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The Abyss: Special Edition

Director: James Cameron

1989 / 171min / DCP

Before he re-sank the RMS Titanic and staged grand naval battles in the oceans of Pandora, James Cameron stared into The Abyss in this film steeped in the frightful fascination of the world beneath the waves, about a civilian diving team, led by Ed Harris…

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The Rules of the Game

Director: Jean Renoir

1939 / 110min / DCP

A weekend retreat at a marquis’ country château sets the stage for romantic intrigues and, eventually, murder, in this exacting autopsy of the French bourgeoisie and their servants—the former elegantly costumed by Chanel founder Gabrielle…

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The Tenant

Director: Roman Polanski

1976 / 126min / 35mm

Hell is other people—specifically, one’s neighbors—in Polanski’s aria of urban anomie and psychological persecution, starring the director himself as a Polish-born file clerk who takes over a Paris apartment following the suicide of its previous…

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Audition

Director: Takashi Miike

1999 / 115min / 35mm

Among the great bait-and-switch acts of film history, Miike’s masterwork begins as a reserved, melancholy, almost Ozu-esque study of a lonely widower (Ryo Ishibashi) and his desperate attempts to find a new romantic partner, then turns into… something…

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ASC Presents: The Painted Veil

Director: John Curran

2006 / 125min / 35mm

Introduction and Q&A with cinematographer Stuart Dryburgh on Friday, December 8th

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Talk to Her

Director: Pedro Almodóvar

2002 / 112min / DCP

A travel writer’s burgeoning relationship with a famed female matador is violently interrupted when she falls into a coma after a bullring tragedy, and while waiting at her hospital bedside, he meets a male nurse keeping a similar vigil over a comatose…

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Fight Club

Director: David Fincher

1999 / 139min / DCP

Strange as it may seem, a quarter century ago a major American studio was willing to finance a movie that proposed that blowing up the corporate headquarters of credit card companies might in fact be a very good thing. Fight Club, Fincher’s bravura…

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Strange Days

Director: Kathryn Bigelow

1995 / 145min / 35mm

Bigelow followed the blockbuster success of Point Break with this cyberpunk noir, a box-office disappointment that would attract a new generation of admirers with its high-style approach to a prescient script involving police violence, hip-hop prophets,…

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Breakfast at Tiffany's

Director: Blake Edwards

1961 / 115min / 35mm

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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The Haunting

Director: Robert Wise

1963 / 112min / 35mm

The “Old Dark House” setting, a staple of Gothic fiction, was given a new lease on life in this harrowing cinematic dark ride by former Val Lewton director Wise, adapting Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House. An ingenious work of…

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Vanilla Sky

Director: Cameron Crowe

2001 / 136min / DCP

Back when Tom Cruise was still willing to venture away from tried-and-true tentpole properties he re-teamed with Jerry Maguire writer-director Crowe to made one of the wildest and wooliest films of his career, a fever dream remake of Alejandro…

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eXistenZ

Director: David Cronenberg

1999 / 97min / 35mm

Cronenberg has never exactly worked in the register of naturalism, and his just-off, uncanny valley style fits this immersive virtual reality thriller like an UmbyCord in a bio-port. Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jude Law co-star in a mindbending sort-of…

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Friends and Strangers

Director: James Vaughan

2021 / 81min / DCP

Ray and Alice (Fergus Wilson and Emma Diaz), two Australian twentysomethings living cushioned, comfortable lives in affluent Sydney, don’t have any real problems, and that’s their problem. This non-dilemma becomes fodder for wry, incisive comedy of…

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Avant-Garde Midlengths on 16mm: Journeys

Director: Heather McAdams, Ron Rice, Patricia Sloane

1962 / 82min / 16mm

A collection of midlength masterpieces of the American avant-garde projected on the medium that they were made on: grand, grainy 16mm. Bringing together Senseless, Ron Rice’s ecstatic Beat Generation document of a footloose trek down to Mexico; Heather…

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Taste of Cherry

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

1997 / 99min / 35mm

Kiarostami’s spare but emotionally complex road movie accompanies middle-aged Mr. Badii (Homayoun Ershadi) as he drives through the hilly outskirts of Tehran, searching for someone to rescue or bury him. Along the way, he picks up three passengers, all…

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Paris Was a Woman

Director: Greta Schiller

1996 / 75min / 16mm

Introduction and Q&A with filmmaker Greta Schiller and writer Andrea Weiss, moderated by filmmaker Su Friedrich, on Sunday, December 10th

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The Old Oak

Director: Ken Loach

2023 / 113min / DCP

The last remaining pub in a mining village in northern England which has seen better days lends its name to the latest from Loach, announced as his final film, which observes the tensions that arise between the town’s old residents and its latest…

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Duet for Cannibals

Director: Susan Sontag

2019 / 105min / DCP

In the late ’60s, a Swedish studio invited essayist, novelist, critic, cinephile, and all-around intellectual dynamo Susan Sontag to make her directorial debut in Stockholm. The resulting film, revolving around the quadrangular relationship between an…

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Once Within a Time

Director: Godfrey Reggio

2023 / 52min / DCP

Q&A with editor and co-director Jon Kane, moderated by Michael Taylor, ACE, on Monday, December 4th

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In Water + The Daughters of Fire

Director: Pedro Costa, Hong Sangsoo

2023 / 70min / DCP

A film crew assemble for a shoot on Jeju Island in wintery off-season—and professional and personal conflicts simmer—in Hong’s latest finely detailed, piquantly melancholic study of the interweaving of art and life, which finds the ever-innovative…

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The Florida Project

Director: Sean Baker

2017 / 111min / 35mm

Introduction from Willem Dafoe on Thursday, December 7th

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Cool Hand Luke

Director: Stuart Rosenberg

1967 / 127min / 35mm

The story of Luke Jackson (Paul Newman), an inmate at a tough-as-nails Southern jail who gains the respect of his fellows on the chain gang thanks to his unflappable demeanor and refusal to bow to the authority of warden Strother Martin, struck a chord…

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Paterson

Director: Jim Jarmusch

2016 / 118min / DCP

Jarmusch followed his Only Lovers Left Alive with a very different imagining of domestic harmony; his sweetly mellow Paterson being a film that concerns itself with the quotidian patterns of the life shared in the New Jersey burg of the title by Adam…

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Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog

Director: Yôichi Sai

2004 / 100min / 35mm

A fiction film made with a minute, documentary-like attention to process, this absorbing, unsentimental, lucidly told drama tells the life story of a yellow Labrador Retriever from his puppyhood, when he is earmarked for training as a guide dog for the…

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The Great Gatsby

Director: Baz Luhrman

2013 / 143min / 35mm

Luhrmann’s lavish adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s beloved novel of Jazz Age excess is as over-the-top as West Egg party boy Jay Gatsby—played by a goldenly glowing Leonardo DiCaprio—himself. Acting as both one of the film’s producers and its…

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Georgy Girl

Director: Silvio Narizzano

1966 / 99min / 35mm

Lynn Redgrave vaulted to stardom in her Oscar-nominated role as Georgina “Georgy” Parkin, a virginal 22-year-old wholly out-of-step with the changing mores of Swinging London who finds herself in a dilly of a pickle when she’s pursued by both the…

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The Insider

Director: Michael Mann

1999 / 157min / 35mm

Mann’s white-knuckle drama of white-collar whistleblowing and callous corporate skullduggery stars Russell Crowe as a tobacco industry research scientist Dr. Jeffrey Wigand and Heat star Al Pacino as the 60 Minutes producer desperate to get the good…

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Highlights from Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces

Director: Multiple Dirs

2023 / 90min / DCP

Palm Sunday, dir. Wes Goodrich …

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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Director: Wes Anderson

2004 / 119min / DCP

After hinting at his Jacques Cousteau obsession in 1998’s Rushmore, Anderson dove into it head-first in this mordant, magical comedy about egomaniacal, Campari-swilling celebrity oceanographer Zissou (Bill Murray), leading the crew of the good ship…

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Bringing Out the Dead

Director: Martin Scorsese

1999 / 121min / 35mm

Scorsese’s last film set in contemporary New York City—and his last collaboration with Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader—is a Dantean journey across nocturnal Manhattan starring Nicolas Cage as a night-shift paramedic and self-described…

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About Elly

Director: Asghar Farhadi

2009 / 119min / DCP

Nine affluent Iranian former college classmates’ holiday weekend visit to the Caspian Sea takes an unnerving turn when one of the party, Elly, disappears without a trace in this enigmatic, Antonioni-esque thriller from A Separation director Farhadi,…

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Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Happy Endings

2023 / 60min / 16mm

Introduction and Q&A with animation historian Tommy José Stathes on December 16th

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Invention for Destruction

Director: Karel Zeman

1958 / 84min / DCP

Retro-futurist Czech fantasist Zeman, who counts Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson among his many admirers, took on the work of science fiction pioneer Jules Verne for the third time in this giddily, gorgeous undersea adventure film whose singular and…

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The Hole

Director: Tsai Ming-liang

1998 / 95min / 35mm

It’s the close of the millennium and Taipei has emptied out with the onset of a mysterious virus, but Lee Kang-sheng and Yang Kuei-mei lag behind among the ruins, where it doesn’t seem like there’s really much world to end, but maybe a last chance…

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Leaving Las Vegas

Director: Mike Figgis

1995 / 112min / 35mm

In Las Vegas on a mission to drink himself into the afterlife, recently unemployed alcoholic screenwriter Nicolas Cage finds a measure of succor in his relationship with sympathetic sex worker Elisabeth Shue—styled by Vivienne Westwood—in Figgis’s…

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Favorites & Deep Cuts #1 from Filmmaker Magazine

Director: Multiple Dirs

2007 / 90min / DCP

According to… dir. Kevin Jerome Everson …

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Pacifiction

Director: Albert Serra

2020 / 165min / DCP

Catalan filmmaker Serra’s mesmerizing portrait of a French bureaucrat’s (Benoît Magimel) visit to a French Polynesian island charts the various uneasy relationships that develop between his autocratic yet avuncular High Commissioner and the…

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Favorites & Deep Cuts #2 from Filmmaker Magazine

Director: Multiple Dirs

2004 / 90min / DCP

Nicole, dir. Edy Modica …

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Diamantino

Director: Daniel Schmidt, Gabriel Abrantes

2019 / 92min / DCP

Alone or in collaboration with one another or other like-minded collaborators, over the last several years directors Abrantes and Schmidt have created some of the most hysterically deranged short films out there, and their feature debut doesn’t…

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Beau Travail

Director: Claire Denis

1999 / 92min / DCP

Military drills take on the aspect of sacred pagan rites in Denis’s breathtaking, sun-struck study of men (almost) without women, a loose reworking of Melville (and Benjamin Britten’s) Billy Budd set in Djibouti amidst a French Foreign Legion…

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The Shop Around the Corner

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

1940 / 97min / DCP

Christmas is coming, and at Matuschek’s department store in Budapest—or, rather, a charming, snowbound Hollywood studio evocation of the city in its prewar splendor—the employees are bracing for the holiday rush. But that’s the least of the drama…

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Time and Tide

Director: Tsui Hark

2000 / 113min / 35mm

Back in Hong Kong after taking his shot at conquering Hollywood, Tsui returned home with both barrels blazing, producing this high-strung action melodrama about a cash-strapped expectant father (Nicholas Tse) who joins the bodyguard service of his uncle…

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Shirin

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

2008 / 92min / DCP

Golshifteh Farahani is one among hundreds of actresses—including the elite of Iranian cinema and Juliette Binoche—to appear in Kiarostami’s extraordinary cinematic experiment, which focuses on women spectators in close-up as they watch, offscreen, a…

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The Circle

Director: Jafar Panahi

2000 / 90min / 35mm

Winner of the Golden Lion at Venice and banned in Iran, dissident director Panahi’s shattering drama brings together the stories of several women—two escaped convicts, a girl in need of an abortion, the new mother of a baby girl—to make the…

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Chicken with Plums

Director: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud

2011 / 93min / DCP

Satrapi adapted her own graphic novel of the same name for her live-action follow-up to 2007 animated breakthrough Persepolis, a beautifully detailed, tonally eclectic evocation of the disappeared world of the Persian middle class from the 1950s to the…

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Funny Games

Director: Michael Haneke

1997 / 111min / 35mm

Austrian provocateur Haneke’s original squirm-inducing, audience-indicting home invasion thriller, shot by the great German cinematographer Jürgen Jürges, unforgettably places captive couple Anne (Susanne Lothar) and Georg (Ulrich Mühe), together…

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Made in Hong Kong

Director: Fruit Chan

1997 / 108min / DCP

Fruit Chan’s atmospheric shoestring-budget character study is a rough-and-ready piece of work shot on grainy leftover 35mm short ends in the city’s overcrowded subsidized

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Being John Malkovich

Director: Spike Jonze

1999 / 113min / 35mm

The auspicious feature film debut of both visionary music-video director Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is a frazzled fantasy gut-buster, set into motion when puppeteer Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) lands a corporate job at the mysterious…

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Possession

Director: Andrzej Żuławski

1981 / 124min

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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The Muppet Christmas Carol

Director: Brian Henson

1992 / 85min / DCP

Michael Caine’s Cockney Ebenezer Scrooge has his eyes opened to the true meaning of Christmas in Henson’s moving musical retelling of Dickens’s immortal novella, featuring songs by Paul Williams, Kermit the Frog in the role of Bob Cratchit, a…

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All Dogs Go to Heaven

Director: Don Bluth

1989 / 84min / 35mm

Former Disney animator Bluth’s fourth feature for his breakaway animation studio, following the runaway success of their An American Tail, was the delightful musical fantasy concerning Charlie B. Barkin (voiced by Burt Reynolds), a career con man German…

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2046

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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Three Wishes for Cinderella

Director: Václav Vorlíček

1973 / 83min / DCP

A Yuletide classic from the Eastern Bloc, Vorlíček’s Czechoslovak-East German co-production is a mischievous and thoroughly charming re-telling of the familiar Cinderella story which has the same cult cache in much of continental Europe that Frank…

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Fanny and Alexander

Director: Ingmar Bergman

1982 / 188min / 35mm

Spend the Christmas Eve of 1907—and the aftermath of the sumptuous celebration—at the Ekdahl family home, as seen through the eyes of two of the massive clan’s smallest members, played by Pernilla Allwin and Bertil Guve, in Bergman’s intimate epic…

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Carol in 35mm

Director: Todd Haynes

2016 / 118min / 35mm

A Metrograph holiday tradition, back by popular demand. It starts at Frankenberg’s department store, and an exchange of glances between Carol and the girl behind the counter (Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, both sublime), a look that tangles up…

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Cronos

Director: Guillermo del Toro

1992 / 94min / DCP

Del Toro’s feature debut—and his first collaboration with actor Ron Perlman—stars Perlman as the thuggish nephew of a wealthy industrialist whose uncle has set him on the scent of antiques dealer Jesús (Federico Luppi), discoverer of a…

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Pola X

Director: Leos Carax

1999 / 134min / 35mm

Carax takes on Herman Melville’s most challenging (and virtually career-killing) novel, Pierre; or the Ambiguities, in this mournful full-blooded melodrama starring Guillaume Depardieu as a fashionable and well-off novelist who takes a headfirst plunge…

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Isle of Dogs

Director: Wes Anderson

2018 / 101min / DCP

In a dystopian Japan, 20 years in the future, all the canine pets of Megasaki City have been rounded-up after an outbreak of Dog-Flu and exiled to a massive garbage dump called Trash Island. A 12-year old boy named Atari journeys to the crumbling kingdom…

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Millennium Mambo

Director: Hou Hsiao Hsien

2001 / 107min / DCP

A stylish and seductive submersion into the techno-scored neon nightlife of Taipei, Hou’s much-misunderstood marvel stars Shu Qi (The Assassin) as an aimless bar hostess drifting away from her blowhard boyfriend and towards Jack Kao’s suave, sensitive…

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Carol

Director: Todd Haynes

2016 / 118min / DCP

A Metrograph holiday tradition, back by popular demand. It starts at Frankenberg’s department store, and an exchange of glances between Carol and the girl behind the counter (Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, both sublime), a look that tangles up…

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A Tale of Winter

Director: Éric Rohmer

1992 / 114min

This second film in its director’s “Tales of the Four Seasons” draws inspiration from Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, while boasting of a grace and plainspoken beauty, and a reconciliation of philosophy and feeling, that belong to Rohmer alone.…

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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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Phantom Thread

Director: 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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Office Space

Director: Mike Judge

1999 / 89min / DCP

A household name thanks to the runaway success of MTV’s Beavis and Butthead, Judge made the leap into live-action filmmaking with this cult comedy of white-collar alienation, inspired by his 1991 animated short. Cubicle jockey Peter (Ron Livingston)…

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Magnolia

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

1999 / 188min / 35mm

A movie of unchecked, cosmic ambitions and desperate emotional eruptions, Anderson’s magnum opus takes place during an eventful day in the life of the San Fernando Valley, as viewed through the interlocked stories of an ensemble that includes two aging,…

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The Truman Show

Director: Peter Weir

1998 / 103min / DCP

In the 30th year of his perfectly unremarkable life in the perfectly unremarkable community of Seahaven Island, Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) begins to notice some small tears in the fabric of his everyday reality—a reality that is in fact an elaborate…

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Spacked Out

Director: Lawrence Lau

2000 / 91min / DCP

Set in the massive, crumbling urban developments in Hong Kong’s New Territories with a combination of trained actors and nonprofessionals, Spacked Out depicts a few tumultuous days in the lives of four schoolgirls, filled with desultory mall outings,…

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In Bruges

Director: Martin McDonagh

2008 / 107min / 35mm

In the fairy-tale medieval city of Bruges, Belgium, two London-based Irish hitmen, Ray and Ken (Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson) take in the sights, reflect on missions past, and await their next assignment—an unexpected and unwelcome surprise. Making…

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Eyes Wide Shut

Director: 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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Infernal Affairs

Director: Andrew Lau, Alan Mak

2002 / 101min / DCP

While police cadet Tony Leung is recruited by department superintendent Anthony Wong to go undercover in a triad gang, triad gangster Andy Lau is making his way into the police force in order to serve the interests of the underworld—and with this…

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American Beauty

Director: Sam Mendes

1999 / 122min / 35mm

Perhaps the most universally praised American film of 1999, Mendes’s blistering black comedy is a both-barrels broadside directed as smothering suburban mores, starring Kevin Spacey as 42-year-old burnout Lester Burnham, whose midlife meltdown—and…

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The Double Life of Veronique

Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski

1991 / 98min / DCP

The film that introduced Kieślowski to an international audience, metaphysical mystery The Double Life of Véronique features an extraordinary Irène Jacob in a double role, playing Weronika, a soprano in a Polish choir, and Véronique, a French music…

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