Cinematheque Schedule

France, Luxembourg | 2022 | Julien Chheng, Jean-Christophe Roger

The first feature-length follow-up to France’s 2012 Oscar-nominated, animated charmer Ernest and Celestine finds the unlikely duo (troubadour bear Ernest and mouse Celestine) traveling to Ernest’s home country to get his one-of-a-kind, beloved violin repaired. But they are shocked to discover that music has been banned there! Winner of the 2023 Grand Prize at the New York Int’l Children’s Film Festival. Cleveland premiere. DCP. 80 min.

Chile | 2023 | Maite Alberdi

Winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize in the Documentary Competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Maite Alberdi’s follow-up to The Mole Agent is one of the most moving portraits of Alzheimer’s disease ever made. Focusing on two prominent Chileans who have been together for 23 years (he’s a journalist and TV commentator, she’s an actress who once served as Chile’s Minister of Culture and the Arts), this intimate portrait shows the couple...

Australia | 2023 | Ian White

Nick Cave’s first band the Birthday Party startled audiences with its confrontational performances, primal screams, outlaw gothic horror, and anarchic lifestyle. The group’s original members narrate this new documentary that features never-before-seen footage from band members and electrifying concert clips. It’s a front-row seat to “one of the all-time premier live bands” (Henry Rollins). Cleveland premiere. DCP. 98 min.

France, Germany | 2023 | Ira Sach

Slapped (perhaps unfairly) with a commerce-killing NC-17 rating by the Motion Picture Association, Ira Sachs’ universally acclaimed new film focuses on a gay couple—a German filmmaker played by Franz Rogowski and a British printer played by Ben Whishaw—whose marriage is threatened when one of them begins a relationship with a woman (Adèle Exarchopoulos of Blue Is the Warmest Color). “A smart, lustrous film, and a bracingly honest one.” –Time. Adults only! Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. DCP....

France, Germany | 1938 | Jean Grémillon

In this thriller from the overlooked Jean Grémillon (see 9/21 at 6:45), Raimu (whom Orson Welles once called “the greatest actor who ever lived”) plays a successful French shop owner whose amiability and respectability mask some serious criminal activity. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 103 min.

France | 2022 | Cyril Leuthy

Jean-Luc Godard, the French New Wave innovator who became an ever-rebellious titan of world cinema, died last September at age 91. This new documentary, which includes interviews with many of Godard’s friends, collaborators, and critics, looks back at the late master. The movie divides Godard’s first 40 years of filmmaking into six chapters, each inspired by a phase of his career—from his 1960 breakthrough Breathless to his late magnum opus Histoire(s) du cinema, an eight-part...

United States | 1928 | Paul Leni

Batman’s nemesis the Joker was largely inspired by the grotesque, disfigured main character in this lavish period romance by German Expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni (Waxworks, The Cat and the Canary). Set in 17th-century England, the silent film charts the romantic and political travails of Gwynplaine (Conrad Veidt), the son of a disgraced nobleman, who has had a hideous, mirthless grin permanently carved on his face by his father’s enemies, forcing him to work as a...

United States | 1968 | Franklin J. Schaffner

Astronauts crash-land on a mysterious planet where intelligent apes rule over human beings. This sci-fi landmark, co-written by Rod Serling, spawned four sequels, two TV series, a remake, a reboot trilogy, and more! Charlton Heston stars. DCP. 112 min.

United States | 1972 | Woody Allen

Woody Allen and a distinguished supporting cast (John Carradine, Louise Lasser, Tony Randall, Lynn Redgrave, Burt Reynolds, Gene Wilder, et al.) act out nonsensical answers to questions about human sexuality (“Do Aphrodisiacs Work?”, “What Happens During Ejaculation?”, et al.) in this seven-part anthology comedy that contains some of Allen’s wildest and most outrageously funny conceits. Includes spoofs of Antonioni movies and 1966’s Fantastic Voyage. “Allen achieves his finest hour here.” –Time Out Film Guide. Adults...