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Adolescence of Utena
Sun Jun 21
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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…
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In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis
Sun Jun 21
Director: Gianfranco Rosi
2022 / 80min / DCP
Introduction by director Gianfranco Rosi on Sunday, June 21st
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Caravaggio
Sun Jun 21
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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Full Alert
Sun Jun 21
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…
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Full Contact
Director: Ringo Lam
1992 / 99min / 35mm
35mm print courtesy of Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
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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…
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Mr. Turner
Mon Jun 22
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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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
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Les rendez-vous d'Anna
Mon Jun 22
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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Eat Drink Man Woman
Director: Ang Lee
1994 / 124min / 35mm
Introduction by chef and author Natasha Pickowicz on Saturday, June 20th
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Onda Nova
Mon Jun 22
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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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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The Silence of the Lambs
Tue Jun 23
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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India: Matri Bhumi
Tue Jun 23
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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The Handmaiden
Tue Jun 23
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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Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers [OV]
Tue Jun 23
Director: Wu Wenguang
1990 / 135min / 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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Fellini Satyricon
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
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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…
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Offside
Wed Jun 24
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…
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The Devil's Backbone
Wed Jun 24
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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A Bigger Splash
Wed Jun 24
Director: Jack Hazan
1974 / 106min / 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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The Decameron
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
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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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Suzhou River
Wed Jun 24
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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Cléo from 5 to 7
Wed Jun 24
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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Farewell My Concubine
Thu Jun 25
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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Van Gogh
Thu Jun 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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My Dinner with André
Thu Jun 25
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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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…
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Prison on Fire
Thu Jun 25
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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Dead Mountaineer's Hotel
Thu Jun 25
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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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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Europa
Fri Jun 26
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…
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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!”…
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Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Dynamic Duos
Sat Jun 27
Director: Multiple Dirs
1950 / 60min / 16mm
Introduction and Q&A with Tommy Stathes on Saturday, June 27th
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The Tin Drum
Sat Jun 27
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
1979 / 163min / 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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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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
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Last Year at Marienbad
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…
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Ivan's Childhood
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…
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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…
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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…
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Andrei Rublev
Mon Jun 29
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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Grand Hotel
Mon Jun 29
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…
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Made in Hong Kong
Mon Jun 29
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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PRIVATE EVENT TODAY IN THEATER & COMMISSARY
Tue Jun 30
2025 / 360min
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Love Letter
Wed Jul 1
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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Come and See
Thu Jul 2
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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Before Sunrise
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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Yojimbo
Director: Akira Kurosawa
1961 / 110min / DCP
Inspired by Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett’s classic of American hard-boiled crime fiction, and itself the inspiration for Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars, Kurosawa’s thrilling, jauntily pessimistic chambara is a beautiful example of the creative…
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The Traveler
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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A Fistful Of Dollars
Director: Sergio Leone
1964 / 99min / 35mm
With this blackly comic, cynical, dust-choked movie, Leone and Di Leo—one of the film’s three uncredited writers— revolutionized the quintessentially American western genre from his native Italy, established “Man with No Name” star Clint…
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Diamantino
Director: Daniel Schmidt, Gabriel Abrantes
2019 / 92min / DCP
Alone or in collaboration with one another or other like-minded collaborators, over the last several years directors Abrantes and Schmidt have created some of the most hysterically deranged short films out there, and their feature debut doesn’t…
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Toute une nuit
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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Terminator 2: Judgment Day [35th Anniversary]
Director: James Cameron
1991 / 137min / 35mm
After breaking heads in his first outing as Skynet’s T-800, Schwarzenegger broke hearts as a kinder, gentler war machine, tasked with protecting teen John Connor (Edward Furlong) from the liquid metal T-1000 (Robert Patrick), sent back in time to…
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Good Time
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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My Heart Is That Eternal Rose
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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Ashes of Time Redux
Director: Wong Kar-wai
2008 / 94min / 35mm
The cream of Hong Kong/Taiwanese screen acting, including Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, and Leslie Cheung, unite in this otherworldly, elliptical, impressionistic, and entirely intoxicating arthouse wuxia, shot on location—with great difficulty…
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For a Few Dollars More
Director: Sergio Leone
1965 / 132min / 35mm
Leone, Clint Eastwood, and composer Ennio Morricone’s second outing as a team finds Clint’s laconic, cold-blooded “Man with No Name” vying with fellow bounty hunter Col. Douglas Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef) to be the first to collect the price on the…
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Total Recall
Director: Paul Verhoeven
1990 / 113min / 4K DCP
Back in the days when the system would still occasionally let a visionary blockbuster slip through, gleefully perverse Dutchman Verhoeven teamed up with an Austrian-born weightlifter who was then the biggest action star in the world to make a big-budget…
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Universal Soldier
Director: Roland Emmerich
1992 / 102min / 35mm
The film that launched a DTV empire and one of the very finest starring vehicles for “The Muscles from Brussels,” Universal Soldier features Jean-Claude Van Damme as Luc Deveraux, a Vietnam War casualty who is resurrected decades after being KIA.…
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Possession
Sat Jul 4
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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La Haine
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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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Director: Sergio Leone
1966 / 178min / 35mm
For the operatic final film in Leone and star Clint Eastwood’s “Man with No Name” trilogy, production designer Carlo Simi brought the American Civil War to the plains and rugged plateaus of Spain, creating an epic canvas against which Leone could…
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The Beirut Trilogy
Director: Jocelyne Saab
1976 / 118min / DCP
An impressionistic documentary triptych capturing life during wartime—all the hope, all the despair—in Saab’s beloved hometown. In Beirut, Never Again, Saab’s camera explores a city in flames, while writer and painter Etel Adnan provides a lyrical…
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My Night at Maud's
Fri Jul 10
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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Once Upon a Time in Beirut
Fri Jul 10
Director: Jocelyne Saab
1994 / 104min / 35mm
Two young women, Yasmine and Leïla (Michèle Tyan and Myrna Maakaron), one Muslim, one Christian, set off on a search for the memory of their brutalized and amnesiac city, Beirut, and so doing discover a vital resource in the person of Mr. Farouk, an…
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Meantime
Director: Mike Leigh
1984 / 107min / DCP
Produced for Britain’s Channel 4, Leigh’s bleakly comic drama shuttles between the Pollocks, a working-class East End family headed by working mum Mavis (Pam Ferris) and on-the-dole dad Frank (Jeff Robert), barely scraping by from day to day, and…
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Do You Love Me
Director: Lana Daher
2026 / 75min / DCP
Select introductions by guests including ArteEast's Sylvia Feghalis and Céline Semaan, Slow Factory CEO and host of Everything is Political, on July 10th, 11th, and 12th
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Angel Heart
Director: Alan Parker
1987 / 113min / 35mm
An unusually explicit erotic thriller with more than a touch of the supernatural, Parker’s brazenly baroque adaptation of William Hjortsberg’s novel Falling Angel stars Mickey Rourke at his most beautiful as a private eye in Robert Wagner–era New…
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La Collectionneuse
Sat Jul 11
Director: Éric Rohmer
1967 / 90min / DCP
The third entry in Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales series, in which cinematographer Néstor Almendros takes magnificent advantage of the glorious natural light of the French Riviera, is a deceptively lovely film about less-than-lovely behavior, an ironic study…
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Lebanon in Turmoil preceded by South Lebanon
Sat Jul 11
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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Love in the Afternoon
Sat Jul 11
Director: Éric Rohmer
1972 / 97min / DCP
The capstone entry of Rohmer’s Moral Tales series stars Bernard Verley as a happily married lawyer who assures us via voiceover that his wandering eye is in fact proof positive of his unshakable fidelity—but then his serene rectitude is tested sorely…
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The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
Sat Jul 11
Director: Lau Kar-leung
1978 / 116min / DCP
A watershed film for both Lau and his star Gordon Liu, and a work whose pop cultural influence encompasses both the Wu-Tang Clan and Kung Fu Panda, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin stars Liu as a young man fired with revolutionist fervor against the repressive…
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Sid and Nancy
Director: Alex Cox
1986 / 112min / 4K DCP
In order to play the role of smack-addled, ill-fated Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious, né John Simon Ritchie, dead of an overdose by 21, Gary Oldman subjected himself to a crash diet of “steamed fish and lots of melon” that briefly landed him in the…
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The Razor's Edge preceded by Lebanese, Hostage of
Sun Jul 12
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 Bakery Girl of Monceau + Suzanne's Career
Sun Jul 12
Director: Éric Rohmer
1963 / 78min / DCP
Though rightfully an international arthouse phenomenon, Rohmer’s Moral Tales are remarkable in just how little they scream for attention, notable for their modesty of scale and their dedication to delicate observation rather than anything resembling…
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Claire's Knee
Sun Jul 12
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…