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Hail, Caesar!
Friday September 22
7:45pmDirector: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
2016 / 106min / DCP
A rollicking ensemble comedy set in the dying years of the studio system, Hail, Caesar! follows Capitol Studios production head and all-around troubleshooter Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) as he scrambles to keep the studio’s films on schedule, its stars…
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Fear and Desire
Friday September 22
9:20pmDirector: Stanley Kubrick
1953 / 70min / DCP
Kubrick’s audacious and too-little-seen feature debut, made when he was a 24-year-old industry outsider, is the harrowing story of a group of soldiers who, after surviving a plane crash, must embarking on a surreal journey to escape from behind enemy…
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Eyes Wide Shut
Friday September 22
10:00pmDirector: Stanley Kubrick
1999 / 159min / DCP
Christmas lights take on a malevolent gleam in Kubrick’s final masterpiece, a free adaptation of Dream Story, Viennese author Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella of erotic compulsion. Dr. Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) hits the shivering streets of a…
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Hana-bi
Friday September 22
11:00pmDirector: Takeshi Kitano
1997 / 103min / 35mm
The two sides of Kitano’s directorial personality, the warm, tender, observant dramatist and the master of controlled chaos, merge effortlessly in this, perhaps his best-loved film. Retired detective Nishi (Kitano) turns to duplicitous means to look…
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Carmen Jones
Saturday September 23
11:45amDirector: Otto Preminger
1954 / 105min / DCP
Carroll made her film debut as a part of the talent-packed all-Black cast of Preminger’s musical spectacular, which brings Oscar Hammerstein II’s World War II-era set reworking of Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen to the screen in stunning Cinemascope…
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Sunset Boulevard
Saturday September 23
12:15pmDirector: Billy Wilder
2018 / 110min / 35mm
Wilder’s Tinseltown gothic is a movie steeped in love and hate for the movie business and the monsters that it attracts and nurtures, like Midwestern journalist-cum-skint-screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) and his sugar mama, faded silent film…
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The Souvenir
Saturday September 23
2:00pmDirector: Joanna Hogg
2019 / 120min / DCP
Hogg, who has quietly established herself as one of the finest UK filmmakers working, offers a keenly observed, sometimes bruising portrayal of toxic romance set in ’80s Britain, starring Honor Swinton Byrne (daughter of Tilda, who plays the…
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Watership Down
Saturday September 23
2:45pmDirector: Martin Rosen
1978 / 91min / 35mm
Adapted from Richard Adams’s cherished allegorical novel concerning the universal longing for freedom in times of strife, Watership Down follows a group of rabbits on their perilous journey to a new home after one of their number (voiced by John Hurt)…
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Blow-Up
Saturday September 23
6:30pmDirector: 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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Laughing Boy
Saturday September 23
7:00pmDirector: W.S. Van Dyke
1934 / 79min / 16mm
Introduction from series curator, Adam Piron, on Saturday, September 23rd at 7:00pm
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Law of Desire
Saturday September 23
11:00pmDirector: Pedro Almodóvar
1987 / 102min / DCP
Everything is cinema to smut movie director Pablo Quintero (Eusebio Poncela) in Almodóvar’s absurdist melodrama, where movie madness meets plain old madness. Our pornographer protagonist carefully plans the mise en scène of his relationship with…
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The Five Heartbeats
Sunday September 24
12:15pmDirector: Robert Townsend
1991 / 121min / 35mm
From a pop history-saturated script by director/star Townsend and Keenen Ivory Wayans, the Motown-inspired The Five Heartbeats tracks three decades in the life of a rhythm and blues vocal group, from their ’60s chart success into in-fighting,…
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The Metropolitan Opera presents: Dead Man Walking
Sunday September 24
3:15pmDirector: Tim Robbins
1995 / 122min / 35mm
Post-screening discussion with civil rights activist and best-selling author Sister Helen Prejean and filmmaker Tim Robbins on September 24th at 3:15pm
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The Souvenir: Part II
Sunday September 24
4:10pmDirector: Joanna Hogg
2022 / 108min / DCP
Picking up with Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne), her wealthy mother (Honor’s real-life mother, Tilda), and her classmates (including a hilarious Richard Ayoade) shortly after the events of 2019’s The Souvenir, Hogg follows her student filmmaker…
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Cinema Paradiso
Wednesday September 27
3:45pmDirector: Giuseppe Tarnatore
1988 / 155min / DCP
Famed director Salvatore embarks on a journey into his past—and his nascent cinephilia—upon receiving news of the death of his mentor, village cinema projectionist Alfredo (Philippe Noiret), which prompts him to leave Rome and return to his Sicilian…
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Minari
Friday September 29
2:00pmDirector: Lee Isaac Chung
2020 / 114min / DCP
Chung’s tender and at times heart-wrenching semi-autobiographical family drama, an early ’80s-set Asian American answer to Willa Cather’s pioneer tales, focuses on a family of South Korean immigrants who relocate from California to Arkansas’s…
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Tokyo Story
Friday September 29
2:45pmDirector: Yasujirô Ozu
1953 / 136min / 35mm
“One of the greatest of all Japanese motion pictures. Ozu’s style, now completely refined, utterly economical, creates a film that is unforgettable because it is so right, so true, and also because it demands so much from its audience. Evasions of any…
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The Wrong Move
Friday September 29
4:30pmDirector: Wim Wenders
1975 / 103min / DCP
Long-time Wenders collaborator Peter Handke drew inspiration from Goethe’s novel Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship for the screenplay of this, the second film in Wenders’s “Road Trilogy,” which tracks aspirational writer Wilhelm (Rüdiger Vogler)…
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Eat Drink Man Woman
Friday September 29
5:45pmDirector: Ang Lee
1994 / 124min / 35mm
Lee’s gently comic family fable about a semi-retired master chef and his three daughters, the director’s only film shot entirely in his native Taiwan, is arguably the best movie about how food can connect generations ever made. The cooking scenes,…
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Claudine
Friday September 29
6:45pmDirector: John Berry
1974 / 92min / DCP
Berry’s poignant drama provided Carroll with one of her richest and most justly celebrated roles, giving a radiant performance as a single housekeeper in Harlem struggling to raise six children on her own who faces still further complications when she…
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Alice in the Cities
Friday September 29
8:30pmDirector: Wim Wenders
1974 / 113min / DCP
The first of the road movies that would go on to make Wenders’s international reputation, Alice in the Cities criss-crosses the United States and Europe with Polaroid-snapping, emotionally isolated German journalist Rüdiger Vogler, whose fruitless…
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Saint Jack
Friday September 29
8:45pmDirector: Peter Bogdanovich
1979 / 112min / 35mm
A blue note character study of émigré life in Singapore that ranks among Bogdanovich’s finest films, this adaptation of Paul Theroux’s novel of the same name is anchored by Ben Gazzara’s wry and rueful performance as Jack Flowers, an American…
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To Live and Die in L.A.
Friday September 29
11:00pmDirector: William Friedkin
1985 / 116min / DCP
Adrenaline-junkie Secret Service agent William Petersen and partner John Pankow are looking to bring down Willem Dafoe’s funny money-making gallery sophisticate in “Hurricane Billy” Friedkin’s intense action opus—and they’ll even drive full…
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Down By Law
Friday September 29
11:15pmDirector: Jim Jarmusch
1986 / 107min / 35mm
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a radio DJ (Tom Waits), a small-time pimp (John Lurie), and an oblivious Italian (Roberto Benigni) meet in a New Orleans prison, and wind up on the lam in the bayou, the entire adventure shot in majestic…
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Three Sisters
Saturday September 30
12:30pmDirector: Wang Bing
2012 / 153min / DCP
Q&A with filmmaker Wang Bing on Saturday, September 30th, moderated by Herb Tam, curator at Museum of Chinese in America
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Bitter Money
Saturday September 30
4:00pmDirector: Wang Bing
2016 / 152min / DCP
Introduction from filmmaker Wang Bing on Saturday, September 30th
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Living the Light - Robby Müller
Saturday September 30
7:00pmDirector: Claire Pijman
2018 / 86min / DCP
Q&A with director, Claire Pijman, on Sunday, October 1st at 2:30pm
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The Squaw Man
Sunday October 1
2:20pmDirector: Cecil B. DeMille
1931 / 107min / 35mm
Introduction from series curator, Adam Piron, on Friday, September 22nd at 7:30pm
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Afterlife
Sunday October 1
5:00pmDirector: Hirokazu Kore-eda
1998 / 119min / DCP
In a spartan, institutional-looking building, 20 or so people arrive to be briefed by the supervising staff. The arrivals are recently deceased; the staff, it transpires, are tasked with helping them pinpoint the one moment in their lives that they would…
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The Wedding Banquet
Director: Ang Lee
1993 / 106min / 35mm
Before scaling Brokeback Mountain, Taiwanese American director Lee made this indie breakout about Wai Tung (Winston Chao, in his film debut), a gay man happily living in Manhattan with his partner who stages a sham marriage between himself and a penniless…
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Kings of the Road
Sunday October 1
9:00pmDirector: Wim Wenders
1976 / 175min / DCP
Two years after Kraftwerk’s Autobahn gave Germany’s highways a mythology to compete with those of the US, Wenders produced his country’s ultimate road movie, a rapturously melancholy travelog in black-and-white widescreen that rides along with a…
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Possession
Monday October 2
9:10pmDirector: Andrzej Żuławski
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. Presented in DCP 4K
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Close-Up
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
1990 / 98min / 35mm
A bizarre-yet-true news event that occurred in Tehran in the ’80s, in which an unemployed young man, Hossein Sabzian, impersonated famous director Mohsen Makhmalbaf and conned his way into a middle-class family’s home by convincing them they would be…
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More Than Ever
Director: Emily Atef
2022 / 123min / DCP
Q&A with Vicky Krieps and director Emily Atef in person on Friday, October 6th at 5:15p and Sunday, October 8th at 12:00pm
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Barfly
Friday October 6
6:00pmDirector: Barbet Schroeder
1987 / 100min / 35mm
Schroeder’s adaptation of cult author Charles Bukowski’s original screenplay, starring Mickey Rourke as the author’s perpetually pickled gutter poet alter ego Henry Chinaski, is very simply one of the most blearily beautiful depictions of Los…
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The Chambermaid Lynn
Friday October 6
8:15pmDirector: Ingo Haeb
2014 / 90min / DCP
Introduction and Q&A with Vicky Krieps on Sunday, October 8th at 6pm, moderated by filmmaker and film professor Christina Kallas
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When Pigs Fly
Friday October 6
8:30pmDirector: Sara Driver
1993 / 94min / DCP
Q&A with editor Jay Rabinowitz, ACE, director Sara Driver and Andrea Müller-Schirmer, moderated by Hillary Weston
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Paris, Texas
Director: Wim Wenders
1984 / 142min / 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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Mystery Train
Friday October 6
11:00pmDirector: Jim Jarmusch
1989 / 110min / 35mm
Jarmusch’s Memphis-set triptych tells the stories of foreigners in the birthplace of rock n’ roll: a young Japanese couple (Youki Kudoh and Masatoshi Nagase), a recently-widowed Italian woman (Nicoletta Braschi), and an Englishman (Joe Strummer), all…
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Bergman Island
Saturday October 7
12:00pmDirector: Mia Hansen-Løve
2021 / 112min / DCP
Introduction and Q&A with Vicky Krieps on Saturday, October 7th at 12pm, moderated by film programmer Nicholas Elliott
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Looney Tunes: All Bugs Bunny
Saturday October 7
12:10pmDirector: Chuck Jones, Robert McKimson
1953 / 60min / 35mm
Cartoons will be presented on rare 35mm and 16mm prints
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Extraits: Short Films by Rhayne Vermette
Saturday October 7
3:45pmDirector: Rhayne Vermette
2023 / 62min / DCP
Introduction and Q&A with filmmaker Rhayne Vermette on Saturday, October 7th at 3:45pm
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Skateboard: The Movie
Saturday October 7
6:00pmDirector: George Gage
1978 / 97min / DCP
Introduction and Q&A from director George Gage on Saturday, October 7th at 6pm
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Phantom Thread
Saturday October 7
10:45pmDirector: Paul Thomas Anderson
2017 / 130min / 35mm
“Marking her American debut, Krieps, whose talent had caught Anderson’s discerning eye in The Chambermaid Lynn, ignites the screen with an unforgettable breakthrough performance. Against the backdrop of 1950s London, the film centers on Reynolds…
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Hold Me Tight
Sunday October 8
3:15pmDirector: Matthieu Amalric
2021 / 97min / DCP
Introduction and Q&A with Vicky Krieps on Sunday, October 8th, moderated by film programmer Delphine Selles Alvarez
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Center Stage
Friday October 13
2:30pmDirector: 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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Boogie Nights
Friday October 13
3:15pmDirector: Paul Thomas Anderson
1997 / 155min / 35mm
The movie that irrefutably marked Anderson as a major talent, a filmmaker of élan, humor and heart, Boogie Nights follows horse-cocked picaro hero Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg) into the burgeoning 1970s adult film industry, following Dirk and the business…
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The Blue Angel
Friday October 13
5:30pmDirector: Josef Von Sternberg
1930 / 104min / 35mm
Mild-mannered, uptight schoolteacher Emil Jannings lives a faultlessly law-abiding, by-the-book existence, but it’s all over when he gets a glimpse of Dietrich’s nightclub chanteuse Lola Lola, and is immediately ready to ruin himself for her…
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Encore
Friday October 13
6:20pmDirector: Paul Vecchiali
1988 / 82min / DCP
“One of Vecchiali’s most moving and formally audacious films, Encore charts a decade in its protagonist’s life, each year visited in a virtuoso 10-minute long take, including a yet to be topped sequence moving on and off the trains of the Paris…
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Stage Fright
Friday October 13
7:45pmDirector: Alfred Hitchcock
1950 / 110min / DCP
Hitchcock’s last film in his native England until 1972’s Frenzy is an audaciously structured thriller, making use of an extended flashback and a whiplash narrative about-face. Acting student Jane Wyman tries to save beau Robert Todd from taking the…
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Friday October 13
8:15pmDirector: Jim Jarmusch
1999 / 116min / DCP
Forest Whitaker’s Ghost Dog isn’t your average Mafia hitman. He’s a devoted bibliophile, follows the samurai code as laid out in Yamamoto Tsunetomo’s Hagakure, and relaxes by tending to his pigeon coop, which you’d be wise not to mess with.
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The American Friend
Friday October 13
10:00pmDirector: Wim Wenders
1977 / 125min / DCP
Adapting Ripley’s Game, the third of Highsmith’s Tom Ripley novels, Wenders cast Dennis Hopper as his slippery lead, this time working on an art forgery scheme in Hamburg, where he meets Bruno Ganz’s terminally ill picture framer and seduces the…
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Repo Man
Friday October 13
10:45pmDirector: Alex Cox
1984 / 92min / 35mm
Hardcore kid delinquent Otto (Emilio Estevez) learns the ropes of car repossession from Helping Hands Acceptance Corporation veteran Bud (Harry Dean Stanton) in Cox’s cult comedy, which puts the duo on the trail of a 1964 Chevy Malibu driven by nuclear…
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Cette maison
Saturday October 14
4:00pmDirector: Miryam Charles
2022 / 75min / DCP
When a Bridgeport teenager is found hanged in her bedroom, all signs suggest the cause of death as suicide… until an autopsy report complicates that cut-and-dry narrative. Haitian Canadian filmmaker Charles draws on a tragedy that occurred in her own…
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Pride and Prejudice
Saturday October 14
5:30pmDirector: Joe Wright
2005 / 129min / 35mm
Jane Austen’s immortal classic of romantic intrigues among the Hertfordshire gentry gets a savvy shake-up in Wright’s feature filmmaking debut, which provided a star-making lead role to 20-year-old Keira Knightley, playing Elizabeth, the second of the…
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Korczak
Saturday October 14
5:45pmDirector: Andrzej Wajda
1990 / 118min / DCP
Working from a script by auteur Agnieszka Holland, Wajda depicts the tragic true story of Dr. Henryk Goldszmit, a beloved children’s writer and radio entertainer of the 1930s who, on witnessing kids from his Warsaw orphanage being shipped off to certain…
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Tale of Cinema
Saturday October 14
8:10pmDirector: Hong Sangsoo
2005 / 89min / DCP
A key work in the development of Hong’s mature style of expressive zooms, failed filmmakers, and bifurcated tales, acutely observed diptych Tale of Cinema begins by depicting an encounter between a young college student and a former flame which leads to…
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Cape Fear
Saturday October 14
10:40pmDirector: Martin Scorsese
1991 / 128min / 35mm
Scorsese’s baroque remake of J. Lee Thompson’s 1962 potboiler of the same name, about a defense lawyer terrorized by a former client, improves on its inspiration in almost every regard, not least in replacing Gregory Peck, as the original’s…
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Our House
Sunday October 15
7:30pmDirector: Yui Kiyohara
2017 / 80min / DCP
Insinuatingly atmospheric and proceeding with a chilling deliberation, Kiyohara’s assured directorial debut (praised by, among others, Kiyoshi Kurosawa) is comprised of two intwined stories set in the same single small home in a sleepy seaside town.…
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Downtown 81
Friday October 20
2:20pmDirector: Edo Bertoglio
2000 / 75min / DCP
A transmission from a bygone New York City, Downtown '81 follows Jean-Michel Basquiat on a journy through the underground.
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The Thin Red Line
Friday October 20
2:30pmDirector: Terrence Malick
1998 / 170min / 35mm
After a more than 20-year absence from cinema, Malick came roaring back with this sprawling, lyric adaptation of James Jones’s World War II novel of the same name, which follows an American platoon battling to take Guadalcanal from the entrenched…
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Heat (1963)
Friday October 20
4:00pmDirector: Larisa Shepitko
1963 / 75min / DCP
Shepitko was only 25 years old when she produced this, her astonishingly assured debut feature, based on a short story by young writer Chinghiz Aitmatov about the conflict between idealistic teenager Kemel and the domineering, tyrannical Abakir, living…
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24 Hour Party People
Friday October 20
5:45pmDirector: Michael Winterbottom
2002 / 117min / 35mm
Müller’s final full feature as a cinematographer finds him as eagerly innovative as at any point in his career, taking full advantage of the liberating qualities of shooting on digital to produce a movie that’s agile, unpredictable, and downright…
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Drugstore Romance
Friday October 20
8:10pmDirector: Paul Vecchiali
1979 / 126min / DCP
“A working-class neighborhood melodrama in which a pharmacist (played by perennial Vecchiali muse Hélène Surgère) becomes the amour fou object for a much younger mechanic (Nicolas Silberg). Dedicated to the great Jean Grémillon, this film is perhaps…
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Dead Man
Friday October 20
10:45pmDirector: Jim Jarmusch
1995 / 121min / DCP
Müller’s crisp, surreally lucid black-and-white photography and Neil Young’s beautifully damaged electric guitar score are but two of the standout elements that make up Jarmusch’s sui generis, visionary Western, in which timid accountant William…
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Perfect Blue
Friday October 20
11:30pmDirector: 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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Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Funny Phantoms
Saturday October 21
12:00pm2023 / 60min / 16mm
Curator Tommy José Stathes joins Metrograph in late October with Funny Phantoms, a selection of vintage cartoon films that are just what Dr. Frankenstein ordered for the Halloween season. Come enjoy a fabulous frog’s run-in with the Grim Reaper, an…
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The Ascent
Saturday October 21
12:30pmDirector: Larisa Shepitko
1977 / 111min / DCP
The bloodthirsty and seemingly unstoppable Nazi war machine is on the march towards Moscow in Shepitko’s wrenching, snow-swept World War II drama, which begins with two Soviet peasant soldiers foraging for food in a Belarusian village and proceeds to…
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Breaking the Waves
Saturday October 21
2:00pmDirector: Lars Von Trier
1996 / 159min / 35mm
Von Trier’s international breakthrough gave Emily Watson the role of a lifetime as Bess, a deeply religious newlywed living in the Scottish Highlands faced with an impossible decision when her husband, paralyzed in a work-related accident, asks her to…
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Hulk
Saturday October 21
5:15pmDirector: Ang Lee
2003 / 138min / 35mm
Before the formula for “superhero movie” was codified to produce a never-ending stream of lookalike, soundalike slop there was Lee’s Hulk, an experiment in style employing eye-popping color, frag grenade split-screen effects, and dynamic…
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Rabbit à la Berlin
Saturday October 21
5:30pmDirector: Bartosz Konopka
2009 / 85min / DCP
For 28 years, from the erection of the Berlin Wall to its razing in 1989, a population of wild rabbits lived and thrived, unmolested, in the strip of dreaded Death Zone that separated East Berlin from West. With this stylish, fable-like nature…
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Warrior
Saturday October 21
7:45pmDirector: Gavin O'Connor
2011 / 140min / DCP
Nolte received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his work in O’Connor’s genuinely heartbreaking masculine melodrama, featuring Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton as estranged MMA fighter brothers on a collision course track to meet in…
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The Strangler
Saturday October 21
8:40pmDirector: Paul Vecchiali
1970 / 93min / DCP
Vecchiali’s third feature and first masterpiece, The Strangler was produced not by him but by its star, Jacques Perrin—perhaps best known as the love-struck sailor of Demy’s The Young Girls of Rochefort. In one of the most idiosyncratic serial…
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Godard: 60s Shorts
Monday November 20
12:00pm2019 / 60min
LE NOUVEAU MONDE (THE NEW WORLD), 1963 / 20 mins / 35mm LA PARESSE (SLOTH), 1961 / 15 mins / 35mm LE GRAND ESCROQ (THE GREAT SWINDLE), 1963 / 25 mins / 35mm
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