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2018 / 360min

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Playing With Fire

Director: Alain Robbe-Grillet

1975 / 112min / DCP

Intro by Jeremy Richey, author of Sylvia Kristel: From Emmanuelle to Chabrol

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Diamonds of the Night

Director: Jan Němec

1964 / 64min / DCP

Clocking in around the hour mark, the jury’s out as to if Diamonds of the Night constitutes Němec’s “feature debut”—but by any measure, it’s one of the most overwhelming,

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The French

Director: William Klein

1982 / 130min / DCP

Klein, the legendary American photographer and filmmaker, has put together a body of work as thrillingly eclectic as any living artist. In his 1969 film Muhammad Ali, the Greatest, he found a subject that combined his interest in sport and social…

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Wings of Desire

Director: Wim Wenders

1987 / 128min / DCP

Evokes a mood of reverie, elegy, and meditation… of sadness and isolation, of yearning, of the transience of earthly things.”—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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Scanners

Director: David Cronenberg

1981 / 103min / DCP

You know the exploding head meme begat by Scanners, but it’s time to reacquaint yourself with the movie that splattered Cronenberg’s disconcerting, disgusting vision across popular culture. When drifter Cameron Vale (artist Stephen Lack) learns that…

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Mata Hari

Director: Curtis Harrington

1985 / 108min / 35mm

The final feature from cult director Harrington (Night Tide, What’s the Matter with Helen?), is an erotic period piece melodrama that occasionally managed epic effects on bargain prices by shooting in Budapest, and provided Kristel a custom-fit role as…

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The Sugarland Express

Director: Steven Spielberg

1974 / 110min / DCP

Goldie Hawn busts husband William Atherton out of the stir in the Lone Star State, and together they set out to snatch their child away from the threat of foster care.

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L'intrus

Director: Claire Denis

2004 / 130min / DCP

One of Denis’s most ambitious, complicated, and exhilaratingly daring films charts an itinerary traveling from the snowy Alps to Korea to Tahiti

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Chinatown

Director: Roman Polanski

2017 / 130min / 35mm

The actual Chinatown neighborhood in Los Angeles doesn’t play a major role in Polanski’s noir-inflected film of dirty dealings in 1930s Southern California, but it does a whole lot of metaphorical heavy lifting in the film’s famous kicker line,…

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Mysteries

Director: Paul de Lussanet

1978 / 97min / DCP

A little-seen adaptation of Norwegian author Knut Hamsun’s 1892 novel of the same name, Mysteries stars a magnificently scornful Rutger Hauer as a scoundrelly antihero newly arrived at a seaside village on the Isle of Man, where he pursues affairs with…

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Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Director: Paul Mazursky

1969 / 105min / DCP

Mazursky’s wry, fingers-on-the-zeitgeist comedy-drama observes the fallout of the sexual revolution’s belated arrival in the tony Los Angeles suburbs, which comes courtesy of married couple Bob and Carol (Robert Culp and Natalie Wood), who return from…

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Julia

Director: Sigi Rothemund

1974 / 83min / DCP

Intro by Jeremy Richey, author of Sylvia Kristel: From Emmanuelle to Chabrol Sunday, September 25

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Naked Over the Fence

Director: Frans Weisz

1973 / 98min / DCP

Before she went on to conquer the world, Kristel had a breakout role in her native Netherlands with this erotic thriller/comedy/musical from Weisz, playing a one-hit wonder chanteuse who, along with her karate instructor boyfriend (Dutch martial artist…

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Big Trouble

Director: John Cassavetes

1986 / 93min / 35mm

Cassavetes’s final film, which he was recruited to direct over original screenwriter Andrew Bergman, is a black comic riff on Double Indemnity starring Alan Arkin as a Los Angeles insurance agent who, faced with an imposing tuition bill for his…

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Pastorale 1943

Director: Wim Verstappen

1975 / 125min / DCP

Set in a village in the Betuwe region during the German occupation of the Netherlands, Verstappen’s wartime drama of the resistance eschews the usual heroic treatment of the subject, instead depicting a very human—and very often ill-organized—band…

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Husbands

Director: John Cassavetes

1970 / 142min / DCP

Maximum-impact Cassavetes. The director-star pushes his actors and cinematic techniques to the extreme in this account of three married suburban New York dads—Cassavetes and two of his standbys, Ben Gazzara and Peter Falk—who, reunited following a…

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Irradiated

Director: Rithy Panh

2020 / 88min / DCP

Introduced by director Rithy Pahn October 1.

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Belly

Director: Hype Williams

1998 / 96min / 35mm

Tommy Brown (DMX) and his best friend Sincere (Nas) are gangsters who have learned how to make a good living as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood, respected by many but feared by all. Able to move out of Queens, where they were…

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The Experience

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

1973 / 60min / DCP

A bridge between his early shorts and his first feature, Kiarostami’s medium-length The Experience was one of the products of the director’s employment in Kanoon, Iran’s Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults. A…

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Boyfriends and Girlfriends

Director: Éric Rohmer

1987 / 103min / DCP

Rohmer uses the amorous misadventures of two girlfriends in the Paris suburbs to test the old proverb “les amis de mes amis sont mes amis”

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The Brink's Job

Director: William Friedkin

1978 / 104min / 35mm

A slyly funny caper movie steeped in ubiquitous incompetence, and a story so ridiculous it could only have been drawn from real facts.

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Possession

1981 / 124min / DCP

Żuławski’s one-of-a-kind genre pastiche has spy Sam Neill returning to his Berlin home from a mission abroad to discover that wife Isabelle Adjani wants suddenly to split up.

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Goodbye, Dragon Inn

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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The Tango Lesson

Director: Sally Potter

1997 / 100min / 35mm

​​Potter herself stars as a Paris-based filmmaker named “Sally” who, while laboring unhappily on a Hollywood screenplay, finds an outlet for her frustrations in studying tango under an Argentinian instructor (lauded dancer Pablo Verón) with whom…

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Rage

Director: Sally Potter

2009 / 98min / DCP

When a seeming catwalk accident during a fashion show turns into a murder investigation, a schoolboy’s collection of candid, confessional video interviews with the involved personnel—designer Simon Abkarian, models Lily Cole and Jude Law (superlative…

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I Am An Ox, I Am A Horse, I Am A Man, I Am A Woman

Director: Sally Potter

1987 / 60min / DCP

​​Revealing interviews with Russian film industry figures that include directors (Lana Gogoberidze and Kira Muratova) and actresses (Inna Churikova and Nonna Mordyukova) are woven together with clips from female-centered films like Muratova’s The…

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Yes

Director: Sally Potter

2004 / 100min / 35mm

A chance encounter between a well-off American woman (Joan Allen) and a working-class Lebanese exile (Simon Abkarian), both living in London, turns into a red-hot affair, then develops into an equally heated dialogue—delivered almost entirely in iambic…

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The Party

Director: Sally Potter

2017 / 71min / DCP

Slyly skewering contemporary British bourgeois society, Potter’s pitch-black comic drama begins with a well-heeled group—an impressive ensemble that includes Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Cillian Murphy—gathering for what…

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Orlando+Look At Me

Director: Sally Potter

1992 / 94min / DCP

With Sally Potter in-person for Q&A on 10/7, 6:15p & 10/9, 6:30p

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Ginger & Rosa

Director: Sally Potter

2012 / 89min / DCP

In 1962 London, with the very real threat of nuclear war constantly on the radio, 17-year-old beatnik wannabe best friends Ginger and Rosa (Elle Fanning and Alice Englert) are beset by fear of the future—not only the bomb, but the possibility of turning…

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Set It Off

Director: F. Gary Gray

1996 / 123min / 35mm

A long time before hitting pay dirt with Straight Outta Compton, F. Gary Gray directed another, far more radical supergroup movie. Jada Pinkett, Vivica A. Fox, Kimberly Elise, and Queen Latifah are four girlfriends from the L.A. projects who decide to…

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Sally Potter Shorts

Director: Sally Potter

1969 / 82min / DCP

A program of Potter’s run of innovative early shorts, which began with 1969’s minimalist miniature, Jerk, made at the London Film-Makers’ Co-op. Jerk screens with Hors d’oeuvres, a layered wonderment made through 16mm refilming of projections of…

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2016 / 90min

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The Gold Diggers

Director: Sally Potter

1983 / 89min / DCP

Made with an all-female crew including composer Lindsay Cooper and legendary cinematographer Babette Mangolte, Potter’s radical first feature, a sui generis sci-fi musical that interrogates the legacy (and leering gaze) of Busby Berkeley, tells the…

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Baby Boy

Director: John Singleton

2001 / 130min / DCP

Released 10 years after his Boyz N the Hood became a cultural phenomenon, Singleton’s Baby Boy, from its disarming opening images of full-grown star Tyrese Gibson as a fetus curled in the womb, is a film so audacious, so provocative, and so personal…

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The Souvenir

Director: Joanna Hogg

2019 / 120min / DCP

With Joanna Hogg in-person for Q&A on Sunday, 10/9 @ 1:00pm

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The Souvenir: Part II

Director: Joanna Hogg

2022 / 108min / DCP

With extended introduction by Joanna Hogg on Sunday, 10/9 @ 4:00pm

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The Warriors

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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Sepa: Our Lord of Miracles

Director: Walter Saxer

1986 / 77min / DCP

Intro and Q&A with Walter Saxer Friday, October 14 @ 6:40pm

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Fitzcarraldo

Director: Werner Herzog

1971 / 158min / DCP

Intro and Q&A with Walter Saxer on Sunday, October 16 @ 4:15pm

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Woman in the Dunes

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara

1964 / 147min / 35mm

One of several coruscating adaptations that the formidable Teshigahara made from the novels of Kôbô Abe, this landmark of the Japanese New Wave stars Eiji Okada as an entomologist who, while searching for rare insects around a secluded village, comes…

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Veronika Voss

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

1982 / 104min / 35mm

The second film in Fassbinder’s BDR Trilogy—films describing the early years of West Germany through the stories of women, which began with The Marriage of Maria Braun—Veronika Voss stars Rosel Zech as a faded screen star of the Nazi period, loosely…

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Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Director: Werner Herzog

1971 / 95min / DCP

Intro and Q&A with Walter Saxer October 15 @ 5pm

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Nosferatu the Vampyre

Director: Werner Herzog

1979 / 107min / DCP

Herzog brashly took up the mantle of German Expressionism when revisiting the unhallowed soil of Murnau’s silent masterpiece, with old foe and collaborator Klaus Kinski filling Max Schreck’s shoes (and talons) as the pestilent Transylvanian Count;…

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Boyz n the Hood

Director: John Singleton

1991 / 112min / DCP

Singleton’s debut, released when the director was only 23 and based on his first-hand experience of growing up in South Central Los Angeles, is a portrait of a community little-depicted from the insider’s perspective, with Cuba Gooding Jr. as…

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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

Director: Werner Herzog

1974 / 110min / DCP

After spotting self-taught outsider artist Bruno S. in a documentary about street musicians, Herzog was determined to work with him, and proceeded to cast this troubled man with zero acting experience who’d been raised in mental institutions as the lead…

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Muriel's Wedding

Director: P. J. Hogan

1994 / 104min / 35mm

Actor, comedian and friend of Metrograph, John Early returns to Metrograph to introduce another of his silver screen favorites, Muriel’s Wedding.

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John Early Selects: Muriel's Wedding

Director: P. J. Hogan

1994 / 104min / 35mm

Muriel’s Wedding is the crown jewel and bleeding heart of the absolutely unhinged Australian cinema of the early ’90s. Just like the ABBA music that scores it, the film’s

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Gang Related

Director: Jim Kouf

1997 / 111min / 35mm

Tupac Shakur’s final film, wrapped two weeks before his still-controversial murder, is a gangster movie where the gang in question are the police, with Shakur and James Belushi playing a pair of crooked vice squad detectives who, after killing an…

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The Computer Accent

Director: Riel Roch Decter, Sebastian Pardo

2022 / 83min / DCP

With filmmakers and special guests (YACHT band members) in attendance for select screenings

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The Big Animal

Director: Jerzy Stuhr

2003 / 73min / 35mm

From a screenplay by Krzysztof Kieślowski, who died four years before its release, Stuhr’s absurdist, Kafka-inspired The Big Animal tells the tale of a bank employee (Stuhr himself, a recurring performer in Kieślowski’s films) who, one fine day,…

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And the Ship Sails On

Director: Federico Fellini

1983 / 128min / DCP

Fellini’s art of artifice finds its ultimate expression in And the Ship Sails On, an exquisitely detailed soundstage confabulation set on the eve of WWI, which brings together a motley ensemble crew of revolutionaries, aristocrats, show folk, and…

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