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Cape Fear
Sunday May 12
9:30pmDirector: 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 upstanding…
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Danger: Diabolik
Sunday May 12
10:00pmDirector: Mario Bava
1968 / 105min / Digital
Better known for his excursions in the horror genre, Bava’s excursion into the crime caper—and his lone trip to Hollywood—produced this eye-popping pop art curio, an adaptation of an Italian comic book series underwritten by producer Dino De…
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Deep Cover
Monday May 13
4:15pmDirector: Bill Duke
1992 / 107min / DCP
Laurence Fishburne gives a matchless performance as a cop still burdened by the childhood memory of his father’s crippling addiction whose straight-arrow life is derailed when he’s recruited into undercover work investigating the Los Angeles cocaine…
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3 Women
Monday May 13
4:45pmDirector: Robert Altman
1977 / 124min / DCP
Alongside his more touted multi-character panoramas, Altman also had a fondness for small-scale dramas investigating the complexities of female psychology, and of these none is greater than the ineffable 3 Women, which finds Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek,…
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The Master
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
2012 / 138min / 35mm
Anderson’s aching, ambitious, and deeply ambiguous psychodrama pairs alcoholic ex-serviceman Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) and messianic flimflam man Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman) in a cage match bromance that doubles as a meditation on the…
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Art College 1994
Director: Liu Jian
2023 / 118min / DCP
Based on its director’s own experiences on the campus of the Chinese Southern Academy of Arts in the mid-1990s, Art College 1994, which returns to the meticulous hand-drawn 2D animation style of predecessor Have a Nice Day, is Liu’s affectionate,…
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AGGRO DR1FT
Director: Harmony Korine
2024 / 80min / DCP
The first indefinable object to emerge from Korine’s shrouded-in-mystery EDGLRD collective, the simmeringly psychedelic AGGRO DR1FT—entirely shot in infrared, through thermal lenses—is a vibe-soaked odyssey following a supremely gifted-but-tormented…
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Volver
Tuesday May 14
4:15pmDirector: Pedro Almodóvar
2006 / 121min / 35mm
Penélope Cruz leads a remarkable ensemble cast—the six main actresses shared a Best Actress award at Cannes in 2006—in Almodóvar’s comic drama, set in the Madrid suburbs and in the filmmaker’s native La Mancha region. Cruz’s Raimunda is a…
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Shoplifters
Tuesday May 14
4:20pmDirector: Hirokazu Kore-eda
2018 / 121min / DCP
Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, Kore-eda’s wise and deeply humane domestic drama centers on a makeshift family—men and women cast off by society, living off of petty theft and con jobs on the outskirts of Tokyo—whose…
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Batman Returns
Tuesday May 14
6:45pmDirector: Tim Burton
1992 / 126min / 35mm
Burton and star Michael Keaton’s first Caped Crusader film was a pop culture phenomenon; their second was no slouch at the box office itself, but an altogether spicier dish to serve to unsuspecting multiplex audiences: an unremittingly grim, gloomily…
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Rififi
Tuesday May 14
7:00pmDirector: Jules Dassin
1955 / 118min / DCP
Run out of Hollywood by the Blacklist, Dassin landed on his feet in Paris, producing this existential thriller—and international box-office smash—that would become the heist film by which all others are measured, its centerpiece a legendary 30-minute…
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Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
Thursday May 16
6:30pmDirector: Akira Kurosawa
1990 / 119min / 35mm
Fresh off two late-career megaproductions, Kagemusha and Ran, Kurosawa made an unexpected turn to short-form with his omnibus film Dreams. The director’s stock of recurring dreams became the raw material for the eight magical realist vignettes…
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Fallen Angels
Thursday May 16
9:00pmDirector: Wong Kar-wai
1995 / 99min / DCP
Part hard-boiled crime thriller and part soft, featherweight giddiness, Fallen Angels was first conceived as a segment of Wong’s Chungking Express, then developed into a darker companion piece to his glistening pop-romantic masterpiece, the story of a…
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Possession
Thursday May 16
10:15pmDirector: 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 4K Restoration
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Paprika
Friday May 17
2:00pmDirector: Satoshi Kon
2006 / 90min / 35mm
The fourth and final film by Kon takes place in a not-too-distant future in which therapists, using a new technology called DC Mini, are able to record the dreams of psychiatric patients. All well and good, until a raid on the lab leads to the loss of the…
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Boyfriends and Girlfriends
Friday May 17
2:15pmDirector: Éric Rohmer
1987 / 103min / DCP
Rohmer uses the amorous misadventures of two girlfriends in the Paris suburbs to test the old proverb “les amis de mes amis sont mes amis”
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Through a Glass Darkly
Director: Ingmar Bergman
1961 / 90min / DCP
Harriet Andersson gives an arresting performance of the tragic cycles of sedation and mania as Karin, a schizophrenic woman on 24-hour leave from institutional oversight who, while visiting a remote island retreat with her novelist father (Gunnar…
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Orpheus
Director: Jean Cocteau
1950 / 95min / 35mm
Cocteau’s lushly lyric, allegorical update of the Orpheus myth, based on his play of the same title, depicts a famous poet (Jean Marais) who’s scorned by the Left Bank youth, torn between his love for his wife, Eurydice (Marie Déa), and a mysterious,…
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Mirror
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
1975 / 108min / DCP
Integrating original footage shot in both color and black and white, shard-like splinters of scenes whose significance isn’t always immediately evident, cryptically oneiric images, and even historical documentary footage, Tarkovsky’s transcendent epic…
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Winter Vacation
Friday May 17
6:30pmDirector: LI Hongqi
2010 / 91min / DCP
Winner of the Golden Leopard at 2010’s Locarno International Film Festival, poet/novelist/filmmaker Li’s absurdist comedy takes place in a backwater town in frigid Inner Mongolia, following a quartet of local youths as they first desultorily wander…
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Certain Women
Director: Kelly Reichardt
2016 / 107min / DCP
Based on the Montana-set short stories of Maile Meloy, Reichardt’s stoic, sensitive triptych offers minutely-detailed character studies of contemporary western characters
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An Experience to Die For
Friday May 17
8:30pmDirector: Kim Ki-young
1995 / 95min / DCP
The final completed film by Kim, one of the foremost directors of South Korea’s golden age, which reunited him with his Insect Woman (1971) and Woman of Fire (1972) star Youn Yuh-jung (winner of a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her work in Minari),…
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The Housemaid
Director: 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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Capernaum
Saturday May 18
12:30pmDirector: Nadine Labaki
2018 / 126min / DCP
A 12-year-old boy, Zain, condemned to a Beirut jail for an act of violence and poisoned by his life of poverty, sues his parents for neglect with the help of a TV channel that agrees to pay his legal fees in Labaki's devastating drama, which makes use of…
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The French
Saturday May 18
12:30pmDirector: William Klein
1982 / 130min / DCP
Klein, the legendary American photographer and filmmaker, has put together a body of work as thrillingly eclectic as any living artist. In his 1969 film Muhammad Ali, the Greatest, he found a subject that combined his interest in sport and social…
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ACE Presents: Meek's Cutoff
Saturday May 18
5:15pmDirector: Kelly Reichardt
2010 / 104min / 35mm
In 1845 Oregon, a group of pioneers looking for a new life find themselves instead wandering the wastes, with wary, hard-assed frontierswoman Michelle Williams having to accommodate the incompetence of Bruce Greenwood’s windbag wagonmaster.…
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Hudson Hawk
Saturday May 18
5:30pmDirector: Michael Lehmann
1991 / 100min / 35mm
Bruce Willis—who also co-wrote the film’s story and its theme song—stars as Eddie Hawkins, aka “Hudson Hawk,” a newly paroled ex-safe-cracker and cat burglar extraordinaire who’s pulled back into the business by corporate blackmailers who need…
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Night Moves
Saturday May 18
7:50pmDirector: Kelly Reichardt
2013 / 112min / DCP
Oregon environmentalists Jesse Eisenberg and Dakota Fanning team up with ex-Marine Peter Sarsgaard in a plot to detonate a hydroelectric dam—then cope with an unexpected tragedy in the aftermath of their action—in Reichardt’s terrifically tense…
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Le Cercle Rouge
Sunday May 19
11:00amDirector: Jean-Pierre Melville
1970 / 140min / DCP
Maybe the most Melvillian movie that Melville ever made, Le Cercle Rouge is an exhaustive catalog of the stylistic fetishes observed throughout its director’s body of work, a supremely controlled, precision engineered thriller about three taciturn tough…
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Meek's Cutoff
Sunday May 19
5:40pmDirector: Kelly Reichardt
2010 / 104min / 35mm
In 1845 Oregon, a group of pioneers looking for a new life find themselves instead wandering the wastes, with wary, hard-assed frontierswoman Michelle Williams having to forebear the incompetence of Bruce Greenwood’s windbag wagonmaster. Appropriately…
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Fistful of Love
Monday May 20
8:30pmDirector: Reynaldo Rivera
2024 / 104min / Digital
Post-screening discussion with artist Reynaldo Rivera and curators Lauren Mackler and Kari Rittenbach.
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Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Tuesday May 21
4:00pmDirector: 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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Members Only: Le Dépays
Tuesday May 21
7:00pmDirector: Chris Marker
2024 / 60min / DCP
A unique Member’s Only Event celebrating the release of the first English-language edition of Le Dépays, Chris Marker’s 1982 photo-essay book, assembled during the same years that Marker was realizing his film Sans Soleil and, like that superlative…
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Members Only: Kim's Video
Director: David Redmon, Ashley Sabin
2023 / 85min / DCP
A paean to a vanished New York and endangered video store culture, part-documentary and part-heist drama, Redmon and Sabin’s film tells the story of the rise and fall of Korean immigrant Youngman Kim’s fabled video store empire—and that’s just the…
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Thursday May 23
3:30pmDirector: 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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Purple Noon
Friday May 24
2:00pmDirector: René Clément
1960 / 118min / 35mm
“I chose Purple Noon for its sublime aesthetics, both the scenery, and the characters, who are living the decadent life in Southern Italy. An age-old yet compelling story of intrigue and deception, set against the backdrop of old-world Italian beauty,…
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The Italian Job
Friday May 24
2:30pmDirector: Peter Collinson
1969 / 99min / DCP
No sooner is ace criminal Charlie Croker (Michael Caine) out of the slammer and back on the streets than he’s planning his biggest heist yet, plotting with Noël Coward’s criminal mastermind to snap up a $4,000,000 gold shipment from the streets of…
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Some Like It Hot
Director: Billy Wilder
1959 / 121min / DCP
Few works in film history have earned so many horselaughs through the years as has Wilder’s relentlessly zany gender-bender, featuring two of the most famous (even if fake!) beauty marks in Hollywood, courtesy Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe. Joe and…
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Europe '51
Friday May 24
4:40pmDirector: Roberto Rossellini
1952 / 109min / DCP
The second collaboration between Rossellini and admirer-turned-wife Ingrid Bergman features La Bergman as Irene Girard, the fashionable wife of an affluent American industrialist living in Rome whose life is upended when her young son, after complaining…
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First Cow
Friday May 24
7:00pmDirector: Kelly Reichardt
2019 / 122min / DCP
Tight-lipped cook John Magaro joins with a party of Oregon Territory fur trappers while heading west, then finds friendship—and a lucrative business partnership—with entrepreneurial Chinese immigrant Orion Lee in Reichardt’s patiently observed…
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Melancholia
Director: Lars Von Trier
2011 / 135min / 35mm
The possibilities for ecological apocalypse extend beyond the bounds of even our own solar system in von Trier’s cosmic-view diptych drama, which begins with a wedding party gone awry and ends in the shadow of an incoming extinction-level event. Shot…
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Pulp Fiction [35mm]
Friday May 24
9:50pmDirector: Quentin Tarantino
1994 / 154min / 35mm
There are indie sleeper hits, and then there’s Pulp Fiction, Tarantino’s audaciously structured, deliciously hep, endlessly quotable Los Angeles-set crime picture featuring the criss-crossing stories of two philosophical hitmen (John Travolta and…
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The Ladykillers
Saturday May 25
11:45amDirector: Alexander Mackendrick
1955 / 91min / DCP
Introduction from Jason Simos of the Peter Sellers Appreciation Society on Saturday, May 25th and Sunday, May 26th
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Breaking the Waves
Saturday May 25
12:00pmDirector: 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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Reservoir Dogs [DCP]
Saturday May 25
5:50pmDirector: Quentin Tarantino
1992 / 99min / DCP
Six stylish hoods with colorful sobriquets, all strangers, come together for a heist and then, scattered following a shoot-out with the cops, reconvene in an abandoned warehouse to flush out the undercover cop in their midst in Tarantino’s feature…
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Sans Soleil [35mm]
Saturday May 25
6:20pmDirector: Chris Marker
1983 / 103min / 35mm
Introduction by series curator Sadie Starnes on Saturday, May 25th
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Totally F***ed Up
Saturday May 25
8:00pmDirector: Gregg Araki
1993 / 78min / DCP
Described by its director as a “kinda twisted cross between avant-garde experimental cinema and queer John Hughes flick,” Totally F***ed Up, the opening salvo of Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy, introduces viewers to six co-habiting queer Los…
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Val preceded by Catherine and The Amateurist
Saturday May 25
8:30pmDirector: Miranda July, Mara Mckevitt
2023 / 43min / DCP
Post-screening salon featuring Whitney Mallett, Mara Mckevitt, and actors Emily Allan and Alicia Novella Vasquez on Saturday, May 25th
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Pulp Fiction [DCP]
Saturday May 25
9:45pmDirector: Quentin Tarantino
1994 / 154min / DCP
There are indie sleeper hits, and then there’s Pulp Fiction, Tarantino’s audaciously structured, deliciously hep, endlessly quotable Los Angeles-set crime picture featuring the criss-crossing stories of two philosophical hitmen (John Travolta and…
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The Holy Mountain
Saturday May 25
10:15pmDirector: Alejandro Jodorowsky
1973 / 114min / 35mm
Jodorowsky’s follow-up to his mother of all midnight movies, El Topo, is even wilder and more extravagantly imaginative that its predecessor, a surreal, sacrilegious allegory in which the writer-director stars as a mysterious figure called “The…
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Three Sisters
Sunday May 26
12:00pmDirector: Wang Bing
2012 / 153min / DCP
Where Wang’s earlier Bitter Money sees the migrant worker experience through the lens of those who travel for work, the sorrowful, piercing Three Sisters looks at those who remain to subsist in the old, worn-out villages—in this case a trio of…
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Downtown 81
Sunday May 26
12:20pmDirector: Edo Bertoglio
2000 / 75min / DCP
In 1980, writer and Warhol associate Glenn O’Brien, Swiss photographer Edo Bertoglio, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, a graffiti innovator and noise music artist who’d just begun to exhibit his paintings, hit the streets of lower Manhattan to make a movie…
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Showing Up
Sunday May 26
6:15pmDirector: Kelly Reichardt
2022 / 107min / DCP
Reichardt’s fourth film with crucial collaborator Michelle Williams has the star playing Lizzy, a Portland sculptor balancing the demands of her art school teaching gig, the stresses of a forthcoming gallery show, the problems of her fractured family,…
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Reservoir Dogs [35mm]
Sunday May 26
11:15pmDirector: Quentin Tarantino
1992 / 99min / 35mm
Six stylish hoods with colorful sobriquets, all strangers, come together for a heist and then, scattered following a shoot-out with the cops, reconvene in an abandoned warehouse to flush out the undercover cop in their midst in Tarantino’s feature…
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Sans Soleil [DCP]
Monday May 27
2:20pmDirector: Chris Marker
1983 / 103min / DCP
Marker's voyage through memory, history, and video games is a free-flow of images shot largely in Japan (a cat temple, sacred phalluses, horror movies, sleeping subway riders, an animatronic JFK), with detours to Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and, for an…
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Nobody Knows
Friday May 31
1:45pmDirector: Hirokazu Kore-eda
2004 / 141min / DCP
Kore-eda’s masterful, heart-wrenching family drama, inspired by an actual 1988 incident of child abandonment, observes what happens to four young siblings when their single mother disappears in pursuit of a new romance, leaving the eldest, 12-year-old…
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Three Days of the Condor
Friday May 31
2:00pmDirector: Sydney Pollack
1975 / 117min / 35mm
Joe Turner (Robert Redford), a quiet, bookish CIA codebreaker, returns to his clandestine field office one day to find his co-workers murdered. Discovering that somebody out there is desperate to see him discredited or dead, a scrambling Turner must keep…
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Samsara
Friday May 31
4:30pmDirector: Lois Patiño
2023 / 113min / DCP
An immersive, absorbing, and wildly original journey of death and rebirth, Patiño’s film begins in Laos, observing the lives of a young man, the local monks he befriends, and an elderly woman at the end of her life, then picks up after the woman’s…
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Miller's Crossing
Friday May 31
4:30pmDirector: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
1990 / 115min / DCP
Irish and Italian gangs trade bullets in this twist-filled, densely plotted Prohibition-era noir, featuring an icy Gabriel Byrne
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Mother
Friday May 31
6:50pmDirector: Bong Joon Ho
2009 / 129min / 35mm
A magnificent Kim Hye-ja plays the title role in Bong’s noir-tinged thriller, the impoverished widowed mother of a quiet, mentally disabled 27-year-old (Won Bin) living in a village in rural South Korea who is forced to spring into action when her boy…
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Blow For Blow
Friday May 31
7:00pmDirector: Marin Karmitz
1972 / 89min / DCP
Introduction by The New Yorker film critic Richard Brody on Friday, May 31st
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Suture
Friday May 31
9:20pmDirector: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
1993 / 96min / DCP
Lumped in with the then-contemporary “neo-noir” cycle but actually quite unlike anything else on the scene, Siegel and McGehee’s brain-twisting murder mystery in sordid black-and-white widescreen has Dennis Haysbert as the classic fall guy, stricken…
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Code Unknown
Friday May 31
9:30pmDirector: Michael Haneke
2000 / 117min / 35mm
A hostile encounter on the streets of Paris sends ripples running through the various vignettes that comprise Haneke’s first French-language film, a study in simmering rage, racial inequality, migrant displacement, and failures of communication that’s…
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Kashima Paradise
Saturday June 1
12:10pmDirector: Yann Le Masson, Benie Deswarte
1973 / 110min / DCP
Introduced by writer Ethan Spigland on Saturday, June 1st
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The Mole People
Saturday June 1
12:45pmDirector: Virgil W. Vogel
1956 / 77min / 16mm
A trim, fleet Universal-International sci-fi thriller from the ’50s heyday of drive-in creature features, Vogel’s film follows two archaeologists played by John Agar and Hugh Beaumont on their discovery of a hollow world beneath the Earth’s…
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A Season in France
Saturday June 1
2:30pmDirector: Mahamet-Saleh Haroun
2017 / 100min / DCP
Chadean filmmaker Haroun’s first film set in his long-time adoptive home of France is an understated but enormously affecting depiction of the travails faced by undocumented African immigrants in Europe, starring Eriq Ebouaney as a stubbornly prideful,…
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Chris Marker Shorts
Saturday June 1
2:30pmDirector: Chris Marker
1988 / 73min / Digital
Introduction and Q&A featuring artist and writer Paul Chan and filmmaker and poet Lynne Sachs, moderated by Sadie Starnes
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Certified Copy
Saturday June 1
4:45pmDirector: Abbas Kiarostami
2010 / 106min / DCP
Returning to shot-on-film narrative cinema after a decade of video experiments to make his first film outside of Iran, Kiarostami traveled to Tuscany to team with Juliette Binoche, who gives a disarmingly raw performance as an antiques dealer whose path…
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The Oak
Saturday June 1
7:15pmDirector: Lucian Pintillie
1992 / 105min / DCP
The first film made by the late Pintilie in his native Romania after a two-decade-long Parisian exile, The Oak is regarded as one of the key works in the country’s post-communist cinema, a fierce, full-throttle road movie/apocalyptic farce in which…
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Lost Highway
Saturday June 1
9:40pmDirector: David Lynch
1997 / 134min / DCP
Few filmmakers have shown themselves so adept at plumbing the depths of the subconscious without coming up for air as Lynch, whose Lost Highway—inspired loosely by still-fresh coverage of the O. J. Simpson trial—begins as a dark domestic drama…
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Saturday June 1
9:45pmDirector: Guy Ritchie
1998 / 107min / 35mm
The movie that made stars of ex-footballer Vinnie Jones and former Commonwealth Games diver Jason Statham while making director Ritchie’s blend of high-octane, post-Tarantino pulp fiction, Cockney swagger, and coal-black comedy into a name brand,…
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Paranoid Park
Friday June 7
2:30pmDirector: Gus Van Sant
2007 / 85min / DCP
Adapting Blake Nelson’s Y.A. novel of the same name, Van Sant renders the youth gathering place of the skate park a voluptuous dreamscape with the help of cinematographers Chris Doyle and Rain Kathy Li. Teenaged skate rat Alex—Gabe Nevins, leading a…
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Clockers
Friday June 7
3:00pmDirector: Spike Lee
1995 / 128min / 35mm
Based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Bronx-born novelist Richard Price, who co-wrote the screenplay with Lee, the harrowing police procedural Clockers starts with the murder of a street-level pusher in the Brooklyn housing projects, then follows…
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Topkapi
Friday June 7
4:30pmDirector: Jules Dassin
1964 / 120min / 35mm
After practically defining the modern heist film with his Paris-set Rififi, American expat Dassin set out to one-up—and make light of—his own triumph, adapting an Eric Ambler novel (The Light of Day) into a spoof suspenser about a crack team of…
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Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
Friday June 7
5:40pmDirector: Errol Morris
1997 / 80min / 35mm
A singular entry in Morris’s already singularly unusual career, Fast, Cheap & Out of Control focuses on four men with uncommon occupations: a topiary gardener, a wild animal tamer, an MIT scientist specializing in robotics, and an expert in naked…
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Beijing Watermelon
Director: Nobuhiko Obayashi
1989 / 135min / DCP
Obayashi’s warm, bustling, slice-of-life picture, based on the real-life story of a Tokyo greengrocer who put his own livelihood at risk to extend help to a succession of poor Chinese exchange students in Japan, tapped into widespread feelings of…
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Mélo
Friday June 7
7:30pmDirector: Alain Resnais
1986 / 112min / DCP
Resnais blurs the line between cinematic technique and theatrical artifice in his acclaimed adaptation of Henri Bernstein’s classic play about a doomed love triangle in 1920s Paris. Celebrated concert violinists Pierre (Pierre Arditi) and Marcel (André…
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House
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
1977 / 88min / 35mm
A demonic house cat is only one of the cast of outlandish characters in Ôbayashi’s psychedelic ghost story in which a schoolgirl and six of her teen classmates go on a trip to her ailing aunt’s mist-wreathed country house and find themselves caught…
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Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive
Friday June 7
9:50pmDirector: Wayne Wang, Spencer Nakasako
1989 / 83min / DCP
Wang’s wildly experimental, Nouvelle vague, punk rock, and hardboiled fiction-inspired indie noir follows a young man (Spencer Nakasako) who’s been hired to accompany a silver briefcase—its contents unknown—from the United States to Hong Kong, the…
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Downstream to Kinshasa
Saturday June 8
2:15pmDirector: Dieudo Hamadi
2020 / 90min / DCP
The first Congolese film to be made an Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival, Hamadi’s morally urgent documentary follows a journey undertaken by victims of the Six-Day War of 2000 waged between the Ugandan and Rwandan armies in the city of…
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Suburban Birds
Saturday June 8
4:00pmDirector: Qiu Sheng
2019 / 118min / DCP
Qui’s feature debut is a bold and beguiling opening salvo from a singular talent, twining together two distinct narrative strands—one involving land surveyors preparing for the laying of subway tracks investigating a strange phenomenon in the sinking…
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National Diploma
Saturday June 8
4:15pmDirector: Dieudo Hamadi
2014 / 90min / DCP
Expelled from high school for unpaid tuition fees, a group of young men and women in the city of Kisangani attempt to prepare on their own to take the national exam, which they must pass in order to have any hope of post-secondary education. A sharply…
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Labyrinth of Cinema
Saturday June 8
9:00pm2019 / 179min / DCP
A breathless cinematic journey through Japan’s past, Labyrinth of Cinema finds Obayashi using every trick in his book to create an awe-inspiring, visually resplendent anti-war epic that urges us to consider cinema as a means to change history.
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Sibyl
Sunday June 9
2:30pmDirector: Justine Triet
2019 / 101min / DCP
Four years before her Palme d’Or triumph with Anatomy of a Fall, Triet produced this comic thriller starring Virginie Efira in the title role as a psychotherapist who, fed up with her métier, decides to return to writing fiction—and, in the person of…
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Mama Colonel preceded by Zero Tolerance
Sunday June 9
5:30pmDirector: Dieudo Hamadi
2010 / 90min / DCP
The title of Hamadi’s film comes from the nickname of its subject, Honorine Manyole, a colonel in the Congolese police force heading a unit specializing in the protection of minors and the prevention and prosecution of sexual violence, seen as she…
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