Cinematheque Schedule

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France | 1996 | Éric Rohmer

In the third of Éric Rohmer’s “Tales of the Four Seasons,” a recent university graduate (Melvil Poupaud) vacationing on the Brittany coast becomes involved with two young local women while waiting for his sort-of girlfriend to join him. Rohmer called this comedy of indecision and the fickleness of desire his “most personal vehicle.” “The sunniest and funniest of Rohmer’s seasonal tales...Wonderfully witty.” –Time Out London. New restoration! Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. 113 min. ...

United States | 2019 | Jeffrey Wolf

This new nonfiction film brings to light the life and work of a remarkable, self-taught African-American artist who was born into slavery in rural Alabama in 1853 and witnessed the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, and the Great Migration before dying in 1949. A sharecropper most of his life, Bill Traylor eventually moved to Montgomery where, between 1939 and 1942, he drew or painted over 1000 pictures of the Black experience. (He was in...

Denmark, Norway, Sweden | 2019 | Maria Sødahl

Stellan Skarsgård stars in this acclaimed drama that was Norway’s official submission for this year’s Oscar for Best Int’l Feature Film. (It made the shortlist of 15 finalists.) Anja and Tomas, a successful artist couple working in parallel worlds, have grown largely independent of each other over the many years of raising their biological children and stepchildren. But when Anja is diagnosed with terminal cancer, the two must reactivate their neglected love and recommit to...

United Kingdom | 2019 | Jared P. Scott

In this new environmental doc, Oscar-nominated Brazilian producer Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener) and Malian-French female singer Inna Modja take us on an epic, music-driven journey of hope, hardship, and perseverance along Africa's Great Green Wall, which is being created along the southern border of the Sahara. This budding, 8,000-kilometer belt of trees stretching across the continent—from Senegal to Djibouti—is intended to fight climate change, desertification, and mass migration while providing jobs,...