The Culver Screening Series brings foreign, independent, experimental, documentary, and exemplary Hollywood film to Riverside. The films screened at the Culver are marked by their aesthetic innovation and their capacity to provoke thought and dialogue about issues affecting local, national, and global communities. The Culver Screening Series aims to be the gathering point for Riverside and the inland region for filmmakers, scholars, students, and the film-going community.
All Films
Hell-Bound Train
October 13th
Free Admission! With an introduction by and conversation with Dr. Elyse Ambrose (UCR, Dept. of Religion). “HELL-BOUND TRAIN is the work of self-taught filmmakers James and...
Manzanar Diverted
October 14th
Free Admission! Screening of the festival version of Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust (with Spanish subtitles), and launch of the Manzanar, Diverted Augmented Reality visual sound bath. Before the screening, Alexander...
Def by Temptation
October 20th
Free Admission! With an introduction by and conversation with Director James Bond III & John Jennings! “Joel grew up in the church but has recently started...
Sweetheart
October 21st
Free Admission! With an introduction by and conversation with Dr. Jalondra Davis! A woman washes ashore a small uninhabited island after an accident. The situation turns...
Candyman
October 27th
Free Admission! With an introduction by and conversation with Jasmine Moore (PhD candidate, English, UCR) and Keith Harris (English, UCR). For as long as residents can...
Nope
October 28th
Free Admission! With an introduction by and conversation with Dr. Mikal Gaines (English, Mass. College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences) and Dr. Courtney R. Baker (English,...
RCC Student Film Festival 2023
November 2nd
See student films from the Film, Television, and Video Department at Riverside City College. Free admission! The screening is at capacity. Unclaimed tickets will be released...
Born in Flames
November 3rd
Free admission! The movie that rocked the foundations of the early Indie film world, this provocative, thrilling classic is a fantasy of female rebellion set in...
The Janes
November 4th
Free admission! In the spring of 1972, police raided an apartment on the South Side of Chicago where seven women who were part of a clandestine...
Soul
December 2nd
Free admission! Joe Gardner (voiced by Jamie Foxx) – a middle-school band teacher who gets the chance of a lifetime to play at the best jazz...
Past Lives
September 29th through September 30th
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in...
LYNCH/OZ
September 22nd through September 24th
The themes, images, and cultural vernacular of Victor Fleming’s The Wizard of Oz continue to haunt David Lynch’s art and filmography—from his very first short, The...
CatVideoFest 2023
September 16th through September 17th
CatVideoFest is a compilation reel of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic...
The Eight Mountains
September 9th through September 10th
An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery, The Eight Mountains is a landmark cinematic experience as intimate as it is monumental, as deep as it is...
Gods of Mexico
September 2nd
The August 20th screening, previously cancelled due to Tropical Storm Hilary, has been rescheduled for September 2nd. With visually stunning landscapes and immersive sound, GODS...
Claydream
August 26th through August 27th
Known as the “Father of Claymation,” Will Vinton revolutionized the animation business during the 1980s and 90s, creating such iconic characters as the California Raisins and...
Showing Up
August 11th through August 13th
A sculptor preparing to open a new show must balance her creative life with the daily dramas of family and friends, in Kelly Reichardt’s vibrant and...
Off the Block 2023 on the Screen!
August 5th through August 5th
Free admission! Join us to celebrate the films of Off the Block 2023! Now in its 14th year, OFF THE BLOCK is an annual month-long summer...
Close
July 22nd through July 23rd
Leo and Remi are two thirteen-year-old best friends, whose seemingly unbreakable bond is suddenly, tragically torn apart. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes...
Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour 2023
July 1st through July 16th
The 2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour presented by Shutterstock is an 90-minute theatrical program of seven short films curated from the 2023 Sundance Film...
You Hurt My Feelings
June 23rd through June 25th
From acclaimed filmmaker Nicole Holofcener comes a sharply observed comedy about a novelist whose long standing marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband give...
Rewind & Play
June 16th through June 18th
In December 1969, legendary jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk ended his European concert tour with a performance at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. Before the...
Walk Up
June 9th through June 11th
In his ninth film for Hong Sangsoo, Kwon Haehyo plays Byungsoo, a film director who goes with his daughter Jeongsu (Park Miso), an aspiring interior designer,...
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
June 2nd through June 3rd
A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline in this taut and timely thriller that is part high-stakes heist,...
Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV
May 26th through May 28th
The father of video art and coiner of the term “electronic superhighway,” Nam June Paik was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century....
Fanny: The Right to Rock
May 12th
Free admission! A live performance by Fanny bandmates with Q&A — including filmmaker Bobbi Jo Hart — will follow the screening. Revivify Fanny. And I will...
Sansón and Me
May 5th through May 6th
During his day job as a Spanish criminal interpreter in a small town in California, filmmaker Rodrigo Reyes (499) met a young man named Sansón, an...
No Bears
April 21st through April 23rd
One of the world’s great cinematic artists, Jafar Panahi has been carefully crafting self-reflexive works about artistic, personal, and political freedom for the past three decades,...
Godland
April 28th through April 30th
The struggle between the strictures of religion and our own brute animal nature plays out amid the beautifully forbidding landscapes of remote Iceland in this stunning...
Adios Amor: The Search for Maria Moreno
March 31st
Free admission! Please note that screenings at UCR ARTS are overbooked. A reservation does not guarantee admission. Please arrive early to ensure a seat. A discussion...
Is It Really So Strange?
March 18th
Free admission! The screening will be followed by a conversation between filmmaker William E. Jones and Richard T. Rodríguez, Professor of English and Media and Cultural...
The Eternal Daughter
March 10th through March 12th
Free admission! No reservations are required. Seating is first come, first serve. An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a...
Everything Everywhere All at Once
March 2nd through March 5th
Free admission! No reservations are required. Seating is first come, first serve. Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, the film is...
Geographies of Solitude
February 25th through February 26th
An immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island, a remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic, the film follows Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and...
The Inspection
February 17th through February 19th
In Elegance Bratton’s deeply moving film inspired by his own story, a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his...
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
February 10th through February 12th
Rescheduled from January 20th. Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally...
Song of Salt
February 4th
Free admission! A Q&A with the filmmakers will follow the screening. Set in an isolated mining town on the outskirts of Death Valley, Song of Salt...
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
February 3rd
Free Admission! Culture critic and historian Elvis Mitchell traces the evolution — and revolution — of Black cinema from its origins to the impactful films of...
EO
January 27th through January 29th
With his first film in seven years, legendary director Jerzy Skolimowski (Deep End, Moonlighting) directs one of his most free and visually inventive films yet, following...
Aftersun
January 13th through January 15th
At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal). As a world of adolescence creeps...
Beauty and the Beast
December 17th through December 18th
Jean Cocteau’s sublime adaptation of Mme. Leprince de Beaumont’s fairy-tale masterpiece—in which the pure love of a beautiful girl melts the heart of a feral but...
Monterey Pop
December 10th through December 11th
On a beautiful June weekend in 1967, at the beginning of the Summer of Love, the first Monterey International Pop Festival roared forward, capturing a decade’s...
Soul Boys of the Western World
December 3rd
This screening will be introduced by Richard T. Rodríguez, Professor of English and Media and Cultural Studies at UC Riverside and author of A Kiss across the...
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song
November 18th through November 19th
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song is a definitive exploration of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, Hallelujah....
Dos Estaciones
October 28th
Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Dos Estaciones follows iron-willed businesswoman María García (Teresa Sánchez), the owner of Dos Estaciones, a...
The Nightmare Before Christmas
October 30th
The film follows the misadventures of Jack Skellington, Halloweentown’s beloved pumpkin king, who has become bored with the same annual routine of frightening people in the...
Daisies
November 12th through November 13th
Maybe the New Wave’s most anarchic entry, Věra Chytilová’s absurdist farce follows the misadventures of two brash young women. Believing the world to be “spoiled,” they...
The Territory (Virtual Screening)
November 4th through November 6th
THE TERRITORY provides an immersive look at the tireless fight of the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people against the encroaching deforestation brought by farmers and illegal settlers in...
Sundance Film Festival Indigenous Short Film Tour 2022
October 16th
The 2022 Sundance Institute Indigenous Short Film Tour is a 91-minute theatrical program of 6 short films directed by Indigenous filmmakers, featuring titles from the 2022...
Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour 2022
October 15th
The 2022 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is a 95-minute theatrical program of 7 short films curated from the 2022 Sundance Film Festival short film...
Fire of Love
October 7th through October 9th
Katia and Maurice Krafft loved two things — each other and volcanoes. For two decades, the daring French volcanologist couple roamed the planet, chasing eruptions and...
Hit the Road
September 2nd through September 3rd
Panah Panahi, son and collaborator of embattled filmmaker Jafar Panahi and apprentice to Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami, makes a striking feature debut with this charming, sharp-witted,...
CatVideoFest 2022
September 25th
CatVideoFest is a compilation reel of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic...
Memoria
September 16th through September 18th
From the extraordinary mind of Palme D’or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton, comes a bewildering drama about a Scottish woman,...
Off the Block on the Screen!
August 27th
Join us to celebrate the films of Off the Block 2022! Now in its 13th year, OFF THE BLOCK is an annual month-long summer documentary filmmaking...
Neptune Frost
August 26th through August 28th
Multi-hyphenate, multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams brings his unique dynamism to this Afrofuturist vision, a sci-fi punk musical that’s a visually wondrous amalgamation of themes, ideas, and...
Inland Empire
August 20th
“A WOMAN IN TROUBLE” Laura Dern stars as an actress that begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film; her world becomes nightmarish and...
Eraserhead
August 19th
A dream of dark and troubling things . . . David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, Eraserhead, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of...
I Am Here
August 12th through August 14th
A life-affirming documentary that celebrates the remarkable life of Ella Blumenthal, whose magnetic personality and spirit has remained undimmed despite living through one of history’s darkest...
Jazz Fest
August 5th through August 7th
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell, aka “Jazz Fest,” is the signature annual music and cultural event of the city and has...
Crip Camp
July 29th
In the early 1970s, teenagers with disabilities faced a future shaped by isolation, discrimination and institutionalization. Camp Jened, a ramshackle camp “for the handicapped” (a term...
Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
June 10th through June 12th
On the outskirts of the capital of Chad, determined single mother Amina works tirelessly to provide for herself and her 15-year old daughter Maria. When Amina...
RCC Student Film Festival 2022
June 9th
See student films from the Film, Television, and Video Department at Riverside City College. Free admission!
Summer of Soul
May 27th through May 29th
In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary—part music film, part historical record created around an epic event...
Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
May 13th through May 15th
Poly Styrene was the first woman of color in the UK to front a successful rock band. She introduced the world to a new sound of rebellion,...
Flee
May 6th through May 8th
Recounted mostly through animation, Amin opens up about his past for the first time of his journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan. He begins to...
Writing With Fire
April 29th through May 1st
Reporting from a social environment built to divide based on caste and gender, a fearless group of journalists maintain India’s only women-led news outlet. The women...
The Worst Person In The World
April 22nd through April 24th
Director Joachim Trier returns with another modern twist on a classically constructed character portrait of contemporary life in Oslo. Chronicling four years in the life of...
Drive My Car
April 15th through April 17th
Two years after his wife’s unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima), a renowned stage actor and director, receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle...
The Tragedy of MacBeth
April 8th through April 10th
Joel Coen’s bold and fierce adaptation of Macbeth, a tale of murder, madness, ambition, and wrathful cunning.
Parallel Mothers
April 1st through April 3rd
Two women, Janis and Ana, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis,...
C’mon C’mon
March 26th through March 27th
Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) and his young nephew (Woody Norman) forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they are unexpectedly thrown together in this delicate and deeply...
Chess of the Wind
March 25th
Screened publicly just once before it was banned and then lost for decades, this rediscovered jewel of Iranian cinema reemerges to take its place as one...
Red Rocket
March 18th through March 20th
The audacious new film from writer-director Sean Baker (The Florida Project, Tangerine), starring Simon Rex in a magnetic, live-wire performance, Red Rocket is a darkly funny...
Belfast
March 11th through March 13th
Belfast is a movie straight from filmmaker Kenneth Branagh’s own experience. A nine-year-old boy must chart a path towards adulthood through a world that has suddenly...
Spencer
March 4th through March 6th
The marriage of Princess Diana and Prince Charles has long since grown cold. Though rumors of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the...
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