Tuesday, September 3, 7:00 pm - Brazil
Tuesday, September 10, 7:00 pm - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Tuesday, September 17, 7:00 pm - Inception

Join us at the Lincoln Theatre for our September Film Series: Sweet Dreams!

The lines between fantasy and reality blur in these three films featuring mind-bending visuals and twisty plots. Sweet Dreams: Three films where dreams come true!

September 3: Brazil

In Terry Gilliam's surreal Kafka-esque Brazil, low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring fantasy of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel.

Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest of an innocent man -- instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle (Robert De Niro) -- he meets the woman from his dreams (Kim Greist), and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

"It's like a stoned, slapstick 1984: a nightmare comedy in which the comedy is just an aspect of the nightmarishness." —Pauline Kael, New Yorker

Directed by Terry Gilliam

Starring Jonathan Pryce, Kim Griest, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, Iam Holm

September 10: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

After a painful breakup, Clementine (Kate Winslet) undergoes a procedure to erase memories of her former boyfriend Joel (Jim Carrey) from her mind. When Joel discovers that Clementine is going to extremes to forget their relationship, he undergoes the same procedure and slowly begins to forget the woman that he loved.

As they relive their tangled relationship in Joel's dreams, he begins to question if this is truly the resolution that he wants.

Directed by Michel Gondry (Be Kind Rewind) and written by Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich), the visually arresting film explores the intricacy of relationships and the pain of loss, delivered with equal measures of sight gags and gut punches.

"Works marvel after marvel in expressing the bewildering beauty and existential horror of being trapped inside one's own addled mind, and in allegorising the self-preserving amnesia of a broken but hopeful heart." —Jessica Winter, Time Out

Directed by Michel Gondry

Starring Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, Elijah Wood, Mark Ruffalo, Kirsten Dunst

September 17: Inception

Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a thief with the rare ability to enter people's dreams and steal their secrets from their subconscious. His skill has made him a hot commodity in the world of corporate espionage but has also cost him everything he loves.

Cobb gets a desperate final chance at redemption when he is offered a seemingly impossible task: Plant an idea in someone's mind. If he succeeds, it will be the perfect crime -- but a dangerous enemy anticipates Cobb's every move.

Director Christopher Nolan's (Oppenheimer, Interstellar) heist thriller combines jaw-dropping special effects with an endlessly intriguing puzzle-box of a plot.

"This endlessly fascinating swirl of a film could have come only from Nolan, who blends the cerebral twistiness of Memento (his thriller that moves backward in time) with the spectacular action of his Batman megahit, The Dark Knight." —Caryn James, Newsday

Directed by Christopher Nolan

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elliot Page, Ken Watanabe, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Marion Cotillard, Michael Caine

Film Prices

Lincoln Theatre Members get $2.00 off on the following prices with discount code:

General: $11.00
Seniors, Students, and Active Military: $10.00
Children 12 and under: $8.50

All prices include a $2.00 Preservation Fee that goes directly into our capital account for the preservation of the Lincoln Theatre and its programs.

FILM SERIES: SWEET DREAMS

September 3: Brazil

September 10: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

September 17: Inception

Film Prices