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Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Fri Jan 16
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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Princess Mononoke
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
1997 / 133min / 35mm
Clashing with an archdemon boar, warrior Ashitaka is stricken with an empowering but ultimately fatal curse, and journeying into the unknown of the Great Forest in search of a cure, meets the fierce titular warrior woman, raised by wolf-gods. Miyazaki’s…
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Uptight
Director: Jules Dassin
1968 / 104min / DCP
Inspired by John Ford’s 1935 The Informer, the formerly Blacklisted and long-exiled Dassin’s trenchant Uptight shifts the scene from the Irish War of Independence to contemporary Cleveland, Ohio, in the conflagration that followed the assassination of…
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Maborosi
Fri Jan 16
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
1995 / 110min / Digital
An elegantly photographed, enormously poignant story of mourning and reawakening from master dramatist Kore-eda, already showing the extraordinary delicacy that defines his body of work in this, his feature filmmaking debut. Young mother Yumiko (Makiko…
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Subway Riders
Director: Amos Poe
1981 / 120min / Digital
A woodwind-playing Pied Piper is terrorizing New York City, luring victims into abandoned corners of the city with the sound of his saxophone blowing before blowing them away. A grimy, mood-drenched memento from Fun City NYC—invested with pungent…
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One Battle After Another
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
2025 / 162min / DCP
Introduction by programmer Edo Choi on Friday, January 16th
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The Blank Generation preceded by Stiletto
Director: Amos Poe, Melvie Arslanian, Ivan Král
1981 / 103min / DCP
Made in collaboration with Poe’s colleague at his New Line Cinema day job, Ivan Král of the Patti Smith Group, The Blank Generation is a one-of-a-kind document of NYC punk at ground zero, capturing early live performances by Smith, Television, Blondie,…
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Smithereens
Director: Susan Seidelman
1982 / 93min / DCP
Wren wants to be famous. Or at least she wants to be recognized. She tours the Lower East Side in torn fishnets and a plastic houndstooth miniskirt, jumping turnstiles and wheat-pasting up her own “Missing” posters. Susan Berman plays her like the…
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They Live
Director: John Carpenter
1988 / 94min / 4K DCP
“Rowdy” Roddy Piper, a homeless construction worker who’s blown into Los Angeles looking for work, stumbles across a secret stash of sunglasses that, when worn, reveal to him a hidden world—one in which ghoulish extraterrestrial overlords walk the…
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Paris, Texas
Director: Wim Wenders
1984 / 145min / DCP
Wiry and weathered Harry Dean Stanton had long been a cult character actor in Hollywood when Wenders had the vision to put him at the center of a movie: a modern retelling of The Searchers on the highways of the Southwest, with Harry Dean as the…
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Mary Poppins
Director: Robert Stevenson
1964 / 139min / 35mm
Disney brings the Edwardian England of P.L. Travers—an ever-present consultant on this film’s set—and her flying nanny to vividly colored life in a song-and-dance extravaganza beloved by generation after generation, starring Julie Andrews, in her…
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When the Phone Rang
Sat Jan 17
Director: Iva Radivojević
2024 / 73min / DCP
Q&A with director Iva Radivojević on Saturday, January 17th
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They Say the Moon Is Fuller Here
Director: Clara Law
1985 / 78min / DCP
Law’s shot-on-16mm graduate thesis film from London’s National Film and Television School would become the first entry in her transnational “emigration series,” with the director herself starring as Ling, a Hong Kong fine arts student in the UK…
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Dreams of Dislocation: A Short Film Program
Sat Jan 17
Director: Multiple Dirs
2020 / 81min / Digital
Post-screening discussion with filmmakers Iva Radivojević and Xiaolu Wang on Saturday, January 17th
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Farewell China
Sat Jan 17
Director: Clara Law
1990 / 114min / DCP
Maggie Cheung gives one of her most wrenching and wide-ranging performances in Law’s flaying drama, produced in the downbeat atmosphere immediately following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, playing an emigrant who leaves Mainland China…
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Love & Pop
Director: Hideaki Anno
1998 / 110min / DCP
Neon Genesis Evangelion creator Anno’s live-action feature debut, based on a novel by Ryū Murakami, the stylistically exuberant Love & Pop centers on Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi (Asumi Miwa) and her three friends, all of whom have begun earning extra…
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Eyes Wide Shut
Sat Jan 17
Director: Stanley Kubrick
1999 / 159min / 35mm
Christmas lights take on a malevolent gleam in Kubrick’s final masterpiece, a free adaptation of Dream Story, Viennese author Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella of erotic compulsion. Dr. Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) hits the shivering streets of a…
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Made in Hong Kong
Sat Jan 17
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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Casper
Sun Jan 18
Director: Brad Silberling
1995 / 100min / 4K DCP
Beloved star of 1940s and ’50s theatrical cartoon shorts and Harvey Comics funny books, the most amiable of poltergeists triumphantly returned to the big screen in 1995 to pal around with adolescent Christina Ricci and her recently widowed “ghost…
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Last Year at Marienbad
Sun Jan 18
Director: Alain Resnais
1961 / 94min / DCP
Variously pilloried and adulated in its time, and undeniably “one of the most influential movies ever made” [J. Hoberman, The Village Voice], Resnais’s coolly glittering, fascinating, frustrating film, made in collaboration with novelist Alain…
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Once Upon a Time in America
Director: Sergio Leone
1984 / 227min / DCP
For his final and most grandiose epic, Leone, teaming with an in-his-prime Robert De Niro, left behind the Western to take on another quintessentially American genre, the gangster picture, producing a singularly haunted and haunting, epoch-hopping…
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Ice
Director: Robert Kramer
1970 / 130min / 16mm
“Coolly extrapolates twenty years into the American future to discover urban guerrillas in the streets and glass-and-marble buildings of New York, at war against a fascist regime. A microcosm of personalities, trends, and problems of today’s New Left…
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Blue Velvet [35mm]
Director: David Lynch
1986 / 120min / 35mm
The chance discovery of a severed human ear lying in a field inspires Kyle MacLachlan’s wholesome, all-American protagonist to try his hand at amateur sleuthing, and sets him off on a journey that will introduce him to bruised beauty Isabella Rossellini…
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An Elephant Sitting Still
Mon Jan 19
Director: Hu Bo
2018 / 230min / DCP
A radical retelling of the story of Jason and the Argonauts in contemporary China, the feature debut of 29-year-old novelist-cum-filmmaker Hu, a protégé of Béla Tarr, follows teenager Wei Bu over the course of an event-filled day in which, after…
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Angel's Egg
Mon Jan 19
Director: Mamoru Oshii
1985 / 71min / 4K DCP
Made in collaboration with storied illustrator Yoshitaka Amano (Final Fantasy), Oshii’s lyrical animated allegory, rich in Biblical allusions and parsimonious in spoken dialogue, follows a young girl traveling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic…
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Cure
Tue Jan 20
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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The Foreigner
Tue Jan 20
Director: Amos Poe
1978 / 92min / DCP
Described by its director as an “anti-homage,” Poe’s noir-inflected tale follows French secret agent Max Menace (Eric Mitchell), arrived in New York City to fulfill a mission whose exact nature is unclear and targeted by enemies whose grudges are…
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2046 [35mm]
Tue Jan 20
Director: Wong Kar-wai
2004 / 129min / 35mm
A sort-of sequel to Wong’s Days of Being Wild and In the Mood for Love, the ’60s-set 2046 revisits Tony Leung Chiu-wai’s Chow, now a suave science-fiction writer, to chronicle his various affairs with women (including Faye Wong, Zhang Ziyi, and Gong…
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PRIVATE EVENT TODAY IN THEATER & COMMISSARY
Wed Jan 21
2025 / 360min
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Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Thu Jan 22
Director: Ridley Scott
1982 / 117min / DCP
While so many special effects spectacles are lost in time like tears in the rain, Blade Runner remains the template for imagining the neon-wreathed downer of the future, every bit as influential in its vision as was Fritz Lang’s Metropolis over a half…
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Platform
Thu Jan 22
Director: Jia Zhangke
2000 / 154min / 35mm
Jia’s intimate epic begins in and returns to the director’s hometown of Fenyang, Shanxi Province, where it picks up with a theatre troupe first encountered in the late ’70s, following them through changes in fashion over the course of a decade as…
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Solaris
Thu Jan 22
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
1972 / 167min / DCP
Enthralling, haunting, hypnotic, enigmatic, visually stunning, and overwhelmingly emotional, Tarkovsky’s slow sci-fi epic—based on Polish author Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel of the same name—follows psychologist Kris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis) on a…
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn
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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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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Army of Shadows
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
1969 / 145min / 35mm
Melville, himself a veteran of the French Resistance, brings a laserlike precision of vision to his somber, entirely absorbing adaptation of fellow former insurgent Joseph Kessel’s 1943 book of the same name, describing the cloak-and-dagger activities…
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A New Love in Tokyo
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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Rear Window
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
1954 / 112min / 4K DCP
Jimmy Stewart’s he-man, globe-trotting photographer is laid up for the summer with a broken leg, and enlists the help of Grace Kelly (ordering snacks from 21) when he becomes convinced that neighbor Raymond Burr has murdered his wife. One of the…
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The Flower of My Secret
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
1995 / 103min / 35mm
Leo Macías (Marisa Paredes) is looking to make a change after 20 unhappy years grinding out trashy “pink novels” under the nom de plume Amanda Gris, but when she submits a new, bracingly macabre manuscript to her publisher, Leo finds herself…
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sex, lies and videotape
Director: Steven Soderbergh
1989 / 100min / DCP
A watershed work in the history of American independent cinema and the dark horse Palme d’Or winner at the 42nd Cannes Film Festival, Soderbergh’s feature debut stars Andie MacDowell as a Baton Rouge woman, Ann, trapped in a loveless marriage with…
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The Company's in Love
1932 / 73min / DCP
Ophul’s feature directorial debut, digitally remastered in 2023, is a rollicking send-up of the industry he’d just managed to break into, concerning the cast and crew of a musical comedy and their struggles to complete their ill-starred picture in the…
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Water Lilies
Director: Céline Sciamma
2007 / 85min / 35mm
Winner of the coveted Prix Louis-Delluc for Best First Feature, Sciamma’s exquisitely stylized debut takes place largely inside an indoor swimming pool complex in the Paris suburbs, observing the interlocking relationships of a trio of 15-year-old…
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2/Duo
Sat Jan 24
Director: Nobuhiro Suwa
1997 / 90min / DCP
Suwa’s second feature, 2/Duo was originally conceived as a scripted psychodrama, then evolved into something very different once Suwa chucked his script and started from scratch, working closely with his actors to develop their characters in an approach…
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Autumn Moon
Sat Jan 24
Director: Clara Law
1992 / 108min / DCP
The fourth film in Law’s “emigration series,” released two years after Farewell China and in the midst of a mass exodus of Hong Kongers looking to get out before the 1997 Handover, Autumn Moon evokes the anxiety of this moment and explores the price…
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La Signora di Tutti
Director: Max Ophuls
1934 / 89min / DCP
We first encounter starlet Gabriella Murge (Isa Miranda) at the height of her fame and in the trough of despair; in the aftermath of her attempted suicide, a series of fragmentary flashbacks (and flashbacks within flashbacks) show us the primrose path…
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ACE presents The Squid and the Whale
Sat Jan 24
Director: Noah Baumbach
2005 / 81min / 4K DCP
Q&A with editor Tim Streeto, ACE, moderated by Joanna Naugle, ACE on Saturday, January 24th
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Floating Life
Sat Jan 24
Director: Clara Law
1996 / 95min / 4K DCP
Following on the theme of impending exodus in Autumn Moon, the fish-out-of-water tale Floating Life is a portrait of one family, the Chans, scattered by the winds of change across three continents. Father and mother (Edwin Pang and Cecilia Fong Sing Lee)…
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La guerre est finie
Sat Jan 24
Director: Alain Resnais
1966 / 121min / 4K DCP
A member of a leftist group committed to the downfall of the Franco regime, exiled middle-aged Spanish dissident Yves Montand, first encountered during one of his regular clandestine border crossings en route to his adopted home in Paris, finds himself…
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Cinderella
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson
1950 / 74min / 35mm
A six-years-in-the-making labor of love for Disney and the small army of dedicated craftsmen who lavished attention on its every radiant detail, this charming musical retelling of Charles Perrault’s fairy tale—the story, perhaps, does not demand…
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Running on Empty
Sun Jan 25
Director: Sidney Lumet
2019 / 116min / DCP
Two decades after their involvement in the bombing of a napalm factory that resulted in the accidental blinding of a janitor, Arthur and Annie Pope (Judd Hirsh and Christine Lahti)—characters loosely inspired by Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn of the…
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The Goddess of 1967
Sun Jan 25
Director: Clara Law
2000 / 119min / 4K DCP
The “Goddess” referred to in the title of Law’s flashback-studded postmodern road movie/character study is the vintage Citroën DS that JM (Rikiya Kurokawa), a well-to-do IT specialist living in barren luxury in Tokyo, travels to Australia to buy,…
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Underground
Sun Jan 25
Director: Haskell Wexler, Emile de Antonio, Mary Lampson
1976 / 87min / 16mm
Defying attempts by the FBI to subpoena the filmmakers and confiscate their footage, de Antonio, Lampson, and Wexler managed to get their counter-narrative documentary about the notorious Weather Underground in front of eager audiences around the world.…
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Millennium Mambo
Fri Jan 30
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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Police Story
Director: Jackie Chan
1985 / 101min / DCP
A bone-cracking landmark in Hong Kong beat-’em-up action, Police Story stars director Jackie Chan as Ka-kui/Kevin, an inspector assigned to protect a key witness in a drug case, Selina (Brigitte Lin, nominated for Best Actress at the 1986 Hong Kong Film…
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Born in Flames
Director: Lizzie Borden
1983 / 79min / 35mm
A low-budget blend of documentary and sci-fi elements shot in the streets of early ‘80s New York and set in a world populated by diverse feminist street gangs, where an embattled socialist administration struggles to hold onto power and maintain the…
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The Spook Who Sat By the Door
Fri Jan 30
Director: Ivan Dixon
1973 / 102min / 35mm
Shot run-and-gun style on the streets of Gary, Indiana (standing in for neighboring Chicago), effectively suppressed for years thanks to FBI strongarm tactics, Dixon’s hell-raising, Herbie Hancock–soundtracked adaptation of Sam Greenlee’s 1969 novel…
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Stromboli
Director: Roberto Rossellini
1950 / 106min / DCP
The first of Rossellini’s five films with Ingrid Bergman, who to great controversy had left her husband and Hollywood to work with Rossellini, and became his collaborator and wife, Stromboli took the glamorous Bergman and confronted her with the ruins…
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Red Road
Director: Andrea Arnold
2006 / 113min / DCP
Arnold took home the Jury Prize at Cannes with her marvelously controlled feature debut, a tense-to-snapping-point psychological thriller dealing in fatal fixation and revenge fantasies that revolves around the titular Glasgow housing estate where a CCTV…
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Safe
Director: Todd Haynes
1995 / 119min / 4K DCP
Julianne Moore, her brittle, finely-calibrated, and ultimately heart-rending performance in perfect sync with the eerie formal precision of Haynes’s filmmaking, plays a model homemaker in suburban Los Angeles who, convinced that she is being slowly…
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As Tears Go By
Director: Wong Kar-wai
1988 / 98min / DCP
The beginning of one of fin-de-siecle cinema’s most undeniable career runs, Wong’s sumptuous, tragic gangster story gave Maggie Cheung her most well-rounded and moving role to date as Ngor, a country cousin from Lantau Island who comes to stay with…
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Downtown 81
Sat Jan 31
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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La Tendre Ennemie
Sat Jan 31
Director: Max Ophuls
1936 / 69min / 35mm
From the beyond, three dead men watch and endeavor to intervene as the very-much-alive Annette (Simone Berriau), a woman whom they all loved madly—and were ultimately destroyed by—endeavors to buffalo her daughter into a loveless marriage of…
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Sans lendemain
Director: Max Ophuls
1939 / 82min / DCP
Seduced and abandoned with a young son to support, Evelyn (Edwige Feuillère) keeps the lights on by hoochie coo dancing in a sleazy nightclub—until a former flame appears on the scene, and lends her enough money to put up a facade of propriety. Per…
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Downpour
Sat Jan 31
Director: Bahram Beyzaie
1972 / 129min / DCP
A schoolteacher newly arrived at a post in Tehran, Mr. Hekmati (Parviz Fannizadeh), vies for the affections of a young woman, Atefeh (Parveneh Massoumi), with her burly landlord, Rahim (Manuchehr Farid), who uses her indebtedness to him as a bargaining…
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Ace in the Hole
Sat Jan 31
Director: Billy Wilder
1951 / 111min / 35mm
Introduction by writer A. S. Hamrah and a book signing following the screening on Saturday, January 31st
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Land of the Dead
Sat Jan 31
2005 / 93min / 35mm
Introduction by writer A. S. Hamrah on Saturday, January 31st
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Possession
Sat Jan 31
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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Body Double
Director: Brian De Palma
1984 / 114min / DCP
By 1984, De Palma was under attack for what some perceived as gratuitous images of violence against women and his insistent homages to Hitchcock. His response was the ultimate anti-apology: his nastiest, most intentionally vile thriller, a reworking of…
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The Naked Island
Sun Feb 1
Director: Kaneto Shindô
1960 / 96min / 35mm
A trailblazing (and enormously influential) hybrid of documentary and fiction, Shindô’s independently financed work of lyrical ethnography records the daily travails of a family—non-professional actors all, performing staged recreations of scenes…
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Caché
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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Uncle Mustache + Journey + Waiting
Sun Feb 1
Director: Bahram Beyzaie, Amir Naderi
1972 / 107min / 4K DCP
A trio of midlength films closely concerned with the world of childhood, from two principal architects of the Iranian New Wave. Beyzaie’s abiding relish in children and their horseplay is on display in his debut Uncle Moustache, which concerns the…
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Harmonica
Sun Feb 1
Director: Amir Naderi
1973 / 76min / 4K DCP
The eponymous instrument becomes a tool for manipulation in Naderi’s tale of innocence and exploitation, an allegory for the carrot-on-a-stick manipulation of the Third World by colonial powers. Gifted a rare harmonica imported from Japan, a well-to-do…
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Days of Being Wild
Director: Wong Kar-wai
1990 / 100min / DCP
Wong’s second film (and his first with DP Christopher Doyle) stars Leslie Cheung—at the beginning of a five-year hiatus from Cantopop superstardom allowing him to focus on his film career—as Yuddy, a careless Casanova in 1960 Hong Kong. Maggie…
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The Aviator's Wife
Fri Feb 6
Director: Éric Rohmer
1981 / 106min / DCP
The inaugural film of Rohmer’s “Comedies and Proverbs” cycle, The Aviator’s Wife is a fleecy farce of romantic overanalysis
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The Stranger and the Fog
Director: Bahram Beyzaie
1974 / 146min / DCP
Beyzaie’s haunting, dreamlike second feature, set on the coastline of the Caspian Sea and its surroundings in northern Iran, opens with a mysterious boat arriving at the shore near a fog-wreathed village; local Rana (Parvaneh Massoumi), whose husband…
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Memoria
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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ACE Presents My Architect
Fri Feb 6
Director: Nathaniel Kahn
2003 / 116min / DCP
Q&A with editor Sabine Krayenbühl moderated by film educator Joshua Handler on Friday, February 6th
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A Useful Ghost
Fri Feb 6
Director: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
2025 / 130min / DCP
Winner of the Grand Prix at last year’s Semaine de la Critique at Cannes, Ratchapoom’s freewheeling feature debut is a spicy stew of disparate genre ingredients concerning a family-run appliance factory where, following the death of an employee,…
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Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Director: James Cameron
1991 / 137min / 35mm
After breaking heads in his first outing as Skynet’s T-800, Schwarzenegger broke hearts as a kinder, gentler war machine, tasked with protecting teen John Connor (Edward Furlong) from the liquid metal T-1000 (Robert Patrick), sent back in time to…
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Vitalina Varela
Director: Pedro Costa
2019 / 124min / DCP
A film that demands to be seen on a big screen in order to truly be seen, Costa’s film, a model of chiaroscuro cinematography and spare nocturnal imagery, renders marginal lives in epic scope, and proceeds at a somnambulant pace that is nearly hypnotic…
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Liebelei
Sat Feb 7
Director: Max Ophuls
1933 / 88min / 35mm
Produced on the cusp of the Weimar Republic’s total collapse—by the time of its release the Reichstag had burned, the Jewish Ophuls had fled for France, and his name was removed from the credits of release prints—this adaptation of Arthur…
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The Incredible Shrinking Man
Director: Jack Arnold
1957 / 81min / 4K DCP
Orangey gets a larger than life role as domestic feline Butch in the film that may be sci-fi maestro Arnold’s finest hour, an adaptation of Richard Matheson’s The Shrinking Man, chock-a-bloc with ingenious effects, starring Grant Williams as Scott…
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Rhubarb
Sat Feb 7
Director: Arthur Lubin
1951 / 94min / 16mm
Orangey nimbly leapt to the top rank of cat actors playing the title role in Lubin’s loopy comedy, adapted from a novel by humorist H. Allen Smith, concerning the eccentric owner of a baseball team who adopts a stray cat (guess who?) and, upon his…
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Letter from an Unknown Woman
Sat Feb 7
Director: Max Ophuls
1948 / 87min / 35mm
In a deliciously artificial fin-de-siecle Vienna—stops include the Prater Park as seen under a blanket of snow— concocted with impeccable craftsmanship on a Universal backlot, Ophuls conducts a veritable symphony of moving camerawork, turning Stefan…
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Green Snake
Sat Feb 7
Director: Tsui Hark
1993 / 99min / 4K DCP
A fresh, lyrical, sensual, and often very funny revisionist reading of a ubiquitous classic Chinese folk tale concerning sororal serpent spirits, Madame White Snake, Hark’s version shifts the focus from White Snake (Joey Wang) to her impish, rebellious…
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À Nos Amours
Sat Feb 7
Director: Maurice Pialat
1983 / 99min / DCP
One of the most flayingly emotional coming-of-age films ever made, Pialat’s raw-as-life drama stars Sandrine Bonnaire—discovered by Pialat when she was a working-class 16-year-old from the Paris suburbs—as the newly devirginized and suddenly…
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The Search
Sat Feb 7
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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Liberté, la nuit
Sat Feb 7
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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The Third Generation
Sat Feb 7
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1979 / 105min / DCP
Fassbinder’s caustically comic, media white noise-saturated burlesquing of what he saw as a “third generation” of domestic terrorists who, unlike their predecessors of May ’68 and Baader-Meinhof, operated without the ballast of a coherent…
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The Straight Story
Sun Feb 8
Director: David Lynch
1999 / 112min / 35mm
Stuntman-turned-actor Richard Farnsworth has his career-capping role as Alvin Straight, a widower and World War II veteran living in rural Iowa who, upon hearing that his brother in Wisconsin is ailing, sets out to see his sibling through the only means…
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The Turin Horse
Sun Feb 8
Director: Bela Tarr
2011 / 155min / 35mm
Tarr’s final feature distills the essence of his cinema with the potency of farmer’s moonshine: a cart driver and his daughter survive harsh lives amid the stark beauty of desolation. With a nearly mood-altering dilation of time, this pre-modern…
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The Ballad of Tara
Sun Feb 8
Director: Bahram Beyzaie
1979 / 102min / DCP
Directed, written, edited, produced, set- and costume-designed by Beyzaie, this “ballad” is a melic ode to the willful widow of the title (Susan Taslimi) who, on encountering a ghost in the woods near her village, heeds his request to help him in…