NOW PLAYING IN THEATER
Where is the Friend's House?
Sun Jun 7
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…
More...
Love Letter
Sun Jun 7
Mon Jun 8
Wed Jun 10
Thu Jun 11
Fri Jun 12
Mon Jun 15
Thu Jun 18
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
More...
God's Country
Sun Jun 7
Director: Louis Malle
1985 / 89min / 16mm
Introduction by filmmaker Claire Duguet on Sunday, June 7th
More...
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…
More...
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…
More...
... And the Pursuit of Happiness
Sun Jun 7
Director: Louis Malle
1986 / 81min / Digital
Introduction by filmmaker Claire Duguet on Sunday, June 7th
More...
April Story
Director: Shunji Iwai
1998 / 67min / DCP
Q&A with director Shunji Iwai moderated by filmmaker Christopher Radcliff on Sunday, June 7th
More...
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…
More...
Hana and Alice
Director: Shunji Iwai
2004 / 135min / DCP
Introduction by director Shunji Iwai on Sunday, June 7th
More...
School on Fire
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…
More...
Andrei Rublev
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…
More...
Landscape in the Mist
Mon Jun 8
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…
More...
Van Gogh
Mon Jun 8
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…
More...
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…
More...
The Thing
Mon Jun 8
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.…
More...
PRIVATE EVENT TODAY IN THEATER & COMMISSARY
Tue Jun 9
2025 / 360min
Please check back soon for updated showtimes!
More...
Hill of Freedom
Wed Jun 10
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…
More...
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 Aljafari on Sunday, May 31st
More...
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du commerce,1080 Bruxelles
Wed Jun 10
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…
More...
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…
More...
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Wed Jun 10
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,…
More...
Cléo from 5 to 7
Thu Jun 11
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…
More...
Hahaha
Thu Jun 11
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…
More...
Cézanne + Une Visite au Louvre
Thu Jun 11
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…
More...
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…
More...
Les rendez-vous d'Anna
Thu Jun 11
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…
More...
Showgirls
Thu Jun 11
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…
More...
My Dinner with André
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,…
More...
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…
More...
Pompei: Below the Clouds
Director: Gianfranco Rosi
2025 / 115min / DCP
Introduction and Q&A with director Gianfranco Rosi on Friday, June 12th
More...
All About Lily Chou-Chou
Director: Shunji Iwai
2001 / 146min / DCP
Q&A with director Shunji Iwai moderated by filmmaker Christopher Radcliff on Saturday, June 6th
More...
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…
More...
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…
More...
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…
More...
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…
More...
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…
More...
Caravaggio
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…
More...
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…
More...
Fire at Sea
Sat Jun 13
Director: Gianfranco Rosi
2016 / 108min / DCP
Q&A with director Gianfranco Rosi on Saturday, June 13th✀ଡ
More...
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…
More...
The Silence of the Lambs
Sat Jun 13
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…
More...
Lady and the Tramp
Sun Jun 14
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson
1955 / 76min / 35mm
Screening on a 35mm IB-Technicolor print — One screening only!
More...
Fellini Satyricon
Sun Jun 14
Director: Federico Fellini
1969 / 130min / 35mm
Introduction by curator and scholar Marc Francis, author of Curating Deviance: Programming the Queer Film Canon, on Sunday, June 14th
More...
The Decameron
Sun Jun 14
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
1971 / 111min / 35mm
Introduction by curator and scholar Marc Francis, author of Curating Deviance: Programming the Queer Film Canon, on Sunday, June 14th
More...
Offside
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…
More...
Germany Year Zero preceded by Bambini in città
Mon Jun 15
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…
More...
Dream of Light preceded by Miró l'altre
Mon Jun 15
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…
More...
A Fish Called Wanda
Mon Jun 15
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…
More...
City on Fire
Mon Jun 15
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…
More...
Pirosmani + Arabesques on the Pirosmani Theme
Tue Jun 16
Director: Sergei Parajanov, Giorgi Shengelaia
1969 / 110min / DCP
Introduction by Anri Vartan, Cinema Naïf on Saturday, May 30th
More...
Oasis
Tue Jun 16
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…
More...
Vanya on 42nd Street
Wed Jun 17
Director: Louis Malle
1994 / 119min / 35mm
Introduction by Chloe Malle on Friday, June 5th
More...
Grave of the Fireflies [OV]
Wed Jun 17
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,…
More...
Farewell My Concubine
Wed Jun 17
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,…
More...
Peppermint Candy
Thu Jun 18
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…
More...
Lust for Life
Thu Jun 18
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…
More...
Come and See
Thu Jun 18
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…
More...
The Taste of Tea
Thu Jun 18
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,…
More...
The Handmaiden
Thu Jun 18
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…
More...
Death in Venice
Director: Luchino Visconti
1971 / 130min / 35mm
Visconti’s faithful—and feverishly engrossing—adaptation of Thomas Mann’s 1912 novella stars a top-form Dirk Bogarde as Gustav von Aschenbach, a German composer on a doctor-prescribed holiday in Venice who becomes transfixed by a handsome Polish…
More...
Grand Budapest Hotel preceded by Hotel Chevalier
Director: Wes Anderson
2014 / 99min / DCP
Shuttling between 1985, 1968, and 1932, with different aspect ratios for each period, Anderson’s wistfully charming and deeply moving film, drawing inspiration from the sophisticated comedies of Ernst Lubitsch and the eminently civilized writing of…
More...
Back to the Future
Director: Robert Zemeckis
1985 / 116min / 35mm
Synopsis feels almost superfluous when dealing with Back to the Future. Marty McFly. Emmett Brown. Biff Tannen. George McFly. Lorraine Baines. Your cousin, Marvin Berry. The DeLorean. 88 MPH. “The Power of Love.” Calvin Klein. “Great Scott!”…
More...
Grand Hotel
Director: Edmund Goulding
1932 / 112min / DCP
A single day in the life of the titular art deco Berlin institution, whose residents include prima ballerina Greta Garbo, jewel thief John Barrymore, and further colorful characters played by Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, and Lionel Barrymore. (Producer…
More...
Full Alert
Director: Ringo Lam
1997 / 99min / DCP
Filmed in the immediate lead-up to the Hong Kong Handover of 1997, Lam’s last bona fide masterwork—made after a not-entirely-satisfactory sojourn in North America—is not so much a eulogy to the action cinema of his hometown as a blazing funeral pyre…
More...
eXistenZ preceded by emergent mesh
Director: David Cronenberg
1999 / 97min / 35mm
Introduction by New Museum artist Tishan Hsu on Friday, June 19th
More...
Daughters of Darkness
1971 / 87min / 4K DCP
Restoration of the uncensored Director's Cut, scanned in 4K 16-bit from its long-lost original 35mm camera negative.
More...
Empire of the Sun
Director: Steven Spielberg
1987 / 153min / 35mm
Spielberg’s ravishing adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s semi-autobiographical account of life among Western expats in a Japanese internment camp in occupied Manchuria, starring a preternaturally talented 13-year-old Christian Bale as Jim, the spoiled child…
More...
The Tin Drum
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
1979 / 142min / DCP
Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 32nd Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Schlöndorff’s adaptation of Günter Grass’s 1959 magical realist novel of the same name tells the tale of anti-hero Oskar Matzerath…
More...
Below Sea Level
Sat Jun 20
Director: Gianfranco Rosi
2008 / 117min / DCP
Shot over a five-year period, Rosi’s film respectfully observes and gives voice to a group of individuals who’ve gone as far as anyone could to disappear, the outcasts and drop-outs with colorful sobriquets like “Insane Wayne” and…
More...
El Sicario, Room 164
Sat Jun 20
Director: Gianfranco Rosi
2010 / 80min / DCP
Wearing a black cowl for anonymity, a Mexican former hitman, seated in a hotel room “on the border US/Mexico” where once he’d plied his bloody trade, sits down to describe in detail the inner mechanisms of the cartels for whom he worked for 20…
More...
Eat Drink Man Woman
Sat Jun 20
Director: Ang Lee
1994 / 124min / 35mm
Introduction by chef and author Natasha Pickowicz on Saturday, June 20th
More...
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Sat Jun 20
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
2003 / 82min / DCP
The Fu-Ho Grand, a movie palace in Taipei, is closing its doors. Its valedictory screening: King …
More...
Late Spring
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
1949 / 108min / DCP
Widowed father Shukichi (Chishû Ryû) and his dotingly devoted 27-year-old daughter Noriko (Setsuko Hara) have through the years settled into a comfortable routine of domestic harmony—that is, until Noriko’s aunt (Haruko Sugimura) convinces Shukichi…
More...
35 Shots of Rum
Sun Jun 21
Director: Claire Denis
2008 / 100min / 35mm
Drawing inspiration from Yasujiro Ozu’s 1949 masterpiece Late Spring, Denis’s film about a single, working-class Afro-French father and the college-age daughter he’s slowly learning to let go of—the pair are played by Alex Descas and Mati…
More...
This Long Century presents Ben Rivers
Sun Jun 21
Director: Ben Rivers
2010 / 71min / DCP
Q&A with filmmaker Ben Rivers moderated by This Long Century founder Jason Evans on Friday, June 19th
More...
Adolescence of Utena
Director: Kunihiko Ikuhara
1999 / 100min / DCP
Ikuhara’s customarily off-the-wall adaptation of Chiho Saito’s manga Revolutionary Girl Utena is a head-spinning blast of subversive queer psychedelia that follows the title character, a tomboy newly enrolled at the fantastical campus of Ohitori…
More...
In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis
Sun Jun 21
Director: Gianfranco Rosi
2022 / 80min / DCP
After Fire at Sea and Notturno, two films addressing, among other things, the subject of forced migration, Rosi turned his attention to a voluntary voyager, the man born in Buenos Aires as Jorge Mario Bergoglio who, in the nine years covered in The…
More...
Full Contact
Director: Ringo Lam
1992 / 99min / 35mm
35mm print courtesy of Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
More...
Class of 1984
Director: Mark L. Lester
1982 / 89min / DCP
Still credited as “Michael Fox,” M.J.F. appears among the enrollees at crumbling, crime-ridden Lincoln High School—and gets stabbed in a cafeteria brawl!—in Lester’s dystopian Canuxsploitation classic, a sort of punk/New Wave Blackboard Jungle…
More...
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
Director: Alexandre Koberidze
2021 / 171min / DCP
World Cup fever and young love are in the air in the Georgian riverside city of Kutaisi; Lisa, a pharmacist, and Giorgi, a soccer player, smitten on first sight with one another, make plans for a date—plans that go awry when both awaken transformed…
More...
Teen Wolf
Director: Rod Daniel
1985 / 91min / 35mm
Awkward Nebraska high schooler Scott Howard (Fox) is a flop on the basketball court and practically invisible to girls, but all of that changes when he discovers he’s inherited the curse—and the gift—of lycanthropy from his father, achieving local…
More...
Europa
Director: Lars Von Trier
1991 / 108min / DCP
Also known as Zentropa, by any name von Trier’s film is a technical tour de force, its use of superimpositions and rear projection in layered widescreen compositions and expressionistic set design making for an orgy of formal flair unlike most anything…
More...
Light of Day
Director: Paul Schrader
1987 / 107min / 35mm
Bruce Springsteen was originally intended to star in Schrader’s blue-collar rock ’n’ roll melodrama, but after the Boss took off with its original title in his back pocket—“Born in the U.S.A.”—he presented the renamed Light of Day as a title…
More...
2 Lizards preceded by Culturesport: Rotterdam 95
Sat Jun 27
Director: Meriem Bennani, Orian Barki, John Michael Boling
2020 / 42min / DCP
Q&A with filmmakers and artists Orian Barki, Meriem Bennani, John Michael Boling, and Jason Coombs on Saturday, June 27th
More...
ACE Presents Breakfast of Champions
Sat Jun 27
1999 / 110min / DCP
Q&A with editor Suzy Elmiger moderated by Meg Reticker, ACE, on Saturday, June 27th
More...
Last Year at Marienbad
Sun Jun 28
Director: Alain Resnais
1961 / 94min / 4K DCP
Variously pilloried and adulated in its time, and undeniably “one of the most influential movies ever made” [J. Hoberman, The Village Voice], Resnais’s coolly glittering, fascinating, frustrating film, made in collaboration with novelist Alain…
More...
Ivan's Childhood
Sun Jun 28
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
1962 / 95min / 35mm
Tarkovsky’s magisterial feature debut, dubbed an exemplar of “socialist surrealism” by admirer Jean-Paul Sartre, follows a 12-year-old Russian boy orphaned during the German invasion of the USSR who, spurred by a passionate desire to avenge the…
More...
Turtles Can Fly
Sun Jun 28
Director: Bahman Gohbadi
2004 / 98min / 35mm
In the weeks leading up to the fall of Saddam Hussein, the residents of a Kurdish refugee camp on the mountainous border between Turkey and Iraq await the arrival of US-led forces. A 13-year-old, known by his friends as “Satellite,” earns pocket money…
More...
White Material
Sun Jun 28
Director: Claire Denis
2009 / 106min / 35mm
Raised in colonial French Africa until the age of 13, Denis would return to the continent in her cinema time and again, making it the scene of some of her richest and most redolent works. Here, Isabelle Huppert plays the manager of a coffee plantation in…