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Limited Engagements & Special Screenings
OngoingRecent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
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View Finders: Women Cinematographers
July 12–November 21, 2019Showcasing the artistic visions of female cinematographers around the world, this series asks whether there is such a thing as a “female gaze.”
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Abbas Kiarostami: Life as Art
August 2–December 21, 2019Iran’s most influential director, Kiarostami made films that blended fiction and documentary, minimalism and spontaneity, poetic vision and humanist spirit. We present a near-complete retrospective of his work.
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No Regrets: A Celebration of Marlon Riggs
September 19–November 25, 2019In his lucid and provocative video essays, Marlon Riggs grappled with African American culture, representation, and identity. This retrospective presents all of his films, in dialogue with works by other filmmakers.
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Looking Back at the British New Wave
September 21–November 30, 2019Look back at 1950s and ’60s British cinema and rediscover the England of Angry Young Men and working-class heroes, boundary-crossing writing and innovative direction, and electrifying acting by the likes of Richard Burton, Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, and Julie Christie.
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Zheng Junli: From Shanghai’s Golden Age to the Cultural Revolution
October 3–November 16, 2019Anchored by new restorations from the China Film Archive, this series explores the extraordinary career of Zheng Junli, an actor, director, film theorist, and victim of the Cultural Revolution.
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Jacques Tati: Comedy as Choreography
October 25–November 30, 2019Revel in the modernist comedy of Jacques Tati—both his slapstick exploits as Monsieur Hulot and his astonishing talent behind the camera.
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Perspectives on History: Romanian Cinema Since 1989
December 6, 2019–February 27, 2020Thirty years after the fall of the Ceauşescu regime, this series samples the best in Romanian cinema from the last three decades.
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Afterimage: J. Hoberman on Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan
December 11–12, 2019Film critic and historian J. Hoberman presents two films and offers his insights on the intersection between politics and pop culture in Ronald Reagan’s America.
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Agnès Varda: An Irresistible Force
December 20, 2019–February 28, 2020Vive la Varda! We pay tribute to a founding mother of the French New Wave, who died at age ninety in 2019—an inspiring and vital artist to the end.
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Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2020
OngoingRecent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
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Next Door to Darkness: The Films of David Lynch
January 10–February 29, 2020A retrospective of David Lynch’s big-screen work—a journey into a universe both banal and bizarre, incomparably strange and unsettlingly familiar.
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Fritz Lang’s Indian Epic
January 11 and 25, 2020Lang’s late-period two-part epic is a fantasia of flamboyant set pieces and exotic colors shown off to full effect in this recent restoration.
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Federico Fellini at 100
January 16–May 17, 2020A centennial celebration of one of the greats of international art cinema, a master of memory, dreams, fantasy, and desire.
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In Focus: Federico Fellini
January 29–April 1, 2020Lecture/Screening Series
Explore Federico Fellini’s work in depth with this lecture/screening series complementing our Fellini retrospective.
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Documentary Voices 2020
February 5–April 29, 2020Our annual series showcases an international array of recent and historical nonfiction films.
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