The Senate and Motor City Cinema Society are proud to present a special 16mm screening of supreme sci-fi silliness. Don’t miss Spaceballs, starring John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, and the sultan of spoofery himself, Mel Brooks! This classic conglomeration of bits and gags, a very loose retelling of the Star Wars saga, had way […]

In “¡BRILLA! El Despertar del Alebrije en Mi” (Glow! The Awakening of the Alebrije in Me), audiences are transported to 1930s Mexico City, where Pedro Linares, stricken with illness, falls into a fever dream that takes him into Prismatica, a world where alebrijes exist but remain divided by color and ideology. Believing that humans possess […]

In “¡BRILLA! El Despertar del Alebrije en Mi” (Glow! The Awakening of the Alebrije in Me), audiences are transported to 1930s Mexico City, where Pedro Linares, stricken with illness, falls into a fever dream that takes him into Prismatica, a world where alebrijes exist but remain divided by color and ideology. Believing that humans possess […]

In “¡BRILLA! El Despertar del Alebrije en Mi” (Glow! The Awakening of the Alebrije in Me), audiences are transported to 1930s Mexico City, where Pedro Linares, stricken with illness, falls into a fever dream that takes him into Prismatica, a world where alebrijes exist but remain divided by color and ideology. Believing that humans possess […]

In “¡BRILLA! El Despertar del Alebrije en Mi” (Glow! The Awakening of the Alebrije in Me), audiences are transported to 1930s Mexico City, where Pedro Linares, stricken with illness, falls into a fever dream that takes him into Prismatica, a world where alebrijes exist but remain divided by color and ideology. Believing that humans possess […]

Silents at the Senate, along with our partners at the Arab American National Museum and the Arab Film Festival, is proud to present “The Adventures of Prince Achmed” with live musical accompaniment by John Lauter on the Mighty Wurlitzer theater pipe organ! — This magical tale, the world’s oldest surviving animated feature film, is a […]

Join us for an evening of group performances from members of the Detroit Medical Orchestra! Featuring pieces from Beethoven, Rimsky-Korsakov, Brahms, and more. Free to the general public and all are welcome!

Please join us for the World Premiere of the feature film “Old Heart” (2025) adapted from Peter Ferry’s award winning novel. A play based on this mixed-race love story was performed at the Redford in 2022. — This World War II feature drama is a tribute to the courageous black soldiers who defeated the world’s […]

“The Birdcage” (1996) is an irresistible remake of a French farce “La Cage aux Folles”. A gay cabaret owner (Robin Williams) and his drag queen companion (Nathan Lane) must pretend to be straight when their son (Dan Futterman) is set to marry the daughter (Calista Flockhart) of a conservative senator (Gene Hackman) and his wife […]

“Wild at Heart” is a 1990 American romantic crime comedy-drama thriller film written and directed by David Lynch. Nicolas Cage fuels this absolutely bonkers road movie as the Elvis-obsessed Sailor Ripley, who joins girlfriend Lula Pace Fortune (Laura Dern) on a road trip more than a little inspired by “The Wizard of Oz”. The movie […]