Cinematheque Film Schedule

Japan | 2008 | Hayao Miyazaki

Never before shown at the Cinematheque, the most recent Miayazaki feature to be released in the U.S. (his new film, THE WIND RISES, is due here soon) tells of a five-year-old boy who finds and befriends a magical goldfish with the power to change into a human being. English voices by Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Liam Neeson, et al. 35mm. 101 min.

France, Germany | 2012 | Brian De Palma

Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace star in the stylish new thriller by Brian De Palma (Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface)—a sleek, seductive tale about an icy, ambitious female advertising executive and her equally driven and duplicitous protégé. Call it Mad Women. A New York Film Festival selection.“Four stars! Brian De Palma’s delirious erotic thriller…is a welcome return to the carnal shockers that he does so well.” –Time Out New York.

United States | 1942 | Ernst Lubitsch

A troupe of Polish actors led by a hammy husband-and-wife team (Jack Benny, Carole Lombard) outwit Hitler and the Nazis in this hilarious (and sometimes heartbreaking) comedy set in occupied Warsaw during WWII. Accused of bad taste in its day, this is now regarded as one of the all-time great screen comedies.

France, Germany | 2012 | Brian De Palma

Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace star in the stylish new thriller by Brian De Palma (Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface)—a sleek, seductive tale about an icy, ambitious female advertising executive and her equally driven and duplicitous protégé. Call it Mad Women. A New York Film Festival selection.“Four stars! Brian De Palma’s delirious erotic thriller…is a welcome return to the carnal shockers that he does so well.” –Time Out New York.

United Kingdom, United States | 2013 | Michael Winterbottom

The new film from the director of 24 Hour Party People, Tristram Shandy, and The Trip also stars Steve Coogan. Coogan plays Paul Raymond, a British porn tycoon who was once his nation’s wealthiest man. England’s answer to Hugh Hefner rose to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s, when he produced nudity-laden revues, published racy men’s magazines, and opened members-only clubs. But his wealth and influence came at a high personal cost, also dramatized here....

United Kingdom, United States | 2013 | Michael Winterbottom

The new film from the director of 24 Hour Party People, Tristram Shandy, and The Trip also stars Steve Coogan. Coogan plays Paul Raymond, a British porn tycoon who was once his nation’s wealthiest man. England’s answer to Hugh Hefner rose to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s, when he produced nudity-laden revues, published racy men’s magazines, and opened members-only clubs. But his wealth and influence came at a high personal cost, also dramatized here....

United States | 2013 | Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

Oscar-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, The Times of Harvey Milk ) dramatize the life of Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace in this new film that stars Amanda Seyfried as the naïve Florida teenager who became the era’s reigning porn star. The movie looks at both Lovelace’s public and private lives, which were dramatically different from each other. The great supporting cast includes Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Juno...

Belgium, France, Switzerland | 2012 | Joachim Lafosse

Winner of Magritte Awards (Belgian Oscars) for Best Film, Director, and Actress, this shattering psychological drama was also Belgium's official entry for this year's Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Based on an actual case, the movie explores why a young wife and mother (Émilie Dequenne of Rosetta) committed an unspeakable crime—killing her five children. With Niels Arestrup. "Five stars (highest rating)...A near-perfect portrait of a domestic tragedy." -Time Out New York.

United Kingdom | 1963 | Joseph Losey

This twisted class-relations classic (written by Harold Pinter) stars Dirk Bogarde as a scheming manservant who proceeds to turn the tables on his effete, moneyed, man-about-town “master” (James Fox). This sardonic, subversive, deliciously decadent upstairs/downstairs psychodrama "literally takes us through the looking glass into a charged, claustrophobic fever dream of privilege, power, and perversion" (Time Out London). “Glaciers might be melting, the polar caps might be crumbling, but not even the passage of half a...

United States | 1978 | James Nares

As part of tonight’s public opening of the new exhibition in CIA’s Reinberger Galleries (adjacent to Aitken Auditorium), we present a classic feature film by one of the four artists spotlighted in the show, James Nares. He will also attend our screening. Nares is a British-born, New York-based painter and video artist who was also a major figure in the underground "No Wave" movement that sprouted in New York’s Lower East Side during the 1970s...

United States | 2013 | Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

Oscar-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, The Times of Harvey Milk ) dramatize the life of Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace in this new film that stars Amanda Seyfried as the naïve Florida teenager who became the era’s reigning porn star. The movie looks at both Lovelace’s public and private lives, which were dramatically different from each other. The great supporting cast includes Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Juno...

United States | 1939 | Ernst Lubitsch

“Garbo laughs” (or so proclaimed the original ads) in this celebrated Lubitsch comedy starring Greta Garbo and co-written by Billy Wilder. Prior to cracking up, Garbo is a severe, no-nonsense Soviet agent who has been sent to Paris to supervise the sale of some valuable jewels for her government. While there she falls for a debonair Western playboy (Melvyn Douglas) who represents everything she hates. With Bela Lugosi.

United States | 2013 | Paul Schrader

The most notorious film of the year stars Lindsay Lohan and porn star James Deen. It was directed by Paul Schrader and written by Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho). The Canyons tells of a spoiled, sociopathic Hollywood rich kid who goes ballistic when the male star of a slasher movie he is bankrolling turns out to be an ex-lover of his live-in, plaything girlfriend. “B+…A stylishly scandalous tale of sex, lies, manipulation, moviemaking, murder, and...

United States | 2013 | David Gordon Green

Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch star in the new film from the director of George Washington, All the Real Girls, and Pineapple Express. Hailed as a return to form for David Gordon Green, it’s a minimalist, poetic comedy, set during the late 1980s, about a pair of mismatched working men—a self-important, finicky loner (Rudd) and a more relaxed, much younger party animal (Hirsch). The two of them paint lines and install markers on an isolated...

United States | 1939 | Ernst Lubitsch

“Garbo laughs” (or so proclaimed the original ads) in this celebrated Lubitsch comedy starring Greta Garbo and co-written by Billy Wilder. Prior to cracking up, Garbo is a severe, no-nonsense Soviet agent who has been sent to Paris to supervise the sale of some valuable jewels for her government. While there she falls for a debonair Western playboy (Melvyn Douglas) who represents everything she hates. With Bela Lugosi.

United States | 2013 | David Gordon Green

Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch star in the new film from the director of George Washington, All the Real Girls, and Pineapple Express. Hailed as a return to form for David Gordon Green, it’s a minimalist, poetic comedy, set during the late 1980s, about a pair of mismatched working men—a self-important, finicky loner (Rudd) and a more relaxed, much younger party animal (Hirsch). The two of them paint lines and install markers on an isolated...

United States | 2013 | Paul Schrader

The most notorious film of the year stars Lindsay Lohan and porn star James Deen. It was directed by Paul Schrader and written by Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho). The Canyons tells of a spoiled, sociopathic Hollywood rich kid who goes ballistic when the male star of a slasher movie he is bankrolling turns out to be an ex-lover of his live-in, plaything girlfriend. “B+…A stylishly scandalous tale of sex, lies, manipulation, moviemaking, murder, and...

United Kingdom | 2012 | Peter Strickland

Tonight we pay tribute to Thomas F. Peterson, Jr., who owned and operated Motion Picture Sound, Inc., a sound studio in downtown Cleveland from 1966 until 1987. (He also purchased the HD video projector that allows us to show tonight’s program!) Tom will have a conversation with Cinematheque Director John Ewing after a showing of Berberian Sound Studio, an acclaimed new British thriller that is itself set within the confines of a motion picture sound...

Italy | 1954 | Federico Fellini

Pope Francis’s all-time favorite movie (mentioned in a September interview) is this moving Fellini fable that charts the tragicomic relationship between a brutish, itinerant circus strongman (Anthony Quinn) and the simple, innocent waif (Giulietta Masina, Fellini’s wife) whom he buys, employs as a clown, and exploits as a slave. Donald Cozzens, a prominent priest, author, and professor at John Carroll University, will lead a discussion after the movie, perhaps illuminating why the first Jesuit pope...

China, Hong Kong | 2013 | Wong Kar Wai

Wong Kar Wai's breathtakingly beautiful, gloriously stylized new film recounts the life, love, and career of Chinese martial arts master Ip Man (1893-1972), who, among other achievements, taught Bruce Lee. With Tony Leung (In the Mood for Love) and Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon).

United States | 1972 | Robert Frank

Here’s an ultra-rare screening of a legendary, never released, nigh-impossible-to-see Rolling Stones movie made by fabled photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank (The Americans). In 1972 Frank followed the Stones as they toured North America promoting their album Exile on Main St.; it was their first cross-country U.S. tour since Altamont. Though the band commissioned the film—expecting a frank (so to speak), unvarnished portrait of rock ‘n’ roll life on the road—what they got proved so...

United States | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch

In Lubitsch’s celebrated pre-Code romantic comedy, a master thief (Herbert Marshall) and a beautiful pickpocket (Miriam Hopkins), both masquerading as European nobility, join forces to rob a wealthy perfume manufacturer (Kay Francis). This amoral hit was withdrawn from circulation when the Motion Picture Production Code went into effect in 1934, and remained shelved until 1968. “As close to perfection as anything I have ever seen in the movies.” –Dwight Macdonald.

France, Germany | 2012 | Margarethe von Trotta

The new film from the director of the 2009 Hildegard von Bingen drama Vision is another biopic--this time about the German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist who coined the term "the banality of evil" and made lots of enemies with her nuanced coverage of the notorious 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann. Barbara Sukowa stars.

China, Hong Kong | 2013 | Wong Kar Wai

Wong Kar Wai's breathtakingly beautiful, gloriously stylized new film recounts the life, love, and career of Chinese martial arts master Ip Man (1893-1972), who, among other achievements, taught Bruce Lee. With Tony Leung (In the Mood for Love) and Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon).

United States | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch

In Lubitsch’s celebrated pre-Code romantic comedy, a master thief (Herbert Marshall) and a beautiful pickpocket (Miriam Hopkins), both masquerading as European nobility, join forces to rob a wealthy perfume manufacturer (Kay Francis). This amoral hit was withdrawn from circulation when the Motion Picture Production Code went into effect in 1934, and remained shelved until 1968. “As close to perfection as anything I have ever seen in the movies.” –Dwight Macdonald.

United States | 1963 | various directors

1963 saw the debut of some great American underground movies (including Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures and Barbara Rubin's Christmas on Earth, both shown in October). This program contains five of them, all by major American avant-gardists, all on 16mm: Kenneth Anger's motorcycle masterpiece Scorpio Rising, an account of "Thanatos in chrome and black leather"; Bruce Baillie's lyrical To Parsifal; Stan Brakhage's camera-less Mothlight; Will Hindle's ecstatic Non Catholicam; and Marie Menken's years-in-the-making Notebook.

United States | 2011-13 | Scott Blake, Anahita Ghazvinizadeh, Mo Gorjestani

Since 1998 the quarterly publication Filmmaker has printed an annual list of “25 New Faces of Indie Film” to spotlight notable industry up-and-comers. (Past honorees have included actors Ryan Gosling and Hilary Swank and directors Miranda July and Lena Dunham, among many others.) This year, for the first time, the announcement of the list is being supplemented by a national tour featuring three of the “new faces” (all directors) and Filmmaker editor Nick Dawson. The...

Germany, United States | 2011 | Miranda July

Tonight we welcome filmmaker, artist, actress, and writer Miranda July, who will answer audience questions after a screening of her latest feature film. July’s videos, performances, and web-based projects have been seen at such venues as the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum, and in two Whitney Biennials. Her award-winning fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s, and The New Yorker, and her first feature film, Me and You and Everyone We...

United States | 2013 | Zachary Heinzerling

Here is one of the most acclaimed movies of 2013—an intricate, intimate portrait of 80-year-old Brooklyn-based Japanese artist Ushio Shinohara, who punches canvases with paint-covered boxing gloves, and his illustrator wife Noriko, who has neglected her own artistic career for his. With surprising access to their private life, filmmaker Zachary Heinzerling captures the couple’s combative, tempestuous 40-year marriage—as well as their stubborn love for each other. "More than a great documentary. It's a great film."...

United States | 1949 | John Huston

Lee Harvey Oswald reputedly watched this little-known John Huston film two separate times on TV in the weeks before he shot JFK on 11/22/63. (It "greatly excited" him, according to one historian.) Set in 1933, the movie tells of a group of Cuban revolutionaries who plot to overthrow their country's corrupt dictator. Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, and Pedro Armendáriz star.

United States | 1949 | John Huston

Lee Harvey Oswald reputedly watched this little-known John Huston film two separate times on TV in the weeks before he shot JFK on 11/22/63. (It "greatly excited" him, according to one historian.) Set in 1933, the movie tells of a group of Cuban revolutionaries who plot to overthrow their country's corrupt dictator. Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, and Pedro Armendáriz star.

2012-13 | various directors

This exciting program includes eight short films—fiction, animation, documentary—that were shown and acclaimed at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Five festival award winners are included, including Michael Almereyda’s Skinningrove (USA) and Tony Donoghue’s Irish Folk Furniture (Ireland), the Short Film Jury Award Winner in Animation. The complete list of titles can be found at www.sundance.org/shortfilmtour.

United States | 1933 | Ernst Lubitsch

Fredric March, Gary Cooper, and Miriam Hopkins star in this Lubitsch comedy based on a Noel Coward play, with a screenplay by Ben Hecht. It tells of two American roommates in Paris, a painter and a playwright, who love the same woman. To help her choose between them, she proposes that she move in with them—but no hanky panky!

2012-13 | various directors

This exciting program includes eight short films—fiction, animation, documentary—that were shown and acclaimed at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Five festival award winners are included, including Michael Almereyda’s Skinningrove (USA) and Tony Donoghue’s Irish Folk Furniture (Ireland), the Short Film Jury Award Winner in Animation. The complete list of titles can be found at www.sundance.org/shortfilmtour.

Austria, United States | 2012 | Jem Cohen

A male security guard at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum (Bobby Sommer) befriends a lonely and eccentric Canadian woman (Mary Margaret O’Hara, Catherine’s sister) who has come to Austria to visit a hospitalized distant relative. This quiet, delicate movie—one of the best and most original films in recent memory—is a muted, moving meditation on art and life, love and loss, looking and seeing, death and the passage of time. Critic Jonathan Curiel has called it “the best...

Austria, United States | 2012 | Jem Cohen

A male security guard at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum (Bobby Sommer) befriends a lonely and eccentric Canadian woman (Mary Margaret O’Hara, Catherine’s sister) who has come to Austria to visit a hospitalized distant relative. This quiet, delicate movie—one of the best and most original films in recent memory—is a muted, moving meditation on art and life, love and loss, looking and seeing, death and the passage of time. Critic Jonathan Curiel has called it “the best...

United States | 2013 | Zachary Heinzerling

Here is one of the most acclaimed movies of 2013—an intricate, intimate portrait of 80-year-old Brooklyn-based Japanese artist Ushio Shinohara, who punches canvases with paint-covered boxing gloves, and his illustrator wife Noriko, who has neglected her own artistic career for his. With surprising access to their private life, filmmaker Zachary Heinzerling captures the couple’s combative, tempestuous 40-year marriage—as well as their stubborn love for each other. "More than a great documentary. It's a great film."...

United States | 1933 | Ernst Lubitsch

Fredric March, Gary Cooper, and Miriam Hopkins star in this Lubitsch comedy based on a Noel Coward play, with a screenplay by Ben Hecht. It tells of two American roommates in Paris, a painter and a playwright, who love the same woman. To help her choose between them, she proposes that she move in with them—but no hanky panky!

United States | 1937 | Ernst Lubitsch

Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, and Melvyn Douglas star in this comedy about the neglected wife of a British diplomat who has a brief, anonymous affair with another man while on vacation in Paris. “Now seems to be one of [Lubitsch’s] best films.” -Andrew Sarris.

France | 2011 | Gilles Legrand

In this acclaimed French drama set in the Bordeaux region, a prominent winegrower who is also a demanding patriarch (Niels Arestrup) sparks resentment when he picks his steward's son instead of his own bookish progeny to help him run the vineyard. "A classy, full-bodied family drama." -Variety.

United States | 2013 | Jill Soloway

Ex-Clevelander Kathryn Hahn stars in this new comedy-drama that won the Directing Award in the U.S. Drama competition at Sundance. Hahn plays a frustrated housewife and young mother who decides to spice up her home and sex life by hiring a stripper (Juno Temple) as a live-in nanny. With Jane Lynch. "A crisp and often hilarious female-centric social satire." -Salon.com.