Cinematheque Schedule

Sweden | 1955 | Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman’s wise and witty love roundelay, set in and around a Swedish country house at the turn of the last century, focuses on four men and four women who pair off in various combinations during one sensual midsummer weekend. This magnificent valentine to lovers, fools, and dreamers was the basis for Stephen Sondheim’s musical A Little Night Music. With Gunnar Björnstrand, Eva Dahlbeck, and Harriet Andersson. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 108 min.

Japan | 1954 | Kenji Mizoguchi

Critic Robin Wood once called this sublime Japanese drama “the greatest movie I have ever seen.” Set in 11th-century Japan, Kenji Mizoguchi’s masterpiece focuses on an aristocratic family that is divided, exiled, and sold into slavery. They struggle to reunite over many years. This deeply moving saga boasts epic sweep and great formal beauty, and advocates persuasively for empathy, justice, and mercy. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. 124 min.

France, Luxembourg, West Germany | 1969 | Barbet Schroeder

The first two features directed by Barbet Schroeder (a producer and occasional actor associated with the French New Wave) were hippie-era dramas with original music by Pink Floyd. Part head trip and part travelogue, these color movies were shot by the great Néstor Almendros (Days of Heaven) and we show both of them tonight. In More, drug addiction poisons an idyllic summer sojourn on Ibiza for a recent German college graduate and his American girlfriend...

France | 1972 | Barbet Schroeder

Barbet Schroeder’s second collaboration with Pink Floyd and ace cinematographer Néstor Almendros (see previous blurb) stars his future wife, Bulle Ogier. She plays a French woman who ventures into the remote wilds of New Guinea in search of a mysterious hidden valley and the plumage of a rare exotic bird. Along the way she makes contact with other hippie seekers and a tribe of “uncivilized” natives. “Succulent.” –Time Out Film Guide. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles....

France | 2017 | Bruno Dumont

Master French filmmaker Bruno Dumont continues to confound expectations. The austere, unsparing director of such somber, quasi-religious parables as The Life of Jesus and Humanité turned to silly, sometimes stomach-churning slapstick in his last two works, Li’l Quinquin and Slack Bay. Now he has transformed the early life of one of France’s most beloved heroines and icons into a musical! Dumont imagines how a young, 15th-century peasant girl who saw religious visions and resented the...

United Kingdom, United States | 2008 | Christopher Nolan

The Joker (an indelibly creepy Heath Ledger, who won the Oscar) wreaks havoc throughout Gotham City, and a no-nonsense Batman (Christian Bale) does damage control, in one of the best—and darkest—comic book movies ever made. Michael Caine, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Gary Oldman co-star in this modern action classic, shown here on real film, as director Christopher Nolan prefers. 35mm scope. 152 min.