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Fortress Presents and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

October 11-13: A fall film tradition returns with some of the most anticipated films of the year before you can see them anywhere else.

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The Modern and Fortress Presents are pleased to once again host preview screenings of some of 2019’s most anticipated and critically-acclaimed films. Festival passes now on sale with single screening tickets available Wednesday October 2. October 11-13; Full Film Lineup and Screening Schedule Now Live!!!Friday, October 11:5:00 PM - PAIN &amp; GLORY7:30 PM - LIGHT FROM LIGHTSaturday, October 12:2:00 PM - WHAT SHE SAID: THE ART OF PAULINE KAEL5:00 PM - THE CURRENT WAR: Director's CutSunday, October 13:11:30 AM - THE REPORT2:00 PM - THE TWO POPES4:30 PM - ZOMBI CHILDFilm critic, Christopher Kelly, returns to select the lineup and introduce each film. Kelly is the former film and culture critic for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and currently Managing Producer for Entertainment for New Jersey Advance Media. Kelly also frequently covers film related topics for Texas Monthly and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, and The Boston Globe.This year, Modern Cinema will present seven films. Festival passes, which, provide priority access to all screenings, are now available and tickets to individual screenings will go on sale Wednesday, October 2.

PAIN AND GLORY (114 mins.) - Friday, October 11, 5:00 PMDirected by Pedro Almodóvar. Starring Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Julieta Serrano &amp; Leonardo Sbaraglia. Legendary director Pedro Almodovar (ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER, VOLVER) re-teams with longtime collaborators Antonio Banderas (winner of Best Actor at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival) and Penelope Cruz for this elegant and deeply affecting drama about a middle-aged film director taking stock of his life and career. There are echoes here of such autobiographical masterpieces as Fellini’s AMARCORD and Bergman’s WILD STRAWBERRIES, but the style and sensibility — lush, darkly comic, and rich with flashbacks and unexpected turns — is pure Almodovar. In Spanish with English subtitles.PAIN AND GLORY world-premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival where Antonio Banderas won the award for Best Actor. It is scheduled for release by Sony Pictures Classics this fall.

LIGHT FROM LIGHT (88 mins.) - Friday, October 11, 7:30 PMDirected by Paul Harrill. Starring Marin Ireland, Jim Gaffigan, Josh Wiggins, Atheena Frizzell &amp; David CaleSingle mom Shelia (Ireland), gifted with sometimes-prophetic dreams, moonlights as a paranormal investigator while working at a car-rental service counter and raising her teenage son, Owen (Wiggins). After her appearance on a local radio program, she’s contacted about Richard (Gaffigan), a recent widower who thinks his wife may be haunting his East Tennessee farmhouse. Light From Light is a balm of a film, bathed in the atmosphere of the misty mountains surrounding the farmhouse and the nighttime soundtrack of the ever-present crickets’ song. It quietly captures the rhythms of the characters’ daily lives, while imbuing them (and their spiritual investigation) with an appreciation of what we gain and risk by being open to possibilities. LIGHT FROM LIGHT world-premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and is being released by Grasshopper Film.

WHAT SHE SAID: THE ART OF PAULINE KAEL (95 mins.) - Saturday, October 12, 2:00 PMDirected by Rob Garver. Featuring Sarah Jessica Parker, Quentin Tarantino, Paul Schrader, Alec Baldwin, Francis Ford Coppola &amp; more. For 25 years from her perch at The New Yorker, the legendary Pauline Kael extolled masterpieces, excoriated turkeys and started countless arguments. Rob Garver’s sweetly nostalgic documentary portrait of Kael — with appearances by Quentin Tarantino, Francis Ford Coppola, Camille Paglia and many others — recalls an era when movies were at the center of American culture, and when a diminutive, erudite woman who grew up on a chicken farm could become a literary celebrity.

THE CURRENT WAR: DIRECTOR'S CUT (101 mins.) - Saturday, October 12, 5:00 PMDirected by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Katherine Waterston, Tom Holland &amp; Nicholas Hoult.The race is on as Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch), George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) and Nikola Tesla (Nicholas Hoult) compete to light up the Chicago World’s Fair with that newfangled invention called electricity. Originally completed in 2017 but shelved after its studio went bankrupt, THE CURRENT WAR: DIRECTOR’S CUT can finally be seen as a smart, delightfully acted and indeed electric history lesson. Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (ME EARL AND THE DYING GIRL).

THE REPORT (120 mins.) - Sunday, October 13, 11:30 PMDirected by Scott Z. Burns. Starring Adam Driver, Annette Benning, Ted Levine &amp; Michael C. Hall. In 2009, the Senate Intelligence Committee opened an investigation into the CIA’s practices in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. What followed was a political battle of wills, both to uncover the truth and to make the findings public. This little-known chapter of recent American history is brought to crackling life by writer-director Scott Z. Burns (CONTAGION, THE INFORMANT) and an ace cast that includes Adam Driver as the lead investigator, Jon Hamm as White House Chief of Staff Jon Hamm as Denis McDonough, and a brilliant, nearly unrecognizable Annette Bening as Sen. Dianne Feinstein. THE REPORT world premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and will be released into theaters by Amazon Studios on November 15.

THE TWO POPES (126 mins.) - Sunday, October 13, 2:00 PMDirected by Fernando Meirelles. Starring Anthony Hopkins &amp; Jonathan Pryce. What happened between Pope Benedict XI (Anthony Hopkins) and the future Pope Francis (Jonathan Pryce) in the days before Benedict’s decision in 2013 to relinquish the papacy? Like THE QUEEN, THE TWO POPES — briskly directed by Fernando Meirelles (CITY OF GOD), and ingeniously scripted by Andrew McCarten (THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING) weds public record and creative speculation to create a gripping, heartfelt and surprisingly funny consideration of recent world history. THE TWO POPES world-premiered at the 2019 Telluride Film Festival and went on to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival. It is being released by Netflix.

ZOMBI CHILD (103 mins.) - Sunday, October 13, 4:30 PMDirected by Bertrand Bornello. Starring Louise Labeque, Wislanda Louimat &amp; Mackenson Bijou. You've never seen a zombie movie like this. Shuffling between 1962 Haiti, where an undead man is forced into slavery in the sugar cane fields, and contemporary France, where the slave's descendant is the newest students at an all-girls boarding school, this one-of-a-kind movie from director Bertrand Bonello (NOCTURAMA, SAINT LAURENT) builds an atmosphere of mystery and unease — all the while offering up a blistering critique of French colonialist history. In French with English subtitles. 103 min. ZOMBI CHILD world-premiered at the 2019 Director's Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival and is being released by Kino Lorber.

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