ROMANCES D’ÉTÉ Cycle With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era’s most iconic leading lady—thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations. While starring in the Philip Barry stage play The Philadelphia Story, Hepburn acquired the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor […]
The story of a family and a family business. Starring: Benicio del Toro as Zsa-zsa Korda, one of the richest men in Europe; Mia Threapleton as Liesl, his daughter/a nun; Michael Cera as Bjorn, their tutor. With: Riz Ahmed, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Mathieu Amalric, Richard Ayoade, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rupert Friend, […]
A web star, famous for posting shocking content on social networks, decides to take a break after a mysterious piano incident while filming one of her videos. Isolated in a chalet mountain with her personal assistant, her retreat is interrupted by a journalist who begins to blackmail her.
Staff Picks – Tabéa Benlakehal (café-bar) Academy Award–winning Austrian director Michael Haneke shifted his focus from the social to the psychological for this riveting study of female sexuality and the dynamics of control, an adaptation of a controversial 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek. Haneke finds his match in Isabelle Huppert, who delivers an icy but […]
Special screening with filmmaker Roger Frappier in attendance In 1920s Montana, charismatic alpha-male Phil runs a successful ranch with his mild-mannered brother George. The two coexist peaceably until the day George unexpectedly brings home a new bride: a local widow with a teenaged son. Phil, outraged by the union, which he sees as a threat, […]
Staff Picks – Pascal Plante (associate programmer) Directed by Yasuzo Masumura (Giants and Toys, Blind Beast), Red Angel takes an unflinching look at the horror and futility of war through the eyes of a selfless young military nurse. Adapted from the novel by Yorichika Arima, Masumura’s harrowing portrait of women and war is considered the […]
Double Feature Petits Modernes programming – Free admittance for children under 12 THE RED BALLOON (Albert Lamorisse, 1956, France, 34 minutes) Albert Lamorisse’s exquisite THE RED BALLOON remains one of the most beloved children’s films of all time. In this deceptively simple, nearly wordless tale, a young boy discovers a stray balloon, which seems to […]
Staff Picks – Dolores Gosselin (café-bar) THE RED SHOES, the singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is cinema’s quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the most glorious Technicolor feasts ever concocted for the screen. Moira Shearer is a rising star ballerina torn between an idealistic composer and a ruthless impresario intent […]
New 4K Restoration In a dystopian near-future Japan, law and order is enforced by a brutal paramilitary police unit known as the Kerberos Panzer Cops aka ‘Watchdogs of Hell’, equipped with heavy weaponry and reinforced body armor called “Protect Gear.” However, when their extreme methods spark public outcry, the government moves to dismantle the unit. […]