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Lebanon in Turmoil preceded by South Lebanon
Tue Aug 4
Director: Jocelyne Saab
1975 / 87min / DCP
Saab had aspired to attend film school in her youth, but eventually found her way into cinema via journalism. Her first nonfiction feature, begun shortly after the slaughter of some six thousand Palestinians by right-wing Christian Phalangists in April…
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Linda Linda Linda
Director: Nobuhiro Yamashita
2005 / 114min / 4K DCP
With their last high school concert only days away, bandmates Kei, Kyoko, and Nozomi’s hopes of taking the stage appear to be dashed when their lead singer quits the group, leaving them to hastily recruit a Korean exchange student with a limited grasp…
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Claire's Knee
Tue Aug 4
Director: Éric Rohmer
1970 / 106min / DCP
Shot in the environs of Lake Annecy, Claire’s Knee—the fifth entry in Rohmer’s series of Six Moral Tales—concerns a cultured, soon-to-be-wed diplomat (Jean-Claude Brialy) who develops a consuming obsession with the knee of an acquaintance’s…
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3 Women
Director: Robert Altman
1977 / 124min / 4K DCP
Alongside his more touted multi-character panoramas, Altman also had a fondness for small-scale dramas investigating the complexities of female psychology, and of these none is greater than the ineffable 3 Women, which finds Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek,…
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Jacob's Ladder
Tue Aug 4
Director: Adrian Lyne
1990 / 113min / 35mm
Having proven himself a reliable hitmaker through the 1980s with Flashdance, 9½ Weeks, and Fatal Attraction, Lyne took an excursion into troubling new territory with this headlong plunge into the damaged psyche of Vietnam veteran Jacob Singer (Tim…
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PRIVATE EVENT TODAY IN THEATER & COMMISSARY
Wed Aug 5
2025 / 360min
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Happy Together
Director: Wong Kar-wai
1997 / 96min / DCP
Hong Kong cinema superstars Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung play a pair of lovers living out the waning days of their relationship as expatriates in Buenos Aires. Lusty tango bars, the salsa music of the La Boca sidewalks, and a hypnotic visit to the nearby…
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The Bakery Girl of Monceau + Suzanne's Career
Thu Aug 6
Director: Éric Rohmer
1963 / 78min / DCP
Introduction by film critic Richard Brody on Sunday, July 12th
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My Night at Maud's
Thu Aug 6
Director: Éric Rohmer
1969 / 111min / DCP
Rohmer’s first feature-length entry in his “Six Moral Tales” series (following The Bakery Girl of Monceau and Suzanne’s Career) stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as a conscientious Catholic bachelor who is sorely tempted when he meets charming…
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Aferim!
Thu Aug 6
Director: Radu Jude
2015 / 108min / DCP
Jude won Best Director from a Berlin jury for this, his third feature, a meticulously detailed, ribald evocation of 19th-century Romania evoking Cervantes and Rabelais as well as the American horse opera, and shot in tactilely textured black and white,…
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My Heart Is That Eternal Rose
Thu Aug 6
Director: Patrick Tam
1989 / 90min / DCP
Tam, perhaps the Hong Kong New Wave’s most daring cine-modernist and a crucial influence on Wong Kar-wai, teams with DP Christopher Doyle for a high-style “heroic bloodshed” melodrama starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Kenny Bee, and Joey Wong as three…
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Basic Instinct
Thu Aug 6
Director: Paul Verhoeven
1992 / 127min / 35mm
The film that made a star of Sharon Stone, seen to good effect in Verhoeven’s previous Carolco production, Total Recall, and that also provided the studio a succès de scandale windfall. Perfectly poised as she negotiates her way through the most…
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Possession
Thu Aug 6
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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Vertigo
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
1958 / 128min / 35mm
Dress up becomes a matter of fevered fixation in Hitchcock’s utterly intoxicating thriller, in which ex-cop-cum-snoop-for-hire Scottie Ferguson (Jimmy Stewart) sets out on a routine job tailing the mysterious Madeline (Kim Novak), an old pal’s…
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Wake in Fright
Fri Aug 7
Director: Ted Kotcheff
1971 / 109min / 4K DCP
It’s the eve of the Christmas holiday, and polite, young middle-class schoolteacher John Grant (Gary Bond), tied to a position at a tiny township in the outback, is on his way to Sydney to see his girlfriend by way of a stopoff in the grubby mining burg…
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Chocolat
Director: Claire Denis
1988 / 105min / DCP
After years of honing her craft as assistant director for the likes of Jim Jarmusch and Wim Wenders, Denis emerged as a filmmaker with a distinct and fully-formed sense of her art in this, her sensual and infinitely sensitive semi-autobiographical feature…
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Conversation Piece
Director: Luchino Visconti
1974 / 121min / 4K DCP
Burt Lancaster reunited with his The Leopard director for Visconti’s penultimate film, an elegant odd-couple chamber drama in which the leonine “Boit” plays a graying American intellectual immured from the modern world in his Roman palazzo—until,…
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Paranoid Park
Director: Gus Van Sant
2007 / 85min / DCP
Adapting Blake Nelson’s Y.A. novel of the same name, Van Sant renders the youth gathering place of the skate park a voluptuous dreamscape with the help of cinematographers Chris Doyle and Rain Kathy Li. Teenaged skate rat Alex—Gabe Nevins, leading a…
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Collateral
Director: Michael Mann
2004 / 120min / 35mm
Los Angeles cabbie Max Durocher (Jamie Foxx) is in for the toughest fare of his working life when he picks up one Vincent (Tom Cruise, natty in charcoal gray sharkskin suit), a jazz enthusiast and professional hitman who quite firmly insists that his…
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The Milk of Sorrow
Director: Claudia Llosa
2009 / 94min / DCP
Winner of the Golden Bear at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival, Llosa’s formidable sophomore feature focuses on Fausta (Magaly Solier, in a performance nearly free of dialogue), the only daughter of an aged Indigenous Peruvian woman who,…
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Hannibal
Director: Ridley Scott
2001 / 131min / 35mm
Hopkins reprises his role from 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs as psychiatrist-turned-cannibal serial killer Hannibal Lecter in Scott’s follow-up, a gristly fairy tale that finds FBI special agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore, ably taking on the…
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Scene of the Crime
Director: André Téchiné
1986 / 90min / DCP
One of seven collaborations between Téchiné and Catherine Deneuve, Scene of the Crime is a study of domestic discontent wearing the trappings of a boilerplate thriller, its action set into motion when a disconsolate 13-year-old boy runs across a…
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Good Morning
Sat Aug 8
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
1959 / 94min / 35mm
Two brothers in a modern Japanese suburb go on strike to bring their parents to their knees and achieve their cherished dream: owning a television set for watching sumo matches. While borrowing from his own classic I Was Born, But… (1932), Ozu turns in…
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Le amiche
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
1955 / 106min / DCP
Perhaps the first of Antonioni’s films to give a clear indication of the direction of his mature style, this adaptation of Cesare Pavese’s Among Women Only finds glamorous Eleonora Rossi Drago returning to her hometown of Turin to open a branch of a…
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The Warriors
Director: Walter Hill
1979 / 93min / DCP
“Waaarriors! Come out and play-ay!” Falsely accused of responsibility for the assassination of New York’s most powerful ganglord during a citywide summit in the Bronx’s Van Cortlandt Park, Swan (Michael Beck) and his fellow Warriors now have to…
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The Chaser
Director: Na Hong-jin
2008 / 125min / 35mm
Drawing inspiration from the gristly exploits of South Korean serial killer Yoo Young-chul, Na’s astonishingly assured directorial debut stars Ha Jung-woo as a sadistic killer, Ji Yeong-min, and Kim Yoon-seok as Joong-ho, an ex-detective with a…
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Otar Iosseliani Early Shorts Program
Director: Otar Iosseliani
1958 / 94min / DCP
A program of the inspired early shorts that established Iosseliani at the forefront of a new, rising generation of Georgian filmmakers. Featuring Akvarel, in which a quarreling working-class couple experience a revelation at an art exhibition; Sapovnela,…
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First Blood
Sat Aug 8
Director: Ted Kotcheff
1982 / 93min / 35mm
The movie whose runaway success singlehandedly landed Carolco in the ranks of legit Tinseltown players, Kotcheff’s taut adaptation of David Morrell’s 1972 novel of the same name introduces Sylvester Stallone as burnt-out Vietnam vet John Rambo, in the…
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The Night is Short, Walk on Girl
Sat Aug 8
Director: Masaaki Yuasa
2019 / 93min / DCP
A surreal nocturnal animated odyssey from Yuasa, the mad genius behind Mind Game, rendered in a frenetic, galaxy-brained, endlessly morphing style. The Night is Short, Walk on Girl follows a mysterious high schooler known only as The Girl with Black Hair…
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Girlhood
Director: Céline Sciamma
2014 / 113min / DCP
Set in the suburbs of Paris, Sciamma’s coming-of-age story stars Karidja Touré as Marieme, a 16-year-old who finds a sense of sorority, camaraderie, and mutual support when she joins up with an amateur “gang” of girls her age—much to the chagrin…
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Dumplings
Sat Aug 8
Director: Fruit Chan
2004 / 91min / DCP
Expanding his segment of the same name in the horror anthology film Three… Extremes, Chan’s Dumplings tells the deliciously deviant tale of ex-soap star Mrs. Li (Miriam Yeung) who, her looks fading and husband Tony Leung Ka-fai’s eye wandering,…
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Millennium Mambo
Sat Aug 8
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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In the Mood for Love
Director: Wong Kar-wai
2000 / 98min / 35mm
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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The Hole [Newly Struck 35mm Print]
Sun Aug 9
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
1998 / 93min / 35mm
It’s the close of the millennium and Taipei has emptied out with the onset of a mysterious virus, but The Man Upstairs (Lee Kang-sheng) and The Woman Downstairs (Yang Kuei-mei) lag behind among the ruins, where it doesn’t seem like there’s really…
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The Kid
Sun Aug 9
Director: Charlie Chaplin
1921 / 53min / 35mm
Regarded as the Tramp’s first jump into feature films, this family-friendly six-reeler shows Chaplin at his most brilliant and most sentimental, plumbing memories of his own boyhood of almost Dickensian deprivation. The Tramp adopts an abandoned boy,…
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Rebecca
Sun Aug 9
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
1940 / 130min / 4K DCP
“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderlay again…” Hitchcock was still a newly arrived UK import when this gothic thriller/romance, based on the novel of the same title by Daphne du Maurier, took Outstanding Production (later “Best Picture”)…
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Favorites of the Moon
Sun Aug 9
Director: Otar Iosseliani
1984 / 102min / DCP
Having relocated to France in 1982, Iosseliani wasted no time in showing the world he hadn’t left his singular gifts behind upon leaving Georgia, taking home the Special Jury Prize at the 41st Venice International Film Festival for this puckish…
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And Then There Was Light
Sun Aug 9
Director: Otar Iosseliani
1989 / 105min / DCP
The confrontation of a traditional rural/agrarian culture bound to the land and the cycles of the seasons and an urban/industrial society that has largely forgotten these ties, an abiding concern of Iosseliani’s cinema, plays out against a backdrop…
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Toute une nuit
Mon Aug 10
Director: Chantal Akerman
1982 / 91min / DCP
Emotions boil over and thunder rolls during one oppressively humid summer night in Brussels in Akerman’s tender and melancholy film of brief encounters, furtive embraces, nocturnal despair, yearning vigils, and pregnant silences. A string of…
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La Collectionneuse
Mon Aug 10
Director: Éric Rohmer
1967 / 90min / DCP
Introduction by filmmaker Annie Baker on Saturday, July 11th
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Millionaires' Express
Mon Aug 10
Director: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
1986 / 98min / 35mm
Arguably the most formidable ensemble cast in the history of Hong Kong cinema assembled on the set of Hung’s Eastern Western, in which reformed outlaw Sammo teams with Sheriff (played by Yuen Biao) to protect their impoverished rural hometown from a…
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The Razor's Edge + Lebanese, Hostage of Their City
Mon Aug 10
Director: Jocelyne Saab
1985 / 109min / 4K DCP
Saab’s fiction feature debut, here in a sterling new restoration, is not without its own documentary aspect—shot amidst the devastation of the Lebanese Civil War and set during the 70-day Siege of Beirut, which appears in archival footage, The…
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The Great Silence
Tue Aug 11
Director: Sergio Corbucci
1968 / 105min / 4K DCP
The traditional slow-speaking taciturnity of the Western hero is taken to the extreme in Django director Corbucci’s hard-nosed, politically-provocative snowbound Spaghetti Western, set in turn-of-the-last-century Utah but filmed in the Italian…
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Before Sunrise
Tue Aug 11
Director: Richard Linklater
1995 / 101min / DCP
Linklater’s ongoing, decades-spanning story of a love affair through its many ups and downs begins here, with a chance encounter on a train between Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, the American Jesse and the French Céline, who together will pass a day and…
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The Green Room
Tue Aug 11
Director: François Truffaut
1978 / 94min / 35mm
One of Truffaut’s most personal and beautiful films, photographed “in fecund greens and withering yellows” [Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader] by DP Néstor Almendros, and one of the least known of Truffaut’s major works—audiences, it seems, weren’t…
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Love in the Afternoon
Tue Aug 11
Director: Éric Rohmer
1972 / 97min / DCP
Introduction by Feed Me founder Emily Sundberg on Saturday, July 11th
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The Red Light Bandit
Tue Aug 11
Director: Rogério Sganzerla
1968 / 92min / DCP
Described by Sganzerla—21 years old when he directed his wild-eyed feature debut—as a “Western about the Third World,” The Red Light Bandit drew inspiration from the exploits of João Acácio Pereira da Costa, a recently arrested career criminal…
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Good Time
Tue Aug 11
Director: Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie
2017 / 102min / 35mm
A relentless, breakneck, candy-colored chase through the heart of Queens and Nassau County, the Safdies’ long, dark night of the soul thriller follows ne’er-do-well punk grifter “Connie” Nikas (Robert Pattinson) as he scrambles to spring brother…
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Fallen Angels
Tue Aug 11
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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Solaris
Wed Aug 12
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
1972 / 167min / DCP
Enthralling, haunting, hypnotic, enigmatic, visually stunning, and overwhelmingly emotional, Tarkovsky’s slow sci-fi epic—based on Polish author Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the same name—follows psychologist Kris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis) on a…
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Mountains of the Moon
Wed Aug 12
Director: Bob Rafelson
1990 / 136min / 35mm
William Harrison’s 1982 historical novel about 19th-century explorers Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke and their rival expeditions to discover the source of the Nile River received a suitably epic treatment from Rafelson (Five Easy Pieces,…
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Take Care of My Cat
Wed Aug 12
Director: Jeong Jae-eun
2001 / 112min / 4K DCP
Introduction by Jawni Han on Friday, July 17th and post-screening discussion with local members of Nobutdol on Tuesday, July 21st
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State of Grace
Wed Aug 12
Director: Phil Joanou
1990 / 134min / 4K DCP
“His technique was almost invisible—you couldn’t even figure out if there was one… He understood everything about Jackie, how he’d behave and speak and move.” So said director Joanou of Gary Oldman’s loose-cannon performance in State of…
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El Topo
Wed Aug 12
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
1970 / 125min / 35mm
Chilean-born mime-turned-filmmaker Jodorowsky plays the title role in this acid Western staple of the midnight movies, strapping on the six-shooter as a lone gunfighter—his name means “The Mole” in Spanish—traveling across a psychedelic desert…
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La Haine
Thu Aug 13
Director: Matthieu Kassovitz
1995 / 97min / DCP
A cinematic Molotov cocktail that was the first onscreen description of life (and death) in Paris’s banlieue housing projects that many French filmgoers had ever seen, La Haine depicts three armed and angry slum kids—Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé,…
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L'Argent
Thu Aug 13
Director: Robert Bresson
1983 / 84min / DCP
A film in which sound, often off-screen, enriches the image, and carries enormous, frequently tragic implications: the tinkling shatter of a glass of white wine seen precipitously perched on an upright piano, the sound of an open palm crossing a young…
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The Traveler
Thu Aug 13
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
1974 / 74min / DCP
The all-consuming monomania of footy fandom is at the center of Kiarostami’s first full-length feature, in which Qassem, a 12-year-old from the provincial city of Malayer, is determined to see the Iranian national team play a match some 150 miles away…
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Do You Love Me
Thu Aug 13
Director: Lana Daher
2026 / 75min / DCP
Select introductions by guests including ArteEast's Sylvia Feghali and Céline Semaan, Slow Factory CEO and host of Everything is Political, on July 10th, 11th, and 12th
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JFK
Thu Aug 13
Director: Oliver Stone
1991 / 206min / DCP
The alpha and omega of conspiracy films, Stone’s deliriously entertaining cinematic inquest stars Kevin Costner as Jim Garrison, the New Orleans district attorney who came to find the circumstances of the 35th US president’s assassination more than a…
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Les Bonnes Femmes
Director: Claude Chabrol
1960 / 104min / 35mm
An early and enormous artistic triumph of the French New Wave, Chabrol’s quietly class-conscious film records the dreams, dramas, and self-deceptions of a quartet of young Parisian girls working at an appliance shop, among them Bernadette Lafont and…
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La Notte
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
1962 / 122min / DCP
Novelist Giovanni Pontano (Marcello Mastroianni) is the toast of the Italian literary scene, but smothered by the trappings of success. His misery weighs heavily on his wife, Lidia (Jeanne Moreau), already carrying her own cargo of existential anguish. In…
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Deliverance
Director: John Boorman
1972 / 109min / 35mm
A quartet of city slicker businessman buddies (Jon Voight, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox and, in a star-making role, Burt Reynolds) leave Atlanta to head into the Georgia backwoods for what’s meant to be a little weekend canoe trip… and stumble headlong…
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Nil by Mouth
Director: Gary Oldman
1997 / 128min / DCP
Set in the hardscrabble South London of the filmmaker’s own youth and dedicated—in a more than slightly ambivalent gesture—to the memory of his father, Gary Oldman’s disarmingly raw debut as writer/director/producer flings us into a working-class…
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Walkabout
Director: Nicolas Roeg
1971 / 100min / 35mm
Having fled into the Outback after their father has a psychotic episode that threatens their very lives, two Sydney-bred adolescent siblings (Jenny Agutter and Luc Roeg, the director’s son) meet an Aboriginal teenager (David Gulpilil, in his debut role)…
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The Hunger
Director: Tony Scott
1983 / 97min / 35mm
A lush vampire romance with sex and style to spare, much of it provided by stars Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie as a couple of posh, centuries-old nightclubbing New York bloodsuckers who, when one begins to show the first signs of aging, recruit…
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Obsession
Director: Brian De Palma
1976 / 98min / DCP
De Palma’s twisted twist on Hitchcock’s Vertigo stars Cliff Robertson as a wealthy New Orleans real-estate developer still mourning the loss of his beloved wife (Dead Ringers’ Genevieve Bujold) and daughter years after their abductions until, on a…
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Chungking Express
Fri Aug 14
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Sat Aug 29
Director: Wong Kar-wai
1994 / 102min / DCP
A hot-shot to the heart, pop masterpiece Chungking Express tells the stories of two lovelorn cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung) and the women who baffle them (Brigitte Lin and Faye Wong, who contributes a Cantopop cover of The Cranberries’…
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Irreversible
Director: Gaspar Noe
2002 / 94min / 35mm
Fourteen long sequence shots arranged in reverse chronology take us on a journey from hell to heaven, from nightmarish violence to connubial bliss. In a BDSM club evocatively called Club Rectum, Pierre (Albert Dupontel) dashes in the face of a man who’s…
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The Dark Knight
Director: Christopher Nolan
2008 / 152min / 35mm
The city of Chicago plays an oppressively glum Gotham in Nolan, Christian Bale, and Gary Oldman’s second Batman outing, a film of Langian architectural oppression that pits Bruce Wayne’s alter ego against Heath Ledger’s anarchic Clown Prince of…
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A Day in the Country + People on Sunday
Sat Aug 15
Director: Robert Siodmak, Jean Renoir , Edgar G. Ulmer
1930 / 115min / DCP
Two slices of life from Europe entre deux guerres, and two compact masterpieces. Renoir’s featurette fragment, based on a Guy de Maupassant short story and only edited 10 years after its shoot came to a premature end, evokes the disappeared world of…
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Two by Robb Moss
Sat Aug 15
Director: Robb Moss
1991 / 92min / DCP
Q&A with filmmaker Robb Moss on Saturday, August 15th
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The Others
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
2001 / 101min / 4K DCP
Having enjoyed a palpable international hit with his Abre Los Ojos—picked up for an American remake, under the title Vanilla Sky, by Tom Cruise—Amenábar made his English-language debut with The Others, a dolorous, deftly directed Old Dark House…
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Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Sun Aug 16
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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The Jungle Book
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
1967 / 78min / 35mm
Inspired by the adventures of the foundling Mowgli in Rudyard Kipling’s 1894 collection of the same name, The Jungle Book—the final animated Disney feature to be overseen in its production by Uncle Walt—would become one of the studio’s biggest…
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Falling Leaves
Sun Aug 16
Director: Otar Iosseliani
1966 / 91min / 4K DCP
Iosseliani’s debut feature—winner of the FIPRESCI Award at Cannes—follows newly minted oenologists Nico and Otar, just out of winemaking school, as they head to work at an agricultural cooperative in Tbilisi, there to have their first intimate…
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There Once Was a Singing Blackbird
Sun Aug 16
Director: Otar Iosseliani
1969 / 98min / 4K DCP
Gia (Gela Kandelaki), a timpanist in the Tbilisi Philharmonic, has made a science of getting to work just on time to hit his lone cue and then dashing out the door, so as to leave the rest of his hours open for sweet-talking women and carousing with pals.…
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Withnail and I
Director: Bruce Robinson
1987 / 107min / DCP
Based loosely on writer/director Robinson’s memories of being a penniless actor in late ’60s London, Withnail and I stars Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann as two unemployed thesps and Camden Town flatmates—hard-drinking, dissolute Withnail and an…
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What Lies Beneath
Director: Robert Zemeckis
2000 / 130min / 35mm
Filmed during a lengthy production break on his Cast Away of the same year, Zemeckis’s What Lies Beneath is in many regards a fitting companion piece to the director’s better-known Hanks vehicle as a study in isolation—here, the gnawing loneliness…
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True Romance
Director: Tony Scott
1993 / 119min / DCP
Comic shop clerk, Elvis aficionado, and repository of cult movie esoterica, Slater’s Clarence Worley goes from nerd to knight errant after his whirlwind romance with call girl Alabama (Patricia Arquette), taking her on the lam after he forcefully…
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Raw
Director: Julia Ducournau
2016 / 99min / DCP
Justine (Garance Marillier), a lifelong vegetarian, has just started attending the same Belgian veterinary school that her older sister Alexia (Ella Rumpf) goes to, and after she’s forced to eat a raw rabbit kidney during a hazing ritual, she suddenly…
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House
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
1977 / 88min / 35mm
A demonic house cat is only one of the cast of outlandish characters in Ôbayashi’s psychedelic ghost story in which a schoolgirl and six of her teen classmates go on a trip to her ailing aunt’s mist-wreathed country house and find themselves caught…
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When Marnie Was There
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
2014 / 103min / DCP
Yonebayashi’s Studio Ghibli–produced adaptation of British author Joan G. Robinson’s 1967 novel of the same name transplant the source’s action from the marshes of Norfolk to the Kushiro wetlands in Hokkaido, where young Anna, staying with…
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Happy Hour
Sat Aug 22
Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi
2015 / 317min / DCP
Four longtime friends in their late thirties living in Kobe, played by Sachie Tanaka, Hazuki Kikuchi, Maiko Mihara, and Rira Kawamura—together recipients of the Best Actress award at the Locarno Film Festival—are thrown into turmoil when one announces…
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Days and Nights in the Forest
Director: Satyajit Ray
1970 / 115min / 4K DCP
Leaving crowded Calcutta behind for a few days of rustication in the Palamau woods—while bringing the deeply ingrained prejudices of their castes and their sex along as baggage—four middle-class young men hope that their holiday will provide the…
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
1992 / 128min / 4K DCP
Coppola at his most boldly baroque, Gary Oldman wearing cinema’s most iconic updo, a puppyish young Keanu Reeves trying to make his way back to Winona Ryder, and Anthony Hopkins as vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing—it’s all here in this opulent…
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
1988 / 88min / 35mm
Capping an incredible eight-year creative partnership with Almodóvar, repeat collaborator Carmen Maura here plays voice actress Pepa, who, abandoned by her lover, has resolved to kill herself by downing a batch of gazpacho laced with sleeping pills.…
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Spider Baby
Sat Aug 22
Director: Jack Hill
1967 / 81min / DCP
Chauffeur Lon Chaney, Jr. attempts to cover up the homicidal and cannibalistic indiscretions of his charges, the feral Merrye family—a trio of variously degenerate long-orphaned siblings played by Jill Banner, Beverly Washburn, and Sid Haig—as distant…
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Director: Steven Spielberg
1982 / 115min / 4K DCP
A world-conquering pop culture phenomenon on its original release, today it’s easier to see Spielberg’s boy-and-his-alien fable as the movie it always was—modest and familiar in its domestic setting, supremely sensitive to all the fun and the fear…
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Petite Maman
Director: Céline Sciamma
2021 / 73min / DCP
Sciamma’s follow-up to her lauded Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a tender, compassionate, and refreshingly unsentimental study of loss as experienced by a child; a lovely and effervescent work centered on eight-year-old Nelly (Joséphine Sanz) who, when…
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Pastorale
Sun Aug 23
Director: Otar Iosseliani
1975 / 95min / DCP
A Tbilisi-based string quartet, seeking a quiet place to practice, light out for a mountain village, taking lodgings with the family of a long-haul truck driver and rehearsing on the house’s veranda as, around them, the daily life of the mountain hamlet…
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Chasing Butterflies
Sun Aug 23
Director: Otar Iosseliani
1992 / 115min / DCP
In the French countryside, in a chateau that’s arrived at a state of genteel decay, two eccentric old women live, as they have for years, practicing the nearly forgotten rituals of the prewar haute bourgeoisie, surrounded by beautiful, dusty relics of a…
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In My Skin
Director: Marina de Van
2002 / 93min / 4K DCP
De Van writes, directs, and stars in this morbidly transfixing, at times suffocatingly intimate psychodrama from the high heady horrifying heyday of New French Extremity, playing Ester, a seemingly well adjusted Parisian career woman whose life changes…
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After Hours
Director: Martin Scorsese
1985 / 97min / DCP
Cheech and Chong! Sultry sculptress Linda Fiorentino! Bad Brains! These are but a few of the characters that Midtown computer jockey Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) will encounter when venturing into the wilds of a pre-gentrification downtown New York…
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Jennifer's Body
Director: Karyn Kusama
2009 / 102min / DCP
High school besties Anita and Jennifer (Amanda Seyfried and Megan Fox) are all but inseparable—though “Needy” Anita is a mousy bookworm and Jennifer a lusted-after member of the color guard—but can their opposites-attract dynamic survive…
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Eve's Bayou
Director: Kasi Lemmons
1997 / 109min / DCP
One of the essential works of the 1990s and recently selected for the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, Eve’s Bayou is a film of rich, steamy sexuality and an incredible sense of place, that follows the loss of innocence that occurs when…
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Der Fan
Director: Eckhart Schmidt
1982 / 92min / 4K DCP
Teen runaway Simone (Désirée Nosbusch, entrancingly opaque) loves the Neue Deutsche Welle pop singer known only as “R” (Bodo Staiger)… loves him so much, in fact, that she could just about eat him alive. And when she finally meets her idol—only…
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Old Joy
Sat Aug 29
Director: Kelly Reichardt
2006 / 76min / 35mm
Two boyhood pals who have since drifted apart, played by Daniel London and musician Will Oldham, impulsively reunite for a camping and hiking trip in the verdant woods of the Pacific Northwest in Reichardt’s breakout sophomore feature, released 12 years…
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Mississippi Mermaid
Sat Aug 29
Director: François Truffaut
1969 / 123min / 35mm
Adapted, like Truffaut’s The Bride Wore Black, from a crime novel by “William Irish” (a pseudonym of Cornell Woolrich), Mississippi Mermaid’s location-hopping tale of catastrophic amour fou begins on the Island of Réunion, where Jean-Paul…
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Stand By Me
Sat Aug 29
Director: Rob Reiner
1986 / 87min / DCP
Adapting King’s novella The Body, Reiner created this rightly beloved, clear-eyed evocation of 1950s America, starring River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O’Connell as a group of adolescent friends in small-town Oregon who set out to…
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2046
Director: Wong Kar-wai
2004 / 129min / DCP
A sort-of sequel to Wong’s Days of Being Wild and In the Mood for Love, the ’60s-set 2046 revisits Tony Leung Chiu-wai’s Chow, now a suave science-fiction writer, to chronicle his various affairs with women (including Faye Wong, Zhang Ziyi, and Gong…
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Lady in the Water
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
2006 / 110min / 35mm
To its detractors, evidence of auteur egomania run amok, to its admirers, among the most personal and individualistic studio productions of the last 20 years, Lady in the Water is a daring admixture of the quotidian and the fantastic, in which the…
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Nenette and Boni
Sat Aug 29
Director: Claire Denis
1996 / 103min / 35mm
Alice Houri and Grégoire Colin, playing an estranged sister and brother reunited after leaving the same broken home behind, are the title characters of Denis’s domestic drama, a film whose emotional generosity is perfectly matched by the luminous…
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Mulholland Drive [35mm]
Director: David Lynch
2001 / 147min / 35mm
Beginning its life as an aborted TV pilot concerning blonde aspiring actress Betty Elms (Naomi Watts, transcendent) and an amnesiac brunette (Laura Harring) who stumbles into her, Mulholland Dr. would be reborn as a strange, sorrowful, and maddeningly…
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Sun Aug 30
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
2003 / 82min / DCP
The Fu-Ho Grand, a movie palace in Taipei, is closing its doors. Its valedictory screening: King …