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The Birds

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

1963 / 119min / 35mm

It’s business as usual in the coastal California town of Bodega Bay, when one day our fine feathered friends up and go on the offense

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Roger & Me

Director: Michael Moore

1989 / 91min / DCP

Before Moore became an activist documentary institution he was a one-man-band playing the outraged David to the Goliath of General Motors

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Nothing But A Man

Director: Michael Roemer

1964 / 95min / 35mm

New in town railway worker Duff (Ivan Dixon) meets minister’s daughter Josie (Abbey Lincoln) in Jim Crow Birmingham, where every aspect of daily life—work, relationships, parenthood, church—is tainted by pervasive, systemic racism. A noted landmark…

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Eighth Grade

Director: Bo Burnham

2018 / 93min / DCP

A funny, sweetly empathetic portrait of adolescence in the age of cultivated online self-presentation

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Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle

Director: Éric Rohmer

1987 / 99min / DCP

Shot quickly in and around Paris during a production break on Rohmer’s Le Rayon Vert, this breezy, witty film traces the exploits of two young women

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I Like It Like That

Director: Darnell Martin

1994 / 104min / 35mm

Q&A with Darnell Martin Saturday, August 13

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Harlan County, U.S.A.

Director: Barbara Kopple

1976 / 103min / 35mm

Q&A with Barbara Kopple August 13

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A Bigger Splash

1974 / 106min / DCP

Jack Hazan’s A Bigger Splash (1974) dispenses with drab talking-head portraiture to create an intimate and innovative film about English-born, London-schooled, California-based artist David Hockney and his work that honors its subject through creative…

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Sleepwalk

Director: Sara Driver

1986 / 78min / DCP

Nicole (Suzanne Fletcher), the central character of Driver’s beguiling Manhattan fairy tale, supports herself and her son by working as a computer typesetter and freelanc

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Alambrista!

Director: Robert M. Young

1977 / 110min / 35mm

With Sandra Schulberg in person August 13

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Pain & Gain

2013 / 129min / 35mm

A ’roid rage rollick courtesy of master of disaster Bay that’s as lavishly lurid as the Miami where it lays its scene

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The Fog

Director: John Carpenter

1980 / 89min / DCP

John Carpenter’s first post-Halloween venture into the H.P. Lovecraft-inspired, apocalyptic vein that he would continue to mine in films like The Thing and Prince of Dark

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Caught

Director: Robert M. Young

1996 / 110min / DCP

Intro by Andrew Young and followed by a q&a with cinematographer Michael Barlow, producer Bill Durkin, screenwriter Edward Pomerantz, and actor Arie Verveen August 12

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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

Director: William Greaves

1968 / 75min / DCP

Intro by Louise Greaves on August 14

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Children of Fate

Director: Susan Todd, Andrew Young

1993 / 85min / DCP

Andrew Young, son of Robert M., returns to the subject of Cortile Cascino, a fabled but little-seen 1961 documentary by his father and his Nothing But a Man collaborator,

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Stranger Than Paradise

1984 / 89min / DCP

Jarmusch announced himself as an independent auteur to watch with this bleakly funny black-and-white comedy played out in single set-ups

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The Kalampag Tracking Agency

Director: Multiple Dirs

1989 / 75min / DCP

this program collects loose parts in motion, a series of bangs, or kalampag in Tagalog, exploring how these 13 films might resonate off each other

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Working Girls

Director: Lizzie Borden

1986 / 93min / DCP

Following her breakthrough, Born in Flames, Borden produced this lesser-known but no less extraordinary study of female sex workers

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SHORT EYES

Director: Robert M. Young

1977 / 100min / 35mm

An adaptation of Miguel Piñero’s 1974 play of the same title, taken from cellblock slang for pedophiles, Young’s fiction debut

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La Piscine

Director: Jacques Deray

1969 / 124min / DCP

Beautiful people, ravishing landscapes, and quite a bit of ugly behavior add up to make one of the most cherished of French thrillers

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American Me

Director: Edward James Olmos

1992 / 126min / 35mm

Olmos stars in his own directorial debut, from a screenplay by future director Desmond Nakano and cult auteur Floyd Mutrux

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La Ciénaga

Director: Lucrecia Martel

2001 / 101min / DCP

One of the most auspicious, astonishing feature debuts of the 21st century, Martel’s La Ciénaga (“The Swamp,” in English) looks under the placid surface of the life of a

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Miller's Crossing

Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

1990 / 115min / DCP

Irish and Italian gangs trade bullets in this twist-filled, densely plotted Prohibition-era noir, featuring an icy Gabriel Byrne

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In the Soup

Director: Alexandre Rockwell

1992 / 93min / DCP

Aspiring filmmaker Adolpho Rollo (Steve Buscemi) can’t pay his NYC rent or talk to his gorgeous neighbor (Jennifer Beals), much get his unfilmable 500-page opus of a scre

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Buffalo '66

Director: Vincent Gallo

1998 / 110min / 35mm

Gallo’s brash and hysterical writer-director-composer-star feature debut packs a passel of personal obsessions—prog rock and the Buffalo Bills, among others—into the stor

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Ruby in Paradise

Director: Victor Nunez

1993 / 115min / DCP

Q&A with Victor Nunez August 21

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Girlfriends

Director: Claudia Weill

1978 / 86min / DCP

Claudia Weill will join us for a q&a on Wednesday, August 17 at 7pm

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Ganja & Hess

Director: Bill Gunn

1973 / 113min / DCP

this eerie, sui generis work by utterly iconoclastic director Gunn is, in its original form, nothing short of a masterpiece of ’70s American cinema.

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Triumph of the Spirit

Director: Robert M. Young

1989 / 120min / 35mm

The true story of the Jewish Greek boxer Salamo Arouch, an undefeated middleweight champion interned at Auschwitz where he kept himself and his family alive only by fight

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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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Wildrose

Director: John Hanson

1984 / 95min / 35mm

Q&A with John Hanson and Sandra Schulberg August 19

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Sidewalk Stories

Director: Charles Lane

1989 / 97min / DCP

A rare silent film of the last half-century—or silent save for Marc Mader’s score—shot in beautiful black and white in downtown New York locations

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Saturday Afternoon Cartoons August

Director: Multiple Dirs

1940 / 60min / 16mm

Saturday Afternoon Cartoons is New York City’s prime theatrical showcase of early and classic animated cartoons, shown in vintage 16mm film prints

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THE BALLAD OF GREGORIO CORTEZ

Director: Robert M. Young

1982 / 104min / DCP

A revisionist Western set in turn-of-the-last-century Texas, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez gives Edward James Olmos a career part in the title role

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The Triplets of Belleville

Director: Sylvain Chomet

2003 / 80min / 35mm

This animated film follows elderly Frenchwoman Madame Souza as she becomes involved in international intrigue when her grandson, Champion, a professional cyclist, is kidn

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Union Maids

Director: Julia Reichert, Jim Klein, Miles Mogulescu

1976 / 50min / DCP

Three female union organizers, veterans of the Depression era, reminisce over all they’ve seen and done for the camera in this stirring oral history

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Smithereens

Director: Susan Seidelman

1982 / 89min / DCP

Wren wants to be famous. Or at least she wants to be recognized.

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Pigs

Director: Marc Lawrence

1973 / 80min / 35mm

It doesn’t get much further from Hollywood than Lawrence’s down ’n’ dirty trough-full of backwoods California horror

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Rich Kids

Director: Robert M. Young

1975 / 101min / 35mm

One of the great, rarely screened New York City movies of the 1970s, the Robert Altman-produced Rich Kids is the story of two precocious Upper West Side pre-teens, Franny

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