Cinematheque . Film Schedule
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Thursday, March 02, 2023
6:45pm
Cleveland premiere!
France, Germany, Portugal, Spain | 2022 | Albert Serra
Named the best film of 2022 by Cahiers du Cinéma magazine and called “the art movie of the year” by IndieWire, the new film by Albert Serra (The Death of Louis XIV) is a sensuous, languorous contemporary thriller set on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti. There the French High Commissioner (Benoît Magimel) schmoozes members of the wealthy establishment and leaders of the indigenous community—that is, when he’s not hanging out at the island’s more...
Friday, March 03, 2023
7pm
Cleveland theatrical premiere!
United States | 2022 | Michael Morris
Surprise Best Actress Oscar nominee Andrea Riseborough gives what Oscar winner Kate Winslet has called “the greatest female performance onscreen I have ever seen in my life” in this highly acclaimed but little-seen indie drama. Riseborough plays a single, alcoholic West Texas mother who wins the lottery but squanders the money before she can make a better life for herself and her son. With Allison Janney and Marc Maron. “Recalls the grit of 1970s American...
9:20pm
Cleveland premiere!
France, United Kingdom | 1968-73 | various directors
Here are three newly-restored documentary shorts about legendary Black American author James Baldwin: Sedat Pakay’s James Baldwin: From Another Place (1973); Terence Dixon’s Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris (1970); and Horace Ové’s Baldwin’s N***** (1968), featuring Dick Gregory. This program “gives us an opportunity to examine [a] critical period in Baldwin’s adult life—to see how distance from his home country changed how the writer saw himself in relation to the world and helped...
Saturday, March 04, 2023
5pm
Peter Brook, 1925-2022
United Kingdom | 1963 | Peter Brook
British schoolboys stranded on a remote tropical island after a plane crash establish their own society before devolving into savagery. This documentary-like adaptation of William Golding’s allegorical novel is the most famous movie by the late, great experimental theatre (and film) director Peter Brook. DCP. 90 min. See next blurb for another film by Peter Brook.
6:50pm
Film Classics in 35mm! Peter Brook, 1925-2022
United Kingdom | 1967 | Peter Brook
Inmates of a French insane asylum in 1808 re-enact the murder of French Revolution firebrand Jean-Paul Marat in a play written and staged by fellow inmate, the Marquis de Sade. Meanwhile, the institution’s director and an audience of bourgeois playgoers observe this “therapeutic” theatrical from a safe distance—until all hell breaks loose. Peter Brook’s galvanizing film version of his Royal Shakespeare Company production—one of the most celebrated theatrical events of the 1960s—features Patrick Magee and...
9:05pm
New 4K Restoration! Cleveland premiere!
Italy | 1961 | Dino Risi
Italian funnyman Alberto Sordi (The White Sheik, Mafioso) stars in this 62-year-old comedy that wasn’t released in the U.S. until just this year! Sordi plays an idealistic resistance fighter who turns left-wing journalist and novelist after WWII. But because he can’t stomach the values and money-grubbing in postwar Italy, his fortunes suffer. “Critic’s Pick…A stellar specimen of commedia all’italiana by a true maestro of the form.” –A.O. Scott, NY Times. “Italian social realism at its...
Sunday, March 05, 2023
2:15pm
Cleveland premiere!
France, United Kingdom | 1968-73 | various directors
Here are three newly-restored documentary shorts about legendary Black American author James Baldwin: Sedat Pakay’s James Baldwin: From Another Place (1973); Terence Dixon’s Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris (1970); and Horace Ové’s Baldwin’s N***** (1968), featuring Dick Gregory. This program “gives us an opportunity to examine [a] critical period in Baldwin’s adult life—to see how distance from his home country changed how the writer saw himself in relation to the world and helped...
4pm
New 4K Restoration! Cleveland premiere!
Italy | 1961 | Dino Risi
Italian funnyman Alberto Sordi (The White Sheik, Mafioso) stars in this 62-year-old comedy that wasn’t released in the U.S. until just this year! Sordi plays an idealistic resistance fighter who turns left-wing journalist and novelist after WWII. But because he can’t stomach the values and money-grubbing in postwar Italy, his fortunes suffer. “Critic’s Pick…A stellar specimen of commedia all’italiana by a true maestro of the form.” –A.O. Scott, NY Times. “Italian social realism at its...
6:30pm
Cleveland premiere!
France, Germany, Portugal, Spain | 2022 | Albert Serra
Named the best film of 2022 by Cahiers du Cinéma magazine and called “the art movie of the year” by IndieWire, the new film by Albert Serra (The Death of Louis XIV) is a sensuous, languorous contemporary thriller set on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti. There the French High Commissioner (Benoît Magimel) schmoozes members of the wealthy establishment and leaders of the indigenous community—that is, when he’s not hanging out at the island’s more...
Thursday, March 09, 2023
6:45pm
Film Classics in 16mm & 35mm! Michael Snow, 1928-2023
Canada | 1967/2005 | Michael Snow
We pay tribute to recently deceased Canadian artist and filmmaker Michael Snow with a pairing of his most famous movie (an avant-garde milestone made early in his career) and one of his late works. Wavelength (1967) features the most famous slow zoom in cinema history—a 45-min. drift across a room in NYC where some enigmatic human activity (including a murder) takes place. Filmmakers Hollis Frampton and Joyce Wieland and film critic Amy Taubin appear in...
8:20pm
Cleveland premiere!
Germany, Serbia | 2019 | Angela Schanelec
A middle-aged widow still struggling to regain her balance after her husband’s death experiences another existential crisis when her teen son disappears without a trace for a week. Angela Schanelec’s acclaimed, precision-tooled puzzle is tinged with mystery and melancholy, while paying homage to Ozu and Bresson. With Franz Rogowski. “An uncompromising, sophisticated, multi-layered work of art.” –Hollywood Reporter. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 103 min.
Friday, March 10, 2023
7pm
New 4K Restoration!
Cameroon, France, West Germany | 1988 | Claire Denis
Claire Denis’ first feature was inspired by her own West African childhood. Chocolat focuses on a French woman who returns to her childhood home in Cameroon, where she recalls her friendship with an African “houseboy” (Isaach de Bankolé) and also the sexual tension between this servant and her beautiful mother. “[An] amazingly assured debut.” –Time Out Film Guide. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 105 min.
9:05pm
Cleveland premiere!
France | 2002/22 | Gaspar Noé
Regardless (or irregardless) of the original title, Gaspar Noé’s 2002 succès de scandale has now been reversed! This new version of Irreversible undoes the film’s backward chronology and places the appalling action—which includes a brutal assault and its violent aftermath—in its proper order. Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel star in the film, which is one of the darkest and most disturbing movies ever made. It is definitely not for the squeamish, and even the non-squeamish...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
7pm
Special Offsite Event! The Cinematheque at the Capitol Theatre! 1950s Film Noir in 3-D!
United States | 1953 | Harry Essex
We return to the Capitol Theatre (W. 65th & Detroit Ave.) for the first time in four years to present a new restoration of perhaps the only classic film noir shot in 3-D! I, the Jury marked the screen debut of Mickey Spillane’s brutal private eye Mike Hammer, who here spends the Christmas holiday tracking down the mysterious killer of his best friend. Hammer’s relentless pursuit takes him into the rarefied worlds of art collecting...
Saturday, March 18, 2023
7:30pm
Special Offsite Event! The Cinematheque at the Wizbang! Theatre. Classic Circus Film plus Live Acts!
France, Sweden | 1974 | Jacques Tati
Cleveland’s alternative film theater (the Cinematheque) ventures to “Cleveland’s illegitimate theater,” the Wizbang! Theatre in Cleveland Heights, for an evening of “variety, circus, mayhem”—and a movie! The movie is Parade, the final film by beloved French comic and filmmaker Jacques Tati (M. Hulot’s Holiday, PlayTime). In Parade, Tati takes his cameras to the circus and serves as ringmaster for a delightful, memorable show before a live audience. Circus acts and other big-top shenanigans combine with...
Thursday, March 23, 2023
6:45pm
Yoshishige Yoshida, 1933-2022
Japan | 1969 | Yoshishige Yoshida
The most celebrated work by recently deceased Japanese New Wave director Yoshishige Yoshida is a rarely shown landmark of world cinema. Stylishly shot in ‘scope and boasting great visual beauty, Yoshida’s monumental magnum opus tells two parallel stories. One follows the life and loves of 1920s Japanese anarchist and free love advocate Sakae Ōsugi; the other focuses on two 1960s students inspired by Ōsugi’s radical ideas. Director’s cut. Subtitles. DCP. 220 min.
Friday, March 24, 2023
7pm
Film Classics in 35mm! Fassbinder’s Gangster Trilogy
West Germany | 1969 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Fassbinder stars in his very first feature—a bargain-basement crime movie about an ex-con and pimp who, despite coercion, resists joining the “Syndicate.“ Hanna Schygulla co-stars as the thug’s prostitute-lover. “In this bleak world of bare sets, static camera shots, and stylised acting, was awkwardly born one of the greatest ‘lives in film‘ the cinema has seen.“ –Time Out Film Guide. Subtitles. 35mm. 88 min.
8:50pm
Mike Hodges, 1932-2022
United Kingdom | 1971 | Mike Hodges
Voted the greatest British movie ever made in a 2004 survey of UK film critics conducted by Britain’s Total Film magazine, Mike Hodges’ debut feature is a gritty gangster classic that provided star Michael Caine with one of his most iconic roles—that of a dapper, sexy, but brutal and amoral hit man who travels to Newcastle to investigate his brother’s death. Get Carter‘s most ardent fans include Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritchie. With Britt Ekland...
Saturday, March 25, 2023
7pm
Mike Hodges, 1932-2022
United Kingdom | 1971 | Mike Hodges
Voted the greatest British movie ever made in a 2004 survey of UK film critics conducted by Britain’s Total Film magazine, Mike Hodges’ debut feature is a gritty gangster classic that provided star Michael Caine with one of his most iconic roles—that of a dapper, sexy, but brutal and amoral hit man who travels to Newcastle to investigate his brother’s death. Get Carter‘s most ardent fans include Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritchie. With Britt Ekland...
9:15pm
New 4K Restoration!
United States | 1976 | John Carpenter
Frequently cited as John Carpenter’s best film, this taut mash-up of Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo and George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead is set at a decommissioned Los Angeles police precinct house on the night before it is permanently closed. A ruthless gang of armed street criminals lays siege to the building. With the phones disconnected, it falls to a skeleton LAPD crew (and a convicted killer) to defend this fortress. Carpenter also...
Sunday, March 26, 2023
6:30pm
New 4K Restoration!
United States | 1976 | John Carpenter
Frequently cited as John Carpenter’s best film, this taut mash-up of Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo and George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead is set at a decommissioned Los Angeles police precinct house on the night before it is permanently closed. A ruthless gang of armed street criminals lays siege to the building. With the phones disconnected, it falls to a skeleton LAPD crew (and a convicted killer) to defend this fortress. Carpenter also...
8:20pm
Film Classics in 35mm! Fassbinder’s Gangster Trilogy
West Germany | 1969 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Fassbinder stars in his very first feature—a bargain-basement crime movie about an ex-con and pimp who, despite coercion, resists joining the “Syndicate.“ Hanna Schygulla co-stars as the thug’s prostitute-lover. “In this bleak world of bare sets, static camera shots, and stylised acting, was awkwardly born one of the greatest ‘lives in film‘ the cinema has seen.“ –Time Out Film Guide. Subtitles. 35mm. 88 min.
Monday, March 27, 2023
5pm
The Cinematheque at the 47th CIFF! Film shows 3/27 at the Mimi Ohio Theatre, Playhouse Square, and 4/2-9 on CIFF47 Streams (online). Filmmaker in person on 3/27!
United States | 2023 | Alison O'Daniel
The Cinematheque is the community partner on this acclaimed new feature by Alison O’Daniel—a Cleveland Institute of Art graduate who also once worked for the Cinematheque—showing in this year’s 47th Cleveland International Film Festival. (The Festival takes place in person March 22-April 1 at Playhouse Square and online April 2-9). The CIFF47 website describes the movie this way: “Loosely hung on the backdrop of a string of tuba burglaries from high schools in Southern California,...
Thursday, March 30, 2023
6:45pm
Digital restoration!
Mexico, West Germany | 1972 | Werner Herzog
In one of Werner Herzog’s greatest films, Klaus Kinski (unforgettable) plays a megalomaniacal, 16th-century Spanish conquistador trekking through the Amazonian wilderness on a relentless quest for El Dorado, the fabled city of gold. This moody, mesmerizing, visually stunning masterpiece has music by Popol Vuh. Subtitles. Restored DCP. 94 min.
8:40pm
New 4K Restoration!
United States | 1942 | Alfred Hitchcock
This WWII-era Hitchcock classic stars Robert Cummings as a man mistakenly thought to have committed an act of sabotage at the California munitions plant where he works. With the authorities in close pursuit, he races across the country to find the real culprit—eventually arriving at the Statue of Liberty. Priscilla Lane co-stars in this movie that, with its “wrong man” theme and climax at an iconic American monument, is now seen as a warm-up for...
Friday, March 31, 2023
7pm
New 4K Restoration!
United States | 1942 | Alfred Hitchcock
This WWII-era Hitchcock classic stars Robert Cummings as a man mistakenly thought to have committed an act of sabotage at the California munitions plant where he works. With the authorities in close pursuit, he races across the country to find the real culprit—eventually arriving at the Statue of Liberty. Priscilla Lane co-stars in this movie that, with its “wrong man” theme and climax at an iconic American monument, is now seen as a warm-up for...
9:10pm
Film Classics in 35mm!
United States | 1985 | Andrei Konchalovsky
Based on a screenplay by Akira Kurosawa and directed by the Russian helmer of Siberiade (hence the existential overtones), this breakneck action thriller stars Jon Voight and Eric Roberts (both Oscar-nominated) as escaped cons barreling through the frigid Alaskan wilderness on a train with a dead engineer and no brakes. “Wrenchingly intense and brutally powerful…A most exciting action epic…Serious enough to work strongly on numerous levels.” –Variety. With Rebecca De Mornay. 35mm. 111 min.
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