All SWEET SIXTEEN screenings to be paired with Québec short film GABY’S HILLS by Zoé Pelchat GABY’S HILLS (Zoé Pelchat, 2023, 21 minutes) Thirteen-year-old Gaby arrives in the Magdalen Islands to spend the summer with her father, as she does every year. She is thrilled to find the sea she loves so much, the childhood […]
Veronica Lake 100th anniversary Tired of churning out lightweight comedies, Hollywood director John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea) decides to make O Brother, Where Art Thou?—a serious, socially responsible film about human suffering. After his producers point out that he knows nothing of hardship, Sullivan hits the road disguised as a hobo. En route to enlightenment, […]
Part of our summer cycle L’Été au cinéma, Volume 2! From writer-director Michel Franco comes a simmering, suspenseful sharp jolt: Alice and Neil Bennett are the core of a wealthy British family on vacation in Acapulco with younger members Colin and Alexa until a distant emergency cuts their trip short. When one relative disrupts the […]
The audio installation Cinéma Moderne, novembre 2023 from Julie Faubert will be presented before the November 17th and 19th screenings. Only the following ticketholders will be able to witness the audio installation (by arriving 30 minutes before the screening) : B3, B4, B5, C3, C4, C5, D3, D4, D5. ________ An aging silent film queen […]
Presented as part of Suoni per Il Popolo festival Filmmaker Daniel Weintraub and co-producer Ione in attendance Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros tells the story of the iconic composer, performer, teacher, philosopher, technological innovator and humanitarian, Pauline Oliveros. She was one of the world’s original electronic musicians, the only female amongst notable post-war […]
Along the banks of the Suzhou River, which winds precariously through Shanghai, Marda (Jia Hongshen) falls in love with a dramatically beautiful young woman named Moudan (Zhou Xun). When he tries to kidnap her in order to demand ransom money from her rich father, she escapes him, jumping in to the river and disappearing forever. […]
Admired by hundreds of thousands of people on social media, Sylwia is a renowned trainer and influencer whose face is familiar to everyone across Poland. Despite the ongoing attention she receives, Sylwia struggles with a deep sadness she tries to hide from the world – at least until she finally bursts into tears in front […]
Admired by hundreds of thousands of people on social media, Sylwia is a renowned trainer and influencer whose face is familiar to everyone across Poland. Despite the ongoing attention she receives, Sylwia struggles with a deep sadness she tries to hide from the world – at least until she finally bursts into tears in front […]
New 4K Restoration After discovering the murdered body of a young girl deep in a mountainous forest, a hardened homicide detective pushes himself to increasingly obsessive ends in his quest to catch the serial killer – known only as “the giant” — responsible for the crime. A much admired but long unavailable masterpiece by influential […]
Edward Yang’s second feature is a mournful anatomy of a city caught between the past and the present. Made in collaboration with Yang’s fellow New Taiwan Cinema master Hou Hsiao-hsien, who cowrote the screenplay and helped finance the project, Taipei Story chronicles the growing estrangement between a washed-up baseball player (Hou, in a rare on-screen […]