Cinematheque . Film Schedule
Friday, June 04, 2021
12am
Online exclusive! Available starting 6/4.
Italy, Switzerland | 2020 | Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenzo
Resentments, desperation, and dysfunction simmer beneath the serene surface of “normal” middleclass family life in a Rome suburb one sweltering summer—and eventually boil over. The D'Innocenzo brothers won a screenplay prize at last year’s Berlin Film Festival for their corrosive urban fairytale. “An explosion of droll talent in one wild, impressionistic ride.” –Hollywood Reporter. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. 98 min. Bad Tales, a Cinematheque streaming exclusive, can be viewed online from 6/4 thru at least 6/24...
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United States | 2021 | Graham Shelby
This new documentary reveals how the death of Muhammad Ali brought the people of his Louisville, KY hometown—and the world—together for one unforgettable week. Ali passed away on June 3, 2016, in the midst of a divisive U.S. presidential election, a proposed Muslim travel ban, a series of police shootings of unarmed Black men, and the global emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement. Yet on the day of his funeral procession, more than 100,000...
Wednesday, June 09, 2021
12am
Online exclusive! Available starting 6/9.
United States | 2020 | Jonathan Gruber
Imprisoned by the Soviets, orphaned by the Holocaust, elected Prime Minister, crowned peacemaker by the Nobel Prize Committee, and disgraced by the Lebanon War, Menachem Begin (1913-1992) was a pillar of the State of Israel and a fierce advocate for the Jewish people. This new documentary employs interviews and rare archival materials to profile Begin and explore his role in the history of modern Israel and its relations to its Middle East neighbors. “When I...
Friday, June 11, 2021
12am
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Israel | 2020 | Eytan Fox
The latest gay-themed film from the director of Yossi & Jagger and Cupcakes follows a sorrowful NY Times writer (Tony winner John Benjamin Hickey) who travels to Tel Aviv after a personal tragedy. There he befriends a much younger Israeli man who helps to bring him back to life. 100% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. “A modest property, worth the rental.” –Hollywood Reporter. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. 89 min. Sublet, a Cinematheque streaming exclusive, can be...
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South Korea | 1998 | Hong Sang-soo
Never before released theatrically in the U.S., the second feature by prolific South Korean master Hong Sang-soo tells two seemingly unrelated—but connected—stories set in a mountainous vacation spot near Seoul. The first centers on a young woman, distraught after breaking up with a married man, who falls for another married man while on holiday with two female friends. The second story, unfolding simultaneously, zeroes in on her ex-lover, who just happens to be visiting the...
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Bosnia, Herzegovina, Netherlands | 2020 | Ena Sendijarević
In this sexy and strikingly shot debut film that has a 100% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a young Bosnian woman raised in the Netherlands by her divorced mother returns to her homeland for the first time to visit her ailing father. Once there, she embarks by herself on a madcap, misbegotten road trip in a country that is totally alien to her. “Rocky roads to romance, self-realization, and adulthood are quirkily mapped in Take...
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United States | 2020 | Joe DeNardo, Paul Felten
Chloë Sevigny stars in this offbeat indie thriller about a NYC actress, recovering from a romance with a shadowy intelligence agent, who takes refuge in an upstate house where a band is preparing a new album. But she still can’t get away from the disturbing memories of her past life. This shape-shifting, often funny tale of paranoia, surveillance, and performance was shot on 16mm film. ‘A fascinating work pitched at the intersection of American independent...
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Ethiopia, Germany | 2019 | Jan Philipp Weyl
Ethiopia’s official entry for the 2020 Oscar for Best Int’l Feature Film follows two young brothers with different life goals—one wants to be a long-distance runner, the other a photographer. But they take dramatically divergent paths to realize their dreams, with one staying in his village and the other moving to the big capital city of Addis Ababa. Cameo appearance by Olympic gold medalist Haile Gebrselassie. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. 116 min. Running Against the Wind,...
Friday, June 18, 2021
12am
Online exclusive! Available starting 6/18.
Czechoslovakia | 1949 | Alfréd Radok
Banned in its native country for 40 years, one of the very first Holocaust movies remains among the most unforgettable. This astonishing debut film from theatrical wunderkind Alfréd Radok (himself a Holocaust survivor) focuses on a Jewish doctor and her Gentile husband during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia; it re-creates the transporting of civilians to the Terezin Ghetto. New restoration! “A stylized danse macabre that mixes newsreels with noir expressionism…Audacious and grotesque, the movie looks...
12am
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United States | 2020 | Lisa Immordino Vreeland
This dual biography of two of the 20th century’s greatest writers—Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams, both gay Southerners—spans their early friendship to their final withering critiques of each other. In between, these two men lived parallel lives of creativity and success, countered by self-doubt and addiction. The film contains ample archival material, including dishy talk show appearances and choice clips from movies adapted from their works—A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Breakfast at Tiffany’s,...
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United States | 2006 | Peter Rosen
This snapshot of the 1960s downtown New York art scene focuses on the influential Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler, who in 1970 assembled a mammoth exhibition of post-1940 painting and sculpture by living NYC artists. In doing so, he got to call the work of Mark Di Suvero, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenberg, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, Roy Lichtenstein, George Segal, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, and many others “art.” The...
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Norway, United Kingdom, United States | 2020 | Viktor Kosakovskiy
“The Secret Life of Animals” could be an alternate title to this remarkable, free-ranging observational documentary, one of the most acclaimed art house movies of last year. Patiently shot in pristine b&w, with no dialogue (only ambient sounds), the film offers an up-close-and-personal look at the hidden lives of a group of European farm animals: a mother sow (Gunda) and her large family, some ingenious cows, and a one-legged chicken. An immersive, memorable meditation on...
Friday, June 25, 2021
12am
Online exclusive! Available starting 6/25.
United States | 2020 | Courtney Stephens, Pacho Velez
The new movie from Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab (Sweetgrass, Leviathan) surveys some of the Americans who, for various reasons, own chunks of the Berlin Wall, the concrete barrier built in 1961 that separated Communist East Berlin (and East Germany) from “free” West Berlin during the Cold War—until it was torn down in 1989. The Wall resonates with these collectors and “curators” in different ways, and with key aspects of American history and culture. The filmmakers...
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France | 2019 | Thierry Demaizière, Alban Teurlaii
This acclaimed new documentary offers an immersive, behind-the-scenes look at the stunningly beautiful French mountain village that went from sleepy town to sacred wonder after a 14-year-old peasant girl in 1858 claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary in a remote grotto. Today Lourdes is second only to Paris in the number of annual visitors (6 million). Hopeful and faithful individuals from all over—including many that are sick or desperate—make pilgrimages there in search of...
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United States | 1986 | Lizzie Borden
The world's oldest profession is seen as nothing but a job in Lizzie Borden's dispassionate depiction of a day in the life of a high-class NYC brothel. (One sex worker is a college graduate—and a lesbian—just looking to bankroll her own business.) New digital restoration! 93 min. Working Girls, a Cinematheque streaming exclusive, can be viewed online from 6/25 thru at least 7/15 via the link below. Doing so supports the Cinematheque....
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Israel | 2020 | Ruthy Pribar
Winner of nine 2020 Israeli Film Academy awards including Best Film and Best Actress (Alena Yiv), this understated, unsentimental drama charts the resurgent love between a young single mother and her emotionally distant teenage daughter (Shira Haas of Unorthodox) after one of them becomes seriously ill. "Every formal element of Asia serves to illustrate and enrich the tricky, evolving relationship at its center." –Variety. Subtitles. 85 min. Asia, a Cinematheque streaming exclusive,...
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