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Hail, Caesar!

Director: 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

Director: 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

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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Hana-bi

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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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Eskimo

Director: W.S. Van Dyke

1933 / 117min / 16mm

Introduction from series curator, Adam Piron, on Saturday, September 23rd at 4:30pm

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Blow-Up

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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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Massacre

Director: Alan Crosland

1934 / 70min / DCP

Introduction from series curator, Adam Piron, on Sunday, September 24th at 6:30pm

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Cinema Paradiso

Director: 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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Barcelona

Director: Whit Stillman

1994 / 101min / 35mm

Director Whit Stillman in attendance for a Q&A on Sunday, September 10th, moderated by Nick Pinkerton

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Minari

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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.

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: Wang Bing

2016 / 152min / DCP

Introduction from filmmaker Wang Bing on Saturday, September 30th

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Living the Light - Robby Müller

Director: 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

Director: Cecil B. DeMille

1931 / 107min / 35mm

Introduction from series curator, Adam Piron, on Friday, September 22nd at 7:30pm

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Afterlife

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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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Corsage

Director: Marie Kreutzer

2022 / 114min / DCP

Introduction and Q&A with Vicky Krieps on Saturday, October 7th at 3pm, moderated by film critic Ryan Coleman

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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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: Chuck Jones, Robert McKimson

1953 / 60min / 35mm

Cartoons will be presented on rare 35mm and 16mm prints

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Ste. Anne

Director: Rhayne Vermette

2021 / 80min / DCP

Introduction and Q&A with filmmaker Rhayne Vermette on Saturday, October 7th at 1:30pm and Sunday, October 8th at 5:45pm.

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Extraits: Short Films by Rhayne Vermette

Director: 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

Director: 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

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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Hold Me Tight

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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)

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

2023 / 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

Director: 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

2019 / 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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