Palme d’Or Favorites – Cannes Film Festival In a village in Protestant northern Germany, on the eve of World War I, the children of a church and school run by the village schoolteacher and their families experience a series of bizarre incidents that inexplicably assume the characteristics of a punishment ritual. Who could be responsible […]
Set in the suburbs of Boulogne-Sur-Mer in northern France, The Worst Ones captures a film within a film as it follows the production of a feature whose director turns to the local Cité Picasso housing project for casting. Eager to capture performances of gritty authenticity, the director selects four working class teenagers to act in […]
Julie, 30, flirted with psychology and photography before settling on writing. She has a serious boyfriend named Aksel, a graphic novelist 10 years her senior. Their chemistry is undeniable . . . until she meets Elvind and falls madly in love. Through 12 chapters by turns playful and serious, Joachim Trier offers a journey through […]
New 4K Restoration Thelma and Louise – a bored housewife and a straight-laced waitress at a coffee shop – are best friends who are sick of what they’ve settled for. Deciding to escape the tedium of their everyday lives, the pair sneak off in Louise’s ’66 T-bird convertible for a three-day fishing trip with no […]
*Presented in collaboration with le Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC)* LAST SCREENING July 25: Original version with French subtitles Heshmat is a model husband and father. Pouya is a soldier, patiently awaiting orders. Java slips away from his military service to visit his girlfriend. Bahram goes hunting with his niece, who’s visiting from abroad. All […]
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON DOUBLE FEATURE A sprawling epic of family, faith, power and oil, THERE WILL BE BLOOD is set on the incendiary frontier of California’s turn-of-the-century petroleum boom. The story chronicles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his […]
Special screenings with filmmaker Mitchell Stafiej in attendance A car slowly navigates the winding streets and disparate airwaves of the United States of America to uncover the scars of capitalism in natural landscapes, urban environments, people, and wildlife. An intricately built meditative audio-visual experience, mixed in Dolby Atmos.
The contemporary American auteur Michael Mann’s bold artistic sensibility was already fully formed when he burst out of the gate with Thief, his debut feature. James Caan stars, in one of his most riveting performances, as a no-nonsense ex-con safecracker planning to leave the criminal world behind after one final diamond heist—but he discovers that […]
Sang-hyun is a Christian priest who, in order to help find a cure, volunteers to be infected with a virus that’s devastating Africa. He’s left with an intense craving for blood and sex. As a hospital visitor he can quench his thirst for blood, and an intense affair with unhappily married Tae-ju provides him with […]