Cinematheque . Film Schedule
Friday, May 01, 2020
12am
Online exclusive! Available 5/1-21.
Belgium, France, Guatemala | 2019 | Cesar Diaz
Winner of the Camera d’Or for Best First Film at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, and Belgium’s submission for this year’s Oscar for Best Int’l Feature Film, this potent drama focuses on a forensic anthropologist investigating the Mayan genocide that happened during the Guatemalan civil war of the early 1980s. While trying to locate and identify the remains of “disappeared” relatives of indigenous women who survived, he happens upon a photo that provides a clue...
12am
Online exclusive! Available 5/1-21.
China | 2018 | Pema Tseden
The latest Tibetan-language film by acclaimed moviemaker Pema Tseden is a fable of revenge and redemption. A long-distance truck driver worried about his bad karma while traversing the barren high plains of Tibet picks up a hitchhiker intent on killing someone who wronged him years before. Soon the destinies of these two fellow travelers become inexorably intertwined. “A Tibetan road movie and a tribute to classic Westerns all at once.” –CinemaScope. “[An] idiosyncratic mix of...
12am
Online exclusive! Available 5/1-21.
Germany, Hungary, Switzerland | 1994 | Béla Tarr
25 years after it debuted, Béla Tarr’s seven-hour Hungarian epic is finally being acknowledged as what we long thought it was: one of the great, essential movies. (In 2012, it was voted the 36th best movie of all time in an international poll of film professionals conducted by Sight & Sound magazine.) Set in a squalid, desolate rural village in late 20th-century Hungary (after the fall of Communism), this bleakly beautiful epic focuses on a...
12am
Held over by popular demand thru 1/31! Online exclusive!
United States | 2019 | Louie Schwartzberg
One of the most unexpected art house hits of 2019 -- and our most popular movie of all time -- is a mind-blowing, beautifully photographed look at the world of mushrooms and how they can help save the planet. With Paul Stamets, Michael Pollan, and Andrew Weil; narrated by Brie Larson. 81 min. Fantastic Fungi, a Cinematheque streaming exclusive, can be watched online thru 1/31 via the link below. Doing so supports the Cinematheque. Screening...
Friday, May 08, 2020
12am
Held over! Run extended thru 5/25! Online exclusive!
Various countries | 2017-2019 | various directors
Grab some popcorn and get ready for a fun, artful film experience for kids and adults alike! Two programs of acclaimed short films from last year’s NYICFF bring some inspired storytelling and hilarity to your home screen. Kid Flicks One (56 min.), recommended for ages 3 & up, consists of 12 films (both animation and live action, all in English or without dialogue) from nine countries. Highlights include Belly Flop, Slurp, Preschool Poets: Poem about...
12am
Held over! Run extended thru 5/25! Online exclusive!
Various countries | 2017-2019 | various directors
Grab some popcorn and get ready for a fun, artful film experience for kids and adults alike! Two programs of acclaimed short films from last year’s NYICFF bring some inspired storytelling and hilarity to your home screen. Kid Flicks Two (72 min.), recommended for ages 8 & up, consists of eight films (animation, live action, and documentary, all in English or without dialogue) representing 10 countries. Highlights include the hilarious, Oscar short-listed French slapstick cartoon...
12am
Online exclusive! Available 5/8-28.
France, Germany, Portugal, Spain | 2019 | Albert Serra
With its abundant nudity and outré sex, this is not your grandparents’ watch-at-home movie; viewer discretion is strongly advised! Catalan iconoclast Albert Serra follows his masterful The Death of Louis XIV (2016) with this austerely opulent tale of an aristocratic band of 18th-century French libertines, expelled from the court of Louis XVI for their debauched behavior, who seek refuge with a sympathetic German Duke (Helmut Berger), a seducer and freethinker out of place in his...
12am
Online exclusive! Available 5/8-28.
United States | 2019 | James Sweeney
One of the most popular films at this year’s Cleveland Int’l Film Festival, Straight Up is perhaps the wittiest and most touching all-talk-and-no-sex romantic comedy since My Night at Maud’s. The film delineates the relationship between a highly articulate, neurotic, OCD gay man and a fast-talking, insecure, straight young actress. But can the sparks of nonstop banter ignite fireworks in the bedroom? “A playful examination of sexual fluidity, but underneath the gags, it’s really a...
Friday, May 15, 2020
12am
Online exclusive! Available 5/15 - 6/4.
Australia, France, United Kingdom | 2019 | Josephine Mackerras
When her husband abandons her and absconds with their savings, a desperate young woman turns to high-class prostitution to save her home and support her young son. The first feature written and directed by Josephine Mackerras won the Grand Jury prize at last year’s SXSW film festival. “Has much going for it…[This] complicated moral tale has strong art house potential.” –Hollywood Reporter. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles.103 min. Alice, a Cinematheque streaming exclusive,...
12am
Online exclusive! Available 5/15 - 6/4.
United States | 2020 | Michael Murphy
In this new jazz documentary, Grammy-winning musician, composer, and educator Terence Blanchard takes us on a guided tour of his home town and its rich musical tradition. The film features personal reflections from such New Orleans greats as Harry Connick, Jr., Wynton Marsalis, Mannie Fresh, and Dr. Michael White, and includes new and archival filmed performances by Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Professor Longhair, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, and The Neville Brothers. There will be a...
12am
Online exclusive! Available 5/15 - 6/4.
Chile, Germany | 2018 | Joaquín Cociña,Cristóbal León
This award-winning, nightmarish stop-motion animation was inspired by Chile’s horrific “Dignity Colony,” a barbed-wire-enclosed agricultural commune founded in 1961 by a German ex-Nazi. It became notorious for rampant human rights abuses—even before it began colluding with the brutal Pinochet regime. In the movie, a young woman escapes such a compound, outrunning a wolf to take refuge in a small cottage in the woods. There she lives with two pigs who turn into children. Meanwhile, her...
12am
Online exclusive! Available 5/15-28.
Belgium, France, United Kingdom | 2019 | Ken Loach
Master British filmmaker Ken Loach, two-time winner of the top prize at Cannes, is the cinema’s most ardent advocate for ordinary workers. (Film Comment hails him as “the Bernie Sanders of filmmakers.”) Loach’s highly acclaimed new film (88% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes) explores the gig economy through a riveting account of a desperate British family man who risks everything to become an independent contractor for a package delivery company. But “being your own boss’...
Saturday, May 16, 2020
7:30pm
FILM POSTPONED INDEFINITELY. World Premiere! Filmmaker & Musicians in Person!
United States | 2020 | Jason Prufer
The Numbers Band is a critically acclaimed avant-garde American rock ‘n’ roll band formed in Kent, OH in the immediate aftermath of the Kent State shootings 50 years ago. This new rock documentary combines never-before-seen archival clips, recently shot live footage, interviews, and photographs to weave together a singular, half-century musical journey. Jason Prufer’s film explores the sheer power of the band's music while preserving stories and musings from individual members. Prufer and musicians from...
Friday, May 22, 2020
12am
Online exclusive! Available 5/22 - 6/11.
Norway | 2020 | Benjamin Ree
Acclaimed at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, this stranger-than-fiction documentary marvel chronicles the unlikely relationship that develops between a young Czech artist living in Oslo and the Norwegian career criminal who inexplicably steals two of the large canvases from her first solo gallery show. “Incredible.” –Variety. Cleveland premiere. In English and Norwegian with subtitles. 102 min. The Painter and the Thief, a Cinematheque streaming exclusive, can be watched online from 5/22 thru 6/11 via the...
12am
Online exclusive! Available 5/22 - 6/11.
Poland, Ukraine, United Kingdom | 2019 | Agnieszka Holland
The latest film by the master Polish director of Europa Europa, The Secret Garden, and In Darkness is an epic historical thriller set in pre-WWII USSR. The movie follows a Welsh journalist as he uncovers a man-made famine that’s starving millions in Ukraine. (Stalin’s cover-up of this human catastrophe inspired George Orwell's Animal Farm.) With James Norton (Little Women), Vanessa Kirby (The Crown), and Peter Sarsgaard. "A bold and heartfelt movie with a real Lean-ian...
12am
Online exclusive! Available 5/22 - 6/11.
United States | 2019 | Alana DeJoseph
Annette Bening narrates this history of the U.S. government agency, begun by President Kennedy in 1961, that has sent 200,000 Americans to 60+ countries around the world to promote international cooperation. But can a 59-year-old, globalist organization survive this era of budget cuts, rising nationalism, and COVID? “Enlightening and uplifting...Puts a human face on the Peace Corps—and makes sense of its history of idealism, improvisation, politics, and at times, its failings.” –Paul Theroux. Cleveland premiere....
12am
Online exclusive! Available 5/22 - 6/11.
United States | 1982/2020 | Horace B. Jenkins
Newly rediscovered and fully restored, this nearly lost African American indie drama (made between Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep and Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It) was the only fictional feature written and directed by an Emmy-winning, black documentary filmmaker who died (at age 42) shortly after finishing it. A regional production set and shot in Louisiana (and fully financed by wealthy black businessmen in that state) but never theatrically released until this year, this...
Friday, May 29, 2020
12am
Online exclusive! Available 5/29 - 6/18.
France | 2019 | Bruno Dumont
Winner of France’s Louis Delluc Prize for Best Film of 2019, Bruno Dumont’s follow-up to his Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc is less of a rock musical than that 2017 movie was. But it does retain child actress Lise Leplat Prudhomme, who, at age 10, is the youngest person ever to play the Maid of Orleáns on film. (The future saint was actually 17-19 years old during her capture, trial, and execution—all of...
12am
Online exclusive! Available 5/29 - 6/18.
Canada | 1982 | Phillip Borsos
Never released on DVD or Blu-ray, this charming, low-key western stars mustachioed, soft-spoken Richard Farnsworth as courtly, real-life American stagecoach robber Bill Miner. Freed into the early 20th century after 33 years behind bars, Miner marvels at the young century's technological innovations (like movies). But he also can’t help but see the tantalizing new opportunities for incorrigible outlaws like himself. "Farnsworth is a superb camera subject, with a lulling sexual presence.” –Pauline Kael. New 4K...
12am
Online exclusive! Available 5/29 - 6/18. Michel Piccoli, 1925-2020
France, Italy, Switzerland | 1970 | Claude Sautet
The late, great Michel Piccoli stars in this Claude Sautet drama about an architect, separated from his wife and son, who is having an affair with another woman (Romy Schneider). But he can’t commit fully to his new love because he discovers he is still emotionally attached to his family. “A remarkable portrait of the compromises of marriage and the fickle stirrings of the human heart, structured as an intricate narrative jigsaw.” –Variety. With Léa...
12am
Online exclusive! Available 5/29 - 6/18.
Belgium, France, Luxembourg | 2019 | Christophe Honoré
Chiara Mastroianni stars in this whimsical, blatantly artificial romantic fantasy about a serially unfaithful middle-aged wife who suddenly comes face to face with a much younger version of her now-boring husband (when he was in his sexual prime), as well as with apparitions of other former and current lovers. (Imagine A Christmas Carol or It’s a Wonderful Life as a bedroom farce.) This frothy, clever comedy was shown as part of CIFF44 Streams. “Real emotions...
12am
Online exclusive! Available 5/29 - 6/18.
France, Portugal | 2010 | Raúl Ruiz
Over an hour longer than the 266-min. “theatrical” cut released in 2010 (but never shown at the Cinematheque), this six-part miniseries constituted the last major achievement of the late, great baroque storyteller Raúl Ruiz, who died in 2011. Based on a 19th-century Portuguese novel by Camilo Castelo Branco, it's an opulent, imaginative costume drama that spans three decades and four European countries and introduces a multitude of characters. The saga focuses on an orphan boy...
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