Cinematheque Film Schedule

United Kingdom, United States | 2022 | Charlotte Wells

Back by popular demand! In the best-reviewed film of 2022 (according to Metacritic.com), a young woman reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a Turkish holiday she took with her father (Paul Mescal) 20 years earlier. (Her parents were separated and she was living with her mom.) Memories real and imagined fill the gaps as she tries to reconcile the dad she knew with the man she didn't. “The best film of...

United Kingdom, United States | 2022 | Joanna Hogg

Tilda Swinton stars in Joanna Hogg’s follow-up to The Souvenir and The Souvenir: Part II. It’s a ghost story in which a middle-aged daughter and her elderly mother (both played by Swinton) try to connect with each other while staying at a once-grand Welsh manor—now a mysterious, nearly vacant hotel. “A melancholy winter’s tale…It’s effectively a third chapter in the Souvenir story.” –Hollywood Reporter. Cleveland premiere. DCP. 96 min.

United Kingdom, United States | 2022 | Joanna Hogg

Tilda Swinton stars in Joanna Hogg’s follow-up to The Souvenir and The Souvenir: Part II. It’s a ghost story in which a middle-aged daughter and her elderly mother (both played by Swinton) try to connect with each other while staying at a once-grand Welsh manor—now a mysterious, nearly vacant hotel. “A melancholy winter’s tale…It’s effectively a third chapter in the Souvenir story.” –Hollywood Reporter. Cleveland premiere. DCP. 96 min.

United Kingdom, United States | 2022 | Charlotte Wells

Back by popular demand! In the best-reviewed film of 2022 (according to Metacritic.com), a young woman reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a Turkish holiday she took with her father (Paul Mescal) 20 years earlier. (Her parents were separated and she was living with her mom.) Memories real and imagined fill the gaps as she tries to reconcile the dad she knew with the man she didn't. “The best film of...

United Kingdom, United States | 1982 | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.

A beautiful white unicorn who fears that she is the last of her kind goes in search of others in this animated adventure adapted by Peter S. Beagle from his beloved medieval fantasy novel. Jimmy Webb wrote the music and songs, and the all-star voice cast includes Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Robert Klein, Christopher Lee, Paul Frees, and the late Angela Lansbury. Cleveland revival premiere. DCP. 93 min.

United Kingdom | 1989 | Kenneth Branagh

It took a lot of chutzpah for first-time filmmaker Kenneth Branagh to “remake” and star in a seminal 1944 Shakespeare movie by the great Laurence Olivier. But Branagh’s courage and confidence paid off; his film (which is quite different from Olivier’s) proved a critical and audience hit. (It was nominated for three Oscars including Best Picture and Actor and won one for Costume Design.) This rousing tale of a British monarch who goes to war...

France, Italy, West Germany | 1962 | Orson Welles

“The Trial is the best film I have ever made,” said Orson Welles about his virtuosic, visually-stunning adaptation of Kafka’s nightmarish classic. Anthony Perkins plays the young bank clerk Joseph K., who is arrested one day on unspecified charges and becomes entrapped in a labyrinthine justice system while trying to learn his offense. Welles and Jeanne Moreau co-star in this chilling, expressionistic classic. Cleveland revival premiere. In English. DCP. 119 min.

United Kingdom, United States | 1982 | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.

A beautiful white unicorn who fears that she is the last of her kind goes in search of others in this animated adventure adapted by Peter S. Beagle from his beloved medieval fantasy novel. Jimmy Webb wrote the music and songs, and the all-star voice cast includes Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Robert Klein, Christopher Lee, Paul Frees, and the late Angela Lansbury. Cleveland revival premiere. DCP. 93 min.

France, Italy, West Germany | 1962 | Orson Welles

“The Trial is the best film I have ever made,” said Orson Welles about his virtuosic, visually-stunning adaptation of Kafka’s nightmarish classic. Anthony Perkins plays the young bank clerk Joseph K., who is arrested one day on unspecified charges and becomes entrapped in a labyrinthine justice system while trying to learn his offense. Welles and Jeanne Moreau co-star in this chilling, expressionistic classic. Cleveland revival premiere. In English. DCP. 119 min.

France, Panama, United States | 2022 | Claire Denis

Winner of the Grand Prix (second place) at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, this new romantic thriller by Claire Denis (Beau Travail) stars Margaret Qualley as a penniless American journalist stranded in Nicaragua who hooks up with a British businessman (Joe Alwyn) in hopes of escaping the country. This sultry, languid drama is another of Denis’ sensuous meditations on sex and colonialism in an exotic, steamy, foreign locale. With Benny Safdie and John C. Reilly;...

Belgium, Denmark, Sweden | 2022 | Lars von Trier

25 years after turning his back on the hellacious Danish hospital that was the indelible setting for his two surreal TV miniseries The Kingdom (1994) and The Kingdom II (1997), writer-director Lars von Trier has revisited the place and its bizarre human and demon denizens. Aided by original co-writer Niels Vørsel and returning cast members (and some new faces), von Trier has concocted five new one-hour episodes teeming with weird occurrences and strange behaviors in...

Belgium, Denmark, Sweden | 2022 | Lars von Trier

25 years after turning his back on the hellacious Danish hospital that was the indelible setting for his two surreal TV miniseries The Kingdom (1994) and The Kingdom II (1997), writer-director Lars von Trier has revisited the place and its bizarre human and demon denizens. Aided by original co-writer Niels Vørsel and returning cast members (and some new faces), von Trier has concocted five new one-hour episodes teeming with weird occurrences and strange behaviors in...

Philippines | 2022 | Martika Ramirez Escobar

Nominated for the 2023 Independent Spirit Award for Best Int’l Film, this surreal blend of reality and fantasy focuses on Leonor, a groundbreaking screenwriter in the Filipino film industry during its ragtag action-cinema glory days, who now she struggles with old age and mounting debt. While revisiting an unfinished script about a fearless protagonist trying to avenge his brother’s murder, Leonor is accidentally struck on the head. While comatose, she awakes inside her screenplay, becoming...

Japan | 1952 | Akira Kurosawa

In one of Kurosawa’s greatest and most moving films, a Tokyo career bureaucrat dying from cancer decides to devote his remaining days to doing something meaningful with his life. This beloved classic has recently been remade as the Bill Nighy movie Living, but the original will be hard to beat. With Takashi Shimura. Subtitles. 35mm. 143 min.

New Zealand | 1993 | Garth Maxwell

Abandoned by their parents and adopted into different families as children, a now grown-up brother and sister, Jack and Dora (Alexis Arquette and Sarah Smuts-Kennedy), yearn to find each other and reunite. This is especially urgent for Jack; his adopted family is sadistically abusive—so much so that Dora, who has extra-sensory powers, has heard his cries for help. The Museum of Modern Art recently called this little-known supernatural thriller from Down Under “a lost classic...

France | 2022 | Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot

French writer and 2022 Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux narrates this collection of footage from her family’s home movies shot between 1972 and 1981, when her two boys became teenagers, her first books were published, and her then husband filmed everything at home and abroad with his 8mm camera. Co-directed by her son David, this time capsule sheds new light on Ernaux’s evolving thoughts and feelings, amplifying her semi-autobiographical work. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 63 min.

Belgium, Denmark, Sweden | 2022 | Lars von Trier

25 years after turning his back on the hellacious Danish hospital that was the indelible setting for his two surreal TV miniseries The Kingdom (1994) and The Kingdom II (1997), writer-director Lars von Trier has revisited the place and its bizarre human and demon denizens. Aided by original co-writer Niels Vørsel and returning cast members (and some new faces), von Trier has concocted five new one-hour episodes teeming with weird occurrences and strange behaviors in...

Belgium, Denmark, Sweden | 2022 | Lars von Trier

25 years after turning his back on the hellacious Danish hospital that was the indelible setting for his two surreal TV miniseries The Kingdom (1994) and The Kingdom II (1997), writer-director Lars von Trier has revisited the place and its bizarre human and demon denizens. Aided by original co-writer Niels Vørsel and returning cast members (and some new faces), von Trier has concocted five new one-hour episodes teeming with weird occurrences and strange behaviors in...

United States | 2022 | Todd Field

Cate Blanchett stars in this Oscar frontrunner that was voted the best film of 2022 by both the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Blanchett plays Lydia Tár, a great contemporary composer and conductor who is serving as the first female music director of a major German orchestra when her life begins to unravel. With Nina Hoss and Noémie Merlant. DCP. 158 min.

Italy, Poland | 2022 | Jerzy Skolimowski

A donkey working in a Polish circus soon gets to experience the outside world—witnessing the good, the bad, and the ugly—in this singular, poetic new movie by master Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski (Deep End, Moonlighting). Inspired by Robert Bresson’s great 1966 donkey film Au Hasard, Balthazar, EO was one of the most acclaimed movies at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and is Poland’s official submission for the 2023 Oscar for Best Int’l Feature Film. With...

United States | 2022 | Laura Poitras

Artist and activist Nan Goldin is the focus of the new documentary by Oscar-winning director of Citizenfour. It’s one of the most acclaimed films of 2022. The movie looks not only at Goldin’s stellar photographic career documenting LGBT art/drug subcultures but also at her tireless efforts to hold Purdue Pharma, owned by the arts-supporting Sackler family, accountable for much of the opioid epidemic. “A towering and devastating work of shocking intelligence and still greater emotional...

France, Germany, Italy | 1999 | Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub

This short feature by the rigorous filmmaking team of Straub-Huillet is a compact adaptation of Elio Vittorini’s 1939 anti-fascist novel Conversation in Sicily (banned by Mussolini) in which a man returns to his Sicilian hometown after 15 years away. It was shot in luminous b&w by the great cinematographer William Lubtchansky. “Something as simple as a herring roasting on a hearth, or a meal of bread, wine and winter melon, takes on the humble aura...

France | 1939 | Jean Renoir

Here’s a new 4K restoration of the movie voted the fourth best film of all time in Sight and Sound magazine’s 2012 “greatest films” poll. Jean Renoir’s masterpiece is an effortless ensemble piece that takes an X-ray of pre-WWII French society. Set during a getaway weekend at a lavish country estate, the work focuses on a group of diverse individuals from various walks of life (Renoir plays one of them) who engage in a complex...

United Kingdom | 1975 | Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

Never before shown at the Cinematheque, this all-time comedy classic—a nonsensical Arthurian adventure starring the Monty Python troupe—is full of quotable lines and classic set pieces. Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin all play multiple roles in this uproarious spoof that inspired the Broadway musical Spamalot. 35mm. 91 min.

France | 1939 | Jean Renoir

Here’s a new 4K restoration of the movie voted the fourth best film of all time in Sight and Sound magazine’s 2012 “greatest films” poll. Jean Renoir’s masterpiece is an effortless ensemble piece that takes an X-ray of pre-WWII French society. Set during a getaway weekend at a lavish country estate, the work focuses on a group of diverse individuals from various walks of life (Renoir plays one of them) who engage in a complex...

United Kingdom | 1975 | Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

Never before shown at the Cinematheque, this all-time comedy classic—a nonsensical Arthurian adventure starring the Monty Python troupe—is full of quotable lines and classic set pieces. Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin all play multiple roles in this uproarious spoof that inspired the Broadway musical Spamalot. 35mm. 91 min.

Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States | 2022 | Ruben Östlund

Winner of the Palme d’Or (top prize) at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival and four 2022 European Film Awards (Film, Director, Actor, Screenwriter), the biting new social satire and black comedy from the director of Force Majeure and The Square follows two young fashion models and social media influencers who are invited on a luxury cruise for the super-rich—among them, a Russian oligarch, British arms dealers, and a German stroke victim. But all is not...

India | 2022 | S.S. Rajamouli

Step aside, Maverick and Avatar. The Indian sensation RRR (for “Rise, Roar, Revolt”) was the great action epic of 2022, and even earned filmmaker S.S. Rajamouli last year’s “best director” prize from the august New York Film Critics Circle! A delirious, rampaging spectacle—with show-stopping musical numbers—that has taken the world by storm, RRR is a mythologized account of two real-life Indian freedom fighters, Komaram Bheem and Alluri Sitarama Raju, who battled British colonizers...

United Kingdom, United States | 2022 | Charlotte Wells

Back by popular demand! In the best-reviewed film of 2022 (according to Metacritic.com), a young woman reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a Turkish holiday she took with her father (Paul Mescal) 20 years earlier. (Her parents were separated and she was living with her mom.) Memories real and imagined fill the gaps as she tries to reconcile the dad she knew with the man she didn't. “The best film of...

South Korea | 2022 | Park Chan-wook

One of the major movies of 2022, the new film from the director of Oldboy and The Handmaiden is South Korea’s entry for this year’s Oscar for Best Int’l Feature Film. Filmmaker Park Chan-wook nabbed the Best Director prize at Cannes 2022 for his romantic neo-noir thriller, in which a detective investigating a man’s mysterious death becomes involved with the dead man’s strangely blasé widow. “After the world-conquering success of Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite and the...

Czechoslovakia | 1966 | Vĕra Chytilová

One of the most inventive, anarchic, and colorful works of the Czech New Wave is a dada movie that will leave you gaga! Daisies is a madcap satire in which two bored young women prank and thumb their noses at modern consumer society—food, fashion, men, and politics. Czech officials banned it for a year. “As funny as anything in A Night at the Opera. Funnier, actually.” –J. Hoberman, NY Times (8/17/22). "Five stars (highest rating)…This...

Belgium | 1975 | Chantal Akerman

Recently voted the greatest film of all time by over 1600 int’l film experts in the most recent (2022), once-a-decade Sight and Sound magazine poll (it knocked previous winners Vertigo and Citizen Kane to second and third place respectively), Chantal Akerman’s seminal work “changed the face of contemporary European cinema,” according to critic J. Hoberman. Rarely screened theatrically due to its extreme length, this groundbreaking, minimalist masterpiece focuses on a middle-aged Belgian widow (Delphine Seyrig)...

France, United States | 2022; 1948/2010 | Jean-Christophe Klotz; Stuart Schulberg

Two documentaries about the post-WWII Nuremberg trials. Filmmakers for the Prosecution tells the thrilling story of how brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, serving under movie director John Ford in the OSS (Office of Strategic Services), tracked down the films used to convict top Nazis after WWII. Newly-discovered footage shows where they found secret caches of motion pictures, including salt mines and haystacks. The films they unearthed were compiled and presented at the International Military Tribunal...

Czechoslovakia | 1966 | Vĕra Chytilová

One of the most inventive, anarchic, and colorful works of the Czech New Wave is a dada movie that will leave you gaga! Daisies is a madcap satire in which two bored young women prank and thumb their noses at modern consumer society—food, fashion, men, and politics. Czech officials banned it for a year. “As funny as anything in A Night at the Opera. Funnier, actually.” –J. Hoberman, NY Times (8/17/22). "Five stars (highest rating)…This...

United Kingdom | 1981 | Terry Gilliam

In Terry Gilliam’s trippy fantasy adventure co-written by Michael Palin, an English schoolboy joins a gang of time-traveling dwarves who hop from epoch to epoch in search of plunder, encountering such historical personages as King Agamemnon, Robin Hood, and Napoleon along the way. The star-studded cast includes Sean Connery, John Cleese, Shelley Duvall, Ian Holm, Ralph Richardson, and David Warner. We will show the original British version of the film, six minutes longer than the...