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Train to Busan
Director: Yeon Sang-ho
2016 / 118min / DCP
Divorced, depressed, and brutally overworked, hedge fund manager Seok-woo (Gong Yoo) has hardly any time to devote to his young daughter, Su-an (Kim Su-an), so the birthday trip they’re taking together—a 280-mile train ride from Seoul to Busan, where…
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Alien: Resurrection
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
1997 / 109min / 35mm
The fourth entry in the Alien series brings Sigourney Weaver’s Lt. Ellen Ripley, last seen swan diving into a vat of molten steel, back from the Great Beyond—after a fashion, at least. Cloned from samples of extraterrestrial-contaminated DNA, Ripley…
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The Beach
Sat Oct 3
Director: Danny Boyle
2000 / 119min / 35mm
A sort of Lord of the Flies for the jet-setting, designer drug-popping leisure class, Boyle’s adaptation of Alex Garland’s novel is a steamy thriller set in motion when Leonardo DiCaprio’s backpacking beach bum accepts an invitation to a pristine…
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Pushing Hands
Director: Ang Lee
1991 / 105min / DCP
Tensions brew and language becomes a barrier when widowed tai chi master Mr. Chu (Lung Sihung) swaps Beijing for a new life in New York City, where he joins the household of his Americanized son and white daughter-in-law. Lee’s directorial debut…
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Amour
Director: Michael Haneke
2012 / 127min / 4K DCP
For their study of an elderly couple—played by icons of French cinema Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, both superlative—facing final separation by cruel death, Haneke and cinematographer Darius Khondji created a litany of framings that feel…
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Invisible Adversaries
Director: Valie Export
1977 / 110min / DCP
Introduction by filmmaker Lynne Sachs on Saturday, October 3rd
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Medea (1969)
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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The Wailing
Director: Na Hong-jin
2016 / 156min / DCP
Introduction by composer Jang Young Gyu on Saturday, October 3rd
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Electra, My Love
Sat Oct 3
Director: Miklós Jancsó
1974 / 71min / DCP
Jancsó’s radically original, downright hypnotic retelling of the Ancient Greek myth against the backdrop of the puszta, Hungary’s vast, muddy plains, is among the long-take master’s most bravura stylistic performances, its 70-minute runtime made up…
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Heathers
Director: Michael Lehmann
1988 / 103min / DCP
“Dear Diary: My teen-angst bullshit now has a body count.” A caustic rejoinder to John Hughes’s ’80s Brat Pack pictures, Lehmann’s savage suburban satire brought out the sociopathic side of Christian Slater’s too-cool outlaw persona, casting…
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The Double
Director: Richard Ayoade
2013 / 93min / DCP
Inspired by the Dostoyevsky novella of the same title, Ayoade’s noir-inflected sophomore feature gives a dead game Jesse Eisenberg not one but two juicy parts as both a mousy, long-overlooked office drone, Simon James, and his new colleague, the…
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Small Change
Sun Oct 4
Director: François Truffaut
1976 / 104min / 35mm
From first kisses to more sinister secrets, all of the loneliness and wonderment and danger and astonishing endurance that distinguish the years we pass between infancy and adolescence are contained here in Truffaut’s string of loosely connected…
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High and Low
Director: 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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The Practice of Love
Sun Oct 4
Director: Valie Export
1984 / 90min / DCP
Export’s third feature is a feminist upending of film noir conceits starring Adelheid Arndt as a journalist who uncovers a murderous conspiracy that, upon further investigation, may very well have a connection to her unhappy personal life. “An…
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Nostos: The Return
Sun Oct 4
Director: Franco Piavoli
1989 / 85min / DCP
Rather than weighing the merits of one translation of The Odyssey against those of another, Piavoli dispenses with language—or, at least, readily comprehensible language—altogether, giving us an interpretation of the Homeric epic that is first and…
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Ulysses' Gaze
Director: Theo Angelopoulos
1995 / 176min / 35mm
An Odyssey through the Balkans after the fall of communism following a Greek American filmmaker, known simply as “A” (Harvey Keitel), who has returned to Hellas after an absence of decades on a quest to find his own personal “Ithaca”: three reels…
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The Yellow Sea
Director: Na Hong-jin
2010 / 157min / DCP
Jang and Lee Byung-hoon’s propulsive score sets a fire under Na’s unrelenting man-on-the-run thriller that burns hotter with each passing minute. Debt-strapped down-on-his-luck cabbie Gu-nam (Ha Jung-woo), an ethnic Korean living and working in China,…
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
2000 / 107min / 35mm
The Coens’ country-fried, Depression era, quasi-musical take on The Odyssey borrows its title—and more than a bit of its anarchic sense of humor—from Preston Sturges’s Sullivan’s Travels, choreography cues from Busby Berkeley, and rips a few…
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RoboCop - The Director's Cut
Director: Paul Verhoeven
1987 / 102min / DCP
I’d buy that for a dollar! For a strange few years, beginning with this runaway hit, the perverse imagination and earthy humor of Verhoeven seemed to sync up perfectly with the desires of the American multiplex-going public. In dystopian Detroit,…
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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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The Wedding Banquet
Director: Ang Lee
1993 / 106min / 35mm
Before scaling Brokeback Mountain, Taiwanese American director Lee made this indie breakout about Wai Tung (Winston Chao, in his film debut), a gay man happily living in Manhattan with his partner who stages a sham marriage between himself and a penniless…
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The Sandwich Man
Mon Oct 5
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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Morvern Callar
Mon Oct 5
Director: Lynne Ramsay
2002 / 97min / 35mm
Join Fireflies Press and Metrograph on Sunday, September 27 for the NYC launch of author and critic Anwen Crawford’s Morvern Callar. Her lyrical monograph on Lynne Ramsay’s film of the same name is the latest title in Fireflies Press’ 10-book…
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Happy Together
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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Paprika
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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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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Iphigenia
Tue Oct 6
Director: Michael Cacoyannis
1977 / 127min / 16mm
The final film of Cacoyannis’s “Greek Tragedy” trilogy, following 1962’s Electra and 1971’s The Trojan Woman, adapts Euripides’s Iphigenia in Aulis, with an exceptional Tatiana Papamoschou as the waifish, doe-eyed daughter of Agamemnon and…
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Stray Dogs
Tue Oct 6
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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Se7en
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…
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2046
Tue Oct 6
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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Time and Tide
Tue Oct 6
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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Dust in the Wind
Wed Oct 7
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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The Treasure of Bitch Islands
Wed Oct 7
Director: F. J. Ossang
1990 / 108min / 4K DCP
A phantasmagoric, definition-defying film from perhaps France’s premier underground filmmaker, The Treasure of 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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A Brighter Summer Day
Wed Oct 7
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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The Ninth Gate
Wed Oct 7
Director: Roman Polanski
1999 / 133min / 35mm
Hired by a wealthy collector to authenticate a rarer-than-rare copy of Aristide Torchia’s 17th-century tome The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, purported to allow its owner to summon the Devil, New York–based antiquarian book dealer Dean Corso…
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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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The Warriors
Wed Oct 7
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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Chungking Express
Thu Oct 8
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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Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
Thu Oct 8
Director: Neo Sora
2023 / 103min / DCP
Q&A with cinematographer Bill Kirstein and producer Albert Tholen moderated by filmmaker Kogonada on Sunday, September 27th
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Peking Opera Blues
Thu Oct 8
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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The Terminator
Director: James Cameron
1985 / 107min / DCP
Too many sequels and an incalculable cultural impact later, it’s sometimes forgotten what a hot and nasty little movie Cameron’s original Terminator was, dropping peak-physique Schwarzenegger into a sleazy Los Angeles of leather bars, punk rockers,…
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The Age of Innocence
Director: Martin Scorsese
1993 / 139min / 35mm
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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Socrates
Director: Roberto Rossellini
1970 / 120min / DCP
Beginning in the mid-’60s and ending with his death in 1977, Rossellini committed himself to producing a series of films, telefilms, and serial works that would together constitute a narrative of human progress and the history of ideas from aleolithic…
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An Autumn's Tale
Director: Mabel Cheung
1987 / 99min / 4K DCP
Newly arrived in New York City from Hong Kong and unhappily reunited with boyfriend Danny Chan, Jennifer (Cherie Chung) finds a guide to this strange new world in the person of distant relation Samuel Pang, aka “Sampan” (Chow Yun-fat, at his most…
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Bread Day preceded by The Train Stop
Fri Oct 9
Director: Sergei Loznitsa, Sergei Dvortsevoy
1998 / 80min / DCP
Introduction by Genevieve Yue on Saturday, September 5th
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A Bittersweet Life
Director: Kim Jee-woon
2005 / 119min / 4K DCP
A mob enforcer (Lee Byung-hun, No Other Choice) with a sterling record of loyal service finds himself fighting for his life after sparing the life of his boss’s straying mistress (Shin Min-a) in Kim’s drum-tight neo-noir thriller, unusually grounded…
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Mermaids
Director: Richard Benjamin
1990 / 111min / DCP
It’s 1963, and different-drummer single mother Cher has decided to move from Oklahoma to smalltown Massachusetts, uprooting her two daughters, nine-year-old Kate and Catholicism-obsessed 15-year-old Rachel (Winona Ryder, who provides the narration).…
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Brief Encounter
Director: David Lean
1945 / 87min / 35mm
Lean’s simple, tender, and terribly emotionally direct film, featuring never-better Noël Coward dialogue and a Rachmaninoff theme that grows insuperably sad with repetition, follows an affair between a middle-class couple (Celia Johnson and Trevor…
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Trains, Children & Dreams: A Shorts Program
Sat Oct 10
Director: Multiple Dirs
1977 / 67min / DCP
Introduction by Genevieve Yue on Saturday, September 5th
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The Immigrant
Sat Oct 10
Director: James Gray
2013 / 120min / DCP
Marion Cotillard has one of her greatest roles as Ewa, a Polish Catholic immigrant newly arrived in Ellis Island, trying to find the means to free her sister from quarantine in a c. 1921 New York City that’s full of lures and snares, among them Joaquin…
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The Illiac Passion
Sat Oct 10
Director: Gregory J. Markopoulos
1967 / 90min / 16mm
Markopoulos corralled together the underground’s haute monde—Taylor Mead, Gerard Malanga, Jack Smith, Gregory Battcock and, in the role of Poseidon, Andy Warhol—for his radical reinterpretation of Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound, in which the…
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The Foul King
Director: Kim Jee-woon
2000 / 112min / 4K DCP
Already a well-established presence in South Korean music, with an ability to work with equal facility in a variety of idioms (experimental, rock, folk, et. al.), Jang got his start in film composing the distinctive score for Kim’s eccentric,…
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The Enchanted Desna
Sat Oct 10
Director: Yulia Solntseva
1964 / 80min / DCP
DCP courtesy of Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, scanned from a 35mm print in their collection.
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Once Upon a Time in China
Director: Tsui Hark
1991 / 134min / DCP
No one wields a ’Scope frame with quite the same flexibility and dynamism as Hark, and the spectacular, Sergio Leone–inspired Once Upon a Time in China—perhaps the crucial film of the 1990s wuxia revival—shows Hark at his most flamboyant, keeping…
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Antigone
Sun Oct 11
Director: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
1991 / 100min / 35mm
Brecht’s adaptation of Sophocles’s Antigone—concerning the title character’s rebellion against the uncle, King Creon, who has condemned her to death—is performed in its entirety in Straub and Huillet’s final film set in the ancient world,…
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Once Upon a Time in China II
Sun Oct 11
Director: Tsui Hark
1992 / 112min / DCP
No one wields a ’Scope frame with quite the same flexibility and dynamism as Hark, and the spectacular, Sergio Leone–inspired Once Upon a Time in China II shows Hark at his most inspired, keeping up with the human whirlwind that is Jet Li, here…
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Once Upon a Time in China III
Sun Oct 11
Director: Tsui Hark
1993 / 111min / DCP
In Jet Li’s third outing as the legendary Wong Fei-hung, master of both inflicting pain and relieving it, Wong and Rosamund Kwan’s “13th Aunt” travel from Foshan to Beijing to meet with his father, there finding preparations underway for a…
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The Little Mermaid
Mon Oct 12
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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Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Mon Oct 12
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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Tokyo Melody
Mon Oct 12
Director: Elizabeth Lennard
1985 / 62min / DCP
Introduction by composer Paul Grimstad on Saturday, September 26th
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Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
Mon Oct 12
Director: Stephen Nomura Schible
2017 / 100min / DCP
A precious glimpse into the creative process of the late synth-pop star, film composer, and activist Ryuichi Sakamoto, Schible’s deeply affecting film picks up with its introspective subject as he returns to music-making after having been diagnosed with…
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Pumping Iron
Mon Oct 12
Director: George Butler, Robert Fiore
1977 / 86min / DCP
The movie that set Arnold Schwarzenegger off on his way to becoming a household name (admittedly one that Americans had difficulty pronouncing) and that introduced gym rat subculture to the wider world, Butler and Fiore’s paean to pecs follows golden…
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Oedipus Rex
Mon Oct 12
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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Okja
Director: Bong Joon Ho
2017 / 120min / 4K DCP
The titular beast is a gentle, lumbering, lovable “super pig” created by big agribusiness, peacefully raised in the South Korean countryside by young Mija (Ahn Seo-hyun) before being spirited off to the US, sweeping both pet and owner into a conflict…
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Strangers on a Train
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
1951 / 101min / 35mm
“Criss cross.” Hitchcock’s adaptation of Highsmith’s 1951 page-turner kicks off with a casual encounter that reads like a same-sex pickup, as tennis star Guy Haines (Farley Granger) inadvertently agrees to “swap murders” with preening rich kid…
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Midnight in Paris
Director: Woody Allen
2011 / 94min / 35mm
Screenwriter, would-be novelist, and romantic-at-heart Owen Wilson, on vacation in the City of Lights with level-headed fiancée Rachel McAdams, sets out on his own one night after a wine tasting and finds himself suddenly in the Jazz Age Paris of…
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Minority Report
Director: Steven Spielberg
2002 / 145min / DCP
Based on a Philip K. Dick short story, Spielberg’s wheeling, virtuoso science-fiction thriller stars Tom Cruise as an investigator of “PreCrime” who specializes in arresting criminals before they’ve done the deed in near-future Washington, DC.…
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Paris Was a Woman
Director: Greta Schiller
1996 / 75min / 4K DCP
Q&A with filmmakers Greta Schiller & Andrew Weiss from October 16th-October 18th
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Almost Famous
Director: Cameron Crowe
2000 / 124min / 4K DCP
Introduction by Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli of “Popcast” on Friday, October 16th
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The Insider
Sat Oct 17
Director: Michael Mann
1999 / 157min / 35mm
Q&A with investigative journalist Lowell Bergman and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and podcast host Pablo Torre on Saturday, October 17th
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Stress Is Three
Sat Oct 17
Director: Carlos Saura
1968 / 94min / Digital
An automobile driving from Madrid to Almeria becomes a veritable pressure cooker in Saura’s formally audacious road movie. The passengers are a well-to-do industrialist, Fernando (Fernando Cebrián); his wife, Teresa (Chaplin, blonde and blasé); and…
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Honeycomb
Sat Oct 17
Director: Carlos Saura
1969 / 102min / Digital
Married couple Teresa and Pedro (Chaplin and Per Oscarsson) live a life of antiseptic contentment in their chicly modern, minimalist home—that is until the delivery of a load of Teresa’s family’s furniture seems to jostle something loose in…
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Broadcast News
Sat Oct 17
Director: James L. Brooks
1987 / 133min / DCP
Introduction by Michael Barbaro of "The Daily" on Saturday, October 17th
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Medea (1988)
Director: Lars Von Trier
1988 / 75min / Digital
Based on an unfilmed screenplay by Carl Theodor Dreyer and, of course, Euripides’s tragedy of the same title, von Trier’s made-for-television film—save for two epiphanic eruptions—is uncharacteristically austere, the enfant terrible of Danish…
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Oldboy
Director: Park Chan-wook
2003 / 120min / 4K DCP
Homer with a ball-peen hammer. Kidnapped and stuffed in a hole without explanation for 15 years of solitary confinement, when Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) is suddenly let loose on the streets, he’s stone-cold pissed off and very, very dangerous. Winner of…
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Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Director: Ridley Scott
1982 / 117min / DCP
While so many special effects spectacles are lost in time like tears in the rain, Blade Runner remains the template for imagining the neon-wreathed downer of the future, every bit as influential in its vision as was Fritz Lang’s Metropolis over a half…
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Autumn Sonata
Director: Ingmar Bergman
1978 / 93min / DCP
Ingmar and Ingrid, Bergman and Bergman, together at last. Sweden’s most popular export before the Volvo, in her final screen role, plays a world-renowned concert pianist who returns home to reunite with her now-married daughter (Liv Ullmann), long a…
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The Aristocats
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
1970 / 78min / 35mm
A big-screen outing for this flight of feline fun from the Disney vaults, the last animated feature to be signed off on by Walt himself is a purr-fect Parisian period piece featuring a family of nose-in-the-air cats who, after being kidnapped away from…
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Little Women
Sun Oct 18
Director: Gillian Armstrong
1994 / 115min / 4K DCP
Winona Ryder would receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her role as the headstrong, literary minded Jo March in Armstrong’s perfectly enchanting adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel of the same name, about the travails of…
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All the President's Men
Sun Oct 18
Director: Alan J. Pakula
1976 / 138min / 4K DCP
Q&A with Carl Bernstein and Maggie Haberman, White House correspondent for The New York Times, moderated by Natalie Kitroeff of “The Daily” on Sunday, October 18th
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Art Cinema for Tots: How to Play a Film
Director: Multiple Dirs
2011 / 44min / DCP
Born out of a commitment to the idea that it’s never too early to introduce kids to the pleasures of movies made outside of the commercial mainstream—and the suspicion that young audiences are often more open-minded and curious than their elders when…
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Reality Bites
Sun Oct 18
Director: Ben Stiller
1994 / 99min / 35mm
Arguably the most consciously “Gen X” movie ever made, Stiller’s shambolically charming directorial debut stars Ryder as Lelaina Pierce, a university valedictorian whose postgraduate malaise threatens to become a full-fledged identity crisis when…
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Poem of the Sea
Sun Oct 18
Director: Yulia Solntseva
1958 / 105min / 35mm
35mm SovScope print courtesy of Austrian Filmmuseum, Vienna
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Tron
Director: Stephen Lisberger
1982 / 96min / 4K DCP
The cross-breeding of video games and cinema began in earnest with Tron, one of the first films to extensively employ CGI, here depicting the darkly glittering digital world inside a mainframe computer that programmer Jeff Bridges must compete in a series…
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All That Heaven Allows
Director: Douglas Sirk
1955 / 89min / 35mm
Perhaps the very finest of Sirk’s Ross Hunter-produced melodramas, All That Heaven Allows pairs Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson as, respectively, a well-off widow in country club Connecticut, and the broad-necked, Thoreau-reading gardener who she falls for.…
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Night on Earth
Fri Oct 23
Director: Jim Jarmusch
1991 / 129min / 35mm
Jarmusch’s career-long fascination with at-home-in-the-world wanderers finds its perfect expression in this anthology piece with a Tom Waits soundtrack and Independent Spirit Award-winning cinematography by Elmes, set simultaneously in five different…
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Rushmore
Director: Wes Anderson
1998 / 93min / DCP
Extracurricular-mad but otherwise unpromising 15-year-old student Max Fisher (Jason Schwartzman) is too busy competing (or so he thinks) with sad sack industrialist Bill Murray for the affections of teacher Olivia Williams to survive “sudden death…
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Director: Terence Fisher
1959 / 87min / DCP
An ardent aficionado of the work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Cushing takes over the chambers at 221B Baker Street with aplomb and gives us a Sherlock for the ages in Fisher’s adaptation of the 1902 Holmes adventure of the same name, in which our hero is…
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The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
Sat Oct 24
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
1952 / 116min / 35mm
Ozu’s satirical—and ultimately quite touching—portrait of a marriage first seen in a state of quiet unraveling stars Kogure Michiyo and Saburi Shin as a well-off, childless middle-aged couple who find discreet outlets to express their…
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Elisa, My Life
Sat Oct 24
Director: Carlos Saura
1977 / 125min / Digital
After a 20-year separation, Elisa (Chaplin) reunites with her father, Luis, who walked out on the family long ago—the aging author is played by Buñuel regular and Spanish national treasure Fernando Rey, in a performance that earned him Best Actor…
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Peppermint Frappé
Director: Carlos Saura
1967 / 94min / 35mm
Chaplin and Saura’s electric creative partnership began with this perverse play on Alfred Hitchcock’s (already quite perverse!) Vertigo, in which meek doctor José Luis López Vázquez becomes besotted with his childhood friend’s bride (Chaplin),…
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Something Special (Willy/Milly)
Director: Paul Schneider
1986 / 86min / 35mm
Introduction and post-screening discussion by Jenni Olson moderated by filmmaker, film critic and writer Drew Burnett Gregory on Saturday, October 24th
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ACE Presents: Rosemary's Baby
Sat Oct 24
Director: Roman Polanski
1968 / 137min / 35mm
Q&A with film historian Bobbie O’Steen moderated by music editor Suzana Peric on Saturday, October 24th
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The Curse of Frankenstein
Director: Terence Fisher
1957 / 83min / 4K DCP
Cherished by no less a personage than Martin Scorsese for its “totally uncalled for” graphic violence, The Curse of Frankenstein was a watershed film for both Fisher and Hammer, earning 30 times its budget back in the US alone and establishing the…
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Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Sat Oct 24
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
1989 / 67min / DCP
That the world of the future was to be increasingly shaped by Asia was a central tenet of cyberpunk, and so it should come as no surprise that one of the greatest of cyberpunk films came from the Land of the Rising Sun. Man and machine feel the urge to…
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The Addams Family
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
1991 / 99min / 35mm
Among the most perfectly cast Hollywood studio films of the last half-century, cinematographer-cum-director Sonnenfeld’s adaptation of Charles Addams’s macabre recurring New Yorker feature stars Raul Julia as the suave patriarch of the Addams clan…
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All We Imagine as Light
Sun Oct 25
Director: Payal Kapadia
2024 / 110min / DCP
Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, Kapadia’s fiction feature debut concerns itself with the intimate, everyday concerns of Kani Kusruti and Divya Prabha as Prabha and Anu, roommates and co-workers at a Mumbai hospital, and their…
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An Autumn Afternoon
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
1962 / 112min / DCP
Ozu’s gorgeous 53rd and final feature is a return to a favorite theme, the poignant comedy of marriage, with beloved regular Chishu Ryu as a father giving away his daughter and preparing for another, final goodbye. Good Morning’s satire of creeping…
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Nous (We)
Sun Oct 25
Director: Alice Diop
2021 / 115min / DCP
A Malian mechanic; the filmmaker’s sister, a healthcare worker; the acclaimed author Pierre Bergounioux; banlieue teenagers playing Uno… What ties the disparate subjects of Diop’s film together is, in one sense, geographical happenstance—they all…
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Girl, Interrupted
Sun Oct 25
Director: James Mangold
1999 / 127min / 35mm
Based on a 1993 memoir of the same name by Susanna Kaysen, Mangold’s powerhouse picture sets its scene at a New England psychiatric hospital c. 1967 where Winona Ryder (in the Kaysen role; also a producer on the film) lands after suffering a nervous…
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La Raulito
Sun Oct 25
Director: Lautaro Murúa
1975 / 95min / DCP
Introduction and Q&A with guest curator and filmmaker Jenni Olson moderated by filmmaker Julia Solomonoff on Sunday, October 25th
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Rosemary's Baby
Director: Roman Polanski
1968 / 137min / 35mm
“He has his father’s eyes…” Satanists are on the loose in Central Park West in Polanski’s slow-burn thriller, which slips almost imperceptibly from the quotidian into the profane, and gives new meaning to the phrase “pregnancy scare.” Young…
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Edward Scissorhands
Director: Tim Burton
1990 / 105min / 4K DCP
On the heels of his Batman bonanza, Burton offered up this Tampa Bay–set modern-day fable of the title’s blade-fingered mechanical man (Johnny Depp), adopted into the suburban home of a family whose daughter (Winona Ryder) becomes the object of his…
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Sans Soleil
Director: Chris Marker
1983 / 103min / DCP
Marker's voyage through memory, history, and video games is a free-flow of images shot largely in Japan (a cat temple, sacred phalluses, horror movies, sleeping subway riders, an animatronic JFK), with detours to Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and, for an…
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Cría Cuervos
Fri Oct 30
Director: Carlos Saura
1976 / 105min / 35mm
Taking its title from the Spanish proverb “Raise ravens and they will pick your eyes out,” Saura’s lauded allegorical masterwork, set during the twilight of Spain’s Franco dictatorship, stars Ana Torrent (also seen in Spirit of the Beehive, in the…
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The Trouble with Harry
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
1955 / 99min / 4K DCP
The inconvenient corpse, imbued with a sense of tragedy and terror in Hitchcock’s Rope, is the source of borderline-surrealist farce in The Trouble with Harry, his adaptation of Jack Trevor Story’s novel of the same name, a darkly comic tale in which…
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News From Home
Fri Oct 30
Director: Chantal Akerman
1976 / 85min / DCP
Akerman was 26 years old and living in New York City, away from her native Belgium and her mother, when she teamed with DP Babette Mangolte to film this diary/essay/poem in subway stations and on street corners, their images to eventually be paired with…
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
1992 / 128min / 35mm
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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Beetlejuice
Sat Oct 31
Director: Tim Burton
1988 / 92min / 35mm
With her delivery of the line “My whole life is a dark room… One. Big. Dark. Room,” Winona Ryder cemented herself as a goth girl heroine for the ages, a brooding teen in widow’s weeds relocated by her parents to a creaky country house that happens…
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Horror of Dracula
Sat Oct 31
Director: Terence Fisher
1958 / 82min / 35mm
Christopher Lee joined Max Schreck and Bela Lugosi in the Screen Vampires Hall of Fame with this, his first appearance as a regally seductive Count Dracula, facing off for the first but far from the last time against Peter Cushing’s Doctor Van Helsing.…
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The Brides of Dracula
Sat Oct 31
Director: Terence Fisher
1960 / 85min / 35mm
Two years after Horror of Dracula, Peter Cushing returned to the role of Doctor Van Helsing, summoned to deal with an outbreak of vampirism at a girls finishing school unleashed by a contaminated aristocrat, Baron Meinster (David Peel). Hammer’s…
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Hugo [3D Screening]
Sun Nov 1
Director: Martin Scorsese
2011 / 126min / 3D DCP
Fleischman took home a richly deserved Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing for his work on Scorsese’s unexpected—and thoroughly delightful—turn to family-friendly fare. A storybook tale of an orphaned 12-year-old who keeps up the clocks at Paris’s…
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Far From Heaven
Sun Nov 1
Director: Todd Haynes
2002 / 107min / 35mm
An homage to the Eisenhower era melodramas of Douglas Sirk that reworks the basic materials of his 1955 All That Heaven Allows to explicitly explore dynamics of sexual and social transgression verboten in the Hollywood of Sirk’s time, Haynes’s…
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The Gorgon
Sun Nov 1
Director: Terence Fisher
1964 / 83min / DCP
In their tireless search for new monsters to add to their menagerie Hammer turned here to Greek mythology, unleashing the fatal gaze of the Gorgon on the residents of a German village, c. 1910. Seven Vandorf residents have in recent years been found…
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News from Home + Interior NY Subway, 14th Street
Sun Nov 1
Director: Chantal Akerman, G. W. "Billy" Bitzer
1976 / 91min / DCP
Introduction by series curator Genevieve Yue on Sunday, November 1st