Palme d’Or Favorites – Cannes Film Festival 2K restoration with a 5.1 mix supervised by Walter Murch Lonely wiretapping expert and devout Catholic Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is hired to record a seemingly innocuous conversation in San Francisco’s Union Square between two lovers. Upon re-hearing the tapes, however, Caul believes he may be putting the […]
In collaboration with Panorama-Cinéma Czechoslovak New Wave iconoclast Juraj Herz’s terrifying, darkly comic vision of the horrors of the Nazi racial ideology stars a supremely chilling Rudolf Hrušínský as the pathologically morbid Karel Kopfrkingl, a crematorium director in 1930s Prague who believes fervently that death offers the only true relief from human suffering. When he […]
*As part of the Post-Moderne Ciné-club – choice of Pascal Plante “My cinema bible. This colossal work by Michael Cimino set before, during and after the Vietnam War (the first major cinematographic work to address this conflict) prides itself on bringing together one of the most incredible collections of American actors of the most prosperous […]
Fundraising screening followed by a conversation with Cynthia Kreichati, anthropologist (in French) 100% of the proceeds will go to MTL 2 Lebanon THE DIARY OF A SKY unfolds an atmospheric symphony of violence over Beirut, revealing the haunting fusion of incessant Israeli military flights and the hum of generators during blackouts. This 45-minute video essay […]
New 4K Restoration The film follows two troubled teenage lovers, Amy Blue (Rose McGowan) and Jordan White (James Duval), who pick up a young handsome drifter named Xavier Red (Johnathon Schaech). After Xavier accidentally kills a store clerk, the trio embarks on a journey full of sex, violence, and people from Amy’s past. A Road […]
Constance works for an independent radio station where she broadcasts sound creations of political character. She lives with Eugene, an aspiring writer, voluntarily withdrawn from the outside world. Each week, the couple welcome Beatrice, a lonesome and tragically-minded homeless young woman, in their modest apartment. Destiny makes Constance and Beatrice stumble upon Raoul Debord, a […]
In collaboration with RIDM Contemporary Ukrainian cinema Anna and her four children live in a Ukrainian town on the edge of the Donbass war zone. They have stayed despite the bombardments, and never stop trying to enjoy life and the pleasures of being together. Iryna Tsilyk takes us inside their lives just as the eldest […]
The Eight Mountains is the story of a friendship. Of children becoming men who try to erase the footprints of their fathers, but who, through the twists and turns they take, always end up returning home. Pietro is a boy from the city, Bruno is the last child of a forgotten mountain village. Over the […]
Last screening: January 5 An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past. Featuring a towering, deeply moving performance by Tilda Swinton, acclaimed filmmaker Joanna Hogg’s beguiling latest film is a brilliant and captivating exploration of parental relationships and […]