Cinematheque Schedule

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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...

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...

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 (coming soon). Doing so...

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...