Cinematheque . Film Schedule
Friday, September 01, 2023
7pm
Film Classics in 35mm! Book Signing & Film Screening! Marsha Gordon introduces
United States | 1936 | Edward H. Griffith
James Stewart (in his third Hollywood screen appearance and first lead role) teams up with his future Shop Around the Corner co-star Margaret Sullavan in this touching romantic melodrama about two young newlyweds—a journalist and an actress—whose marriage and family life are strained by ambitious careers that take them in different directions (even to different continents). Ray Milland co-stars in this movie that is based on a 1935 novel by Ursula Parrott, a hugely popular...
9:30pm
Punk Rock Triple Bill!
United States | 1978-2021 | various directors
On June 13, 1978, the once Akron-based rock band the Cramps performed a live show at Napa State Hospital, a psychiatric institution in northern California. Opening for them was the Mutants, an eclectic septet of art school students from nearby San Francisco. This legendary punk show was captured on primitive b&w videotape by Target Video, a SF artists collective. In this program we show Joe Target Rees’ newly remastered video recordings of both sets (the...
Saturday, September 02, 2023
5pm
Executive-produced by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson!
United States | 2023 | Sam Pollard
The fascinating history and profound influence of baseball’s Negro leagues, which flourished from the 1920s until MLB became integrated in the 1940s, are explored in this vivid new documentary executive-produced by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (Summer of Soul). Packed with archival materials, the movie continuously fills the bases with interesting characters and stories. “Essential…The film is must viewing for baseball and history buffs alike.” –Hollywood Reporter. DCP. 103 min.
7:05pm
In Anaglyphic 3-D!
United States | 1953 | Phil Tucker
Decades before AI, humankind is threatened by Ro-Man—an alien who looks like a gorilla in a diving helmet, sent by his supreme leader to wipe out Earth’s population with a death ray. Ro-Man does pretty well at this, but for some reason, a California family proves immune to his people-zapper. Shot for next to nothing in four days in L.A.’s Bronson Canyon, this legendary, ludicrous laugher has been restored to its original 3-D “glory.” The...
8:45pm
$5 admission for all on 8/31!
United States | 2023 | Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson’s latest feature is another impeccably designed and stylized fantasy—this time an amalgam of 1950s obsessions, images, myths, and music, all rendered in a distinctive color palette heavy on turquoise and orange. Set in a small, remote desert town in the American Southwest, the film tells of a youth astronomy convention that is upstaged by the arrival of an actual space alien. Tom Hanks and Margot Robbie join Anderson’s all-star stock company. DCP. 105...
Sunday, September 03, 2023
3pm
Back by Popular Demand!
Italy | 2022 | Davide Ferrario
Umberto Eco, the brilliant Italian writer of The Name of the Rose (who’s seen in archival interviews),and his vast private library (30,000+ volumes!) are the main subjects of this riveting new documentary that moviegoers loved when we premiered it in July. Many people asked us to bring it back, so we are. An Eco echo, if you will. Subtitles. DCP. 80 min.
4:40pm
In Anaglyphic 3-D!
United States | 1953 | Phil Tucker
Decades before AI, humankind is threatened by Ro-Man—an alien who looks like a gorilla in a diving helmet, sent by his supreme leader to wipe out Earth’s population with a death ray. Ro-Man does pretty well at this, but for some reason, a California family proves immune to his people-zapper. Shot for next to nothing in four days in L.A.’s Bronson Canyon, this legendary, ludicrous laugher has been restored to its original 3-D “glory.” The...
6:30pm
Punk Rock Triple Bill!
United States | 1978-2021 | various directors
On June 13, 1978, the once Akron-based rock band the Cramps performed a live show at Napa State Hospital, a psychiatric institution in northern California. Opening for them was the Mutants, an eclectic septet of art school students from nearby San Francisco. This legendary punk show was captured on primitive b&w videotape by Target Video, a SF artists collective. In this program we show Joe Target Rees’ newly remastered video recordings of both sets (the...
8:05pm
Cleveland premiere!
Belgium, France | 2022 | Daphné Baiwir
Brian De Palma brought Stephen King’s first novel Carrie to the screen in 1976. Since then, there have been more than 60 other movies, TV programs, or series based on King’s works, making him the world’s most adapted living author. In this clip-filled new documentary, moviemakers ranging from Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile) and Mick Garris (The Stand) to Mike Flanagan (Gerald’s Game) and Greg Nicotero (Misery) comment on the enduring screen...
Thursday, September 07, 2023
7:30pm
2023 Cleveland Silent Film Festival. The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra accompanies
United States | 1920 | Fred Niblo
Colorado’s Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra is America’s foremost ensemble dedicated to providing musical accompaniment for silent movies. Their live scores to The Wedding March and Sunrise at the Cinematheque in February 2022 (part of the first Cleveland Silent Film Festival) were enthusiastically received. This week, the five-member band returns to Cleveland to play for three programs in the 2023 Cleveland Silent Film Festival. The first of these is The Mark of Zorro, a Douglas...
Friday, September 08, 2023
7pm
Special Offsite Event! The Cinematheque at the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2023 Cleveland Silent Film Festival. The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra accompanies
United States, USSR | 1924/29 | unknown/Dziga Vertov
The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra (see 9/7) accompanies two very different silent films about the birth of the modern industrial city. First up is The Heart of Cleveland, a 1924 short film produced for the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company. The movie follows two farm children, living without modern conveniences outside of Cleveland, who fly to the big city to witness the wonders of electricity. It features glorious aerial shots of Cleveland during its industrial...
Saturday, September 09, 2023
4pm
Cleveland premiere!
Germany | 2023 | Christian Petzold
Winner of the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize (second place) at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, the new movie by German master Christian Petzold (Undine, Transit, Barbara) is set in a summer home on the Baltic Sea, where a dour, struggling novelist and his more easygoing friend discover an unexpected house guest (Paula Beer) staying on the property. The woman’s presence ignites the men’s desires and passion. As the sexual heat rises, wildfires begin to...
7:30pm
Film Classics in 35mm! 2023 Cleveland Silent Film Festival. The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra accompanies
United States | 1930 | Lewis Milestone
Few people know that director Lewis Milestone shot two versions of his WWI classic All Quiet on the Western Front: the celebrated sound version that won an early Academy Award for Best Picture, and a dialogue-free “silent” version made for the international market and for U.S. theaters not yet equipped for sound. (During the transition from silent pictures to talkies, Hollywood sometimes prepared two versions of new movies.) Tonight, the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra...
Sunday, September 10, 2023
1:45pm
Cleveland premiere!
Sweden | 2021 | Stig Björkman
The celebrated American writer who has penned over 100 books during her distinguished career (including Blonde, about Marilyn Monroe) is the subject of this new documentary by a veteran Swedish filmmaker and critic who has known Oates for many years. Laura Dern, who starred in the 1985 Oates adaptation Smooth Talk, reads excerpts from the author’s works. “An unruly genius.” –New Yorker. Cleveland premiere. DCP. 94 min.
3:40pm
Cleveland premiere!
China | 2022 | Li Ruijun
A box office hit in China before it was unceremoniously pulled from movie theaters and streaming services, this exquisite rural drama tells of two lonely, middle-aged outcasts—a poor farmer and a sickly spinster—who are forced by their families to marry. Surprisingly, they make a go of it, becoming true partners in love and work—at least for a while. “Critic’s Pick…A touching portrait of love and resiliency.” –NY Times. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 134 min.
6:30pm
Cleveland premiere!
United States | 2022 | Morrisa Maltz
Lily Gladstone (Certain Women, Killers of the Flower Moon) plays a grieving Oglala Lakota woman who embarks on a road trip from her home in Minneapolis to a cousin’s wedding in South Dakota and then, guided by her grandmother’s photo album, to Texas. The gentle journey and real people she meets along the way restore her spirit. The lyrical, luminously-photographed movie (a mix of fiction and documentary) that holds her story evokes both Terrence Malick...
8:15pm
Cleveland premiere!
Germany | 2023 | Christian Petzold
Winner of the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize (second place) at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, the new movie by German master Christian Petzold (Undine, Transit, Barbara) is set in a summer home on the Baltic Sea, where a dour, struggling novelist and his more easygoing friend discover an unexpected house guest (Paula Beer) staying on the property. The woman’s presence ignites the men’s desires and passion. As the sexual heat rises, wildfires begin to...
Thursday, September 14, 2023
6:45pm
Film Classics in 16mm!
United States | 1984 | Richard Myers
In this touching and very personal work, northeast Ohio filmmaker Richard Myers revisits the 15-episode 1941 Republic Pictures serial of his youth, Jungle Girl, the first sound serial to have a female lead. Myers’ mixes surrealistic scenes from his movie-fired imagination with excerpts from an audio interview with the serial’s star Frances Gifford, whose career was cut short by a catastrophic car accident in 1947. (She refused to be filmed by Myers.) “[A] gentle dream/memory...
8:45pm
Cleveland premiere!
United Kingdom | 2023 | Charlotte Regan
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, this British charmer focuses on a dreamy, resourceful 12-year-old girl who lives alone in a flat in a working-class section of London after the death of her mother. Her enchanted, rather happy idyll of independence ends with the sudden arrival of her estranged father (Harris Dickinson of Triangle of Sadness) whom she has never met. “Packed full...
Friday, September 15, 2023
7pm
Grafton Nunes Presents. New 4K Restoration!
United States | 1959 | Howard Hawks
Grafton Nunes, film scholar and former President + CEO of the Cleveland Institute of Art, introduces and discusses Howard Hawks’ landmark western, one of the great director’s greatest films. John Wayne plays a Texas sheriff trying to prevent a killer from being sprung from jail by his slick cronies before the U.S. Marshal can arrive. For help guarding his prisoner, he assembles a ragtag bunch of greenhorns and misfits: a guitar-strumming, gun-slinging kid (Ricky Nelson),...
Saturday, September 16, 2023
5pm
Cleveland premiere!
United Kingdom | 2023 | Charlotte Regan
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, this British charmer focuses on a dreamy, resourceful 12-year-old girl who lives alone in a flat in a working-class section of London after the death of her mother. Her enchanted, rather happy idyll of independence ends with the sudden arrival of her estranged father (Harris Dickinson of Triangle of Sadness) whom she has never met. “Packed full...
6:45pm
The latest edition of this popular annual program!
Belgium, Canada, France, United States | 2022-23 | various directors
Seven short films from January’s 2023 Sundance Film Festival—fiction, nonfiction, and animation—make up the latest edition of this popular annual program. Sundance is widely considered the premier American showcase for new short films, serving for almost 40 years as the launchpad for many now-prominent independent filmmakers—from Dee Rees and Todd Haynes to Don Hertzfeldt and Jay and Mark Duplass. Four countries are represented in this year’s collection, and two festival award winners are included: Crystal...
8:35pm
Back by Popular Demand!
United States | 2022 | Sam Green
The immersive new film from the Oscar-nominated director of The Weather Underground explores the phenomenon of sound through 32 specific sonic experiences—from a tree falling in the forest to old answering-machine audio tapes. Featuring original music by JD Samson of Le Tigre, this sensory work meditates on the power of sound to bend time, cross borders, and profoundly shape our perception of the world. It sounds great on our 7.1 Dolby Digital sound system!“The greatest...
Sunday, September 17, 2023
4:15pm
The latest edition of this popular annual program!
Belgium, Canada, France, United States | 2022-23 | various directors
Seven short films from January’s 2023 Sundance Film Festival—fiction, nonfiction, and animation—make up the latest edition of this popular annual program. Sundance is widely considered the premier American showcase for new short films, serving for almost 40 years as the launchpad for many now-prominent independent filmmakers—from Dee Rees and Todd Haynes to Don Hertzfeldt and Jay and Mark Duplass. Four countries are represented in this year’s collection, and two festival award winners are included: Crystal...
6:30pm
Early Funny Woody
United States | 1969 | Woody Allen
Woody Allen plays an inept bank robber in this joke-filled mockumentary that Allen regards as his motion picture directorial debut. (He wrote, directed, and starred in it.) Music by Marvin Hamlisch. “Very special and eccentric and funny.” –NY Times. Blu-ray. 85 min.
8:15pm
Cleveland premiere!
United Kingdom, United States | 2023 | Savanah Leaf
In one of the most rapturously-reviewed films of 2023, a single, pregnant Bay Area Black woman who’s in recovery struggles with the System to retrieve her other two children from foster care. An A24 release. “A wondrous 97-minute feature…Director [Savanah Leaf] and star [Tia Nomore] are obviously poised for greatness.” –IndieWire. Cleveland premiere. DCP. 97 min.
Thursday, September 21, 2023
6:45pm
New 4K Restoration!
France | 1937 | Jean Grémillon
Jean Gabin stars in this major film by a great but neglected filmmaker of French cinema’s golden age. A blend of film noir and poetic realism, the film tells of an officer in the French Foreign Legion who is a Casanova until he falls hard for a femme fatale. “Grémillon belongs in the hierarchy of classic French cinema alongside René Clair, Jean Renoir, and Marcel Carné…Jean Gabin gives the most affecting performance of his long...
8:40pm
Cleveland premiere!
Chile | 2023 | Maite Alberdi
Winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize in the Documentary Competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Maite Alberdi’s follow-up to The Mole Agent is one of the most moving portraits of Alzheimer’s disease ever made. Focusing on two prominent Chileans who have been together for 23 years (he’s a journalist and TV commentator, she’s an actress who once served as Chile’s Minister of Culture and the Arts), this intimate portrait shows the couple...
Friday, September 22, 2023
7pm
Film Classics in 35mm! Early Funny Woody
United States | 1971 | Woody Allen
To impress his activist ex-girlfriend, a bumbling, neurotic New Yorker (Woody Allen) becomes involved in a political revolution inside a Latin American banana republic. Louise Lasser co-stars in this zany collection of one-liners, sight gags, and absurd situations. “Four stars (highest rating)…Hilarious.” –Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide. 35mm. 82 min.
8:45pm
Added Film!
France, Germany | 2023 | Ira Sach
Slapped (perhaps unfairly) with a commerce-killing NC-17 rating by the Motion Picture Association, Ira Sachs’ universally acclaimed new film focuses on a gay couple—a German filmmaker played by Franz Rogowski and a British printer played by Ben Whishaw—whose marriage is threatened when one of them begins a relationship with a woman (Adèle Exarchopoulos of Blue Is the Warmest Color). “A smart, lustrous film, and a bracingly honest one.” –Time. Adults only! Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. DCP....
Saturday, September 23, 2023
5pm
Cleveland premiere!
France, Luxembourg | 2022 | Julien Chheng, Jean-Christophe Roger
The first feature-length follow-up to France’s 2012 Oscar-nominated, animated charmer Ernest and Celestine finds the unlikely duo (troubadour bear Ernest and mouse Celestine) traveling to Ernest’s home country to get his one-of-a-kind, beloved violin repaired. But they are shocked to discover that music has been banned there! Winner of the 2023 Grand Prize at the New York Int’l Children’s Film Festival. Cleveland premiere. DCP. 80 min.
6:40pm
Franco Zeffirelli Centenary
Italy, United Kingdom | 1968 | Franco Zeffirelli
“The most exciting film of Shakespeare ever made” is what Roger Ebert called Franco Zeffirelli’s lush, romantic period piece that boldly cast two teenagers, Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, as the Bard’s star-crossed lovers. Michael York co-stars; Nino Rota composed the music. 4K DCP. 138 min.
9:20pm
Film Classics in 35mm! Early Funny Woody
United States | 1971 | Woody Allen
To impress his activist ex-girlfriend, a bumbling, neurotic New Yorker (Woody Allen) becomes involved in a political revolution inside a Latin American banana republic. Louise Lasser co-stars in this zany collection of one-liners, sight gags, and absurd situations. “Four stars (highest rating)…Hilarious.” –Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide. 35mm. 82 min.
Sunday, September 24, 2023
3pm
Cleveland premiere!
France, Luxembourg | 2022 | Julien Chheng, Jean-Christophe Roger
The first feature-length follow-up to France’s 2012 Oscar-nominated, animated charmer Ernest and Celestine finds the unlikely duo (troubadour bear Ernest and mouse Celestine) traveling to Ernest’s home country to get his one-of-a-kind, beloved violin repaired. But they are shocked to discover that music has been banned there! Winner of the 2023 Grand Prize at the New York Int’l Children’s Film Festival. Cleveland premiere. DCP. 80 min.
4:40pm
Cleveland premiere!
Chile | 2023 | Maite Alberdi
Winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize in the Documentary Competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Maite Alberdi’s follow-up to The Mole Agent is one of the most moving portraits of Alzheimer’s disease ever made. Focusing on two prominent Chileans who have been together for 23 years (he’s a journalist and TV commentator, she’s an actress who once served as Chile’s Minister of Culture and the Arts), this intimate portrait shows the couple...
6:30pm
Cleveland premiere!
Australia | 2023 | Ian White
Nick Cave’s first band the Birthday Party startled audiences with its confrontational performances, primal screams, outlaw gothic horror, and anarchic lifestyle. The group’s original members narrate this new documentary that features never-before-seen footage from band members and electrifying concert clips. It’s a front-row seat to “one of the all-time premier live bands” (Henry Rollins). Cleveland premiere. DCP. 98 min.
8:30pm
Added Film!
France, Germany | 2023 | Ira Sach
Slapped (perhaps unfairly) with a commerce-killing NC-17 rating by the Motion Picture Association, Ira Sachs’ universally acclaimed new film focuses on a gay couple—a German filmmaker played by Franz Rogowski and a British printer played by Ben Whishaw—whose marriage is threatened when one of them begins a relationship with a woman (Adèle Exarchopoulos of Blue Is the Warmest Color). “A smart, lustrous film, and a bracingly honest one.” –Time. Adults only! Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. DCP....
Thursday, September 28, 2023
6:45pm
New 4K Restoration!
France, Germany | 1938 | Jean Grémillon
In this thriller from the overlooked Jean Grémillon (see 9/21 at 6:45), Raimu (whom Orson Welles once called “the greatest actor who ever lived”) plays a successful French shop owner whose amiability and respectability mask some serious criminal activity. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 103 min.
8:50pm
Two Cleveland premieres!
France | 2022 | Cyril Leuthy
Jean-Luc Godard, the French New Wave innovator who became an ever-rebellious titan of world cinema, died last September at age 91. This new documentary, which includes interviews with many of Godard’s friends, collaborators, and critics, looks back at the late master. The movie divides Godard’s first 40 years of filmmaking into six chapters, each inspired by a phase of his career—from his 1960 breakthrough Breathless to his late magnum opus Histoire(s) du cinema, an eight-part...
Friday, September 29, 2023
7pm
National Silent Movie Day! 4K Restoration!
United States | 1928 | Paul Leni
Batman’s nemesis the Joker was largely inspired by the grotesque, disfigured main character in this lavish period romance by German Expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni (Waxworks, The Cat and the Canary). Set in 17th-century England, the silent film charts the romantic and political travails of Gwynplaine (Conrad Veidt), the son of a disgraced nobleman, who has had a hideous, mirthless grin permanently carved on his face by his father’s enemies, forcing him to work as a...
9:10pm
Charlton Heston Centenary
United States | 1968 | Franklin J. Schaffner
Astronauts crash-land on a mysterious planet where intelligent apes rule over human beings. This sci-fi landmark, co-written by Rod Serling, spawned four sequels, two TV series, a remake, a reboot trilogy, and more! Charlton Heston stars. DCP. 112 min.
Saturday, September 30, 2023
5pm
Charlton Heston Centenary
United States | 1968 | Franklin J. Schaffner
Astronauts crash-land on a mysterious planet where intelligent apes rule over human beings. This sci-fi landmark, co-written by Rod Serling, spawned four sequels, two TV series, a remake, a reboot trilogy, and more! Charlton Heston stars. DCP. 112 min.
7:15pm
Two Cleveland premieres!
France | 2022 | Cyril Leuthy
Jean-Luc Godard, the French New Wave innovator who became an ever-rebellious titan of world cinema, died last September at age 91. This new documentary, which includes interviews with many of Godard’s friends, collaborators, and critics, looks back at the late master. The movie divides Godard’s first 40 years of filmmaking into six chapters, each inspired by a phase of his career—from his 1960 breakthrough Breathless to his late magnum opus Histoire(s) du cinema, an eight-part...
9:35pm
Film Classics in 35mm! Early Funny Woody
United States | 1972 | Woody Allen
Woody Allen and a distinguished supporting cast (John Carradine, Louise Lasser, Tony Randall, Lynn Redgrave, Burt Reynolds, Gene Wilder, et al.) act out nonsensical answers to questions about human sexuality (“Do Aphrodisiacs Work?”, “What Happens During Ejaculation?”, et al.) in this seven-part anthology comedy that contains some of Allen’s wildest and most outrageously funny conceits. Includes spoofs of Antonioni movies and 1966’s Fantastic Voyage. “Allen achieves his finest hour here.” –Time Out Film Guide. Adults...
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