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 […]
Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in […]
Americans Hanna and Liv are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called ’The Royal Hotel’ in a remote Outback mining town. Bar owner Billy and a host of locals give the […]
NEW 4K RESTORATION Considered one of the greatest films ever made, The Rules of the Game (La règle du jeu), by Jean Renoir, is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners in which a weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of […]
Florence wants to introduce David, the man she’s madly in love with, to her father Guillaume. But David isn’t attracted to Florence and wants to throw her into the arms of his friend Willy. The four of them meet in a restaurant in the middle of nowhere. *Opening Film – Cannes Film Festival 2024
Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble. *Special Jury Prize – Cannes Film Festival – 2024 *Nominated for the Best International Feature Academy Award – 2025
By night Alfred and Klara are pen pals who have never met but who are deeply devoted to each other. By day, Alfred and Klara are co-workers who, just as deeply, dislike each other in The Shop Around the Corner. Academy Award winner Jimmy Stewart stars with Margaret Sullivan as Alfred and Klara in this […]
While creating SHE IS CONANN, Bertrand Mandico also filmed two short films simultaneously to create an entire “Barbarian Cycle” that brings you deeper into the world that Mandico has created. Presented here are the two short films along with another new short and wraparound segments exclusive to this program. RAINER, A VICIOUS DOG IN SKULL […]
Halloween at Cinéma Moderne in collaboration with Panorama-Cinéma Restoration courtesy of Shout! Factory and the American Genre Film Archive. Amy Holden Jones turned down an editing job on E.T. to direct this movie. She made the right choice. Written as a commentary on the inherent sexism of slashers by feminist icon Rita Mae Brown (but […]
Screening with filmmaker Pablo Alvarez-Mesa in attendance THE SOLDIER’S LAGOON (Canada/Colombia, 2024, 77 minutes) Two hundred years after Simón Bolívar’s liberation campaign across Colombia, The Soldier’s Lagoon retraces The Liberator’s journey across the high-altitude marshlands while searching for glimpses of his ghost still present in this historically contested territory. Reflecting on the construction of oral […]