Cinematheque Film Schedule

Poland | 1973 | Wojciech Has

We’ve extended our series “Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema” to include one more film. The add-on is the other phantasmagorical head trip from the director of the cult masterpiece The Saragossa Manuscript. Based (like the Quay brothers’ Street of Crocodiles) on the writings of Bruno Schulz (1892-1942), The Hourglass Sanatorium tells of a young Jewish man whose visit to his ailing father in a remote, crumbling sanatorium soon devolves into a surreal journey...

United States | 2015 | Natalie Merchant

In her new video self-portrait, singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant looks back over her career and influences as she re-records her first solo album Tigerlilly for its 20th anniversary.

France | 2015 | Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson

“I’ve never taken LSD and wandered around a film archive, but I imagine the experience might be similar to The Forbidden Room.” So writes Jordan Hoffman in The Guardian about the crazy new feature by Canuck cinephiliac Guy Maddin (The Heart of the World, My Winnipeg). Maddin’s latest assault on sense and the senses is a compendium of absurdist mini-melodramas inspired by movies of the late-silent, early-sound era, and rendered in distressed visuals using the...

United States | 2015 | Alex Ross Perry

Rising writer-director Alex Ross Perry follows his acclaimed comedy-dramas The Color Wheel and Listen Up Philip with a caustic, funny/chilling portrait of a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Elisabeth Moss plays that woman, a budding basket case whose father has committed suicide and whose lover has dumped her. She retreats to the lakeside house of her best friend (Katherine Waterston of Inherent Vice). But the bucolic setting does not provide the needed...

Italy, United Kingdom, United States | 2004 | Kerry Conran

The film that radically changed the way movies were made in Hollywood was itself a box office flop. This art deco action-adventure, in which giant flying robots attack 1939 New York City, was created entirely on blue screen, with its big-name stars (Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie) inserted later. The result is a retro-futuristic marvel that, at the time, looked like no other movie. (First time director Kerry Conran called it “Raiders of the...

2014 | Don Hall, Chris Williams

Cleveland Institute of Art graduate Zack Petroc was the model supervisor on this Oscar-winning Disney animated gem, in which a young technology prodigy, aided by a large inflatable robot, turns his nerdy friends into do-gooding superheroes. Petroc will appear in person to introduce tonight’s screening of this delightful film that overflows with both humor and heart. 2D DCP. 102 min. Another film on which Zack Petroc served as model supervisor, Sky Captain and the World...

Italy, United Kingdom, United States | 2004 | Kerry Conran

The film that radically changed the way movies were made in Hollywood was itself a box office flop. This art deco action-adventure, in which giant flying robots attack 1939 New York City, was created entirely on blue screen, with its big-name stars (Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie) inserted later. The result is a retro-futuristic marvel that, at the time, looked like no other movie. (First time director Kerry Conran called it “Raiders of the...

Austria, West Germany | 1972 | Wim Wenders

Wim Wenders’ first non-student feature, based on a novel by Peter Handke (who co-wrote the screenplay), tells of an aging, angst-ridden, veteran goalkeeper who freezes while a penalty shot is scored. His alienation from soccer soon spreads to other aspects of his existence, and desperation gives way to much worse. This spare, hypnotic, strikingly beautiful movie was shot in color by the great Robby Müller. “Of all the films I’ve seen by Germans of this...

West Germany | 1974 | Wilm Wenders

A blocked German photojournalist (Rüdiger Vogler), visiting America for a story, becomes saddled with an inquisitive nine-year-old German girl, Alice, on his way back to Europe. On the continent they search for Alice’s grandmother, with only a photograph of her front door to guide them. Wenders’ early road movie is one of his most charming and poetic works.

United States | 2015 | Alex Ross Perry

Rising writer-director Alex Ross Perry follows his acclaimed comedy-dramas The Color Wheel and Listen Up Philip with a caustic, funny/chilling portrait of a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Elisabeth Moss plays that woman, a budding basket case whose father has committed suicide and whose lover has dumped her. She retreats to the lakeside house of her best friend (Katherine Waterston of Inherent Vice). But the bucolic setting does not provide the needed...

Netherlands, Norway | 2014 | Eskil Vogt

A newly blind woman in her 30s, holed up in the familiar high rise apartment she shares with her architect husband, finds her erotic fantasy life taking over her perceptions. This acclaimed movie is the first film written and directed by the co-writer of Joachim Trier’s Reprise and Oslo, August 31. It’s a playful, mischievous, puzzling work that shuffles the objective and the subjective. “Critics’ pick...A dreamy, dour fusion of Charlie Kaufman and Ingmar Bergman....

West Germany | 1974 | Wilm Wenders

A blocked German photojournalist (Rüdiger Vogler), visiting America for a story, becomes saddled with an inquisitive nine-year-old German girl, Alice, on his way back to Europe. On the continent they search for Alice’s grandmother, with only a photograph of her front door to guide them. Wenders’ early road movie is one of his most charming and poetic works.

Austria, West Germany | 1972 | Wim Wenders

Wim Wenders’ first non-student feature, based on a novel by Peter Handke (who co-wrote the screenplay), tells of an aging, angst-ridden, veteran goalkeeper who freezes while a penalty shot is scored. His alienation from soccer soon spreads to other aspects of his existence, and desperation gives way to much worse. This spare, hypnotic, strikingly beautiful movie was shot in color by the great Robby Müller. “Of all the films I’ve seen by Germans of this...

West Germany | 1968-82 | Wim Wenders

Five early shorts that Wim Wenders made during film school or for television, plus one made during his problem-plagued production of Hammett for Francis Coppola. Program includes: Same Player Shoots Again (1968); Silver City Revisited (1969); Police Film (1969); Alabama – 2000 Light Years (1970); 3 American LPs (1969); and Reverse Angle (1982).

United States | 2015 | Michael Almereyda

Peter Sarsgaard and Winona Ryder star in this acclaimed drama inspired by a notorious experiment conducted by Yale social psychologist Stanley Milgram in 1961. Milgram demonstrated that ordinary people would administer electric shocks to distressed strangers if ordered to do so by an authority figure. With Taryn Manning, Anton Yelchin, Jim Gaffigan, et al. “A kind of cinematic Rorschach test, prodding viewers to consider what they would do if sitting in the same seat as...

Japan | 1963 | Seijun Suzuki

Seijun Suzuki’s breakthrough film was this hyperbolic yakuza thriller about a man who infiltrates two rival Tokyo gangs and pits them against each other. “You’ll need to sit well back from the startling visuals, the outré designs and the florid action.” –Tony Rayns.

United States | 2015 | Michael Almereyda

Peter Sarsgaard and Winona Ryder star in this acclaimed drama inspired by a notorious experiment conducted by Yale social psychologist Stanley Milgram in 1961. Milgram demonstrated that ordinary people would administer electric shocks to distressed strangers if ordered to do so by an authority figure. With Taryn Manning, Anton Yelchin, Jim Gaffigan, et al. “A kind of cinematic Rorschach test, prodding viewers to consider what they would do if sitting in the same seat as...

West Germany | 1976 | Wim Wenders

Wim Wenders’ masterful road movie stars Rüdiger Vogler as a traveling motion picture projector repairman who meets up one day with a bereft child psychologist (Hans Zischler) who has wrecked his car. Together they traverse rural West Germany along the East German border, trying to find themselves amid the cultural desolation. Cinematography by Robby Müller. “A film of great depth and beauty, and its black and white photography is worthy of comparison with John Ford's.”...

Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, Turkey | |

Germany/France/Italy/Russia/Poland/Canada/Turkey/Jordan, 2014, Fatih Akin Prominent Turkish-German filmmaker Fatih Akin (In July, Head-On) commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide with this expansive historical epic. An Armenian man from a small town in the Ottoman Empire is separated from his wife and twin daughters when the Ottomans enter WWI, but he survives the mass killings of 1915. After the war he hears that his daughters are still alive, so he embarks on an epic quest to...

West Germany | 1976 | Wim Wenders

Wim Wenders’ masterful road movie stars Rüdiger Vogler as a traveling motion picture projector repairman who meets up one day with a bereft child psychologist (Hans Zischler) who has wrecked his car. Together they traverse rural West Germany along the East German border, trying to find themselves amid the cultural desolation. Cinematography by Robby Müller. “A film of great depth and beauty, and its black and white photography is worthy of comparison with John Ford's.”...

United States | 2014 | Woody Allen

Despite generally mixed reviews and disappointing box office results, this fleet, philosophical new film by Woody Allen is one of his best recent movies. Joaquin Phoenix plays a tormented college professor—and campus heartthrob—who becomes involved with both a student (Emma Stone) and an older colleague (Parker Posey) but finds real clarity and purpose when he decides to commit a morally reprehensible “meaningful act” that he feels will bring some justice and happiness into the world.

United States | 2015 | Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker

In 2012, a notorious white supremacist tried to take over a distressed North Dakota small town, buying up property to establish an ultra-right-wing settlement there. His push, and the community’s push back, are captured in this chilling documentary that The Hollywood Reporter called “a nail-biter from start to finish.”

United States | 2015 | Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker

In 2012, a notorious white supremacist tried to take over a distressed North Dakota small town, buying up property to establish an ultra-right-wing settlement there. His push, and the community’s push back, are captured in this chilling documentary that The Hollywood Reporter called “a nail-biter from start to finish.”

United States | 2014 | Woody Allen

Despite generally mixed reviews and disappointing box office results, this fleet, philosophical new film by Woody Allen is one of his best recent movies. Joaquin Phoenix plays a tormented college professor—and campus heartthrob—who becomes involved with both a student (Emma Stone) and an older colleague (Parker Posey) but finds real clarity and purpose when he decides to commit a morally reprehensible “meaningful act” that he feels will bring some justice and happiness into the world.

Japan | 1965 | Seijun Suzuki

A yakuza hit man and his peace-loving younger brother, an artist, flee to the Japanese countryside after a betrayal and a murder. They take construction jobs, but the art student becomes dangerously obsessed with doing nude studies of their boss’s wife. This 1920s-set thriller boasts an over-the-top finale that sees the screen go entirely red at one point. Special admission $10; members, CIA I.D. holders, age 25 & under $8; no passes, twofers, or radio...

Australia, France, Germany, United States | 1991 | Wim Wenders

Shot in 15 cities on four continents and intended as his Ultimate Road Movie, Wim Wenders’ all-star sci-fi epic proved a critical and commercial flop in the 158-min. version released in 1991. But here’s his intended 295-min. cut, which we’ve wanted to show for 24 years! Set in 1999, the film stars William Hurt as a man with a revolutionary camera that can help the blind see. On the run from the CIA, he meets...

Australia, France, Germany, United States | 1991 | Wim Wenders

155 min.

Australia, France, Germany, United States | 1991 | Wim Wenders

Shot in 15 cities on four continents and intended as his Ultimate Road Movie, Wim Wenders’ all-star sci-fi epic proved a critical and commercial flop in the 158-min. version released in 1991. But here’s his intended 295-min. cut, which we’ve wanted to show for 24 years! Set in 1999, the film stars William Hurt as a man with a revolutionary camera that can help the blind see. On the run from the CIA, he meets...

Australia, France, Germany, United States | 1991 | Wim Wenders

155 min.

Japan | 1966 | Seijun Suzuki

A high school student in 1935 Japan turns to fighting when he is unable to express his feelings for a virginal young girl. An antimilitarist masterpiece!

France, West Germany | 1977 | Wim Wenders

In Wim Wenders’ terrific neo-noir thriller based on Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley’s Game, an enigmatic American living in Hamburg (Dennis Hopper) tries to coerce a terminally ill German picture framer (Bruno Ganz) into becoming a hired assassin. Cinematography by Robby Müller. “The best acted, the most beautifully photographed, the most exciting and entertaining work of the New German Cinema yet to be shown in this country.” –David Denby.

France | 1954 | Jules Dassin

Here’s a new digital restoration of the granddaddy of all caper/heist movies, made in France by American Jules Dassin when he was blacklisted in the U.S. A motley bunch of Paris jewel thieves band together for one big job, then experience a falling out over the loot. This classic is most famous for its wordless, 30-min. robbery sequence. “The best film noir I have ever seen.” –François Truffaut.

France | 1954 | Jules Dassin

Here’s a new digital restoration of the granddaddy of all caper/heist movies, made in France by American Jules Dassin when he was blacklisted in the U.S. A motley bunch of Paris jewel thieves band together for one big job, then experience a falling out over the loot. This classic is most famous for its wordless, 30-min. robbery sequence. “The best film noir I have ever seen.” –François Truffaut.

United States | 2015 | Jem Cohen

Jem Cohen’s first feature since his sublime Museum Hours is a poetic collection of shots and scenes captured in cities from New York to Moscow to Istanbul and arranged in 15 chapters. This combination city symphony, film diary, essay film, and polemic finds the inveterate, itinerant independent NYC filmmaker doing what he does best: capturing the world through his unique lens. “This is the kind of contemplative cinematheque piece that washes pleasurably over you, inviting...

France, West Germany | 1977 | Wim Wenders

In Wim Wenders’ terrific neo-noir thriller based on Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley’s Game, an enigmatic American living in Hamburg (Dennis Hopper) tries to coerce a terminally ill German picture framer (Bruno Ganz) into becoming a hired assassin. Cinematography by Robby Müller. “The best acted, the most beautifully photographed, the most exciting and entertaining work of the New German Cinema yet to be shown in this country.” –David Denby.