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Late Autumn
Mon May 18
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
1960 / 128min / 35mm
The sublime, serene Setsuko Hara, whose appearances for Ozu include that of a daughter being reluctantly primed for marriage by a single parent in Late Spring (1949), returns in this at once comic and elegiac reworking of that earlier film as the widowed…
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Grey Gardens
Director: Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer
1975 / 94min / DCP
“I only care about three things: the Catholic Church, swimming, and dancing.” So goes the gospel according to Edith “Little Edie” Beale, who in the 1970s, together with her brow-beating elderly mother, Edith “Big Edie” Bouvier lived in the…
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Two Seasons, Two Strangers
Mon May 18
Director: Sho Miyake
2025 / 89min / DCP
Q&A with director Sho Miyake on Friday, April 24th and Saturday, April 25th
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Andrei Rublev
Mon May 18
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
1966 / 205min / 35mm
The story of Rublev (Anatoly Solonitsyn), a medieval icon painter and Russian Orthodox monk who struggled against rampant brutality to produce works praising God, becomes, in Tarkovsky’s hands, the story of art and artists, for all times. (And perhaps…
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Aloïse preceded by Qui donc a rêvé?
Director: Liliane de Kermadec
1975 / 138min / DCP
Introduction by filmmaker Theda Hammel on Friday, May 15th
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Panic Room
Director: David Fincher
2002 / 112min / 35mm
Newly divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her sullen adolescent daughter Sarah (a pre-Twilight Kristen Stewart) have just begun to acquaint themselves with their new digs, a four-story Upper West Side brownstone previously owned by a wealthy recluse…
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In the Mood for Love
Mon May 18
Director: Wong Kar-wai
2000 / 98min / 4K DCP
Wong’s arthouse smash is the very simple tale of two people in early ’60s Hong Kong, Mr. Chow (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Mrs. Chen (Maggie Cheung), drawn to one another by the discovery that their spouses are getting together on the side. A little…
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PRIVATE EVENT TODAY IN THEATER & COMMISSARY
2025 / 360min
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The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived
Wed May 20
Director: Heiny Srour
1974 / 62min / DCP
An astonishing, and fierily partisan, record of an uprising in southern Oman’s Dhofar governorate by a Marxist-Leninist guerilla force who held out for almost 14 years against the UK-backed Sultanate, the result of Srour and her crew braving the…
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Suzhou River
Wed May 20
Director: Ye Lou
2000 / 83min / DCP
Taking its name from the polluted river that flows through Shanghai, director Lou’s hometown, the brooding Suzhou River uses the singular first-person perspective of its unseen videographer-narrator to explore the grubby underbelly of the city,…
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Landscape in the Mist
Wed May 20
Director: Theo Angelopoulos
1988 / 127min / DCP
An adolescent girl and her younger brother leave their village in Greece behind to hitchhike and hop trains in hopes of picking up the scent of the absent father they’ve never met, having little to go on beyond a conviction that he may have emigrated to…
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Alien³
Wed May 20
Director: David Fincher
1992 / 114min / 35mm
Though unjustly overshadowed by its illustrious forebears, Fincher’s gimlet-eyed directorial debut has in time come to be appreciated on its own terms as a work of jaundiced, apocalyptic beauty. Picking up where Aliens ended, we crash-land with…
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The Long Goodbye
Wed May 20
Director: Robert Altman
1973 / 112min / 35mm
Elliott Gould plays a distinctly low-key and somewhat bumbling version of Raymond Chandler’s gumshoe Philip Marlowe in Altman’s singular private dick movie, which updates the source material to a smog-and-pot-hazy 1970s Los Angeles. A mystery…
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Director: Céline Sciamma
2019 / 122min / DCP
Set in late 18th-century France, Sciamma’s acclaimed queer period romance, luminously shot by Claire Mathon, concerns the blossoming romance between a young aristocratic woman (Adèle Haenel), engaged to be married, and the female painter (Noémie…
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The Big Lebowski
Wed May 20
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
1998 / 117min / 35mm
The Coen’s cult comedy par excellence is the rare film not to contain a single unmemorable character or performance, from John Goodman’s John Milius-inspired gun nut Walter Sobchak to John Turturro’s snake-hipped sex offender Jesus Quintana to, of…
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Fri May 22
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
2003 / 82min / DCP
The Fu-Ho Grand, a movie palace in Taipei, is closing its doors. Its valedictory screening: King …
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Radio Days
Fri May 22
Director: Woody Allen
1987 / 85min / 35mm
Introduction by Wallace Shawn and John Early on Friday, May 22nd
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Moonrise Kingdom
Director: Wes Anderson
2012 / 94min / DCP
Twelve-year-old pen pals Sam Shakusky and Suzy Bishop (newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward) turn pubescent lovers on the lam, crossing the hurricane-threatened New England coastal island of New Penzance while struggling to keep ahead of Suzy’s…
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Forbidden Games
Director: René Clément
1952 / 86min / 4K DCP
France, 1940. Five-year-old Paulette (Brigitte Fossey), orphaned by a German air strike while fleeing Paris with her parents, finds shelter with a peasant family and, in their 11-year-old son, Michel (Georges Poujouly), a confidante, the two together…
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A Master Builder
Fri May 22
Director: Jonathan Demme
2014 / 127min / DCP
Introduction by actors Wallace Shawn and Julie Hagerty on Friday, May 22nd
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Oasis
Fri May 22
Director: Lee Chang-dong
2002 / 133min / 4K DCP
Jong-du (Sul Kyung-gu), just out of prison, very little reformed, and shunned by his family, finds an unlikely soulmate in the person of Gong-ju (Moon So-ri), a woman with severe cerebral palsy—and the daughter of the victim of the hit-and-run for which…
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Don't Change Hands
Director: Paul Vecchiali
1975 / 82min / 4K DCP
The same year that Vecchiali acted as producer on Liliane de Kermadec’s Aloïse, she returned the favor by playing the same role on Vecchiali’s downright unclassifiable Don’t Change Hands. After receiving a reel of a dirty movie prominently…
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Cléo from 5 to 7
Director: Agnès Varda
1962 / 90min / DCP
One of Varda’s supreme works gives us two crucial hours—actually 90 minutes, though played as though in real time—in the life of a successful French pop singer of the yé-yé vintage, Corinne Marchand’s Cléo, as she waits to hear biopsy results…
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Possession
Fri May 22
Director: Andrzej Żuławski
1981 / 124min / 4K DCP
Easily the most harrowing divorce drama ever made, Zuławski’s one-of-a-kind genre pastiche has spy Sam Neill returning to his Berlin home from a mission abroad to discover that wife Isabelle Adjani wants suddenly to split up. Launching an investigation…
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Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du commerce,1080 Bruxelles
Sat May 23
Director: Chantal Akerman
1975 / 202min / 35mm
The late Chantal Akerman was only 24-years-old when she and her nearly all-female crew made the 1975 masterpiece, Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. Over the course of three days—and a three-hour movie spell—a woman’s (Delphine…
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Where is the Friend's House?
Sat May 23
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
1987 / 83min / DCP
The first film in what has been called Kiarostami’s “Koker Trilogy,” named for the village in northern Iran where all of the films comprising it take place, Where is the Friend’s House? focuses on an eight-year-old boy, Ahmad, who, in discovering…
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Millennium Mambo
Sat May 23
Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
2001 / 107min / DCP
A stylish and seductive submersion into the techno-scored neon nightlife of Taipei, Hou’s much-misunderstood marvel stars Shu Qi (The Assassin) as an aimless bar hostess drifting away from her blowhard boyfriend and towards Jack Kao’s suave, sensitive…
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Come and See
Director: Elem Klimov
1985 / 142min / DCP
Klimov’s final film, drawing upon his own experiences in the Battle of Stalingrad, is a devastating immersion into the horrors of the WWII Eastern Front as seen through the eyes of a 14-year-old Belarusian boy (Aleksey Kravchenko) who joins the partisan…
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A Bigger Splash + Mark Turbyfill by Markopoulos
Sat May 23
Director: Jack Hazan, Gregory J. Markopoulos
1973 / 121min / DCP
Hazan’s intimate and innovative film about English-born, often California-based artist David Hockney and his work honors its subject through creative risk-taking. The improvisatory narrative nonfiction hybrid features Hockney—a wary participant—as…
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Xiao Wu
Director: Jia Zhangke
1997 / 108min / DCP
Set in Jia’s hometown of Fenyang, his feature debut—which takes its English-language title, Pickpocket, from that of Robert Bresson’s 1959 film—is a character study of a young petty criminal, Xiao Wu (Wang Hongwei) who finds himself increasingly…
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New York Stories
Sat May 23
Director: Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen
1989 / 124min / 35mm
The leadoff hitter in this anthology triptych of Gotham-set short subjects courtesy New York’s best-known cineastes, Scorsese’s Richard Price–penned “Life Lessons” is nothing short of a small-scale masterpiece, starring Nick Nolte as a…
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The Handmaiden
Director: Park Chan-wook
2016 / 145min / DCP
Park’s twisty, kinky, divinely decadent period thriller, set in a Japanese-occupied 1930s Korea that’s imagined with baroque flourish by set designer Ryu Seong-hee, follows hired handmaiden Kim Tae-ri as she enters the service of shut-in heiress Kim…
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Rear Window
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
1954 / 112min / 4K DCP
Jimmy Stewart’s he-man, globe-trotting photographer is laid up for the summer with a broken leg, and enlists the help of Grace Kelly (ordering snacks from 21) when he becomes convinced that neighbor Raymond Burr has murdered his wife. One of the…
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Fallen Angels
Director: Wong Kar-wai
1995 / 99min / DCP
Part hard-boiled crime thriller and part soft, featherweight giddiness, Fallen Angels was first conceived as a segment of Wong’s Chungking Express, then developed into a darker companion piece to his glistening pop-romantic masterpiece, the story of a…
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Grave of the Fireflies
Director: Isao Takahata
1988 / 89min / DCP
Based on a short story of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka, set in the final months of the Pacific War, Takahata’s first feature with Studio Ghibli tells the devastating story of two young siblings, Seita and Setsuko who, having succumbed to starvation,…
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Edvard Munch
Sun May 24
Director: Peter Watkins
1974 / 174min / 35mm
The personal and political are the warp and weft of Watkins’s sui generis epic—a work, concerned primarily with Munch’s movements between 1884 and 1895, which intimately explores the deep well of pain from which the greatest of Norwegian painters…
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Children of the Beehive + Children of War
Director: Hiroshi Shimizu, Jocelyne Saab
1976 / 96min / DCP
Independently produced by Shimizu following his parting of ways with Shochiku studios, Children of the Beehive offers a cross-country tour of a postwar Japan that everywhere displays the livid scars of still-recent bombings, following a newly repatriated…
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What Time is it There?
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
2001 / 116min / 35mm
Lee Kang-sheng’s Hsiao Kang, now working as a street vendor selling watches out of a briefcase in Taipei, sells a dual-time watch to Chen Shiang-chyi, a young woman preparing for an extended stay in Paris. While she drifts alone through the City of…
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Peter Pan
Mon May 25
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson
1953 / 77min / 35mm
The last Disney production featuring contributions from all of the company’s “Nine Old Men”—core personnel who’d been with the studio since its beginnings in the 1920s—was this charming animated imagining of J.M. Barrie’s Neverland yarns for…
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Hill of Freedom
Mon May 25
Director: Hong Sangsoo
2014 / 66min / DCP
The progress through a hopelessly shuffled stack of love letters inspires the a-chronological structure of Hong’s Hill of Freedom—Moon So-ri’s second film with Hong—which describes the terse long-distance relationship between a South Korean woman…
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Hahaha
Mon May 25
Director: Hong Sang-soo
2010 / 115min / DCP
During a visit to the coastal city of Tongyeong, two friends in a bar (Kim Sang-kyung and Yoo Jun-sang) trade stories about their romantic exploits, which we come to realize involve the same people—most pivotally, a cultural tour guide played by Moon…
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Van Gogh
Mon May 25
Director: Maurice Pialat
1991 / 158min / DCP
Having aspired in his youth to be a painter before settling for becoming merely one of the mightiest French cineastes of his generation, Pialat was perhaps uniquely qualified to give us a screen Van Gogh who felt genuinely new—as played by…
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Hiroshi Sugimoto selects The Face of Another
Mon May 25
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
1966 / 124min / 35mm
The great Tatsuya Nakadai plays Mr. Okuyama, a businessman disfigured beyond recognition in a freak industrial accident who, through the operations of his psychiatrist, is affixed with a lifelike mask molded from the features of a stranger—a miracle…
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Lee Friedlander selects North by Northwest
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
1959 / 136min / 35mm
From the United Nations building to broad-shouldered Chicago to Mount Rushmore, with a scenic stop at an empty field somewhere in the Midwest, follow beleaguered ad exec Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) and his mysterious companion (Eva Marie Saint) as they…
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Basquiat: Black and White Version
Mon May 25
Director: Julian Schnabel
1996 / 108min / DCP
Q&A with director Julian Schnabel moderated by filmmaker Nemo Librizzi on Saturday, May 16th
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Farewell My Concubine
Tue May 26
Director: Kaige Chen
1993 / 170min / 4K DCP
Art and life become inextricably entwined in Chen’s gorgeously arrayed triumph of costume and production design, an epic spanning 50 years of 20th-century Chinese history in the life of a troupe of Peking opera actors based on the 1985 Lilian Lee novel,…
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Touki Bouki
Tue May 26
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty
1973 / 89min / DCP
By turns naturalistic and audaciously surreal, Mambéty’s postcolonialist picaresque follows a pair of young lovers—dandyish cowherd Mory and student Anta (Magaye and Mareme Niang) who dream of abandoning their lives in Dakar for the promise of Paris.…
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Stalker
Tue May 26
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
1979 / 163min / DCP
Tarkovsky’s stunning, haunted sepia-toned sci-fi masterpiece follows a scientist and a writer who, living in a broken-down totalitarian dystopia, recruit the help of a “Stalker”—a kind of post-apocalyptic Sherpa—to guide them on a voyage of…
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Vive L'Amour
Tue May 26
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
1994 / 118min / DCP
Tsai’s second theatrical feature drew understandable comparisons to Antonioni’s chilly studies in urban ennui on initial release, but this bizarre love triangle—Chen Chao-jung and Yang Kuei-mei meet for illicit rendezvous in an “empty” apartment…
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In a Year of 13 Moons
Tue May 26
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1978 / 124min / DCP
Among Fassbinder’s most emotionally brutalizing films—and that’s saying something!—is the devastating story of a spiralling working-class transsexual, Elvira (Volker Spengler), struggling to make sense of her life after being callously cast aside…
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Martine Gutierrez selects Princess Mononoke [OV]
Wed May 27
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
1997 / 133min / DCP
Introduction by artist Martine Gutierrez on Saturday, May 9th
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Nan Goldin selects The Naked Kiss
Wed May 27
Director: Samuel Fuller
1964 / 90min / 35mm
Introduction by Nan Goldin on Sunday, May 17th
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Peppermint Candy
Wed May 27
Director: Lee Chang-dong
1999 / 129min / 4K DCP
Opening on a shocking scene of implied suicide, Lee’s sophomore feature proceeds to move backward in time, its reverse chronology following its protagonist’s unhappiness to its source, following him from the end of the ’70s to the close of the…
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The Taste of Tea
Wed May 27
Director: Katsuhito Ishii
2004 / 143min / DCP
Playing in a sterling new transfer, Ishii’s third feature is a uniquely gonzo take on the Japanese shokin-geki (literally: “common people drama”), focused on the daily affairs of a family, the Hasunos—hypnotherapist father, animator mother,…
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Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Fri May 29
Director: Éric Rohmer
1987 / 99min / DCP
Shot quickly in and around Paris during a production break on Rohmer’s Le Rayon Vert, this breezy, witty film traces the exploits of two young women—one an ethnology student from the city, the other an unsophisticated aspiring artist from the country.…
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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Director: George Miller
1981 / 96min / 35mm
In the years following the events of Mad Max the world has gone to hell in a handbasket, with warlords battling over a dwindling fuel supply in an unforgiving Outback landscape, but Miller’s ability to command a budget has progressed considerably,…
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Dead Mountaineer's Hotel
Director: Grigori Kromanov
1979 / 84min / DCP
After receiving an anonymous call coming from the Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel, police inspector Peter Glebsky (Uldis Pūcītis) heads to the remote Alpine ski resort and, after an avalanche cuts it off from the world, finds himself having to contend with a…
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La Jetée preceded by How Not to be Seen
Fri May 29
Director: Chris Marker, Hito Steyerl
1962 / 44min / DCP
Q&A with artist Hito Steyerl on Friday, May 29th
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With Hasan in Gaza
Director: Kamal Aljafari
2025 / 106min / DCP
Q&A with director Kamal Aljafari on Friday, May 29th and Saturday, May 30th + Introduction by director Kamal Ajafari on Sunday, May 31st
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Les rendez-vous d'Anna
Director: Chantal Akerman
1978 / 127min / DCP
Akerman’s third film produced through Liliane de Kermadec and Paul Vecchiali’s Unité 3 production company was this transfixing—and, one suspects, quite personal—study of alienation and emotional withdrawal, in which a well-known Belgian director…
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Cujo
Director: Lewis Teague
1983 / 93min / 35mm
All is not well with the Trenton family—the revelation that wife Donna (Dee Wallace) has been having an affair leaves the future of her marriage uncertain—but that seems like small potatoes when Donna and five-year-old son Tad (Danny Pintauro) find…
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Dream of Light preceded by Miró l'altre
Sat May 30
Director: Victor Erice, Pere Portabella
1992 / 148min / 35mm
Erice, best known for his ravishing 1973 Spirit of the Beehive, here focuses his camera on Madrileño painter Antonio López as he goes about the daily labor of artistic creation, meticulously struggling to capture, to his satisfaction, a quince tree in…
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ACE Presents The Silence of the Lambs
Sat May 30
Director: Jonathan Demme
1991 / 118min / 35mm
Post-screening panel with Craig McKay, ACE, Colleen Sharp. ACE, Naomi Geraghty, Tom Fleischman, Joseph DeBeasi and Patrick McMahon on Saturday, May 30th.
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Cinema Naïf presents Pirosmani
Sat May 30
Director: Sergei Parajanov, Giorgi Shengelaia
1969 / 110min / DCP
Introduction by Anri Vartan, Cinema Naïf on Saturday, May 30th
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Flashdance
Director: Adrian Lyne
1983 / 95min / 4K DCP
Introduction by Max Lakner, cinematographer of Maddie's Secret on Saturday, May 30th
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The Thing
Sat May 30
Director: John Carpenter
1984 / 109min / 35mm
CGI spectacle may offer us visions of worlds beyond imagination and gravity-defying action, but pixels alone can never achieve the sheer viscous, loathsome ickiness on display in Carpenter’s free remake of the 1951 Howard Hawks/Christian Nyby classic.…
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A Fish Called Wanda
Director: Charles Crichton
1988 / 108min / 35mm
Bringing the spirit of the Ealing comedy bounding into the 1980s, 78-year-old The Lavender Hill Mob director Crichton’s acerbic, side-splitting caper, its baroquely elaborate plot contorted into some kind of crazy shape by screenwriter/star/former…
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Boyfriends and Girlfriends
Sun May 31
Director: Éric Rohmer
1987 / 103min / DCP
Rohmer uses the amorous misadventures of two girlfriends in the Paris suburbs to test the old proverb “les amis de mes amis sont mes amis” (“the friends of my friends are my friends”) in the final episode of his “Comedies and Proverbs” series.…
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I Have Graduated
Sun May 31
Director: Shi Jian, Guangli Wang
1992 / 92min / DCP
Introduction by filmmaker Zhu Rikun on Sunday, May 31st
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Germany Year Zero preceded by Bambini in città
Sun May 31
Director: Roberto Rossellini, Luigi Comencini
1948 / 85min / DCP
Shot in the ruins of postwar Berlin, Rossellini’s staggeringly despairing film—peopled almost entirely with nonprofessional actors, including, in the central role, young Edmund Meschke—follows a towheaded 12-year-old enduring unspeakable agonies in…
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Cézanne + Une Visite au Louvre
Sun May 31
Director: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
1990 / 101min / 35mm
A lovely tribute to the painter Paul Cézanne—a figure near and dear to Straub and Huillet—which incorporates passages from Gasquet’s book about his long-time friend Paul Cézanne, scenes from Jean Renoir’s film of Madame Bovary, photographs of…
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Showgirls
Director: Paul Verhoeven
1995 / 131min / 4K DCP
Elizabeth Berkley’s Nomi, a poor, street-smart young drifter with a hazy past and plenty of blonde ambition, rolls into Las Vegas with dreams of success and Versace glitz… and God help whoever gets in the way of her achieving it by any means…
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The Aviator's Wife
Fri Jun 5
Director: Éric Rohmer
1981 / 106min / DCP
The inaugural film of Rohmer’s “Comedies and Proverbs” cycle, The Aviator’s Wife is a fleecy farce of romantic overanalysis that finds the director exploring the possibilities of handheld camerawork in following a narrative expression of the…
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The Silence of the Lambs
Fri Jun 5
Director: Jonathan Demme
1991 / 118min / 35mm
Demme’s riveting, skin-crawly adaptation of Thomas Harris’s novel of the same name earned a prestige rarely granted to horror movies thanks to, yes, its two undeniable powerhouse central performances—Anthony Hopkins as psychopath psychiatrist…
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Made in Hong Kong
Fri Jun 5
Director: Fruit Chan
1997 / 108min / DCP
The first independent film released in post-Handover Hong Kong, Chan’s atmospheric shoestring-budget character study is a rough-and-ready piece of work shot on grainy leftover 35mm short ends in the city’s overcrowded subsidized housing projects. The…
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Louis Malle, le Révolté
Fri Jun 5
Director: Claire Duguet
2025 / 65min / DCP
Q&A with director Claire Duguet moderated by US Vogue editor Chloé Malle on Friday, June 5th
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Love Letter
Director: Shunji Iwai
1995 / 115min / 4K DCP
Q&A with director Shunji Iwai on Friday, June 5th and Introduction by director Shunji Iwai on Saturday, June 6th
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Vanya on 42nd Street
Fri Jun 5
Director: Louis Malle
1994 / 119min / 35mm
Introduction by US Vogue editor Chloé Malle on Friday, June 5th
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City on Fire
Fri Jun 5
Director: Ringo Lam
1987 / 105min / 4K DCP
Chow Yun-fat and Danny Lee lead a team of strong-arm thieves specializing in jewelry store jobs, tied together by friendship and the bandit’s code of honor. There’s only one hitch: Chow is an undercover cop, playing the part of a hood for so long that…
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Lust for Life
Sat Jun 6
Director: Vincente Minnelli
1956 / 122min / 35mm
One audacious colorist pays tribute to another in this emotionally raw biopic of Vincent Van Gogh, featuring a fanatically committed Kirk Douglas as the frustrated artist, clashing with even allies like his friend Paul Gaugin (Anthony Quinn) as he…
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All About Lily Chou-Chou
Director: Shunji Iwai
2001 / 146min / DCP
Q&A with director Shunji Iwai moderated by filmmaker Christopher Radcliffe on Saturday, June 6th
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Jollof Films presents: Den Muso
Sat Jun 6
Director: Souleymane Cissé
1975 / 88min / DCP
Post-screening conversation with Jollof Films' Assane Sy and Ahmad Cissé on Saturday, June 6th
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Prison on Fire
Sat Jun 6
Director: Ringo Lam
1987 / 98min / 35mm
Meek white-collar worker Tony Leung Ka-fai looks like defenseless fresh meat when he goes into prison on a manslaughter charge, but he survives thanks to the protection of longtime inmate Chow Yun-fat. Their friendship becomes a bastion of finer feelings…
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God's Country
Sun Jun 7
Director: Louis Malle
1985 / 89min / 16mm
Introduction by filmmaker Claire Duguet on Sunday, June 7th
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Atlantic City
Director: Louis Malle
1980 / 104min / 35mm
Burt Lancaster gives one of his finest late-career performances as former numbers runner and aging mob lackey Lou, a rusty relic of an old Atlantic City that, in the course of Malle’s sweetly rueful film, we watch in the process of being pulled down to…
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Long Live the Republic!
Sun Jun 7
Director: Karel Kachyňa
1965 / 134min / DCP
Mocked by his better-off peers and brutalized by his father, 12-year-old Oldřich, nicknamed “Shorty,” finds refuge in fantasy and memories of better days—but a grim reality is growing ever closer to his home, the Moravian village of Nesovice, as…
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... And the Pursuit of Happiness
Sun Jun 7
Director: Louis Malle
1986 / 81min / Digital
Introduction by filmmaker Claire Duguet on Sunday, June 7th
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April Story
Director: Shunji Iwai
1998 / 67min / DCP
Q&A with director Shunji Iwai on Sunday, June 7th
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Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers
Sun Jun 7
Director: Wu Wenguang
1990 / 70min / DCP
Widely regarded as the opening salvo of independent documentary in Mainland China, Wu’s Bumming in Beijing—a portrait of broke bohemian artists scraping by in the capital city, among them future blue-chip star Zhang Dali—was shot with equipment from…
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Hana and Alice
Director: Shunji Iwai
2004 / 135min / DCP
Introduction by director Shunji Iwai on Sunday, June 7th
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School on Fire
Sun Jun 7
Director: Ringo Lam
1998 / 101min / DCP
When a well-behaved Hong Kong high schooler (Fennie Yuen) witnesses an episode of triad gang violence and agrees to testify concerning what she’s seen, she finds herself in the crosshairs of vengeful sleaze “Brother Smart” (Roy Cheung), her only…
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Marnie
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
1964 / 130min / 4K DCP
When her dashing employer, Mark (Sean Connery), catches kleptomaniac “Marnie” Edgar (Tippi Hedren) with a pile of his company’s money, he offers the beautiful thief the choice of marriage or jail—then to discover that his blushing bride is…
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My Dinner with André
Fri Jun 12
Director: Louis Malle
1981 / 111min / 35mm
“I treated myself to a taxi. I rode home through the city streets. There wasn’t a street, there wasn’t a building that wasn’t connected to some memory in my mind.” Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, playing fictionalized versions of themselves,…
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The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Director: Wim Wenders
1972 / 100min / DCP
Sent off at an away game after committing a foul, goalkeeper Josef Bloch (Arthur Brauss) wanders the streets of an unfamiliar and unfriendly town—and come the following day finds himself with blood on his hands, retreating to his hometown and the…
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Pompei: Below the Clouds
Fri Jun 12
Director: Gianfranco Rosi
2025 / 115min / DCP
Introduction and Q&A with director Gianfranco Rosi on Friday, June 12th
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Undeclared War
Director: Ringo Lam
1990 / 107min / DCP
Lam ventures into cloak-and-dagger skullduggery in this noirish culture-clash thriller, in which a CIA agent (Gary Redner) touches down in Hong Kong with a score to settle, teaming with Special Branch Inspector Lee (Danny Lee) in order to trace members of…
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The Devil's Backbone
Fri Jun 12
Director: Guillermo del Toro
2001 / 108min / 35mm
In 1939, the final year of the Spanish Civil War, newly fatherless 10-year-old Carlos (Fernando Tielve) arrives at the Santa Lucia School, dedicated to the care of the orphaned children of Republican loyalists, its permanent staff comprised of stern…
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Mr. Turner
Sat Jun 13
Director: Mike Leigh
2014 / 150min / 35mm
Timothy Spall took home a Best Actor prize from Cannes for his portrayal of the gruff, brusque Joseph Mallord William Turner, the prodigiously gifted London barber’s son who, by the time he’d reached the middle age depicted here, had risen to the…
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The Little Girl of Hanoi
Director: Hải Ninh
1974 / 75min / DCP
“In the aftermath of the ‘Christmas bombing’ of Hanoi in December 1972, young Ngọc Hà (Lan Hương) searches through the city’s rubble for her missing family. Shot in neorealist style by Hải Ninh, a graduate of the first directing class of…
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Boatman
Sat Jun 13
Director: Gianfranco Rosi
1993 / 55min / DCP
Rosi’s first (almost) feature-length film documents the daily routine of Gopal, a no-longer-young man who earns his bread by rowing Western tourists eager to rubberneck at Hindu funeral rites in Benares from one bank of the Ganges to another in a…
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Caravaggio
Sat Jun 13
Director: Derek Jarman
1986 / 93min / 35mm
A brazenly anachronistic and sensual imagining of the life and love of Renaissance renegade Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Nigel Terry), seen juggling two lovers (Sean Bean’s Ranuccio and Tilda Swinton’s Lena) while scandalizing the establishment…
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India: Matri Bhumi
Sat Jun 13
Director: Roberto Rossellini
1959 / 90min / DCP
Co-written with Iranian diplomat (and onetime Cahiers du cinéma contributor!) Fereydoun Hoveyda and luminously photographed by cinematographer Aldo Tonti, Rossellini’s pivotal India: Matri Bhumi is a work of poetic ethnofiction, a string of five…
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Fire at Sea
Sat Jun 13
Director: Gianfranco Rosi
2016 / 108min / DCP
Q&A with director Gianfranco Rosi on Saturday, June 13th✀ଡ
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Onda Nova
Director: José Antonio Garcia, Ícaro Martins
1983 / 103min / 4K DCP
A rambunctious queer sports comedy banned after its festival premiere by Brazil’s military dictatorship, Onda Nova sets its scene in São Paulo just after the legalization of women’s soccer following a 40-year prohibition. The newly formed Gayvotas…
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Lady and the Tramp
Sun Jun 14
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson
1955 / 76min / 35mm
35mm IB-Technicolor print courtesy of the Joe Dante and Jon Davison Collection at the Academy Film Archive
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Fellini Satyricon
Sun Jun 14
Director: Federico Fellini
1969 / 130min / 35mm
The surviving fragments of Gaius Petronius’s 1st century AD satire were adapted by Fellini into this appropriately disjointed, disorienting travelogue through an ancient Rome, extravagantly and outlandishly imagined—with significant inspiration drawn…
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The Decameron
Sun Jun 14
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
1971 / 111min / 35mm
Pasolini’s so-called “Trilogy of Life" films, adapted from canonical, world-historical story collections, represented a break from his experimental works of the late 1960s like Porcile and Teorema—films which he came to judge as existing too much in…
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Offside
Sun Jun 14
Director: Jafar Panahi
2006 / 93min / 35mm
The last feature Panahi made before being banned from further filmmaking activity by the Iranian government finds him again focused on the strictures placed on women in his homeland, here in an unscripted docufiction about a diverse group of female soccer…