Cinematheque Film Schedule

France, United States | 2005 | Jim Jarmusch

Bill Murray stars with Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Tilda Swinton, Frances Conroy, Julie Delpy, Chloë Sevigny, and Jeffrey Wright in one of Jim Jarmusch’s best films, a deadpan, bittersweet comedy-mystery in which a reclusive, aging Don Juan receives an anonymous letter from one of his ex-lovers informing him that he has a 19-year-old son. He sets out on a cross-country odyssey to learn more. 106 min.

South Korea, United States | 2017 | Bong Joon Ho

The latest film from the director of Snowpiercer and The Host was one of the most acclaimed and talked about movies at Cannes this year. It’s a thrilling, touching fantasy about the attempted liberation of a giant, genetically modified pet pig from the nefarious clutches of a big biotech company run by an unforgettable Tilda Swinton. With Paul Dano, Steven Yuen, Lily Collins, and Jake Gyllenhaal. “With his latest work, Bong has created a heroine...

France, United States | 2005 | Jim Jarmusch

Bill Murray stars with Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Tilda Swinton, Frances Conroy, Julie Delpy, Chloë Sevigny, and Jeffrey Wright in one of Jim Jarmusch’s best films, a deadpan, bittersweet comedy-mystery in which a reclusive, aging Don Juan receives an anonymous letter from one of his ex-lovers informing him that he has a 19-year-old son. He sets out on a cross-country odyssey to learn more. 106 min.

United States | 1930 | John Murray Anderson

Newly restored to its original two-strip Technicolor glory, this Universal Pictures entertainment extravaganza features a series of musical numbers by Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra, including a performance of Rhapsody in Blue, which Whiteman commissioned from George Gershwin. (Whiteman, a hugely popular bandleader of the 1920s, was dubbed “the King of Jazz” by the white media of his day.) This classic revue also contains assorted comedy sketches, the first Technicolor cartoon, Bing Crosby’s screen debut,...

United States | 2017 | Del Shores

Del Shores’ outrageous sequel to his Sordid Lives (a 2000 “black comedy about white trash” that became one of the Cinematheque’s biggest hits) returns to the small Bible Belt town of Winters, Texas. There conservative Southern Baptists continue to clash with local homosexuals, this time over the issue of an impending gay marriage (and an interracial one at that!). With Bonnie Bedelia and Whoopi Goldberg. “As broad as the side of a barn but...

South Korea, United States | 2017 | Bong Joon Ho

The latest film from the director of Snowpiercer and The Host was one of the most acclaimed and talked about movies at Cannes this year. It’s a thrilling, touching fantasy about the attempted liberation of a giant, genetically modified pet pig from the nefarious clutches of a big biotech company run by an unforgettable Tilda Swinton. With Paul Dano, Steven Yuen, Lily Collins, and Jake Gyllenhaal. “With his latest work, Bong has created a heroine...

United States | 2017 | Kogonada

Columbus, Indiana, is known for its concentration of modernist buildings by Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei, Robert Venturi, César Pelli, and others. This architectural mecca is the setting for this tender, low-key indie drama, the first feature by celebrated video essayist Kogonada and one of the most acclaimed movies of the year. (Cinematheque patrons loved it when we first showed it a little over a month ago.) The film follows two people—a disenchanted Korean-American man (John...

United States | 1930 | John Murray Anderson

Newly restored to its original two-strip Technicolor glory, this Universal Pictures entertainment extravaganza features a series of musical numbers by Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra, including a performance of Rhapsody in Blue, which Whiteman commissioned from George Gershwin. (Whiteman, a hugely popular bandleader of the 1920s, was dubbed “the King of Jazz” by the white media of his day.) This classic revue also contains assorted comedy sketches, the first Technicolor cartoon, Bing Crosby’s screen debut,...

United States | 2017 | Del Shores

Del Shores’ outrageous sequel to his Sordid Lives (a 2000 “black comedy about white trash” that became one of the Cinematheque’s biggest hits) returns to the small Bible Belt town of Winters, Texas. There conservative Southern Baptists continue to clash with local homosexuals, this time over the issue of an impending gay marriage (and an interracial one at that!). With Bonnie Bedelia and Whoopi Goldberg. “As broad as the side of a barn but...

United States | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur

In one of the all-time great film noir classics, Robert Mitchum (born 100 years ago) plays a man with a checkered past who is hired to retrieve a gangster’s runaway girlfriend. Dripping with romance, regret, and tragic poetry, this movie was added to the National Film Registry in 1991. With Jane Greer and Kirk Douglas. 97 min.

United States | 2017 | Justin Chon

Don’t be put off by the confrontational title. Gook is a good-natured film that looks at the 1992 L.A. Riots through Asian American eyes. It focuses on two Korean American brothers who are trying to keep their family-owned, inner-city shoe store afloat, and on an 11-year-old African American girl who hangs out there. Gentle and even goofy at times, this low-budget b&w gem, a Sundance prizewinner, evokes such indie landmarks as Clerks and Do the...

United States | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur

In one of the all-time great film noir classics, Robert Mitchum (born 100 years ago) plays a man with a checkered past who is hired to retrieve a gangster’s runaway girlfriend. Dripping with romance, regret, and tragic poetry, this movie was added to the National Film Registry in 1991. With Jane Greer and Kirk Douglas. 97 min.

France, Italy | 1960 | Luchino Visconti

Martin Scorsese calls this epic Italian tale of passion, jealousy, and betrayal “Visconti’s masterpiece.” Alain Delon, Renato Salvatore, Annie Girardot, and Claudia Cardinale star in the sumptuous drama, about a farmer’s widow and four of her sons who leave poverty-stricken southern Italy to join a fifth son in urban Milan, hoping for a better life. But family tensions erupt when two of the brothers fall for the same prostitute. “With the emotional sweep of a...

France, Italy, Switzerland | 2016 | Yuri Ancarani

A fabulous, exotic world of leisure and luxury is captured in this visually stunning, largely wordless new documentary by Italian artist Yuri Ancarani. Ancarani trains his widescreen camera on a group of wealthy young Arab men who converge in the Qatari desert for a weekend of r&r. The young sheikhs’ activities include racing SUV’s across sand dunes and a falconry competition. Among their lavish accoutrements are birds that can cost $24,000 apiece, custom-built sports cars,...

USSR | 1928 | Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov

Statues are razed, palaces stormed, and governments toppled in Eisenstein’s masterful follow-up to Potemkin—a ten-years-after re-creation of the Bolshevik Revolution. This dazzling and innovative work ran into political censorship in the USSR (references to Trotsky had to be removed) and prompted the first official charges of “formalism” (being too arty and elitist) against the great director. Digital restoration from the Filmmuseum München, Germany; special thanks to Stafanie Hausmann. Thanks also to Deborah Girdwood, Walker Art...

United States | 2017 | Justin Chon

Don’t be put off by the confrontational title. Gook is a good-natured film that looks at the 1992 L.A. Riots through Asian American eyes. It focuses on two Korean American brothers who are trying to keep their family-owned, inner-city shoe store afloat, and on an 11-year-old African American girl who hangs out there. Gentle and even goofy at times, this low-budget b&w gem, a Sundance prizewinner, evokes such indie landmarks as Clerks and Do the...

Colombia | 2017 | Samir Oliveros

Shot on location in the verdant Colombian Caribbean and featuring a catchy soundtrack of reggae and calypso, this quirky, crowd-pleasing comedy follows two bickering teen siblings (a brother and a sister) who must quickly find a way to repair their dad’s truck when they damage it by accidentally hitting and killing a goat. “Bad juju makes for good comedy in this first feature by Bogota-based Samir Oliveros…As inviting as a gentle tropical breeze.” –Hollywood Reporter....

United States | 2017 | Michael Almereyda

The long underrated Lois Smith stars with Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, and Tim Robbins in Michael Almereyda’s film version of Jordan Harrison’s Pulitzer-shortlisted play (which the Dobama Theatre presents from 10/13 to 11/12). It’s a sci-fi chamber drama about death, decline, memory, family, and technology in which an elderly, dementia-stricken widow (Smith) interacts with a speaking, sentient hologram of the midlife version of her late husband (Hamm). Music by Mica Levi. “Actually improves on the...

Colombia | 2017 | Samir Oliveros

Shot on location in the verdant Colombian Caribbean and featuring a catchy soundtrack of reggae and calypso, this quirky, crowd-pleasing comedy follows two bickering teen siblings (a brother and a sister) who must quickly find a way to repair their dad’s truck when they damage it by accidentally hitting and killing a goat. “Bad juju makes for good comedy in this first feature by Bogota-based Samir Oliveros…As inviting as a gentle tropical breeze.” –Hollywood Reporter....

Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States | 1964-2017 | various directors

The 19th annual edition of this popular touring program features 16 internationally acclaimed animated short films from Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.S. Among this year’s highlights: Niki Lindroth von Bahr’s extraordinary, award-winning stop-motion musical My Burden; David O’Reilly's visually stunning Everything, based on a 1973 talk given by British-American philosopher Alan Watts; Les Goldman and Paul Julian’s 1964 classic The Hangman (recently restored by the Animation Show of Shows...

United States | 1961 | Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis’ third film as a director (made between The Ladies’ Man and The Nutty Professor) is one of his funniest. Lewis plays a clueless paperhanger who is hired by Paramutual Pictures to spy on studio employees and ferret out wastefulness and sloth. But his backlot bumblings wreak havoc everywhere he goes. Print courtesy of the Chicago Film Society; special thanks to Julian Antos and Mark Rozzano. 92 min.

Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States | 1964-2017 | various directors

The 19th annual edition of this popular touring program features 16 internationally acclaimed animated short films from Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.S. Among this year’s highlights: Niki Lindroth von Bahr’s extraordinary, award-winning stop-motion musical My Burden; David O’Reilly's visually stunning Everything, based on a 1973 talk given by British-American philosopher Alan Watts; Les Goldman and Paul Julian’s 1964 classic The Hangman (recently restored by the Animation Show of Shows...

Italy | 1965 | Luchino Visconti

Claudia Cardinale stars in Visconti’s visually intoxicating update of the Electra myth. A young Italian woman, now living in America, returns to her Tuscan hometown after WWII for a memorial service for her Jewish father, killed at Auschwitz. There, amid local ruins and her family’s crumbling mansion, she reunites with a brother with whom she shares a scandalous past, and with her mother and stepfather, who both may have betrayed her dad. Cleveland revival premiere....

United States | 2017 | Michael Almereyda

The long underrated Lois Smith stars with Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, and Tim Robbins in Michael Almereyda’s film version of Jordan Harrison’s Pulitzer-shortlisted play (which the Dobama Theatre presents from 10/13 to 11/12). It’s a sci-fi chamber drama about death, decline, memory, family, and technology in which an elderly, dementia-stricken widow (Smith) interacts with a speaking, sentient hologram of the midlife version of her late husband (Hamm). Music by Mica Levi. “Actually improves on the...

Italy | 1965 | Luchino Visconti

Claudia Cardinale stars in Visconti’s visually intoxicating update of the Electra myth. A young Italian woman, now living in America, returns to her Tuscan hometown after WWII for a memorial service for her Jewish father, killed at Auschwitz. There, amid local ruins and her family’s crumbling mansion, she reunites with a brother with whom she shares a scandalous past, and with her mother and stepfather, who both may have betrayed her dad. Cleveland revival premiere....

Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States | 1964-2017 | various directors

The 19th annual edition of this popular touring program features 16 internationally acclaimed animated short films from Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.S. Among this year’s highlights: Niki Lindroth von Bahr’s extraordinary, award-winning stop-motion musical My Burden; David O’Reilly's visually stunning Everything, based on a 1973 talk given by British-American philosopher Alan Watts; Les Goldman and Paul Julian’s 1964 classic The Hangman (recently restored by the Animation Show of Shows...

United States | 1963 | Adolfas Mekas

Debuted in America at the first New York Film Festival in 1963 and revived at this fall’s 54th in a new digital restoration, this “underground movie” milestone by Jonas Mekas’ younger brother is a very funny, movie-mad comedy about two friends who spend years wooing the same woman (played by two different actresses). She ends up marrying neither of them. Hailed by the Time Out Film Guide as “an enduring delight for real film buffs,”...

Nepal, Netherlands, Qatar | 2016 | Deepak Rauniyar

This acclaimed new Nepalese drama has a 100% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It tells of two estranged brothers, on opposite sides of Nepal’s long civil war (1996-2006), who reunite when their father dies in a remote village and they must carry the corpse down a mountain to its proscribed, traditional cremation place. “The sky-high Himalayas and the aftermath of civil war cast equally dark shadows in White Sun, an impressively accomplished second feature by...

France, Israel, United States | 2007 | Eran Kolirin

Now a Broadway musical, this winning, moving comedy tells of an Egyptian police band that visits Israel and gets lost on the way to its gig. The eight musicians, all men, are forced to spend the night in a small, remote Israeli desert town that has no hotels but does have a sexy, hospitable divorcée (the late, great Ronit Elkabetz) who owns the local cafe. One of the most acclaimed foreign films of recent years,...

France, Israel, United States | 2007 | Eran Kolirin

Now a Broadway musical, this winning, moving comedy tells of an Egyptian police band that visits Israel and gets lost on the way to its gig. The eight musicians, all men, are forced to spend the night in a small, remote Israeli desert town that has no hotels but does have a sexy, hospitable divorcée (the late, great Ronit Elkabetz) who owns the local cafe. One of the most acclaimed foreign films of recent years,...

United States | 1963 | Adolfas Mekas

Debuted in America at the first New York Film Festival in 1963 and revived at this fall’s 54th in a new digital restoration, this “underground movie” milestone by Jonas Mekas’ younger brother is a very funny, movie-mad comedy about two friends who spend years wooing the same woman (played by two different actresses). She ends up marrying neither of them. Hailed by the Time Out Film Guide as “an enduring delight for real film buffs,”...

Nepal, Netherlands, Qatar | 2016 | Deepak Rauniyar

This acclaimed new Nepalese drama has a 100% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It tells of two estranged brothers, on opposite sides of Nepal’s long civil war (1996-2006), who reunite when their father dies in a remote village and they must carry the corpse down a mountain to its proscribed, traditional cremation place. “The sky-high Himalayas and the aftermath of civil war cast equally dark shadows in White Sun, an impressively accomplished second feature by...

France | 2016 | Jérôme Reybaud

In this peculiar but witty take on gay romance in the 21st century, Pierre, a young Parisian man, leaves his sleeping lover Paul early one morning and, using his Grindr app (for same sex hookups), embarks on a series of random encounters across the French countryside. It isn’t long before Paul sets out after him, checking his own phone to track Pierre’s movements in a strange but wonderful game of Grindr cat-and-mouse. “A sly, sexy...

Japan | 1970 | Yasuharu Hasebe

Meiko Kaji stars in perhaps the best of the five youth-oriented exploitation movies that comprised Japan’s popular, sexy, psychedelic “Stray Cat Rock” series (1970-71). She plays the leader of a tough girl gang that takes on an intolerant male gang when the boys plan to rid the town of mixed race individuals (some of them offspring of U.S. military personnel). Fast cutting, split screens, garish fashions, and rock ‘n’ roll! Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP....

Italy | 2016 | Edoardo De Angelis

Two 17-year-old Italian girls, conjoined twins with beautiful faces and voices, make a living by singing at weddings and first communions. Born into abject poverty and attached at the hip, the two are growing apart in other ways. Should they accept a surgeon’s offer to separate them? And will their assorted handlers (who exploit and profit from them) even allow the operation? A moving, unusual fable of sisterhood. “A mood piece humming with energy and...