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Thu Feb 26
2025 / 360min
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Nostalghia
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
1983 / 125min / 4K DCP
Tarkovsky’s penultimate film, and his first shot outside the USSR, channels the filmmaker’s own sense of displacement into the story of a homesick Russian poet (Oleg Yankovsky)—in Italy to do research on 18th-century Russian expatriate composer…
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The Wind Will Carry Us
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
1999 / 118min / DCP
Angling to film the funeral of a 100-year-old woman whose death is believed to be immediately imminent, a small film crew from Tehran pose as a group of treasure hunters to descend on their unwitting subject’s village in rural Iranian Kurdistan in…
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In the Mood for Love
Director: Wong Kar-wai
2000 / 98min / 4K DCP
Wong’s arthouse smash is the very simple tale of two people in early ’60s Hong Kong, Mr. Chow (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Mrs. Chen (Maggie Cheung), drawn to one another by the discovery that their spouses are getting together on the side. A little…
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The Silence
Director: Ingmar Bergman
1963 / 95min / DCP
The third film in Bergman’s Faith Trilogy stars Ingrid Thulin and Gunnel Lindblom as Ester and Anna, two estranged sisters, one prim, the other a voluptuary, who, along with Ester’s young son Johan, take rooms in an otherwise vacant hotel in an…
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Jollof Films presents Xalé: The Childhood Wounds
Fri Feb 27
Director: Moussa Sene Absa
2022 / 101min / DCP
Q&A with Jollof Films on Friday, February 27th
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The Holy Girl
Director: Lucrecia Martel
2004 / 106min / 35mm
Martel’s second feature is a sullen, sensuous study in monomania and blighted love set in motion when Amalia (María Alche), an introverted, devout parochial school student, finds herself on the receiving end of an act of frottage in a crowd,…
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Klute
Director: Alan J. Pakula
1971 / 114min / 35mm
Jane Fonda is, of course, supremely excellent in the role that won her an Oscar, that of tough-minded high-class New York call girl Bree Daniels—who aspires to a career in modeling—but she gets invaluable assistance from Donald Sutherland, playing the…
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A Real Young Girl
Director: Catherine Breillat
1976 / 89min / 4K DCP
Completed in 1976 but not given a theatrical release until 2000, Breillat’s censor-infuriating, no-punches-pulled feature debut, an adaptation of her own fourth novel, Le Soupirail, that ranks among the most daring depictions of budding sexuality ever…
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La ronde
Sat Feb 28
Director: Max Ophuls
1950 / 93min / 4K DCP
Based on a play by Arthur Schnitzler, as had been Ophuls’s 1933 Liebelei, La Ronde, set in turn-of-the-last-century Vienna, is a baton-passing narrative consisting of 10 individual vignettes in which pairs of lovers—among their ranks Simone Signoret,…
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Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Cats, Rats & Co.
Sat Feb 28
Director: Multiple Dirs
1950 / 60min / 16mm
Introduction and Q&A with curator Tommy José Stathes on Saturday, February 28th
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Le Plaisir
Director: Max Ophuls
1952 / 97min / DCP
Ophuls’s penultimate film, much admired by Stanley Kubrick, is a triptych in which each section is drawn from a Guy de Maupassant story (the “author,” voiced by Jean Servais, narrates), with its longer, altogether more ebullient central section,…
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Carlos
Sat Feb 28
Director: Olivier Assayas
2010 / 330min / DCP
The life of Venezuelan terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, code name “Carlos,” is dramatized in Assayas’s sprawling, richly detailed, and quite frequently thrilling biopic, which picks up with its title character, embodied by a superb Edgar Ramirez,…
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Hero
Sat Feb 28
Director: Yimou Zhang
2002 / 99min / 35mm
A sumptuous Warring States-era wuxia boasting an ingeniously constructed and endlessly surprising cloak-and-dagger plot enacted by a cast for the ages, featuring Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, and Donnie Yen as a trio of assassins targeting the king of Qin…
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Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Director: Phạm Thiên Ân
2023 / 178min / DCP
Winner of the prestigious Caméra d’Or for best first feature at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Pham’s accomplished debut centers on a thirtysomething Vietnamese man (Lê Phong Vũ) who returns from Saigon to his rural hometown in the wake of a…
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The Lovers on the Bridge
Director: Leos Carax
1991 / 125min / DCP
L’amour fou has rarely burned brighter on the screen than it does in Carax’s fabulous, florid, frantic folly, in which a hard-drinking street performer (Denis Lavant) and a homeless artist who’s losing her sight and her will to live along with it…
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The Earrings of Madame de...
Director: Max Ophuls
1953 / 105min / 35mm
Noblewoman Danielle Darrieux, desperate for cash, sells a pair of diamond earrings gifted by aristocrat spouse Charles Boyer, only to have them borne back to her by Vittorio de Sica’s handsome Italian baron, a gift initiating a potentially destructive…
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Liberté, la nuit
Sun Mar 1
Director: Philippe Garrel
1984 / 82min / DCP
Garrel’s tribute to his parents and the supporters of the Front de libération nationale (FLN) in their struggle for Algerian liberation takes place in a Paris keenly attuned to news of the bloody conflict overseas, featuring the director’s father,…
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Krabi 2562 preceded by The Ambassadors
Sun Mar 1
Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong, Ben Rivers
2018 / 104min / DCP
Q&A with director Anocha Suwichakornpong moderated by Metrograph Director of Programming Inge de Leeuw on Saturday, February 28th
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Lola Montès
Director: Max Ophuls
1955 / 116min / 35mm
Perhaps Ophuls’s supreme cinematic spectacle, his first in widescreen and color, and his final film before his early death at age 54, which makes one yearn to see what else he might have yet been able to do. This Technicolor dazzler dramatizes with…
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Mundane History
Sun Mar 1
Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong
2009 / 82min / DCP
Introduction and Q&A with director Anocha Suwichakornpong moderated by writer Sam Ishii-Gonzales on Sunday, March 1st
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The Heroic Trio
Sun Mar 1
Director: Johnnie To
1993 / 88min / DCP
To’s girl power banger The Heroic Trio brings together wire-flying wuxia and John Woo-esque gun-fu into a heady cocktail of aerial acrobatics that comes close to a live-action cartoon. (It’s also the movie that Jean-Pierre Léaud waves around a…
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Caché
Mon Mar 2
Director: Michael Haneke
2005 / 118min / 35mm
Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil play a married Parisian couple living in the lap of bourgeois comfort in Haneke’s slow-burn psychodrama—and this being a Haneke film, that comfort doesn’t last for long. Their coddled existence is soon disturbed…
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The Stranger and the Fog
Mon Mar 2
Director: Bahram Beyzaie
1974 / 146min / DCP
Introduction by Cinema Tehran founder Arya Ghavamian on Sunday, February 8th
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Comrades: Almost a Love Story
Mon Mar 2
Director: Peter Chan
1996 / 118min / 35mm
The story of a touch-and-go romance between two Mainland expats, earnest Northerner Leon Lai—one of Cantopop’s “Four Heavenly Kings”—and Guangzhou-born wheeler-dealer Maggie Cheung, Chan’s plaintive drama follows its leads from youth to…
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Somersault
Director: Cate Shortland
2004 / 106min / 4K DCP
Shortland’s visually arresting debut feature, a standout at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival recently treated to a 4K restoration, follows 16-year-old Heidi (Abbie Cornish) as, in flight from a catastrophic fall-out with her mother, she begins to learn…
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Punch-Drunk Love
Mon Mar 2
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
2002 / 95min / 35mm
Anderson went small and Adam Sandler went serious, and the results were the best work either of them have ever done, a heartfelt little love story inspired by the real-life tale of California’s Pudding Man, starring Sandler as rage-o-holic Barry Egan,…
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El Sur
Tue Mar 3
Director: Victor Erice
1983 / 95min / DCP
Ten years after his The Spirit of the Beehive, Erice emerged with another elegiac, exquisitely composed, and sublimely serene evocation of childhood memory, a film every bit the equal of his vaunted debut. The child in El Sur—routinely ranked among the…
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Cure
Tue Mar 3
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
1997 / 111min / 4K DCP
Kurosawa’s international breakthrough rode a tide of late ’90s J-horror mania, but was immediately recognizable as the work of a formidable formalist whose thematic and philosophical concerns went deeper than jump scares. Detective Kenichi Takabe…
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Re-Wind
Tue Mar 3
Director: Hisayasu Satō
1977 / 65min / DCP
One of the “Four Heavenly Kings of Pink” who turned the Japanese pinku eiga softcore industry into a seething hotbed of formal experimentation and taboo-busting transgression, Satō was arguably the most stylistically extreme and altogether unhinged…
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The Reckless Moment
Wed Mar 4
Director: Max Ophuls
1949 / 82min / 35mm
When Joan Bennett’s comfortable-but-deathly-bored California housewife takes it on herself to cover up a crime committed by her daughter, she finds herself involuntarily involved with James Mason’s unscrupulous Irish-born criminal—but then unwelcome…
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The Search
Wed Mar 4
Director: Amir Naderi
1980 / 85min / Digital
On September 8, 1978, referred to thereafter by Iranians as “Black Friday,” the forces of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi opened fire on protesters in Tehran’s Jaleh Square, leaving behind a toll of dead still disputed today. The following year, the…
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Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
Wed Mar 4
Director: Henry Jaglom
1983 / 90min / 4K DCP
Henry's daughter Sabrina Jaglom, Vinegar Syndrome's Justin LaLiberty, and Hope Run High's Taylor A. Purdee in person February 20-22.
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The Runner
Thu Mar 5
Director: Amir Naderi
1984 / 91min / DCP
Drawing on Naderi’s own memories of his hardscrabble youth, The Runner stars the marvelously spontaneous Madjid Niroumand as Amiro, an orphaned boy fending for himself on the streets of the port city of Abadan who, while facing a future that to all…
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Perfect Blue
Thu Mar 5
Director: Satoshi Kon
1997 / 81min / DCP
Rising J-pop star Mima quits singing to pursue a career as an actress and model—but her fans aren’t ready to see her go. When she takes on a recurring role in a popular television detective show, her handlers and collaborators suddenly start turning…
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A New Love in Tokyo
Thu Mar 5
Director: Banmei Takahashi
1994 / 115min / DCP
Billed in some territories as a sequel to the 1992 hit Pink Film Tokyo Decadence, Takahashi’s film is in many ways the tonal opposite of Ryū Murakami’s downbeat depiction of the travails of sex work: a charming, judgement-free workplace comedy that…
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Sunset Boulevard
Director: Billy Wilder
1950 / 110min / 35mm
Utterly transfixing from the opening moments, in which Midwestern journalist-cum-skint-screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) begins to posthumously narrate his sob story while floating face-down in a swimming pool in the Hollywood Hills, Wilder’s…
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Diary of a Country Priest
Director: Robert Bresson
1951 / 115min / DCP
The film in which the mature style Bresson would continue to pursue and refine through the rest of his career—non-professional “model” performers, affectless performances, scenes fragmented into unexpected shot sequences—emerged fully formed.…
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Stalker
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 Unbearable Lightness of Being
Director: Philip Kaufman
1988 / 172min / DCP
Evoking the air of eager optimism that accompanied the Prague Spring thaw of 1968 and the air of disillusion and distrust that followed the Soviet crackdown in summer of the same year, Kaufman’s adaptation of Milan Kundera’s beloved novel, among other…
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Demonlover
Fri Mar 6
Director: Olivier Assayas
2002 / 122min / 35mm
Q&A with director Olivier Assayas moderated by filmmaker Kent Jones on Friday, March 6th
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Sukiyaki Western Django
Director: Takashi Miike
2007 / 121min / DCP
Having already tried his hand at just about every other genre known to man, often cramming more than one into a single picture, Miike earned his horse opera spurs with the outrageous, gore-spackled Sukiyaki Western Django, performed in English, or a…
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The Taking of Power by Louis XIV
Fri Mar 6
Director: Roberto Rossellini
1966 / 94min / DCP
Introduction by Olivier Assayas on Friday, March 6th
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Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Director: Yoshiyuki Takei, Shin'ichirô Watanabe
2001 / 115min / DCP
When a terrorist wreaks havoc on the capital metropolis of a populated and terraformed Mars, it’s up to the bounty hunters of the spaceship Bebop to stop this mysterious foe, a quest that draws back the curtain on a conspiracy to unleash a…
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Mauvais Sang
Director: Leos Carax
1986 / 116min / DCP
A genre-bending explosion of pure cinematic effervescence pairing Binoche and Denis Lavant, both at the beginnings of storied careers. Binoche plays the gamine mistress of a superannuated Paris gangster (Michel Piccoli), while Lavant stars as a street…
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The English Patient
Sat Mar 7
Director: Anthony Minghella
1996 / 162min / DCP
Received wisdom that Michael Ondaatje’s lauded 1992 novel was “unfilmable” was treated to a stern rebuff when Minghella’s visually and emotionally extravagant adaptation hit screens, starring Ralph Fiennes as the titular patient, in fact a…
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The Milky Way
Director: Luis Buñuel
1969 / 105min / 35mm
The Catholic Church was long a favorite target of Buñuel’s, but never did it receive such a thorough and extended drubbing as in this sacrilege-run-amok, Dada satire. On their way to the holy city of Santiago, two vagabond-pilgrims slip through…
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Certified Copy
Sat Mar 7
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
2010 / 106min / DCP
Returning to shot-on-film narrative cinema after a decade of video experiments to make his first film outside of Iran, Kiarostami traveled to Tuscany to team with Juliette Binoche, who gives a disarmingly raw performance as an antiques dealer whose path…
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Weekend
Sat Mar 7
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
1967 / 104min / 35mm
A trip through the French countryside becomes a passage into a consumer capitalist hellscape in Godard’s blisteringly black comedy, which follows bitter, homicidally inclined married bourgeoises Mireille Darc and Jean Yanne on a road trip to see her…
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Director: Quentin Tarantino
2019 / 161min / 35mm
Tarantino’s last film to date is, among other things, a charmingly ambling hangout movie and an object lesson in the very real existence of “star power” and what it can do when harnessed by a director who understands how to use it: you will be…
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I Want to Talk About Duras
Sun Mar 8
Director: Claire Simon
2021 / 95min / DCP
Q&A with director Claire Simon moderated by filmmaker Kirsten Johnson on Sunday, March 8th
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Public Housing
Sun Mar 8
Director: Frederick Wiseman
1997 / 230min / DCP
Introduction by Claire Simon on Sunday, March 8th
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The Competition
Sun Mar 8
Director: Claire Simon
2016 / 121min / DCP
Introduction by director Claire Simon on Sunday, March 8th
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Queen of Katwe
Director: Mira Nair
2016 / 124min / DCP
A ray of hope shines into the hardscrabble life that 10-year-old Phiona (Madina Malwanga) shares with her mother (Lupita Nyong’o) and siblings in Katwe, a slum neighborhood in Kampala, Uganda, when Phiona meets missionary program teacher Robert Katende…
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Code Unknown
Director: Michael Haneke
2000 / 117min / 35mm
Ripples of ambient unease and creeping terror run through the intersecting vignettes that comprise Haneke’s French-language debut, a study in simmering rage, racial resentment, quotidian depredation, and failures of communication observed in coolly…
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The Girl With the Hatbox
Fri Mar 13
Director: Boris Barnet
1927 / 94min / 35mm
Live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura on Friday, March 13th – One screening only!
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Camille Claudel 1915
Director: Bruno Dumont
2013 / 95min / DCP
Binoche gives a performance of staggering emotional rawness and resolve in Dumont’s compassionate depiction of the prodigiously gifted and prodigiously gossiped-about sculptor Camille Claudel. Drawing on surviving letters and documents written by or…
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In a Lonely Place
Director: Nicholas Ray
1950 / 94min / DCP
Hollywood is a city of glitz and easy money, but frequently-soused, violence prone screenwriter Dix Steele (Humphrey Bogart) sees little of either, prowling the nightspots seeking solitary young women and getting belligerently blotto. Dix seems to have a…
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The House on Trubnaya
Fri Mar 13
Director: Boris Barnet
1927 / 91min / 35mm
Live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura on Friday, March 13th – One screening only!
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Battle Royale
Director: Kenji Fukasaku
2000 / 114min / DCP
A cult classic par excellence and a late career smash for director Fukasaku, a veteran of the Japanese genre cinema trenches of the 1960s and ’70s who drew on his own memories of WWII-era carnage to craft a movie speaking to a distinctly…
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Director: Quentin Tarantino
2003 / 111min / 35mm
A comprehensive tracklist of Tarantino’s mixtape diptych, in which Uma Thurman’s bloodied-but-unbowed Bride methodically sets out to cross off a series of names on a checklist of slated-for-the-boneyard foes, would require several paragraphs at least,…
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Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Sat Mar 14
Director: Quentin Tarantino
2004 / 137min / 35mm
The Bride—Beatrix Kiddo to her friends—is back, and here she can be found taking her still-rankling grudges through tawdry trailer parks and strip clubs en route to Old Mexico, practicing and putting into practice the nuances of the Five Point…
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The Bad and the Beautiful
Director: Vincente Minnelli
1952 / 118min / 35mm
The late Kirk Douglas is in bully-beautiful-bastard form, playing an amalgam of infamously hard-driving producers David O. Selznick and Val Lewton in Minnelli’s toxic Tinseltown tale. Actress Lana Turner, writer Dick Powell, and director Barry Sullivan…
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Director: Jim Jarmusch
1999 / 116min / 35mm
Forest Whitaker’s Ghost Dog isn’t your run-of-the-mill Cosa Nostra hitman: he’s a devoted bibliophile who scrupulously follows the samurai code as laid out in Yamamoto Tsunetomo’s 18th-century Hagakure, and spends his idle hours tending to his…
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Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Fri Mar 20
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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Kiss Me Deadly
Director: Robert Aldrich
1955 / 106min / DCP
Aldrich’s va-va-voom hard-boiled doomsday thriller begins on the road to nowhere and ends at a burning beach bungalow that may be the lit fuse setting off Armageddon, following gumshoe Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) on the trail of a “great whatsit”…
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The Most Terrible Time in My Life
Director: Kaizo Hayashi
1993 / 92min / 4K DCP
The first entry in Hayashi’s trilogy of films about the misadventures of detective Maiku Hama (his name a nod to Mickey Spillane’s hard-boiled antihero), The Most Terrible Time in My Life finds the indefatigable Yokohama gumshoe—played with deadpan…
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The Stairway to a Distant Past
Director: Kaizo Hayashi
1995 / 101min / 4K DCP
Maiku Hama returns, now in garish Roy Lichtenstein color, in the luxuriantly melancholy second installment of Hayashi’s noir-inflected trilogy—newly restored for the 30th anniversary—this time facing off against a kingpin known as The Man in White…
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High Life
Director: Claire Denis
2018 / 113min / DCP
Science fiction as done by Claire Denis is science fiction unlike anything you’ve ever seen, a bold experiment to the outer limits of genre, where no woman has gone before. Robert Pattinson, in a performance of quiet intensity and gravitas, is first…
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Inherent Vice
Fri Mar 20
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
2014 / 148min / 35mm
In which “Doc” Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix), a stoner private detective based in the Los Angeles-area beach ’burg of Gordita Beach, gets sucked into a conspiracy that’s more than mere pot paranoia after a visit from ex-old lady Katherine Waterston.…
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Maps to the Stars
Director: David Cronenberg
2014 / 111min / DCP
The years-in-the-making meeting between Cronenberg and Bruce Wagner, indefatigable chronicler of the jaundiced spiritual life of Los Angeles, began as a Wagner screenplay written for Cronenberg, was repurposed into the 2012 novel Dead Stars when…
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Murray Center Class of '25: Award-winning Shorts
Sat Mar 21
Director: Multiple Dirs
2025 / 72min / DCP
A program of shorts awarded at the 2025 edition of the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism’s Stronger Than Fiction Film Festival. Features Molly Fox’s What Can You Hear? (winner: Best Director), in which the director, coping with the…
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The Player
Sat Mar 21
Director: Robert Altman
1992 / 124min / DCP
Opening with a bravura studio lot crane shot that’s the first of its several references to Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil, The Player is a poison pen letter to Hollywood from Altman—like Welles, a perennial outsider—in which executive Tim Robbins…
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The Trap
Sat Mar 21
Director: Kaizo Hayashi
1996 / 106min / 4K DCP
An outbreak of mysterious murders has Yokohama in the chill grip of fear, and only one man, private eye Maiku Hama (Masatoshi Nagase)—here in his final Hiyashi-helmed adventure, newly restored for the trilogy’s 30th anniversary—can bring the killing…
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By the Bluest of Seas
Sat Mar 21
Director: Boris Barnet
1936 / 71min / 35mm
Introduction by Metrograph Programmer Edo Choi and The Theater of the Matters on Saturday, March 21st – One screening only!
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Inland Empire
Director: David Lynch
2006 / 180min / 4K DCP
A murky, miasmic, continent-hopping nightmare that’s a vehicle for longtime Lynch muse Laura Dern, playing Nikki Grace, a Hollywood starlet who’s sent into a spiraling identity crisis. Lynch acts as his own cinematographer on Inland Empire, his last…
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The Invasion preceded by Paleontology Lesson
Sun Mar 22
Director: Sergei Loznitsa
2024 / 157min / DCP
Q&A with director Sergei Loznitsa on Sunday, March 22nd
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Let the Sunshine In
Sun Mar 22
Director: Claire Denis
2017 / 94min / DCP
Introduction by actor Juliette Binoche on Sunday, March 22nd