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(2000, DCP, 173m, Mandarin w/English subtitles) dir Edward Yang w/Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin, Issei Ogata. Following a Taipei family over the course of a year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral, Yi Yi is a triumph that assured Yang’s place as a great filmmaker before his untimely death in 2007. 7:00
(1978, DCP, 92m) dir Martin Rosen w/John Hurt, Richard Briers, Ralph Richardson. This adaptation of Richard Adams’s novel follows rabbits Hazel (Hurt) and Fiver (Briers) as they attempt to lead their colony through the terrors of the human world. FRI 7:00 SAT 9:00 SUN 3:00
(1982, DCP, 103m) dir Martin Rosen w/John Hurt, Christopher Benjamin, James Bolam. After being inhumanely experimented on, two dogs, Snitter (Hurt) and Rowf (Benjamin), escape from a testing facility. Tragedy befalls them at every step, as a rumor spreads that they may be carrying the bubonic plague. FRI 9:00 SAT 7:00 SUN 5:00
(1983, DCP, 166m, Mandarin w/English subtitles) dir Edward Yang w/Sylvia Chang, Ming Hsu, Lieh Lee. Two old friends catch up after a mystery leaves them wanting answers. Yang’s debut feature makes clear how a patriarchal corporate system leaves women few choices. 7:00
(1999, DCP, 94m) dir Lynne Ramsay w/William Eadie, Michelle Stewart, Tommy Flanagan. In Glasgow during a 1973 garbage strike, an impoverished young boy (Eadie) witnesses the accidental drowning of a friend and must live with his guilt. FRI 7:00 SAT 9:00 SUN 3:00
(2002, DCP, 97m) dir Lynne Ramsay w/Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott, Linda McGuire. After the suicide of her boyfriend, Morvern (Morton) escapes to Ibiza. Chilling and melancholy, Ramsay’s film is equal parts road movie and character study. FRI 9:00 SAT 7:00 SUN 5:00
(1967, DCP, 150m) dir Robert Aldrich w/Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes. On the eve of D-Day, a group of convicted killers is conscripted to go behind enemy lines and take out Nazi officers. Aldrich’s essential “guys on a mission” movie excels partly because of Borgnine’s scene-stealing General Worden. 7:00
(1975, 16mm, 103m) dir David Burton Morris and Victoria Wozniak w/Chris Mulkey, John Jenkins, Linda Jenkins. Billy (Mulkey) and Eddie (Jenkins) are mechanics at a St. Paul car dealership who chafe as their 20s slip away in dead-end jobs. Unassuming and observant, Loose Ends deserves to be recognized as a superb example of 1970s independent […]
(1988, 35mm, 86m) dir David Burton Morris w/Chris Mulkey, John Jenkins, Karen Landry. The sequel to Loose Ends finds working-class Billy (Mulkey) and Eddie (Jenkins) ten years on, still stuck. Billy asks a reluctant Eddie to accompany him on a visit to his pregnant girlfriend (Landry) to tell her about his wife and two kids. […]
(1982, 35mm, 97m) dir David Burton Morris and Victoria Wozniak w/Peter Nelson, Chuck McQuary, Bernard Baldan. Returning home to Minneapolis in 1968 after being kicked out of Princeton, Matt (Nelson) receives his draft notice. Though relatively unknown, this Sundance Grand Prize winner is both disarming and intelligent. SAT 7:00 SUN 5:00
(1969, 35mm, 135m) dir Sam Peckinpah w/William Holden, Robert Ryan, Warren Oates. As the sun sets on the Old West, a group of aging outlaws escape to Mexico, on the run from bounty hunters and soldiers alike. Peckinpah’s elegiac and hyper-violent western is a 1960s masterpiece. These screenings are presented in partnership with the Cult […]
(1972, DCP, 90m, French w/English subtitles) dir Mireille Dansereau w/Liliane Lemaître-Auger, Véronique Le Flaguais, Jean-François Guité. Over a Montreal summer, Isabelle (Lemaître-Auger) meets animator Virginie (Le Flaguais), and the two become fast friends. Dansereau’s debut film (the first feature directed by a woman in Quebec) is an experimental triumph never released in the U.S. FRI/SAT […]
(1973, DCP, 118m) dir Robert Aldrich w/Lee Marvin, Keith Carradine, Charles Tyner. In the depths of the Great Depression, sadistic conductor Shack (Borgnine) will stop at nothing to keep hobos off his train. A-No.1 (Marvin) is set on challenging Shack and becoming “the Emperor of the North Pole” (the world’s best hobo, ruling a vast, […]
(1962, DCP, 119m) dir Orson Welles w/Anthony Perkins, Arnoldo Foà, Jess Han. Josef K. (Perkins) finds himself arrested but is never told of the charges. The Trial, which Welles believed to be his greatest film, was for years available only in poor-quality prints. This restoration returns it to its original glory. FRI/SAT 7:00 9:15 SUN […]
(1955, 35mm 90m) dir Delbert Mann w/Betsy Blair, Joe Mantell. Marty (Borgnine), an easily ruffled unmarried butcher, has given up hope of finding love—when along comes schoolteacher Clara Snyder (Blair). Winner of the Palme D’Or and Best Picture Oscar, Marty is brought to life by the sensitive performances of Borgnine (who won the Best Actor […]
(1987, DCP, 98m) dir Rob Reiner w/Robin Wright, Cary Elwes, Chris Sarandon. A farm boy (Elwes) embarks on an “inconceivable” quest to save the beautiful Princess Buttercup (Wright) from the evil Prince Humperdinck (Sarandon). Filled with revenge, chases, escapes, and miracles. And Carol Kane. FRI 7:00 SAT 9:30 SUN 3:00
(2007, DCP, 127m) dir Matthew Vaughn w/Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro. To prove his love to the village beauty, Tristan (Cox) ventures into a fantasy world called Stormhold to capture a fallen star (Danes) in this film based on Neil Gaiman’s 1997 novel. FRI 9:00 SAT 7:00 SUN 5:00
(1972, DCP, 117m) dir Ronald Neame w/Gene Hackman, Shelley Winters, Leslie Nielsen. The aging cruise ship Poseidon is set to sail one last time before being scrapped. Its industrialist owners order the captain (Nielsen) to travel at full speed without sufficient ballast. Though countless disaster movies have tried to copy Poseidon, none has equaled it. […]
(1974, 35mm, 112m) w/Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber. A wealthy rancher offers a million dollars for the head of the man who got his daughter pregnant. Seedy barroom pianist Bennie (Oates) heads to Mexico, determined to claim the bounty. FRI/SAT 7:00 9:15 SUN 3:00 5:15
(1973, DCP, 115m) w/Kris Kristofferson, James Coburn, Jason Robards, Bob Dylan. Sheriff Garrett (Coburn) is forced to hunt down his old friend Billy the Kid (Kristofferson). Peckinpah’s last great western was heavily edited by the studio and panned by critics. Finally available in its longer, better cut, it has become one of Peckinpah’s most hailed […]
(1962, 35mm, 94m) w/Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley. Judd (McCrea) is hired to transport gold through dangerous territory, not realizing that his partners have other plans. Peckinpah based Judd’s character on his father and reworked the script to reflect his own ranch experiences. The film culminates in Judd’s redemption amid a hail of bullets. […]
(1970, DCP, 121m) w/Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, Slim Pickens. Cable Hogue (Robards) is a prospector left for dead in the desert by his double-crossing partners. But he discovers a clear spring and becomes wealthy selling water to stagecoach travelers. Funny and emotionally resonant, this is a different kind of Peckinpah film but no less essential. […]
Filmmaker Azza El-Hassan founded the Void Project in 2018 to explore the presence and absence of visual archives in wartime narratives. The project focuses on restoring and reimagining existing and lost films. The examples in this series focus specifically on visualizing Palestine. To learn more about the Void Project, visit https://www.thevoidproject.org/. JERUSALEM, FLOWER OF ALL […]
(1972, DCP, 123m) w/Steve McQueen, Ali McGraw, Ben Johnson. Parole board chief Jack Beynon (Johnson) agrees to let Doc McCoy (McQueen) out of prison if he’ll pull a job for him. When things don’t go as planned, Doc and his wife, Carol (McGraw), need to settle their differences and find a way out. FRI/SAT 7:00 […]