Hello Everyone!

Wow!  What a weekend!  Our opening of THE SIX TRIPLE EIGHT was one for the books.  Many thanks to everyone who came out to support this film and our celebration of Daytonian Charity Adams Earley.  Audiences loved this film, and it will stick around for another week. We have one more screening of the film scheduled with special guests. Wilberforce University - where Earley was a proud alumna, Class of 1938! - will host a screening of THE SIX TRIPLE EIGHT on Saturday, Dec. 14 at 4:00. Those regular-priced tickets are available now on our website.

If you still need to see A REAL PAIN or MARIA, Thursday will be your last chance.  On Thursday evening, we will open Luca Guadagnino's new film QUEER - starring Daniel Craig and based on the novel by William S. Burroughs.  On Friday, we'll open the gorgeous new animated film FLOW - which has been racking up numerous awards this year.

All films this weekend will be gone sooner than later!  On December 24 & 25, we'll be opening two big films - A COMPLETE UNKNOWN(with Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan) and NOSFERATU (directed by Robert Eggers) respectively. Click on either title to learn more.  Tickets for the first week of each of these films are now on sale!

"Open Caption Mondays" are a hit and much appreciated by many of our regulars.  On Monday, Dec. 16, all screenings of QUEER and THE SIX TRIPLE EIGHT will be presented with Open Captions (aka - captions presented on the screen). 

Synopsis for QUEER:  "In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American expat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival in town of Eugene Allerton, a young student, stirs William into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone." Based on the novel by William S. Burroughs and directed by Luca Guadagnino (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, I AM LOVE and CHALLENGERS), this new film stars Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, and Lesley Manville.

Synopsis for FLOW: "A solitary cat, displaced by a great flood, finds refuge on a boat with various species and must navigate the challenges of adapting to a transformed world together."  This brilliantly animated film has been winning numerous awards this season.  We will almost certainly see it garner Oscar nominations.

Our Next Big Project - Replacing Our Screens

This holiday season, we're asking for your help to replace our 23+ year old screens. 

THE NEON is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, and donations can be made through our website, in-person or via your account with The Dayton Foundation.

Click on the poster to learn more about this year's campaign.

FAMILY HOLIDAY FILM SERIES

HAPPY FEET This Saturday! We're delighted to bring back an annual tradition - a budget-friendly movie series for the entire family.  For the first three Saturdays in December at 11:00am, we'll host movies that are free for kids 12 and under and only $2 for anyone else.    On Dec. 14, it's the animated treat HAPPY FEET, and on Dec. 21, we'll wrap up with the 1985 film SANTA CLAUS: THE MOVIE - with Dudley Moore and John Lithgow.

Tickets available only in-person starting 45 minutes before each show.  All members of a party must be present to claim tickets.  More details are available by clicking the link below.

HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS (An Encore of Sorts)

Back in February, we were one of a handful of cinemas to host a special screening of the madcap film HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS (known as "The Great Lakes Tour")...and our audience had an incredible night!!  We've had many requests to bring it back...so we think now is the time for one more show. 
"In this silent supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America’s greatest fur trapper to defeat hundreds of beavers." SCREEN-SPACE writes, "Cheslik and writer/leading man Tews craft a monochromatic masterwork ripe with the DNA of the silent film classics of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd."
Join us one more time for this indie hit that took the nation by storm this year! Tickets available now!

MON, DEC 16 | 7:30

ERNEST COLE: LOST & FOUND

SPECIAL SCREENING!  From Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck (director of I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO).  "This new documentary chronicles the life and work of one of the first Black freelance photographers in South Africa, whose early pictures, shocking at the time of their first publication, revealed to the world Black life under apartheid. Cole fled South Africa in 1966 and lived in exile in the U.S., where he photographed extensively in New York City, as well as the American South, fascinated by the ways this country could be at times so vastly different, and at others eerily similar, to the segregated culture of his homeland. After his death, more than 60,000 of his 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these forever lost.Telling his own story through his writings, the recollections of those closest to him, and the lens of his uncompromising work, the film is a reintroduction of a pivotal Black artist to a new generation."

WED, DEC 18 | 7:30

ENO

"Visionary musician and artist Brian Eno - known for producing David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads, among many others; pioneering the genre of ambient music; and releasing over 40 solo and collaboration albums - reveals his creative processes in this groundbreaking generative documentary: a film that's different every time it's shown."  Join us for a special, one-time screening - co-presented with our friends from Skeleton Dust Records - on Jan. 8, 2025 at 7:30. Tickets are $12.50 each. Prior to the screening, Dayton experimental musician Rusty Skelding will be presenting a hands-on modular synthesizer demonstration where patrons can explore creating generative electronic sounds.

WED, JAN 8 | 7:30

Cult Movie Night presents DINNER IN AMERICA

Victor Bonacore is bringing back his popular "Cult Movie Night" with a more contemporary cult film - DINNER IN AMERICA. "An on-the-lam punk rocker and a young woman obsessed with his band go on an unexpected and epic journey together through the decaying suburbs of the American Midwest. After the original song "Watermelon" went viral on TikTok, audiences in droves are rediscovering this gnarly, punk rock rom-com from Adam Carter Rehmeier...DINNER IN AMERICA suffered the box-office fate of so many films when Covid-19 shut down theaters. Nearly five years later, the film has been selling out screens across the country from the IFC Center in NY to the Frida Cinema in Santa Ana, CA. It's a feel-good romance with an edge.
As always the film will be accompanied by trailers, a short film and other surprises.

THU, JAN 16 | 7:30

Thank you for your support!
We hope to see you soon,
Jonathan

A REAL PAIN (R) 1 Hr 30 Min
Wednesday (Dec 11): 3:00, 7:40
Thursday (Dec 12): 3:00

MARIA (R) 2 Hrs 4 Min
Wednesday (Dec 11): 5:10
Thursday (Dec 12): 5:00

THE SIX TRIPLE EIGHT (PG-13) 2 Hrs 7 Min
Wednesday & Thursday (Dec 11 & 12): 2:00, 4:40, 7:20
Friday (Dec 13): 2:30, 7:15
Saturday (Dec 14): 4:00, 7;15
Sunday (Dec 15): 2:30, 7:15
Monday (Dec 16): 2:30
Tues-Thu (Dec 17-19): 2:30, 7:15

QUEER (R) 2 Hrs 15 Min
Thursday (Dec 12): 7:30
Friday, Saturday, Sunday (Dec 13-15): 1:30, 4:30, 7:30
Monday & Tuesday (Dec 16 & 17): 2:00, 4:45, 7:30
Wednesday (Dec 18): 1:50, 4:30
Thursday (Dec 19): 2:00, 4:45, 7:30

FLOW (PG) 1 Hr 24 Min
Friday (Dec 13): 12:30, 5:15
Saturday (Dec 14): 1:45
Sunday (Dec 15): 12:30, 5:15
Monday-Thursday (Dec 16-19): 5:15

HAPPY FEET (PG) 1 Hr 40 Min
Saturday (Dec 14): 11:00am

HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS (NR) 1 Hr 48 Min
Monday (Dec 16): 7:30

ERNEST COLE: LOST & FOUND  (NR) 1 Hr 45 Min
Wednesday (Dec 18): 7:30