Cinematheque Schedule

United Kingdom | 1971 | Mike Hodges

Voted the greatest British movie ever made in a 2004 survey of UK film critics conducted by Britain’s Total Film magazine, Mike Hodges’ debut feature is a gritty gangster classic that provided star Michael Caine with one of his most iconic roles—that of a dapper, sexy, but brutal and amoral hit man who travels to Newcastle to investigate his brother’s death. Get Carter‘s most ardent fans include Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritchie. With Britt Ekland...

United States | 1976 | John Carpenter

Frequently cited as John Carpenter’s best film, this taut mash-up of Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo and George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead is set at a decommissioned Los Angeles police precinct house on the night before it is permanently closed. A ruthless gang of armed street criminals lays siege to the building. With the phones disconnected, it falls to a skeleton LAPD crew (and a convicted killer) to defend this fortress. Carpenter also...

West Germany | 1969 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder stars in his very first feature—a bargain-basement crime movie about an ex-con and pimp who, despite coercion, resists joining the “Syndicate.“ Hanna Schygulla co-stars as the thug’s prostitute-lover. “In this bleak world of bare sets, static camera shots, and stylised acting, was awkwardly born one of the greatest ‘lives in film‘ the cinema has seen.“ –Time Out Film Guide. Subtitles. 35mm. 88 min.

United States | 2023 | Alison O'Daniel

The Cinematheque is the community partner on this acclaimed new feature by Alison O’Daniel—a Cleveland Institute of Art graduate who also once worked for the Cinematheque—showing in this year’s 47th Cleveland International Film Festival. (The Festival takes place in person March 22-April 1 at Playhouse Square and online April 2-9). The CIFF47 website describes the movie this way: “Loosely hung on the backdrop of a string of tuba burglaries from high schools in Southern California,...

Mexico, West Germany | 1972 | Werner Herzog

In one of Werner Herzog’s greatest films, Klaus Kinski (unforgettable) plays a megalomaniacal, 16th-century Spanish conquistador trekking through the Amazonian wilderness on a relentless quest for El Dorado, the fabled city of gold. This moody, mesmerizing, visually stunning masterpiece has music by Popol Vuh. Subtitles. Restored DCP. 94 min.

United States | 1942 | Alfred Hitchcock

This WWII-era Hitchcock classic stars Robert Cummings as a man mistakenly thought to have committed an act of sabotage at the California munitions plant where he works. With the authorities in close pursuit, he races across the country to find the real culprit—eventually arriving at the Statue of Liberty. Priscilla Lane co-stars in this movie that, with its “wrong man” theme and climax at an iconic American monument, is now seen as a warm-up for...

United States | 1985 | Andrei Konchalovsky

Based on a screenplay by Akira Kurosawa and directed by the Russian helmer of Siberiade (hence the existential overtones), this breakneck action thriller stars Jon Voight and Eric Roberts (both Oscar-nominated) as escaped cons barreling through the frigid Alaskan wilderness on a train with a dead engineer and no brakes. “Wrenchingly intense and brutally powerful…A most exciting action epic…Serious enough to work strongly on numerous levels.” –Variety. With Rebecca De Mornay. 35mm. 111 min.