Cinematheque Film Schedule

Hong Kong, Taiwan | 1978 | King Hu

In this visually stunning epic from the director of Dragon Inn and A Touch of Zen, a travelling scholar who has come to a remote mountain village to copy a Buddhist sutra soon finds himself inhabiting a strange, supernatural world populated by ghosts and demons. The movie’s mystical mood is leavened by comedy and a climactic drum battle. With Sylvia Chang. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 184 min.

United Kingdom | 1970 | Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell

A petty hood on the lam (James Fox) hides out in the mansion of a reclusive pop star (Mick Jagger), where liberal doses of sex and drugs shake the foundations of both men’s identities and sanity. Originally rated X, this psychedelic psychodrama was shelved by Warner Brothers for almost two years. Now it is regarded as one of the great British films. Adults only! 105 min.

France, Italy | 1966 | Philippe de Broca

The French anti-war film that played continuously for over five years (!) in a Cambridge, MA, theater during the early 1970s has been fully restored for its 50th anniversary! (It was one of the Cannes Classics at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.) Alan Bates plays a Scottish soldier during the First World War whose mission takes him to a deserted French village now occupied by escaped lunatics from the local asylum. These nutjobs have set...

France, Italy | 1966 | Philippe de Broca

The French anti-war film that played continuously for over five years (!) in a Cambridge, MA, theater during the early 1970s has been fully restored for its 50th anniversary! (It was one of the Cannes Classics at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.) Alan Bates plays a Scottish soldier during the First World War whose mission takes him to a deserted French village now occupied by escaped lunatics from the local asylum. These nutjobs have set...

United Kingdom | 1970 | Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell

A petty hood on the lam (James Fox) hides out in the mansion of a reclusive pop star (Mick Jagger), where liberal doses of sex and drugs shake the foundations of both men’s identities and sanity. Originally rated X, this psychedelic psychodrama was shelved by Warner Brothers for almost two years. Now it is regarded as one of the great British films. Adults only! 105 min.

Japan | 1984 | Hiroshi Teshigahara

In this all-time favorite, the Japanese director of Woman in the Dunes lets his cameras prowl in and around, over and above some of Barcelona’s most beautiful and intricate buildings and spaces—all designed by the great Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926). Sagrada Família is one of the structures, of course, in this mesmerizing, meditative movie that has music by Tōru Takemitsu. Subtitles. 72 min.

Italy | 1975 | Dario Argento

The thriller that Dario Argento made right before Suspiria is one of his most stylish and accomplished works. David Hemmings plays a jazz pianist in Rome who teams up with a gung-ho female reporter to solve a string of grisly killings. Soon they are both in harm’s way. Music by Goblin. Has a 95% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Adults only! Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 126 min.

Japan | 1984 | Hiroshi Teshigahara

In this all-time favorite, the Japanese director of Woman in the Dunes lets his cameras prowl in and around, over and above some of Barcelona’s most beautiful and intricate buildings and spaces—all designed by the great Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926). Sagrada Família is one of the structures, of course, in this mesmerizing, meditative movie that has music by Tōru Takemitsu. Subtitles. 72 min.

Italy | 1975 | Dario Argento

The thriller that Dario Argento made right before Suspiria is one of his most stylish and accomplished works. David Hemmings plays a jazz pianist in Rome who teams up with a gung-ho female reporter to solve a string of grisly killings. Soon they are both in harm’s way. Music by Goblin. Has a 95% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Adults only! Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 126 min.

United States | 2017 | Tony Zierra

Once again the Cinematheque is a community partner on a new film showing as part of the Cleveland International Film Festival. (This year's 42nd festival runs April 4-15 at Tower City Cinemas and at various other locations around town.) Filmworker is a new documentary that profiles Leon Vitali, the actor who played Lord Bullingdon in Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon but who later abandoned his acting career to become Kubrick’s dedicated assistant. For more than two decades,...

United States | 2017 | Tony Zierra

Once again the Cinematheque is a community partner on a new film showing as part of the Cleveland International Film Festival. (This year's 42nd festival runs April 4-15 at Tower City Cinemas and at various other locations around town.) Filmworker is a new documentary that profiles Leon Vitali, the actor who played Lord Bullingdon in Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon but who later abandoned his acting career to become Kubrick’s dedicated assistant. For more than two decades,...

France, Iran | 2017 | Abbas Kiarostami

The final film by the late, great Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami is a series of two dozen single-shot short films, each four-and-a-half minutes long. These “frames” originate as static landscape paintings or Kiarostami’s own nature photographs, but digital technology animates animals or people in each tableau. Sound is added. The resulting studies, mini-stories, and vignettes range from the academic and the anecdotal to the poetic and the sublime. “Among [Kiarostami’s] finest, most uplifting works.” –Hollywood...

Sweden | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman looks at war. Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann play a musician couple living in near-isolation on a remote Baltic island. Their quiet world is shattered, and humanity challenged, by a civil war that engulfs their lives. With Gunnar Björnstrand. “One of Bergman’s greatest films.” –Pauline Kael. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 105 min.

West Germany | 1972-73 | R. W. Fassbinder

One of the major movies by Germany’s prolific auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) was never distributed in America—until now. Made for German TV, Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day is a five-episode, eight-hour miniseries (total 472 min.), released between Fassbinder’s The Merchant of Four Seasons and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, that stars some of the key members of the director’s stock company: Hanna Schygulla, Gottfried John, Irm Hermann, and Kurt Raab. Set in Cologne,...

Sweden | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman looks at war. Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann play a musician couple living in near-isolation on a remote Baltic island. Their quiet world is shattered, and humanity challenged, by a civil war that engulfs their lives. With Gunnar Björnstrand. “One of Bergman’s greatest films.” –Pauline Kael. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 105 min.

West Germany | 1972-73 | R. W. Fassbinder

One of the major movies by Germany’s prolific auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) was never distributed in America—until now. Made for German TV, Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day is a five-episode, eight-hour miniseries (total 472 min.), released between Fassbinder’s The Merchant of Four Seasons and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, that stars some of the key members of the director’s stock company: Hanna Schygulla, Gottfried John, Irm Hermann, and Kurt Raab. Set in Cologne,...

France | 1969 | Philippe Garrel

This early Philippe Garrel feature is a hippie update of the New Testament, with Zouzou playing both Mary and Mary Magdalene, Pierre Clémenti as Jesus, and the director himself as an apostle. “Elemental, mysterious, and nearly overpowering in its widescreen imagery and moving camera.” –Metrograph.com. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. 95 min. NOTE: In our printed March-April schedule, this film is announced, erroneously, for 6:30 pm today. We apologize for any inconvenience.

West Germany | 1972-73 | R. W. Fassbinder

One of the major movies by Germany’s prolific auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) was never distributed in America—until now. Made for German TV, Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day is a five-episode, eight-hour miniseries (total 472 min.), released between Fassbinder’s The Merchant of Four Seasons and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, that stars some of the key members of the director’s stock company: Hanna Schygulla, Gottfried John, Irm Hermann, and Kurt Raab. Set in Cologne,...

Denmark, Sweden | 2011 | Lars von Trier

Winner of the European Film Award for best film of 2011, Lars von Trier’s apocalyptic fantasy is a visually stunning drama with an all-star cast: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, et al. The film follows two sisters at a disastrous dusk-to-dawn wedding reception at a lavish estate. After the party, they remain on the property as a rogue planet hurtles toward earth on a possible collision course. This moody movie...

France, Iran | 2017 | Abbas Kiarostami

The final film by the late, great Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami is a series of two dozen single-shot short films, each four-and-a-half minutes long. These “frames” originate as static landscape paintings or Kiarostami’s own nature photographs, but digital technology animates animals or people in each tableau. Sound is added. The resulting studies, mini-stories, and vignettes range from the academic and the anecdotal to the poetic and the sublime. “Among [Kiarostami’s] finest, most uplifting works.” –Hollywood...

Sweden | 1973 | Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman’s painterly color film is an unforgettable dream play about a woman dying of cancer and the two sisters and servant who care for her. This is another Bergmanesque tale of suffering, confinement, and isolation, but with a heightened intensity and explicit (rather than implicit) sado-eroticism. With Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann, and Erland Josephson. Cinematography by Sven Nykvist. Adults only! Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 91 min.

Argentina | 2017 | Lucrecia Martel

An ineffectual functionary working for the Spanish crown in a remote, tropical colonialist outpost somewhere in South America during the 18th century waits in vain for a transfer to Buenos Aires or back home. The first film in nine years by Argentinean master Lucrecia Martel is dense, languorous, perplexing, comic, and intoxicating. It’s also one of the most rapturously received movies of the past year. From the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto. Subtitles. DCP. 115...

Argentina | 2017 | Lucrecia Martel

An ineffectual functionary working for the Spanish crown in a remote, tropical colonialist outpost somewhere in South America during the 18th century waits in vain for a transfer to Buenos Aires or back home. The first film in nine years by Argentinean master Lucrecia Martel is dense, languorous, perplexing, comic, and intoxicating. It’s also one of the most rapturously received movies of the past year. From the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto. Subtitles. DCP. 115...

Sweden | 1958 | Ingmar Bergman

In 19th-century Stockholm, a traveling mesmerist and magician (Max von Sydow) runs afoul of a thoroughly rational, local medical examiner (Gunnar Björnstrand) who thinks he is a con man. A game of wits ensues. Ingmar Bergman’s gothic fable—part comedy, part horror film—is really an allegory about science and the supernatural. “Widely underrated…One of [Bergman’s] most genuinely enjoyable films.” –Time Out Film Guide. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 101 min.

West Germany | 1972-73 | R. W. Fassbinder

One of the major movies by Germany’s prolific auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) was never distributed in America—until now. Made for German TV, Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day is a five-episode, eight-hour miniseries (total 472 min.), released between Fassbinder’s The Merchant of Four Seasons and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, that stars some of the key members of the director’s stock company: Hanna Schygulla, Gottfried John, Irm Hermann, and Kurt Raab. Set in Cologne,...

Sweden | 1973 | Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman’s painterly color film is an unforgettable dream play about a woman dying of cancer and the two sisters and servant who care for her. This is another Bergmanesque tale of suffering, confinement, and isolation, but with a heightened intensity and explicit (rather than implicit) sado-eroticism. With Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann, and Erland Josephson. Cinematography by Sven Nykvist. Adults only! Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 91 min.

France | 1972 | Philippe Garrel

Nico, Philippe Garrel, and a naked Pierre Clémenti star in Garrel’s hypnotic experimental feature, a cryptic collection of human figures (and at least one horse) in a series of stunningly photographed color landscapes. Filmed in remote regions of Iceland, Morocco, and Death Valley and filled with long, exquisite tracking shots, the film revels in the elements of earth, air, water, and fire by fixating on deserts, wind, and clouds. Nico sings the songs on the...

West Germany | 1972-73 | R. W. Fassbinder

One of the major movies by Germany’s prolific auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) was never distributed in America—until now. Made for German TV, Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day is a five-episode, eight-hour miniseries (total 472 min.), released between Fassbinder’s The Merchant of Four Seasons and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, that stars some of the key members of the director’s stock company: Hanna Schygulla, Gottfried John, Irm Hermann, and Kurt Raab. Set in Cologne,...

West Germany | 1972-73 | R. W. Fassbinder

One of the major movies by Germany’s prolific auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) was never distributed in America—until now. Made for German TV, Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day is a five-episode, eight-hour miniseries (total 472 min.), released between Fassbinder’s The Merchant of Four Seasons and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, that stars some of the key members of the director’s stock company: Hanna Schygulla, Gottfried John, Irm Hermann, and Kurt Raab. Set in Cologne,...

France | 1972 | Philippe Garrel

Nico, Philippe Garrel, and a naked Pierre Clémenti star in Garrel’s hypnotic experimental feature, a cryptic collection of human figures (and at least one horse) in a series of stunningly photographed color landscapes. Filmed in remote regions of Iceland, Morocco, and Death Valley and filled with long, exquisite tracking shots, the film revels in the elements of earth, air, water, and fire by fixating on deserts, wind, and clouds. Nico sings the songs on the...