Part of our summer cycle L’été au Cinéma, Volume 2! Alongside Mad Max and Walkabout, Wake in Fright is widely acknowledged as one of the seminal films in the development of modern Australian cinema. Directed by Ted Kotcheff (First Blood) and starring Donald Pleasence (Halloween), Wake in Fright tells the nightmarish story of a schoolteacher’s […]
In collaboration with Fantasia Somewhere in a typical American suburb – a big house and an attic bedroom containing an unknowable adolescent universe orbiting around the World Wide Web – a lonely teen stares intently at her computer screen. “Casey here. Today I’m going to take the World’s Fair Challenge.” A worrisome ritual, at once […]
New 4K Restoration One of the major achievements of twenty-first-century cinema thus far, Béla Tarr’s mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by the celebrated writer and frequent Tarr collaborator László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown era in an unnamed village, […]
New 4K Restoration Mauritanian French director Med Hondo’s West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty proved a watershed event for African cinema—the continent’s first musical as well as a sui generis amalgam of historical epic, Broadway revue, Brechtian theater, and joyous agitprop. Using an enormous mock slave ship as the film’s only soundstage, Hondo mounts […]
In collaboration with the FNC Lisa, a pharmacist, collides with soccer player Giorgi in the middle of the street. Bang, it’s love! The two young people make plans to meet up again the next day. Alas, their assignation is subject to an uncanny curse that will turn things sideways. Rendered unrecognizable through altered appearances, they […]
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and the Screenwriting Award at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival, WHAT HAPPENED WAS… is Tom Noonan’s directorial debut; a darkly humorous take on dating dread. Featuring powerhouse performances by Noonan and Karen Sillas as two lonely hearts spending one claustrophobic Friday night together in an imposing apartment, the film […]
In collaboration with the FNC A love triangle made up of two young women and the man they both covet, an attempted literary seduction that takes an unexpected turn, and a chance meeting due to mistaken identity . . . After Asako I and II (2015), the Japanese director once again tackles the torments of […]
Adam is a 15-year-old teenager who has a special quirk – his body changes in reaction to mockery and negative comments he receives from those around him. The accumulation of his physical changes only adds an extra layer of complexity to those already present in his life. *Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2023
4K Restoration In 1977, college graduates Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) and Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) share a contentious car ride from Chicago to New York, during which they argue about whether men and women can ever truly be strictly platonic friends. Ten years later, Harry and Sally meet again at a bookstore, and in the […]
Andrew Neyman is a 19-year-old drummer, dreaming of greatness but unsure if his dream will ever come true. He attends a cutthroat music conservatory and practices at all hours of the day, but he’s haunted by the failed writing career of his father and wonders if he has what it takes to leave a mark. […]