Cinematheque . Film Schedule
Thursday, May 02, 2019
6:45pm
Reggae classic never before released in America!
United Kingdom | 1980 | Franco Rosso
Nearly four decades after it debuted at Cannes, this reggae-infused drama which The Hollywood Reporter calls “a superior but lesser-known British cousin to Rockers and The Harder They Come” has finally been released in America. Brinsley Forde (of Aswad) plays a mechanic who moonlights as a DJ while battling racism and xenophobia in Thatcher-era South London. Co-written by Martin Stellman (Quadrophenia). “Rich, rough and real.” –Variety. Cleveland premiere. Some subtitles. DCP. 95 min.
8:40pm
Cleveland premiere!
France | 2016 | Claire Simon
At France’s most selective film school, La Fémis, hundreds of hopefuls apply for only 40 available slots. This new documentary takes us behind closed doors during the school’s rigorous, months-long admissions period, painting a revealing portrait of an elite institution and its powerful gatekeepers. “A film about dreams and broken dreams.” –Filmmaker Magazine. Subtitles. DCP. 121 min.
Friday, May 03, 2019
7pm
Cleveland premiere!
France | 2016 | Claire Simon
At France’s most selective film school, La Fémis, hundreds of hopefuls apply for only 40 available slots. This new documentary takes us behind closed doors during the school’s rigorous, months-long admissions period, painting a revealing portrait of an elite institution and its powerful gatekeepers. “A film about dreams and broken dreams.” –Filmmaker Magazine. Subtitles. DCP. 121 min.
9:25pm
Reggae classic never before released in America!
United Kingdom | 1980 | Franco Rosso
Nearly four decades after it debuted at Cannes, this reggae-infused drama which The Hollywood Reporter calls “a superior but lesser-known British cousin to Rockers and The Harder They Come” has finally been released in America. Brinsley Forde (of Aswad) plays a mechanic who moonlights as a DJ while battling racism and xenophobia in Thatcher-era South London. Co-written by Martin Stellman (Quadrophenia). “Rich, rough and real.” –Variety. Cleveland premiere. Some subtitles. DCP. 95 min.
Saturday, May 04, 2019
5pm
Film Classics in 35mm! Robert Aldrich 101
United States | 1955 | Robert Aldrich
Private eye Mike Hammer pursues “the great whatsit”—a mysterious and sinister substance in a valise—in Robert Aldrich’s brutal, hysterical film noir thriller that is one of the key works of 1950s Cold War paranoia. With Ralph Meeker. 106 min.
7:05pm
2019 Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film!
Germany | 2018 | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
The new film from the director of the Oscar-winning The Lives of Others was one of the five 2019 Oscar nominees for Best Foreign Language Film. Inspired by the life and work of painter Gerhard Richter, it’s a sweeping historical drama about a young German artist who continues to be haunted by his early brushes with Nazism and Communism even after escaping East Germany for the liberal West. Subtitles. DCP. 188 min.
Sunday, May 05, 2019
4:30pm
Featuring the real Dr. Donald Shirley!
United States | 2010 | Josef Astor
The real Dr. Donald Shirley (Green Book) is seen in this very moving portrait of the now vanished Carnegie Hall studios, historic live-work spaces once located above the famed concert hall. For over a century, these studio apartments housed scores of prominent (and often eccentric) artists—actors, dancers, musicians, poets, filmmakers, photographers, etc. But after all the tenants were evicted (or died), these unique spaces were stripped of their personality and converted into offices. With Bill...
6:30pm
Animation for art lovers!
Hungary | 2018 | Milorad Krstic
This graphically stunning animated film introduces us to Ruben Brandt, a famous psychotherapist, who is plagued by art-inspired nightmares. To exorcise his demons, Brandt enlists four of his patients, all expert art thieves, to visit some of the world’s major museums and steal all 13 of the famous works that haunt him. This sparks an international police search for this mysterious “collector.” “Grade A-…Art lovers will swoon over every dazzling inch…A primal nod to both...
8:30pm
Film Classics in 35mm! Robert Aldrich 101
United States | 1955 | Robert Aldrich
Private eye Mike Hammer pursues “the great whatsit”—a mysterious and sinister substance in a valise—in Robert Aldrich’s brutal, hysterical film noir thriller that is one of the key works of 1950s Cold War paranoia. With Ralph Meeker. 106 min.
Thursday, May 09, 2019
6:45pm
Film Classics in 16mm! Carolee Schneemann & Barbara Hammer, 1939-2019
United States | 1967/2000 | Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer
Two prominent women visual artists who explored female sexuality on screen died in March within 10 days of each other. Both were 79. We pay tribute to them tonight with two films. Carolee Schneemann’s Fuses (1967) is one of the most notorious experimental movies ever made—a celluloid record of her lovemaking that she then drew and painted on, stained, and burned. Barbara Hammer’s History Lessons (2000) irreverently traces lesbian history by playfully manipulating archival footage...
8:35pm
New Digital Restoration!
United States | 1977 | Joan Micklin Silver
John Heard, Jeff Goldblum, Lindsay Crouse, and Marilu Henner head the all-star cast of this little known, recently rediscovered and restored romantic comedy by ex-Clevelander Joan Micklin Silver (Hester Street). It focuses on the counterculture employees of a Boston alternative newspaper that is being sold to a major publishing company threatening changes. Cleveland revival premiere. DCP. 101 min.
Saturday, May 11, 2019
5pm
Film Classics in 35mm! Robert Aldrich 101
United States | 1955 | Robert Aldrich
A frustrated movie star (Jack Palance) incurs the wrath of a despotic studio head (Rod Steiger) when he refuses to renew his contract. Robert Aldrich’s film version of Clifford Odets’ takedown of Hollywood may be dated and overwrought but, according to Pauline Kael, “you can’t take your eyes off it.” Ida Lupino co-stars. 111 min.
7:15pm
Direct from the 43rd Cleveland Int’l Film Festival!
France, Germany | 2018 | Christian Petzold
The new film from the director of Barbara and Phoenix was one of the very best films at this year’s Cleveland Int’l Film Festival. (It’s also one of the most acclaimed movies of 2018.) Based on a 1942 novel but boldly set in modern-day Europe, Transit follows a German man as he flees the Nazi invasion of Paris for the south of France. Adopting the identity of a dead writer whose papers he possesses, he...
9:20pm
Chagrin Documentary Film Festival favorite!
United States | 2018 | Dava Whisenant
Longtime David Letterman writer Steve Young explores the hidden world of industrial musicals in this delightful new documentary. During the postwar era, some of America’s biggest corporations (GE, GM, Xerox, et al.) produced lavish, Broadway-style musicals that were seen only by company employees and their spouses at annual sales meetings and new product launches. Professionally cast and staged, these unique one-offs boasted original songs by luminaries like Fiddler on the Roof’s Sheldon Harnick and featured...
Sunday, May 12, 2019
4pm
New Digital Restoration!
United States | 1977 | Joan Micklin Silver
John Heard, Jeff Goldblum, Lindsay Crouse, and Marilu Henner head the all-star cast of this little known, recently rediscovered and restored romantic comedy by ex-Clevelander Joan Micklin Silver (Hester Street). It focuses on the counterculture employees of a Boston alternative newspaper that is being sold to a major publishing company threatening changes. Cleveland revival premiere. DCP. 101 min.
6:30pm
Chagrin Documentary Film Festival favorite!
United States | 2018 | Dava Whisenant
Longtime David Letterman writer Steve Young explores the hidden world of industrial musicals in this delightful new documentary. During the postwar era, some of America’s biggest corporations (GE, GM, Xerox, et al.) produced lavish, Broadway-style musicals that were seen only by company employees and their spouses at annual sales meetings and new product launches. Professionally cast and staged, these unique one-offs boasted original songs by luminaries like Fiddler on the Roof’s Sheldon Harnick and featured...
8:20pm
Direct from the 43rd Cleveland Int’l Film Festival!
France, Germany | 2018 | Christian Petzold
The new film from the director of Barbara and Phoenix was one of the very best films at this year’s Cleveland Int’l Film Festival. (It’s also one of the most acclaimed movies of 2018.) Based on a 1942 novel but boldly set in modern-day Europe, Transit follows a German man as he flees the Nazi invasion of Paris for the south of France. Adopting the identity of a dead writer whose papers he possesses, he...
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
7pm
Special Offsite 3D Event! The Cinematheque at the Capitol Theatre!
China, France | 2018 | Bi Gan
Tonight we return to the Capitol Theatre in the Gordon Square Arts District to present one of the most acclaimed movies of 2018 in 3D—the way it was meant to be seen! Bi Gan’s stunning follow-up to his breathtaking 2015 debut Kaili Blues (shown in 2016 at the Cinematheque) is China’s biggest arthouse hit of all time. It’s a noir-tinged drama about a loner who returns to his hometown to try to locate a woman...
Thursday, May 16, 2019
6:30pm
Cleveland theatrical premiere!
Cuba, United States | 2018 | Danny Clinch, T. G. Herrington
In this feel-good music film that has a 100% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the leader of New Orleans' famed Preservation Hall Jazz Band takes the group to Cuba for a two-week tour. This fulfills his late musician father’s dream to retrace the group’s musical roots on the island. “Rousing…Inspiring…Sit back and enjoy.” –L.A. Times. Subtitles. DCP. 84 min.
8:15pm
New 4K Restoration! Special Guests on Friday!
Cuba, USSR | 1964 | Mikhail Kalatozov
Perhaps the most rapturous propaganda film ever made! Shot in 1964 but not shown in the U.S. until 1992 (it electrified American moviegoers and prompted Francis Coppola and Martin Scorsese to help release it), this passionate, poetic, shot-in-Cuba epic by a major Soviet director is a lyrical ode to the Cuban revolution. But it’s an even more euphoric celebration of cinema—employing deep-focus cinematography, expressionist compositions, rapid-fire editing, dazzling camera stunts, and a pulsating Afro-Cuban beat...
Friday, May 17, 2019
7pm
New 4K Restoration! Special Guests on Friday!
Cuba, USSR | 1964 | Mikhail Kalatozov
Perhaps the most rapturous propaganda film ever made! Shot in 1964 but not shown in the U.S. until 1992 (it electrified American moviegoers and prompted Francis Coppola and Martin Scorsese to help release it), this passionate, poetic, shot-in-Cuba epic by a major Soviet director is a lyrical ode to the Cuban revolution. But it’s an even more euphoric celebration of cinema—employing deep-focus cinematography, expressionist compositions, rapid-fire editing, dazzling camera stunts, and a pulsating Afro-Cuban beat...
9:45pm
Cleveland theatrical premiere!
Cuba, United States | 2018 | Danny Clinch, T. G. Herrington
In this feel-good music film that has a 100% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the leader of New Orleans' famed Preservation Hall Jazz Band takes the group to Cuba for a two-week tour. This fulfills his late musician father’s dream to retrace the group’s musical roots on the island. “Rousing…Inspiring…Sit back and enjoy.” –L.A. Times. Subtitles. DCP. 84 min.
Saturday, May 18, 2019
5pm
Film Classics in 35mm! Robert Aldrich 101
United States | 1956 | Robert Aldrich
Jack Palance, Lee Marvin, and Eddie Albert star in this ferocious anti-war film on which the U.S. Army refused to cooperate. (It presages Kubrick’s similarly themed Paths of Glory, released one year later.) Set in Europe near the end of WWII, the movie tells of an honorable infantryman who witnesses cowardice and corruption among his commanding officers—and attempts to combat it. 107 min.
7:10pm
New Digital Restoration!
Belgium, France | 1978 | Bertrand Blier
Will 2019 moviegoers object to the outrageous, offensive premise of this classic French comedy that won the 1979 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film? Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, and Carole Laure star in the movie, in which a depressed young wife finds no fulfillment from her husband or lover so turns her attention to a 13-year-old boy genius. “Flagrantly funny.” –Pauline Kael. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 108 min.
9:20pm
2019 Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film!
France, Poland, United Kingdom | 2018 | Paweł Pawlikowski
The new film from the director of Ida was one of the most acclaimed movies of the past year—winning five 2018 European Film Awards (including Best Film, Director, Actress, and Screenwriter) and nominated for the 2019 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Music filled and stunningly shot, the movie charts the divergent paths taken by two Polish lovers in postwar Europe from the late 1940s through the 1960s. She’s a young singer; he’s the director...
Sunday, May 19, 2019
4:15pm
2019 Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film!
France, Poland, United Kingdom | 2018 | Paweł Pawlikowski
The new film from the director of Ida was one of the most acclaimed movies of the past year—winning five 2018 European Film Awards (including Best Film, Director, Actress, and Screenwriter) and nominated for the 2019 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Music filled and stunningly shot, the movie charts the divergent paths taken by two Polish lovers in postwar Europe from the late 1940s through the 1960s. She’s a young singer; he’s the director...
6:30pm
Cleveland premiere!
Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden | 2018 | Isabella Eklöf
Winner of four 2019 Danish Film Critics awards (including Best Danish Film), the debut feature by the co-writer of Border is an immaculately composed and pristinely filmed shocker that evokes the emotionally cool but sociologically savage work of Ulrich Seidl, Michael Haneke, and Gaspar Noé. The movie focuses on the trophy girlfriend of a drug lord who, while vacationing with him on the Turkish Riviera, ponders whether the material perks she enjoys are worth the...
8:25pm
New Digital Restoration!
Belgium, France | 1978 | Bertrand Blier
Will 2019 moviegoers object to the outrageous, offensive premise of this classic French comedy that won the 1979 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film? Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, and Carole Laure star in the movie, in which a depressed young wife finds no fulfillment from her husband or lover so turns her attention to a 13-year-old boy genius. “Flagrantly funny.” –Pauline Kael. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 108 min.
Thursday, May 23, 2019
6:45pm
Cleveland premiere!
United States | 2018 | Khalik Allah
The latest movie by filmmaker and photographer Khalik Allah is a work of indelible portraiture—part documentary, part prayer. It’s a loving, lyrical ode to Jamaica and its people (Allah’s mother was born there) and it ranges from red light districts to lush rain forests. Has a 100% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes! DCP. 77 min.
8:25pm
Robert Aldrich 101
United States | 1956 | Robert Aldrich
Joan Crawford plays a lonely, middle-aged typist who latches onto a much younger man (Cliff Robertson) as her last stab at love. But he turns out to be a classic “Mr. Wrong.” Maybe only Crawford could have pulled off this sensational, over-the-top melodrama. With Vera Miles. DCP. 108 min.
Friday, May 24, 2019
7pm
Cleveland premiere!
China | 2018 | Hu Bo (aka Hu Qian)
One of the cinema events of the year! The only full-length movie by Chinese novelist turned filmmaker Hu Bo saw its legend enhanced when the 29-year-old artist killed himself after finishing his movie. Set in a northern Chinese industrial city, Hu’s nearly four-hour work focuses on four individuals—a bullied teen, a female classmate having an affair with a school administrator, a pensioner being forced out of his home, and a local gangster—whose dead-end lives overlap...
Saturday, May 25, 2019
5pm
Film Classics in 35mm! Robert Aldrich 101
United States | 1954 | Robert Aldrich
Robert Aldrich’s first western was also the first of three oaters he made with Burt Lancaster. (We show the other two over the next two weekends.) Lancaster plays an Apache warrior who refuses to stop fighting after the surrender of Geronimo, facing the U.S. army and authorities alone. It’s a potent race relations drama that was compromised by a studio-imposed ending. 87 min.
6:50pm
Terry Gilliam's dream project!
Belgium, France, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom | 2018 | Terry Gilliam
After almost three decades of trying, Terry Gilliam has finally brought his longtime dream project to the big screen! The Man Who Killed Don Quixote relates the fantastic tale of a director (Adam Driver) who is shooting a commercial in rural Spain when he encounters a crazy old cobbler (Jonathan Pryce) who believes that he is Don Quixote. When this shoemaker insists that the young filmmaker is Sancho Panza, the two of them set off...
9:25pm
Cleveland premiere!
United States | 2018 | Khalik Allah
The latest movie by filmmaker and photographer Khalik Allah is a work of indelible portraiture—part documentary, part prayer. It’s a loving, lyrical ode to Jamaica and its people (Allah’s mother was born there) and it ranges from red light districts to lush rain forests. Has a 100% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes! DCP. 77 min.
Sunday, May 26, 2019
4pm
Film Classics for Kids & Families! Free Popcorn!
United States | 1953 | Roy Rowland
The only feature film written by Dr. Seuss is a bizarre, colorful, Freudian musical in which a tyrannical piano teacher, Dr. Terwilliker (Hans Conreid), forces 500 kidnapped boys to simultaneously play a single huge piano. “One of the best surrealistic fantasies ever made.” –Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film. DCP. 89 min.
6:30pm
Robert Aldrich 101
United States | 1956 | Robert Aldrich
Joan Crawford plays a lonely, middle-aged typist who latches onto a much younger man (Cliff Robertson) as her last stab at love. But he turns out to be a classic “Mr. Wrong.” Maybe only Crawford could have pulled off this sensational, over-the-top melodrama. With Vera Miles. DCP. 108 min.
8:40pm
Terry Gilliam's dream project!
Belgium, France, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom | 2018 | Terry Gilliam
After almost three decades of trying, Terry Gilliam has finally brought his longtime dream project to the big screen! The Man Who Killed Don Quixote relates the fantastic tale of a director (Adam Driver) who is shooting a commercial in rural Spain when he encounters a crazy old cobbler (Jonathan Pryce) who believes that he is Don Quixote. When this shoemaker insists that the young filmmaker is Sancho Panza, the two of them set off...
Thursday, May 30, 2019
6:45pm
Cleveland revival premiere!
Iceland, United States | 1990 | Nietzchka Keene
Singer and fashion icon Björk made her big screen debut in this visually stunning medieval fantasy loosely based on a Brothers Grimm fairy tale and shot in scenic Iceland. (It evokes both Carl Dreyer’s Day of Wrath and Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring.) She plays one of two sisters who flee after their mother is burned for witchcraft. They find refuge with a widower and his son until sorcery again threatens their safety. “Dark and...
8:25pm
Cleveland premiere!
United Kingdom | 2018 | Mark Cousins
Film critic and cinema historian turned moviemaker Mark Cousins (The Story of Film: An Odyssey) charts some of the unknown territory of Orson Welles’ vast imagination. Granted unprecedented access to hundreds of sketches, drawings, and paintings by Welles—tantalizing, never-before-seen glimpses into the filmmaker’s rich inner life—Cousins sheds new light on the life experiences, dreams, desires, and obsessions that fueled this giant’s creativity. “Genuinely eye-opening.” –Rolling Stone. DCP. 115 min.
Friday, May 31, 2019
7pm
Cleveland revival premiere!
USSR | 1965 | Sergei Bondarchuk
Here’s a new digital restoration of one of the most expensive and spectacular Soviet films ever made! Sergei Bondarchuk’s lavish adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s tome cost the equivalent of 60-70 million 2019 dollars and employed 120,000 soldiers as extras in its battle scenes. Winner of the 1969 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the movie skillfully mixes the epic and the intimate, with sensitive performances and cinematic poetry. A portrait of Russia at the time...
9:45pm
Cleveland revival premiere!
Iceland, United States | 1990 | Nietzchka Keene
Singer and fashion icon Björk made her big screen debut in this visually stunning medieval fantasy loosely based on a Brothers Grimm fairy tale and shot in scenic Iceland. (It evokes both Carl Dreyer’s Day of Wrath and Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring.) She plays one of two sisters who flee after their mother is burned for witchcraft. They find refuge with a widower and his son until sorcery again threatens their safety. “Dark and...
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