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Rififi
Director: 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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Kaili Blues
Saturday May 4
12:45pmDirector: Bi Gan
2015 / 109min / DCP
Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan’s award-winning directorial debut is an audacious work that announced a major new filmmaking talent. Country doctor Chen Sheng sets out on a train journey to search for his brother’s abandoned child, only to find himself in a…
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Amour
Saturday May 4
3:00pmDirector: Michael Haneke
2012 / 127min / DCP
For their study of an elderly couple—played by icons of French cinema Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, both superlative—facing final separation by cruel death, Haneke and cinematographer Darius Khondji created a litany of framings that feel…
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Messiah of Evil
Saturday May 4
3:30pmDirector: Willard Huyck
1974 / 90min / DCP
Introduction by Jane Schoenbrun Friday, May 3
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Waking Life
Saturday May 4
5:40pmDirector: Richard Linklater
2001 / 99min / 35mm
The first fully rotoscoped feature film—that is, a film that animates original live-action footage—Linklater’s Waking Life follows Wiley Wiggens as he embarks on a wending, digressive psychic odyssey through a fluid, ever-changing dreamscape…
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Deep Cover
Director: 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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The Big Picture
Saturday May 4
7:50pmDirector: Christopher Guest
1989 / 100min / 35mm
“The Big Picture is a hysterical, timeless, and spot on satire of the entertainment industry—and a great lesson in staying true to oneself. Absolutely brilliant, I make reference to it often.” —Victoria Ashley, Metrograph Events team …
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El Topo
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
1970 / 125min / 35mm
Chilean-born mime-turned-filmmaker Jodorowsky plays the title role in this acid Western staple of the midnight movies, strapping on the six-shooter as a lone gunfighter—his name means “The Mole” in Spanish—traveling across a psychedelic desert…
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The Return of the Living Dead
Saturday May 4
10:30pmDirector: Dan O'Bannon
1981 / 91min / DCP
Introduction by Jane Schoenbrun on Saturday, May 4th
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Sunday May 5
11:00amDirector: 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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Floating Weeds
Sunday May 5
1:00pmDirector: Yasujirô Ozu
1959 / 119min / DCP
Ozu’s remake of his own 1934 silent A Story of Floating Weeds adds color, the eye of the brilliant Rashomon and Ugetsu cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, and of course Kyō, playing the mistress of the head of a kabuki theater troupe who’s embittered to…
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Sexy Beast
Sunday May 5
5:45pmDirector: Jonathan Glazer
2000 / 89min / 35mm
Retired gangster Gary “Gal” Dove (Ray Winstone) has put away his safecracker’s tools for an early retirement at the Spanish seaside—or so he thinks, until old associate Don Logan (Ben Kingsley), a snarling, violent lunatic whose career in the…
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Bound
Sunday May 5
7:40pmDirector: Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
1996 / 109min / DCP
Sparks fly when ex-con plumber Corky (Gina Gershon) first locks eyes with Violet (Jennifer Tilly), femme moll to crime kingpin Caesar (Joe Pantoliano). Following this meet-cute, things quickly get nasty, as the lady lovers lay down a plan to run away…
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Art College 1994
Monday May 6
7:45pmDirector: 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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Elevator to the Gallows
Tuesday May 7
5:50pmDirector: Louis Malle
1958 / 91min / DCP
A turning point in the careers of both director Malle, making his feature debut, and star Jeanne Moreau, Elevator to the Gallows takes place over the course of one sleepless night in Paris, when Moreau and lover Maurice Ronet’s plot to do away with her…
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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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Mommy
Friday May 10
2:10pmDirector: Xavier Dolan
2014 / 139min / DCP
Québécois enfant terrible Dolan was 25 years old when he took home the Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for his anguished, ardent Monreal-set melodrama, shot in a distinctive, smartphone-style 1:1 aspect ratio, about a vivacious widow (Anne…
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Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
Director: 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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Three Crowns of the Sailor
Friday May 10
4:50pmDirector: Raúl Ruiz
1983 / 117min / DCP
A callow student, scared stiff of the consequences of the murder he has just committed, allows himself to be dragged to a dance hall by a squiffed sailor who insists on making the shaken youth a captive audience to the recounting of his life story, a…
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First Comes Love
Friday May 10
7:15pmDirector: Nina Davenport
2013 / 105min / DCP
Introduction + Q&A with filmmaker Nina Davenport on Friday, May 10th.
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Batman Returns
Director: Tim Burton
1996 / 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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Following
Friday May 10
9:45pmDirector: Christopher Nolan
1998 / 69min / DCP
For the opening act of his world-conquering career, Nolan summoned up all the precision and intelligence of his later work on a shoestring budget, crafting this taut, hard-edged black-and-white neo-noir—shot on 16mm, with Nolan himself acting as…
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AGGRO DR1FT
Friday May 10
9:50pmDirector: 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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Shoplifters
Saturday May 11
12:00pmDirector: 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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3 Women
Saturday May 11
2:45pmDirector: 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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River of Grass
Saturday May 11
5:15pmDirector: Kelly Reichardt
1994 / 76min / DCP
Q&A with filmmaker Kelly Reichardt on Saturday, May 11th
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Cape Fear
Saturday May 11
5:30pmDirector: 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
Saturday May 11
10:45pmDirector: 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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Volver
Sunday May 12
11:30amDirector: 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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The Kids are All Right
Sunday May 12
2:00pmDirector: Lisa Cholodenko
2010 / 106min / DCP
Longtime lesbian couple Nic and Jules (Annette Bening and Julianne Moore), parents of two teenagers fathered by the same anonymous sperm donor, have their slightly stagnant relationship shaken up when their 16-year-old son asks for information about his…
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Wendy and Lucy
Sunday May 12
3:15pmDirector: Kelly Reichardt
2008 / 80min / DCP
Described by Reichardt as a post-Katrina movie, Wendy and Lucy is an unsentimental portrayal of life on the fringes in the United States, following down-on-her-luck Wendy (a sublimely stoic Michelle Williams, often carrying the film alone), her pet dog,…
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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
Director: 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
Friday May 17
4:00pmDirector: 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
Friday May 17
4:30pmDirector: 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
Friday May 17
6:00pmDirector: 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
Friday May 17
8:15pmDirector: 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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Fallen Angels
Director: 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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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 / DCP
Q&A with director Kelly Reichardt in person moderated by Ed Halter on February 11th at 7:15pm
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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 The Amateurist
Saturday May 25
8:30pmDirector: Miranda July, Mara Mckevitt
2023 / 60min / 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
MK2 founder Karmitz’s last of three features as a director was this fiery documentary-style fiction about overworked and underpaid female workers at a textile mill who, pushed to the breaking point by their boss, decide to take him hostage and occupy…
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Suture
Friday May 31
9:15pmDirector: 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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