to the sculptor’s work as a surrealist and his association with Sartre and the Existentialists.
About
Shortly after The Tivoli theater closed its doors in Westport, former theater owner Jerry Harrington approached the Nelson-Atkins with an innovative idea. With a little work, the museum’s beautiful and historic Atkins Auditorium could transform into an arthouse theater and become the new home for Tivoli Cinemas. Jerry himself would lend his film and audience expertise and curate a compelling programming plan.
Thanks to the visionary leadership of The Sunderland Foundation, Shirley and Barnett C. Helzberg, Jr., Neil D. Karbank, Estelle and Morton Sosland, G. Kenneth and Ann Baum, Evelyn Craft Belger and Dick Belger, Robert & Phyliss Bernstein Family Foundation, Donald J. Hall, Sara and Bill Morgan, and Mark and Lynne O’Connell Tivoli at the Nelson-Atkins was created.
Tivoli Under the Stars
Experience films in an unparalleled setting! Tivoli Under the Stars is an outdoor cinema providing safe movie experiences for all ages.