Screening as part of The Divorced Women’s Film Festival curated by writer Haley Mlotek for the release of her new memoir “No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce”. The screening will be introduced by Haley Mlotek and a special guest. “Most movies about custody and divorce focus on the emotional horror, for good reason—it […]
New 4K Restoration In this modern-day fairy tale and rediscovered Czech New Wave cult classic, an ordinary Bohemian village is visited by a magician (Jan Werich), his beautiful assistant Diana (Emília Vásáryová), and a magic cat with the power to reveal people in colors that indicate their true natures: yellow for the unfaithful, purple for […]
Brought up in an environment torn apart by violence and alcohol, Lidia Yuknavitch seemed destined for self-destruction and failure until words offered her unexpected freedom in the form of literature. The Chronology of Water, adapted from Yuknavitch’s autobiographical bestseller, follows Lidia’s journey to find her own voice in an exploration of how trauma can be […]
In collaboration with FNC Muzi, 22, returns to her hometown of Hangzhou. Her parents, now separated, have both moved on. She, in turn, hovers between past and present, flight and the eternal return. Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s debut feature reads like a stroll steeped in the New Wave sensibilities of Antonioni or Jarmusch. Lucidly beautiful, The […]
Staff Picks – Ant Kassabji (Café-bar) 4K Restoration A breathtaking fusion of poetry, ethnography, and cinema, Sergei Parajanov’s masterwork overflows with unforgettable images and sounds. In a series of tableaux that blend the tactile with the abstract, The Color of Pomegranates revives the splendors of Armenian culture through the story of the eighteenth-century troubadour Sayat-Nova, […]
In collaboration with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura – Montréal New 4K Restoration In Mussolini’s Italy, repressed Jean-Louis Trintignant, trying to purge memories of a youthful, homosexual episode – and murder – joins the Fascists in a desperate attempt to fit in. As the reluctant Judas motors to his personal Gethsemane (the assassination of his […]
Palme d’Or Favorites – Cannes Film Festival 2K restoration with a 5.1 mix supervised by Walter Murch Lonely wiretapping expert and devout Catholic Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is hired to record a seemingly innocuous conversation in San Francisco’s Union Square between two lovers. Upon re-hearing the tapes, however, Caul believes he may be putting the […]
4K Restoration A new girl moves to a new city with her family to start a new life. She meets up with the girls who are very interested in the occult and together, the four of them have a seemingly unstopable power. They can do anything, from getting thier dream guys to like them to… […]
In collaboration with Panorama-Cinéma Czechoslovak New Wave iconoclast Juraj Herz’s terrifying, darkly comic vision of the horrors of the Nazi racial ideology stars a supremely chilling Rudolf Hrušínský as the pathologically morbid Karel Kopfrkingl, a crematorium director in 1930s Prague who believes fervently that death offers the only true relief from human suffering. When he […]
*As part of the Post-Moderne Ciné-club – choice of Pascal Plante “My cinema bible. This colossal work by Michael Cimino set before, during and after the Vietnam War (the first major cinematographic work to address this conflict) prides itself on bringing together one of the most incredible collections of American actors of the most prosperous […]