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The Deer Hunter

Director: Michael Cimino

1978 / 183min / 35mm

Cimino’s second and most acclaimed film begins as a beautifully detailed immersion into the lives of western Pennsylvania steel mill employees from Slavic immigrant stock at work and at play, then follows three of them—Robert De Niro, John Savage, and…

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Leonor Will Never Die

Director: Martika Ramirez Escobar

2022 / 101min / DCP

Martika Escobar Ramirez in-person for Introduction + Q&A on 11/25 @ 7:00 + 9:20, and 11/26 @ 7:00

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Fellini's Casanova

Director: Federico Fellini

1976 / 155min / DCP

Working entirely on the vast soundstages of Rome’s Cinecittà Studios, Fellini would construct a flagrantly artificial fantasia of the capitals of 18th-century Europe as described by the Venice-born philanderer and adventurer Giacomo Casanova in his…

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Don't Look Now

Director: Nicolas Roeg

1971 / 110min / 35mm

At once one of the sexiest and most frightening thrillers of its era, Roeg’s film finds amorous couple Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie decamped to Venice to flee the memory of their daughter’s accidental death, only to be haunted by a childlike…

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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

1975 / 116min / 35mm

Pasolini’s final film remains one of the most shocking ever made. Set during a waning fascist Italy’s dark days amidst World War II, Salò updates the writings of Marquis de Sade to create a repugnant tale of four wealthy libertines who kidnap a group…

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The Pale Blue Eye

Director: Scott Cooper

2022 / 128min / DCP

West Point, 1830. In the early hours of a gray winter morning, a cadet is found dead. But after the body arrives at the morgue, tragedy becomes savagery when it’s discovered that the young man’s heart has been skillfully removed. Fearing irreparable…

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PRIVATE EVENT TODAY IN THEATER & COMMISSARY

2018 / 360min

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PRIVATE EVENT: IN THEATER

2016 / 90min

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In the Court of the Crimson King

Director: Toby Amies

2022 / 86min / DCP

Q&A with director Toby Amies and longtime King Crimson bassist Tony Levin on Tuesday, December 6th at 7:00pm

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Space Cowboys

Director: Clint Eastwood

2000 / 130min / 35mm

Sutherland reunites with Kelly’s Heroes co-star Eastwood in this amiable, elegiac, and altogether lovable “I’m-getting-too-old-for-this-shit” adventure yarn, in which a quartet of grizzled, grounded former test pilots (Sutherland, Eastwood, Tommy…

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The Eternal Daughter

Director: Joanna Hogg

2022 / 96min / DCP

An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past. Featuring a towering, deeply moving performance by Tilda Swinton, Hogg’s beguiling latest film is a…

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Ordinary People

Director: Robert Redford

1980 / 124min / DCP

Redford’s first outing as director and by some reckonings his best was this delicate, affecting adaptation of a novel by Judith Guest. To the casual observer, the Jarretts family are as perfect as the manicured lawns in the tony suburb of Lake Forest,…

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What's Up Connection

Director: Masashi Yamamoto

1990 / 119min / DCP

Yamamoto’s cutting comedy looks at Japan through the eyes of outsider Chi Gau Shin (School on Fire’s Tse Wai-Kit), a visiting Hong Kong teenager whose family runs a counterfeiting business out of a hidden fishing hamlet. After winning a trip to the…

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Robinson's Garden

Director: Masashi Yamamoto

1987 / 119min / DCP

Wandering drunk into an abandoned industrial zone on the outskirts of Tokyo, drug-slinging social dropout Kumi (Kumiko Ohta) discovers a hidden oasis of thriving plant life. Returning, she starts to nurture this secret garden and brighten up the…

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Director: Philip Kaufman

1978 / 115min / 35mm

In his book Danse Macabre, Stephen King wrote of Kaufman’s superlative, terrifying San Francisco-set remake of the Don Siegel classic: “There is a moment in that film which is repulsively horrible. It comes when Donald Sutherland uses a rake to smash…

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I Am Sion Sono + Tokyo Cabbageman K

Director: Sion Sono

1985 / 103min / DCP

Long before his genre-bending films became favorites at international film festivals, Sono was a whirlwind force in the arts, an enfant terrible who tackled poetry and experimental theater before moving on to cinema. Attacking the new medium with gusto,…

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A Man's Flower Road

Director: Sion Sono

1986 / 110min / DCP

Sono’s broke-backed, brazen first feature, made when its director was only 24, opens with a hysterical chase scene that concludes with Sono (also starring), clad only in a red raincoat, discovering a band of Kappa—water creatures described in Japanese…

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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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Don't Look Now

Director: Nicolas Roeg

1971 / 110min / 35mm

At once one of the sexiest and most frightening thrillers of its era, Roeg’s film finds amorous couple Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie decamped to Venice to flee the memory of their daughter’s accidental death, only to be haunted by a childlike…

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Hanasareru Gang

Director: Nobuhiro Suwa

1984 / 85min / DCP

An overt homage to the French Nouvelle Vague, whose anything goes approach was an important reference point for many hachimiri filmmakers, Suwa’s debut feature is an occasionally a-chronological genre pastiche involving a band of petty crooks, the girl…

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The Adventure of Denchu-kozo + Isolation of 1/8800

Director: Shinya Tsukamoto

1987 / 95min / DCP

Finished two years before his cyberpunk opus Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Tsukamoto’s The Adventure of Denchu-kozo is a clear precursor to that later film in its assaultive editing and film speed manipulation, a far-out story about a bullied high schooler with…

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Summer 1993

Director: Carla Simón

2017 / 96min / DCP

With extended introduction by director Carla Simón on Sunday, December 4th at 7:20pm.

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The Rain Women + High-School-Terror + UNK

Director: Shinobu Yaguchi

1990 / 100min / DCP

The Rain Women …

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Saint Terrorism

Director: Masashi Yamamoto

1980 / 127min / DCP

An angel-faced thrill-kill murderess provides the link between the various interwoven stories that make up Saint Terrorism, Yamamoto’s fantastic, downright apocalyptic vision of loners and criminal outsiders in Tokyo’s Shinjuku neighborhood, living at…

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Lust, Caution

Director: Ang Lee

2007 / 157min / 35mm

Tang got her breakthrough role—and a subsequent backlash from Chinese state censors—when she was cast in Lee’s steamy cloak-and-dagger thriller set during the Second Sino-Japanese War. A student in Japan-occupied Hong Kong, Tang’s character…

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Happiness Avenue

Director: Katsuyuki Hirano

1986 / 93min / DCP

Part documentary, part performance art, and part riot, Hirano’s Happiness Avenue opens with footage of a group of right-wingers as they demand the return of the Kuril Islands to Japan, then dives into gleeful anarchy that’s in stark contrast to the…

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Dr. Strangelove

Director: Stanley Kubrick

1964 / 95min / DCP

“Gentlemen. You can’t fight in here. This is the War Room! Peter Sellers plays three different characters trying to stop nuclear combat with the Russians in Kubrick’s satire of American nuclear Cold War politics that helped crack the Hollywood…

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2/Duo

Director: Nobuhiro Suwa

1997 / 90min / DCP

Suwa’s second feature, 2/Duo was originally conceived as a scripted psychodrama, then evolved into something very different once Suwa chucked his script and started from scratch, working closely with his actors to develop their characters in an approach…

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Harvey

Director: Henry Koster

1950 / 104min / DCP

“In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. / Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. Elwood P. Dowd navigates the world pleasantly with the company of his invisible friend, a six foot three and a half inch tall rabbit named…

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Death to Smoochy

Director: Danny DeVito

2002 / 109min / 35mm

“Idealistic Sheldon Mopes (Edward Norton) has always wanted to bring his character Smoochy the Rhino to children’s television. He gets his chance when the top star at Kid’s Net, ‘Rainbow’ Randolph (Robin Williams), is arrested in a bribery…

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Joe Versus the Volcano

Director: John Patrick Shanley

1990 / 102min / 35mm

With director John Patrick Shanley in attendance for Q&A on Sunday, December 11th at 3:30pm

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The Short List: NYC Film School Showcase

Director: Multiple Dirs

2022 / 102min / DCP

With filmmakers in attendance for Q&A

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Violent Streets

Director: Hideo Gosha

1974 / 96min / DCP

Sometimes regarded as not only among Gosha’s finest films but among the finest yakuza films ever made, Violent Streets is a brutal, gripping, kinetic action yarn in which a retired Tokyo boss (Noburo Ando) is forced to go back into battle after a Kansai…

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His Girl Friday

Director: Howard Hawks

1940 / 92min / DCP

​​“Listen to me, you great big bubble-headed baboon! Crack reporter Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) is trying to quit the high stress newspaper reporting business and settle down, but her editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant) needs her to work on one…

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Being There

Director: Hal Ashby

1979 / 130min / DCP

​​“And I’ll say right now, he never learned to read and write. No, sir. Had no brains at all. Was stuffed with rice pudding between th’ ears. Short-changed by the Lord, and dumb as a jackass. Look at him now! After his patron passes away,…

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Pink Flamingos

Director: John Waters

1972 / 93min / DCP

With extended introduction from series curator K8 Hardy on Friday, December 16th at 9:30pm.

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The Hudsucker Proxy

Director: Joel Coen

1994 / 111min / 35mm

“Arriving in the city, Norville Barnes, of the Muncy School of Business and Administration, has big plans. He steps into Hudsucker Industries just as Warren Hudsucker steps out, and gets his job. But will Pulitzer Prize Award-winning reporter Amy Archer…

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Outfitumentary

Director: K8 Hardy

2016 / 82min / DCP

With director K8 Hardy in attendance for intro + Q&A on Friday, December 16th at 7:15pm and Saturday, December 17th at 6:45pm.

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Ticket of No Return

Director: Ulrike Ottinger

1979 / 108min / DCP

With extended introduction from series curator K8 Hardy on Friday, December 16th at 9:30pm.

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Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

Director: Errol Morris

1997 / 80min / 35mm

“People are afraid of the new, different, strange, but to me it isn't anything to be feared. I never thought a lion tamer, a topiary gardener, a roboticist, and an expert on the African naked mole rat would have much in common, but Errol Morris weaves…

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2046

Director: Wong Kar-wai

2004 / 129min / 35mm

The sort-of sequel to Wong’s Days of Being Wild and In the Mood for Love centers on Tony Leung Chiu-wai’s science-fiction writer Chow, chronicling his aimless affairs with women (including Faye Wong, Zhang Ziyi, and Gong Li) after Mrs. Chen has…

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I-Be Area

Director: Ryan Trecartin

2007 / 108min / DCP

An early interpreter and poet of the new incoherency of the Digital Age, Trecartin—working with an ensemble cast of friends—plays no less than five roles in the carnivalesque, anarchic I-Be Area, his multi-layered first feature-length work, which…

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