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Lola Montès
Wed Mar 18
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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El Sur
Wed Mar 18
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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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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The English Patient
Wed Mar 18
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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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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Weekend
Wed Mar 18
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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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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The Silence
Thu Mar 19
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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Irma Vep
Thu Mar 19
Director: Olivier Assayas
1996 / 99min / DCP
Maggie Cheung in the role she was literally born to play: Maggie Cheung. The Hong Kong actress is imported to star in a remake of Louis Feuillade’s 1915 serial Les Vampires directed by a New Wave has-been (Jean-Pierre Léaud), but then finds herself…
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In a Lonely Place
Thu Mar 19
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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Certified Copy
Thu Mar 19
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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The Earrings of Madame de...
Thu Mar 19
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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Perfect Blue
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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Re-Wind
Thu Mar 19
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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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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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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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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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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Code Unknown
Fri Mar 20
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 Most Terrible Time in My Life
Fri Mar 20
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Sun Mar 29
Director: Kaizo Hayashi
1993 / 92min / 4K DCP
Sunday, March 29th screening co-presented with BOMB Magazine as part of their Spring 2026 issue launch and introduced by BOMB Contributing Editor Steve Macfarlane
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The Stairway to the Distant Past
Fri Mar 20
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Sun Mar 29
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
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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Future of Documentary: Secret Screening & Panel
Sat Mar 21
2026 / 100min / DCP
Post-screening panel featuring Yance Ford, Sergei Loznitsa, Stephen Maing, Meg Vatterott, Farihah Zaman, Chris Boeckmann, and Jason Ishikawa on Saturday, March 21
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The Player
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
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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Stalker
Sat Mar 21
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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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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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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Members Only: In-I In Motion
Sun Mar 22
Director: Juliette Binoche
2025 / 124min / DCP
Introduction and Q&A with director Juliette Binoche, moderated by filmmaker and choreographer Sarah Friedland, 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
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The Wind Will Carry Us
Mon Mar 23
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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Sunset Boulevard
Mon Mar 23
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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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Mon Mar 23
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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Nostalghia
Mon Mar 23
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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Mauvais Sang
Mon Mar 23
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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Memoria
Tue Mar 24
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2021 / 136min / 35mm
Few filmmakers have so closely tied their work to one region as Apichatpong has to the rural northeast of his native Thailand, but in Memoria, the writer-director plunges into new territory, filming in Colombia’s city streets and mountain-top villages…
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Ed Wood
Tue Mar 24
Director: Tim Burton
1994 / 127min / DCP
A paean to creative obsession for obsession’s sake, Burton’s black-and-white biopic stars a wide-eyed Johnny Depp as Ed Wood, a cross-dressing Marine Corps vet and pariah of ’50s Hollywood who, with the help of his indefatigable, infectious…
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Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Wed Mar 25
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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A Real Young Girl
Thu Mar 26
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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Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Thu Mar 26
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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Klute
Thu Mar 26
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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Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Fri Mar 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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Dead Man
Director: Jim Jarmusch
1995 / 121min / DCP
Müller’s crisp, surreally lucid black-and-white photography and Neil Young’s beautifully damaged electric guitar score are but two of the standout elements that make up Jarmusch’s sui generis, visionary Western, in which timid accountant William…
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The Seventh Seal
Director: Ingmar Bergman
1957 / 97min / 35mm
The subject of homage by Scott Walker, Last Action Hero (1993), Woody Allen, and countless other artists and artworks, Bergman’s film—with its indelible image of weary knight Max von Sydow seated for a match of chess with Death himself—is the…
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Red Sorghum
Fri Mar 27
Director: Yimou Zhang
1987 / 91min / 35mm
Gong Li’s acting debut was also the first feature from director and Li’s longtime-collaborator-to-be Zhang, a film that established both filmmaker and star as leading figures of Chinese Fifth Generation cinema when it took home the Golden Bear from…
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Clouds of Sils Maria
Director: Olivier Assayas
2014 / 124min / DCP
Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart come together in perfect disharmony as a fiftysomething French actress and her twentysomething American personal assistant, cooped up together at a house in the Swiss Alps while La Binoche rehearses a return to the…
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Allegro Non Troppo
Director: Bruno Bozzetto
1976 / 75min / DCP
Imitation is the sincerest form of parody in Bozzetto’s silly symphony send-up of Fantasia, comprised of six segments scored to tunes by Debussy, Dvorak, Ravel, Sibelius, Stravinsky, and Vivaldi. Witness a new civilization spring into being from the…
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Zodiac
Director: David Fincher
2007 / 157min / 35mm
Described by one viewer, quoted in Nathan Lee’s legendary Village Voice rave, as like “[being] stuck in a filing cabinet for three hours,” Fincher’s obsessively detailed period procedural recounts the facts of the still-unsolved Zodiac killings…
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Downtown 81
Sat Mar 28
Director: Edo Bertoglio
2000 / 75min / DCP
In 1980, writer and Warhol associate Glenn O’Brien, Swiss photographer Edo Bertoglio, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, a graffiti innovator and noise music artist who’d just begun to exhibit his paintings, hit the streets of lower Manhattan to make a movie…
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Raise the Red Lantern
Sat Mar 28
Director: Yimou Zhang
1991 / 125min / 35mm
One screening only!
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The Old Jockey
Sat Mar 28
Director: Boris Barnet
1940 / 96min / Digital
Introduction by programmer Edo Choi on Saturday, March 28th
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The Story of Qiu Ju
Sat Mar 28
Director: Yimou Zhang
1992 / 100min / 35mm
In the title role of a hard-headed, pregnant country woman whose search for justice after her husband takes a beating at the hands of their village’s short-tempered head man sends her on an arduous journey through a labyrinth of bureaucracy, Gong Li…
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ACE Presents Cool Hand Luke
Sat Mar 28
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
1967 / 127min / 35mm
Post-screening discussion with film historians Bobbie and Molly O'Steen on Saturday, March 28th
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Made in Hong Kong
Sat Mar 28
Director: Fruit Chan
1997 / 108min / DCP
The first independent film released in post-Handover Hong Kong, Chan’s atmospheric shoestring-budget character study is a rough-and-ready piece of work shot on grainy leftover 35mm short ends in the city’s overcrowded subsidized housing projects. The…
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Point Blank
Director: John Boorman
1967 / 92min / 35mm
Somebody owes Lee Marvin money, and until they pay up, heads are going to get kicked in. Boorman’s crisp, brutal, and possibly metaphysical adaptation of one of Donald Westlake’s Parker novels utilizes a bevy of innovative and ingenious editing and…
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Fantasia
Sun Mar 29
Director: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr.
1940 / 125min / 35mm
The Philadelphia Orchestra, following the hand of conductor Leopold Stokowski, performs selections from Bach, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Beethoven, and other giants, each accompanied by animated vignettes—most famously the mischievous Mickey Mouse vehicle…
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Secret Agent
Sun Mar 29
Director: Boris Barnet
1947 / 87min / DCP
Introduction by programmer Edo Choi on Sunday, March 29th
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Once Upon a Night preceded by A Priceless Head
Sun Mar 29
Director: Boris Barnet
1945 / 105min / 35mm
Introduction by The Theater of the Matters and Programmer Edo Choi on Sunday, March 29th – One screening only!
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The Darjeeling Limited
Director: Wes Anderson
2007 / 91min / DCP
Still in mourning—some more obviously than others—a year after their father’s funeral, three estranged brothers (Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, and Jason Schwartzman, also one of the film’s screenwriters) set off on a “spiritual journey” across…
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Ju Dou
Sun Mar 29
Director: Yimou Zhang
1990 / 95min / 4K DCP
Gong Li commandingly inhabits the title role, that of a beautiful country girl sold into a potentially calamitous marriage with the notoriously sadistic owner of a silk-dyeing mill (Li Wei) in 1920s rural China, in Zhang’s erotically charged,…
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No Other Choice
Sun Mar 29
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
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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Sambizanga
Director: Sarah Maldoror
1972 / 102min / DCP
Introduction by writer and artist Yasmine Seale on Saturday, April 11th
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Three Colors: Blue
Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski
1993 / 94min / DCP
The first entry in Kieślowski’s “Three Colors” trilogy—his final artistic statement before his early death and one of three great success stories of ’90s arthouse cinema—is a film as somber as its name implies, a cool, cobalt-shaded study in…
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The Outfit
Director: John Flynn
1973 / 103min / 35mm
The late, lamented Robert Duvall turns in a performance of marvelously pared-down simplicity and intense focus in the film that Westlake considered the finest adaptation of one of the “Parker” novels he wrote under the pseudonym Richard Stark. Parker…
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Three Colors: White
Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski
1994 / 92min / DCP
Literally and figuratively the lightest of Kieslowski’s “Three Colors” trilogy, White stars Zbigniew Zamachowski as a Polish immigrant in Paris who hires a fellow expatriate to smuggle him back home to his native Warsaw after French wife Julie Delpy…
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Possession
Fri Apr 3
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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The Matrix
Director: Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
1999 / 136min / 35mm
Keanu Reeves’s cubicle drone/hacker Neo gets a rude awakening, discovering that the real world he knows is a shared hallucination and that humankind are being harvested for bioelectricity by their machine overlords. A watershed movie, not only for the…
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
1984 / 117min / DCP
Miyazaki’s jaw-dropping second feature is a film of astonishing imagination and imagistic grandeur, a fantasia that lays its scene years after a devastating global war, in the Valley of the Wind, a seaside kingdom spared from the touch of a creeping,…
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Director: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
1975 / 91min / DCP
Dedicated skewerers of every aspect of English society, in this, their irresistibly quotable medieval farce, the Pythons aimed their satirical lance at nothing less than the foundational myths of Albion, following Graham Chapman’s King Arthur and his…
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Shanghai Triad
Director: Yimou Zhang
1995 / 108min / DCP
Country kid Shuisheng (Wang Xiao Xiao) arrives in bustling c. 1930 Shanghai with the address of a relative, Tang (Li Baotian), provided by his uncle… but what uncle doesn’t know is that Tang is a high-ranking member of the Triad gangs, introducing…
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Bountiful Summer
Sat Apr 4
Director: Boris Barnet
1950 / 84min / 35mm
Introduction by The Theater of the Matters on Saturday, April 4th – One screening only!
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The Wrestler and the Clown
Sat Apr 4
Director: Boris Barnet
1957 / 95min / 35mm
Introduction by The Theater of the Matters and programmer Edo Choi on Saturday, April 4th
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Three Colors: Red
Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski
1994 / 99min / DCP
The final installment in Kieślowki’s trilogy and indeed his final feature, a magisterial exploration of the operations of chance and fate that earned Kieślowski an Academy Award nomination for Best Director, stars the luminous Irène Jacob as a…
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Millennium Mambo
Sat Apr 4
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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The Holy Mountain
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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Invention for Destruction
Sun Apr 5
Director: Karel Zeman
1958 / 84min / DCP
Retro-futurist Czech fantasist Zeman, who counts Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson among his many admirers, took on the work of science fiction pioneer Jules Verne for the third time in this giddily, gorgeous undersea adventure film whose singular and…
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Czechoslovak Animation: A Shorts Program
Director: Multiple Dirs
1949 / 66min / DCP
A program of short works from some of the finest creative minds in Czechoslovak animation. Includes Karel Zeman’s Inspiration, a dialogue-free film featuring glass figurines of characters drawn from commedia dell’arte; Jan Švankmajer’s Dimensions…
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The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Sun Apr 5
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
1964 / 137min / DCP
Shooting the story of Christ with non-actors against the rugged landscapes of southern Italy, in a style simultaneously suggesting Quattrocento painting and contemporary cinéma vérité, Pasolini stripped the Gospel down to its core, in the process…
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The Red Turtle
Sun Apr 5
Director: Michaël Dudok de Wit
2016 / 80min / DCP
The first external co-production by Studio Ghibli, Academy Award-winning minimalist animator Dudok de Wit’s dialogue-free first feature applies ravishing visuals to the deceptively simple story of a man stranded alone on a desert island whose attempts…
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Chronicle of the Years of Fire
Sun Apr 5
Director: Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
1975 / 177min / DCP
Introduction by Madeleine Dobie, Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, on Sunday, April 5th
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The Hand
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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Fiume o morte!
Director: Igor Bezinović
2025 / 112min / DCP
Q&A and introductions with director Igor Bezinović on Friday, April 10th and Saturday, April 11th
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Black Girl
Sat Apr 11
Director: Ousmane Sembène
1966 / 65min / DCP
Introduction by Historian and Columbia University Professor Thomas Dodman on Saturday, April 11th
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ASC Presents Eve's Bayou
Sat Apr 11
Director: Kasi Lemmons
1997 / 109min / 4K DCP
Q&A with cinematographer Amy Vincent, ASC, on Saturday, April 11th
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ASC Presents Hustle & Flow
Sat Apr 11
Director: Craig Brewer
2005 / 116min / 4K DCP
Q&A with cinematographer Amy Vincent, ASC, on Saturday, April 11th
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Ken Jacobs's Lower East Side: A Tribute
Sat Apr 11
Director: Ken Jacobs
2026 / 100min / DCP
As part of The Whole Shebang: Celebrating Ken and Flo Jacobs, a city-wide, 14-venue expanded cinema(s) festival saluting the vast legacies of experimental film pioneers and perennial New Yorkers Ken (1933-2025) and Flo (1941-2025) Jacobs, Metrograph…
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The Good, the Bad, the Weird
Sat Apr 11
Director: Kim Jee-woon
2008 / 139min / 35mm
Taking inspiration from Sergio Leone’s 1966 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, an undisputed high watermark of the spaghetti western, Kim crafted this kimchi western par excellence, bringing together bandit Lee Byung-hun, thief Song Kang-ho, and bounty…
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Bringing Up Baby
Sun Apr 12
Director: Howard Hawks
1938 / 102min / DCP
Nebbish soon-to-be-wed paleontologist Cary Grant would be perfectly happy to stay home and play with his dinosaur bones, but then Katherine Hepburn’s strident and relentless heiress crash lands into his life with other plans. A whirlwind of deranged…
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Dekalog: Episodes 1-4
Sun Apr 12
Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski
2026 / 228min / DCP
Introduction by Annette Insdorf, Columbia University Film Professor and author of “Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieślowski" on Sunday, April 12th
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Harvest: 3,000 Years
Sun Apr 12
Director: Haile Gerima
1975 / 150min / DCP
Born and raised in Ethiopia before relocating to the United States for his studies, where, at UCLA, he would become associated with the LA Rebellion school of Black filmmakers, Gerima returned to his homeland, then riven by the civil war that had seen the…
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Whistle Stop
Sun Apr 12
Director: Boris Barnet
1963 / 71min / Digital
Introduction by programmer Edo Cho on Sunday, April 12th
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Dekalog: Episodes 5-7
Sun Apr 12
Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski
1990 / 176min / DCP
The fifth and sixth episodes of Kieślowski and co-writer Krzysztof Piesiewicz’s serialized epic—titled, respectively, Thou Shall Not Kill, later expanded on in Kieślowski’s A Short Film About Killing, and Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery, expanded…
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Dekalog: Episodes 8-10
Sun Apr 12
Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski
1990 / 175min / DCP
Kieślowski and co-writer Krzysztof Piesiewicz’s monumental serial counts down the remaining Commandments with episodes Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness, Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s Wife, and Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbors Goods. In the…