Arts Agenda: Arthouse Film – November/December 2024

Each week, ArtsATL delivers a critic’s short list of the shows, exhibitions, concerts and events we recommend for the coming weeks within one discipline in the kaleidoscope of Atlanta arts and culture. Every week, we’ll present a different art form.

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Malcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson at Landmark Art Cinema. A brother and sister (Danielle Deadwyler) fight over a family legacy. Adapted from the August Wilson play. Tickets: $15.25 with discounts available.

November 14

Jennifer MacArthur’s Family Tree at Emory Ethics at the Movies. Two North Carolina Black families fight to preserve their land with sustainable forestry. Free with reservation.

November 15

Melissa Alexander’s 360 Degrees of Blackness at Auburn Avenue Research Library. Screening and director’s talk on film based on a 1971 anthology of Black prose and poetry curated by Sonia Sanchez. Free with registration.

November 20

Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild at The Emory Cinematheque. A young girl in the Louisiana bayou navigates environmental disaster and a long-lost mother. Free.

November 21

Atlanta Film Society’s Locals Only: What Haunts You at Tara Atlanta. Short horror films on the big screen from Georgia independent filmmakers. Tickets: $15 plus fees.

November 24

Kiara Barnes’ Black Girls and Fairytales at Tara Atlanta. A short film exploring the impact of colorism and the journey to self-love. Tickets: Pay what you can.

November 26

Stanley J. Williams’ Triggered at Tara Atlanta. Workplace bonding turns to something more troubling in this short film exploring undiagnosed mental illness. Tickets: $12.50-$25.

December 4

Cary Joji Fukunaga’s True Detective at The Emory Cinematheque. Season one of the HBO crime anthology, delving into complex questions of morality, obsession and existential dread. Free.

December 5

Wussy Art House: Poison at Tara Atlanta. A trio of transgressive tales by Todd Haynes in the “queer new wave” cinema tradition. Tickets: $16, with discounts available.

December 7

Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo at Tara Atlanta. See the Hitchcock classic about acrophobia and obsession projected in 70mm. Tickets: $25, with discounts available.

Pairs well with…

Other events you might enjoy.

Shannon McCollum shows decades of photography chronicling Atlanta’s culture and society at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center in Forever I Love Atlanta … Shanequa Gay’s monumental installation Psalms for Black Girls fills the Emma Darnell Aviation Museum and Conference Center (through January 18) … Silkroad Ensemble presents its multi-ethnic tribute, American Railroad at Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts (November 16) … One of the city’s most beloved regular events is Friday Jazz at the High Museum of Art (November 15) … Omelika Kuumba brings a whole new creative direction in Soaring High at ArtsXchange (November 16).

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Next week’s Arts Agenda: Jazz and Blues