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The Emperor and the Assassin
Thu May 7
Director: Chen Kaige
1998 / 162min / 35mm
The most expensive film ever made in the PRC when it took home the Technical Prize at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, inspired by the attempted assassination in the third century BC of Ying Zheng, first Emperor of a unified China, by folk hero Jing Ke,…
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Stalker
Thu May 7
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
1979 / 163min / DCP
Tarkovsky’s stunning, haunted sepia-toned sci-fi masterpiece follows a scientist and a writer who, living in a broken-down totalitarian dystopia, recruit the help of a “Stalker”—a kind of post-apocalyptic Sherpa—to guide them on a voyage of…
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The Long Goodbye
Director: Robert Altman
1973 / 112min / 35mm
Elliott Gould plays a distinctly low-key and somewhat bumbling version of Raymond Chandler’s gumshoe Philip Marlowe in Altman’s singular private dick movie, which updates the source material to a smog-and-pot-hazy 1970s Los Angeles. A mystery…
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No Other Choice
Thu May 7
Director: Park Chan-wook
2025 / 139min / 35mm
Westlake’s 1997 novel The Ax—the story of a middle-aged middle manager who, after becoming a casualty of downsizing, embarks on a particularly violent job hunt—finds an ideal interpreter in Park, no stranger to generous gore, who relocates the…
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Miami Vice
Thu May 7
Director: Michael Mann
2006 / 132min / DCP
Mann’s big-screen adaptation of the hit ’80s television series—famously pitched as “MTV Cops”—on which he was executive producer updates the show’s unbuttoned Miami Chic for the mid-aughts, replete with a massive opening needle drop of a…
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The Headless Woman
Director: Lucrecia Martel
2008 / 87min / 4K DCP
In Martel’s beguiling, critically lauded, structurally splintered psychological thriller, poised, posh professional Veroníca (María Onetto) becomes increasingly unhinged after being involved in what may or may not have been a hit-and-run incident in…
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Wolf Children
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
2012 / 117min / 4K DCP
Hosoda’s second original animated feature is a startlingly original, lovingly detailed animist fantasy drama tracking the travails, over the course of more than a decade, of Hana, a woman falls in love with a werewolf as a college student and, after his…
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Southland Tales
Fri May 8
Director: Richard Kelly
2006 / 145min / 35mm
Introduction by playwright, actor, and screenwriter Wallace Shawn, director and series curators Lucas Kane and John Early on Friday, May 8th
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Oasis
Director: Lee Chang-dong
2002 / 133min / 4K DCP
Jong-du (Sul Kyung-gu), just out of prison, very little reformed, and shunned by his family, finds an unlikely soulmate in the person of Gong-ju (Moon So-ri), a woman with severe cerebral palsy—and the daughter of the victim of the hit-and-run for which…
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Carrie Mae Weems selects No Country for Old Men
Fri May 8
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
2007 / 122min / DCP
Introduction by artist Carrie Mae Weems and Q&A with director Joel Coen moderated by Jeffrey Fraenkel, founder of the Fraenkel Gallery, on Friday, May 8th
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Mother
Director: Bong Joon Ho
2009 / 129min / 35mm
A magnificent Kim Hye-ja plays the title role in Bong’s noir-tinged thriller, the impoverished widowed mother of a quiet, mentally disabled 27-year-old (Won Bin) living in a village in rural South Korea who is forced to spring into action when her boy…
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The Taste of Tea
Fri May 8
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Director: Katsuhito Ishii
2004 / 143min / DCP
Playing in a sterling new transfer, Ishii’s third feature is a uniquely gonzo take on the Japanese shokin-geki (literally: “common people drama”), focused on the daily affairs of a family, the Hasunos—hypnotherapist father, animator mother,…
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Margin Call
Director: J. C. Chandor
2011 / 107min / DCP
Chandor (All Is Lost, A Most Violent Year) made his auspicious feature debut with this Sundance standout, a story of slow-spreading panic in the workplace set almost entirely over a fraught 24-hour period at a Wall Street investment bank during the…
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Andrei Rublev
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
1966 / 205min / 35mm
The story of Rublev (Anatoly Solonitsyn), a medieval icon painter and Russian Orthodox monk who struggled against rampant brutality to produce works praising God, becomes, in Tarkovsky’s hands, the story of art and artists, for all times. (And perhaps…
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Marie and Bruce
Sat May 9
Director: Tom Cairns
2004 / 90min / 35mm
Q&A with playwright and screenwriter Wallace Shawn and director Tom Cairns moderated by filmmaker Theda Hammel on Saturday, May 9th
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Martine Gutierrez selects Princess Mononoke [OV]
Sat May 9
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
1997 / 133min / DCP
Introduction by artist Martine Gutierrez on Saturday, May 9th
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Speciwomen Focus: Kim Torres
Sat May 9
Director: Kim Torres
2025 / 66min / DCP
Q&A with artist Kim Torres moderated by Philo Cohen, Founder of Speciwomen, on Saturday, May 9th
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Wardell Milan selects Hereditary
Director: Ari Aster
2018 / 127min / DCP
Introduction by artist Wardell Milan on Saturday, May 9th
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Panic Room
Sat May 9
Director: David Fincher
2012 / 112min / 35mm
Newly divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her sullen adolescent daughter Sarah (a pre-Twilight Kristen Stewart) have just begun to acquaint themselves with their new digs, a four-story Upper West Side brownstone previously owned by a wealthy recluse…
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Vive L'Amour
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
1994 / 118min / DCP
Tsai’s second theatrical feature drew understandable comparisons to Antonioni’s chilly studies in urban ennui on initial release, but this bizarre love triangle—Chen Chao-jung and Yang Kuei-mei meet for illicit rendezvous in an “empty” apartment…
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Late Autumn
Sun May 10
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
1960 / 128min / 35mm
The sublime, serene Setsuko Hara, whose appearances for Ozu include that of a daughter being reluctantly primed for marriage by a single parent in Late Spring (1949), returns in this at once comic and elegiac reworking of that earlier film as the widowed…
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Forever a Woman
Sun May 10
Director: Kinuyo Tanaka
1955 / 110min / 4K DCP
Actress-cum-director Kinuyo Tanaka’s third feature features Yumeji Tsukioka giving a performance of fierce dedication as Fumiko Nakajo, a tanka poet who had died from breast cancer just the year before Forever a Woman’s release, here depicted…
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Sun May 10
Director: Martin Scorsese
1974 / 112min / 35mm
When her husband dies unexpectedly, Alice (Ellen Burstyn), a New Mexico housewife and mother of a 12-year-old boy, decides to start over from scratch, trying her hand at the singing career she’d always dreamed of. Burstyn took a chance of her own,…
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Grey Gardens
Sun May 10
Director: Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer
1975 / 94min / DCP
“I only care about three things: the Catholic Church, swimming, and dancing.” So goes the gospel according to Edith “Little Edie” Beale, who in the 1970s, together with her brow-beating elderly mother, Edith “Big Edie” Bouvier lived in the…
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Director: Céline Sciamma
2019 / 122min / DCP
Set in late 18th-century France, Sciamma’s acclaimed queer period romance, luminously shot by Claire Mathon, concerns the blossoming romance between a young aristocratic woman (Adèle Haenel), engaged to be married, and the female painter (Noémie…
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The Eternal Daughter
Director: Joanna Hogg
2022 / 96min / 4K DCP
Arriving at an hotel in the fogbound Welsh countryside where everything seems ever-so-slightly off and things go bump in the night, a middle-aged filmmaker and her elderly mother embark on a journey into their shared and individual pasts in Hogg’s…
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Funny Games
Director: Michael Haneke
1997 / 111min / 35mm
Austrian provocateur Haneke’s original squirm-inducing, audience-indicting home invasion thriller, shot by the great German cinematographer Jürgen Jürges, unforgettably places captive couple Anne (Susanne Lothar) and Georg (Ulrich Mühe), together…
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The Big Lebowski
Mon May 11
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
1998 / 117min / 35mm
The Coen’s cult comedy par excellence is the rare film not to contain a single unmemorable character or performance, from John Goodman’s John Milius-inspired gun nut Walter Sobchak to John Turturro’s snake-hipped sex offender Jesus Quintana to, of…
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Two Seasons, Two Strangers
Mon May 11
Director: Sho Miyake
2025 / 89min / DCP
Q&A with director Sho Miyake on Friday, April 24th and Saturday, April 25th
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La Belle Noiseuse
Mon May 11
Director: Jacques Rivette
1991 / 238min / 35mm
Inspired by Honoré de Balzac’s 1831 short story The Unknown Masterpiece, Rivette’s intimate epic stars Michel Piccoli as a painter retired to Provence with wife Jane Birkin, having been abandoned by his muse after failing to complete a canvas that…
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John Wick
Mon May 11
Director: Chad Stahelski
2014 / 101min / 4K DCP
No movie dog’s death has had quite so enormous an impact as that of widower John Wick’s beagle puppy at the hands of a pack of punk Russian mobsters, inspiring a slightly piqued Wick (Keanu Reeves at his most stoical), unbeknownst to his antagonists…
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Suzhou River
Mon May 11
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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The Hand
Tue May 12
Director: Wong Kar-wai
2004 / 56min / DCP
Originally made to play as part of the triptych omnibus film Eros, then expanded by Wong into this short feature, The Hand stars Chang Chen as Zhang, a meek dressmaker’s assistant plying his trade in 1960s Hong Kong, and Gong Li—also seen in Wong’s…
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Peppermint Candy
Tue May 12
Director: Lee Chang-dong
1999 / 129min / 4K DCP
Opening on a shocking scene of implied suicide, Lee’s sophomore feature proceeds to move backward in time, its reverse chronology following its protagonist’s unhappiness to its source, following him from the end of the ’70s to the close of the…
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Film Portraits by Tacita Dean
Tue May 12
Director: Tacita Dean
2011 / 87min / 16mm
Q&A with visual artist Tacita Dean on Tuesday, May 12th
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The Mystery of Picasso + Rembrandt: Painter of Men
Wed May 13
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot, Bert Haanstra
1956 / 98min / 35mm
“One of the most exciting and joyful movies ever made,” per The New Yorker’s Pauline Kael, The Mystery of Picasso provides a front-row seat to the creative process of the Spanish painter and 75-year-old living legend, observing, from the inverse…
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Decision to Leave [35mm]
Wed May 13
Director: Park Chan-wook
2022 / 138min / 35mm
The film that won Oldboy and The Handmaiden director Park Best Director honors at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the noir-tinged Decision to Leave is a mesmerizing, slow-burn romance/mystery about a detective (Park Hae-il) whose investigation into a…
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The Double Life of Veronique
Wed May 13
Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski
1991 / 98min / 4K DCP
Introduction by Richard Peña, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University, on Saturday, April 18th, and Q&A with actor Irène Jacob on Saturday, April 25th
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Utamaro and His Five Women
Wed May 13
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
1945 / 94min / 35mm
In making a film from Kanji Kunieda’s fictionalized account of the life of Kitagawa Utamaro, a ukiyo-e woodblock portraitist and painter of the 18th century, Mizoguchi—an avid Sunday painter—by all accounts was taking on a subject dear to himself.…
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The Holy Mountain
Wed May 13
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
1973 / 114min / 35mm
Jodorowsky’s follow-up to his mother of all midnight movies, El Topo, is even wilder and more extravagantly imaginative that its predecessor, a surreal, sacrilegious allegory in which the writer-director stars as a mysterious figure called “The…
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PRIVATE EVENT TODAY IN THEATER & COMMISSARY
Thu May 14
2025 / 360min
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Vanya on 42nd Street
Fri May 15
Director: Louis Malle
1994 / 119min / 35mm
Q&A with Wallace Shawn & Andre Gregory moderated by Lucas Kane and John Early on Friday, May 15th
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Muriel, or the Time of Return
Director: Alain Resnais
1963 / 115min / DCP
Further drawing parallels between love and war, as he did in Hiroshima mon amour, and the untrustworthiness of memory, as in his Last Year at Marienbad, Muriel is a sort of summation of the themes introduced by Resnais in his breakout works, and a new…
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The Designated Mourner
Fri May 15
Director: David Hare
1997 / 94min / 35mm
Introduction by John Early and Q&A with Wallace Shawn moderated by filmmaker Theda Hammel on Friday, May 15th
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A Bigger Splash + Mark Turbyfill by Markopoulos
Director: Jack Hazan, Gregory J. Markopoulos
1973 / 121min / DCP
Hazan’s intimate and innovative film about English-born, often California-based artist David Hockney and his work honors its subject through creative risk-taking. The improvisatory narrative nonfiction hybrid features Hockney—a wary participant—as…
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Aloïse preceded by Qui donc a rêvé?
Director: Liliane de Kermadec
1975 / 138min / DCP
Introduction by filmmaker Theda Hammel on Friday, May 15th
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Painters Painting
Fri May 15
Director: Emile de Antonio
2016 / 116min / 16mm
De Antonio had been an intimate of the American Pop artists well before turning to filmmaking, and as such brought a unique access and understanding to this documentary, a series of profiles of painters and art world figures based around the Metropolitan…
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Alien³
Fri May 15
Director: David Fincher
1992 / 114min / 35mm
Though unjustly overshadowed by its illustrious forebears, Fincher’s gimlet-eyed directorial debut has in time come to be appreciated on its own terms as a work of jaundiced, apocalyptic beauty. Picking up where Aliens ended, we crash-land with…
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All Dogs Go to Heaven
Sat May 16
Director: Don Bluth
1989 / 84min / 35mm
Former Disney animator Bluth’s fourth feature for his breakaway animation studio, following the runaway success of their An American Tail, was the delightful musical fantasy concerning Charlie B. Barkin (voiced by Burt Reynolds), a career con man German…
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Where is the Friend's House?
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
1987 / 83min / DCP
The first film in what has been called Kiarostami’s “Koker Trilogy,” named for the village in northern Iran where all of the films comprising it take place, Where is the Friend’s House? focuses on an eight-year-old boy, Ahmad, who, in discovering…
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New York Stories
Director: Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen
1989 / 124min / 35mm
The leadoff hitter in this anthology triptych of Gotham-set short subjects courtesy New York’s best-known cineastes, Scorsese’s Richard Price–penned “Life Lessons” is nothing short of a small-scale masterpiece, starring Nick Nolte as a…
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Basquiat: Black and White Version
Sat May 16
Director: Julian Schnabel
1996 / 108min / DCP
Q&A with director Julian Schnabel on Saturday, May 16th
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Hiroshi Sugimoto selects The Face of Another
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
1966 / 124min / 35mm
The great Tatsuya Nakadai plays Mr. Okuyama, a businessman disfigured beyond recognition in a freak industrial accident who, through the operations of his psychiatrist, is affixed with a lifelike mask molded from the features of a stranger—a miracle…
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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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Peter Pan
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson
1953 / 77min / 35mm
The last Disney production featuring contributions from all of the company’s “Nine Old Men”—core personnel who’d been with the studio since its beginnings in the 1920s—was this charming animated imagining of J.M. Barrie’s Neverland yarns for…
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Hill of Freedom
Director: Hong Sangsoo
2014 / 66min / DCP
The progress through a hopelessly shuffled stack of love letters inspires the a-chronological structure of Hong’s Hill of Freedom—Moon So-ri’s second film with Hong—which describes the terse long-distance relationship between a South Korean woman…
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Lee Friedlander selects North by Northwest
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
1959 / 136min / 4K DCP
From the United Nations building to broad-shouldered Chicago to Mount Rushmore, with a scenic stop at an empty field somewhere in the Midwest, follow beleaguered ad exec Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) and his mysterious companion (Eva Marie Saint) as they…
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Hahaha
Director: Hong Sang-soo
2010 / 115min / DCP
During a visit to the coastal city of Tongyeong, two friends in a bar (Kim Sang-kyung and Yoo Jun-sang) trade stories about their romantic exploits, which we come to realize involve the same people—most pivotally, a cultural tour guide played by Moon…
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Nan Goldin selects The Naked Kiss
Sun May 17
Director: Samuel Fuller
1964 / 90min / 35mm
Introduction by Nan Goldin on Sunday, May 17th
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I Have Graduated
Director: Shi Jian, Guangli Wang
1992 / 66min / DCP
A landmark of Chinese independent documentary broaching subject matter that would’ve been strictly off limits to co-director Shi in his day job at Chinese Central Television (CCTV), I Have Graduated consists of interviews, given in student housing and…
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Clockwatchers
Sun May 17
Director: Jill Sprecher
1997 / 96min / 35mm
Introduction by John Early on Sunday, May 17th
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No Country for Old Men
Sun May 17
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
2007 / 122min / DCP
The devil rides out in 1980s West Texas in the Coens’ marvelously sustained adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel of the same name, with Javier Bardem in the role of remorseless, curiously coiffured hitman Anton Chigurh (certainly one of the most…
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Fri May 22
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
2003 / 82min / DCP
The Fu-Ho Grand, a movie palace in Taipei, is closing its doors. Its valedictory screening: King …
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Radio Days
Fri May 22
Director: Woody Allen
1987 / 85min / 35mm
Introduction by Wallace Shawn and John Early on Friday, May 22nd
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Moonrise Kingdom
Director: Wes Anderson
2012 / 94min / DCP
Twelve-year-old pen pals Sam Shakusky and Suzy Bishop (newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward) turn pubescent lovers on the lam, crossing the hurricane-threatened New England coastal island of New Penzance while struggling to keep ahead of Suzy’s…
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Forbidden Games
Director: René Clément
1952 / 86min / 4K DCP
France, 1940. Five-year-old Paulette (Brigitte Fossey), orphaned by a German air strike while fleeing Paris with her parents, finds shelter with a peasant family and, in their 11-year-old son, Michel (Georges Poujouly), a confidante, the two together…
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A Master Builder
Fri May 22
Director: Jonathan Demme
2014 / 127min / DCP
Introduction by Wallace Shawn on Friday, May 22nd
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Don't Change Hands
Director: Paul Vecchiali
1975 / 82min / 4K DCP
The same year that Vecchiali acted as producer on Liliane de Kermadec’s Aloïse, she returned the favor by playing the same role on Vecchiali’s downright unclassifiable Don’t Change Hands. After receiving a reel of a dirty movie prominently…
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Cléo from 5 to 7
Director: Agnès Varda
1962 / 90min / DCP
One of Varda’s supreme works gives us two crucial hours—actually 90 minutes, though played as though in real time—in the life of a successful French pop singer of the yé-yé vintage, Corinne Marchand’s Cléo, as she waits to hear biopsy results…
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Possession
Fri May 22
Director: Andrzej Żuławski
1981 / 124min / 4K DCP
Easily the most harrowing divorce drama ever made, Zuławski’s one-of-a-kind genre pastiche has spy Sam Neill returning to his Berlin home from a mission abroad to discover that wife Isabelle Adjani wants suddenly to split up. Launching an investigation…
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Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du commerce,1080 Bruxelles
Sat May 23
Director: Chantal Akerman
1975 / 202min / 35mm
The late Chantal Akerman was only 24-years-old when she and her nearly all-female crew made the 1975 masterpiece, Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. Over the course of three days—and a three-hour movie spell—a woman’s (Delphine…
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Millennium Mambo
Sat May 23
Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
2001 / 107min / DCP
A stylish and seductive submersion into the techno-scored neon nightlife of Taipei, Hou’s much-misunderstood marvel stars Shu Qi (The Assassin) as an aimless bar hostess drifting away from her blowhard boyfriend and towards Jack Kao’s suave, sensitive…
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Come and See
Director: Elem Klimov
1985 / 142min / DCP
Klimov’s final film, drawing upon his own experiences in the Battle of Stalingrad, is a devastating immersion into the horrors of the WWII Eastern Front as seen through the eyes of a 14-year-old Belarusian boy (Aleksey Kravchenko) who joins the partisan…
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Xiao Wu
Director: Jia Zhangke
1997 / 108min / DCP
Set in Jia’s hometown of Fenyang, his feature debut—which takes its English-language title, Pickpocket, from that of Robert Bresson’s 1959 film—is a character study of a young petty criminal, Xiao Wu (Wang Hongwei) who finds himself increasingly…
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The Handmaiden
Director: Park Chan-wook
2016 / 145min / DCP
Park’s twisty, kinky, divinely decadent period thriller, set in a Japanese-occupied 1930s Korea that’s imagined with baroque flourish by set designer Ryu Seong-hee, follows hired handmaiden Kim Tae-ri as she enters the service of shut-in heiress Kim…
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Rear Window
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
1954 / 112min / 4K DCP
Jimmy Stewart’s he-man, globe-trotting photographer is laid up for the summer with a broken leg, and enlists the help of Grace Kelly (ordering snacks from 21) when he becomes convinced that neighbor Raymond Burr has murdered his wife. One of the…
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Grave of the Fireflies
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
1988 / 89min / DCP
Based on a short story of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka, set in the final months of the Pacific War, Takahata’s first feature with Studio Ghibli tells the devastating story of two young siblings, Seita and Setsuko who, having succumbed to starvation,…
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Edvard Munch
Sun May 24
Director: Peter Watkins
1974 / 210min / 35mm
The personal and political are the warp and weft of Watkins’s sui generis epic—a work, concerned primarily with Munch’s movements between 1884 and 1895, which intimately explores the deep well of pain from which the greatest of Norwegian painters…
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Children of the Beehive + Children of War
Director: Hiroshi Shimizu, Jocelyne Saab
1976 / 96min / DCP
Independently produced by Shimizu following his parting of ways with Shochiku studios, Children of the Beehive offers a cross-country tour of a postwar Japan that everywhere displays the livid scars of still-recent bombings, following a newly repatriated…
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What Time is it There?
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
2001 / 116min / 35mm
Lee Kang-sheng’s Hsiao Kang, now working as a street vendor selling watches out of a briefcase in Taipei, sells a dual-time watch to Chen Shiang-chyi, a young woman preparing for an extended stay in Paris. While she drifts alone through the City of…
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Van Gogh
Mon May 25
Director: Maurice Pialat
1991 / 158min / DCP
Having aspired in his youth to be a painter before settling for becoming merely one of the mightiest French cineastes of his generation, Pialat was perhaps uniquely qualified to give us a screen Van Gogh who felt genuinely new—as played by…
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Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Fri May 29
Director: Éric Rohmer
1987 / 99min / DCP
Shot quickly in and around Paris during a production break on Rohmer’s Le Rayon Vert, this breezy, witty film traces the exploits of two young women—one an ethnology student from the city, the other an unsophisticated aspiring artist from the country.…
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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Director: George Miller
1981 / 96min / 35mm
In the years following the events of Mad Max the world has gone to hell in a handbasket, with warlords battling over a dwindling fuel supply in an unforgiving Outback landscape, but Miller’s ability to command a budget has progressed considerably,…
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Dead Mountaineer's Hotel
Director: Grigori Kromanov
1979 / 84min / DCP
After receiving an anonymous call coming from the Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel, police inspector Peter Glebsky (Uldis Pūcītis) heads to the remote Alpine ski resort and, after an avalanche cuts it off from the world, finds himself having to contend with a…
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La Jetée preceded by How Not to be Seen
Fri May 29
Director: Chris Marker, Hito Steyerl
1962 / 44min / DCP
Q&A with artist Hito Steyerl on Friday, May 29th
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With Hasan in Gaza
Director: Kamal Aljafari
2025 / 106min / DCP
Q&A with director Kamal Aljafari on Friday, May 29th and Saturday, May 30th + Introduction by director Kamal Ajafari on Sunday, May 31st
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Les rendez-vous d'Anna
Director: Chantal Akerman
1978 / 127min / DCP
Akerman’s third film produced through Liliane de Kermadec and Paul Vecchiali’s Unité 3 production company was this transfixing—and, one suspects, quite personal—study of alienation and emotional withdrawal, in which a well-known Belgian director…
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Cujo
Fri May 29
Director: Lewis Teague
1983 / 93min / 35mm
All is not well with the Trenton family—the revelation that wife Donna (Dee Wallace) has been having an affair leaves the future of her marriage uncertain—but that seems like small potatoes when Donna and five-year-old son Tad (Danny Pintauro) find…
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Dream of Light preceded by Miró l'altre
Sat May 30
Director: Victor Erice, Pere Portabella
1992 / 148min / 35mm
Erice, best known for his ravishing 1973 Spirit of the Beehive, here focuses his camera on Madrileño painter Antonio López as he goes about the daily labor of artistic creation, meticulously struggling to capture, to his satisfaction, a quince tree in…
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ACE Presents The Silence of the Lambs
Sat May 30
Director: Jonathan Demme
1991 / 118min / 35mm
Post-screening panel with Craig McKay, ACE, Colleen Sharp. ACE, Naomi Geraghty, Tom Fleischman, Joseph DeBeasi and Patrick McMahon on Saturday, May 30th.
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Cinema Naïf presents: Pirosmani
Sat May 30
Director: Sergei Parajanov, Giorgi Shengelaia
1969 / 110min / DCP
Introduction by Anri Vartan, Cinema Naïf on Saturday, May 30th
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Flashdance
Sat May 30
Director: Adrian Lyne
1983 / 95min / 4K DCP
Introduction by Max Lakner, cinematographer of Maddie's Secret on Saturday, May 30th and Saturday, June 6th
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The Thing
Sat May 30
Director: John Carpenter
1984 / 109min / 35mm
CGI spectacle may offer us visions of worlds beyond imagination and gravity-defying action, but pixels alone can never achieve the sheer viscous, loathsome ickiness on display in Carpenter’s free remake of the 1951 Howard Hawks/Christian Nyby classic.…
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A Fish Called Wanda
Sun May 31
Director: Charles Crichton
1988 / 108min / 35mm
Bringing the spirit of the Ealing comedy bounding into the 1980s, 78-year-old The Lavender Hill Mob director Crichton’s acerbic, side-splitting caper, its baroquely elaborate plot contorted into some kind of crazy shape by screenwriter/star/former…
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Boyfriends and Girlfriends
Sun May 31
Director: Éric Rohmer
1987 / 103min / DCP
Rohmer uses the amorous misadventures of two girlfriends in the Paris suburbs to test the old proverb “les amis de mes amis sont mes amis” (“the friends of my friends are my friends”) in the final episode of his “Comedies and Proverbs” series.…
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Germany Year Zero preceded by Bambini in città
Sun May 31
Director: Roberto Rossellini, Luigi Comencini
1948 / 85min / DCP
Shot in the ruins of postwar Berlin, Rossellini’s staggeringly despairing film—peopled almost entirely with nonprofessional actors, including, in the central role, young Edmund Meschke—follows a towheaded 12-year-old enduring unspeakable agonies in…
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Cézanne + Une Visite au Louvre
Sun May 31
Director: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
1990 / 101min / 35mm
A lovely tribute to the painter Paul Cézanne—a figure near and dear to Straub and Huillet—which incorporates passages from Gasquet’s book about his long-time friend Paul Cézanne, scenes from Jean Renoir’s film of Madame Bovary, photographs of…
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Showgirls
Sun May 31
Director: Paul Verhoeven
1995 / 131min / 4K DCP
Elizabeth Berkley’s Nomi, a poor, street-smart young drifter with a hazy past and plenty of blonde ambition, rolls into Las Vegas with dreams of success and Versace glitz… and God help whoever gets in the way of her achieving it by any means…
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Marnie
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
1964 / 130min / 4K DCP
When her dashing employer, Mark (Sean Connery), catches kleptomaniac “Marnie” Edgar (Tippi Hedren) with a pile of his company’s money, he offers the beautiful thief the choice of marriage or jail—then to discover that his blushing bride is…