NEW 4K RESTORATION Two of Hong Kong cinema’s most iconic leading men, Tony Leung and Andy Lau, face off in the breathtaking thriller that revitalized the city-state’s twenty-first-century film industry, launched a blockbuster franchise, and inspired Martin Scorsese’s The Departed. The set-up is diabolical in its simplicity: two undercover moles—a police officer (Leung) assigned to […]
February 1st screening with filmmaker Oksana Karpovych in attendance Ukrainian intelligence services have intercepted thousands of phone calls Russian soldiers made from the battlefield in Ukraine to their families and friends in Russia, painting a stark picture of the cruelty of war in a dizzying emotional tension. Juxtaposed with images of the destruction caused by […]
Maria, Dan and Ilinca take part in their regular end-of-the-year humanitarian trip, driving an SUV along the mountain dirt roads of the Romanian village of Întregalde. They help a lonely old man reach a sawmill where he supposedly works. But when their car gets stuck in a ditch in the woods, the sawmill proves to […]
4K Restoration In Memory of Donald Sutherland (1935-2024) The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion from a small town to the city of San Fransisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are in some way different. When […]
February 18th screening with filmmaker Olivier Godin in attendance Ducarmel (Emery Habwineza) is an anachronistic firefighter, a quotidian poet, and an expert soup-maker in his spare time. He also happens to play in a competitive mixed basketball league. There’s only one problem to his life: finding a babysitter to look after his daughter. Moreover, when […]
Olivier Assayas’s live-wire international breakthrough stars a magnetic Maggie Cheung as a version of herself: a Hong Kong action movie star who arrives in Paris to play the latex-clad lead in a remake of Louis Feuillade’s classic 1915 crime serial Les vampires. What she finds is a behind-the-scenes tangle of barely controlled chaos as egos […]
“A hidden gem from this year’s Sundance, this stylistically inventive documentary from Roman Liubyi unfolds like a thrilling investigation of the suspicious crash of the Malaysian Airlines plane MH17 which was flying over Ukraine in 2014. What do these butterfly-shaped shrapnels visible on the aircraft’s metallic carcass signify? Rarely have we seen the inner workings […]
Part of our monthly series C’EST ARRIVÉ PRÈS DE CHEZ NOUS Presented with Martin Edralin’s short film HOLE (2014) Still living with his aging parents and docilely listing towards his 50th birthday, Joshua (Rogelio Balagtas), a Filipino immigrant, prays every night for God to rid him of his shyness. In the wake of a tragedy, […]
Frank Capra’s perennial holiday classic is one of the most beloved films of all time and the quintessential “Capraesque” comedy/drama. James Stewart is Bedford Falls banker George Bailey, who is driven by circumstances one Christmas Eve to consider suicide, only to be shown by neophyte angel Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers) what a difference his life […]