Cinematheque Film Schedule

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....

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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....

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...

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....

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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....

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.