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Fantasia
Director: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr.
1940 / 125min / 35mm
The Philadelphia Orchestra, following the hand of conductor Leopold Stokowski, performs selections from Bach, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Beethoven, and other giants, each accompanied by animated vignettes—most famously the mischievous Mickey Mouse vehicle…
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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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Eat Drink Man Woman
Thu Dec 18
Director: Ang Lee
1994 / 124min / 35mm
Co-written by James Schamus and Wang Hui-ling, Lee’s gently comic family fable about a semi-retired master chef and his three daughters, the director’s only film shot entirely in his native Taiwan, is arguably the best movie about how food can connect…
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Freak Orlando
Thu Dec 18
Director: Ulrike Ottinger
1981 / 126min / DCP
An outrageous, carnivalesque camp reading of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, Ottinger’s crazed comedy follows its gender nonconforming hero/heroine through five wide-ranging adventures that span the history of the world: the Freak City department store,…
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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Director: Park Chan-wook
2002 / 116min / 35mm
Fired from his factory job, Ryu (Shin Ha-kyun), a gentle deaf-mute man desperately trying to scrape together funds for his sister’s kidney transplant, falls in with a plan, hatched by his anarchist activist girlfriend (Bae Doona), to kidnap the daughter…
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Ticket of No Return
Thu Dec 18
Director: Ulrike Ottinger
1979 / 108min / DCP
Introduction by Ulrike Ottinger on Saturday, October 4th
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The Nightmare Before Christmas
Director: Tim Burton
1993 / 76min / 4K DCP
One fine day Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, discovers a gateway leading to the snow-blanketed, jolly Christmastown, and decides to bring the holiday back to his ghost and ghoul subjects, a plan that quickly goes catastrophic.…
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Take Care of My Cat
Director: Jae-eun Jeong
2001 / 112min / DCP
The debut feature from Jeong, one of a handful of female directors to break into the South Korean film industry, focuses on five young women, recent high school graduates living in the industrial port city of Incheon and facing a precarious future…
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Whit Stillman Presents Metropolitan
Fri Dec 19
Director: Whit Stillman
1990 / 98min / 35mm
Q&A with director Whit Stillman moderated by critic Vadim Rizov on Friday, December 19th
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A Girl is a Gun
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Director: Luc Moullet
1971 / 79min / 4K DCP
Jean-Pierre Léaud plays Billy the Kid, and things only get stranger from there in Moullet’s newly restored, slapstick Bouillabaisse Western, which follows Léaud’s loony Billy across the rugged terrain of the Hautes Alps, fleeing the law and hostile…
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Robert Longo Presents Johnny Mnemonic in B&W
Fri Dec 19
Director: Robert Longo
1995 / 103min / DCP
Introduction by director Robert Longo on Friday, December 19th
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Millennium Mambo
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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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Point Break
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Director: Kathryn Bigelow
1991 / 122min / 4K DCP
Keanu Reeves stars as Johnny Utah, an FBI agent who goes undercover among the beach bums in order to investigate a hunch about surfers who are possibly moonlighting as bank robbers, in the film that cemented Reeves as a new, very California cool kind of…
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Art Cinema for Tots: The Snowman
Director: Multiple Dirs
1982 / 50min / DCP
Born out of a commitment to the idea that it’s never too early to introduce kids to the pleasures of movies made outside of the commercial mainstream—and the suspicion that young audiences are often more open-minded and curious than their elders when…
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The Leopard
Sat Dec 20
Director: Luchino Visconti
1963 / 186min / 35mm
Visconti, a committed communist with a taste for lavish luxury who also happened to be a titled Count of the Milanese aristocracy, depicts the overtaking of the class into which he was born by an ascendant bourgeoisie in his opulent adaptation—shot in…
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The Shop Around the Corner
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
1940 / 97min / DCP
Christmas is coming, and at Matuschek’s department store in Budapest—or, rather, a charming, snowbound Hollywood studio evocation of the city in its prewar splendor—the employees are bracing for the holiday rush. But that’s the least of the drama…
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The Godfather Part II
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
1974 / 202min / 35mm
The rare sequel to, in the eyes of many viewers at least, equal or exceed its original, The Godfather Part II is in fact sequel and prequel in one package, weaving together the c.1958 story of the Corleones—now led by Al Pacino’s Michael out of a…
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Strike
Sat Dec 20
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
1925 / 82min / 35mm
Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin, released eight months after the premiere of Strike, his narrative debut, would go on to become the textbook representative of the ideological fervency and “anything goes” creative indulgence that made the cinema of…
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Battleship Potemkin
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
1925 / 66min / 35mm
An epic dramatization of the mutiny of the crew of the namesake vessel, a dreadnought in the Imperial Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet, whose uprising was one of many that marked the revolutionary year of 1905 in the troubled Tsardom; also the film that,…
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Director: Robert Altman
1971 / 120min / 4K DCP
Hailed by critic Pauline Kael as “a beautiful pipe dream of a movie,” Altman’s snowbound Western plays out in the ramshackle Washington frontier town of Presbyterian, where extravagantly fur-coated wandering gambler Warren Beatty decides to stick…
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Eyes Wide Shut
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Director: Stanley Kubrick
1999 / 159min / 35mm
Christmas lights take on a malevolent gleam in Kubrick’s final masterpiece, a free adaptation of Dream Story, Viennese author Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella of erotic compulsion. Dr. Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) hits the shivering streets of a…
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Director: Multiple Dirs
1937 / 83min / 35mm
Walter Elias Disney had taken risks in his professional life before, some of them quite substantive, but never, before or after, would he put all his chips on the table in the way that he did with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It would be the first…
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The Muppet Christmas Carol
Director: Brian Henson
1992 / 85min / DCP
The first Muppet movie to appear after the early death of genius Jim Henson, and the most emotionally rich of them all, a revitalizing retelling of Charles Dickens’s classic tale with Michael Caine as a superb Scrooge, Kermit as Bob Cratchit, and a host…
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Holiday Fleischer Cartoons
Director: Multiple Dirs, Dave Fleischer, Max Fleischer
1933 / 58min / DCP
Celebrate the holidays with Fleischer Studios, home of Betty Boop, Popeye, Bimbo, and a barbed, surrealist sense of humor. Featuring Modeling, in which Koko the Clown escapes Max Fleischer’s pen to run amok; Christmas Comes but Once a Year, in which…
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A Summer at Grandpa's
Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
1984 / 94min / DCP
Introduction by programmer Edo Choi on Sunday, December 21st
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A Time to Live, a Time to Die
Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
1985 / 138min / 35mm
Introduction by programmer Edo Choi on Sunday, December 21st
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Dust in the Wind
Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
1986 / 108min / 35mm
Introduction by programmer Edo Choi on Sunday, December 21st
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Carol [DCP]
Director: Todd Haynes
2015 / 118min / DCP
A Metrograph holiday tradition, back by popular demand. It starts at Frankenberg’s department store, and an exchange of glances between Carol and the girl behind the counter (Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, both sublime), a look that tangles up…
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An Affair to Remember
Director: Leo McCarey
1957 / 115min / 4K DCP
Almost 20 years after his 1939 Love Affair, McCarey returned to the same story—that of a jaded fortune-hunting roué and unhappily engaged woman who meet on a transatlantic liner, are redeemed in love for one another, then separated by tragedy—which…
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I Can't Sleep
Mon Dec 22
Director: Claire Denis
1994 / 110min / 35mm
Loosely inspired by the exploits of the so-called “granny killers” Thierry Paulin and Jean-Thierry Mathurin who made headlines in the late ’80s with their savage slayings of some 21 elderly women in and around Paris’s 18th arrondissement,…
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Blast of Silence
Director: Allen Baron
1961 / 77min / 4K DCP
A singularly downbeat home-for-the-holidays movie, Baron’s grungy independently produced noir concerns solitary tight-lipped hitman, Frank “Baby Boy” Bono (Baron himself), embarking on a Christmas week assignment for the Cleveland mob in his old…
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2046 [35mm]
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Director: Wong Kar-wai
2004 / 129min / 35mm
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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Alphaville
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Director: Jean-Luc Godard
1965 / 99min / 4K DCP
Eddie Constantine’s B-movie private dick Lemmy Caution finds himself on the toughest case of his career, on the trail of rogue scientist Professor von Braun, the inventor of Alpha 60, a sentient computer that keeps tabs on the citizenry of…
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Fanny and Alexander (TV version)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
1982 / 312min / DCP
Spend the Christmas Eve of 1907—and the aftermath of the sumptuous celebration—at the Ekdahl family home, as seen through the eyes of two of the massive clan’s smallest members, played by Pernilla Allwin and Bertil Guve, in Bergman’s intimate epic…
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Tokyo Godfathers
Director: Satoshi Kon
2003 / 92min / DCP
The late, great Kon’s penultimate feature takes place on Christmas Eve, when three homeless Tokyo residents discover, while rummaging through the garbage, an abandoned newborn baby. The ragtag, outcast trio—runaway girl Miyuki, trans woman Hana, and…
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Happyend
Tue Dec 23
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Director: Neo Sora
2024 / 113min / DCP
In a near-future Tokyo, two rambunctious high school pals with graduation—and uncertain-at-best prospects—on the near horizon reckon with the fallout of a prank played on their principal and the daily looming threat of a catastrophic earthquake. The…
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Carol [35mm]
Director: Todd Haynes
2016 / 118min / 35mm
A Metrograph holiday tradition, back by popular demand. It starts at Frankenberg’s department store, and an exchange of glances between Carol and the girl behind the counter (Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, both sublime), a look that tangles up…
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Videodrome
Thu Dec 25
Director: David Cronenberg
1983 / 87min / 4K DCP
Long live the new flesh! As Toronto UHF television programmer and softcore smut aficionado James Woods (remarkably convincing playing a scumbag) scents the trail of an intercepted snuff film broadcast, he makes a nasty NSA new friend in the form of Debbie…
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The Wizard of Oz
Director: Victor Fleming
1939 / 102min / 4K DCP
Judy Garland provides the big, plaintive voice as Dorothy, while companions Tin Man (Jack Haley), Scarecrow (Ray Bolger), and the Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) are pure knockabout vaudeville fun, in this criminally entertaining musical adaptation from L.…
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Amarcord [DCP]
Director: Federico Fellini
1973 / 123min / DCP
The first of Guerra’s three collaborations with Fellini, who he had been born only two months before and a few miles away from, is an affectionate, richly sensual film reminiscence of a year in the life of the bygone world of its director’s…
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In the Mood for Love
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Director: Wong Kar-wai
2000 / 98min / 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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The Gold Rush
Director: Charlie Chaplin
1925 / 95min / 4K DCP
The second feature that Chaplin released under the aegis of United Artists, the studio he’d co-founded with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith in 1919, The Gold Rush was made with the writer-director-star’s total creative control, and…
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Platform
Director: Jia Zhangke
2000 / 154min / 35mm
Jia’s intimate epic begins in and returns to the director’s hometown of Fenyang, Shanxi Province, where it picks up with a theatre troupe first encountered in the late ’70s, following them through changes in fashion over the course of a decade as…
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Air Doll
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
2009 / 116min / DCP
Adapted from a manga by Yoshiie Gōda, Kore-eda’s bittersweet modern-day fable of urban anomie and objectification—a little-seen outlier in the Japanese master’s filmography, featuring fleet mobile camerawork and a glossy pop art color palette…
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Phantom Thread [35mm]
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
2017 / 130min / 35mm
One of the key scenes in Anderson’s evocation of the world of haute couture in postwar England takes place at a riotously colorful New Year’s Eve ball, but the film itself qualifies for inclusion in a holiday series by virtue of having the quality of…
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Cloud Atlas
Director: Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Tyler Tykwer
2012 / 172min / DCP
Bae Doona joins a formidable ensemble cast that includes Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, and Hugh Grant, each taking on multiple roles, in the Wachowsky’s and Tykwer’s madly ambitious, epoch-spanning adaptation of David Mitchell’s 2004 novel…
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The Farewell
Director: Lulu Wang
2019 / 100min / DCP
Writer-director Wang draws from her own life experience in this funny, frank, and heartfelt diaspora drama, a Sundance sensation starring Crazy Rich Asians’s Awkwafina. Chinese American writer Billi, en route to a family reunion to Changchun, must…
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The Big Parade
Director: King Vidor
1925 / 151min / DCP
Three young Americans—idle rich boy Jim (John Gilbert), construction worker Slim (Karl Dane), and barkeep Bull (Tom O’Brien)—set out for the battlefields of World War I with dreams of glory, only to discover a reality horrible beyond imagination, in…
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Possession
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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Ikiru
Director: Akira Kurosawa
1952 / 143min / 35mm
One of Kurosawa’s very greatest achievements, Ikiru shows the director at his most compassionate, affirming life through an exploration of death. Takashi Shimura brings a sublime pathos to his portrayal of an aging Tokyo bureaucrat who, after being…
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Distant Voices, Still Lives
Sun Dec 28
Director: Terence Davies
1988 / 85min / 35mm
An exquisite, sensual, and achingly personal work of art from the late, great Davies, set in Davies’s hometown of Liverpool in the 1950s. The directorial surrogate is young Bud, a movie-mad child on the verge of sexual awakening, and in one…
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Chungking Express
Sun Dec 28
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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The Long Day Closes
Director: Terence Davies
1992 / 85min / 35mm
An exquisite, sensual, and achingly personal work of art from Davies, set in the director’s hometown of Liverpool as remembered from the 1950s of his youth—a drab urban environment where the markers of postwar austerity are everywhere evident, but…
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Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Director: Ridley Scott
1982 / 117min / DCP
While so many special effects spectacles are lost in time like tears in the rain, Blade Runner remains the template for imagining the neon-wreathed downer of the future, every bit as influential in its vision as was Fritz Lang’s Metropolis over a half…
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Barking Dogs Never Bite
Director: Bong Joon Ho
2000 / 110min / DCP
Bong’s debut feature is the work of a preternaturally talented filmmaker already in full command of his medium—and alert to the issues of economic and class disparity that he would continue to explore in works like 2019’s Parasite. The darkly comic,…
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Branded to Kill
Wed Dec 31
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Director: Seijun Suzuki
1967 / 91min / DCP
The movie that got renegade pop modernist director Suzuki fired from Nikkatsu studio, Branded to Kill is a far-out absurdist actioner following Joe Shishido’s hunted hitman, a kook with a fetish for huffing steamed rice, as he’s trailed by the…
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The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Thu Jan 1
Director: Isao Takahata
2013 / 137min / DCP
A richly realized fable that begins when a bamboo cutter discovers a tiny girl inside of one of the shoots that he’s chopping, and decides to raise her as a princess—a decision that has very little to do with her down-to-earth nature. The final film…
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Solaris
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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One Battle After Another
Fri Jan 2
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
2025 / 162min / DCP
Grass- and booze-blunted ex-revolutionary Leonardo DiCaprio and headstrong daughter Chase Infiniti, with a little help (and a few small beers) from sensei Benecio del Toro, face off against neo-fascist martinet Sean Penn in Anderson’s artfully…
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Mouchette
Fri Jan 2
Director: Robert Bresson
1967 / 81min / 35mm
Bresson was an artist preoccupied with faith and redemption, to be sure, but he also looked long and unblinkingly at suffering and despair as few filmmakers ever had or would. His second Bernanos adaptation, beginning a long engagement with the question…
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Blow-Up
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
1966 / 111min / 35mm
Antonioni’s 1966 English-language debut sets its scene in a London that’s less swinging than sleepwalking, with David Hemmings a blasé-decadent photographer who finds himself sucked into a vortex of political intrigue when he discovers that a casual…
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Angel's Egg
Fri Jan 2
Director: Mamoru Oshii
1985 / 71min / 4K DCP
Made in collaboration with storied illustrator Yoshitaka Amano (Final Fantasy), Oshii’s lyrical animated allegory, rich in Biblical allusions and parsimonious in spoken dialogue, follows a young girl traveling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic…
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Cure
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
1997 / 111min / 4K DCP
Kurosawa’s international breakthrough rode a tide of late ’90s J-horror mania, but was immediately recognizable as the work of a formidable formalist whose thematic and philosophical concerns went deeper than jump scares. Detective Kenichi Takabe…
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As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Gli
Director: Jonas Mekas
2000 / 288min / 16mm
The apotheosis of Mekas’s decades-long project of documenting his everyday life in frenzied images shot on an ever-handy Bolex, the ecstatically alive As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw…, a Whitman-esque outpouring of blissed-out lyricism, is…
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Cemetery of Splendour
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2015 / 122min / DCP
Weaving together Thailand’s rich fundament of supernatural mythology and its often troubled national history, Apichatpong crafts a bewitching and seductive cinematic idyll, in which comatose soldiers suffering from a mysterious sleeping sickness are…
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Phantom Thread
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
2017 / 130min / DCP
One of the key scenes in Anderson’s evocation of the world of haute couture in postwar England takes place at a riotously colorful New Year’s Eve ball, but the film itself qualifies for inclusion in a holiday series by virtue of having the quality of…
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Unmade Beds preceded by Midnight Coffee
Sat Jan 3
Director: Amos Poe
1976 / 82min / Digital
Artist Duncan Hannah, freshly graduated from Parsons, plays Rico, a dashing, ennui-afflicted photographer with a weakness for the bottle and for performing Jean-Pierre Melville/Belmondo-in-Breathless cosplay for an audience of no one in Poe’s first…
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Tokyo Fist
Sat Jan 3
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
1995 / 87min / DCP
Having achieved cult infamy with the one-two punch of his Tetsuo films, both now firmly ensconced in the cinematic cyberpunk canon, Shinya moved in for the K.O. with this stylish, unremittingly grim, thoroughly pummeling tale of brutal underground boxing…
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Downtown 81 [35mm]
Director: Edo Bertoglio
2000 / 75min / 35mm
In 1980, writer and Warhol associate Glenn O’Brien, Swiss photographer Edo Bertoglio, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, a graffiti innovator and noise music artist who’d just begun to exhibit his paintings, hit the streets of lower Manhattan to make a movie…
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Princess Mononoke
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
1997 / 133min / 35mm
Clashing with an archdemon boar, warrior Ashitaka is stricken with an empowering but ultimately fatal curse, and journeying into the unknown of the Great Forest in search of a cure, meets the fierce titular warrior woman, raised by wolf-gods. Miyazaki’s…
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Paris, Texas
Director: Wim Wenders
1984 / 145min / DCP
Wiry and weathered Harry Dean Stanton had long been a cult character actor in Hollywood when Wenders had the vision to put him at the center of a movie: a modern retelling of The Searchers on the highways of the Southwest, with Harry Dean as the…
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Ugo Bienvenu Shorts Program
Fri Jan 9
Director: Multiple Dirs
2025 / 68min / DCP
Introduction by producer/co-writer Félix de Givry on Friday, January 9th
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Variety
Fri Jan 9
Director: Bette Gordon
1983 / 100min / 35mm
A young woman, Christine (Sandy McLeod), lands a job as a cashier at a downtown porno theater, and soon finds herself inexorably drawn towards what’s happening on the screen—as well as other troubling fantasies. Writes director Gordon: “Hitchcock…
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Shinjuku Triad Society
Director: Takashi Miike
1995 / 100min / DCP
A little-seen standout in Miike’s dauntingly vast filmography, Shinjuku Triad Society was the first theatrical release that the director—who’d begun his career in DTV action—made, shot on 35mm, the inaugural work in his “Black Society” trilogy…
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Blue Velvet [35mm]
Director: David Lynch
1986 / 120min / 35mm
The chance discovery of a severed human ear lying in a field inspires Kyle MacLachlan’s wholesome, all-American protagonist to try his hand at amateur sleuthing, and sets him off on a journey that will introduce him to bruised beauty Isabella Rossellini…
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The Foreigner
Sat Jan 10
Director: Amos Poe
1978 / 92min / DCP
Described by its director as an “anti-homage,” Poe’s noir-inflected tale follows French secret agent Max Menace (Eric Mitchell), arrived in New York City to fulfill a mission whose exact nature is unclear and targeted by enemies whose grudges are…
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Last Year at Marienbad
Sat Jan 10
Director: Alain Resnais
1961 / 94min / 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…
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Audition
Director: Takashi Miike
1999 / 115min / 35mm
Among the great bait-and-switch acts of film history, Miike’s masterwork begins as a reserved, melancholy, almost Ozu-esque study of a lonely widower (Ryo Ishibashi) and his desperate attempts to find a new romantic partner, then turns into… something…
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The Informer
Sun Jan 11
Director: John Ford
1935 / 91min / 35mm
Ford’s gut-churning expressionistic adaptation of Liam O’Flaherty’s novel of the same name, nominated for six Academy Awards and winner of four, was a passion project for the Irish American director, set during the 1919-1921 War of Independence in…
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Casper
Sun Jan 11
Director: Brad Silberling
1995 / 100min / 4K DCP
Beloved star of 1940s and ’50s theatrical cartoon shorts and Harvey Comics funny books, the most amiable of poltergeists triumphantly returned to the big screen in 1995 to pal around with adolescent Christina Ricci and her recently widowed “ghost…