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Irma Vep
Wednesday July 6
2:00pmDirector: Olivier Assayas
1996 / 99min / 35mm
Maggie Cheung in the role she was literally born to play: Maggie Cheung. The Hong Kong actress is imported to star in a remake of Louis Feuillade’s 1915 serial Les Vampires directed by a New Wave has-been (Jean-Pierre Léaud), but then finds herself…
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Wednesday July 6
2:15pmDirector: Peter Yates
1973 / 103min / DCP
Bridgeport, Connecticut’s own Robert Mitchum returned to New England, shedding the strutting machismo of his younger years to play The Friends of Eddie Coyle’s wholly un
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Cold Water
Wednesday July 6
4:10pmDirector: Olivier Assayas
1994 / 92min / DCP
Assayas revisits the scene of his own teen years, the early ‘70s, in a film à clef that exemplifies all of the anguish and exhilaration of youth.
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Parting Glances + Behind Every Good Man
Wednesday July 6
4:30pmDirector: Bill Sherwood
1986 / 98min / DCP
Sherwood’s bittersweet comedy-drama features a young Steve Buscemi as a manic rock ’n’ roller.
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The Times of Harvey Milk + Changes + Coming Out
Wednesday July 6
6:30pmDirector: Rob Epstein
1984 / 117min / DCP
One of the first widely seen feature documentaries to address gay life in America, The Times of Harvey Milk was as groundbreaking as its titular trailblazing politician
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Homebodies
Wednesday July 6
6:45pmDirector: Larry Yust
1974 / 96min / DCP
Perhaps the only “Oldsploitation” film ever made
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Get Shorty
Wednesday July 6
9:00pmDirector: Barry Sonnenfeld
1995 / 105min / 35mm
Miami mobster Chili Palmer is sent to collect on a bad debt incurred by Hollywood B-movie maker Harry Zimm, only to find himself bit by the show biz bug
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Demonlover
Wednesday July 6
9:15pmDirector: Olivier Assayas
2002 / 121min
Chloë Sevigny, Connie Nielsen, and Gina Gershon are sleek rival agents playing games of cloak and dagger skullduggery, vying for a piece of a Japanese company on the cutt
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Jour de Fête
Thursday July 7
2:00pmDirector: Jacques Tati
1949 / 86min / DCP
An exhaustive catalog of cycling gags that’s deeply influenced by the silent comedy tradition, Jour de Fête features former mime Tati as the star of his debut feature
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Desert Hearts
Director: Donna Deitch
1985 / 96min / DCP
Deitch’s film—as a female-directed lesbian romance—was a landmark at the time of its release, and has lost none of its seductive charm 37 years later.
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Personal Shopper
Thursday July 7
4:00pmDirector: Olivier Assayas
2017 / 105min / DCP
Personal Shopper has K-Stew traveling Europe to stock the wardrobe of a fashionista celebrity, all the while trying to make contact with her recently-deceased brother
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Paris Is Burning
Thursday July 7
4:30pmDirector: Jennie Livingston
1990 / 71min / DCP
The scintillating looks, fierce determination, and overwhelming protectiveness that characterized New York’s competitive underground 1980s Ballroom scene.
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The King of Marvin Gardens
Thursday July 7
6:15pmDirector: Bob Rafelson
1972 / 103min / DCP
One of the legitimately monumental accomplishments of the so-called “New Hollywood” of the 1970s.
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The Living End
Thursday July 7
8:45pmDirector: Gregg Araki
1992 / 84min / 35mm
Araki’s third feature is a raw, raucous, and at times brutally violent road movie; a mischievous, outrageous comedy
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MIAMI BLUES
Director: George Armitage
1990 / 97min / 35mm
"Alec Baldwin’s Junior and the way he played Willeford’s conman was a huge inspiration for the creation of Connie. Jennifer Jason Leigh is also so beautifully broken in this film." -The Good Time Team
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Mala Noche
Director: Gus Van Sant
1986 / 78min / 35mm
Van Sant’s smudgy black-and-white debut prophesizes and breaks ground for the ’90s New Queer Cinema.
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Murina
Director: Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
2022 / 94min / DCP
Presented with an intro and Q&A with Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović Friday, July 8 and Saturday, July 9
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Bicycle Thieves
Director: Vittorio De Sica
1948 / 93min / DCP
The single best-known work of postwar Italian neorealist cinema, with a script by the movement’s leading theoretician/philosopher, Cesare Zavattini
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Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives + Trevor
Friday July 8
7:00pmDirector: Peggy Rajski, Mariposa Film Group
1977 / 156min / 35mm
A time capsule of an era when each individual’s participation in its filming was an act of courage.
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Deadbeat At Dawn
Friday July 8
11:30pmDirector: Jim Van Bebber
1988 / 81min / DCP
Dropping out of film school during his sophomore year, Van Bebber, a Bruce Lee enthusiast fighting out of Greenville, Ohio, took a bank loan intended to pay tuition and
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Blackstar: Autobiography of a Close Friend + Choos
Saturday July 9
2:00pmDirector: Tom Joslin
1977 / 130min / DCP
Joslin’s eclectic, self-ethnographic documentary uses a dizzying panoply of film techniques to dissect and reassemble the filmmaker’s complex gay identity
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Nitrate Kisses + Fireworks + Seascape + At Least Y
Saturday July 9
4:45pmDirector: Barbara Hammer
1992 / 106min / DCP
Hammer’s debut feature integrates the experiences of a diverse sampling of figures from the LGBTQ+ community—including a mixed-race gay couple, representative of the S/M community, and an older lesbian couple—with footage from Lot in Sodom (1933),…
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The Mean Season
Saturday July 9
7:00pmDirector: Phillip Borsos
1985 / 109min / 35mm
Kurt Russell returns to Metrograph, playing an in-too-deep crime reporter in Borsos’s The Mean Season, a tense thriller based on a novel by a former Miami Herald newsman
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Wild Things
Director: John McNaughton
1998 / 108min / DCP
Squelch deep, deep down into the primal Florida swampwater with McNaughton’s twisty, tawdry, terribly sweaty erotic thriller.
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Hide and Seek + Blue Diary + Testament
Sunday July 10
12:15pmDirector: Su Friedrich
1996 / 89min / DCP
Presented with a Q+A with Su Friedrich Sunday, July 3
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Central Park
Sunday July 10
2:30pmDirector: Frederick Wiseman
1990 / 180min / 16mm
The 840 acres of land in the middle of Manhattan, and the various uses it is put to by the city’s residents and visitors, are the subject of Wiseman’s Central Park
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Coming Out Under Fire
Sunday July 10
4:45pmDirector: Arthur Dong
1994 / 71min / DCP
A broad-scoped examination of the experiences of homosexuals who served in the US military during World War II.
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Paris Blues
Sunday July 10
6:30pmDirector: Martin Ritt
1961 / 98min / 35mm
Introduced by author Darryl Pinckney in conversation with Paris Review editor Emily Stokes
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Tongues Untied
Sunday July 10
8:00pmDirector: Marlon Riggs
1989 / 55min / DCP
Riggs’s monumental, lyric recounting of the unspoken histories of eroticism and transcendence among Black, gay Americans.
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The Times of Harvey Milk
Tuesday July 12
3:00pmDirector: Rob Epstein
1984 / 90min / 35mm
One of the first widely seen feature documentaries to address gay life in America
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Belfast, Maine
Wednesday July 13
5:00pmDirector: Frederick Wiseman
1999 / 245min / 16mm
Wiseman’s epic of the everyday shows that true love of a place means not turning a blind eye to its flaws.
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Wild River
Friday July 15
12:00pmDirector: Elia Kazan
1960 / 110min / DCP
Kazan, hearkening back to his early connections to various New Deal-era federal projects through decades of hindsight, produced this gorgeous, deeply ambivalent dramatic
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Mississippi Masala
Friday July 15
12:15pmDirector: Mira Nair
1991 / 118min / DCP
Twenty years after immigrating with her family to Greenwood, Mississippi, after dictator Idi Amin’s expulsion of Uganda’s Asian population, Mina (Sarita Choudhury) has as
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Eyes of Fire
Friday July 15
2:30pmDirector: Avery Crounse
1983 / 90min / 35mm
One of the most ambitious and unusual films of ’80s independent regional horror, Crounse’s debut feature lays its scene in 18th century British America
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Always for Pleasure
Friday July 15
2:45pmDirector: Les Blank
1978 / 60min / DCP
Blank’s Always for Pleasure is a documentary love letter to the many things that make New Orleans a city like no other, an exuberant, seductive, swooning film
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Friday July 15
4:30pmDirector: Mervyn LeRoy
1932 / 93min / 35mm
Back from the war and on the skids, penniless, luckless vet Paul Muni is picked up—not once, but twice—and put to hard labor on Georgia chain gangs.
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Miami Vice
Friday July 15
8:50pmDirector: Michael Mann
2006 / 132min / DCP
Mann’s big-screen adaptation of the hit ’80s television series on which he was executive producer updates the show’s unbuttoned Miami Chic for the mid-aughts
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The Town That Dreaded Sundown
Friday July 15
9:45pmDirector: Charles B. Pierce
1976 / 90min / 35mm
A wonderfully resourceful, unclassifiable proto-slasher full of corncobby local color
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Mickey One
Saturday July 16
12:15pmDirector: Arthur Penn
1965 / 92min / DCP
Warren Beatty stars as a hepcat stand-up comic who’s got the mob on his tail, on the move through the haunted, seemingly abandoned streets of (principally) Chicago
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Devil in a Blue Dress
Saturday July 16
2:10pmDirector: Carl Franklin
1995 / 102min / DCP
A suave, smart, stylish neo-noir from Franklin (One False Move), which has increasingly found recognition as a towering achievement of ’90s Black Hollywood.
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Holy Ghost People
Saturday July 16
2:30pmDirector: Peter Adair
1967 / 53min / 16mm
A towering work of American ethnography, both eerie and ecstatic.
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Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
Saturday July 16
11:30pmDirector: Bob Clark
1972 / 87min / DCP
A pillar of Sunshine State horror cinema by Ft. Lauderdale native Clark, which builds a potent atmosphere of needless cruelty and gathering hopelessness
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Monrovia, Indiana
Sunday July 17
2:10pmDirector: Frederick Wiseman
2018 / 143min / DCP
An incidental rebuttal to the pompous Hillbilly Elegy, which digs into the complexities of the “flyover” Midwest instead of offering broad-brush generalities.