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The Goddess of 1967

Director: Clara Law

2000 / 119min / 4K DCP

The “Goddess” referred to in the title of Law’s flashback-studded postmodern road movie/character study is the vintage Citroën DS that JM (Rikiya Kurokawa), a well-to-do IT specialist living in barren luxury in Tokyo, travels to Australia to buy,…

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La Signora di Tutti

Director: Max Ophuls

1934 / 89min / DCP

We first encounter starlet Gabriella Murge (Isa Miranda) at the height of her fame and in the trough of despair; in the aftermath of her attempted suicide, a series of fragmentary flashbacks (and flashbacks within flashbacks) show us the primrose path…

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Perfect Blue

Director: Satoshi Kon

1997 / 81min / DCP

Rising J-pop star Mima quits singing to pursue a career as an actress and model—but her fans aren’t ready to see her go. When she takes on a recurring role in a popular television detective show, her handlers and collaborators suddenly start turning…

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The Company's in Love

Director: Max Ophuls

1932 / 73min / DCP

Ophul’s feature directorial debut, digitally remastered in 2023, is a rollicking send-up of the industry he’d just managed to break into, concerning the cast and crew of a musical comedy and their struggles to complete their ill-starred picture in the…

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A New Love in Tokyo

Director: Banmei Takahashi

1994 / 115min / DCP

Billed in some territories as a sequel to the 1992 hit Pink Film Tokyo Decadence, Takahashi’s film is in many ways the tonal opposite of Ryū Murakami’s downbeat depiction of the travails of sex work: a charming, judgement-free workplace comedy that…

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The Flower of My Secret

Director: Pedro Almodóvar

1995 / 103min / 35mm

Leo Macías (Marisa Paredes) is looking to make a change after 20 unhappy years grinding out trashy “pink novels” under the nom de plume Amanda Gris, but when she submits a new, bracingly macabre manuscript to her publisher, Leo finds herself…

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Cure

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

1997 / 111min / 4K DCP

Kurosawa’s international breakthrough rode a tide of late ’90s J-horror mania, but was immediately recognizable as the work of a formidable formalist whose thematic and philosophical concerns went deeper than jump scares. Detective Kenichi Takabe…

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sex, lies and videotape

Director: Steven Soderbergh

1989 / 100min / DCP

A watershed work in the history of American independent cinema and the dark horse Palme d’Or winner at the 42nd Cannes Film Festival, Soderbergh’s feature debut stars Andie MacDowell as a Baton Rouge woman, Ann, trapped in a loveless marriage with…

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PRIVATE EVENT TODAY IN THEATER & COMMISSARY

2025 / 360min

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El Sur

Director: Victor Erice

1983 / 95min / DCP

Ten years after his The Spirit of the Beehive, Erice emerged with another elegiac, exquisitely composed, and sublimely serene evocation of childhood memory, a film every bit the equal of his vaunted debut. The child in El Sur—routinely ranked among the…

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Irma Vep

Director: Olivier Assayas

1996 / 99min / DCP

Maggie Cheung in the role she was literally born to play: Maggie Cheung. The Hong Kong actress is imported to star in a remake of Louis Feuillade’s 1915 serial Les Vampires directed by a New Wave has-been (Jean-Pierre Léaud), but then finds herself…

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Caught

Director: Max Ophuls

1949 / 88min / 4K DCP

Fashion model Leonora Eames (Barbara Bel Geddes) seems to be living in a fantasy when she’s swept off her feet by suave multimillionaire Smith Ohlrig (Robert Ryan)—the character is based on Howard Hughes—but soon discovers that her husband is an…

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Lolita

Director: Stanley Kubrick

1962 / 153min / 35mm

“How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Lolita?” ran the teasing tagline for Kubrick’s film from Nabokov’s novel of verboten hebephile love, and the answer was: with a light touch, poisonous humor, and fluidly flowing camerawork. James Mason, at his…

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Oasis of Now

Director: Chia Chee Sum

2023 / 90min / DCP

Chia’s beguiling feature debut centers on Hanh (Ta Thi Diu), an undocumented Vietnamese woman living in Kuala Lumpur, scraping by on odd jobs and the emotional sustenance that comes from brief encounters with her daughter, Ting Ting (Yeow Ee Aster), who…

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The Lovers on the Bridge

Director: Leos Carax

1991 / 125min / DCP

L’amour fou has rarely burned brighter on the screen than it does in Carax’s fabulous, florid, frantic folly, in which a hard-drinking street performer (Denis Lavant) and a homeless artist who’s losing her sight and her will to live along with it…

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The State I Am In

Director: Christian Petzold

2000 / 106min / 35mm

Petzold’s debut feature, co-written with his former teacher Harun Farocki, stars Richy Müller and Barbara Auer as Hans and Clara, a German couple living abroad in Portugal whose lives—as well as that of their already rebellious 15-year-old daughter,…

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Days of Being Wild

Director: Wong Kar-wai

1990 / 100min / DCP

Wong’s second film (and his first with DP Christopher Doyle) stars Leslie Cheung—at the beginning of a five-year hiatus from Cantopop superstardom allowing him to focus on his film career—as Yuddy, a careless Casanova in 1960 Hong Kong. Maggie…

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The Comedy of Terrors

Director: Jacques Tourneur

1963 / 84min / 35mm

Orangey more than holds his own in a stacked ensemble cast including Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, and Basil Rathbone in this late 19th-century–set horror spoof from maestro Tourneur, concerning Waldo Trumbull (Price), a toper operating a…

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Breakfast at Tiffany's

Director: Blake Edwards

1961 / 115min / 4K DCP

Audrey Hepburn charms in her signature role as Holly Golightly, the happily single heroine of Truman Capote’s novella, who exerts a tractor-beam pull on smitten writer George Peppard, the kept man of Patricia Neal, dressed to the height of Manhattanite…

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Rhubarb

Director: Arthur Lubin

1951 / 84min / 16mm

Orangey nimbly leapt to the top rank of cat actors playing the title role in Lubin’s loopy comedy, adapted from a novel by humorist H. Allen Smith, concerning the eccentric owner of a baseball team who adopts a stray cat (guess who?) and, upon his…

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Comrades: Almost a Love Story

Director: Peter Chan

1996 / 118min / 35mm

The story of a touch-and-go romance between two Mainland expats, earnest Northerner Leon Lai—one of Cantopop’s “Four Heavenly Kings”—and Guangzhou-born wheeler-dealer Maggie Cheung, Chan’s plaintive drama follows its leads from youth to…

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À Nos Amours

Director: Maurice Pialat

1983 / 99min / DCP

One of the most flayingly emotional coming-of-age films ever made, Pialat’s raw-as-life drama stars Sandrine Bonnaire—discovered by Pialat when she was a working-class 16-year-old from the Paris suburbs—as the newly devirginized and suddenly…

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Liebelei

Director: Max Ophuls

1933 / 88min / 35mm

Produced on the cusp of the Weimar Republic’s total collapse—by the time of its release the Reichstag had burned, the Jewish Ophuls had fled for France, and his name was removed from the credits of release prints—this adaptation of Arthur…

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Mala Noche

Director: Gus Van Sant

1986 / 78min / 35mm

Inspired by Frank Ripploh’s Taxi zum Klo, Van Sant’s smudgy black-and-white debut, planted firmly on the cracked concrete of the filmmaker’s hometown of Portland, Oregon, prophesied and broke ground for the ’90s New Queer Cinema, while also…

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Punch-Drunk Love

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

2002 / 95min / 35mm

Anderson went small and Adam Sandler went serious, and the results were the best work either of them have ever done, a heartfelt little love story inspired by the real-life tale of California’s Pudding Man, starring Sandler as rage-o-holic Barry Egan,…

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Possession [35mm]

Director: Andrzej Żuławski

1981 / 124min / 35mm

Banned upon its original release in 1981, Andrzej Żuławski’s stunningly choreographed nightmare of a marriage unraveling is an experience unlike any other. Professional spy Mark (Sam Neill) returns to his West Berlin home to find his wife Anna…

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My Life as a Zucchini

Director: Claude Barras

2016 / 70min / DCP

Co-written by Céline Sciamma, Barras’s enviably economical stop-motion marvel adapting Gilles Paris’s Autobiography of a Zucchini, follows young Icare, nicknamed Zucchini, as he’s orphaned following an accidental matricide and sent to a facility…

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Cinderella

Director: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson

1950 / 74min / 35mm

A six-years-in-the-making labor of love for Disney and the small army of dedicated craftsmen who lavished attention on its every radiant detail, this charming musical retelling of Charles Perrault’s fairy tale—the story, perhaps, does not demand…

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Alice in Wonderland

Director: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson

1951 / 73min / 35mm

35mm IB-Tech print courtesy of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts

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Center Stage

Director: Stanely Kwan

1991 / 154min / DCP

In this unconventional biopic by Hong Kong New Wave master Kwan, one of the brightest movie stars of the Golden Age of Hong Kong pays tribute to a predecessor from pre-revolutionary Chinese cinema, as Maggie Cheung passionately embodies Ruan Lingyu…

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Peeping Tom

Director: Michael Powell

1960 / 101min / DCP

It’s not hard to understand why Peeping Tom was, in its day, so reviled as to devastatingly damage Powell’s reputation in the United Kingdom; it’s a nasty movie about the inherent nastiness of movies, a scathing indictment of leering, bloodthirsty…

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Stranger on Horseback

Director: Jacques Tourneur

1955 / 66min / DCP

Tourneur’s horse opera makes room for one scene-stealing feline, with Orangey as the preening, lolling ginger tom that keeps Emile Meyer’s Sheriff—and his jailhouse guests—company. Atmospherist par excellence Tourneur’s zesty Ansco color…

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Bashu, the Little Stranger

Director: Bahram Beyzaie

1985 / 120min / 4K DCP

Introduction by Cinema Tehran founder Arya Ghavamian on Sunday, February 15th

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The Runner

Director: Amir Naderi

1984 / 91min / DCP

Drawing on Naderi’s own memories of his hardscrabble youth, The Runner stars the marvelously spontaneous Madjid Niroumand as Amiro, an orphaned boy fending for himself on the streets of the port city of Abadan who, while facing a future that to all…

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Green Snake

Director: Tsui Hark

1993 / 99min / 4K DCP

A fresh, lyrical, sensual, and often very funny revisionist reading of a ubiquitous classic Chinese folk tale concerning sororal serpent spirits, Madame White Snake, Hark’s version shifts the focus from White Snake (Joey Wang) to her impish, rebellious…

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The Turin Horse

Director: Bela Tarr

2011 / 155min / 35mm

Tarr’s final feature distills the essence of his cinema with the potency of farmer’s moonshine: a cart driver and his daughter survive harsh lives amid the stark beauty of desolation. With a nearly mood-altering dilation of time, this pre-modern…

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A Useful Ghost

Director: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke

2025 / 130min / DCP

Winner of the Grand Prix at last year’s Semaine de la Critique at Cannes, Ratchapoom’s freewheeling feature debut is a spicy stew of disparate genre ingredients concerning a family-run appliance factory where, following the death of an employee,…

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Last Year at Marienbad

Director: Alain Resnais

1961 / 94min / DCP

Variously pilloried and adulated in its time, and undeniably “one of the most influential movies ever made” [J. Hoberman, The Village Voice], Resnais’s coolly glittering, fascinating, frustrating film, made in collaboration with novelist Alain…

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The Straight Story

Director: David Lynch

1999 / 112min / 35mm

Stuntman-turned-actor Richard Farnsworth has his career-capping role as Alvin Straight, a widower and World War II veteran living in rural Iowa who, upon hearing that his brother in Wisconsin is ailing, sets out to see his sibling through the only means…

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As Tears Go By

Director: Wong Kar-wai

1988 / 98min / DCP

The beginning of one of fin-de-siecle cinema’s most undeniable career runs, Wong’s sumptuous, tragic gangster story gave Maggie Cheung her most well-rounded and moving role to date as Ngor, a country cousin from Lantau Island who comes to stay with…

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The Third Generation

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

1979 / 105min / DCP

Fassbinder’s caustically comic, media white noise-saturated burlesquing of what he saw as a “third generation” of domestic terrorists who, unlike their predecessors of May ’68 and Baader-Meinhof, operated without the ballast of a coherent…

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Water Lilies

Director: Céline Sciamma

2007 / 85min / 35mm

Winner of the coveted Prix Louis-Delluc for Best First Feature, Sciamma’s exquisitely stylized debut takes place largely inside an indoor swimming pool complex in the Paris suburbs, observing the interlocking relationships of a trio of 15-year-old…

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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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Stromboli

Director: Roberto Rossellini

1950 / 106min / DCP

The first of Rossellini’s five films with Ingrid Bergman, who to great controversy had left her husband and Hollywood to work with Rossellini, and became his collaborator and wife, Stromboli took the glamorous Bergman and confronted her with the ruins…

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La guerre est finie

Director: Alain Resnais

1966 / 121min / 4K DCP

A member of a leftist group committed to the downfall of the Franco regime, exiled middle-aged Spanish dissident Yves Montand, first encountered during one of his regular clandestine border crossings en route to his adopted home in Paris, finds himself…

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Army of Shadows

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

1969 / 145min / 35mm

Melville, himself a veteran of the French Resistance, brings a laserlike precision of vision to his somber, entirely absorbing adaptation of fellow former insurgent Joseph Kessel’s 1943 book of the same name, describing the cloak-and-dagger activities…

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Safe

Director: Todd Haynes

1995 / 119min / 4K DCP

Julianne Moore, her brittle, finely-calibrated, and ultimately heart-rending performance in perfect sync with the eerie formal precision of Haynes’s filmmaking, plays a model homemaker in suburban Los Angeles who, convinced that she is being slowly…

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The Ballad of Tara

Director: Bahram Beyzaie

1979 / 102min / DCP

Introduction by programmer Edo Choi on Sunday, February 8th

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Caché

Director: Michael Haneke

2005 / 118min / 35mm

Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil play a married Parisian couple living in the lap of bourgeois comfort in Haneke’s slow-burn psychodrama—and this being a Haneke film, that comfort doesn’t last for long. Their coddled existence is soon disturbed…

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Uncle Mustache + Journey + Waiting

Director: Bahram Beyzaie, Amir Naderi

1972 / 107min / 4K DCP

Introduction by programmer Edo Choi on Sunday, February 1st

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Paris, Texas

Director: Wim Wenders

1984 / 145min / DCP

Wiry and weathered Harry Dean Stanton had long been a cult character actor in Hollywood when Wenders had the vision to put him at the center of a movie: a modern retelling of The Searchers on the highways of the Southwest, with Harry Dean as the…

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The Wind Will Carry Us

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

1999 / 118min / DCP

Angling to film the funeral of a 100-year-old woman whose death is believed to be immediately imminent, a small film crew from Tehran pose as a group of treasure hunters to descend on their unwitting subject’s village in rural Iranian Kurdistan in…

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Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?

Director: Henry Jaglom

1983 / 90min / 4K DCP

Henry's daughter Sabrina Jaglom, Vinegar Syndrome's Justin LaLiberty, and Hope Run High's Taylor A. Purdee in person February 20-22.

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Somersault

Director: Cate Shortland

2004 / 106min / 4K DCP

Shortland’s visually arresting debut feature, a standout at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival recently treated to a 4K restoration, follows 16-year-old Heidi (Abbie Cornish) as, in flight from a catastrophic fall-out with her mother, she begins to learn…

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Distant

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan

2002 / 110min / 35mm

Winner of the Grand Prix at the 56th Cannes Film Festival, where its two leads, Muzaffer Özdemir and Mehmet Emin Toprak, also shared an acting prize (the latter had been tragically killed in a 2002 car accident), Ceylan’s international breakout is a…

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In the Mood for Love

Director: Wong Kar-wai

2000 / 98min / 4K DCP

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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Re-Wind

Director: Hisayasu Satō

1977 / 65min / DCP

One of the “Four Heavenly Kings of Pink” who turned the Japanese pinku eiga softcore industry into a seething hotbed of formal experimentation and taboo-busting transgression, Satō was arguably the most stylistically extreme and altogether unhinged…

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The Reckless Moment

Director: Max Ophuls

1949 / 82min / 35mm

When Joan Bennett’s comfortable-but-deathly-bored California housewife takes it on herself to cover up a crime committed by her daughter, she finds herself involuntarily involved with James Mason’s unscrupulous Irish-born criminal—but then unwelcome…

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Come Here preceded by Graceland

Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong

2021 / 86min / DCP

Director Anocha Suwichakornpong in conversation with Katie Kirkland, writer and PhD candidate in Film Studies/Comparative Literature at Yale University, on Saturday, 2/21

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Taste

Director: Bao Le

2021 / 97min / DCP

Introduction by Anocha Suwichakornpong on Saturday, February 21st

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Angel's Egg

Director: Mamoru Oshii

1985 / 71min / 4K DCP

Made in collaboration with storied illustrator Yoshitaka Amano (Final Fantasy), Oshii’s lyrical animated allegory, rich in Biblical allusions and parsimonious in spoken dialogue, follows a young girl traveling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic…

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The Heroic Trio

Director: Johnnie To

1993 / 88min / DCP

To’s girl power banger The Heroic Trio brings together wire-flying wuxia and John Woo-esque gun-fu into a heady cocktail of aerial acrobatics that comes close to a live-action cartoon. (It’s also the movie that Jean-Pierre Léaud waves around a…

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La ronde

Director: Max Ophuls

1950 / 93min / 4K DCP

Based on a play by Arthur Schnitzler, as had been Ophuls’s 1933 Liebelei, La Ronde, set in turn-of-the-last-century Vienna, is a baton-passing narrative consisting of 10 individual vignettes in which pairs of lovers—among their ranks Simone Signoret,…

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By The Time It Gets Dark

Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong

2016 / 105min / DCP

Q&A with director Anocha Suwichakornpong moderated by curator of Video and Film at e-flux Lukas Brašiškis on Sunday, February 22nd

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Nostalghia

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

1983 / 125min / 4K DCP

Tarkovsky’s penultimate film, and his first shot outside the USSR, channels the filmmaker’s own sense of displacement into the story of a homesick Russian poet (Oleg Yankovsky)—in Italy to do research on 18th-century Russian expatriate composer…

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The Silence

Director: Ingmar Bergman

1963 / 95min / DCP

The third film in Bergman’s Faith Trilogy stars Ingrid Thulin and Gunnel Lindblom as Ester and Anna, two estranged sisters, one prim, the other a voluptuary, who, along with Ester’s young son Johan, take rooms in an otherwise vacant hotel in an…

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Jollof Films presents Xalé: The Childhood Wounds

Director: Moussa Sene Absa

2022 / 101min / DCP

Q&A with Jollof Films on Friday, February 27th

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The Holy Girl

Director: Lucrecia Martel

2004 / 106min / 35mm

Martel’s second feature is a sullen, sensuous study in monomania and blighted love set in motion when Amalia (María Alche), an introverted, devout parochial school student, finds herself on the receiving end of an act of frottage in a crowd,…

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Klute

Director: Alan J. Pakula

1971 / 114min / 35mm

Jane Fonda is, of course, supremely excellent in the role that won her an Oscar, that of tough-minded high-class New York call girl Bree Daniels—who aspires to a career in modeling—but she gets invaluable assistance from Donald Sutherland, playing the…

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A Real Young Girl

Director: Catherine Breillat

1976 / 89min / 4K DCP

Completed in 1976 but not given a theatrical release until 2000, Breillat’s censor-infuriating, no-punches-pulled feature debut, an adaptation of her own fourth novel, Le Soupirail, that ranks among the most daring depictions of budding sexuality ever…

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Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Cats, Rats & Co.

Director: Multiple Dirs

1950 / 60min / 16mm

Introduction and Q&A with curator Tommy José Stathes on Saturday, February 28th

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Le Plaisir

Director: Max Ophuls

1952 / 97min / DCP

Ophuls’s penultimate film, much admired by Stanley Kubrick, is a triptych in which each section is drawn from a Guy de Maupassant story (the “author,” voiced by Jean Servais, narrates), with its longer, altogether more ebullient central section,…

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Carlos

Director: Olivier Assayas

2010 / 330min / DCP

The life of Venezuelan terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, code name “Carlos,” is dramatized in Assayas’s sprawling, richly detailed, and quite frequently thrilling biopic, which picks up with its title character, embodied by a superb Edgar Ramirez,…

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Hero

Director: Yimou Zhang

2002 / 99min / 35mm

A sumptuous Warring States-era wuxia boasting an ingeniously constructed and endlessly surprising cloak-and-dagger plot enacted by a cast for the ages, featuring Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, and Donnie Yen as a trio of assassins targeting the king of Qin…

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Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

Director: Phạm Thiên Ân

2023 / 178min / DCP

Winner of the prestigious Caméra d’Or for best first feature at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Pham’s accomplished debut centers on a thirtysomething Vietnamese man (Lê Phong Vũ) who returns from Saigon to his rural hometown in the wake of a…

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The Earrings of Madame de...

Director: Max Ophuls

1953 / 105min / 35mm

Noblewoman Danielle Darrieux, desperate for cash, sells a pair of diamond earrings gifted by aristocrat spouse Charles Boyer, only to have them borne back to her by Vittorio de Sica’s handsome Italian baron, a gift initiating a potentially destructive…

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Krabi 2562 preceded by The Ambassadors

Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong, Ben Rivers

2018 / 104min / DCP

Q&A with director Anocha Suwichakornpong on Saturday, February 28th

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Lola Montès

Director: Max Ophuls

1955 / 116min / 35mm

Perhaps Ophuls’s supreme cinematic spectacle, his first in widescreen and color, and his final film before his early death at age 54, which makes one yearn to see what else he might have yet been able to do. This Technicolor dazzler dramatizes with…

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Mundane History

Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong

2009 / 82min / DCP

Introduction and Q&A with director Anocha Suwichakornpong on Sunday, March 1st

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