A SECONDFEB. 16 — MAR. 20

INCREDIBLES 2Sat, Feb 16, 11:00 a.m.; Sun, Feb 17, 11:00 a.m. - Tickets $5! Golden Globe® nomination for Best Animated FeatureWinner of the National Board of Review’s Best Animated Feature Award and nominated for a whopping 11 Annie Awards, INCREDIBLES 2 is a firm Oscar® favorite. Everyone’s favorite family of superheroes is back — but this time Helen (Holly Hunter) is in the spotlight, leaving Bob (Craig T. Nelson) at home with Violet (Sarah Vowell) and Dash (Huck Milner) to navigate the day-to-day heroics of “normal” life. It’s a tough transition for everyone, made tougher by the fact that the family is still unaware of baby Jack-Jack’s emerging superpowers.. DIR/SCR Brad Bird; PROD Nicole Paradis Grindle, John Walker. U.S., 2018, color, 118 min. RATED PG BLACKKKLANSMANSat, Feb 16, 9:30; Mon, Feb 18, 7:15 An AFI AWARDS 2018 Honoree | Four Golden Globe® nominations: Best Picture – Drama, Best Director, Best Actor – Drama and Best Supporting Actor After wowing international audiences at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize, BLACKKKLANSMAN is now firmly positioned as an Oscar® frontrunner. Spike Lee’s latest joint is a daring retelling of the stranger-than-fiction tale of Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), the first African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department — and the first to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan. Teaming up with colleague Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), Stallworth aims to take down the extremist hate group just as it is attempting to sanitize its violent rhetoric to appeal to the mainstream. DIR/SCR/PROD Spike Lee; SCR Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, from the book “Black Klansman” by Ron Stallworth; PROD Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Sean McKittrick, Jordan Peele, Shaun Redick. U.S., 2018, color, 135 min. RATED R

So many movies, so little time — but you can get caught up with some of the past year’s very best with our series “2018: A Second Look.” Most of these titles did not previously screen at AFI Silver; others are returning by popular demand. With this season’s award nominations, year-end best-of lists and hindsight as your guide, take a second look at some of the past year’s most distinctive films.

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MINDING THE GAPSun, Feb 17, 7:15; Thurs, Feb 21, 7:15Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, the Audience Award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and among the National Board of Review’s top five documentaries of 2018, MINDING THE GAP is a rare example of a film uniting critics and audiences across the board with its technical skill and flawless storytelling. Filmed over a decade in the lives of three best friends, this arresting debut documentary about a group of Rust Belt skaters explores everything from domestic violence to absent fathers to racial identity, all with an empathetic eye toward its subjects. Director Bing Liu weaves his stunning cinematography with intimate footage to profile Zack as he becomes a father, Keire as he gets his first job and himself as he finds his voice as a filmmaker and comes to grips with his tumultuous childhood. Named Best Documentary of 2018 by the Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and Vancouver film critics’ associations, this portrait is as beautiful in its visuals as it is in its emotional exploration. DIR/SCR/PROD Bing Liu; PROD Diane Moy Quon. U.S., 2018, color, 93 min. NOT RATED

THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGSSun, Feb 17, 9:30; Wed, Feb 20, 7:15Winner of the Best Screenplay award at the 2018 Venice Film Festival, the Coen brothers’ endlessly surprising Western anthology boasts a star-studded cast (Liam Neeson, James Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Brendan Gleeson, Tyne Daly, Stephen Root, Harry Melling, Tom Waits, Zoe Kazan) and an epic aesthetic that demands to be seen on the big screen. Ranging from absurd to profound, six distinct vignettes follow the adventures of several outlaws and settlers on the American frontier — a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling toward an uncertain future and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride. DIR/SCR/PROD Joel Coen, Ethan Coen; PROD Megan Ellison, Robert Graf, Sue Naegle. U.S., 2018, color, 133 min. RATED R

FIRST REFORMEDTue, Feb 19, 9:00; Thurs, Feb 21, 9:15 An AFI AWARDS 2018 HonoreeNominated for four Film Independent Spirit Awards and winner of the Best Screenplay and Best Actor prizes at the 2018 Gotham and New York Film Critics Circle Awards, FIRST REFORMED has emerged as a dark horse in this year’s packed Oscar® race. Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) is a solitary, middle-aged parish pastor at a small Dutch Reformed church in upstate New York. Once a stop on the Underground Railroad, the church is now a tourist attraction catering to a dwindling congregation and eclipsed by its nearby parent church. When a pregnant parishioner (Amanda Seyfried) asks Reverend Toller to counsel her husband, a radical environmentalist, the clergyman finds himself plunged into his own tormented past, and equally despairing future. DIR/SCR Paul Schrader; PROD Jack Binder, Greg Clark, Gary Hamilton, Victoria Hill, David Hinojosa, Frank Murray, Deepak Sikka, Christine Vachon. U.S., 2017, color, 113 min. RATED R

A STAR IS BORN (2018)Fri, Feb 22, 4:20; Sat, Feb 23, 11:00 a.m.; Sun, Feb 24, 11:00 a.m.An AFI AWARDS 2018 Honoree | Golden Globe® winner, Best Original Song In A STAR IS BORN, Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga fuse their considerable talents to depict the raw and passionate tale of Jack and Ally, two artistic souls coming together, on stage and in life. In this new take on the iconic love story, four-time Oscar® nominee Cooper (AMERICAN HUSTLE; AMERICAN SNIPER; SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK), makes his directorial debut, and also stars alongside multiple-award-winning, Oscar®-nominated music superstar Gaga in her first leading role in a major motion picture. Cooper portrays seasoned musician Jackson Maine, who discovers and falls in love with struggling artist Ally (Gaga). DIR/SCR/PROD Bradley Cooper; SCR Eric Roth, Will Fetters; PROD Bill Gerber, Lynette Howell Taylor, Jon Peters, Todd Phillips. U.S., 2018, color, 136 min. RATED R

SUSPIRIA (2018)Fri, Feb 22, 9:45; Mon, Feb 25, 7:15 Oscar®-nominated director Luca Guadagnino’s (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, I AM LOVE) daring reinterpretation of Dario Argento’s horror classic stars Dakota Johnson as young American dancer Susie Bannion. When Bannion arrives in 1970s Berlin to audition for the world-renowned Helena Markos Dance Company, she stuns the troupe’s famed choreographer, Madame Blanc (Tilda Swinton), with her raw talent. Meanwhile, an inquisitive psychotherapist trying to uncover the company’s dark secrets enlists the help of another dancer (Mia Goth), who probes the depths of the studio’s hidden underground chambers, where horrific discoveries await. Featuring a haunting soundtrack by Thom Yorke and a stunning triple performance by Swinton (see if you can spot her!), SUSPIRIA became one of the most talked-about highbrow horror films of 2018. DIR/PROD Luca Guadagnino; SCR/PROD David Kajganich; PROD Bradley J. Fischer, Francesco Melzi d’Eril, Marco Morabito, Gabriele Moratti, William Sherak, Silvia Venturini Fendi. Italy/U.S., 2018, color, 152 min. In English, German and French with English subtitles. RATED R

ROMA (2018)Sat, Feb 23, 4:20; Sun, Feb 24, 4:20; Wed, Feb 27, 6:30 (Montgomery College @ AFI show)An AFI AWARDS 2018 Special Award HonoreeGolden Globe® winner, Best Director and Best Foreign Language Motion Picture A frontrunner for this year’s Best Picture, Best Director and Best Foreign Language Film Oscars®, ROMA is the most personal project to date from Academy Award®-winning director and writer Alfonso Cuarón (CHILDREN OF MEN, GRAVITY, Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN). Following Cleo (breakout star Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City, Cuarón delivers an artful love letter to the women who raised him, drawing on his own childhood to create a vivid and emotional portrait of domestic strife and social hierarchy amidst the political turmoil of the 1970s. DIR/SCR/PROD Alfonso Cuarón; PROD Nicolás Celis, Gabriela Rodriguez. Mexico/U.S., 2018, b&w, 135 min. RATED R

VOX LUXTue, Feb 26, 9:20; Wed, Feb 27, 9:45 Brady Corbet’s follow-up to his 2015 breakout debut THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER is the deliciously dark flipside to A STAR IS BORN — a glorious examination of the cult of celebrity and the media machine in all its guts, grit and glory. In 1999, teenage Celeste (Raffey Cassidy) survives a violent tragedy. After singing at a memorial service, Celeste transforms into a burgeoning pop star with the help of her songwriter sister (Stacy Martin) and a talent manager (Jude Law). By 2017, adult Celeste (Natalie Portman) — now a global superstar — is mounting a comeback after a scandalous incident that derailed her career. DIR/SCR Brady Corbet; PROD D.J. Gugenheim, David Hinojosa, Andrew Lauren, David Litvak, Michel Litvak, Svetlana Metkina, Robert Salerno, Christine Vachon, Gary Michael Walters, Brian Young. U.S., 2018, color, 114 min. RATED R

2018 Oscar® Selection, South KoreaBURNING (2018)Sat, Mar 2, 11:00 a.m.; Mon, Mar 4, 7:00 Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival and shortlisted for this year’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar®, Lee Chang-dong’s (POETRY, SECRET SUNSHINE) BURNING is a searing examination of an alienated young man, Jong-su (Yoo Ah-in), an introvert whose already difficult life is complicated by the appearance of two people into his orbit: first, Hae-mi (Jeon Jong-seo), a spirited woman who offers romantic possibility, and then Ben (Steven Yeun, SORRY TO BOTHER YOU), a wealthy and sophisticated young man she returns from a trip with. When Jong-su learns of Ben’s mysterious hobby and Hae-mi disappears, his confusion and obsessions begin to mount. DIR/SCR/PROD Lee Chang-dong; SCR Oh Jung-mi, from the story “Barn Burning” by Haruki Murakami; PROD Lee Joon-dong, Ok Gwang-hee. South Korea, 2018, color, 148 min. In Korean with English subtitles. NOT RATED

LEAVE NO TRACESun, Mar 3, 11:45 a.m.; Wed, Mar 6, 6:30 (Montgomery College @ AFI show)Nominated for three Film Independent Spirit Awards, and winner of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Director Award, as well as the National Board of Review’s Breakthrough Performance Award (Thomasin McKenzie), LEAVE NO TRACE is the rare film that unites critics and audiences. Will (Ben Foster) and his teenage daughter, Tom (McKenzie), have lived off the grid for years in the forests of Portland, Oregon. When their idyllic life is shattered, both are put into social services. After clashing with their new surroundings, Will and Tom set off on a harrowing journey back to their wild homeland. Academy Award®-nominated director Debra Granik (WINTER’S BONE) returns for her first narrative feature since discovering Jennifer Lawrence in 2010 with a young lead who delivers an equally powerful breakout performance. DIR/SCR Debra Granik; SCR/PROD Anne Rosellini, from the novel “My Abandonment” by Peter Rock; PROD Anne Harrison, Linda Reisman. U.S., 2018, color, 109 min. RATED PG

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