June 2013

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Thursday, June 13, 2013
7 pm
Agnès Godard takes us behind-the-scenes of her art with an illustrated talk, followed by a screening of Home, Ursula Meier's 2008 film starring Isabelle Huppert. A family live a peaceful existence in a remote house that borders a long-unused stretch of highway. When the route one day opens to commuters, the clan's daily routine is thrown into disarray. (180 mins)
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Friday, June 14, 2013
7 pm
Ursula Meier (France/Switzerland, 2012). (L'enfant d'en haut). Agnès Godard in person. Godard's fist work with digital video is set at a Swiss Alps ski resort, where a preteen thief tries to keep himself and his sister going. “Simultaneously personal and political, intimate and bigger than any one life” (NY Times). (97 mins)
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Saturday, June 15, 2013
6:30 pm
Claire Denis (France, 1999). Agnès Godard in person. In this story of French Legionnaires isolated in a blisteringly beautiful African setting, Claire Denis and Godard create “a fixed, timeless world of mysterious, balletic rites, rippled with simmering homoerotic tensions. . . . Prepare to be blown away” (Time Out). (90 mins)
Saturday, June 15, 2013
9 pm
Claire Denis (France, 2001). New 35mm print! Agnès Godard in person. Vincent Gallo and Béatrice Dalle are stricken with a gruesome sexual compulsion. Denis's controversial take on erotic horror is “sui generis . . . harrowing, merciless, strangely tender” (Glenn Kenny). (101 mins)
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Sunday, June 16, 2013
4:30 pm
Hayao Miyazaki (Japan, 1986). (Tenku no shiro Laputa). Ages 8 and up. Two children become caught up in a race against both good-natured aerial pirates and ruthless government agents to claim the secrets of the castle in the sky in this tale inspired by Jules Verne and Gulliver's Travels. (123 mins)
Sunday, June 16, 2013
7 pm
Erick Zonca (France, 1998). (La vie rêvée des anges). Agnès Godard in person. Two young women (Élodie Bouchez, Natacha Régnier) drift along the edges of French society in Erick Zonca's debut work, shot by Agnès Godard on Super 16. “The film has a sensuous, radiant surface that does justice to its title. . . . Godard . . . is a perfect cinematographer for Zonca” (Village Voice). (113 mins)
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
7 pm
Volker Schlöndorff (Germany/France, 1979). (Die Blechtrommel). Restored Director's Cut! The rise of Nazism is seen through the diabolically knowing eyes of a child in Schlöndorff's unforgettable fantasia of surreal imagery, striking eroticism, and unflinching satire, adapted from Günter Grass's acclaimed novel. (163 mins)
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
7 pm
Nicolas Roeg (U.K., 1976). An alien falls to earth in the form of the pale, sad, androgynous David Bowie, and attempts to return home in Roeg's science fiction tour de force. “Time has done nothing to reduce its cool, confounding strangeness” (New Yorker). (140 mins)
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Friday, June 21, 2013
7 pm
Márta Mészáros (Hungary, 1968). (Eltávozott nap). A lonely young working-class woman who has grown up in an orphanage seeks her real mother, only to find herself being passed off as a niece, in this Hungarian classic. (80 mins)
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Friday, June 21, 2013
8:40 pm
Károly Makk (Hungary, 1971). (Szelerem). Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes, Makk's Love is one of the great masterpieces of Hungarian cinema, “a marvelous film, made with a precision of eye and spirit which records real love” (New Yorker). During the Stalinist early fifties, an elderly woman romantically recalls her life and past loves. (86 mins)
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Saturday, June 22, 2013
6:30 pm
Lech Majewski (Poland/Sweden, 2010). (Mlyn i krzyz). Bruegel's painting The Way to Calvary is brought to life in this wonderfully creative, technologically stunning interpretation “starring” Rutger Hauer, Michael York, and Charlotte Rampling. “An extraordinary example of both art-historical examination and CGI as a passport to unknown lands” (Village Voice). (92 mins)
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Saturday, June 22, 2013
8:30 pm
Luis Buñuel (Spain/Italy/France, 1970). Digital Restoration! Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, and Franco Rey star in Buñuel's tale of amour fou involving a virginal young orphan, a well-to-do older man, and a younger painter. “Nothing less than the quintessential Buñuel film of all time. . . . Extremely funny, bluntly fast-paced, and very, very beautiful in an almost casual, untidy way” (Vincent Canby). (95 mins)
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Sunday, June 23, 2013
4 pm
Hayao Miyazaki (Japan, 1989). (Majo no takkyubin). English-language version. Ages 5 and up. The thirteen-year-old witch Kiki leaves home and discovers a soaring independence as she masters her mother's broom, even as she grapples with the same insecurities that trouble all adolescents. (105 mins)
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013
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Claire Denis (France, 1996). “A sibling drama of unsentimental urban grit and swooning lyricism, Nenette and Boni meditates on the myriad permutations of love and sensuality . . . Denis's elliptical narrative style has seldom been this graceful” (Slant). (103 mins)
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
7 pm
Sam Pollard discusses his four decades as an editor using clips from both narrative and documentary films and afterwards introduces a screening of Half Past Autumn Craig Rice (U.S., 2000), a portrait of the pioneering African American photographer and filmmaker Gordon Parks. (c. 180 mins)
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Friday, June 28, 2013
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Claire Denis (France, 2008). (35 rhums). New print! Denis magically limns the story of a father (Alex Descas) and his daughter as they face the inevitable: her independence. “Quiet and lovely . . . (shows) how the melancholy strains of ordinary existence are also its sweetest music” (NY Times). (100 mins)
Friday, June 28, 2013
9 pm
Juraj Herz (Czechoslovakia, 1968). (Spalovac mrtvol). This eerie political horror-thriller recalls the German Expressionist works of Murnau and Lang as it follows a conscientious Prague cremator whose taste for the job dovetails with his new bosses: the invading Nazi army. One of the greatest, darkest films of the Czech New Wave. (100 mins)
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Saturday, June 29, 2013
6:30 pm
Pál Zolnay (Hungary, 1974). (Fotográfia). Two photographers travel Hungary's back roads in this striking work about truth and photographic illusion. “Provokes serious thought about the nature of self-delusion, while never forgetting that people are still the most extraordinarily entertaining subject available to any filmmaker” (Variety). (80 mins)
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Saturday, June 29, 2013
8:15 pm
Spike Lee (U.S., 1995). Sam Pollard in person. Mekhi Phifer delivered a career-launching debut in Spike Lee's vigorous adaptation of an iconic Richard Price novel, set amid the hardscrabble world of the Brooklyn projects. Sam Pollard's expressionist, hard-cutting editing plays a key role in making this the “hood movie to end all hood movies.” (129 mins)
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Sunday, June 30, 2013
4 pm
Hayao Miyazaki (Japan, 2008). (Gake no ue no Ponyo). English-language version. Ages 5 and up. In this ecstatic fairy tale inspired by The Little Mermaid, a five-year-old boy finds a goldfish that transforms into a little girl, the irrepressible Ponyo. (103 mins)
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Friday, July 5, 2013
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Raoul Walsh (U.S., 1933). Vault print! Fox studio's leading couple, James Dunn and Sally Eilers, star in this “rambunctious comedy, a study in controlled chaos in which an improvisatory tone masks a careful development of the central romantic relationship.” (Dave Kehr). (78 mins)
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Friday, July 5, 2013
8:40 pm
Raoul Walsh (U.S., 1932). Vault print! Sparks fly between Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett in Raoul Walsh's rough-and-ready waterfront comedy while the visual gags abound and the characters always crack wise. (79 mins)
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Saturday, July 6, 2013
6:30 pm
Marcel Carné (France, 1938). (Quai des brumes). Digital Restoration! Carné and Prévert's melancholy poem of life and death in the lower depths of Le Havre. Starring Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Michel Simon, and Pierre Brasseur. “A marvelously moody thriller. . . .Seldom has the seedy side of life seemed so utterly seductive” (Geoff Andrew, British Film Institute). (91 mins)
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Saturday, July 6, 2013
8:30 pm
Kaneto Shindo (Japan, 1968). A Japanese folk tale is given a feminist, allegorical twist in this eerie Japanese New Wave classic. In the misty bamboo groves of twelfth-century Japan, the vengeful ghosts of a murdered mother and daughter lure samurai to their deaths. (99 mins)