This installment in our ongoing repertory series presents classic films and cult favorites, from Ophuls to Eraserhead, in restored or newly struck prints.
Alain Resnais's fractured memory-piece returns in a restored print. Delphine Seyrig stars as a widow haunted by a former love, as her son is haunted by memories of military service in Algeria. Repeated on Wednesday, January 16.
Lecture by Stefan Drössler. In Max Ophuls's audacious final film, a life of passion becomes the stuff of carnival. “The ultimate cinephilic object: a color-and-CinemaScope dream.”-Boston Phoenix
Bruce Weber's portrait of jazz legend Chet Baker, in a restored print, “remains a stunning object of scrutiny. . . . It's the music doc as film noir.”-Village Voice. Repeated on Friday, February 15.
Marco Ferreri's rare, seminal film, shown here in a new print. Michel Piccoli stars in a provocative chamber piece that unfolds in comic, unsettling gestures. Repeated on Sunday, February 24.
David Lynch's debut feature, still creepy after all these years: “a masterpiece of texture . . . an ingenious assemblage of damp, dust, rock, wood, hair, flesh, metal, ooze. The immaculate restoration brings all this to new light.”-Village Voice