Cinematheque . Film Schedule
Thursday, September 04, 2014
6:45pm
Iran | 2013 | Mohammad Rasoulof
Despite being banned from filmmaking for 20 years (along with his countryman Jafar Panahi; see 10/26), Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has secretly shot this angry new thriller, based on real events, about the lengths to which the Islamic state will go to silence dissidents. These include kidnaping, torture, and murder. “Easily the most daring and politically provocative film yet to emerge from Iran.” –RogerEbert.com.
9:10pm
France, Spain | 2013 | Álex de la Iglesia
Winner of eight Goya Awards (Spain’s Oscars), the new horror-comedy from the director of Day of the Beast and El Crimen Perfecto tells of a gang of fleeing jewel thieves who run right into a coven of cannibalistic witches. “A major achievement in sunny wretchedness, Álex de la Iglesia's splatter-comedy projectile pukes its outrages at you with a gusto recalling the early days of those (sadly) reformed upchuckers Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson.” –Village Voice.
Friday, September 05, 2014
7pm
Philippines | 2013 | Lav Diaz
Rhapsodically received at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, this Filipino epic (inspired by Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment) is a four-hour drama in which an embittered Luzon law student commits a double murder that has many repercussions. The first is that an innocent family man is punished for the crime. “Five stars (highest rating)…You'd have to go back to Edward Yang's Yi Yi to find another movie that approaches a marathon-length running time yet still makes...
Saturday, September 06, 2014
5pm
Mizoguchi's Greatest Decade
Japan | 1952 | Kenji Mizoguchi
We begin our Mizoguchi retrospective with the film that the director himself regarded as his masterpiece. It’s a beautifully photographed period piece that charts the step-by-step downfall of a 17th-century woman (Kinuyo Tanaka, Mizoguchi’s favorite actress) from court woman to common prostitute. With Toshiro Mifune. “Perhaps the finest film made in any country about the oppression of women.” –Joan Mellen.
7:40pm
United Kingdom | Nigeria | 2013 | Biyi Bandele
Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) and Thandie Newton star in this epic film version of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel, about two UK-educated sisters who return to Nigeria in the mid-1960s and get caught up in the outbreak of the Nigerian Civil War (aka the Biafran War). “A well-acted, finely wrought epic.” –The NY Times.
9:45pm
Argentina, France, Norway, Spain | 2013 | Lucia Puenzo
Argentina’s submission for this year’s Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film is a historical thriller set in 1960 Patagonia, where notorious Nazi death camp doctor Josef Mengele hides out in a hotel run by a German couple and befriends their 12-year-old daughter. “A true-life horror story about the helpful, soft-spoken monster in our midst.” – Bob Mondello, NPR. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles.
Sunday, September 07, 2014
4:15pm
Argentina, France, Norway, Spain | 2013 | Lucia Puenzo
Argentina’s submission for this year’s Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film is a historical thriller set in 1960 Patagonia, where notorious Nazi death camp doctor Josef Mengele hides out in a hotel run by a German couple and befriends their 12-year-old daughter. “A true-life horror story about the helpful, soft-spoken monster in our midst.” – Bob Mondello, NPR. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles.
6:30pm
France, Spain | 2013 | Álex de la Iglesia
Winner of eight Goya Awards (Spain’s Oscars), the new horror-comedy from the director of Day of the Beast and El Crimen Perfecto tells of a gang of fleeing jewel thieves who run right into a coven of cannibalistic witches. “A major achievement in sunny wretchedness, Álex de la Iglesia's splatter-comedy projectile pukes its outrages at you with a gusto recalling the early days of those (sadly) reformed upchuckers Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson.” –Village Voice.
8:45pm
Iran | 2013 | Mohammad Rasoulof
Despite being banned from filmmaking for 20 years (along with his countryman Jafar Panahi; see 10/26), Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has secretly shot this angry new thriller, based on real events, about the lengths to which the Islamic state will go to silence dissidents. These include kidnaping, torture, and murder. “Easily the most daring and politically provocative film yet to emerge from Iran.” –RogerEbert.com.
Thursday, September 11, 2014
6:45pm
Germany | 2012 | Jan Ole Gerster
Winner of six Lolas (German Oscars) including Best Film, Director, Screenplay, Actor, and Score, this slacker comedy chronicles a day in the life of a twenty-something German college dropout as he tries to reconnect with life. The movie’s droll, laid-back humor and charm, and its b&w camerawork, recall early Jarmusch, while the jazz score evokes Woody Allen. “Manages to make an entertaining story out of nothing in particular.” –The Washington Post.
8:30pm
France, Mexico | 2013 | Caludia Sainte-Luce
In this affecting family drama shown at this year’s Cleveland Int’l Film Festival, a twenty-something supermarket clerk moves into a household with four children to help their ailing single mother. Shot by the great Agnès Godard, known for her work with Claire Denis. “An enormously affecting portrait of a family in crisis that dares to hope.” –The L.A. Times.
Friday, September 12, 2014
7:30pm
France, Mexico | 2013 | Caludia Sainte-Luce
In this affecting family drama shown at this year’s Cleveland Int’l Film Festival, a twenty-something supermarket clerk moves into a household with four children to help their ailing single mother. Shot by the great Agnès Godard, known for her work with Claire Denis. “An enormously affecting portrait of a family in crisis that dares to hope.” –The L.A. Times.
9:20pm
Germany | 2012 | Jan Ole Gerster
Winner of six Lolas (German Oscars) including Best Film, Director, Screenplay, Actor, and Score, this slacker comedy chronicles a day in the life of a twenty-something German college dropout as he tries to reconnect with life. The movie’s droll, laid-back humor and charm, and its b&w camerawork, recall early Jarmusch, while the jazz score evokes Woody Allen. “Manages to make an entertaining story out of nothing in particular.” –The Washington Post.
Saturday, September 13, 2014
5pm
Mizoguchi's Greatest Decade
Japan | 1953 | Kenji Mizoguchi
Mizoguchi’s most celebrated film is an atmospheric samurai drama and ghost story in which two peasants living in war-torn 16th-century Japan leave their homes hoping to profit from the conflict. This haunting movie subtly conveys the illusory nature of ambition and desire. With Machiko Kyō and Kinuyo Tanaka; cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa. “Simultaneously realistic, allegorical and supernatural, Ugetsu is the most stylistically perfect of all Mizoguchi’s work, and many critics consider it the greatest Japanese...
7pm
World War I + 100
France | 1978 | François Truffaut
This little known Truffaut movie, inspired by three Henry James stories, is one of the director’s most unusual, personal, and moving films. Set in France ten years after the end of WWI, the movie stars Truffaut as a grieving, reclusive, widowed journalist who maintains a private shrine to his late wife and fallen friends. But when he invites a similarly bereft, death-obsessed young woman (Nathalie Baye) to help him with his sanctuary, complications arise. Haunting...
8:55pm
Denmark, Sweden | 2013 | Lukas Moodysson
Lukas Moodysson’s first film in four years marks a triumphant return to form for the director of Show Me Love, Together, and Lilya 4-Ever. Set in 1982 Stockholm, this delightful coming-of-age movie follows three misfit teens who form an all-girl punk band, thus breaching an all-male realm. Has a 97% “fresh” rating on RottenTomatoes.com!
Sunday, September 14, 2014
4:15pm
United States | 2014 | Dana Ben-Ari
The promise and pitfalls of breastfeeding, and the social and psychological challenges facing nursing mothers, are explored frankly in this acclaimed new documentary. “Gently affecting and insightful...An inspiring labor of love.” –Variety.
6:30pm
Denmark, Sweden | 2013 | Lukas Moodysson
Lukas Moodysson’s first film in four years marks a triumphant return to form for the director of Show Me Love, Together, and Lilya 4-Ever. Set in 1982 Stockholm, this delightful coming-of-age movie follows three misfit teens who form an all-girl punk band, thus breaching an all-male realm. Has a 97% “fresh” rating on RottenTomatoes.com!
8:35pm
World War I + 100
France | 1978 | François Truffaut
This little known Truffaut movie, inspired by three Henry James stories, is one of the director’s most unusual, personal, and moving films. Set in France ten years after the end of WWI, the movie stars Truffaut as a grieving, reclusive, widowed journalist who maintains a private shrine to his late wife and fallen friends. But when he invites a similarly bereft, death-obsessed young woman (Nathalie Baye) to help him with his sanctuary, complications arise. Haunting...
Thursday, September 18, 2014
6:45pm
France, Portugal, United States | 2014 | Gabe Klinger
Longtime friends and fellow filmmakers Richard Linklater (Boyhood, Before Sunrise, Slacker) and experimentalist James Benning (Landscape Suicide, One Way Boogie Woogie) talk about their craft, their careers, and their shared love of baseball in this easy-going, disarming new documentary.
8:15pm
France, Germany, Mexico, Netherlands | 2013 | Amat Escalante
One of the most honored Latin American films of 2013 (it won the Best Director prize at Cannes and was also Mexico’s submission for this year’s Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film) focuses on a poor, hardworking Mexican family that runs afoul of both a vicious drug cartel and the corrupt local police. Director Escalante is a disciple of Carlos Reygadas. “A stunning piece of filmmaking.” –The L.A. Times.
Friday, September 19, 2014
7:30pm
United States | 2014 | Andrew Rossi
With tuition skyrocketing and student loan debt topping a trillion dollars, is college still worth the expense? That’s the question posed by this acclaimed, provocative documentary that surveys academia today—from online coursework to universities that are more like country clubs than schools.
9:20pm
France, Germany, Mexico, Netherlands | 2013 | Amat Escalante
One of the most honored Latin American films of 2013 (it won the Best Director prize at Cannes and was also Mexico’s submission for this year’s Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film) focuses on a poor, hardworking Mexican family that runs afoul of both a vicious drug cartel and the corrupt local police. Director Escalante is a disciple of Carlos Reygadas. “A stunning piece of filmmaking.” –The L.A. Times.
Saturday, September 20, 2014
5pm
Mizoguchi's Greatest Decade
Japan | 1953 | Kenji Mizoguchi
In Mizoguchi’s reworking of his 1936 masterpiece Sisters of the Gion, an elderly geisha trains a self-centered young girl in the art of “entertaining,” while also trying to steer her clear of the profession’s more sordid realities. Cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa.
6:45pm
Israel | 2011 | Nadav Lapid
Nominated for seven Israeli Academy Awards (including Best Film, Director, Actor, and Screenplay) and a major prizewinner at film festivals worldwide, this galvanizing thriller follows a cop who is a member of a close-knit, elite, Israeli anti-terrorist unit who must suddenly wrap his head around the reality of Jewish (not Arab) terrorists fomenting chaos and class warfare. “Critics’ pick…An electrifying feature directing debut.” –The NY Times.
8:50pm
In Odorama!
United States | 1981 | John Waters
The first movie shot in “Odorama” (free scratch and sniff cards will be handed out to ticket buyers), John Waters’ “scentsational” bad-taste comedy stars Divine as Baltimore housewife Francine Fishpaw. Francine—who has a philandering pornographer husband, a pregnant daughter, and a fetishist son who may be the “Baltimore foot stomper”—is understandably at the end of her rope. But hope arrives in the form of a handsome, Corvette-driving hunk (Tab Hunter). With Edith Massey, Mink Stole,...
Sunday, September 21, 2014
4pm
Paul Mazursky, 1930-2014
United States | 1976 | Paul Mazursky
A Jewish kid from Brooklyn (Lenny Baker) moves to 1953 Greenwich Village to try to break into acting. Paul Mazursky’s semi-autobiographical dramedy teems with Beat Era NYC detail (coffee bars, Actors Studio classes, etc.). With Shelley Winters, Ellen Greene, Lois Smith, Christopher Walken, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Murray, et al.
6:30pm
In Odorama!
United States | 1981 | John Waters
The first movie shot in “Odorama” (free scratch and sniff cards will be handed out to ticket buyers), John Waters’ “scentsational” bad-taste comedy stars Divine as Baltimore housewife Francine Fishpaw. Francine—who has a philandering pornographer husband, a pregnant daughter, and a fetishist son who may be the “Baltimore foot stomper”—is understandably at the end of her rope. But hope arrives in the form of a handsome, Corvette-driving hunk (Tab Hunter). With Edith Massey, Mink Stole,...
8:20pm
Israel | 2011 | Nadav Lapid
Nominated for seven Israeli Academy Awards (including Best Film, Director, Actor, and Screenplay) and a major prizewinner at film festivals worldwide, this galvanizing thriller follows a cop who is a member of a close-knit, elite, Israeli anti-terrorist unit who must suddenly wrap his head around the reality of Jewish (not Arab) terrorists fomenting chaos and class warfare. “Critics’ pick…An electrifying feature directing debut.” –The NY Times.
Thursday, September 25, 2014
6:45pm
Whole Hogg
United Kingdom | 2014 | Joanna Hogg
Tom Hiddleston is one of the stars of the most recent film by Joanna Hogg, a rising Brit filmmaker whose three features were all released in NYC in June. Viv Albertine (of the punk band the Slits) and Liam Gillick (a prominent conceptual artist) play a couple of fiftyish London creatives whose stale marriage is further destabilized when they decide to sell the modernist house where they have lived and worked for two decades. This...
8:50pm
Whole Hogg
United Kingdom | 2007 | Joanna Hogg
Tom Hiddleston made his big-screen debut in this acute and impressive first feature by Brit up-and-comer Joanna Hogg. The film focuses on Anna, a childless 40-year-old British woman who goes on vacation in Tuscany with her longtime friend Verena, who is married with a brood of teenagers. But tensions arise between the two women when Anna hangs out more with the teens than with the adults. “A tremendously accomplished, subtle and supremely confident feature.” –The...
Friday, September 26, 2014
7:30pm
Whole Hogg
United Kingdom | 2007 | Joanna Hogg
Tom Hiddleston made his big-screen debut in this acute and impressive first feature by Brit up-and-comer Joanna Hogg. The film focuses on Anna, a childless 40-year-old British woman who goes on vacation in Tuscany with her longtime friend Verena, who is married with a brood of teenagers. But tensions arise between the two women when Anna hangs out more with the teens than with the adults. “A tremendously accomplished, subtle and supremely confident feature.” –The...
9:30pm
Whole Hogg
United Kingdom | 2010 | Joanna Hogg
Joanna Hogg's highly acclaimed second feature, like her first (Unrelated, see previous blurb), features Tom Hiddleston and tells of a tension-filled holiday. This time the location is one of the Isles of Scilly, off Britain's Cornish coast, where two members of an upper-middle-class family wish bon voyage to a third who's leaving for a year in Africa. But mostly they fight and fall apart as buried anger and other repressed emotions surface. “A beautifully distilled...
Saturday, September 27, 2014
7:30pm
A Special Event! John Waters in Person!
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John Waters, the Baltimore underground filmmaker (Pink Flamingos) turned American cultural icon, appears in person to present his unique one-man show that has delighted audiences around the world. Waters’ “vaudeville act” (as he calls it) is a 75-minute monologue in which the man whom William Burroughs once called “the Pope of Trash” dissects his checkered film career and unusual tastes. Listen and laugh as the outré auteur with the pencil mustache details his early negative...
Sunday, September 28, 2014
3:45pm
Japan | 1954 | Kenji Mizoguchi
Critic Robin Wood once called this sublime Mizoguchi drama “the greatest movie I have ever seen.” An aristocratic family living in 11th-century Japan is broken up, exiled, and sold into slavery. Over many years, the family members struggle to reunite. This deeply moving drama of great formal beauty advocates for empathy, justice, and mercy. Cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa.
6:30pm
Whole Hogg
United Kingdom | 2010 | Joanna Hogg
Joanna Hogg's highly acclaimed second feature, like her first (Unrelated, see previous blurb), features Tom Hiddleston and tells of a tension-filled holiday. This time the location is one of the Isles of Scilly, off Britain's Cornish coast, where two members of an upper-middle-class family wish bon voyage to a third who's leaving for a year in Africa. But mostly they fight and fall apart as buried anger and other repressed emotions surface. “A beautifully distilled...
8:45pm
Whole Hogg
United Kingdom | 2014 | Joanna Hogg
Tom Hiddleston is one of the stars of the most recent film by Joanna Hogg, a rising Brit filmmaker whose three features were all released in NYC in June. Viv Albertine (of the punk band the Slits) and Liam Gillick (a prominent conceptual artist) play a couple of fiftyish London creatives whose stale marriage is further destabilized when they decide to sell the modernist house where they have lived and worked for two decades. This...
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