Two new films open at the Ross; two others held over

The films “Only Yesterday” and “City of Gold” open April 29 at UNL’s Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center.

Also showing and held over at the Ross, are the films “Hello, My Name is Doris” and “Miles Ahead.” All four films show through May 5.

The animated film “Only Yesterday” features Daisy Ridley as Taeko, a 27-year-old, unmarried woman who has lived her entire life in Tokyo. She decides to visit relatives in the countryside and, as the train travels through the night, Taeko is flooded by memories of her younger years. When she arrives at the station, Taeko is met by young farmer Toshio (Dev Patel) and the encounter begins to ignite forgotten longings.

The film features lyrical switches between present and past as Taeko contemplates the arc of her life and wonders if she has been true to her childhood dreams.

“Only Yesterday” is rated PG for thematic elements, rude behavior and smoking.

“City of Gold” is a documentary that follows Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold through a kaleidoscope of ethnic cooking in Los Angeles. Combing through colorful neighborhoods in his green pickup truck, Gold is sniffing out his next strip-mall discovery — whether Oaxacan grasshopper soup, hand-cut tonkotsu ramen, or a particularly unctuous pad see ew. As piping-hot platters are served up, so are stories of immigrants whose secret family recipes are like sacred offerings pledged for the opportunity to build their American dream.

“City of Gold” is rated R for some language.

Oscar-nominee Don Cheadle directs and stars in “Miles Ahead,” a biopic on the dazzling and prolific career of Miles Davis, a modern jazz innovator. Davis virtually disappeared from public view in the late 1970s. Alone and holed up in his home, Davis was beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and pain medications, his mind haunted by unsettling ghosts from the past. The film is rated R for language, drug use, some sexuality/nudity and brief violence.

“Hello, My Name is Doris,” features Sally Field playing a middle-aged office worker who falls for a younger co-worker. The film is rated R for language and will be showing through April 28.

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