Cinematheque Film Schedule

Germany | 2017 | Robert Schwentke

This chilling wartime parable is set in the final days of WWII. A young deserter from the German army, on the run from his compatriots, finds the abandoned uniform of a Nazi captain. Donning the clothes and assuming the officer’s identity, this hunted fugitive suddenly acquires the status of ruthless executioner. This “remarkable film” (Variety) is handsomely composed and stylishly shot in crisp b&w scope. “[Presents] Naziism as a communicable disease that smothers conscience,...

Italy | 1977 | Dario Argento

Catch the original Suspiria before you see the remake! There's no better way to see Dario Argento’s stylish horror masterpiece than in this 4K restoration of the original, uncut, English-language version (six minutes longer than the version initially released in the U.S.). Jessica Harper plays an American student who arrives at a European ballet academy only to discover that it is run by a coven of witches! Argento’s bold colors, baroque production design, and striking...

France, Iran, United States | 2018 | Orson Welles

The film event of the century! Begun almost 50 years ago and shot off and on over a period of seven years, the final feature by Orson Welles languished unedited, inaccessible, for four decades. In 2016, Netflix stepped in to bankroll the completion of the film by an all-star team that included producer Frank Marshall and director Peter Bogdanovich, one of the movie’s stars. On August 31, 2018, the day that many thought would never...

France | 1952 | Jacques Becker

This rarely shown Jacques Becker masterpiece was recently voted one of the 100 best movies of all time in a poll of French film critics and historians conducted by Cahiers du Cinéma magazine. A supremely sensual Simone Signoret plays “Golden Marie,” a gangster’s moll in 1898 Paris who lures an honest carpenter into her world of pimps, prostitutes, and petty crooks—with tragic results. “One of the most physically beautiful and sensuous films ever made.” –Leonard...

France, Iran, United States | 2018 | Orson Welles

The film event of the century! Begun almost 50 years ago and shot off and on over a period of seven years, the final feature by Orson Welles languished unedited, inaccessible, for four decades. In 2016, Netflix stepped in to bankroll the completion of the film by an all-star team that included producer Frank Marshall and director Peter Bogdanovich, one of the movie’s stars. On August 31, 2018, the day that many thought would never...

United States | 2018 | Andrew Bujalski

Regina Hall and Haley Lu Richardson (Columbus) star in the new indie comedy from the director of Computer Chess and Funny Ha Ha. It’s one of the best reviewed American movies of 2018—a charming, empathetic look at the often chaotic life within a Hooters-style sports bar. There male customers ogle and bother the wait staff while the establishment’s manager treats her employees like family. “An easygoing hangout film that will ring true for anyone who...

France, Iran, United States | 2018 | Orson Welles

The film event of the century! Begun almost 50 years ago and shot off and on over a period of seven years, the final feature by Orson Welles languished unedited, inaccessible, for four decades. In 2016, Netflix stepped in to bankroll the completion of the film by an all-star team that included producer Frank Marshall and director Peter Bogdanovich, one of the movie’s stars. On August 31, 2018, the day that many thought would never...

Hungary | 2017 | Ferenc Török

On a summer day in 1945, after the end of WWII, an Orthodox man and his grown son return to their Hungarian village with a horse-drawn cart. Their presence sparks fear and unease among the locals, some of whom own property that once belonged to Jews who were deported during the war. This acclaimed drama evokes both Béla Tarr’s Sátántangó and Fred Zinnemann’s High Noon in its beautifully spare b&w cinematography and quiet, pregnant mood....

United States | 2018 | Andrew Bujalski

Regina Hall and Haley Lu Richardson (Columbus) star in the new indie comedy from the director of Computer Chess and Funny Ha Ha. It’s one of the best reviewed American movies of 2018—a charming, empathetic look at the often chaotic life within a Hooters-style sports bar. There male customers ogle and bother the wait staff while the establishment’s manager treats her employees like family. “An easygoing hangout film that will ring true for anyone who...

France | 1952 | Jacques Becker

This rarely shown Jacques Becker masterpiece was recently voted one of the 100 best movies of all time in a poll of French film critics and historians conducted by Cahiers du Cinéma magazine. A supremely sensual Simone Signoret plays “Golden Marie,” a gangster’s moll in 1898 Paris who lures an honest carpenter into her world of pimps, prostitutes, and petty crooks—with tragic results. “One of the most physically beautiful and sensuous films ever made.” –Leonard...

United States | 1941 | Orson Welles

Orson Welles’ bravura account of the ascent and decline of a mysterious newspaper tycoon (loosely modeled on William Randolph Hearst) was, for decades, voted the greatest movie ever made in various polls of film critics and filmmakers. Roger Ebert also regarded Kane as history’s best film, as well as his all-time favorite movie. Here’s a rare chance to see it on the big screen projected from 35mm. “More fun than any other great movie.” –Pauline...

United Kingdom | 2017 | Richard Eyre

Emma Thompson and Stanley Tucci star in this new adaptation of Ian (Atonement) McEwan’s 2014 novel. Thompson plays a workaholic London judge in an arid marriage. She is asked to rule in the case of a 17-year-old boy with leukemia who has religious objections to getting a blood transfusion that might save his life. Though she neglects her husband, she is mindful of the Children Act of 1989, which holds that the welfare of the...

France | 1954 | Jacques Becker

Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura, and Jeanne Moreau star in one of Jacques Becker’s best films—a “model French gangster picture” (Time Out Film Guide) about an aging, weary thief, recently retired after one last heist, who must decide whether to turn over his newly acquired “nest egg” (eight gold ingots) as ransom when his best friend and cohort in crime is kidnaped by a mobster who has gotten wind of their big score. Cleveland revival premiere....

United Kingdom | 2017 | Richard Eyre

Emma Thompson and Stanley Tucci star in this new adaptation of Ian (Atonement) McEwan’s 2014 novel. Thompson plays a workaholic London judge in an arid marriage. She is asked to rule in the case of a 17-year-old boy with leukemia who has religious objections to getting a blood transfusion that might save his life. Though she neglects her husband, she is mindful of the Children Act of 1989, which holds that the welfare of the...

United States | 1941 | Orson Welles

Orson Welles’ bravura account of the ascent and decline of a mysterious newspaper tycoon (loosely modeled on William Randolph Hearst) was, for decades, voted the greatest movie ever made in various polls of film critics and filmmakers. Roger Ebert also regarded Kane as history’s best film, as well as his all-time favorite movie. Here’s a rare chance to see it on the big screen projected from 35mm. “More fun than any other great movie.” –Pauline...

United States | 1930 | Lewis Milestone

We mark the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day with one of the greatest of all First World War movies, winner of the 1930 Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director. Lew Ayres plays a German schoolboy whose heroic notions of nationalism and fighting are soon dispelled by the horrible realities of trench warfare. Though based on a German novel by Erich Maria Remarque, the film was banned in Deutschland by Hitler and the Nazis. DCP....

France | 2017 | Bertrand Mandico

After they commit a brutal sex crime, five entitled teenage boys attending an elite boarding school early in the 20th century are shipped off to a lush tropical island for both re-education and metamorphosis. This singular, sensuous drama is both a gender-fluid Lord of the Flies (the boys are played by girls) and a perverse dress-up party evoking the films of Jack Smith, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Todd Haynes, Guy Maddin, and Raúl Ruiz. “Turns the...

France | 1954 | Jacques Becker

Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura, and Jeanne Moreau star in one of Jacques Becker’s best films—a “model French gangster picture” (Time Out Film Guide) about an aging, weary thief, recently retired after one last heist, who must decide whether to turn over his newly acquired “nest egg” (eight gold ingots) as ransom when his best friend and cohort in crime is kidnaped by a mobster who has gotten wind of their big score. Cleveland revival premiere....

France | 2018 | Jean-Paul Civeyrac

A young man from the provinces moves to Paris to study film. Like all French film students, he smokes, drinks coffee, reads, navigates romantic relationships, and argues about movies, philosophy, and politics on his way to “finding” himself. “Brings to mind how some of the best French movies--especially those of the New Wave—are marked by both an intense love of film and the fiery passions of youth.” –Hollywood Reporter. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 137 min....

United States | 1942 | Orson Welles

Some critics consider Orson Welles’ second film superior to his debut, Citizen Kane (see 11/9 at 7:00). Which is saying a lot because Kane is a great film and Ambersons was mutilated by the studio. (More than an hour of footage was cut, and Welles’ original ending was re-shot and changed; all of it is lost forever.) But what remains is sublime: a lyrical and poignant chronicle of the decline of a wealthy Indianapolis family...

France | 1960 | Jacques Becker

“Becker’s most perfectly crafted work” (Time Out Film Guide) was also his final film. Le Trou is a gripping suspense classic about four long-time French prisoners—and a newly arrived fifth—who attempt to break out of jail by digging a tunnel into Paris’ sewer system. The cast’s non-professional actors include one who took part in the 1947 incident that inspired the movie. “A masterpiece...and I weigh my words carefully: the greatest French film of all time!”...

France | 1960 | Jacques Becker

“Becker’s most perfectly crafted work” (Time Out Film Guide) was also his final film. Le Trou is a gripping suspense classic about four long-time French prisoners—and a newly arrived fifth—who attempt to break out of jail by digging a tunnel into Paris’ sewer system. The cast’s non-professional actors include one who took part in the 1947 incident that inspired the movie. “A masterpiece...and I weigh my words carefully: the greatest French film of all time!”...

United States | 2018 | Cristina Costantini, Darren Foster

Winner of the audience award at both Sundance and SXSW, this new documentary follows nine teen STEM superstars from around the world as they compete for prestige, potential scholarships or jobs, and a cash prize in the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) , the Olympics of high-school science competitions. “An affectionate and supremely entertaining celebration of the all-American nerd.” –Variety. “Even in a year of extraordinary documentaries like RBG, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?...

United States | 1942 | Orson Welles

Some critics consider Orson Welles’ second film superior to his debut, Citizen Kane (see 11/9 at 7:00). Which is saying a lot because Kane is a great film and Ambersons was mutilated by the studio. (More than an hour of footage was cut, and Welles’ original ending was re-shot and changed; all of it is lost forever.) But what remains is sublime: a lyrical and poignant chronicle of the decline of a wealthy Indianapolis family...

Sweden | 2003 | Ingmar Bergman

In Ingmar Bergman’s final film (made for television), Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson reprise their roles of Marianne and Johan, the once-married couple seen in 1973’s Scenes from a Marriage. Thirty years after the events of that film, Marianne decides to drop in on her ex at his summer cottage. While there, she becomes a witnessto a family power struggle involving Johan’s musician son from his second marriage, whom Johan dislikes, and his cellist granddaughter,...

United States | 2018 | Robert C. Banks, Jr.

The long-awaited feature debut of Cleveland-based experimental filmmaker and artist Robert C. Banks, Jr. is both a trippy, cinematic, b&w tear-sheet collage and a manifesto of urban Midwestern angst. Unlike most recent films about the North Coast rustbelt, this film is a love letter to the gritty underground cinema of the 1960s and 1970s. It features a variety of characters—from an angry elderly black man with a Don Quixote complex and his tarot card-reading artist...

United States | 2018 | Cristina Costantini, Darren Foster

Winner of the audience award at both Sundance and SXSW, this new documentary follows nine teen STEM superstars from around the world as they compete for prestige, potential scholarships or jobs, and a cash prize in the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) , the Olympics of high-school science competitions. “An affectionate and supremely entertaining celebration of the all-American nerd.” –Variety. “Even in a year of extraordinary documentaries like RBG, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?...

France | 1945 | Jacques Becker

A womanizing Parisian fashion designer (Raymond Rouleau) finally finds true love—but it’s his best friend’s fiancée (Micheline Presle)! “Becker’s dazzling but withering look at the world of haute couture shows him to be a master stylist in his own right.” –Holt Foreign Film Guide. “I cry each time I see [Falbalas], but it gave me my vocation in life…A very good portrait of the profession.” –Jean Paul Gaultier. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 111 min.

Germany | 2018 | Margarethe von Trotta with Felix Moeller & Bettina Böhler

Liv Ullmann, Ruben Östlund (The Square), Olivier Assayas, Carlos Saura, and other filmmakers, collaborators, and family members are interviewed about Ingmar Bergman in this new film by celebrated German director Margarethe von Trotta, one of the Swedish master’s greatest admirers. Saturated with archival film clips and rare photographs, the movie provides a fascinating glimpse at the life, work, and legacy of this self-revealing artist who would have been 100 this year but died in...

United States | 1948 | Orson Welles

In Orson Welles’ dazzling film noir, an Irish adventurer (Welles) becomes a pawn in an elaborate murder scheme involving a crippled lawyer (Everett Sloane) and the lawyer’s beautiful wife (Rita Hayworth, then Mrs. Welles). This aural and visual knockout culminates in one of the most stunning single sequences in screen history—a shootout in a funhouse hall of mirrors. 87 min.

United States | 1948 | Orson Welles

In Orson Welles’ dazzling film noir, an Irish adventurer (Welles) becomes a pawn in an elaborate murder scheme involving a crippled lawyer (Everett Sloane) and the lawyer’s beautiful wife (Rita Hayworth, then Mrs. Welles). This aural and visual knockout culminates in one of the most stunning single sequences in screen history—a shootout in a funhouse hall of mirrors. 87 min.

Belgium, France | 2017 | Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani

French film stylists Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani trade in the crushed velvet and creeping shadows of their giallo-inspired first two films (Amer and The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears) for a gorgeous, glorious, bullet-riddled tribute to 1960s-1970s Italian crime and action films. A gang of gold thieves takes refuge with a reclusive artist at her ancient compound on a remote, rocky hillside on the Mediterranean. But when two cops happen upon their hideout,...

France | 1945 | Jacques Becker

A womanizing Parisian fashion designer (Raymond Rouleau) finally finds true love—but it’s his best friend’s fiancée (Micheline Presle)! “Becker’s dazzling but withering look at the world of haute couture shows him to be a master stylist in his own right.” –Holt Foreign Film Guide. “I cry each time I see [Falbalas], but it gave me my vocation in life…A very good portrait of the profession.” –Jean Paul Gaultier. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 111 min.

Germany | 2018 | Margarethe von Trotta with Felix Moeller & Bettina Böhler

Liv Ullmann, Ruben Östlund (The Square), Olivier Assayas, Carlos Saura, and other filmmakers, collaborators, and family members are interviewed about Ingmar Bergman in this new film by celebrated German director Margarethe von Trotta, one of the Swedish master’s greatest admirers. Saturated with archival film clips and rare photographs, the movie provides a fascinating glimpse at the life, work, and legacy of this self-revealing artist who would have been 100 this year but died in...

Belgium, France | 2017 | Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani

French film stylists Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani trade in the crushed velvet and creeping shadows of their giallo-inspired first two films (Amer and The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears) for a gorgeous, glorious, bullet-riddled tribute to 1960s-1970s Italian crime and action films. A gang of gold thieves takes refuge with a reclusive artist at her ancient compound on a remote, rocky hillside on the Mediterranean. But when two cops happen upon their hideout,...

United Kingdom | 1988 | Terence Davies

Terence Davies’ first feature was voted the third greatest British film of all time in a 2011 poll conducted by Time Out magazine. It’s a unique, poetic, semi-autobiographical portrait of working-class family life in Liverpool during the 1940s and 1950s. Evocative, dream-like sequences illustrate how harsh realities were mitigated by pop songs, Technicolor fantasies from Hollywood, and visits to the local pub. With Pete Postlethwaite. Cleveland revival premiere. DCP. 85 min.

United States | 2018 | Frederick Wiseman

The 44th film by America’s preeminent nonfiction filmmaker, Frederick Wiseman, finds the 88-year-old director traveling to a small farming community (pop. 1063) in the heart of Trump country. But national politics has not brought him to this red state; he’s more interested in the people, their way of life, their rituals and institutions (churches, clubs), and their values (duty, service, generosity). The result is another one of Wiseman’s patented patient and poetic portraits of life...

United Kingdom | 1988 | Terence Davies

Terence Davies’ first feature was voted the third greatest British film of all time in a 2011 poll conducted by Time Out magazine. It’s a unique, poetic, semi-autobiographical portrait of working-class family life in Liverpool during the 1940s and 1950s. Evocative, dream-like sequences illustrate how harsh realities were mitigated by pop songs, Technicolor fantasies from Hollywood, and visits to the local pub. With Pete Postlethwaite. Cleveland revival premiere. DCP. 85 min.

United States | 2018 | Narcissister

Art world mixed-media performance artist and provocateur Narcissister, who wears a mask and a merkin while exploring gender, racial identity, and sexuality, makes her movie directorial debut with this new documentary. After public appearances with Marilyn Manson, collaborations with Marina Abramović, and a stint on America’s Got Talent, the enigmatic artist deconstructs her celebrated stage shows which combine dance, elaborate costumes, pop music, unabashed eroticism, and humor. The doc takes a peek behind Narcissister’s iconic...