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The Aviator's Wife

Director: Éric Rohmer

1981 / 106min / 35mm

The inaugural film of Rohmer’s “Comedies and Proverbs” cycle, The Aviator’s Wife is a fleecy farce of romantic overanalysis

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His Girl Friday

Director: Howard Hawks

1940 / 92min / DCP

​​“Listen to me, you great big bubble-headed baboon! Crack reporter Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) is trying to quit the high stress newspaper reporting business and settle down, but her editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant) needs her to work on one…

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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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Violent Streets

Director: Hideo Gosha

1974 / 96min / DCP

Sometimes regarded as not only among Gosha’s finest films but among the finest yakuza films ever made, Violent Streets is a brutal, gripping, kinetic action yarn in which a retired Tokyo boss (Noburo Ando) is forced to go back into battle after a Kansai…

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The Hudsucker Proxy

Director: Joel Coen

1994 / 111min / 35mm

“Arriving in the city, Norville Barnes, of the Muncy School of Business and Administration, has big plans. He steps into Hudsucker Industries just as Warren Hudsucker steps out, and gets his job. But will Pulitzer Prize Award-winning reporter Amy Archer…

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Pink Flamingos

Director: John Waters

1972 / 93min / DCP

With extended introduction from series curator K8 Hardy on Friday, December 16th at 9:30pm.

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Being There

Director: Hal Ashby

1979 / 130min / DCP

​​“And I’ll say right now, he never learned to read and write. No, sir. Had no brains at all. Was stuffed with rice pudding between th’ ears. Short-changed by the Lord, and dumb as a jackass. Look at him now! After his patron passes away,…

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Lust, Caution

Director: Ang Lee

2007 / 157min / 35mm

Tang got her breakthrough role—and a subsequent backlash from Chinese state censors—when she was cast in Lee’s steamy cloak-and-dagger thriller set during the Second Sino-Japanese War. A student in Japan-occupied Hong Kong, Tang’s character…

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Spirited Away

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

2001 / 125min / DCP

Hayao Miyazaki won an Oscar for his brilliant fantasy, a box-office behemoth in Japan and a crossover hit in the U.S. Something new and wondrous happens in every scene of this magical shape-shifter, in which a ten-year-old girl becomes separated from her…

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My Night at Maud's

Director: Éric Rohmer

1969 / 110min / DCP

Rohmer’s first feature-length entry in his “Six Moral Tales” series (following The Bakery Girl of Monceau and Suzanne’s Career) stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as a conscientious Catholic bachelor who is sorely tempted when he meets charming…

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Millennium Mambo

Director: 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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Daughter of the Nile

Director: Hou Hsiao Hsien

1987 / 91min / DCP

A pivotal but little-screened film in Hou’s celebrated filmography, Daughter of the Nile acts as a sort of bridge between his breakthrough Coming of Age Trilogy and the trilogy of period-set films he made in collaboration with writer Wu Nien-jen. In…

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Carol

Director: Todd Haynes

2016 / 118min / 35mm

Q&A with cinematographer Ed Lachman 12/23 7pm Q&A with production designer Judy Becker 12/25 3:45pm

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The Apartment

Director: Billy Wilder

1960 / 125min / DCP

Jack Lemmon is one anxious face in a sea of stooges at the New York insurance company where he toils, a passive nobody able to distinguish himself to his superiors only by letting boss Fred MacMurray use his shoebox apartment as a love nest, while his…

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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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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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Phantom Thread

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

2017 / 130min / 35mm

One of the key scenes in Anderson’s evocation of the world of haute couture in postwar England takes place at a riotously colorful New Year’s Eve ball, but the film itself qualifies for inclusion in a holiday series by virtue of having the quality of…

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Eat Drink Man Woman

1994 / 124min / 35mm

Ang Lee’s family fable about a master chef and his three daughters is the best movie ever made about how food can connect generations. The cooking scenes (rapturously shot by cinematographer Jon Lin) capture the magic and majesty of Taiwanese cuisine,…

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Samurai Wolf

Director: Hideo Gosha

1966 / 75min / DCP

Deadly wandering ronin Kiba (Isao Natsuyagi) steps in to play the bodyguard of a blind woman that’s the target of another hired swordsman of equal skill in Gosha’s lean, inventively photographed, and tightly plotted black-and-white chambara, which…

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Vive L'Amour

Director: Tsai Ming-liang

1994 / 118min / DCP

Tsai’s second theatrical feature drew understandable comparisons to Antonioni’s chilly studies in urban ennui on initial release, but this bizarre love triangle—Chen Chao-jung and Yang Kuei-mei meet for illicit rendezvous in an “empty” apartment…

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Ikiru

Director: Akira Kurosawa

1952 / 143min / 35mm

One of Kurosawa’s very greatest achievements, Ikiru shows the director at his most compassionate, affirming life through an explora­tion of death. Takashi Shimura brings a sublime pathos to his portrayal of an aging Tokyo bureaucrat who, after being…

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Rebels of the Neon God

Director: Tsai Ming-liang

1992 / 106min / DCP

Tsai’s first theatrically released film isn’t as pared down in its approach as some of his later works—it even has a rather catchy synth theme song!—but in most respects it’s pure Tsai, a film about urban loners and the city’s (largely…

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The Eternal Daughter

Director: Joanna Hogg

2022 / 96min / DCP

Joanna Hogg in conversation with Martin Scorsese for premiere screening on December 2nd at 7pm

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Flowers of Taipei

Director: Chinlin Hsieh

2014 / 109min / DCP

Using a treasure trove of interviews and film clips, Hsieh’s documentary tells the thrilling story of New Taiwanese Cinema in the 1980s—an explosion of formally daring Taiwanese art films that engaged, often critically, with past and present life in…

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Samurai Wolf 2: Hell Cut

Director: Hideo Gosha

1967 / 72min / DCP

Isao Natsuyagi returns as the “Furious Wolf” Kiba, this time in the company of a group of condemned prisoners en route to execution, and Toshiaki Tsushima’s Spaghetti Western-like score from the first Samurai Wolf is back as well! Gosha’s…

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Yi Yi

Director: Edward Yang

2000 / 173min / 35mm

The last work of a master filmmaker who died far too young, the gentle, restrained, and terribly humane Yi Yi observes the interplay between three generations of an upper middle-class Taipei family. Comic when dealing in the foibles of its excellent…

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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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My Darling Clementine

Director: John Ford

1946 / 97min / DCP

One of maestro Ford’s most beloved Westerns and the definitive screen depiction of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral stars Henry Fonda as shy, lanky lawman Wyatt Earp, a delightfully plummy Victor Mature as a Shakespeare-quoting, tubercular Doc Holliday,…

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Force Majeure

Director: Ruben Östlund

2014 / 120min / DCP

We’ve only just gotten to know the central characters of Force Majeure, a middle-class Scandinavian married couple and their two young children on vacation in the Alps, when a sudden avalanche interrupts their holiday, seemingly about to bury the…

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Django

Director: Sergio Corbucci

1966 / 91min / DCP

After cutting his teeth on sword-and-sandals péplum, Corbucci—widely considered second only to Sergio Leone in the canon of Spaghetti Western auteurs—had his commercial breakthrough with this stark, brutal horse opera set on the Mexico-US border,…

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A Confucian Confusion

Director: Edward Yang

1994 / 125min / DCP

After finishing his sprawling, mournful A Brighter Summer Day, Yang made an unexpected turn towards comedy with pointed, multi-character satire A Confucian Confusion, depicting the follies and fears of a group of twentysomethings in Taipei, all in some…

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Easy Money

Director: James Signorelli

1983 / 95min / 35mm

If ever there were an even more unlikely screen star than Pesci, it would have to be Rodney Dangerfield, the bug-eyed stand-up comic who, after decades of kicking around the entertainment biz, became a leading man for the first time in his early sixties…

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Dreams

Director: Akira Kurosawa

1990 / 119min / 35mm

This imaginative Japanese production presents a series of short films by lauded director Akira Kurosawa.

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Marketa Lazarová

Director: Frantisek Vlácil

1967 / 162min / 35mm

A tempestuous fever dream in black-and-white Cinemascope, Vláčil’s at once gnomic and epic tale of the bloody, crossed-swords dealings between two tribes in 13th-century middle Europe is a sensorial ravishment, filled with forbidding, frostbitten…

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Taipei Story

Director: Edward Yang

1985 / 119min / DCP

Yang and Hou Hsiao-hsien, the two undisputed masters of the Taiwanese New Wave, worked together to create one of the movement’s signature films, starring Hou (who also co-wrote) as a man newly returned to Taipei after leaving his dreams of baseball…

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The Host

Director: Bong Joon Ho

2006 / 120min / DCP

Part family drama, part monster movie, part social satire, Bong’s big breakout gets going when a beastie bursts out of the polluted waters of Seoul’s Han River and wreaks wanton havoc, kidnapping the daughter of a dull-minded snack bar manager, and…

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Goodfellas

Director: Martin Scorsese

1990 / 146min / DCP

Raging Bull had already given a glimpse of Pesci’s aptitude for sudden outbursts of splenetic violence, but it was his role in Goodfellas, as the terrifyingly unpredictable mafia skull-cracker Tommy DeVito, that really showcased his extraordinary…

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