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June 1 - 7 at the Trylon
In 2022, the American Cinematheque launched its series Bleak Week, featuring films that explore the darkest sides of humanity. We are pleased to again be presenting seven masterpieces of despair in seven days in collaboration with the American Cinematheque. See trylon.org for all titles and showtimes. These screenings are presented in collaboration with the American Cinematheque. 2026 tickets will go on sale here on April 1st.
(1997, 112m) dir Atom Egoyan w/Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Caerthan Banks. A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children and an ambulance-chasing lawyer (Holm) looks to profit on their misery. Both beautiful and devastating, we are pleased to present the premier of the restoration of Egoyan's long unavailable…
Screenings: June 6 9:30
(1988, 109m, Japanese w/ English subtitles) dir Toshio Matsumoto w/Yôji Matsuda, Shijaku Katsura, Hideo Murota. A man wakes in an asylum with no memory and is informed that he killed his bride on their wedding day. His memory seems to be tied to a dark manuscript, the Dogra Magra. Reality and fantasy blur in the midst…
Screenings: June 7 4:00, June 10 9:30
(1984, 112m) dir Mick Jackson w/Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale, David Brierly. Upon its 1984 premiere Threads shocked the entirety of the BBC's viewership. Months later, it became the most-watched cable program in American history. Unrelenting in its depiction of the unraveling of society after the working-class city of Sheffield, UK undergoes nuclear attack, Threads is just as…
Screenings: June 7 9:30, June 8 8:30
(1979, 100m) dir Jeff Kanew w/Hal Horbrook, Louise Fletcher. Paul Steward (Holbrook) has reached his breaking point and today is the day he has decided to kill himself, his wife and their children, but first he'll delve into all of his internal depravity. Unavailable to screen for nearly four decades after shocking audiences in the late 1970s, Natural…
Screenings: June 9 9:30
(1971, 110m) dir Jerry Schatzberg w/Al Pacino, Kitty Winn, Alan Vint. At the intersection of Broadway, Amsterdam and 70th on the Upper West Side lies Sherman Square, or as the heroin addicts knew it - Needle Park. Bobby (Pacino) is a young addict who falls for Helen (Winn). But, as a shortage of heroin (a panic)…
Screenings: June 11 9:15
(1960, 90m) dir Ingmar Bergman w/Max Von Sydow, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitta Pettersson. Töre's (Von Sydow) daughter is brutally raped and murdered. By a bizarre twist of fate, the murderers later ask him and his wife for food and shelter. Bergman's harrowing film is a meditation on cruelty, grief and vengeance. 7:00 9:00 $8
Screenings: June 12 7:00, 9:00
(2007, 157m) dir David Fincher w/Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo. As a serial murderer terrorizes the Bay Area from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, cartoonist Robert Graysmith (Gyllenhaal) obsesses over finding the so-called Zodiac killer. Spectacularly eerie and discomfiting, Zodiac is Fincher’s coup de grâce. MON 7:00 SAT 11:00AM
Screenings: June 1 7:00, June 6 11:00
(2014, 126m, Ukrainian Sign Language) dir Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi w/Hryhoriy Fesenko, Yana Novikova, Rosa Babiy. Sergei (Fesenko) joins a boarding school for the deaf in Kiev and attempts to conform but experiences unbounded levels of cruelty. Director Slaboshpytskyi uses no audible words, subtitles, or score, creating a truly unique experience. Unsettling and deeply disturbing, The Tribe…
Screenings: June 2 7:00, 9:30
(1983, 90m) dir Lynne Littman w/Jane Alexander, William Devane, Roxana Zal, Rossie Harris. When a nuclear bomb devastates San Francisco, the Wetherlys and their small California town are cut off from all communication. Carol (Alexander) cares for her family and contends with the fallout as best she can. Stark and genuinely devastating, Testament is the…
Screenings: June 3 9:00
(1952, 133m, Japanese w/English subtitles) dir Kenji Mizoguchi w/Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai, Toshirô Mifune. This tragic tale follows Oharu (Tanaka), a stunning lady-in-waiting for the nobility. When she falls for a man below her social status, her entire family is exiled and must suffer the cruelest consequences. One of Mizoguchi’s best. 7:00
Screenings: June 4 7:00
(1969, 95m, Czech w/English subtitles) dir Juraj Herz w/Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlasta Chramostová, Jana Stehnová. Bleak does not begin to describe this long-banned tale of a Czech crematorium director obsessed with order and seduced by Nazi ideology. This restoration brings to life the fabulous camerawork and impressionistic set designs of Herz’s masterpiece. 7:00 9:00
Screenings: June 5 7:00, 9:00
(1994, 439m, Hungarian w/English subtitles) dir Béla Tarr w/Mihály Vig, Putyi Horváth. Tarr’s seminal work follows a small agricultural collective in a postapocalyptic landscape after the fall of Communism. Shot in stunning black and white and filled with exquisitely composed and lyrical long takes, Sátántangó unfolds in twelve distinct movements—it is both transfixing and uncompromising.…
Screenings: June 6 2:00
(1985, 142m, Belarusian, Russian, German w/English subtitles) dir Elem Klimov w/Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova. In 1943, fourteen-year-old Flyora (Kravchenko) proudly joined the Soviet resistance after Nazi forces invaded his small Belarusian village. Simultaneously devastating and beautiful, Come and See is the most evocative vision of the idea that war is hell. 1:00 4:00
Screenings: June 7 1:00, 4:00