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A Fistful Of Dollars
Director: Sergio Leone
1964 / 99min / 35mm
With this blackly comic, cynical, dust-choked movie, Leone and Di Leo—one of the film’s three uncredited writers— revolutionized the quintessentially American western genre from his native Italy, established “Man with No Name” star Clint…
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All About Lily Chou-Chou
Wed Jul 8
Director: Shunji Iwai
2001 / 146min / DCP
Q&A with director Shunji Iwai moderated by filmmaker Christopher Radcliff on Saturday, June 6th
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Toute une nuit
Director: Chantal Akerman
1982 / 91min / DCP
Emotions boil over and thunder rolls during one oppressively humid summer night in Brussels in Akerman’s tender and melancholy film of brief encounters, furtive embraces, nocturnal despair, yearning vigils, and pregnant silences. A string of…
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Good Time
Director: Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie
2017 / 102min / 35mm
A relentless, breakneck, candy-colored chase through the heart of Queens and Nassau County, the Safdies’ long, dark night of the soul thriller follows ne’er-do-well punk grifter “Connie” Nikas (Robert Pattinson) as he scrambles to spring brother…
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Onda Nova
Wed Jul 8
Director: José Antonio Garcia, Ícaro Martins
1983 / 103min / 4K DCP
A rambunctious queer sports comedy banned after its festival premiere by Brazil’s military dictatorship, Onda Nova sets its scene in São Paulo just after the legalization of women’s soccer following a 40-year prohibition. The newly formed Gayvotas…
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day [35th Anniversary]
Wed Jul 8
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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Fallen Angels
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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PRIVATE EVENT TODAY IN THEATER & COMMISSARY
2025 / 360min
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The Traveler
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
1974 / 74min / DCP
The all-consuming monomania of footy fandom is at the center of Kiarostami’s first full-length feature, in which Qassem, a 12-year-old from the provincial city of Malayer, is determined to see the Iranian national team play a match some 150 miles away…
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Director: Sergio Leone
1966 / 178min / 35mm
For the operatic final film in Leone and star Clint Eastwood’s “Man with No Name” trilogy, production designer Carlo Simi brought the American Civil War to the plains and rugged plateaus of Spain, creating an epic canvas against which Leone could…
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The Beirut Trilogy
Director: Jocelyne Saab
1976 / 118min / DCP
An impressionistic documentary triptych capturing life during wartime—all the hope, all the despair—in Saab’s beloved hometown. In Beirut, Never Again, Saab’s camera explores a city in flames, while writer and painter Etel Adnan provides a lyrical…
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My Night at Maud's
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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Once Upon a Time in Beirut
Fri Jul 10
Director: Jocelyne Saab
1994 / 104min / 35mm
Two young women, Yasmine and Leïla (Michèle Tyan and Myrna Maakaron), one Muslim, one Christian, set off on a search for the memory of their brutalized and amnesiac city, Beirut, and so doing discover a vital resource in the person of Mr. Farouk, an…
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Meantime
Director: Mike Leigh
1984 / 107min / DCP
Produced for Britain’s Channel 4, Leigh’s bleakly comic drama shuttles between the Pollocks, a working-class East End family headed by working mum Mavis (Pam Ferris) and on-the-dole dad Frank (Jeff Robert), barely scraping by from day to day, and…
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Do You Love Me
Fri Jul 10
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Wed Jul 15
Director: Lana Daher
2026 / 75min / DCP
Select introductions by guests including ArteEast's Sylvia Feghali and Céline Semaan, Slow Factory CEO and host of Everything is Political, on July 10th, 11th, and 12th
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Angel Heart
Director: Alan Parker
1987 / 113min / 35mm
An unusually explicit erotic thriller with more than a touch of the supernatural, Parker’s brazenly baroque adaptation of William Hjortsberg’s novel Falling Angel stars Mickey Rourke at his most beautiful as a private eye in Robert Wagner–era New…
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Total Recall
Fri Jul 10
Director: Paul Verhoeven
1990 / 113min / 4K DCP
Back in the days when the system would still occasionally let a visionary blockbuster slip through, gleefully perverse Dutchman Verhoeven teamed up with an Austrian-born weightlifter who was then the biggest action star in the world to make a big-budget…
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Yojimbo
Director: Akira Kurosawa
1961 / 110min / DCP
Inspired by Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett’s classic of American hard-boiled crime fiction, and itself the inspiration for Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars, Kurosawa’s thrilling, jauntily pessimistic chambara is a beautiful example of the creative…
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La Collectionneuse
Director: Éric Rohmer
1967 / 90min / DCP
Introduction by filmmaker Annie Baker on Saturday, July 11th
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Lebanon in Turmoil preceded by South Lebanon
Sat Jul 11
Director: Jocelyne Saab
1975 / 87min / DCP
Saab had aspired to attend film school in her youth, but eventually found her way into cinema via journalism. Her first nonfiction feature, begun shortly after the slaughter of some six thousand Palestinians by right-wing Christian Phalangists in April…
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Love in the Afternoon
Director: Éric Rohmer
1972 / 97min / DCP
Introduction by Feed Me founder Emily Sundberg on Saturday, July 11th
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The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
Director: Lau Kar-leung
1978 / 116min / DCP
A watershed film for both Lau and his star Gordon Liu, and a work whose pop cultural influence encompasses both the Wu-Tang Clan and Kung Fu Panda, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin stars Liu as a young man fired with revolutionist fervor against the repressive…
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Ashes of Time Redux
Director: Wong Kar-wai
2008 / 94min / 35mm
The cream of Hong Kong/Taiwanese screen acting, including Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, and Leslie Cheung, unite in this otherworldly, elliptical, impressionistic, and entirely intoxicating arthouse wuxia, shot on location—with great difficulty…
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My Heart Is That Eternal Rose
Director: Patrick Tam
1989 / 90min / DCP
Tam, perhaps the Hong Kong New Wave’s most daring cine-modernist and a crucial influence on Wong Kar-wai, teams with DP Christopher Doyle for a high-style “heroic bloodshed” melodrama starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Kenny Bee, and Joey Wong as three…
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Sid and Nancy
Director: Alex Cox
1986 / 112min / 4K DCP
In order to play the role of smack-addled, ill-fated Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious, né John Simon Ritchie, dead of an overdose by 21, Gary Oldman subjected himself to a crash diet of “steamed fish and lots of melon” that briefly landed him in the…
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For a Few Dollars More
Director: Sergio Leone
1965 / 132min / 35mm
Leone, Clint Eastwood, and composer Ennio Morricone’s second outing as a team finds Clint’s laconic, cold-blooded “Man with No Name” vying with fellow bounty hunter Col. Douglas Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef) to be the first to collect the price on the…
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The Razor's Edge + Lebanese, Hostage of Their City
Sun Jul 12
Director: Jocelyne Saab
1985 / 109min / 4K DCP
Saab’s fiction feature debut, here in a sterling new restoration, is not without its own documentary aspect—shot amidst the devastation of the Lebanese Civil War and set during the 70-day Siege of Beirut, which appears in archival footage, The…
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The Bakery Girl of Monceau + Suzanne's Career
Director: Éric Rohmer
1963 / 78min / DCP
Introduction by film critic Richard Brody on Sunday, July 12th
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Claire's Knee
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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La Haine
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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Before Sunrise
Mon Jul 13
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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The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Tue Jul 14
Director: Wim Wenders
1972 / 100min / DCP
Sent off at an away game after committing a foul, goalkeeper Josef Bloch (Arthur Brauss) wanders the streets of an unfamiliar and unfriendly town—and come the following day finds himself with blood on his hands, retreating to his hometown and the…
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Turtles Can Fly
Tue Jul 14
Director: Bahman Gohbadi
2004 / 98min / 35mm
In the weeks leading up to the fall of Saddam Hussein, the residents of a Kurdish refugee camp on the mountainous border between Turkey and Iraq await the arrival of US-led forces. A 13-year-old, known by his friends as “Satellite,” earns pocket money…
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Come and See
Tue Jul 14
Director: Elem Klimov
1985 / 142min / DCP
Klimov’s final film, drawing upon his own experiences in the Battle of Stalingrad, is a devastating immersion into the horrors of the WWII Eastern Front as seen through the eyes of a 14-year-old Belarusian boy (Aleksey Kravchenko) who joins the partisan…
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Adolescence of Utena
Tue Jul 14
Director: Kunihiko Ikuhara
1999 / 100min / DCP
Ikuhara’s customarily off-the-wall adaptation of Chiho Saito’s manga Revolutionary Girl Utena is a head-spinning blast of subversive queer psychedelia that follows the title character, a tomboy newly enrolled at the fantastical campus of Ohitori…
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Daughters of Darkness
Wed Jul 15
Director: Harry Kümel
1971 / 87min / 4K DCP
Restoration of the uncensored Director's Cut, scanned in 4K 16-bit from its long-lost original 35mm camera negative.
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The Great Silence
Director: Sergio Corbucci
1968 / 105min / 4K DCP
The traditional slow-speaking taciturnity of the Western hero is taken to the extreme in Django director Corbucci’s hard-nosed, politically-provocative snowbound Spaghetti Western, set in turn-of-the-last-century Utah but filmed in the Italian…
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3 Women
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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The Pink Panther
Director: Blake Edwards
1963 / 115min / 4K DCP
The film that introduced the inept-yet-enormously egotistical Inspector Jacques Clouseau, arguably Peter Sellers’s most indelible comic creation, as well as Henry Mancini’s immortal “Pink Panther Theme,” Edwards’s inspired spoof of the classical…
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Jacob's Ladder
Director: Adrian Lyne
1990 / 113min / 35mm
Having proven himself a reliable hitmaker through the 1980s with Flashdance, 9½ Weeks, and Fatal Attraction, Lyne took an excursion into troubling new territory with this headlong plunge into the damaged psyche of Vietnam veteran Jacob Singer (Tim…
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Take Care of My Cat
Director: Jeong Jae-eun
2001 / 112min / 4K DCP
The debut feature from Jeong, one of a handful of female directors to break into the South Korean film industry, focuses on five young women, recent high school graduates living in the industrial port city of Incheon and facing a precarious future…
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Aferim!
Director: Radu Jude
2015 / 108min / DCP
Jude won Best Director from a Berlin jury for this, his third feature, a meticulously detailed, ribald evocation of 19th-century Romania evoking Cervantes and Rabelais as well as the American horse opera, and shot in tactilely textured black and white,…
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Belle de Jour
Director: Luis Buñuel
1967 / 100min / 35mm
Introduction by Marley Trigg Stewart, Public Programs Manager at the ICP, on Friday, July 17th
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Millennium Mambo
Fri Jul 17
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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Happy Together
Fri Jul 17
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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The Kid
Sat Jul 18
Director: Charlie Chaplin
1921 / 53min / 35mm
Regarded as the Tramp’s first jump into feature films, this family-friendly six-reeler shows Chaplin at his most brilliant and most sentimental, plumbing memories of his own boyhood of almost Dickensian deprivation. The Tramp adopts an abandoned boy,…
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Dirty Ho
Director: Lau Kar-leung
1979 / 103min / 35mm
Lau Kar-leung is widely credited as a pioneer in introducing a new conceptual wit to the kung-fu film, and his facility in that regard is amply attested to by this wackadoodle wuxia about the eponymous jewel thief (Wong Yu) who, nursing his wounds after…
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My Name Ain't Suzie
Sat Jul 18
Director: Angie Chen
1985 / 96min / DCP
Introduction by film scholar Xueli Wang on Saturday, July 18th
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Prick Up Your Ears
Sat Jul 18
Director: Stephen Frears
1987 / 110min / DCP
Based on the brief life and shocking death of playwright Joe Orton (What the Butler Saw, Loot), murdered in 1967 at age 34, Frears’s freewheeling follow-up to his groundbreaking My Beautiful Launderette begins with the discovery of a gristly crime scene…
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Basic Instinct
Director: Paul Verhoeven
1992 / 127min / 35mm
The film that made a star of Sharon Stone, seen to good effect in Verhoeven’s previous Carolco production, Total Recall, and that also provided the studio a succès de scandale windfall. Perfectly poised as she negotiates her way through the most…
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Made in Hong Kong
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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One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Director: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman
1961 / 79min / 35mm
Based on a children’s novel of the same name by Dodie Smith, animated musical One Hundred and One Dalmatians gave the Walt Disney pantheon one of its greatest villains in the person of vindictive and indefatigable heiress Cruella de Vil (voiced by Betty…
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Bride of the Earth
Sun Jul 19
Director: Yilmaz Güney
1968 / 78min / DCP
Güney, a stubbornly individualistic, rabble-rousing talent whose cinema stirred together Kurdish/Turkish folklore and aspects of the Western into a potent and highly politicized compound, took on the lead role in this lyrical yet naturalistic…
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The Seventh Bullet
Sun Jul 19
Director: Ali Khamraev
1972 / 81min / 35mm
One of the very finest contributions to the “Ostern” (Eastern) genre—the Soviet answer to the American Western, generally set in far-flung regions of the USSR—Khamraev’s ominous and evocative film, co-written by occasional Tarkovsky…
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Collier Schorr presents Je tu il elle
Sun Jul 19
Director: Chantal Akerman
1975 / 89min / DCP
Introduction by Collier Schorr & Matt Wolf on Sunday, July 19th
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Arabesque
Director: Stanley Donen
1966 / 105min / 4K DCP
Donen’s “slick and satisfying” [Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader] Technicolor confection of romance, intrigue, flamboyant op-art inspired photography, and swank décor stars Gregory Peck as an American expert in hieroglyphics sucked into a criminal plot…
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Linda Linda Linda
Director: Nobuhiro Yamashita
2005 / 114min / 4K DCP
With their last high school concert only days away, bandmates Kei, Kyoko, and Nozomi’s hopes of taking the stage appear to be dashed when their lead singer quits the group, leaving them to hastily recruit a Korean exchange student with a limited grasp…
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Extreme Prejudice
Director: Walter Hill
1987 / 105min / 35mm
Nick Nolte reteamed with his 48 Hrs. director Hill to portray grimly stoical Texas Ranger Jack Benteen, drawn into a border war with a Lonestar State expat, Cash Bailey (Powers Boothe), who has set up a lucrative drug trafficking operation on the south…
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The Red Light Bandit
Director: Rogério Sganzerla
1968 / 92min / DCP
Described by Sganzerla—21 years old when he directed his wild-eyed feature debut—as a “Western about the Third World,” The Red Light Bandit drew inspiration from the exploits of João Acácio Pereira da Costa, a recently arrested career criminal…
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The Hole [Newly Struck 35mm Print]
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
1998 / 95min / 35mm
It’s the close of the millennium and Taipei has emptied out with the onset of a mysterious virus, but The Man Upstairs (Lee Kang-sheng) and The Woman Downstairs (Yang Kuei-mei) lag behind among the ruins, where it doesn’t seem like there’s really…
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El Topo
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
1970 / 125min / 35mm
Chilean-born mime-turned-filmmaker Jodorowsky plays the title role in this acid Western staple of the midnight movies, strapping on the six-shooter as a lone gunfighter—his name means “The Mole” in Spanish—traveling across a psychedelic desert…
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L'Argent
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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Rambling Rose
Director: Martha Coolidge
1991 / 112min / 35mm
Acclaimed novelist and screenwriter Calder Willingham adapted his own 1972 novel of the same name scripting Coolidge’s tender, deeply humane Great Depression-set drama, starring Dern as Rose, a teenager rescued from a life of prostitution after being…
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The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter
Director: Lau Kar-leung
1984 / 98min / DCP
Made as the declining Shaw Brothers Studio entered its twilight years, Lau’s Eight Diagram Pole Fighter, inspired by Song dynasty folklore, has all the radiant beauty of a spectacular sunset, a showcase for all that the Shaw machine, at the height of…
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The Limits of Control
Sat Jul 25
Director: Jim Jarmusch
2019 / 116min / 35mm
Isaach De Bankolé is a mysterious operative in Spain on an equally obscure mission, making his way through a string of cryptic meetings en route to an appointment at a fortress-like compound overseen by a sinister Bill Murray in Jarmusch’s espionage…
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Darkest Hour
Director: Joe Wright
2017 / 125min / DCP
Wright’s vital, stirring period piece biopic earned Gary Oldman a Best Actor statuette at the Academy Awards for his transformation into Sir Winston Churchill, seen here in the early days of his first stint as Prime Minister, faced with the battlefield…
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State of Grace
Director: Phil Joanou
1990 / 134min / 4K DCP
“His technique was almost invisible—you couldn’t even figure out if there was one… He understood everything about Jackie, how he’d behave and speak and move.” So said director Joanou of Gary Oldman’s loose-cannon performance in State of…
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Collateral
Sat Jul 25
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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The Triplets of Belleville
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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Solaris preceded by The Working End
Sun Jul 26
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
1972 / 169min / DCP
Introduction by artist Kristin Walsh on Sunday, July 26th
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My Little Loves
Sun Jul 26
Director: Jean Eustache
1974 / 123min / DCP
Coming-of-age, Eustache-style: the director followed up The Mother and the Whore with an intimate drama based on his childhood, about a boy’s awkward, provincial adolescence in the south of France. This unsentimental, elegantly somber, visually driven…
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In the Mood for Love
Fri Jul 31
Director: Wong Kar-wai
2000 / 98min / 35mm
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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Boyfriends and Girlfriends
Fri Jul 31
Director: Éric Rohmer
1987 / 103min / DCP
Rohmer uses the amorous misadventures of two girlfriends in the Paris suburbs to test the old proverb “les amis de mes amis sont mes amis” (“the friends of my friends are my friends”) in the final episode of his “Comedies and Proverbs” series.…
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Rebecca
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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The Night is Short, Walk on Girl
Fri Jul 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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The Green Room
Director: François Truffaut
1978 / 94min / 35mm
One of Truffaut’s most personal and beautiful films, photographed “in fecund greens and withering yellows” [Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader] by DP Néstor Almendros, and one of the least known of Truffaut’s major works—audiences, it seems, weren’t…
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Wake in Fright
Director: Ted Kotcheff
1971 / 109min / 4K DCP
It’s the eve of the Christmas holiday, and polite, young middle-class schoolteacher John Grant (Gary Bond), tied to a position at a tiny township in the outback, is on his way to Sydney to see his girlfriend by way of a stopoff in the grubby mining burg…
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Drunken Master II
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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JFK
Sat Aug 1
Director: Oliver Stone
1991 / 206min / DCP
The alpha and omega of conspiracy films, Stone’s deliriously entertaining cinematic inquest stars Kevin Costner as Jim Garrison, the New Orleans district attorney who came to find the circumstances of the 35th US president’s assassination more than a…
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Mountains of the Moon
Sat Aug 1
Director: Bob Rafelson
1990 / 136min / 35mm
William Harrison’s 1982 historical novel about 19th-century explorers Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke and their rival expeditions to discover the source of the Nile River received a suitably epic treatment from Rafelson (Five Easy Pieces,…
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Stavisky
Director: Alain Resnais
1974 / 120min / DCP
From money laundering to influence peddling, casino gambling to dabbling in controversial politics, the life of Serge Alexandre, aka Stavisky, flashes before our eyes and we see the making and unmaking of the theatrically charming con artist who used…
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Millionaires' Express
Sat Aug 1
Director: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
1986 / 98min / 35mm
Arguably the most formidable ensemble cast in the history of Hong Kong cinema assembled on the set of Hung’s Eastern Western, in which reformed outlaw Sammo teams with Sheriff (played by Yuen Biao) to protect their impoverished rural hometown from a…
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First Blood
Sat Aug 1
Director: Ted Kotcheff
1982 / 93min / 35mm
The movie whose runaway success singlehandedly landed Carolco in the ranks of legit Tinseltown players, Kotcheff’s taut adaptation of David Morrell’s 1972 novel of the same name introduces Sylvester Stallone as burnt-out Vietnam vet John Rambo, in the…
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Dumplings
Sat Aug 1
Director: Fruit Chan
2004 / 91min / DCP
Expanding his segment of the same name in the horror anthology film Three… Extremes, Chan’s Dumplings tells the deliciously deviant tale of ex-soap star Mrs. Li (Miriam Yeung) who, her looks fading and husband Tony Leung Ka-fai’s eye wandering,…
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Good Morning
Sun Aug 2
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
1959 / 94min / 35mm
Two brothers in a modern Japanese suburb go on strike to bring their parents to their knees and achieve their cherished dream: owning a television set for watching sumo matches. While borrowing from his own classic I Was Born, But… (1932), Ozu turns in…
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Sholay
Sun Aug 2
Director: Ramesh Sippy
1975 / 204min / 4K DCP
Sippy’s sprawling “curry Western,” blown up to 70mm for first-run distribution and shot over the course of two-and-a-half years in the rugged hills around the city of Ramanagara, was one of the most ambitious undertakings in Bollywood history:…
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FC Live: Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
Sun Aug 2
Director: Alain Tanner
1976 / 116min / DCP
Introduction by Film Comment and special guests on Sunday, August 2nd.