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Tony Takitani

Director: Jun Ichikawa

2004 / 75min / DCP

Based on a short story by Haruki Murakami, Ichikawa’s graceful, coolly elegant film tells the story—with the help of a drily detached third-person narrator—of the lonesome existence and sudden romantic awakening of its title character (Issey Ogata),…

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Cremaster 2

Director: Matthew Barney

1999 / 80min / 35mm

The narrative of Cremaster 2—the second in the series and second-to-last to be released—moves from 1977, the year of Gary Gilmore’s execution, back to 1893, the year that Harry Houdini performed at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The…

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Four Nights with Anna

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski

2008 / 87min / 35mm

Made after a 17-year hiatus following the unhappy production of Thirty Door Key (1991), Four Nights with Anna finds Skolimowski an artist rejuvenated, collaborating for the first time with wife Ewa Piaskowska. Set in Poland’s rural northeast, the film…

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Battle Royale

Director: Kenji Fukasaku

2000 / 114min / DCP

A cult classic par excellence and a late career smash for director Fukasaku, a veteran of the Japanese genre cinema trenches of the 1960s and ’70s who drew on his own memories of WWII-era carnage to craft a movie speaking to a distinctly…

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COMMISSARY OPEN, PRIVATE EVENT IN THEATER

2023 / 360min

Commissary is still open for dinner and drinks. Please check back soon for updated showtimes!

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Mur Murs

Director: Agnès Varda

1981 / 82min / DCP

Returning to Los Angeles, where she’d lived and worked in the late ’60s, in 1979, Varda became fascinated by the festively colorful murals that were found, and fast disappearing, throughout the city. The product of that fascination was Mur Murs, an…

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Clueless

Director: Amy Heckerling

1995 / 97min / 35mm

“So what did you do in school today?” “I broke in my purple clogs.” Pampered Beverly Hills good soul Cher plays matchmaker to her fellow high schoolers in Heckerling’s snappy, finger-on-the-pulse sleeper hit, loosely based on Jane Austen’s…

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The Hustler

Director: Robert Rossen

1961 / 134min / DCP

Paul Newman has one of the defining roles of his storied career as “Fast” Eddie Felson, a wandering pool shark who makes a living out of hustling suckers across the Midwest—until, that is, he gets a taste of his own medicine courtesy of Jackie…

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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Director: Martin Scorsese

1974 / 112min / 35mm

When her husband dies unexpectedly, Alice (Ellen Burstyn), a New Mexico housewife and mother of a twelve-year-old boy, decides to start over from scratch, trying her hand at the singing career she’d always dreamed of. Burstyn took a chance of her own,…

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Essential Killing

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski

2010 / 82min / DCP

A harrowing, relentless, and deeply ambiguous depiction of persecution and flight, Essential Killing stars Vincent Gallo as a man—perhaps a Taliban soldier, perhaps just a patsy caught up in the overzealous global War on Terror—shipped from Guantanamo…

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Falcon Lake

Director: Charlotte Le Bon

2022 / 100min / DCP

Friday, June 2nd, 8:45pm and Saturday, June 3rd, 7:15pm, Q&A with filmmaker Charlotte Le Bon and star Sara Montpetit

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Empire of the Ants

Director: Bert Gordon

1977 / 89min / 35mm

The final film in American International Pictures’ H.G. Wells cycle of the ’70s, based on the author’s 1905 short story of the same name, Gordon’s Florida-shot creature feature stars Joan Collins as a land developer whose scheme to foist off some…

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A Place in the Sun

Director: George Stevens

1952 / 122min / 35mm

Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift at their most supernally beautiful, Shelly Winters at her most haplessly victimizable, and director Stevens at the height of his impeccable craft—this adaptation of Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy isn’t a…

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Birth

Director: Jonathan Glazer

2004 / 100min / 35mm

At the moment Anna’s (Nicole Kidman) husband, Sean, dies while jogging in Central Park, a child is born. Ten years later, as Anna has just accepted a marriage proposal from boyfriend Joseph (Danny Huston), that child slips into her apartment and informs…

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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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California Split

Director: Robert Altman

1974 / 108min / DCP

Los Angeles magazine scribe and occasional poker player George Segal finds himself developing a full-blown addiction to games of chance when he’s drawn into the orbit of freewheeling professional gambler Elliott Gould in Altman’s shambling comic…

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Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Getting Warmer

Director: Multiple Dirs

2023 / 60min / 16mm

Saturday Afternoon Cartoons is New York City’s prime theatrical showcase of early and classic animated cartoons, shown in vintage 16mm film prints from the personal archives of historian Tommy José Stathes. Beginning over 20 years ago as a casual…

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Brokeback Mountain

Director: Ang Lee

2004 / 134min / DCP

Saturday, 6/3 at 2pm, Q&A with Judy Becker moderated by Brady Corbet

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Walkabout

Director: Nicolas Roeg

1971 / 100min / 35mm

Saturday, June 3rd, 5:10pm, Introduction by Judy Becker

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Rosemary's Baby

Director: Roman Polanski

1968 / 137min / DCP

Sunday, June 4th, 9:30pm, Introduction by Judy Becker

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Let the Right One In

Director: Tomas Alfredson

2008 / 114min / 35mm

Saturday, June 3rd, 9:45pm, Introduction from filmmaker Charlotte Le Bon

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Matthew Barney & Maggie Nelson In Conversation

Director: Matthew Barney

2023 / 105min / 35mm

For one special screening only, Barney and writer Maggie Nelson will appear in conversation following this program comprised of re-mastered works representing the artist’s early forays into moving image-based art. This program includes the video…

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We Need to Talk About Kevin

Director: Lynne Ramsay

2011 / 112min / 35mm

Sunday, June 4th, 6:45pm, Q&A with Judy Becker moderated by Scott Macaulay

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Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle

Director: Éric Rohmer

1987 / 99min / DCP

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

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Possession

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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All That Jazz

Director: Bob Fosse

1979 / 123min / DCP

“It’s showtime, folks!” Playing the chain-smoking, Dexedrine-and-Alka-Seltzer-popping, serially womanizing workaholic choreographer/filmmaker Joe Gideon, a perpetually bl

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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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Metropolis

Director: Fritz Lang

1927 / 153min / 35mm

Lang’s futurist epic imagines a dystopian 2026 where the proletariat has been reduced to a state of near-automation, until a Maschinenmensch robot simulacra of a real woman is used to sow dissent amongst their ranks, leading to a spectacle of…

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Antz

Director: Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson

1998 / 83min / DCP

An ant colony underneath Central Park is the setting of the debut film from DreamWorks Animation, which features none other than Woody Allen anchoring a stellar line-up of voice acting talent. Z (Allen), an anxiety-plagued individualist worker ant whose…

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Secrets and Lies

Director: Mike Leigh

1996 / 136min / DCP

The winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, Leigh’s tender, funny, fearless film has Brenda Blethyn in a career-best performance as Cynthia, a white working-class woman who has a life-changing revelation when she meets Black…

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Pale Flower

Director: Masashiro Shinoda

1964 / 96min / 35mm

Fresh out of prison, world-weary Yakuza hitman Ryō Ikebe finds himself a new pair of shackles in the person of Mariko Kaga, an enigmatic young thrill-seeker with a passion for high stakes gambling who draws him into her spiral of self-destruction. A…

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Bay of Angels

Director: Jaques Demy

1963 / 90min / DCP

Somber and seductive, Demy’s downbeat romantic drama largely takes place in the casinos of the Côte d’Azur, where platinum blonde compulsive gambler Jeanne Moreau risks her roll nightly at the roulette wheels, and hopelessly smitten bank clerk Claude…

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Chungking Express

Director: Wong Kar-wai

1994 / 102min / DCP

A hot-shot to the heart, pop masterpiece Chungking Express tells the stories of two lovelorn cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung) and the women who baffle them (Brigitte Lin and Faye Wong, who contributes a Cantopop cover of The Cranberries’…

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Mistress

Director: Barbet Schroeder

1976 / 112min / DCP

Lagerfeld had become a superstar via his work for the French fashion house Chloé when Schroeder called on him to design the costumes for his BDSM-steeped romantic comedy, in which amateur thief Gérard Depardieu stumbles into the dungeon of dominatrix…

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Comrades: Almost a Love Story

Director: Peter Chan

1996 / 118min / 35mm

The story of a touch-and-go romance between two Mainland expats, earnest Northerner Leon Lai—one of Cantopop’s “Four Heavenly Kings”—and Guangzhou-born wheeler-dealer Maggie Cheung, Chan’s plaintive drama follows its leads from youth to…

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I'm Not There

Director: Todd Haynes

2007 / 135min / 35mm

Like a true Bob Dylan fan, Haynes understood that no paint-by-numbers biopic would capture Dylan’s wily, elusive, trickster spirit, and so in anti-biopic I’m Not There he gives us, quite literally, a multitude of shifting Dylan surrogates. In…

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Last Year at Marienbad

Director: Alain Resnais

1961 / 94min

Variously pilloried and adulated in its time, and undeniably “one of the most influential movies ever made” [J. Hoberman, The Village Voice], Resnais’s coolly glittering, fascinating, frustrating film, made in collaboration with novelist Alain…

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The Last Picture Show

Director: Peter Bogdanovich

1971 / 118min / DCP

At the tender age of 31, Bogdanovich immediately ascended to the heights of auteur authority with this aching black-and-white evocation of the dying old West, based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry and set in a dusty…

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High Heels

Director: Pedro Almodóvar

1991 / 112min / DCP

One of two films on which Lagerfeld, then in the midst of his tenure at Chanel, designed costumes for the famously décor- and costume-obsessive Almodóvar, High Heels features Marisa Paredas as an aging singer returning home in an attempt to mend bridges…

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Big Fish

Director: Tim Burton

2003 / 125min / DCP

One of Burton’s warmest and best-loved films, this adaptation of Daniel Wallace’s 1998 novel of the same name stars Billy Crudup as Will Bloom, attempting to reconcile with his dying father, Edward, a fabulist charmer with a long history of spinning…

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God of Gamblers

1989 / 126min / 35mm

Chow Yun-fat is at his most winningly suave in God of Gamblers, starring as the infamous yet enigmatic Ko Chun, a globe-trotting high roller who has no rival in Mahjong, five-card stud, poker, or just about any other game of chance—until, that is, a…

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The Royal Tenenbaums

Director: Wes Anderson

2001 / 110min / DCP

This sprawling double LP of a movie and fully-drawn dream of a Gotham family as imagined by a Texas-raised New Yorker obsessive revealed young Wes Anderson’s full mastery of the ensemble drama. Gene Hackman stars as the truculent, tone deaf patriarch of…

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The Idiots

Director: Lars Von Trier

1999 / 117min / DCP

Lars von Trier’s only feature made under the Dogme 95 “Vows of Chastity”, The Idiots centers on a Danish commune whose members aim to disrupt bourgeois society by spontaneously feigning physical or mental disabilities in public — including a new…

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Phase IV

Director: Saul Bass

1974 / 84min / DCP

The one and only feature film directed by Bass, the designer whose title sequences offered strikingly modern thematic encapsulations of films by Preminger, Hitchcock, and others, Phase IV is an ultra-ambitious feat of mind-bending, eye-popping imagist…

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Hard Eight

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

1996 / 101min / 35mm

An auspicious debut that is also somewhat atypical among Anderson’s films due to its relatively small cast and genre trappings, this tight, terse neo-noir introduces the first of the writer-director’s many makeshift families to come: Sydney (Philip…

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The Gambler

Director: Karel Reisz

1974 / 111min / DCP

James Caan commands the screen as Axel Freed, the playing-to-lose son of upper middle-class Jewish New Yorkers who seems bound and determined to throw away every opportunity that his striver parents and grandparents sweated to provide him with, teaching…

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The Task

Director: Leigh Ledare

2017 / 118min / DCP

Inspired by an experimental social psychology technique developed at London’s Tavistock Institute in the 1950s, Leigh invited 28 different Chicagoans from all walks of life and 10 psychologists trained in the method to participate in a three-day Group…

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The Heroic Trio

Director: Johnnie To

1993 / 88min / DCP

To’s girl power banger The Heroic Trio brings together wire-flying wuxia and John Woo-esque gun-fu into a heady cocktail of aerial acrobatics that comes close to a live-action cartoon. (It’s also the movie that Jean-Pierre Léaud waves around a…

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Heroic Trio 2: Executioners

Director: Johnnie To

1993 / 101min / DCP

In To’s outré, post-apocalyptic sequel to his The Heroic Trio of the same year—the Hong Kong industry moves fast when it has a hit—the Holy Trinity of Maggie Cheung’s Thief Catcher, Michelle Yeoh’s Invisible Girl, and Anita Mui’s Wonder Woman…

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ACE presents: Captain Fantastic

Director: Matt Ross

2016 / 119min / DCP

Deep in the woods of Washington State, isolated from society, devoted father Ben Cash (Mortensen) dedicates his life to transforming his six young children into adults with the skills to survive outside of capitalist society. But when a tragedy strikes…

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