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7/1/06 to 7/16/06

  • The Passenger, July 15

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Past Films

  • The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

    • Sunday, July 16 17:30

    "The last day and night in the life of a cranky, ailing 63-year-old widower in the Bucharest suburbs, with an ambulance carting him from one overtaxed hospital to another, may sound like an ordeal, but this 154-minute Romanian odyssey is anything but. Both sad and darkly funny . . . sharply conceived and richly populated."-Chicago Reader. "A thorny masterpiece."-N.Y. Times.

  • Antonio Gaudí

    • Saturday, July 15 18:30

    Hiroshi Teshigahara's study of the visionary Catalan architect's work, scored by the great Toru Takemitsu. "A masterpiece of visual poetry and aesthetic rumination."-Time Out New York

  • The Passenger

    • Saturday, July 15 20:10

    Michelangelo Antonioni's 1975 film "still packs a wallop. . . . This moody Jack Nicholson political thriller remains a great, bizarre film, full of beauty, mystery and riddles with no answers."-Chicago Tribune

  • The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

    • Friday, July 14 19:30

    "The last day and night in the life of a cranky, ailing 63-year-old widower in the Bucharest suburbs, with an ambulance carting him from one overtaxed hospital to another, may sound like an ordeal, but this 154-minute Romanian odyssey is anything but. Both sad and darkly funny . . . sharply conceived and richly populated."-Chicago Reader. "A thorny masterpiece."-N.Y. Times. Repeated on July 16.

  • Woman in the Dunes

    • Saturday, July 8 20:40

    The sands of time have not worn away the startling beauty of Hiroshi Teshigahara's enigmatic film, shown here in the director's cut. "It's like a dream-the kind from which you awake bolt upright in a cold sweat."-The Guardian (U.K.).

  • Days of Heaven

    • Sunday, July 2 17:30

    Terrence Malick's WWI-era Texas pastoral observes a love triangle from the point of view of an adolescent girl. "Almost incontestably the most gorgeously photographed film ever made . . . a rapture that must be seen on a big screen."-Village Voice.

  • Days of Heaven

    • Saturday, July 1 18:30

    Terrence Malick's WWI-era Texas pastoral observes a love triangle from the point of view of an adolescent girl. "Almost incontestably the most gorgeously photographed film ever made . . . a rapture that must be seen on a big screen."-Village Voice. Repeated on July 2.

  • Woman in the Dunes

    • Saturday, July 1 20:30

    The sands of time have not worn away the startling beauty of Hiroshi Teshigahara's enigmatic film, shown here in the director's cut. "It's like a dream-the kind from which you awake bolt upright in a cold sweat."-The Guardian (U.K.). Repeated on July 8.