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Evita
Fri Sep 18
Director: Alan Parker
1996 / 135min / 35mm
Don’t cry for her, Argentina—after years of dauntless campaigning, Madonna landed the coveted role of actress-cum-First Lady Eva Perón in this lavish, costume-change-a-minute adaptation of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1978 stage musical,…
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Left-Handed Girl
Fri Sep 18
Director: Shih-Ching Tsou
2025 / 109min / 35mm
Q&A with director Shih-Ching Tsou on Friday, September 18th
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Stray Dogs
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
2013 / 135min / DCP
Tsai’s devastating minimalist portrait of urban desolation, destitution and defeat is a gorgeous cinematic lament starring Lee Kang-sheng as a single father of two who ekes out a subsistence living by working as a human signboard while his hungry…
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The Blade
Director: Tsui Hark
1995 / 105min / 4K DCP
Tsui’s masterful tribute to the martial arts films he grew up with, paying homage in particular to Chang Cheh’s 1967 wuxia landmark The One-Armed Swordsman, The Blade tells the tale of a blacksmith (Vincent Zhao) at a foundry specializing in sword…
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The Witch Hunt
Fri Sep 18
Director: Anja Breien
1981 / 93min / DCP
Introduction by Sigmund Elias Holm, the Film Commissioner at Western Norway Film Fund, on Sunday, September 13th
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Knock Off
Director: Tsui Hark
1998 / 91min / 35mm
Tsui’s second and last English-language film, reuniting him with the star of his 1997 Double Team and favorite of Hong Kongers making forays into Hollywood, Jean-Claude Van Damme. In Hong Kong arranging a fashion show for “V-Six” jeans, unscrupulous…
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Ghost in the Shell: 30th Anniversary Remaster
Director: Mamoru Oshii
1995 / 83min / 4K DCP
“My codename is Project 2501, and I am a life form that was born in a sea of information.” In the year 2029, the world looks like a hybridization of Hong Kong, Tokyo, and New York, yielding to entropy and technocracy. Cyborg Major Kusanagi, a perfect…
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Paprika
Director: Satoshi Kon
2006 / 90min / 35mm
The fourth and final film by Kon takes place in a not-too-distant future in which therapists, using a new technology called DC Mini, are able to record the dreams of psychiatric patients. All well and good, until a raid on the lab leads to the loss of the…
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Oedipus Rex
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
1967 / 104min / DCP
Seeking source materials from which to forge a new “primal cinema,” Pasolini delved into the storehouse of mythic heritage. Taking on Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex, he begins with a prologue set in prewar Italy, and goes on to defy expectation throughout,…
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Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain
Sat Sep 19
Director: Tsui Hark
1983 / 98min / DCP
Blood Demons, psychedelic lighting, cutting-edge special effects courtesy imported Hollywood technicians, head-lopping flying swords, physics-defying wire stunts, two Sammo Hungs, and Lin a vision of frigid majesty as an imperious Ice Queen—Hark’s…
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Notes Toward an African Orestes
Sat Sep 19
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
1970 / 65min / DCP
Pasolini’s thrillingly freeform, intellectually adventurous documentary, narrated in the style of thoughts dashed off in a notebook, charts his preparations to make a film of Aeschylus’s Oresteia trilogy in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Uganda. Forming a…
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ACE Presents: Pumping Iron
Sat Sep 19
Director: George Butler, Robert Fiore
1977 / 86min / 16mm
Q&A with editor Geof Bartz, ACE, moderated by Jeffrey Wolf, ACE, on Saturday, September 19th
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Games of Love and Loneliness
Sat Sep 19
Director: Anja Breien
1977 / 100min / DCP
Adapted from the novel A Serious Game by Swedish author Hjalmar Söderberg, whose play Gertrud had been the source for Carl Theodor Dreyer’s final film of the same title, Games of Love and Loneliness stars Stefan Ekman as Arvid, a young newspaperman who…
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Next of Kin
Sat Sep 19
Director: Anja Breien
1979 / 95min / DCP
Childless and unmarried, wealthy shipping magnate Kai Skaug has keeled over at age 54. With great expectations, his extended family—elderly mother, brother and sister with attendant spouses and offspring, assorted cousins—gather for his funeral and…
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Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
Sat Sep 19
Director: Douglas Gordon, Phillippe Pareno
2006 / 90min / DCP
Q&A with Darius Khondji on Saturday, September 19th
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Stealing Beauty
Sat Sep 19
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
1996 / 118min / 35mm
After the death of her poet mother, 19-year-old American Lucy (Liv Tyler) travels to a Tuscan villa near Siena owned by family friends in hopes of exploring her family’s history and reuniting with her first kiss, though soon finds herself contending…
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Don't Play with Fire
Sat Sep 19
Director: Tsui Hark
1980 / 97min / DCP
Tsui’s outraged and outrageous third feature is a raw, tormented howl of hopeless rebellion that follows a trio of endorphin-addicted, bomb-planting teen nihilists as they get themselves involved with Triad thugs, gun runners, and—most perilous of…
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The Warriors
Director: Walter Hill
1979 / 93min / 35mm
“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 Little Mermaid
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
1989 / 83min / 35mm
This sprightly interpretation of Hans Christian Anderson’s story was eyed by Disney as far back as the days of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, finally surfacing in 1989. There’s a hot crustacean band, sure, but also a keening grasp of the angst,…
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Medea (1969)
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
1969 / 110min / DCP
Returning to the well of Greek myth, Pasolini fixed on the figure of Medea, the pagan priestess loved and left behind by the questing Jason, whose story became for Pasolini a symbol of the colonization of the classical world and the vanquishing of the…
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Wives (Hustruer)
Sun Sep 20
Director: Anja Breien
1973 / 83min / DCP
Q&A with Jane Gaines, Founder of the Columbia University’s Women Film Pioneers Project, moderated by FOFIF curator Brittany Shaw on Friday, September 11th
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Time and Tide
Director: Tsui Hark
2000 / 113min / 35mm
Back in Hong Kong after taking his shot at conquering Hollywood, Tsui returned home with both barrels blazing, producing this high-strung action melodrama about a cash-strapped expectant father (Nicholas Tse) who joins the bodyguard service of his uncle…
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Wives: Ten Years After
Sun Sep 20
Director: Anja Breien
1985 / 88min / DCP
Frøydis Armand, Katja Medbøe, and Anne Marie Ottersen return as Heidrun, Kaja, and Mie, 10 years older and another decade removed from youth’s relative freedom from responsibility. Each of the trio have been molded by years of cohabitation in ways…
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Yi Yi
Sun Sep 20
Director: Edward Yang
2000 / 173min / DCP
The last work of a master filmmaker who died far too young, the gentle, restrained, and terribly humane Yi Yi observes the interplay between three generations of an upper middle-class Taipei family. Comic when dealing in the foibles of its excellent…
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Wives III
Sun Sep 20
Director: Anja Breien
1996 / 76min / DCP
A surprise 50th birthday party for Kaja (Katja Medbøe) thrown on a city streetcar by old school chums Heidrun and Mie (Frøydis Armand and Anne Marie Ottersen) turns into another conversational bender in the third entry of Breien’s very singular…
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Se7en
Director: David Fincher
1995 / 127min / 35mm
Nearing-retirement veteran Detective Morgan Freeman and new transfer Brad Pitt track a serial killer with an advanced sense of stagecraft through a sickly, perpetually sodden city of peeling lead paint and lost souls in Fincher’s tour de force, easily…
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A Brighter Summer Day
Mon Sep 21
Director: Edward Yang
1991 / 237min / DCP
A sprawling and intimate evocation of the Taiwan of Yang’s teenage years: the outset of the 1960s, a period defined by street gang activity, the political repression of the Kuomintang military government, and the ubiquity of American pop culture. A…
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Jason and the Argonauts
Mon Sep 21
Director: Don Chaffey
1963 / 104min / 35mm
The story is that of heroic Jason sailing far and wide questing for the Golden Fleece of lore, but it’s never looked like this before, thanks to stop-motion superstar Ray Harryhausen’s ability to put flesh on mythic fancy. An energetic epic in…
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Days and Nights in the Forest
Mon Sep 21
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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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Mon Sep 21
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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Peking Opera Blues
Mon Sep 21
Director: Tsui Hark
1986 / 104min / 4K DCP
Set in the newly established, vulnerable Republican China of 1913, Peking Opera Blues is a fizzily exuberant, chaotically colorful espionage thriller/screwball romance/slapstick social satire/costume drama pageant that bends genres and genders at will,…
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Uncut Gems
Mon Sep 21
Director: Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie
2019 / 134min / 35mm
Adam Sandler gives a career-best performance as Howard Ratner, a fast-talking jeweler in Manhattan’s Diamond District with a penchant for living on the edge and well beyond his means, in the Safdies’ hectic, often hilarious thriller, where a…
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Delicatessen
Mon Sep 21
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
1991 / 99min / 4K DCP
The first feature by Jeunet and Caro, who had only completed a handful of shorts when they stunned the world with this antic, stylish debut—a skewed, funhouse mirror vision informed by comic strips, gonzo animation, and silent comedy. In a…
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Petite Maman
Tue Sep 22
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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La Haine
Tue Sep 22
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
Tue Sep 22
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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Orpheus
Tue Sep 22
Director: Jean Cocteau
1950 / 95min / 35mm
Cocteau’s lushly lyric, allegorical update of the Orpheus myth, based on his play of the same title, depicts a famous poet (Jean Marais) who’s scorned by the Left Bank youth, torn between his love for his wife, Eurydice (Marie Déa), and a mysterious,…
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Wake in Fright
Tue Sep 22
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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The City of Lost Children
Tue Sep 22
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
1995 / 112min / 35mm
Beginning with a Christmas Eve invasion by an army of nefarious Santas, Jeunet and Caro’s warped fairy tale follows a boy (Joseph Lucien) wandering the streets of a fog-shrouded harbor city populated by freaks and carnies, including the circus strongman…
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Office Space
Tue Sep 22
Director: Mike Judge
1999 / 89min / 35mm
A household name thanks to the runaway success of MTV’s Beavis and Butthead, Judge made the leap into live-action filmmaking with this cult comedy of white-collar alienation, inspired by his 1991 animated short. Cubicle jockey Peter (Ron Livingston)…
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Spider Baby
Tue Sep 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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Happy Together
Wed Sep 23
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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Shanghai Blues
Wed Sep 23
Director: Tsui Hark
1984 / 103min / 4K DCP
Beginning against the backdrop of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the inimitable Tsui’s kinetic, ultra-stylish screwball comedy/historical romance/backstage musical—beautifully restored for the occasion of its 40th anniversary—is one of the most…
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American Job
Wed Sep 23
Director: Chris Smith
1996 / 90min / DCP
Before obtaining cult immortality with American Movie, Smith made his auspicious feature debut with this microbudget, poker-faced mockumentary that approximates the style of an industrial film to follow Randy Scott (Randy Russell, credited as co-writer),…
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Black Orpheus
Wed Sep 23
Director: Marcel Camus
1959 / 107min / 35mm
Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Camus’s international arthouse smash transposes the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and sets the proceedings shimmying along to a…
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The Treasure of Bitch Islands
Wed Sep 23
Director: F. J. Ossang
1990 / 108min / 4K DCP
A phantasmagoric, definition-defying film from perhaps France’s premier underground filmmaker, The Treasure of Bitch Islands begins with the mysterious disappearance of an engineer who has discovered a new energy source, and follows a post-nuclear…
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The Apartment
Wed Sep 23
Director: Billy Wilder
1960 / 125min / 35mm
Jack Lemmon is one anxious face in a sea of stooges at the New York insurance company where he toils, a passive nobody able to distinguish himself to his superiors only by letting boss Fred MacMurray use his shoebox apartment as a love nest, while his…
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I Hired a Contract Killer
Wed Sep 23
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
1990 / 79min / DCP
Freshly unemployed after 15 years at the same civil service post, newly turned 50, and too frightened to put himself out of his misery by his own hand, Jean-Pierre Léaud, a Frenchman living in London, decides to hire a hitman to do the dirty work for…
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The Night is Short, Walk on Girl
Wed Sep 23
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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Hercules in the Haunted World
Wed Sep 23
Director: Mario Bava
1961 / 84min / 35mm
Brit bodybuilder Reg Park straps on the sandals and exomis to play Zeus’s swole love child in Bava’s deliciously delirious peplum, co-written by Mondo Cane’s Franco Prosperi, which follows our hulking hero—as well as Theseus and Telemachus—on a…
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Clash of the Titans
Thu Sep 24
Director: Desmond Davis
1981 / 118min / 35mm
A feast of practical stop-motion effects wizardry courtesy the legendary Ray Harryhausen, also co-producer on Clash of the Titans, this beloved Gods-and-monsters epic centers on Harry Hamlin’s Perseus—scion of Immortal philanderer Zeus (Laurence…
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Rebels of the Neon God
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
1992 / 106min / DCP
Tsai’s first theatrically released film isn’t as pared down in its approach as some of his later works—it even has a rather catchy synth theme song!—but in most respects it’s pure Tsai, a film about urban loners and the city’s (largely…
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La Notte
Thu Sep 24
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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Playtime
Thu Sep 24
Director: Jacques Tati
1967 / 124min / DCP
On official business in Paris, Tati’s beloved, bumbling alter-ego Monsieur Hulot discovers himself lost in a new, modern cityscape of midcentury modern glass cubes, gimcrack gadgets, squeaky pleather, and shiny chromium. A brilliant burlesque of the…
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Troy
Thu Sep 24
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
2004 / 163min / 35mm
Before The Odyssey there was The Iliad, and before Christopher Nolan’s sword-and-sandals smash there was Troy, Petersen’s rather free adaptation of Homer (with a smidge of Quintus Smyrnaeus’s Posthomerica for flavor.) Orlando Bloom’s Paris lures…
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Brazil
Thu Sep 24
Director: Terry Gilliam
1985 / 142min / 4K DCP
Ground into despairing dust by his routine as a low-level bureaucrat in an Orwellian near-future—drabulously conceived as a junk shop jumble by art directors Norman Garwood and Maggie Gray—Sam (Jonathan Pryce) takes flight only in his imagination,…
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True Romance
Thu Sep 24
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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Eve's Bayou
Thu Sep 24
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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Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Fri Sep 25
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 Wedding Banquet
Director: Ang Lee
1993 / 106min / 35mm
Before scaling Brokeback Mountain, Taiwanese American director Lee made this indie breakout about Wai Tung (Winston Chao, in his film debut), a gay man happily living in Manhattan with his partner who stages a sham marriage between himself and a penniless…
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Daughter's Daughter
Director: Huang Xi
2024 / 126min / DCP
Sylvia Chang has one of the finest roles in her formidable career in Huang’s Golden Horse Award–winning intergenerational drama, co-produced by Chang and Hou Hsiao-hsien. Chang’s Jin Aixia is the middle-aged mother of two adult daughters—one, Fan…
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This Long Century Presents: Salomé Lamas
Fri Sep 25
Director: Salomé Llamas
2025 / 89min / DCP
Q&A with filmmaker Salomé Lamas on Friday, September 25th
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The Ninth Gate
Fri Sep 25
Director: Roman Polanski
1999 / 133min / 35mm
Hired by a wealthy collector to authenticate a rarer-than-rare copy of Aristide Torchia’s 17th-century tome The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, purported to allow its owner to summon the Devil, New York–based antiquarian book dealer Dean Corso…
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A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon
Director: Tsui Hark
1989 / 105min / 4K DCP
Taking over the reins from John Woo, Saigon-born series producer Tsui had a homecoming of sorts with this anxiety-riddled, squib-drenched 1974-set prequel, which shows us A Better Tomorrow protagonist Mark, in his younger and more vulnerable years,…
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The Double
Director: Richard Ayoade
2013 / 93min / DCP
Inspired by the Dostoyevsky novella of the same title, Ayoade’s noir-inflected sophomore feature gives a dead game Jesse Eisenberg not one but two juicy parts as both a mousy, long-overlooked office drone, Simon James, and his new colleague, the…
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Iphigenia
Sat Sep 26
Director: Michael Cacoyannis
1977 / 127min / 16mm
The final film of Cacoyannis’s “Greek Tragedy” trilogy, following 1962’s Electra and 1971’s The Trojan Woman, adapts Euripides’s Iphigenia in Aulis, with an exceptional Tatiana Papamoschou as the waifish, doe-eyed daughter of Agamemnon and…
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Tokyo Melody
Director: Elizabeth Lennard
1985 / 62min / DCP
Introduction by composer Paul Grimstad on Saturday, September 26th
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Electra, My Love
Director: Miklós Jancsó
1974 / 71min / DCP
Jancsó’s radically original, downright hypnotic retelling of the Ancient Greek myth against the backdrop of the puszta, Hungary’s vast, muddy plains, is among the long-take master’s most bravura stylistic performances, its 70-minute runtime made up…
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Alien: Resurrection
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
1997 / 109min / 35mm
The fourth entry in the Alien series brings Sigourney Weaver’s Lt. Ellen Ripley, last seen swan diving into a vat of molten steel, back from the Great Beyond—after a fashion, at least. Cloned from samples of extraterrestrial-contaminated DNA, Ripley…
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Sun Sep 27
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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Pushing Hands
1991 / 105min / DCP
Tensions brew and language becomes a barrier when widowed tai chi master Mr. Chu (Lung Sihung) swaps Beijing for a new life in New York City, where he joins the household of his Americanized son and white daughter-in-law. Lee’s directorial debut…
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Jollof Films Presents: Faat Kiné
Sun Sep 27
Director: Ousmane Sembène
2001 / 120min / Digital
Post-screening discussion with Jollof Films on Sunday, September 27th
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Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
Sun Sep 27
Director: Neo Sora
2023 / 103min / DCP
Q&A with cinematographer Bill Kirstein and producer Albert Tholen moderated by filmmaker Kogonada on Sunday, September 27th
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Story of Mother
Sun Sep 27
Director: Sung Tsun-Shou
1973 / 98min / DCP
Adapted from the enormously influential author Yu Lihua’s novel Mother and Son, Sung’s film is an enormously compassionate drama about a young mother (Li Hsiang) seen stepping out on her husband by their child, an incident that, in the wake of his…
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Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
Director: Stephen Nomura Schible
2017 / 100min / DCP
A precious glimpse into the creative process of the late synth-pop star, film composer, and activist Ryuichi Sakamoto, Schible’s deeply affecting film picks up with its introspective subject as he returns to music-making after having been diagnosed with…
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Fireflies Press Presents: Morvern Callar
Sun Sep 27
Director: Lynne Ramsay
2002 / 97min / 35mm
Introduction by Fireflies Press co-publisher, Annabel Brady-Brown on Sunday, September 27th
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RoboCop - The Director's Cut
Director: Paul Verhoeven
1987 / 102min / DCP
I’d buy that for a dollar! For a strange few years, beginning with this runaway hit, the perverse imagination and earthy humor of Verhoeven seemed to sync up perfectly with the desires of the American multiplex-going public. In dystopian Detroit,…
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
2000 / 107min / 35mm
The Coens’ country-fried, Depression era, quasi-musical take on The Odyssey borrows its title—and more than a bit of its anarchic sense of humor—from Preston Sturges’s Sullivan’s Travels, choreography cues from Busby Berkeley, and rips a few…
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Midnight in Paris
Fri Oct 2
Director: Woody Allen
2011 / 94min / 35mm
Screenwriter, would-be novelist, and romantic-at-heart Owen Wilson, on vacation in the City of Lights with level-headed fiancée Rachel McAdams, sets out on his own one night after a wine tasting and finds himself suddenly in the Jazz Age Paris of…
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Train to Busan
Director: Yeon Sang-ho
2016 / 118min / DCP
Divorced, depressed, and brutally overworked, hedge fund manager Seok-woo (Gong Yoo) has hardly any time to devote to his young daughter, Su-an (Kim Su-an), so the birthday trip they’re taking together—a 280-mile train ride from Seoul to Busan, where…
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The Beach
Sat Oct 3
Director: Danny Boyle
2000 / 119min / 35mm
A sort of Lord of the Flies for the jet-setting, designer drug-popping leisure class, Boyle’s adaptation of Alex Garland’s novel is a steamy thriller set in motion when Leonardo DiCaprio’s backpacking beach bum accepts an invitation to a pristine…
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Amour
Director: Michael Haneke
2012 / 127min / 4K DCP
For their study of an elderly couple—played by icons of French cinema Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, both superlative—facing final separation by cruel death, Haneke and cinematographer Darius Khondji created a litany of framings that feel…
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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Sat Oct 3
Director: Park Chan-wook
2002 / 116min / 35mm
Introduction by LEENALCHI and a post-screening Q&A with composer Jang Young Gyu moderated by Goran Topalovic, October 3rd
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Invisible Adversaries
Sat Oct 3
Director: Valie Export
1977 / 110min / DCP
Introduction by filmmaker Lynne Sachs on Saturday, October 3rd
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The Wailing
Director: Na Hong-jin
2016 / 156min / DCP
Introduction by composer Jang Young Gyu on Saturday, October 3rd
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Heathers
Sat Oct 3
Director: Michael Lehmann
1988 / 103min / DCP
“Dear Diary: My teen-angst bullshit now has a body count.” A caustic rejoinder to John Hughes’s ’80s Brat Pack pictures, Lehmann’s savage suburban satire brought out the sociopathic side of Christian Slater’s too-cool outlaw persona, casting…
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Small Change
Sun Oct 4
Director: François Truffaut
1976 / 104min / 35mm
From first kisses to more sinister secrets, all of the loneliness and wonderment and danger and astonishing endurance that distinguish the years we pass between infancy and adolescence are contained here in Truffaut’s string of loosely connected…
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High and Low
Director: Akira Kurosawa
1963 / 143min / 35mm
Kurosawa’s formal genius and rare humanism are on full display in this white-knuckle thriller—source of an upcoming remake by Spike Lee—which transposes the materials of an Ed McBain novel to contemporary Japan, starring Toshiro Mifune as a rich…
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The Practice of Love
Sun Oct 4
Director: Valie Export
1984 / 90min / DCP
Export’s third feature is a feminist upending of film noir conceits starring Adelheid Arndt as a journalist who uncovers a murderous conspiracy that, upon further investigation, may very well have a connection to her unhappy personal life. “An…
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Nostos: The Return
Sun Oct 4
Director: Franco Piavoli
1989 / 85min / DCP
Rather than weighing the merits of one translation of The Odyssey against those of another, Piavoli dispenses with language—or, at least, readily comprehensible language—altogether, giving us an interpretation of the Homeric epic that is first and…
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Valie Export Shorts Program
Sun Oct 4
Director: Valie Export
1973 / 56min / DCP
A provocative program of short films by Export whose work, focused in her words, on “the body and moreover the female body,” can be viewed as both parallel to and a response against that of the male-dominated Viennese Actionists. Featuring the…
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Ulysses' Gaze
Sun Oct 4
Director: Theo Angelopoulos
1995 / 176min / 35mm
An Odyssey through the Balkans after the fall of communism following a Greek American filmmaker, known simply as “A” (Harvey Keitel), who has returned to Hellas after an absence of decades on a quest to find his own personal “Ithaca”: three reels…
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The Yellow Sea
Sun Oct 4
Director: Na Hong-jin
2010 / 157min / DCP
Jang and Lee Byung-hoon’s propulsive score sets a fire under Na’s unrelenting man-on-the-run thriller that burns hotter with each passing minute. Debt-strapped down-on-his-luck cabbie Gu-nam (Ha Jung-woo), an ethnic Korean living and working in China,…
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The Terminator
Director: James Cameron
1985 / 107min / DCP
Too many sequels and an incalculable cultural impact later, it’s sometimes forgotten what a hot and nasty little movie Cameron’s original Terminator was, dropping peak-physique Schwarzenegger into a sleazy Los Angeles of leather bars, punk rockers,…
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The Age of Innocence
Director: Martin Scorsese
1993 / 139min / 35mm
One breathtaking composition follows another in Scorsese’s adaptation of Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece about social mores (and taboos) amongst New York’s viperous moneyed classes in late 19th-century New York, brought to life…
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Socrates
Fri Oct 9
Director: Roberto Rossellini
1970 / 120min / DCP
Beginning in the mid-’60s and ending with his death in 1977, Rossellini committed himself to producing a series of films, telefilms, and serial works that would together constitute a narrative of human progress and the history of ideas from aleolithic…
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An Autumn's Tale
1987 / 99min / 4K DCP
Newly arrived in New York City from Hong Kong and unhappily reunited with boyfriend Danny Chan, Jennifer (Cherie Chung) finds a guide to this strange new world in the person of distant relation Samuel Pang, aka “Sampan” (Chow Yun-fat, at his most…
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Bread Day preceded by The Train Stop
Fri Oct 9
Director: Sergei Loznitsa, Sergei Dvortsevoy
1998 / 80min / DCP
Introduction by Genevieve Yue on Saturday, September 5th
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A Bittersweet Life
Director: Kim Jee-woon
2005 / 119min / 4K DCP
A mob enforcer (Lee Byung-hun, No Other Choice) with a sterling record of loyal service finds himself fighting for his life after sparing the life of his boss’s straying mistress (Shin Min-a) in Kim’s drum-tight neo-noir thriller, unusually grounded…
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Mermaids
Director: Richard Benjamin
1990 / 111min / DCP
It’s 1963, and different-drummer single mother Cher has decided to move from Oklahoma to smalltown Massachusetts, uprooting her two daughters, nine-year-old Kate and Catholicism-obsessed 15-year-old Rachel (Winona Ryder, who provides the narration).…
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Brief Encounter
Sat Oct 10
Director: David Lean
1945 / 87min / 35mm
Lean’s simple, tender, and terribly emotionally direct film, featuring never-better Noël Coward dialogue and a Rachmaninoff theme that grows insuperably sad with repetition, follows an affair between a middle-class couple (Celia Johnson and Trevor…
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Trains, Children & Dreams: A Shorts Program
Sat Oct 10
Director: Multiple Dirs
1977 / 67min / DCP
Introduction by Genevieve Yue on Saturday, September 5th
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The Immigrant
Sat Oct 10
Director: James Gray
2013 / 120min / DCP
Marion Cotillard has one of her greatest roles as Ewa, a Polish Catholic immigrant newly arrived in Ellis Island, trying to find the means to free her sister from quarantine in a c. 1921 New York City that’s full of lures and snares, among them Joaquin…
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The Illiac Passion
Sat Oct 10
Director: Gregory J. Markopoulos
1967 / 90min / 16mm
Markopoulos corralled together the underground’s haute monde—Taylor Mead, Gerard Malanga, Jack Smith, Gregory Battcock and, in the role of Poseidon, Andy Warhol—for his radical reinterpretation of Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound, in which the…
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The Foul King
Director: Kim Jee-woon
2000 / 112min / 4K DCP
Already a well-established presence in South Korean music, with an ability to work with equal facility in a variety of idioms (experimental, rock, folk, et. al.), Jang got his start in film composing the distinctive score for Kim’s eccentric,…
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The Enchanted Desna
Sat Oct 10
Director: Yulia Solntseva
1964 / 80min / DCP
DCP courtesy of Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, scanned from a 35mm print in their collection.
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Once Upon a Time in China
Sun Oct 11
Director: Tsui Hark
1991 / 134min / DCP
No one wields a ’Scope frame with quite the same flexibility and dynamism as Hark, and the spectacular, Sergio Leone–inspired Once Upon a Time in China—perhaps the crucial film of the 1990s wuxia revival—shows Hark at his most flamboyant, keeping…
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Antigone
Sun Oct 11
Director: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
1991 / 100min / 35mm
Brecht’s adaptation of Sophocles’s Antigone—concerning the title character’s rebellion against the uncle, King Creon, who has condemned her to death—is performed in its entirety in Straub and Huillet’s final film set in the ancient world,…
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Once Upon a Time in China II
Sun Oct 11
Director: Tsui Hark
1992 / 112min / DCP
No one wields a ’Scope frame with quite the same flexibility and dynamism as Hark, and the spectacular, Sergio Leone–inspired Once Upon a Time in China II shows Hark at his most inspired, keeping up with the human whirlwind that is Jet Li, here…
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Once Upon a Time in China III
Sun Oct 11
Director: Tsui Hark
1993 / 111min / DCP
In Jet Li’s third outing as the legendary Wong Fei-hung, master of both inflicting pain and relieving it, Wong and Rosamund Kwan’s “13th Aunt” travel from Foshan to Beijing to meet with his father, there finding preparations underway for a…
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Poem of the Sea
Sun Oct 18
Director: Yulia Solntseva
1958 / 105min / 35mm
35mm SovScope print courtesy of Austrian Filmmuseum, Vienna