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Girlhood
Wed Aug 26
Director: Céline Sciamma
2014 / 113min / DCP
Set in the suburbs of Paris, Sciamma’s coming-of-age story stars Karidja Touré as Marieme, a 16-year-old who finds a sense of sorority, camaraderie, and mutual support when she joins up with an amateur “gang” of girls her age—much to the chagrin…
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La Notte
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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Les Bonnes Femmes
Wed Aug 26
Director: Claude Chabrol
1960 / 104min / 35mm
An early and enormous artistic triumph of the French New Wave, Chabrol’s quietly class-conscious film records the dreams, dramas, and self-deceptions of a quartet of young Parisian girls working at an appliance shop, among them Bernadette Lafont and…
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Before Sunrise
Wed Aug 26
Director: Richard Linklater
1995 / 101min / DCP
Linklater’s ongoing, decades-spanning story of a love affair through its many ups and downs begins here, with a chance encounter on a train between Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, the American Jesse and the French Céline, who together will pass a day and…
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And Then There Was Light
Wed Aug 26
Director: Otar Iosseliani
1989 / 105min / DCP
The confrontation of a traditional rural/agrarian culture bound to the land and the cycles of the seasons and an urban/industrial society that has largely forgotten these ties, an abiding concern of Iosseliani’s cinema, plays out against a backdrop…
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The Hunger
Director: Tony Scott
1983 / 97min / 35mm
A lush vampire romance with sex and style to spare, much of it provided by stars Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie as a couple of posh, centuries-old nightclubbing New York bloodsuckers who, when one begins to show the first signs of aging, recruit…
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Je Tu Il Elle
Wed Aug 26
Director: Chantal Akerman
1975 / 90min / DCP
Akerman’s boldly minimalistic first feature stars the 24-year-old writer-director herself as a young woman who we see emerging from an existence of isolation. She hitches a ride with a truck driver with whom she has a sexual dalliance, before finally…
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Solaris
Wed Aug 26
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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Obsession
Wed Aug 26
Director: Brian De Palma
1976 / 98min / DCP
De Palma’s twisted twist on Hitchcock’s Vertigo stars Cliff Robertson as a wealthy New Orleans real-estate developer still mourning the loss of his beloved wife (Dead Ringers’ Genevieve Bujold) and daughter years after their abductions until, on a…
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Deliverance
Thu Aug 27
Director: John Boorman
1972 / 109min / 35mm
A quartet of city slicker businessman buddies (Jon Voight, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox and, in a star-making role, Burt Reynolds) leave Atlanta to head into the Georgia backwoods for what’s meant to be a little weekend canoe trip… and stumble headlong…
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Chocolat
Thu Aug 27
Director: Claire Denis
1988 / 105min / DCP
After years of honing her craft as assistant director for the likes of Jim Jarmusch and Wim Wenders, Denis emerged as a filmmaker with a distinct and fully-formed sense of her art in this, her sensual and infinitely sensitive semi-autobiographical feature…
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3 Women
Thu Aug 27
Director: Robert Altman
1977 / 124min / 4K DCP
Alongside his more touted multi-character panoramas, Altman also had a fondness for small-scale dramas investigating the complexities of female psychology, and of these none is greater than the ineffable 3 Women, which finds Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek,…
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Conversation Piece
Thu Aug 27
Director: Luchino Visconti
1974 / 121min / 4K DCP
Introduction by David Campany, Creative Director, International Center of Photography on Friday, August 7th
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Collateral
Director: Michael Mann
2004 / 120min / 35mm
Los Angeles cabbie Max Durocher (Jamie Foxx) is in for the toughest fare of his working life when he picks up one Vincent (Tom Cruise, natty in charcoal gray sharkskin suit), a jazz enthusiast and professional hitman who quite firmly insists that his…
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My Night at Maud's
Thu Aug 27
Director: Éric Rohmer
1969 / 111min / DCP
Rohmer’s first feature-length entry in his “Six Moral Tales” series (following The Bakery Girl of Monceau and Suzanne’s Career) stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as a conscientious Catholic bachelor who is sorely tempted when he meets charming…
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Drunken Master II
Thu Aug 27
Director: Lau Kar-leung
1994 / 102min / 35mm
Sixteen years after starring in Yuen Woo-ping’s Drunken Master, the film that cemented its star’s place as the clown prince of martial arts cinema, Jackie Chan returned to the role of bibulous warrior Wong Fei-hung (aka “Freddie Wong”) with Lau in…
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Love in the Afternoon
Thu Aug 27
Director: Éric Rohmer
1972 / 97min / DCP
Introduction by Feed Me founder Emily Sundberg on Saturday, July 11th
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The Dark Knight
Director: Christopher Nolan
2008 / 152min / 35mm
The city of Chicago plays an oppressively glum Gotham in Nolan, Christian Bale, and Gary Oldman’s second Batman outing, a film of Langian architectural oppression that pits Bruce Wayne’s alter ego against Heath Ledger’s anarchic Clown Prince of…
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Days and Nights in the Forest
Fri Aug 28
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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Jennifer's Body
Director: Karyn Kusama
2009 / 102min / DCP
High school besties Anita and Jennifer (Amanda Seyfried and Megan Fox) are all but inseparable—though “Needy” Anita is a mousy bookworm and Jennifer a lusted-after member of the color guard—but can their opposites-attract dynamic survive…
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
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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Eve's Bayou
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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House
Fri Aug 28
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
1977 / 88min / 35mm
A demonic house cat is only one of the cast of outlandish characters in Ôbayashi’s psychedelic ghost story in which a schoolgirl and six of her teen classmates go on a trip to her ailing aunt’s mist-wreathed country house and find themselves caught…
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Raw
Director: Julia Ducournau
2016 / 99min / DCP
Justine (Garance Marillier), a lifelong vegetarian, has just started attending the same Belgian veterinary school that her older sister Alexia (Ella Rumpf) goes to, and after she’s forced to eat a raw rabbit kidney during a hazing ritual, she suddenly…
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Old Joy
Director: Kelly Reichardt
2006 / 76min / 35mm
Two boyhood pals who have since drifted apart, played by Daniel London and musician Will Oldham, impulsively reunite for a camping and hiking trip in the verdant woods of the Pacific Northwest in Reichardt’s breakout sophomore feature, released 12 years…
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Petite Maman
Sat Aug 29
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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Mississippi Mermaid
Sat Aug 29
Director: François Truffaut
1969 / 123min / 35mm
Adapted, like Truffaut’s The Bride Wore Black, from a crime novel by “William Irish” (a pseudonym of Cornell Woolrich), Mississippi Mermaid’s location-hopping tale of catastrophic amour fou begins on the Island of Réunion, where Jean-Paul…
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Chungking Express
Director: Wong Kar-wai
1994 / 102min / DCP
A hot-shot to the heart, pop masterpiece Chungking Express tells the stories of two lovelorn cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung) and the women who baffle them (Brigitte Lin and Faye Wong, who contributes a Cantopop cover of The Cranberries’…
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Stand By Me
Sat Aug 29
Director: Rob Reiner
1986 / 87min / DCP
Adapting King’s novella The Body, Reiner created this rightly beloved, clear-eyed evocation of 1950s America, starring River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O’Connell as a group of adolescent friends in small-town Oregon who set out to…
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In My Skin
Director: Marina de Van
2002 / 93min / 4K DCP
De Van writes, directs, and stars in this morbidly transfixing, at times suffocatingly intimate psychodrama from the high heady horrifying heyday of New French Extremity, playing Ester, a seemingly well adjusted Parisian career woman whose life changes…
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2046
Sat Aug 29
Sun Aug 30
Fri Sep 4
Sun Sep 6
Fri Sep 11
Director: Wong Kar-wai
2004 / 129min / DCP
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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Lady in the Water
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
2006 / 110min / 35mm
To its detractors, evidence of auteur egomania run amok, to its admirers, among the most personal and individualistic studio productions of the last 20 years, Lady in the Water is a daring admixture of the quotidian and the fantastic, in which the…
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Nenette and Boni
Sat Aug 29
Director: Claire Denis
1996 / 103min / 35mm
Alice Houri and Grégoire Colin, playing an estranged sister and brother reunited after leaving the same broken home behind, are the title characters of Denis’s domestic drama, a film whose emotional generosity is perfectly matched by the luminous…
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Mulholland Drive [35mm]
Director: David Lynch
2001 / 147min / 35mm
Beginning its life as an aborted TV pilot concerning blonde aspiring actress Betty Elms (Naomi Watts, transcendent) and an amnesiac brunette (Laura Harring) who stumbles into her, Mulholland Dr. would be reborn as a strange, sorrowful, and maddeningly…
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True Romance
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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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Director: Steven Spielberg
1982 / 115min / 4K DCP
A world-conquering pop culture phenomenon on its original release, today it’s easier to see Spielberg’s boy-and-his-alien fable as the movie it always was—modest and familiar in its domestic setting, supremely sensitive to all the fun and the fear…
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Sun Aug 30
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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Bram Stoker's Dracula
Sun Aug 30
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
1992 / 128min / 4K DCP
Coppola at his most boldly baroque, Gary Oldman wearing cinema’s most iconic updo, a puppyish young Keanu Reeves trying to make his way back to Winona Ryder, and Anthony Hopkins as vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing—it’s all here in this opulent…
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After Hours
Director: Martin Scorsese
1985 / 97min / DCP
Cheech and Chong! Sultry sculptress Linda Fiorentino! Bad Brains! These are but a few of the characters that Midtown computer jockey Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) will encounter when venturing into the wilds of a pre-gentrification downtown New York…
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Rebecca
Mon Aug 31
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
1940 / 130min / 4K DCP
“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderlay again…” Hitchcock was still a newly arrived UK import when this gothic thriller/romance, based on the novel of the same title by Daphne du Maurier, took Outstanding Production (later “Best Picture”)…
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A Day in the Country + People on Sunday
Mon Aug 31
Director: Robert Siodmak, Jean Renoir , Edgar G. Ulmer
1930 / 115min / DCP
Two slices of life from Europe entre deux guerres, and two compact masterpieces. Renoir’s featurette fragment, based on a Guy de Maupassant short story and only edited 10 years after its shoot came to a premature end, evokes the disappeared world of…
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Possession [35mm]
Mon Aug 31
Director: Andrzej Żuławski
1981 / 124min / 35mm
Banned upon its original release in 1981, Andrzej Żuławski’s stunningly choreographed nightmare of a marriage unraveling is an experience unlike any other. Professional spy Mark (Sam Neill) returns to his West Berlin home to find his wife Anna…
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Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
Mon Aug 31
Director: Alain Tanner
1976 / 116min / DCP
As 2026 marks English writer John Berger’s centennial, Film Comment shines a light on a lesser-known dimension of his work and legacy: its affinity with cinema. Taking place from July 29 to August 2 at Film at Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music,…
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The Night is Short, Walk on Girl
Mon Aug 31
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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Walkabout
Tue Sep 1
Director: Nicolas Roeg
1971 / 100min / 35mm
Having fled into the Outback after their father has a psychotic episode that threatens their very lives, two Sydney-bred adolescent siblings (Jenny Agutter and Luc Roeg, the director’s son) meet an Aboriginal teenager (David Gulpilil, in his debut role)…
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Vertigo
Tue Sep 1
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
1958 / 128min / 35mm
Dress up becomes a matter of fevered fixation in Hitchcock’s utterly intoxicating thriller, in which ex-cop-cum-snoop-for-hire Scottie Ferguson (Jimmy Stewart) sets out on a routine job tailing the mysterious Madeline (Kim Novak), an old pal’s…
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The Triplets of Belleville
Tue Sep 1
Director: Sylvain Chomet
2003 / 80min / DCP
This animated film follows elderly Frenchwoman Madame Souza as she becomes involved in international intrigue when her grandson, Champion, a professional cyclist, is kidnapped and taken abroad. Joined by her faithful dog, Bruno, Souza embarks on a journey…
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Claire's Knee
Tue Sep 1
Director: Éric Rohmer
1970 / 106min / DCP
Shot in the environs of Lake Annecy, Claire’s Knee—the fifth entry in Rohmer’s series of Six Moral Tales—concerns a cultured, soon-to-be-wed diplomat (Jean-Claude Brialy) who develops a consuming obsession with the knee of an acquaintance’s…
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Happy Together
Wed Sep 2
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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What Lies Beneath
Wed Sep 2
Director: Robert Zemeckis
2000 / 130min / 35mm
Filmed during a lengthy production break on his Cast Away of the same year, Zemeckis’s What Lies Beneath is in many regards a fitting companion piece to the director’s better-known Hanks vehicle as a study in isolation—here, the gnawing loneliness…
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La Haine
Wed Sep 2
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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Irreversible
Wed Sep 2
Director: Gaspar Noe
2002 / 94min / 35mm
Fourteen long sequence shots arranged in reverse chronology take us on a journey from hell to heaven, from nightmarish violence to connubial bliss. In a BDSM club evocatively called Club Rectum, Pierre (Albert Dupontel) dashes in the face of a man who’s…
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The Jungle Book
Thu Sep 3
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
1967 / 78min / 35mm
Inspired by the adventures of the foundling Mowgli in Rudyard Kipling’s 1894 collection of the same name, The Jungle Book—the final animated Disney feature to be overseen in its production by Uncle Walt—would become one of the studio’s biggest…
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Fallen Angels
Thu Sep 3
Director: Wong Kar-wai
1995 / 99min / DCP
Part hard-boiled crime thriller and part soft, featherweight giddiness, Fallen Angels was first conceived as a segment of Wong’s Chungking Express, then developed into a darker companion piece to his glistening pop-romantic masterpiece, the story of a…
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L'Argent
Thu Sep 3
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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The Others
Thu Sep 3
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
2001 / 101min / 4K DCP
Having enjoyed a palpable international hit with his Abre Los Ojos—picked up for an American remake, under the title Vanilla Sky, by Tom Cruise—Amenábar made his English-language debut with The Others, a dolorous, deftly directed Old Dark House…
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The Apartment
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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The City of Lost Children
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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Daughter of the Nile
Director: Hou Hsiao Hsien
1987 / 91min / DCP
A pivotal but little-screened film in Hou’s celebrated filmography, Daughter of the Nile acts as a sort of bridge between his breakthrough Coming of Age Trilogy and the trilogy of period-set films he made in collaboration with writer Wu Nien-jen. In…
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Shanghai Blues
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
Fri Sep 4
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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Peking Opera Blues
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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Delicatessen
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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Playtime
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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Happy Hour
Sat Sep 5
Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi
2015 / 317min / DCP
Four longtime friends in their late thirties living in Kobe, played by Sachie Tanaka, Hazuki Kikuchi, Maiko Mihara, and Rira Kawamura—together recipients of the Best Actress award at the Locarno Film Festival—are thrown into turmoil when one announces…
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A Brighter Summer Day
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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Wiseman's NYC: Model
Sat Sep 5
Director: Frederick Wiseman
1981 / 129min / DCP
Introduction by Genevieve Yue, film scholar, programmer, and lead facilitator of Wiseman's New York, on Saturday, September 5th
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Jason and the Argonauts
Sun Sep 6
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 Harrryhausen’s ability to put flesh on mythic fancy. An energetic epic in…
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Brazil
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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Clash of the Titans
Sun Sep 6
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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Treasure of the Bitch Islands
Sun Sep 6
Director: F. J. Ossang
1990 / 108min / 4K DCP
A phantasmagoric, definition-defying film from perhaps France’s premier underground filmmaker, Treasure of the 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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Troy
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
2004 / 163min / 35mm
Before The Odyssey there was The Illiad, and before Christopher Nolan’s sword-and-sandals smash there was Troy, Peterson’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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Millennium Mambo
Mon Sep 7
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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Wives (Hustruer)
Director: Anja Breien
1973 / 83min / DCP
Q&A with Jane Gaines, Founder of the Columbia University’s Women Film Pioneers Project on Friday, September 11th
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Don't Play with Fire
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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Office Space
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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Uncut Gems
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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The Sandwich Man
Sat Sep 12
Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tseng Chuang-hsiang, Wan Jen
1983 / 105min / DCP
A foundational text of the Taiwanese New Wave, omnibus triptych The Sandwich Man represented a clean break from the cloying sentimentality of most of the country’s studio product, with director’s Hou, Wan, and Tseng each adapting stories from a…
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Stealing Beauty
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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Games of Love and Loneliness
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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Orpheus
Sat Sep 12
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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Wives: Ten Years After
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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Black Orpheus
Sat Sep 12
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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Wives III
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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Dust in the Wind
Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
1986 / 108min / DCP
Young lovers Wan and Huen, fresh out of junior high school in the remote, mountainous mining town where they were raised, look forward to a bright future together in their new home of Taipei—only to face first the grim reality of urban life there, then…
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I Hired a Contract Killer
Sat Sep 12
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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Rebels of the Neon God
Sat Sep 12
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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The Rice Dumpling Vendors
Sun Sep 13
Director: Hsin Chi
1969 / 84min / DCP
With a wife, a mistress, three children, and a business that provides amply for all, Tsi-bing wants for nothing—that is, until his lover convinces him of his wife’s infidelity, breaks up their household, then clears off with all his cash, sending him…
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Hercules in the Haunted World
Sun Sep 13
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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Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain
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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Next of Kin
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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The Witch Hunt
Director: Anja Breien
1981 / 93min / DCP
Set in the mountains of rugged western Norway in the early years of the 17th century, The Witch Hunt reunites Breien with Games of Love and Loneliness star Lil Terselius, here playing Eli—a young woman who returns to her native village after the failure…
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Yi Yi
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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The 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
Fri Sep 18
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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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
Sat Sep 19
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
Sat Sep 19
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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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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The Warriors
Sat Sep 19
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
Sun Sep 20
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)
Sun Sep 20
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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Time and Tide
Sun Sep 20
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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Se7en
Sun Sep 20
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…