Cinematheque . Film Schedule
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Thursday, June 01, 2023
6:45pm
Cleveland premiere!
Belgium, France | 2022 | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
In the latest social-realist suspenser from master filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (The Son, The Kid with a Bike), two African refugees in Belgium—Tori, a young boy from Benin, and Lokita, a teen girl from Cameroon—befriend and support each other as they try to negotiate a strange, alien (and often indifferent or hostile) new world. “Moving, politically committed and with an absolute ring of hard-researched reality…One of [the Dardennes’] very best.” –Screen Daily. Cleveland premiere....
8:35pm
Cleveland premiere!
Belgium, France, Italy, United Kingdom | 2022 | Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch
An 11-year-old city boy spends a summer in a rustic mountain village in the magnificent Italian Alps, where he befriends another 11-year-old boy who lives there. The two form an unbreakable bond that spiritually unites them through subsequent decades, even as their two lives go in divergent directions. Felix van Groeningen previously directed the 2012 Belgian bluegrass movie The Broken Circle Breakdown. “This is the rare movie that understands how tied we are to the...
Friday, June 02, 2023
7pm
Cleveland premiere!
Sweden | 2022 | Lasse Hallström
Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), the Swedish painter now regarded by some as the inventor of abstract art, is the subject of this new biopic from Lasse Hallström, director of My Life as a Dog and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. Hallström’s daughter Tora portrays the artist as a young woman, and his wife (and Tora’s real-life mother) Lena Olin plays the mature artist. Hilma was also something of a mystic whose rich spiritual life found expression...
9:20pm
New 4K Restoration!
United States | 1995 | Gregg Araki
Rose McGowan and James Duval star in Gregg Araki’s wild, violent, erotic, and surreal road-movie comedy in which two teen lovers go on the lam after picking up a dangerous hitchhiker. The second part of Araki’s “Teenage Apocalypse” trilogy has been newly restored to its original, uncut version—unseen since the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. With Margaret Cho and Parker Posey. “A savagely funny ride.” –Rolling Stone. No one under 18 admitted! Cleveland revival premiere. DCP....
Saturday, June 03, 2023
5pm
Film Classics in 35mm!
France | 1936 | Sacha Guitry
This French comedy classic is widely regarded as the greatest film by the popular and prolific playwright, screenwriter, and actor Sacha Guitry (1885-1957). It also inspired some of the leading lights of the French New Wave. In the movie, an aging, charismatic card sharp and petty thief (Guitry) sits in a café writing his memoirs. As he looks back over his eventful life, he explains how—for him—dishonesty was the best policy. Almost all of the...
6:45pm
Cleveland premiere!
Sweden | 2022 | Lasse Hallström
Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), the Swedish painter now regarded by some as the inventor of abstract art, is the subject of this new biopic from Lasse Hallström, director of My Life as a Dog and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. Hallström’s daughter Tora portrays the artist as a young woman, and his wife (and Tora’s real-life mother) Lena Olin plays the mature artist. Hilma was also something of a mystic whose rich spiritual life found expression...
9:05pm
New 4K Restoration!
United States | 1995 | Gregg Araki
Rose McGowan and James Duval star in Gregg Araki’s wild, violent, erotic, and surreal road-movie comedy in which two teen lovers go on the lam after picking up a dangerous hitchhiker. The second part of Araki’s “Teenage Apocalypse” trilogy has been newly restored to its original, uncut version—unseen since the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. With Margaret Cho and Parker Posey. “A savagely funny ride.” –Rolling Stone. No one under 18 admitted! Cleveland revival premiere. DCP....
Sunday, June 04, 2023
3:30pm
Cleveland premiere!
Belgium, France, Italy, United Kingdom | 2022 | Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch
An 11-year-old city boy spends a summer in a rustic mountain village in the magnificent Italian Alps, where he befriends another 11-year-old boy who lives there. The two form an unbreakable bond that spiritually unites them through subsequent decades, even as their two lives go in divergent directions. Felix van Groeningen previously directed the 2012 Belgian bluegrass movie The Broken Circle Breakdown. “This is the rare movie that understands how tied we are to the...
6:30pm
MacGillivray Freeman Films. Double Feature!
United States | 1995/1998 | David Breashears, Stephen Judson, Greg MacGillivray
Here are two breathtaking documentaries originally shot in 70mm IMAX! Meryl Streep narrates the Oscar-nominated The Living Sea, a celebration of the beauty and power of the ocean and its colorful inhabitants. It doubles as a warning about the fragility of this watery environment and features songs and music by Sting. “A mesmerizing dip into the lower depths of marine life.” –Hollywood Reporter. Everest, the highest grossing giant screen documentary of all time, chronicles an...
8:15pm
Cleveland premiere!
Belgium, France | 2022 | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
In the latest social-realist suspenser from master filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (The Son, The Kid with a Bike), two African refugees in Belgium—Tori, a young boy from Benin, and Lokita, a teen girl from Cameroon—befriend and support each other as they try to negotiate a strange, alien (and often indifferent or hostile) new world. “Moving, politically committed and with an absolute ring of hard-researched reality…One of [the Dardennes’] very best.” –Screen Daily. Cleveland premiere....
Wednesday, June 07, 2023
7pm
A Special Event! Bill Guentzler in Person! Cleveland theatrical premiere
Australia | 2022 | Del Kathryn Barton
Bill Guentzler, longtime Artistic Director for the Cleveland Int’l Film Festival, is now the Senior Director of Acquisitions for Gravitas Ventures, buying films for this Cleveland-based independent film distribution company. Tonight, Bill will answer questions about his new job (and film acquisitions in general) after a screening of one of Gravitas’ most acclaimed recent releases. Blaze, arguably the best-reviewed Aussie fantasy thriller since The Babadook, tells of a 12-year-old girl who accidentally witnesses a brutal...
Thursday, June 08, 2023
6:45pm
Cleveland premiere!
Canada, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands | 2022 | Pierre Földes
This surreal, award-winning new animated feature is based on stories by acclaimed Japanese author Haruki Murakami (Drive My Car, Burning). Sometime after a Tokyo earthquake, a giant talking frog and a lost cat help three unhappy humans find purpose in their lives while also working to save Tokyo from a second disaster. “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman is an impressive achievement…Balances moments of flighty whimsy against deeper existential questions.” –Screen Int’l. Cleveland premiere. In English. DCP....
8:55pm
Cleveland premiere!
France, Switzerland, United States | 2022 | Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel
Named after the groundbreaking 16th-century anatomy book De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem, the immersive new documentary from the makers of 2012’s roiling fishing-boat excursion Leviathan is a visually-stunning deep dive into the human body. Shot during surgeries and autopsies in multiple hospitals around Paris, this singular work is both eye-opening (literally) and awe-inspiring, but may make some viewers queasy. "Extraordinary...Opens up landscapes as otherworldly—and harrowing—as any you're likely to see. The result is a...
Friday, June 09, 2023
7pm
Cleveland premiere!
France, Switzerland, United States | 2022 | Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel
Named after the groundbreaking 16th-century anatomy book De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem, the immersive new documentary from the makers of 2012’s roiling fishing-boat excursion Leviathan is a visually-stunning deep dive into the human body. Shot during surgeries and autopsies in multiple hospitals around Paris, this singular work is both eye-opening (literally) and awe-inspiring, but may make some viewers queasy. "Extraordinary...Opens up landscapes as otherworldly—and harrowing—as any you're likely to see. The result is a...
9:15pm
Film Classics in 35mm!
United States | 2004 | Michel Gondry
The all-time favorite film of Oscar-winning filmmaker Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once) is this Charlie Kaufman-scripted mindbender about two ex-lovers (Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet) who each decide to undergo a procedure that will expunge memories of the other from their brain. This clever, much-loved sci-fi romance is certifiably one of a kind. Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, and Elijah Wood co-star. 35mm. 108 min.
Saturday, June 10, 2023
5pm
New 4K Restoration!
Hungary | 1990 | György Fehér
Perhaps the greatest Béla Tarr film that the Hungarian master did not make, this moody, melancholy, monochrome mystery—by one of the producers of Tarr’s Sátántangó—is a little-known but stunning work of “slow cinema.” Set in a remote and desolate region of high mountains and deep forests, this minimalist, miserabilist masterpiece employs extremely long takes to explore a retired detective’s obsession with catching the killer of a young girl whose body is found in the woods...
7:05pm
Film Classics in 35mm!
United States | 2004 | Michel Gondry
The all-time favorite film of Oscar-winning filmmaker Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once) is this Charlie Kaufman-scripted mindbender about two ex-lovers (Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet) who each decide to undergo a procedure that will expunge memories of the other from their brain. This clever, much-loved sci-fi romance is certifiably one of a kind. Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, and Elijah Wood co-star. 35mm. 108 min.
9:15pm
Cleveland premiere!
Canada, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands | 2022 | Pierre Földes
This surreal, award-winning new animated feature is based on stories by acclaimed Japanese author Haruki Murakami (Drive My Car, Burning). Sometime after a Tokyo earthquake, a giant talking frog and a lost cat help three unhappy humans find purpose in their lives while also working to save Tokyo from a second disaster. “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman is an impressive achievement…Balances moments of flighty whimsy against deeper existential questions.” –Screen Int’l. Cleveland premiere. In English. DCP....
Sunday, June 11, 2023
3:30pm
100th Anniversary!
United States | 1923 | Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille’s little-known silent version of The Ten Commandments was the highest grossing film of 1923. Surprisingly, only half of this “Biblical epic” is a dramatization of the Exodus story (though it’s as spectacular as the 1956 remake). The other half is a modern-day tale of two brothers—one a saint who follows the commandments, the other a sinner who does not. “Good entertainment in the best DeMille style.” –Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide. Recorded...
6:30pm
MacGillivray Freeman Films. Double Feature!
France, United States | 2000/20009 | Greg MacGillivray; François Bertrand
Two immersive documentaries originally shot in 70mm IMAX! The Oscar-nominated Dolphins is an underwater romp with humankind’s favorite frolicsome, super-intelligent marine mammals. Locations range from the Bahamas’ dazzling coral reefs to the wind-swept seas off Patagonia. Pierce Brosnan narrates. Van Gogh (on which MacGillivray Freeman Films served as creative consultant) is an immersive journey through the later life and works of Vincent van Gogh. The film blends dazzling shots of real places and landscapes with...
8pm
New 4K Restoration!
Hungary | 1990 | György Fehér
Perhaps the greatest Béla Tarr film that the Hungarian master did not make, this moody, melancholy, monochrome mystery—by one of the producers of Tarr’s Sátántangó—is a little-known but stunning work of “slow cinema.” Set in a remote and desolate region of high mountains and deep forests, this minimalist, miserabilist masterpiece employs extremely long takes to explore a retired detective’s obsession with catching the killer of a young girl whose body is found in the woods...
Thursday, June 15, 2023
6:45pm
Shown in conjunction with ChamberFest Cleveland!
United States | 1988 | Philip Kaufman
Daniel Day Lewis is a womanizing Czech surgeon, Juliette Binoche his wife, and Lena Olin his mistress in Philip (The Right Stuff) Kaufman’s passionate, romantic, cerebral, and sensuous love story set in 1968 Prague at the time of the Soviet invasion. From the novel by Milan Kundera; cinematography by Sven Nykvist. DCP. 171 min.
Friday, June 16, 2023
7pm
Edward R. Pressman, 1943-2023
Canada, United States | 2000 | Mary Harron
During his 50+ year career, Ed Pressman produced some of the most interesting and acclaimed movies of our time, including early works by then little-known filmmakers like Terrence Malick, Brian De Palma, Oliver Stone, Charles Burnett, and Kathryn Bigelow. American Psycho, one of Pressman’s most challenging and enduring projects, stars Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Chloë Sevigny, Reese Witherspoon, et al. in a polarizing adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ satirical novel, about a fabulously...
9:05pm
Bruce Lee Lives!
Hong Kong | 1971 | Lo Wei
Bruce Lee had his first lead role in this action classic that marked his int’l breakthrough. He plays a Chinese immigrant working at a Thai ice factory, where the vow of nonviolence made to his mother in Hong Kong is tested by his bosses’ nefarious activities. “The mix of authentic martial arts skills, cartoon-like violence, righteous anger and filial piety struck a chord with audiences everywhere in a way rarely seen since the heyday of...
Saturday, June 17, 2023
5pm
Bruce Lee Lives!
Hong Kong | 1971 | Lo Wei
Bruce Lee had his first lead role in this action classic that marked his int’l breakthrough. He plays a Chinese immigrant working at a Thai ice factory, where the vow of nonviolence made to his mother in Hong Kong is tested by his bosses’ nefarious activities. “The mix of authentic martial arts skills, cartoon-like violence, righteous anger and filial piety struck a chord with audiences everywhere in a way rarely seen since the heyday of...
7pm
Burt Bacharach, 1928-2023
Mexico, United States | 1969 | George Roy Hill
Late composer and songwriter Burt Bacharach won two Oscars—best original song (“Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head”) and best original score—for his work on this hit comedy western about two charismatic outlaws (Paul Newman, Robert Redford) on the lam after a string of train robberies. Oscars also went to screenwriter William Goldman (an Oberlin grad) and cinematographer Conrad Hall. With Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, and Cloris Leachman. DCP. 110 min.
9:10pm
Cleveland premiere!
Canada, France, Italy, Mali, Senegal | 2022 | Robert Guédiguian
Master French filmmaker Robert Guédiguian abandons his usual locale—contemporary Marseille—for a period piece set in early 1960s Mali, shortly after that African nation’s independence from France. It’s an optimistic, energetic, liberating time that’s mirrored by the American pop music suffusing the local dance clubs. Samba, an upbeat young man who works spreading the gospel of socialism throughout Mali, falls for Lara, an unhappy young village woman trapped in an arranged marriage, and the two move...
Sunday, June 18, 2023
4pm
Cleveland premiere!
Canada, France, Italy, Mali, Senegal | 2022 | Robert Guédiguian
Master French filmmaker Robert Guédiguian abandons his usual locale—contemporary Marseille—for a period piece set in early 1960s Mali, shortly after that African nation’s independence from France. It’s an optimistic, energetic, liberating time that’s mirrored by the American pop music suffusing the local dance clubs. Samba, an upbeat young man who works spreading the gospel of socialism throughout Mali, falls for Lara, an unhappy young village woman trapped in an arranged marriage, and the two move...
6:30pm
Film Classics in 35mm!
United Kingdom | 1961 | Basil Dearden
Made when homosexuality was against the law in England, this groundbreaking gay thriller still packs a punch. Dirk Bogarde (in a courageous turn) plays a successful, married, closeted lawyer who risks his reputation and social standing by going after a gang of miscreants that is blackmailing homosexuals. 100% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes. 35mm. 100 min.
8:30pm
Edward R. Pressman, 1943-2023
Canada, United States | 2000 | Mary Harron
During his 50+ year career, Ed Pressman produced some of the most interesting and acclaimed movies of our time, including early works by then little-known filmmakers like Terrence Malick, Brian De Palma, Oliver Stone, Charles Burnett, and Kathryn Bigelow. American Psycho, one of Pressman’s most challenging and enduring projects, stars Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Chloë Sevigny, Reese Witherspoon, et al. in a polarizing adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ satirical novel, about a fabulously...
Thursday, June 22, 2023
6:45pm
Cleveland premiere!
Czech Republic, Poland, Sweden | 2018 | Agnieszka Smoczynska
Made between her singular first feature (the mermaid horror musical Lure) and her acclaimed English-language debut The Silent Twins, Agnieszka Smoczynska’s sophomore work is a stylish mystery-thriller about an anonymous woman with memory loss who, two years later, is reunited with her family. Having built a new life for herself in the interim, she is reluctant to resume her old roles of wife, mother, and daughter with relatives who don’t recognize her. “Its controlled expansiveness...
8:50pm
Cleveland premiere!
Japan | 2008 | Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Never before released in the U.S., the second feature written and directed by the Japanese maker of Drive My Car and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy lays the thematic foundations for what would become his internationally renowned body of work. Featuring actors whom Hamaguchi would work with again in later films, the movie focuses on a young couple whose engagement announcement to friends ends up revealing a prior infidelity. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 115 min.
Friday, June 23, 2023
7pm
Cleveland premiere!
Japan | 2008 | Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Never before released in the U.S., the second feature written and directed by the Japanese maker of Drive My Car and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy lays the thematic foundations for what would become his internationally renowned body of work. Featuring actors whom Hamaguchi would work with again in later films, the movie focuses on a young couple whose engagement announcement to friends ends up revealing a prior infidelity. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 115 min.
9:15pm
New Digital Restoration!
United States | 1982 | Beth B, Scott B
Underground musician Lydia Lunch plays a black-clad private eye trying to solve the murder of a Congressman in this downtown NYC “no wave” neo-noir by Beth and Scott B. James Russo, Bill Rice, Ann Magnuson, Dick Miller, and the voice of Jim Jarmusch co-star. “Made on a tiny budget, with striking chiaroscuro visual effects, the movie pulses with a punk sensibility.” –Time Out Film Guide. Cleveland revival premiere. DCP. 87 min.
Saturday, June 24, 2023
6:30pm
4K Restoration!
United States | 1974 | Roman Polanski
This celebrated neo-noir stars Jack Nicholson as a private eye who is lured into a scummy web of intrigue, deceit, and corruption in booming 1930s L.A. Faye Dunaway, John Huston, and Polanski himself co-star. Robert Towne wrote the original screenplay. Scope DCP. 131 min.
9:05pm
Bruce Lee Lives!
Hong Kong | 1972 | Lo Wei
Bruce Lee’s second kung fu movie—not to be confused with his first, The Big Boss (released as Fists of Fury in the U.S.)—is set in 1910 Shanghai and finds the action superstar seeking revenge for the death of his beloved martial arts teacher. But there’s a lot of humor in the movie as well. “Lee at his best.” –Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide. Subtitles. Scope DCP. 107 min.
Sunday, June 25, 2023
4pm
Film Classics in 35mm!
United States | 1995 | Lesli Linka Glatter
In this female coming-of-age classic that has resonated with thousands of women over the past three decades, four lifelong friends—a writer (Demi Moore), an actress (Melanie Griffith), a doctor (Rosie O’Donnell), and a pregnant housewife (Rita Wilson)—reunite in their Indiana hometown in 1991. Flashbacks to an eventful summer 20 years earlier (when they were tweens) explain how these girls—now played by Gaby Hoffmann, Thora Birch, Christina Ricci, and Ashleigh Aston Moore—confronted growing up and became...
6:30pm
Bruce Lee Lives!
Hong Kong | 1972 | Lo Wei
Bruce Lee’s second kung fu movie—not to be confused with his first, The Big Boss (released as Fists of Fury in the U.S.)—is set in 1910 Shanghai and finds the action superstar seeking revenge for the death of his beloved martial arts teacher. But there’s a lot of humor in the movie as well. “Lee at his best.” –Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide. Subtitles. Scope DCP. 107 min.
8:40pm
Cleveland premiere!
Czech Republic, Poland, Sweden | 2018 | Agnieszka Smoczynska
Made between her singular first feature (the mermaid horror musical Lure) and her acclaimed English-language debut The Silent Twins, Agnieszka Smoczynska’s sophomore work is a stylish mystery-thriller about an anonymous woman with memory loss who, two years later, is reunited with her family. Having built a new life for herself in the interim, she is reluctant to resume her old roles of wife, mother, and daughter with relatives who don’t recognize her. “Its controlled expansiveness...
Thursday, June 29, 2023
6:45pm
4K Restoration!
United States | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock
Taken down a notch in the most recent (2022), decennial Sight and Sound magazine “greatest films” poll (it is now merely the second-best movie ever made), Hitchcock’s moody, haunting masterpiece stars James Stewart as a retired San Francisco police detective who develops a romantic obsession for a beautiful and mysterious married woman (Kim Novak) he has been hired to shadow. Bernard Herrmann composed the unforgettable score. DCP. 128 min.
9:15pm
Bruce Lee Lives!
Hong Kong | 1972 | Bruce Lee
Made before his final finished feature Enter the Dragon (a U.S. co-production) but released in America (as Return of the Dragon) after it, Bruce Lee’s third martial arts film is the only completed movie he wrote and directed. Supplementing its action with lots of comedy, the movie tells of a skilled Chinese kung fu fighter who goes to Rome to defend his cousin’s restaurant against some local thugs. The unforgettable climax finds Lee taking on...
Friday, June 30, 2023
7pm
Bruce Lee Lives!
Hong Kong | 1972 | Bruce Lee
Made before his final finished feature Enter the Dragon (a U.S. co-production) but released in America (as Return of the Dragon) after it, Bruce Lee’s third martial arts film is the only completed movie he wrote and directed. Supplementing its action with lots of comedy, the movie tells of a skilled Chinese kung fu fighter who goes to Rome to defend his cousin’s restaurant against some local thugs. The unforgettable climax finds Lee taking on...
9pm
4K Restoration!
United States | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock
Taken down a notch in the most recent (2022), decennial Sight and Sound magazine “greatest films” poll (it is now merely the second-best movie ever made), Hitchcock’s moody, haunting masterpiece stars James Stewart as a retired San Francisco police detective who develops a romantic obsession for a beautiful and mysterious married woman (Kim Novak) he has been hired to shadow. Bernard Herrmann composed the unforgettable score. DCP. 128 min.
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