Cinematheque Schedule

United States | 1940 | Edward F. Cline

One of the all-time great screen comedies stars W.C. Fields as Egbert Sousé, an unhappily married family man (with a drinking problem) who becomes a bank security guard. The terrific supporting cast includes Shemp Howard, Franklin Pangborn, and Grady Sutton. “By far the best of Fields’ last comedies.” –Time Out Film Guide. DCP. 74 min.

France | 2021 | Bertrand Mandico

Winner of Best Film at the 2021 Fantastic Fest, Bertrand Mandico’s first feature since his florid debut The Wild Boys (which Cahiers du Cinéma called the best film of 2018) is a trippy, El Topo-esque lesbian-sci-fi-western-adventure-romance. Set in the distant future on a planet inhabited only by women, the film follows a teenage girl and her mother (Elina Löwensohn) as they pursue an escaped killer named Kate Bush across this supernatural world. “A bedazzled, audacious...

United States | 2022 | Christina Thomas, Samantha Wishman

Tens of thousands of unwanted dogs from the rural South have been transported to new homes in other parts of the country thanks to the tireless efforts of a grassroots network of volunteer dog rescuers, mostly women, some of whom are profiled in this uplifting film. Will get your tail wagging! Cleveland premiere. DCP. 70 min.

United States | 2021 | Phil Tippett

This stop-motion animated feature—in which an assassin ventures through a dark, dystopian world of monsters and warriors—is the longtime personal project of Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor Phil Tippett (Jurassic Park, RoboCop, Starship Troopers, et al.). Begun in 1987, work on the movie was suspended when Tippett’s Hollywood career took off and computer-generated animation seemed to render model work and hand-manipulated puppets passé. But fellow animators and KickStarter funders eventually convinced Tippett to finish his magnum...

United States | 1997 | David Lynch

David Lynch’s strange, surrealistic nightmare is a neo-noir mystery about an L.A. jazz saxophonist (Bill Pullman) who goes to jail for murdering his wife (Patricia Arquette). He doesn’t remember doing this, but a mysterious videotape seems to implicate him. In jail he is suddenly a different person—literally: a mechanic (Balthazar Getty) with connections to a gangster (Robert Loggia) whose mistress (Arquette again) is the spitting image of the murdered wife! This sinister warm-up for the...

United States | 1999 | Martin Scorsese

Nicolas Cage plays a paramedic on the verge of a nervous breakdown, working an ambulance in one of New York City’s toughest neighborhoods, in this underappreciated Martin Scorsese nocturne. Written by Paul Schrader and shot in color and scope by Tarantino’s longtime cameraman Robert Richardson, the movie co-stars Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, and Ving Rhames. 35mm. 121 min.

Sweden | 1968 | Mai Zetterling

Ingmar Bergman stalwarts Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gunnar Björnstrand, and Erland Josephson star in Mai Zetterling’s feminist classic. In it, three actresses starring in a production of Aristophenes’ Lysistrata find the play’s message of female empowerment and liberation seeping into their own offstage lives and relationships. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. Restored DCP. 100 min.