Tuesday, August 26, 2025. 6 p.m. Deadpan. Mysterious. Unmistakably Jarmusch.This month at CTV, we invite you to sink into the quiet, melancholic charm of Broken Flowers (2005), a wry and soulful road movie from one of independent cinema’s most enigmatic voices: Jim Jarmusch. Starring a perfectly understated Bill Murray, Broken Flowers follows Don Johnston, an aging bachelor who sets off on a reluctant cross-country journey to revisit a string of former lovers after receiving an anonymous letter claiming he has a 19-year-old son. What unfolds is not a quest for answers so much as a meditation on aging, regret, and the strange poetry of unresolved lives. Like many of Jarmusch’s films, Broken Flowers unfolds at its own rhythm—minimalist, dryly funny, and full of lingering silences that say more than any…
Tuesday, July 29, 2025. 6 p.m. Indie filmmaking is hard. Living in Oblivion makes it hilarious.To mark the 30th anniversary of one of the great underground comedies of the ’90s, CTV is thrilled to screen Living in Oblivion (1995)—a film that every independent filmmaker, dreamer, and DIY auteur will recognize as painfully, absurdly true. Directed by Tom DiCillo and starring Steve Buscemi in one of his most iconic roles, Living in Oblivion is a behind-the-scenes satire of the chaos, egos, technical failures, and emotional meltdowns that plague a low-budget film shoot. Structured in three surreal, interlocking acts (each one more unhinged than the last), it’s both a love letter to and a roast of the indie film scene—equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking. In a city like Eugene, where grassroots film…
20TH ANNIVERSARY FREE SCREENING “A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE” Two decades after its release, David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence (2005) remains a haunting, razor-sharp exploration of identity, repression, and the brutal instincts simmering beneath the surface of everyday life. As Cronenberg’s first foray into more grounded, American-set material, the film marked a significant departure from his earlier body-horror work while retaining his trademark intensity and psychological depth. Adapted from the graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke, A History of Violence centers on Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen), a quiet diner owner in small-town Indiana whose life is upended when a heroic act of self-defense draws national attention—and dangerous figures from a past he’s tried to forget. What follows is a gripping, tightly wound thriller that interrogates the myths of…
