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Ash Is Purest White
Director: Jia Zhangke
2018 / 136min / DCP
Jia’s longtime collaborator and muse Zhao Tao has one of her greatest roles in crime melodrama Ash is Purest White, depicting the same character, that of Qiao, the loyal partner of a Hong Kong action movie-aping Datong gangster, over the course of…
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Chocolat
Monday July 1
3:15pmDirector: 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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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Monday July 1
5:30pmDirector: Tomas Alfredson
2011 / 127min / 35mm
There is a mole inside MI6, Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, and agent George Smiley has been brought out of retirement to find out who is selling secrets to Moscow. Alfredson’s slow burn ’70s-set Cold War espionage thriller, based on the…
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Three Colors: Blue
Monday July 1
5:30pmDirector: Krzysztof Kieślowski
1993 / 94min / DCP
The first entry in Kieślowski’s “Three Colors” trilogy—his final artistic statement before his early death and one of three great success stories of ’90s arthouse cinema—is a film as somber as its name implies, a cool, cobalt-shaded study in…
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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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Family Portrait
Director: Lucy Kerr
2023 / 78min / DCP
Introduction and Q&A with director Lucy Kerr and actor Deragh Campbell, moderated by Joanna Arnow, on Friday, June 28th and Saturday, June 29th
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The Age of Innocence
Director: Martin Scorsese
1993 / 139min / DCP
One breathtaking composition follows another in Scorsese’s adaptation of Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece about social mores (and taboos) amongst New York’s viperous moneyed classes in late 19th-century New York, brought to life…
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Pusher
Monday July 1
9:45pmDirector: Nicolas Winding Refn
1996 / 110min / 35mm
Refn’s feature debut as well as the first big-screen outing for Mads Mikkelsen, Pusher breathlessly trails Frank (Kim Bodia), a hapless low-level dealer who finds himself one day with his head on the chopping block, scrambling to cover a mountain of…
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Director: Céline Sciamma
2019 / 122min / DCP
Set in late 18th-century France, Sciamma’s acclaimed queer period romance, luminously shot by Claire Mathon, concerns the blossoming romance between a young aristocratic woman (Adèle Haenel), engaged to be married, and the female painter (Noémie…
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Au Revoir les enfants [35mm]
Tuesday July 2
3:45pmDirector: Louis Malle
1987 / 104min / 35mm
Malle’s most autobiographical film, which draws on his experience of witnessing a Gestapo raid in his youth as well as the true-life story of martyred French priest and teacher Père Jacques, sets its scene at a Carmelite boarding school in occupied…
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Barry Lyndon
Tuesday July 2
6:00pmDirector: Stanley Kubrick
1975 / 184min / 35mm
Introduction by Sound Engineer and Re-Recording Mixer Tom Fleischman on Sunday, June 16th
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Woman Is the Future of Man
Tuesday July 2
8:00pmDirector: Hong Sangsoo
2004 / 88min / DCP
A poignant, pithy comedy of mortification from Hong, in which the signature style and thematic preoccupations of his later work appear almost fully coalesced, the mk2 co-produced Woman Is the Future of Man stars Yu Ji-tae and Kim Tae-woo as two old…
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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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Possession
Tuesday July 2
10:00pmDirector: Andrzej Żuławski
1981 / 124min
Żuławski’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. Presented in 4K Restoration
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Le Bonheur
Wednesday July 3
3:30pmDirector: Agnès Varda
1965 / 79min / DCP
Perhaps Varda’s most purely beautiful movie, calling into question the price of beauty, further exploring themes developed in her 1962 breakthrough Cléo from 5 to 7. Carpenter François (Jean-Claude Drouot) loves his wife (Claire Drouot) and he loves…
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The Witches of Eastwick
Director: George Miller
1987 / 118min / 35mm
The battle of the sexes takes a supernatural turn in this devilishly delicious adaptation of the John Updike bestseller of the same name, in which a trio of single women living in small-town Rhode Island (Pfeiffer, Cher, and Susan Sarandon) are seduced in…
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Dangerous Minds
Thursday July 4
7:15pmDirector: John N. Smith
1995 / 99min / 35mm
Based on My Posse Don’t Do Homework, the autobiography of ex-Marine-turned-schoolteacher LouAnne Johnson, Dangerous Minds gives Pfeiffer the plum part of the tough, tenacious Johnson who, upon joining the faculty at a California high school, is faced…
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Frankie and Johnny
Director: Garry Marshall
1991 / 118min / 35mm
Terrence McNally adapted his own breakout off-Broadway two-hander into this sassily charming vehicle for Pfeiffer and Al Pacino, triumphantly reunited eight years after sharing the screen in Scarface, here playing an emotionally brittle yet optimistic…
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The Aviator's Wife
Friday July 5
2:30pmDirector: 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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Bonjour Tristesse
Director: Otto Preminger
2024 / 94min / DCP
Jean Seberg, in the role that inspired Jean-Luc Godard to cast her in Breathless, plays the flighty, irresponsible, self-absorbed teen daughter of graying playboy David Niven, sabotaging her father’s affair with prim dress designer Deborah Kerr, in…
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Moonrise Kingdom [35mm]
Director: Wes Anderson
2012 / 94min / 35mm
Twelve-year-old pen pals Sam Shakusky and Suzy Bishop (newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward) turn pubescent lovers on the lam, crossing the hurricane-threatened New England coastal island of New Penzance while struggling to keep ahead of Suzy’s…
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A Bigger Splash
Friday July 5
6:40pmDirector: Luca Guadagnino
2015 / 125min / DCP
Reunited with the star of his 2009 I Am Love, Tilda Swinton, Guadagnino produced this tense, elegant sun-splashed psychological drama inspired by Jacques Deray’s 1969 La Piscine and the work of David Hockney. It’s head games a-plenty at an isolated…
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Summer with Monika
Director: Ingmar Bergman
1953 / 96min / 35mm
While Bergman is often associated with long, dark winters of the soul, the Swede was every bit as accomplished when dealing with sun-kissed sensuality—as amply evidenced in his ravishing Summer with Monika, in which two young lovers (Harriet Andersson…
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Infernal Affairs
Friday July 5
9:15pmDirector: Andrew Lau, Alan Mak
2002 / 101min / DCP
While police cadet Tony Leung is recruited by department superintendent Anthony Wong to go undercover in a triad gang, triad gangster Andy Lau is making his way into the police force in order to serve the interests of the underworld—and with this…
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A Grin Without a Cat
Saturday July 6
12:00pmDirector: Chris Marker
1977 / 180min / DCP
Grin Without a Cat (its title refers to Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat, and to the vague, intangible substance of socialist revolution) is Marker’s magnum opus: a three-hour essay film that surveys the worldwide political upheavals of the ’60s and…
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Afire
Saturday July 6
12:30pmDirector: Christian Petzold
2023 / 102min / DCP
Writer Leon (Thomas Schubert) and photographer Felix (Langston Uibel), two friends setting out for a vacation on the shores of the Baltic Sea, are disarmed upon finding an unexpected guest at Felix’s family’s vacation home, Nadja (Paula Beer), a young…
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La Pointe Courte
Saturday July 6
3:20pmDirector: Agnès Varda
1955 / 80min / DCP
By many reckonings a New Wave film before the term New Wave had been invented, Varda’s daring debut, made after her years as official photographer for the Théâtre nationale populaire in Paris, was shot in the Mediterranean port city of Sète, where…
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The Fabulous Baker Boys
Saturday July 6
7:10pmDirector: Steve Kloves
1989 / 114min / 35mm
Working-class lounge pianist brothers Beau and Jeff Bridges find a new level of professional success—and new emotional complications in their lives—after adding sultry vocalist Pfeiffer to their act in Kloves’s romcom musical, lent an elegant sheen…
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Infernal Affairs II
Director: Andrew Lau, Alan Mak
2003 / 119min / DCP
The box office success of Infernal Affairs demanded a follow-up, and given that most of the cast didn’t survive the first film, a prequel was the obvious solution, with Edison Chen and Shawn Yue coming onboard to play dirty police inspector Ming and…
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La Chinoise
Saturday July 6
9:30pmDirector: Jean-Luc Godard
1967 / 95min / DCP
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, and Anne Wiazemsky co-star in Godard’s rouge-tinted, slogan-splattered political comedy concerning five innocents passing their summer vacation in a shared apartment by discoursing on Mao, performing agitprop theater,…
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Infernal Affairs III
Sunday July 7
7:20pmDirector: Andrew Lau, Alan Mak
2003 / 118min / DCP
Tong Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau Tak-wah return for the final entry in Lau and Mak’s trilogy which, via nimble flashbacks and other sleights of cinema, shows us events before and after those of the original, as Lau’s corrupt cop, haunted by the memory…
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A Bigger Splash
Monday July 8
4:00pmDirector: Jack Hazan
2022 / 125min / DCP
Jack Hazan’s intimate and innovative film about English-born, often California-based artist David Hockney and his work honors its subject through creative risk-taking.
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La Cérémonie
Tuesday July 9
5:00pmDirector: Claude Chabrol
1995 / 111min / DCP
Coyly referred to by its director as “the last Marxist film,” Chabrol’s mid-career tour-de-force is a work of gelid precision and slow, suffocating rage, its action set in motion when bourgeois homemaker Jacqueline Bisset brings home a new maid,…
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L'Enfant
Tuesday July 9
7:20pmDirector: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne
2005 / 95min / 35mm
“An infant is born into this world. His parents are homeless minors. The father, Bruno (Jérémie Renier), a feckless hand-to-mouth street hustler, casually sells the baby to black-market traffickers and then, astonished by his girlfriend’s hysterical…
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Enter the Void
Wednesday July 10
10:00pmDirector: Gaspar Noe
2009 / 145min / 35mm
Seemingly spurred by a desire to top the strobing intensity of the party and club scenes in his preceding film Irréversible, Noé set his follow-up in the Tokyo club circuit, negotiated by two American siblings, stripper Linda and her drug addict…
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Chungking Express
Thursday July 11
7:20pmDirector: 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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The Beaches of Agnès
Friday July 12
2:00pmDirector: Agnès Varda
2008 / 112min / DCP
Telling the story of her life and her life in movies on the eve of her 80th year, Varda set out to follow the shoreline—that is, to follow the beaches that run through her cinema, from the Sète of her adolescence, the scene of her first feature La…
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Before Midnight
Friday July 12
4:15pmDirector: Richard Linklater
2013 / 109min / 35mm
The third and to-date final installment in Linklater’s Jesse and Celine series catches up with the couple (Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, who co-wrote the screenplay with Linklater) at the end of a summer in Greece. The setting is idyllic, but the central…
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Stray Dog
Friday July 12
4:30pmDirector: Akira Kurosawa
1949 / 122min / 35mm
A harrowing masterwork of postwar Nipponese noir, Stray Dog has a young Toshiro Mifune as a rookie detective disgraced after having his pistol nabbed on a Tokyo bus, driven into the city’s lower depths in order to seek clues to its recovery, the urgency…
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Starship Troopers
Friday July 12
6:30pmDirector: Paul Verhoeven
1997 / 129min / DCP
Doogie Howser duded up in SS togs, “brain bugs” with obscenely oozing orifices, soap opera romance against a backdrop of staggering carnage, absurd agitprop interludes… Verhoeven’s gonzo adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein’s 1959 novel has it all,…
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John Ganz and Jamelle Bouie on Falling Down
Friday July 12
7:00pmDirector: Joel Schumacher
1993 / 113min / 35mm
Post-screening conversation with John Ganz and Jamelle Bouie on Friday, July 12th
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Beach Rats
Friday July 12
9:00pmDirector: Eliza Hittman
2017 / 98min / DCP
Frankie (Harris Dickinson, in his breakthrough role), a terminally bored boardwalk-dweller in seaside South Brooklyn, drifts through shapeless summer days spitting game at girls with his perennially-vape-penned neighborhood cronies—but when the boys…
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High and Low
Friday July 12
10:15pmDirector: Akira Kurosawa
1963 / 143min / 35mm
Kurosawa’s formal genius and rare humanism are on full display in this white-knuckle thriller—source of an upcoming remake by Spike Lee—which transposes the materials of an Ed McBain novel to contemporary Japan, starring Toshiro Mifune as a rich…
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Ouroboros
Saturday July 13
2:15pmDirector: Basma Alsharif
2017 / 77min / DCP
Shot in Gaza, Los Angeles, the Mojave Desert, and Brittany, Alsharif’s experimental “homage to the Gaza Strip”—her first film made with actors—is an elliptical, globe-trotting love story, a collection of beguiling reverse-motion imagery, and a…
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Tokyo Olympiad
Saturday July 13
2:20pmDirector: Kon Ichikawa
1965 / 170min / DCP
A game-changer in the filmed depiction of sport, Ichikawa’s dazzling widescreen document of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo—made with a small army of technicians equipped with dozens of cameras and state-of-the-art telephoto lenses—offers not only…
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ACE presents: Do the Right Thing
Saturday July 13
5:40pmDirector: Spike Lee
1989 / 120min / 35mm
Has any movie better captured the atmosphere of those dog days when you can actually feel the suffocating weight of summertime in NYC? Production designer Wynn Thomas’s blazing red touch-ups on the shops and homes of Lexington Avenue, DP Ernest…
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Republic
Saturday July 13
8:30pmDirector: Jin Jiang
2023 / 107min / DCP
Li Eryang’s freestanding “Republic” sits in the heart of Beijing, a cramped, single, cluttered room decorated with colorful textiles and lights where a population consisting of Li and a rotating cast of his “Cosmic Brotherhood” meet to turn on,…
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King Kong
Saturday July 13
10:50pmDirector: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
1933 / 100min / 35mm
All aboard for Skull Island! The spectacle to end all spectacles featuring special effects that are actually special, it would require the visionary brilliance of stop-motion animation pioneer Willis O’Brien to bring the mighty Kong to life, and…
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Something Different
Sunday July 14
3:15pmDirector: Věra Chytilová
1963 / 90min / DCP
Olympic gold medalist gymnast Eva Bosáková essentially plays herself in Chytilová’s formally audacious feature debut (released three years before the landmark Daisies), which braids together two almost entirely independent narrative strands—one of…
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Do the Right Thing
Sunday July 14
5:15pmDirector: Spike Lee
1989 / 120min / 35mm
Has any movie better captured the atmosphere of those dog days when you can actually feel the suffocating weight of summertime in NYC? Production designer Wynn Thomas’s blazing red touch-ups on the shops and homes of Lexington Avenue, DP Ernest…
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Getting Straight
Friday July 19
1:45pmDirector: Richard Rush
1970 / 124min / 35mm
Elliott Gould, fresh off the set of M*A*S*H and already something of a counterculture celebrity as TIME Magazine’s “Star for an Uptight Age,” leads a cast including Candice Bergen and a very young Harrison Ford in Rush’s flip, antic depiction of…
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Swept Away
Friday July 19
1:50pmDirector: Lina Wertmüller
1974 / 114min / DCP
An odd-couple arthouse sensation in the United States, Wertmüller’s provocative, fable-like two-hander brings together Mariangela Melato and Giancarlo Giannini for an oft-ugly battle of the sexes (and classes) cage match with the sparkling…
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Bright Future
Friday July 19
4:10pmDirector: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
2002 / 115min / DCP
Fuji first teamed with Kurosawa on this disquieting slow-burn drama to play the divorced father of one Mamoru (Tadanobu Asano), a 27-year-old employee at a hand towel factory who, along with his co-worker and only friend, Yuji (Joe Odagiri), begins to…
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Pink Flamingos
Friday July 19
4:15pmDirector: John Waters
1972 / 93min / 35mm
A midnight movie sensation and perhaps the signature film of Baltimore’s own Pope of Trash, “exercise in poor taste” Pink Flamingos features Divine as Babs, the matriarch of the criminal Johnson family, forced to guard her title as “Filthiest…
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Memories of Murder
Friday July 19
6:15pmDirector: Bong Joon Ho
2003 / 131min / DCP
The political upheavals of 1980s South Korea form the backdrop to Bong’s skewed, wryly satirical take on the police procedural, based on the true story of the country’s first serial killer, following three detectives—an overwhelmed small-town cop…
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Road House
Friday July 19
6:30pmDirector: Rowdy Herrington
1989 / 114min
Oft-quoted (“Pain don’t hurt…”), frequently imitated (most recently in this year’s Doug Liman remake), and never to be topped, the O.G. Road House is a heady mixture of the ridiculous and sublime starring a resplendently mulleted Patrick Swayze…
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Dirty Dancing
Friday July 19
8:50pmDirector: Emile Ardolino
1987 / 100min / 35mm
A pulse-pounding pop fantasy starring Jennifer Grey as headstrong 17-year-old doctor’s daughter “Baby” Houseman who, while on vacation in the Catskills in the summer of ’63, finds herself falling head-over-heels for sexy working-class dance…
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Café Flesh
Friday July 19
11:00pmDirector: Stephen Sayadian
1982 / 76min / DCP
Debuting in 1982, Sayadian’s arthouse sci-fi porno immediately stood out upon release for its graphic sexuality and bold playfulness. Regarded by many observers as a withering satire of the culture of voyeurism cultivated by the porn industry, with…
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Sapporo Winter Olympics
Saturday July 20
12:00pmDirector: Masashiro Shinoda
1972 / 167min / Digital
Japanese New Wave master Shinoda (Pale Flower, Double Suicide), himself a long-distance runner who’d participated in the famous Hakone Ekiden race in university, brings a unique understanding of the athlete’s mentality to this, the official document…
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In the Realm of the Senses
Saturday July 20
1:00pmDirector: Nagisa Ōshima
1976 / 102min / 35mm
Q&A with Tatsuya Fuji on Saturday, July 20th
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The Wild Goose Lake
Saturday July 20
3:15pmDirector: Yi'nan Diao
2019 / 113min / DCP
Diao’s darkly dazzling, meticulously composed thriller is a miracle of contemporary Chinese noir, a twisty white-knuckler following a Wuhan gang leader on the lam and a girl desperately searching for freedom through a series of double-crosses,…
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La Marge
Saturday July 20
8:10pmDirector: Walerian Borowczyk
1976 / 88min / DCP
Though immortalized for her recurring role as Emmanuelle Arsan, Sylvia Kristel’s finest performance may very well be in Borowczyk’s deliriously sensual adaptation of a 1967 novel by André Pieyre de Mandiargues, in which La Kristel plays a jaded…
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The Olympics in Mexico
Sunday July 21
3:30pmDirector: Alberto Isaac
1969 / 160min / Digital
The only film in this series directed by an actual ex-Olympian—Isaac represented Mexico in the 1948 and ’52 Summer Olympics—documents the Games’ touchdown in the director’s hometown of Mexico City in the turbulent year of 1968. Alongside the…