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Kes
Thursday February 9
4:30pmDirector: Ken Loach
1969 / 111min / 35mm
Born into a working-class family and living in a dead-end coal mining town where his daily life consists of merciless bullying and his future doesn’t look much better, 15-year-old Billy (David Bradley) finds a secret source of joy when, one day, he…
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A Fistful Of Dollars
Thursday February 9
5:00pmDirector: Sergio Leone
1964 / 96min / DCP
With this blackly comic, cynical, dust-choked movie, Leone revolutionized the quintessentially American western genre from his native Italy, established “Man with No Name” star Clint Eastwood as a taciturn, sculptural screen icon, and launched a…
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Thursday February 9
7:00pmDirector: Robert Altman
1971 / 120min / 35mm
Hailed by critic Pauline Kael as “a beautiful pipe dream of a movie,” Altman’s snowbound Western sets its scene in the ramshackle Washington State town of Presbyterian, where wandering gambler Warren Beatty decides to stick around after striking up…
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Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Thursday February 9
7:15pmDirector: David Lowery
2013 / 96min / DCP
A lyrical outlaw tale set at an unspecified point in the years between Kennedy and Reagan, Lowery’s sophomore feature follows an escaped con (Casey Affleck) on a journey across the Texas backroads in hopes of reuniting with his lover and…
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Yojimbo
Thursday February 9
9:20pmDirector: Akira Kurasawa
1961 / 110min / 35mm
Inspired by Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett’s classic of American hard-boiled crime fiction, and itself the inspiration for Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars, Kurosawa’s thrilling, jauntily pessimistic chambara is a beautiful example of the creative…
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Possession
Thursday February 9
9:30pm1981 / 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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Once Upon A Time In The West
Friday February 10
2:15pmDirector: Sergio Leone
1968 / 164min / DCP
Along with dream team collaborators Leone and Bernardo Bertolucci, Argento is credited with the story for this epic oater, a sort of link between the established spaghetti western and the rising giallo, both genres defined by their elaborate and sometimes…
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The Learning Tree
Friday February 10
2:30pmDirector: Gordon Parks
2023 / 107min / DCP
Extended intro from series curator Brandon Harris 8pm Saturday February 11
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Meek's Cutoff
Director: Kelly Reichardt
2010 / 104min / DCP
Q&A with director Kelly Reichardt in person moderated by Ed Halter on February 11th at 7:15pm
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The Quay Brothers in 35mm
Friday February 10
5:30pmDirector: Timothy Quay, Stephen Quay, Christopher Nolan
2023 / 66min / 35mm
A program of three films by the Pennsylvania-born, UK-based identical twin filmmakers Stephen and Timothy Quay, made up of 1986’s Street of Crocodiles, 1991’s The Comb, and 2000’s In Absentia, was curated as a touring package by admirer Christopher…
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Passing Through
Friday February 10
7:10pmDirector: Larry Clark
1977 / 105min / DCP
With video introduction by director Larry Clark especially recorded for this series and moderated by series curator Brandon Harris
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The Yards
Friday February 10
7:15pmDirector: James Gray
2000 / 115min / 35mm
Sunnyside Yards, that is—the scene of a murder that threatens to topple a Queens dynasty. Mark Wahlberg is a small-time con fresh out of prison when he hooks up with his commuter rail contractor uncle James Caan, heir-apparent cousin Charlize Theron,…
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The Love Witch with Costume Contest & Reception
Friday February 10
9:30pmDirector: Anna Biller
2016 / 120min / 35mm
Channel your inner witch and sip magical potions in our lobby bar prior to a screening of The Love Witch. Come dressed to impress to win The Love Witch costume competitio
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A Most Violent Year
Director: J. C. Chandor
2014 / 125min / DCP
In c. 1981 Greenpoint, Brooklyn would-be heating-oil magnate Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac), seeing his bottom threatened by a rash of truck hijackings seemingly ordered by competitors, has to decide if he’s more afraid of escalating the violence through…
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Kwaidan
Saturday February 11
1:00pmDirector: Masaki Kobayashi
1965 / 183min / 35mm
Polygamist Rentarō Mikuni gets a visit from a skeleton; Tatsuya Nakadai’s meeting with a mysterious woman whilst walking through the snow takes a turn for the uncanny; a blind biwa player finds himself performing for supernatural audience; a man…
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La Dolce Vita
Saturday February 11
4:30pmDirector: Federico Fellini
1960 / 170min / DCP
Marcello Mastroianni’s tabloid journalist, the central character in Fellini’s teeming, carnivalesque depiction of bacchanalia among the culturati of c.1960 AD Rome, is handsome, stylish, a hit with the ladies, and enjoys an open invite to every hip…
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Sword of Doom
Saturday February 11
4:45pmDirector: Kihachi Okamoto
1966 / 121min / 35mm
The legendary Tatsuya Nakadai, so memorably vanquished by Toshiro Mifune at the climax of Akira Kurosawa’s Sanjuro, has one of his signature chambara roles as Ryunosuke, an amoral drifting ronin who sells his blade to the highest bidder, and does a…
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Arrival
Saturday February 11
9:50pmDirector: Denis Villeneuve
2016 / 116min / DCP
Twelve spacecraft have suddenly appeared hovering in the skies over scattered locations around the Earth, prompting nervous military and government leaders to wonder what they have to hope—or fear—from these unexpected visitors. The too-rare modern…
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The Love Witch
Sunday February 12
7:00pmDirector: Anna Biller
2016 / 120min / 35mm
The densely brocaded and bedazzled look of Biller’s years-in-the-making The Love Witch were the result of the writer/director/designer sewing costumes and digging through salvage stores for props to fill elaborate sets, and that tireless dedication…
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Lost In Translation
Monday February 13
7:00pmDirector: Sofia Coppola
2003 / 102min / 35mm
The sleeper arthouse hit of the early 2000s, Coppola’s sophomore feature, about the not-quite-romance between two Americans abroad—a washed-up, middle-aged actor (Bill Murray) and an unhappily married recent college graduate (Scarlett Johansson), both…
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The Lobster
Tuesday February 14
2:00pmDirector: Yorgos Lanthimos
2015 / 119min / DCP
Set in a near-future in which coupledom has been made mandatory past a certain age, Lanthimos’s high-concept absurdist tragicomedy opens with recently divorcé David (a grimly funny Colin Farrell) arriving at a seaside resort/prison where singles are…
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Happy Together
Tuesday February 14
4:45pmDirector: Wong Kar-wai
1997 / 96min / DCP
Hong Kong cinema superstars Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung play a pair of lovers living out the waning days of their relationship as expatriates in Buenos Aires. Lusty tango bars, the salsa music of the La Boca sidewalks, and a hypnotic visit to the nearby…
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Romeo + Juliet
Tuesday February 14
5:00pmDirector: Baz Luhrman
1996 / 120min / DCP
Luhrmann’s adrenalized, florid, flash-bang adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy, featuring Teen Beat-heartthrob-era Leonardo DiCaprio and a fresh from My So-Called Life Claire Danes in the title roles, lays its scene in a present-day “Verona Beach”…
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In the Mood for Love
Tuesday February 14
7:30pmDirector: Wong Kar-wai
2000 / 98min / DCP
Wong’s arthouse smash is the very simple tale of two people in early ’60s Hong Kong, Mr. Chow (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai) and Mrs. Chen (Maggie Cheung), drawn to one another by the discovery that their spouses are getting together on the side. A little…
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Memoria
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2021 / 136min / 35mm
Few filmmakers have so closely tied their work to one region as Apichatpong has to the rural northeast of his native Thailand, but in Memoria, the writer-director plunges into new territory, filming in Colombia’s city streets and mountain-top villages…
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Native Son
Friday February 17
4:50pmDirector: Pierre Chenal
1951 / 108min / DCP
“Richard Wright’s 1940 novel Native Son was a literary sensation, but one Hollywood wouldn’t dare touch—the studio system didn’t tell black stories from black perspectives, or employ the likes of Micheaux or Williams (and, in the latter case,…
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Lives of Performers
Friday February 17
7:00pmDirector: Yvonne Rainer
1972 / 90min / DCP
Rainer’s debut feature film announced both her shift from the world of dance towards avant-garde cinema, and what would become a career-long interest in “women’s stories” and the teasing machinations of melodrama. The familiar tale of a man who…
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Film About a Woman Who...
Friday February 17
9:20pmDirector: Yvonne Rainer
1974 / 90min / DCP
Picking up where Lives of Performers left off, Rainer’s second, landmark feature tells the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger, with Rainer needling at questions raised by contemporary feminism about the relationship…
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The Wolf House
Director: Cristóbal León , Joaquín Cociña
2018 / 78min / DCP
A fraught fever dream of a fairy tale from Chile inspired in part by the nightmarish goings-on at the Pinochet regime’s “Colonia Dignidad” torture colony, The Wolf House is something like a Little Red Riding Hood narrated by the wolf, an…
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The Tale of Zatoichi
Saturday February 18
3:45pmDirector: Kenji Misumi
1962 / 96min / DCP
The film that introduced Shintaro Katsu in the role of the humble-hearted blind masseur/swordsman Zatoichi, which he would go on to reprise in 25 more films (!) and a four-season television series, begins with a war brewing between two yakuza clans, and…
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Harakiri
Saturday February 18
4:00pmDirector: Masaki Kobayashi
1962 / 133min / 35mm
In an Edo period Japan where disease and poverty are everywhere, a wandering ronin, Tsugumo (Tatsuya Nakadai), arrives at the castle of one Lord Iyi with a simple request: permission to commit seppuku (ritual suicide) in the courtyard. Reuniting with…
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Kristina Talking Pictures
Saturday February 18
6:00pmDirector: Yvonne Rainer
1976 / 90min / DCP
Namechecking both Virginia Woolf and Jean-Luc Godard in the film’s opening segment, Rainer continues to experiment in her elegiac, hybrid third feature with unshackling narrative from conventional representation, using the paradoxical feminine figure of…
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Journeys From Berlin
Sunday February 19
5:45pmDirector: Yvonne Rainer
1980 / 125min / DCP
Rainer’s fourth feature, inspired by her experiences living in West Berlin in 1976 and ’77, when the activities of right-wing terrorists were at their height, offers an audacious, collage-like meditation on state power, repression, violence, and…
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Friday February 24
3:00pmDirector: Pedro Almodóvar
1988 / 88min / 35mm
Abandoned by her lover, voice actress Pepa (repeat Almodóvar collaborator Carmen Maura), has resolved to kill herself by downing a batch of gazpacho laced with sleeping pills—and that’s just the start of the orgy of unhinged behavior that makes up…
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
Friday February 24
3:15pmDirector: Kenji Misumi
1972 / 84min / DCP
The first of six films in the Lone Wolf and Cub series, based on a popular Edo period-set manga and produced by Zatoichi series star Shintaro Katsu, Sword of Vengeance introduces Tomisaburo Wakayama in the role of Ogami Itto, the shogun’s disgraced…
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The Housemaid
Friday February 24
5:00pmDirector: Kim Ki-Young
1960 / 108min / DCP
Cited by Bong Joon-ho as an inspiration on his Parasite and widely regarded by South Korean cinephiles and scholars as one of the country’s greatest films, The Housemaid can now be discovered by the rest of the world thanks to a restoration by the…
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart and the River Styx
Friday February 24
5:10pmDirector: Kenji Misumi
1972 / 81min / DCP
Released in Japan only three months after Sword of Vengeance, the second Lone Wolf and Cub film finds Tomisaburo Wakayama’s stone-faced Ogami Itto continuing his grudgeful campaign against his foes in the Shadow Yagyū clan, with ninja spies, fierce…
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ACE presents: The Farewell
Friday February 24
7:00pmDirector: Lulu Wang
2019 / 100min / DCP
Q&A with editor Michael Taylor, A.C.E.
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Goryeojang
Friday February 24
7:15pmDirector: Kim Ki-Young
1963 / 90min / DCP
The title of Kim’s film, set during Korea’s Goryeo Dynasty, refers to an ancient custom that called upon one to carry one’s parents into the mountains and abandon them there once they’d reached the age of 70. A man’s struggle to decide between…
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Caché
Friday February 24
9:15pmDirector: Michael Haneke
2005 / 118min / 35mm
Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil play a married Parisian couple living in the lap of bourgeois comfort in Haneke’s slow-burn psychodrama—and this being a Haneke film, that comfort doesn’t last for long. Their coddled existence is soon disturbed…
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Blue Velvet
Friday February 24
9:30pmDirector: David Lynch
1986 / 120min / DCP
The chance discovery of a severed human ear lying in a field inspires Kyle MacLachlan’s wholesome, all-American protagonist to try his hand at amateur sleuthing, and sets him off on a journey that will introduce him to bruised beauty Isabella Rossellini…
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The Man Who Envied Women
Saturday February 25
1:30pmDirector: Yvonne Rainer
1985 / 125min / DCP
The Man Who Envied Women sees Rainer, in her own words, “throw down the gauntlet to psychoanalytic feminist film theory,” interrogating and responding to contemporary debates over notions such as the male gaze with a drolly provocative hybrid essay…
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Jaws
Saturday February 25
2:00pmDirector: Steven Spielberg
1975 / 123min / 35mm
The massive popular success of Jaws may have ushered in the era of the “summer blockbuster” as we know it now, but Spielberg’s adaptation of Peter Benchley’s bestseller about a man-eating great white shark menacing the beaches of a New England…
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Hellbound Train / The Blood of Jesus
Saturday February 25
4:15pmDirector: Eloyce Gist , James Gist, Spencer Williams
1930 / 107min / DCP
“The work of self-taught African American evangelists who employed cinema as a tool for their traveling ministry, this surreal featurette was screened in churches and meeting halls, accompanied by a sermon and the passing of a collection plate. A campy…
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Privilege
Saturday February 25
7:00pmDirector: Yvonne Rainer
1990 / 103min / DCP
“For Rainer, drama and style aren’t innocent, and the very concept of a story, and the way it’s told, is political”—Richard Brody. One of Rainer’s most narratively complex films, Privilege shifts from a documentary about women going through…
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Topsy and Eva
Saturday February 25
7:30pmDirector: Del Lord
1927 / 80min / DCP
With live score accompaniment from Axel Tosca
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Millennium Mambo
Saturday February 25
9:15pmDirector: Hou Hsiao Hsien
2001 / 119min / 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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Eraserhead
Saturday February 25
9:45pmDirector: David Lynch
1977 / 89min / 35mm
The ne plus ultra of midnight movies, at once enormously influential and inimitable. A pompadoured Jack Nance plays henpecked Henry, a miserable, furtive figure traversing a clangorous industrial landscape whose nights are made interminable by the…
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MURDER and Murder
Sunday February 26
3:15pmDirector: Yvonne Rainer
1996 / 113min / DCP
Rainer’s last feature is also one of her most personal, inspired by the lows and highs of a breast cancer diagnosis in the early 1990s, and the surprise of a burgeoning lesbian relationship. The latter is playfully refracted here through the love story…
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