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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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Safe
Sun Feb 1
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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Body Double
Director: Brian De Palma
1984 / 114min / DCP
By 1984, De Palma was under attack for what some perceived as gratuitous images of violence against women and his insistent homages to Hitchcock. His response was the ultimate anti-apology: his nastiest, most intentionally vile thriller, a reworking of…
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Farewell China
Mon Feb 2
Director: Clara Law
1990 / 114min / DCP
Maggie Cheung gives one of her most wrenching and wide-ranging performances in Law’s flaying drama, produced in the downbeat atmosphere immediately following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, playing an emigrant who leaves Mainland China…
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Ace in the Hole
Mon Feb 2
Director: Billy Wilder
1951 / 111min / 35mm
Introduction by writer A. S. Hamrah and a book signing following the screening on Saturday, January 31st
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The Spook Who Sat By the Door
Mon Feb 2
Director: Ivan Dixon
1973 / 102min / 35mm
Shot run-and-gun style on the streets of Gary, Indiana (standing in for neighboring Chicago), effectively suppressed for years thanks to FBI strongarm tactics, Dixon’s hell-raising, Herbie Hancock–soundtracked adaptation of Sam Greenlee’s 1969 novel…
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Last Year at Marienbad
Mon Feb 2
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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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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Blow-Up
Mon Feb 2
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
1966 / 111min / 35mm
Antonioni’s 1966 English-language debut sets its scene in a London that’s less swinging than sleepwalking, with David Hemmings a blasé-decadent photographer who finds himself sucked into a vortex of political intrigue when he discovers that a casual…
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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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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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Rear Window
Tue Feb 3
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
1954 / 112min / 4K DCP
Jimmy Stewart’s he-man, globe-trotting photographer is laid up for the summer with a broken leg, and enlists the help of Grace Kelly (ordering snacks from 21) when he becomes convinced that neighbor Raymond Burr has murdered his wife. One of the…
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The Naked Island
Tue Feb 3
Director: Kaneto Shindô
1960 / 96min / 35mm
A trailblazing (and enormously influential) hybrid of documentary and fiction, Shindô’s independently financed work of lyrical ethnography records the daily travails of a family—non-professional actors all, performing staged recreations of scenes…
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Water Lilies
Tue Feb 3
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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Police Story
Tue Feb 3
Director: Jackie Chan
1985 / 101min / DCP
A bone-cracking landmark in Hong Kong beat-’em-up action, Police Story stars director Jackie Chan as Ka-kui/Kevin, an inspector assigned to protect a key witness in a drug case, Selina (Brigitte Lin, nominated for Best Actress at the 1986 Hong Kong Film…
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Tokyo Fist
Tue Feb 3
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
1995 / 87min / DCP
Having achieved cult infamy with the one-two punch of his Tetsuo films, both now firmly ensconced in the cinematic cyberpunk canon, Shinya moved in for the K.O. with this stylish, unremittingly grim, thoroughly pummeling tale of brutal underground boxing…
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Tue Feb 3
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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Blue Velvet [35mm]
Tue Feb 3
Director: David Lynch
1986 / 120min / 35mm
The chance discovery of a severed human ear lying in a field inspires Kyle MacLachlan’s wholesome, all-American protagonist to try his hand at amateur sleuthing, and sets him off on a journey that will introduce him to bruised beauty Isabella Rossellini…
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PRIVATE EVENT TODAY IN THEATER & COMMISSARY
2025 / 360min
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An Elephant Sitting Still
Thu Feb 5
Director: Hu Bo
2018 / 230min / DCP
A radical retelling of the story of Jason and the Argonauts in contemporary China, the feature debut of 29-year-old novelist-cum-filmmaker Hu, a protégé of Béla Tarr, follows teenager Wei Bu over the course of an event-filled day in which, after…
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Once Upon a Time in America
Thu Feb 5
Director: Sergio Leone
1984 / 227min / DCP
For his final and most grandiose epic, Leone, teaming with an in-his-prime Robert De Niro, left behind the Western to take on another quintessentially American genre, the gangster picture, producing a singularly haunted and haunting, epoch-hopping…
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2046 [35mm]
Thu Feb 5
Director: Wong Kar-wai
2004 / 129min / 35mm
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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Love & Pop
Director: Hideaki Anno
1998 / 110min / DCP
Neon Genesis Evangelion creator Anno’s live-action feature debut, based on a novel by Ryū Murakami, the stylistically exuberant Love & Pop centers on Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi (Asumi Miwa) and her three friends, all of whom have begun earning extra…
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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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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 Aviator's Wife
Fri Feb 6
Director: 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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The Stranger and the Fog
Director: Bahram Beyzaie
1974 / 146min / DCP
Introduction by Cinema Tehran founder Arya Ghavamian on Sunday, February 8th
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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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ACE Presents My Architect
Fri Feb 6
Director: Nathaniel Kahn
2003 / 116min / DCP
Q&A with editor Sabine Krayenbühl moderated by film educator Joshua Handler on Friday, February 6th
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A Useful Ghost
Fri Feb 6
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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Caché
Fri Feb 6
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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Peeping Tom
Director: Michael Powell
1960 / 101min / DCP
A poison pen letter to cinema, and a prime example of the medium’s unsettling, intoxicating power.
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Terminator 2: Judgement Day
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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Vitalina Varela
Director: Pedro Costa
2019 / 124min / DCP
A film that demands to be seen on a big screen in order to truly be seen, Costa’s film, a model of chiaroscuro cinematography and spare nocturnal imagery, renders marginal lives in epic scope, and proceeds at a somnambulant pace that is nearly hypnotic…
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The Incredible Shrinking Man
Director: Jack Arnold
1957 / 81min / 4K DCP
Orangey gets a larger than life role as domestic feline Butch in the film that may be sci-fi maestro Arnold’s finest hour, an adaptation of Richard Matheson’s The Shrinking Man, chock-a-bloc with ingenious effects, starring Grant Williams as Scott…
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Rhubarb
Director: Arthur Lubin
1951 / 94min / 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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Letter from an Unknown Woman
Director: Max Ophuls
1948 / 87min / 35mm
In a deliciously artificial fin-de-siecle Vienna—stops include the Prater Park as seen under a blanket of snow— concocted with impeccable craftsmanship on a Universal backlot, Ophuls conducts a veritable symphony of moving camerawork, turning Stefan…
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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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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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The Search
Sat Feb 7
Director: Amir Naderi
1980 / 85min / Digital
On September 8, 1978, referred to thereafter by Iranians as “Black Friday,” the forces of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi opened fire on protesters in Tehran’s Jaleh Square, leaving behind a toll of dead still disputed today. The following year, the…
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Liberté, la nuit
Sat Feb 7
Director: Philippe Garrel
1984 / 82min / DCP
Garrel’s tribute to his parents and the supporters of the Front de libération nationale (FLN) in their struggle for Algerian liberation takes place in a Paris keenly attuned to news of the bloody conflict overseas, featuring the director’s father,…
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The Third Generation
Sat Feb 7
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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The Straight Story
Sun Feb 8
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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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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The Ballad of Tara
Sun Feb 8
Director: Bahram Beyzaie
1979 / 102min / DCP
Introduction by programmer Edo Choi on Sunday, February 8th
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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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Paris, Texas
Mon Feb 9
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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Army of Shadows
Mon Feb 9
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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Running on Empty
Tue Feb 10
Director: Sidney Lumet
1988 / 116min / DCP
Q&A with screenwriter Naomi Foner moderated by Edo Choi on Thursday, January 29th
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Underground
Tue Feb 10
Director: Haskell Wexler, Emile de Antonio, Mary Lampson
1976 / 87min / 16mm
Defying attempts by the FBI to subpoena the filmmakers and confiscate their footage, de Antonio, Lampson, and Wexler managed to get their counter-narrative documentary about the notorious Weather Underground in front of eager audiences around the world.…
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Downtown 81
Tue Feb 10
Director: Edo Bertoglio
2000 / 75min / DCP
In 1980, writer and Warhol associate Glenn O’Brien, Swiss photographer Edo Bertoglio, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, a graffiti innovator and noise music artist who’d just begun to exhibit his paintings, hit the streets of lower Manhattan to make a movie…
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The Goddess of 1967
Wed Feb 11
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
Wed Feb 11
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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The Company's in Love
Wed Feb 11
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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Cure
Wed Feb 11
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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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
Fri Feb 13
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
Fri Feb 13
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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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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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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Mala Noche
Sat Feb 14
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]
Sat Feb 14
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
Sun Feb 15
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
The menagerie that sprang from the fertile imagination of Lewis Carroll—the Cheshire Cat, the Dormouse, the March Hare, that hookah-puffing Caterpillar, and all their outlandish breathern—come to vividly colored life in Disney’s down-the-rabbit-hole…
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Center Stage
Sun Feb 15
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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Stranger on Horseback
Sun Feb 15
Director: Jacques Tourneur
1955 / 66min / Digital
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
Sun Feb 15
Director: Bahram Beyzaie
1985 / 120min / 4K DCP
Introduction by Cinema Tehran founder Arya Ghavamian on Sunday, February 15th
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The Runner
Sun Feb 15
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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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
Q&A with filmmaker and Henry's daughter Sabrina Jaglom moderated by filmmaker Taylor A. Purdee on Friday, February 20th
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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
Sat Feb 21
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
Sat Feb 21
Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong
2021 / 86min / DCP
Q&A with director Anocha Suwichakornpong on Saturday, February 21st
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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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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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By The Time It Gets Dark
Sun Feb 22
Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong
2016 / 105min / DCP
Q&A with director Anocha Suwichakornpong 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
Fri Feb 27
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.
Sat Feb 28
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
Sat Feb 28
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
Sat Feb 28
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
Sat Feb 28
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
Sat Feb 28
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...
Sun Mar 1
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
Sun Mar 1
Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong, Ben Rivers
2018 / 104min / DCP
Q&A with director Anocha Suwichakornpong on Saturday, February 28th
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Lola Montès
Sun Mar 1
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
Sun Mar 1
Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong
2009 / 82min / DCP
Introduction and Q&A with director Anocha Suwichakornpong on Sunday, March 1st