Cinematheque Schedule

United States | 1972 | Peter Bogdanovich

Actor Austin Pendleton, who appears in person at the Cinematheque this Saturday at 2:00 pm, gives one of his most memorable screen performances in this classic farce inspired by Bringing Up Baby and other great screwball comedies of the 1930s. Barbra Streisand, Ryan O’Neal, and Madeline Kahn star in Peter Bogdanovich’s frantic follow-up to his The Last Picture Show, about four identical overnight bags that cause endless confusion and complications for their assorted owners when...

Mexico | 2017 | Issa López

Guillermo del Toro, Neil Gaiman, and Stephen King are all big fans of this new horror fantasy that has won over 50 festival awards around the world. The movie explores the plight of children orphaned by Mexico’s brutal drug wars by focusing on one ten-year-old girl who is followed around by the ghost of her late mother. Adults only! Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 83 min.

United States | 1992 | Jonathan Lynn

Stuttering defense attorney John Gibbons is one of Austin Pendleton’s most indelible roles, and it’s contained in this classic courtroom comedy that won an Oscar for co-star Marisa Tomei. The movie focuses on two NY college boys who, while traveling through the Deep South, are falsely accused of murder. One of them summons a relative, an erratic Brooklynite who just passed the bar exam after six tries (Joe Pesci), to come to Alabama and defend...

United Kingdom | 2019 | Oliver Murray

Bill Wyman, founding member and bassist for the Rolling Stones, reflects on his three decades as part of “the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world.” Famously private and normally reticent, Wyman opens up his vast personal archive of home movies, photographs, and memorabilia to shed new light on a whirlwind era of pop music history. Cleveland theatrical premiere. DCP. 105 min.

United States | 1980 | Marshall Brickman

Austin Pendleton has one of his rare lead movie roles in this largely forgotten satirical comedy co-written and directed by the Oscar-winning co-writer of Woody Allen’s Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Sleeper. It’s an inventive and peculiar movie in which a group of mischievous, nutzoid think-tank scientists convinces a psychology professor (Alan Arkin) that he is an extraterrestrial being. Soon the rest of the world also believes it. With Madeline Kahn, William Finley, Wallace Shawn, Adolph...

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Austin Pendleton is one of the screen’s foremost character actors, with almost 150 movie and TV credits to his name. He has had many memorable supporting roles during his 50+ year film career—from Max in The Muppet Movie and stuttering defense attorney John Gibbons in My Cousin Vinny to Gurgle in Finding Nemo and William Giles in Oz—and has worked with such directors as Orson Welles, Steven Spielberg, Billy Wilder, Alan Pakula, Otto Preminger, Barbra...

Iran | 1976 | Abbas Kiarostami

A new suit ordered for a young boy attending his aunt’s wedding is “borrowed” by some other boys shortly before the ceremony. Preceded at showtime by three Kiarostami shorts: Two Solutions for One Problem (Dow Rahehal Baraye yek Massaleh, 1975), in which a young boy tears another’s book; So Can I (Man ham mitounam, 1975), in which two boys imitate animals; and The Colors (Rang-ha, 1976), a catalog of differently colored objects. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles....

United States | 1935 | Mark Sandrich

Often cited as the best of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers musicals, this dance classic features a mistaken-identity plot, a lovely Irving Berlin score (“Cheek to Cheek,” et al.), and stunning Art Deco sets. Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, and Lucille Ball co-star. The film is co-presented by The Musical Theater Project and will be introduced starting at 3:30 by TMTP Artistic Director Bill Rudman and Cinematheque Director John Ewing. Both will also lead a post-film...