Cinematheque Film Schedule

United States | 1954 | Robert Aldrich

Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster play American soldiers of fortune who go south of the border to work for Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico during the 1860s Franco-Mexican War. Robert Aldrich’s exciting widescreen western almost certainly influenced Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah. With Ernest Borgnine and Charles Bronson. DCP. 94 min.

United States | 1963 | Billy Wilder

Longtime pianist, arranger, composer, and conductor André Previn won one of his four Academy Awards for his adapted score to this rarely revived Billy Wilder comedy. The movie reunites The Apartment’s two romantic leads, Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, as a French gendarme and a Paris streetwalker who fall for each other. 144 min.

Belgium, France | 2018 | Gaspar Noé

The latest hallucinatory horrorshow by French provocateur Gaspar Noé (Enter the Void, Irreversible) contains some of the most stunningly cinematic sequences of recent memory (including one incredible dance number)—as well as off-putting passages of pain, humiliation, excess, and tedium. Set in an abandoned building and scored to a throbbing techno beat, the movie focuses on a group of contemporary dancers whose post-rehearsal party devolves into bad acid trip worthy of Dante’s Inferno. No one under...

USSR | 1965 | Sergei Bondarchuk

Here’s a new digital restoration of one of the most expensive and spectacular Soviet films ever made! Sergei Bondarchuk’s lavish adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s tome cost the equivalent of 60-70 million 2019 dollars and employed 120,000 soldiers as extras in its battle scenes. Winner of the 1969 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the movie skillfully mixes the epic and the intimate, with sensitive performances and cinematic poetry. A portrait of Russia at the time...

United Kingdom | 2018 | Mark Cousins

Film critic and cinema historian turned moviemaker Mark Cousins (The Story of Film: An Odyssey) charts some of the unknown territory of Orson Welles’ vast imagination. Granted unprecedented access to hundreds of sketches, drawings, and paintings by Welles—tantalizing, never-before-seen glimpses into the filmmaker’s rich inner life—Cousins sheds new light on the life experiences, dreams, desires, and obsessions that fueled this giant’s creativity. “Genuinely eye-opening.” –Rolling Stone. DCP. 115 min.

Belgium, France | 2018 | Gaspar Noé

The latest hallucinatory horrorshow by French provocateur Gaspar Noé (Enter the Void, Irreversible) contains some of the most stunningly cinematic sequences of recent memory (including one incredible dance number)—as well as off-putting passages of pain, humiliation, excess, and tedium. Set in an abandoned building and scored to a throbbing techno beat, the movie focuses on a group of contemporary dancers whose post-rehearsal party devolves into bad acid trip worthy of Dante’s Inferno. No one under...

United States | 2018 | Douglass M. Stewart Jr.

Ray Bradbury, Douglas Trumbull, and others appear in this new documentary about the life and work of Chesley Bonestell (1888-1986), an American artist and designer whose visionary, pre-NASA paintings of planets and space travel influenced and inspired sci-fi art, movies, and even the U.S. space program. DCP. 96 min.

USSR | 1966 | Sergei Bondarchuk

Here’s a new digital restoration of one of the most expensive and spectacular Soviet films ever made! Sergei Bondarchuk’s lavish adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s tome cost the equivalent of 60-70 million 2019 dollars and employed 120,000 soldiers as extras in its battle scenes. Winner of the 1969 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the movie skillfully mixes the epic and the intimate, with sensitive performances and cinematic poetry. A portrait of Russia at the time...

United States | 1972 | Robert Aldrich

Burt Lancaster, who played a renegade Indian battling the U.S. Cavalry in Robert Aldrich’s Apache (see 5/25 at 5:00 pm), here plays a veteran scout working for the army and leading a group of still-green officers to a different band of marauding Apaches. Aldrich’s potent western (one of his best films) was made during the Vietnam era, and any parallels to that conflict are entirely intentional. Archival studio print! 103 min.

United States | 1978 | Stanley Donen

Almost 30 years before Grindhouse, legendary choreographer and director Stanley Donen (Singin’ in the Rain, Funny Face) concocted his own tongue-in-cheek double feature that was released as a single movie. Working from a script co-penned by Larry Gelbart (TV’s M*A*S*H), Donen turned for inspiration, not to 1970s horror and exploitation movies, but to 1930s Warner Bros "programmers" (short feature films comprising a longer film program). The result, Movie Movie, consists of two faux Depression-era pictures:...

United States | 2018 | Joel Potrykus

The Exterminating Angel meets Slacker in the latest gross-out comedy by Michigan indie filmmaker Joel Potrykus (Buzzard). Set in a rotting living room late in 1999, the movie focuses on a couch potato obsessed with beating the infamous level 256 in Pac-Man before the Y2K apocalypse. He vows not to get up from the couch until he has done so. Adults only! DCP. 91 min.

USSR | 1966 | Sergei Bondarchuk

Here’s a new digital restoration of one of the most expensive and spectacular Soviet films ever made! Sergei Bondarchuk’s lavish adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s tome cost the equivalent of 60-70 million 2019 dollars and employed 120,000 soldiers as extras in its battle scenes. Winner of the 1969 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the movie skillfully mixes the epic and the intimate, with sensitive performances and cinematic poetry. A portrait of Russia at the time...

Ghana, United States | 2018 | Sam Blitz Bazawule

“The Burial of Kojo is a near-virtuoso work, a feast of emotion, nuance and beauty, and a startling feature directing debut.” So says The NY Times about the first feature by Ghana-born, Brooklyn-based musician turned filmmaker Blitz Bazawule. Set in Ghana, the film tells of a daughter who embarks on a magical journey to rescue her father who’s trapped in a mine shaft. “A spellbinding experience.” –L.A. Times. Subtitles. DCP. 80 min.

United States | 2018 | Joel Potrykus

The Exterminating Angel meets Slacker in the latest gross-out comedy by Michigan indie filmmaker Joel Potrykus (Buzzard). Set in a rotting living room late in 1999, the movie focuses on a couch potato obsessed with beating the infamous level 256 in Pac-Man before the Y2K apocalypse. He vows not to get up from the couch until he has done so. Adults only! DCP. 91 min.

United States | 2019 | Jim Jarmusch

ALL TICKETS FOR THIS SCREENING HAVE BEEN CLAIMED. Moviegoers without advance tickets can form a rush line at the theater on 6/10. They will be admitted, as space allows, after 6:50 pm, when ticket holders must claim their seats. Here's a free advance screening of Jim Jarmusch's new film, a zombie comedy that opened this year's Cannes Film Festival on May 14! Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry...

United States | 2019 | Martin Scorsese

In the fall of 1975, Bob Dylan embarked on the first leg of a concert tour that saw him performing at more intimate venues in smaller cities, often playing with special guests that ranged from Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell to Roger McGuinn, Allen Ginsberg, and Patti Smith. Martin Scorsese’s new Netflix-produced movie about the tour, described as “part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream,” includes new interviews with Dylan and other tour participants....

France, Switzerland | 2017 | Barbet Schroeder

A Burmese Buddhist monk who preaches hatred of Muslims is the subject of this unsettling new documentary from the veteran director of Reversal of Fortune, Single White Female, and Barfly. (It concludes Schroeder’s “trilogy of evil” that began with 1974’s General Idi Amin Dada and 2007’s Terror’s Advocate.) Ashin Wirathu’s abhorrent Islamophobic rhetoric (couched in appeals for nationalism and pure bloodlines) has been at the forefront of Myanmar’s ethnic cleansing campaign against its Rohingya minority...

France, Japan, Singapore | 2018 | Eric Khoo

In the new movie by one of Singapore’s top filmmakers, a young ramen chef leaves his hometown in Japan to embark on a culinary journey to Singapore—and also find out about his late parents’ past there. But he uncovers more than delicious recipes and family secrets. “Mouth-watering.” –Hollywood Reporter. Subtitles. DCP. 89 min.

France, Japan, Singapore | 2018 | Eric Khoo

In the new movie by one of Singapore’s top filmmakers, a young ramen chef leaves his hometown in Japan to embark on a culinary journey to Singapore—and also find out about his late parents’ past there. But he uncovers more than delicious recipes and family secrets. “Mouth-watering.” –Hollywood Reporter. Subtitles. DCP. 89 min.

USSR | 1967 | Sergei Bondarchuk

Here’s a new digital restoration of one of the most expensive and spectacular Soviet films ever made! Sergei Bondarchuk’s lavish adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s tome cost the equivalent of 60-70 million 2019 dollars and employed 120,000 soldiers as extras in its battle scenes. Winner of the 1969 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the movie skillfully mixes the epic and the intimate, with sensitive performances and cinematic poetry. A portrait of Russia at the time...

United States | 1925 | Charles Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin’s funniest silent feature finds the Little Tramp prospecting for gold in the frozen Yukon, where he battles bears, the elements, and hunger, and falls in love with a dance hall girl. If you think you don’t like Chaplin, or feel that Chaplin is inferior to Keaton, see this movie. 35mm with music track. 88 min.

United States | 1967 | Robert Aldrich

In the waning days of WWII in Europe, 12 prisoners serving long jail terms (or on death row) are given a chance to have their sentences commuted by volunteering for an ultra-dangerous military mission behind enemy lines. Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, and George Kennedy play army officers. The motley, fearless felons include John Cassavetes, Jim Brown, Donald Sutherland, Charles Bronson, and Telly Savalas. Robert Aldrich’s box office smash proved funny, exciting, and influential....

France, Switzerland | 2017 | Barbet Schroeder

A Burmese Buddhist monk who preaches hatred of Muslims is the subject of this unsettling new documentary from the veteran director of Reversal of Fortune, Single White Female, and Barfly. (It concludes Schroeder’s “trilogy of evil” that began with 1974’s General Idi Amin Dada and 2007’s Terror’s Advocate.) Ashin Wirathu’s abhorrent Islamophobic rhetoric (couched in appeals for nationalism and pure bloodlines) has been at the forefront of Myanmar’s ethnic cleansing campaign against its Rohingya minority...

USSR | 1967 | Sergei Bondarchuk

Here’s a new digital restoration of one of the most expensive and spectacular Soviet films ever made! Sergei Bondarchuk’s lavish adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s tome cost the equivalent of 60-70 million 2019 dollars and employed 120,000 soldiers as extras in its battle scenes. Winner of the 1969 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the movie skillfully mixes the epic and the intimate, with sensitive performances and cinematic poetry. A portrait of Russia at the time...

France, Italy | 1979 | Francesco Rosi

Here’s the complete, uncut TV version of Francesco Rosi’s acclaimed adaptation of Carlo Levi’s 1945 memoir. (It’s twice as long as the cut first released in America 40 years ago.) Gian Maria Volonté plays a painter, writer, doctor, and intellectual in Fascist 1930s Italy who is banished to a small mountain village in the South. There the simple poor folk teach him a lot about humanity. With Irene Papas. “Achingly beautiful.” –David Denby. Cleveland revival...

Spain | 2019 | Danny Garcia

Stiv Bators (1949-1990) was a punk pioneer, notorious for his exploits in life and for his untimely death. This new documentary by veteran punk chronicler Danny Garcia traces Bators’ life from his formative years in Youngstown to his time with the Dead Boys and The Lords of the New Church to his last days in Paris. If you missed (or were turned away from) our sold-out world premiere screening of this movie in March, don’t...

United States | 1982 | Alan Parker

The late, great Albert Finney gives one of his best performances (co-starring with an equally fine Diane Keaton) in this wrenching drama, set in Marin County, about the breakup of a 15-year marriage that produced four children. Karen Allen and Peter Weller co-star. DCP. 124 min.

United States | 1982 | Alan Parker

The late, great Albert Finney gives one of his best performances (co-starring with an equally fine Diane Keaton) in this wrenching drama, set in Marin County, about the breakup of a 15-year marriage that produced four children. Karen Allen and Peter Weller co-star. DCP. 124 min.

USSR | 1967 | Sergei Bondarchuk

Here’s a new digital restoration of one of the most expensive and spectacular Soviet films ever made! Sergei Bondarchuk’s lavish adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s tome cost the equivalent of 60-70 million 2019 dollars and employed 120,000 soldiers as extras in its battle scenes. Winner of the 1969 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the movie skillfully mixes the epic and the intimate, with sensitive performances and cinematic poetry. A portrait of Russia at the time...

France | 1985 | Agnès Varda

Agnès Varda, the foremost female filmmaker associated with the French New Wave, made many memorable films during her long career. To some, this mid-career movie—which investigates the life of a mysterious young female drifter (Sandrine Bonnaire) found frozen and dead in a ditch in rural France—is her masterpiece. Subtitles. 105 min.

United States | 1962 | Robert Aldrich

Bette Davis and Joan Crawford revived their flagging careers with this grotesquely funny horror hit that launched a new sub-genre of “granny” Guignol. The two stars play sisters, both former actresses and longtime bitter rivals who never enjoyed success at the same time. Now retired, they share a Hollywood mansion. One of them is a paraplegic, the other a deranged alcoholic, so their lifelong game of cat and mouse continues—with higher stakes than ever before!...

United States | 1964 | Robert Aldrich

Bette Davis re-teamed with director Robert Aldrich for his spooky follow-up to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (See previous blurb.) Davis plays an aging, unmarried, tormented Southern belle living in a decaying Louisiana mansion and going crazy guarding a traumatic family secret. With Olivia de Havilland, Agnes Moorehead, Joseph Cotten, Victor Buono, Mary Astor, and Bruce Dern. Nominated for seven Oscars! DCP. 133 min.

USSR | 1967 | Sergei Bondarchuk

Here’s a new digital restoration of one of the most expensive and spectacular Soviet films ever made! Sergei Bondarchuk’s lavish adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s tome cost the equivalent of 60-70 million 2019 dollars and employed 120,000 soldiers as extras in its battle scenes. Winner of the 1969 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the movie skillfully mixes the epic and the intimate, with sensitive performances and cinematic poetry. A portrait of Russia at the time...

United States | 1964 | Robert Aldrich

Bette Davis re-teamed with director Robert Aldrich for his spooky follow-up to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (See previous blurb.) Davis plays an aging, unmarried, tormented Southern belle living in a decaying Louisiana mansion and going crazy guarding a traumatic family secret. With Olivia de Havilland, Agnes Moorehead, Joseph Cotten, Victor Buono, Mary Astor, and Bruce Dern. Nominated for seven Oscars! DCP. 133 min.

United States | 1962 | Robert Aldrich

Bette Davis and Joan Crawford revived their flagging careers with this grotesquely funny horror hit that launched a new sub-genre of “granny” Guignol. The two stars play sisters, both former actresses and longtime bitter rivals who never enjoyed success at the same time. Now retired, they share a Hollywood mansion. One of them is a paraplegic, the other a deranged alcoholic, so their lifelong game of cat and mouse continues—with higher stakes than ever before!...

United States | 1974 | Larry Cohen

Larry Cohen, who died in March, was a longtime producer, writer, and director of B movies, mostly horror and sci-fi. It’s Alive!, his biggest success, tells of a murderous mutant baby. It boasts a Bernard Herrmann score and makeup and effects by Rick Baker and was followed by two sequels. Blu-ray. 91 min.

United States | 1974 | Robert Aldrich

Robert Aldrich’s raucous, rousing sports comedy stars Burt Reynolds as a disgraced NFL quarterback who, while serving time in a Florida penitentiary, leads a ragtag bunch of fellow inmates in a dirty football game against prison guards. DCP. 123 min.

United States | 1974 | Robert Aldrich

Robert Aldrich’s raucous, rousing sports comedy stars Burt Reynolds as a disgraced NFL quarterback who, while serving time in a Florida penitentiary, leads a ragtag bunch of fellow inmates in a dirty football game against prison guards. DCP. 123 min.

United States | 1974 | Larry Cohen

Larry Cohen, who died in March, was a longtime producer, writer, and director of B movies, mostly horror and sci-fi. It’s Alive!, his biggest success, tells of a murderous mutant baby. It boasts a Bernard Herrmann score and makeup and effects by Rick Baker and was followed by two sequels. Blu-ray. 91 min.

Netherlands | 2018 | Heddy Honigmann

Six service dogs and their owners are the subjects of the new film by veteran Dutch documentarian Heddy Honigmann. This poignant, philosophical work explores the close bond between animals and humans. “An audience favorite! A tender tribute to tail-wagging treasures.” –Hollywood Reporter. Subtitles. DCP. 86 min.

Japan | 1958 | Akira Kurosawa

Here’s the Kurosawa film that inspired Star Wars! Set during the Japanese clan wars of the 16th century, the movie follows a fugitive princess as she flees through enemy territory accompanied by a loyal general (Toshiro Mifune) and two oafish, constantly bickering peasants. This immensely enjoyable comedy epic, Kurosawa’s first film in scope, boasts breathless action, stunning vistas, and big laughs. Mifune even does his own stunts. Original, uncut version! Subtitles. 139 min

United States | 1986 | Jim Jarmusch

Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni star in Jim Jarmusch’s follow-up to Stranger than Paradise, a wonderfully funny and whimsical shaggy-man story about three drifters and jailbirds in deepest Louisiana. The exquisite b&w cinematography is by the late, great Robby Müller. 107 min.

Germany, United States | 1977 | Robert Aldrich

In Robert Aldrich’s tense, subversive thriller, a renegade US Air Force general (Burt Lancaster) takes over an ICBM silo and threatens to start WWIII unless the U.S. President (Charles Durning) publicly reveals some government secrets about the Vietnam War. The great supporting cast includes Richard Widmark, Joseph Cotten, Melvyn Douglas, and Paul Winfield. Blu-ray. 146 min.

United States | 1986 | Jim Jarmusch

Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni star in Jim Jarmusch’s follow-up to Stranger than Paradise, a wonderfully funny and whimsical shaggy-man story about three drifters and jailbirds in deepest Louisiana. The exquisite b&w cinematography is by the late, great Robby Müller. 107 min.

Netherlands | 2018 | Heddy Honigmann

Six service dogs and their owners are the subjects of the new film by veteran Dutch documentarian Heddy Honigmann. This poignant, philosophical work explores the close bond between animals and humans. “An audience favorite! A tender tribute to tail-wagging treasures.” –Hollywood Reporter. Subtitles. DCP. 86 min.