[Press release from the Cleveland Cinematheque.]
The
Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque announces the films it will
show during the eight weekends between October 29 and December 19, 2015.
Forty-four different feature films (and one program of short films)
will be screened in the Cinematheque’s new Peter B. Lewis Theater inside
the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Gund Building at 11610 Euclid Avenue
in University Circle’s Uptown District.
Among the highlights:
(1) Three
nights of Halloween-appropriate films on Oct. 29, 30, 31, including
four films by the late French cult auteur Jean Rollin, a new feature by
Guy Maddin, Ingmar Bergman’s terrifying HOUR OF THE WOLF, and a
Halloween surprise movie.
(2) Two
films, BIG HERO 6 and SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW, on which
Cleveland Institute of Art grad Zack Petroc served as “model
supervisor.” Petroc will appear in person to introduce BIG HERO 6 on
November 6.
(3) “Wim
Wenders: Portraits Along the Road,” a 15-film retrospective devoted to
the work of the great German filmmaker. Included are new digital
restorations of ALICE IN THE CITIES, KINGS OF THE ROAD, THE AMERICAN
FRIEND, WINGS OF DESIRE, and PARIS, TEXAS, as well as the five-hour
director’s cut of Wenders’ “ultimate road movie” UNTIL THE END OF THE
WORLD.
(4) “The
Suzuki Method,” a series of eight films by Japan’s subversive stylist
Seijun Suzuki, who enlivened the many B-movies he directed for Nikkatsu
studio during the 1950s and 1960s with outlandish visuals, irreverent
gags, unorthodox continuity, and surrealistic flourishes. In 1967 he was
fired from Nikkatsu for making “incomprehensible” movies. He is now a
major cult figure who is revered by Quentin Tarantino, Jim Jarmusch,
Wong Kar-wai, and others. Most of the films will be shown in 35mm prints
from Japan.
(5) Three
silent films accompanied by Jeff Rapsis, one of New England’s top
silent film musicians, making his Cleveland debut. On December 11 Rapsis
will accompany a holiday program featuring Laurel & Hardy’s “Big
Business” and Harry Langdon’s THREE’S A CROWD. And on December 12, he
will play for Yasujiro Ozu’s Japanese classic PASSING FANCY.
The
eight weeks will also see the exclusive Cleveland premiere showings of
individual new films by some of the world’s major film makers, as well
as assorted revived classics in new digital restorations or original
35mm film prints. The complete line-up is below.
Unless
noted, admission to Cinematheque films is $9, Cinematheque members, CIA
& CSU I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $7. Free parking
for filmgoers is available in two Cleveland Institute of Art lots
located off of E. 117th Street: Lot 73 behind the building and the Annex lot on the other side of E. 117th. For further information, call John Ewing or Tim Harry at (216) 421-7450, visit cia.edu/cinematheque, or send an email to cinema@cia.edu. Cinematheque programs are supported by a grant from Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.
Two series:
WIM WENDERS: PORTRAITS ALONG THE ROAD (November 7 – December 13)
SAT 11/7 5:00 PM THE GOALIE’S ANXIETY AT THE PENALTY KICK
SAT 11/7 7:00 PM ALICE IN THE CITIES
SUN 11/8 6:30 PM ALICE IN THE CITIES
SUN 11/8 8:40 PM THE GOALIE’S ANXIETY AT THE PENALTY KICK
THU 11/12 6:45 PM SHORT FILMS BY WIM WENDERS
SAT 11/14 8:45 PM KINGS OF THE ROAD
SUN 11/15 6:30 PM KINGS OF THE ROAD
SAT 11/21 6:50 PM UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD: DIRECTOR’S CUT (PART 1)
SAT 11/21 9:25 PM UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD: DIRECTOR’S CUT (PART 2)
SUN 11/22 3:30 PM UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD: DIRECTOR’S CUT (PART 1)
SUN 11/22 6:30 PM UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD: DIRECTOR’S CUT (PART 2)
SAT 11/28 6:50 PM THE AMERICAN FRIEND
SUN 11/29 8:40 PM THE AMERICAN FRIEND
SAT 12/5 8:35 PM PARIS, TEXAS
SUN 12/6 3:30 PM PARIS, TEXAS
SUN 12/6 6:30 PM THE STATE OF THINGS
SAT 12/12 5:00 PM TOKYO-GA
SAT 12/12 9:15 PM WINGS OF DESIRE
SUN 12/13 3:45 PM WINGS OF DESIRE
THE SUZUKI METHOD (November 14 – December 19)
SAT 11/14 5:00 PM YOUTH OF THE BEAST
SAT 11/21 5:00 PM TATTOOED LIFE
SAT 11/28 5:00 PM FIGHTING ELEGY
SAT 12/5 5:00 PM CARMEN FROM KAWACHI
SAT 12/5 6:50 PM TOKYO DRIFTER
SUN 12/6 8:50 PM TOKYO DRIFTER
THU 12/10 6:45 PM KANTO WANDERER
FRI 12/11 9:30 PM BRANDED TO KILL
SUN 12/13 6:30 PM BRANDED TO KILL
SAT 12/19 5:00 PM GATE OF FLESH
Complete schedule:
OCTOBER 29 – NOVEMBER 1
Thursday, October 29, at 6:45 pm
Cinéma Fantastique: Jean Rollin
THE SHIVER OF THE VAMPIRES
aka SEX AND THE VAMPIRE
LE FRISSON DES VAMPIRES
France, 1971, Jean Rollin
In
one of Jean Rollin’s most inventive and erotic movies, a honeymooning
couple stops at a castle to visit the bride’s cousins, only to learn
that they’ve recently died. But actually they’re not dead; they’re undead,
and they’re not alone. The young marrieds soon become targets of the
fortress’s zombies. “Some of the most indelible poetic images and
surrealist sequences of the horror cinema.” –Tim Lucas, Video Watchdog. “Visually a feast…Quite sexy.” –Time Out Film Guide. Adults only! Subtitles. Blu-ray. 95 min. www.kinolorber.com
Thursday, October 29, at 8:40 pm
Cinéma Fantastique: Jean Rollin
THE IRON ROSE
LA ROSE DE FER
France, 1973, Jean Rollin
In
“Jean Rollin’s first authentic masterpiece” (Tim Lucas), a ballet
dancer and a poet spend an afternoon exploring an ancient French
graveyard, where they make love. But when evening falls and they find
themselves trapped in the cemetery, even stranger things start to
happen. Adults only! Subtitles. Blu-ray. 80 min. www.kinolorber.com
Friday, October 30, at 8:30 pm
Cinéma Fantastique: Jean Rollin
FASCINATION
France, 1971, Jean Rollin
In
Jean Rollin’s stylish tale of bloodlust and outré sexuality set in
1905, a thief on the run from his vengeful gang hides out in a strange
chateau inhabited only by two nubile bisexual chambermaids. But soon
they are joined by a Marchioness and her all-female retinue, which might
sound like heaven for the one man in their midst—but isn’t. European
porn star Brigitte Lahaie stars in this movie that “is often recommended
as the Rollin to see if you are seeing only one” (Dave Kehr, The NY Times). Adults only! Subtitles. Blu-ray. 81 min. www.kinolorber.com
Friday, October 30, at 10:10 pm
Cinéma Fantastique: Jean Rollin
LIPS OF BLOOD
LÈVRES DE SANG
France, 1975, Jean Rollin
In
“one of Rollin’s most perfectly realized films” (Tim Lucas), a
photograph of a castle triggers a long dormant memory in a young man.
Soon he is escorted to this place by a beautiful and mysterious woman
who is both apparition and protector, and his long repressed childhood
dream of the chateau turns out to be a real-life nightmare. The Rough Guide to Film calls this atmospheric chiller “quintessential Rollin.” Adults only! Subtitles. Blu-ray. 87 min. www.kinolorber.com
Saturday, October 31, at 5:00 pm &
Sunday, November 1, at 8:10 pm
Halloween at the Art House
THE FORBIDDEN ROOM
Canada, 2015, Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson
“I’ve never taken LSD and wandered around a film archive, but I imagine the experience might be similar to The Forbidden Room.” So writes Jordan Hoffman in The Guardian about the crazy new feature by Canuck cinephiliac Guy Maddin (The Heart of the World, My Winnipeg).
Maddin’s latest assault on sense and the senses is a compendium of
absurdist mini-melodramas inspired by movies of the late-silent,
early-sound era, and rendered in distressed visuals using the primitive,
archaic techniques of that bygone time. (Maddin’s movies seem more
“exhumed” than “released.”) The Forbidden Room treats viewers to a
feverish, stream-of-consciousness series of nested narratives: a
trapped submarine crew is running out of oxygen; a woodsman tries to
rescue a kidnapped young woman; a tropical volcano hungers for a human
sacrifice; a man undergoes a lobotomy to curb his butt-pinching
proclivities; and more! This droll, funny, scary, strange work also has a
dream supporting cast: Mathieu Amalric, Geraldine Chaplin, Udo Kier,
Maria de Medeiros, and Charlotte Rampling, among others. “For cinephiles
and aficionados of the singular, The Forbidden Room represents a very particular kind of feast.” –The Hollywood Reporter. Cleveland premiere. DCP. 120 min. www.kinolorber.com
Saturday, October 31, at 7:30 pm
Halloween at the Art House
HOUR OF THE WOLF
VARGTIMMEN
Sweden, 1968, Ingmar Bergman
This
visually dazzling psychological horror film by Ingmar Bergman focuses
on a painter (Max von Sydow) who lives on a remote island with his
pregnant wife (Liv Ullmann), and who is plagued by demons and
nightmares. According to the film’s original American poster, the Hour
of the Wolf “is the hour between night and dawn. It is the hour when
most people die, when sleep is deepest, when nightmares are most real.
It is the hour when the sleepless are haunted by their deepest fear,
when ghosts and demons are most powerful. The Hour of the Wolf is also
the hour when most children are born.” With Erland Josephson and Ingrid
Thulin; cinematography by Sven Nykvist. “A must for fans of horror and
of Bergman. So good it makes you wish he had dabbled in the genre a bit
more often.” –Kim Newman, Empire. Subtitles. 35mm. 88 min.
Saturday, October 31, at 9:20 pm
Halloween at the Art House
HALLOWEEN SURPRISE MOVIE
Trick
or treat? A treat for sure—a classic horror movie, made during the last
40 years, that we have never screened at the Cinematheque and which
will be shown in a rare 35mm archive print. We can’t divulge the title,
but there’s now a good reason (aside from Halloween) to present this
film, which was popular enough in its day to be followed by a sequel and
later remade. No one under 18 admitted! Approx. 90 min.
Sunday, November 1, at 3:30 pm
Masterpieces of Polish Cinema
New Digital Restoration!
THE HOURGLASS SANATORIUM
aka THE SANDGLASS
SANATORIUM POD KLEPSYDRĄ
Poland, 1973, Wojciech Has
We’ve extended our series “Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema” to include one more film. The add-on is the other phantasmagorical head trip from the director of the cult masterpiece The Saragossa Manuscript. Based (like the Quay brothers’ Street of Crocodiles) on the writings of Bruno Schulz (1892-1942), The Hourglass Sanatorium
tells of a young Jewish man whose visit to his ailing father in a
remote, crumbling sanatorium soon devolves into a surreal journey
through his own past, fears, and fantasies. “A two-hour continuous
fantasia on the theme of a young Jew’s memories, childhood
recollections, and complexes…A dazzling work, Has’s masterpiece.” –Int’l Film Guide 1975. Adults only! Subtitles. DCP. 124 min.
Sunday, November 1, at 6:30 pm
PARADISE IS THERE: A MEMOIR BY NATALIE MERCHANT
USA, 2015, Natalie Merchant
In
her new video self-portrait, singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant looks
back over her career and influences as she re-records her first solo
album Tigerlilly for its 20th anniversary. Cleveland premiere. DCP. 80 min.
Sunday, November 1, at 8:10 pm
THE FORBIDDEN ROOM
See 10/31 at 5:00 for description
NOVEMBER 5-8
Thursday, November 5, at 6:45 pm &
Saturday, November 7, at 9:10 pm
QUEEN OF EARTH
USA, 2015, Alex Ross Perry
Rising writer-director Alex Ross Perry follows his acclaimed comedy-dramas The Color Wheel and Listen Up Philip with
a caustic, funny/chilling portrait of a woman on the verge of a nervous
breakdown. Elisabeth Moss plays that woman, a budding basket case whose
father has committed suicide and whose lover has dumped her. She
retreats to the lakeside house of her best friend (Katherine Waterston
of Inherent Vice). But the bucolic setting does not provide the
needed rest and recuperation. “An unnerving, acidly funny work that
fosters an acute air of dread without ever fully announcing itself as a
horror movie.” –Variety. Cleveland premiere. DCP. 90 min. www.ifcfilms.com/films/queen-of-earth
Thursday, November 5, at 8:35 pm &
Friday, November 6, at 9:15 pm
SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW
USA/UK/Italy, 2004, Kerry Conran
The
film that radically changed the way movies were made in Hollywood was
itself a box office flop. This art deco action-adventure, in which giant
flying robots attack 1939 New York City, was created entirely on blue
screen, with its big-name stars (Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Angelina
Jolie) inserted later. The result is a retro-futuristic marvel that, at
the time, looked like no other movie. (First time director Kerry Conran
called it “Raiders of the Lost Ark filtered through Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.”)
It also digitally resurrected the late Laurence Olivier. Cleveland
Institute of Art alum Zack Petroc, who appears in person with Big Hero 6 on 11/6, was model supervisor on this groundbreaking fantasy—his entrée into the film industry. 35mm. 106 min.
Friday, November 6, at 7:00 pm
Zack Petroc introduces
BIG HERO 6
USA, 2014, Don Hall, Chris Williams
Cleveland
Institute of Art graduate Zack Petroc was the model supervisor on this
Oscar-winning Disney animated gem, in which a young technology prodigy,
aided by a large inflatable robot, turns his nerdy friends into
do-gooding superheroes. Petroc will appear in person to introduce
tonight’s screening of this delightful film that overflows with both
humor and heart. 2D DCP. 102 min. Another film on which Zack Petroc served as model supervisor, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, shows on 11/5 & 6.
Friday, November 6, at 9:15 pm
SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW
See 11/5 at 8:35 for description
Saturday, November 7, at 5:00 pm &
Sunday, November 8, at 8:40 pm
New 4K Digital Restoration!
Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road
THE GOALIE’S ANXIETY AT THE PENALTY KICK
DIE ANGST DES TORMANNS BEIM ELFMETER
West Germany/Austria, 1972, Wim Wenders
Wim
Wenders’ first non-student feature, based on a novel by Peter Handke
(who co-wrote the screenplay), tells of an aging, angst-ridden, veteran
goalkeeper who freezes while a penalty shot is scored. His alienation
from soccer soon spreads to other aspects of his existence, and
desperation gives way to much worse. This spare, hypnotic, strikingly
beautiful movie was shot in color by the great Robby Müller. “Of all the
films I’ve seen by Germans of this generation, [this is] the film I
like best.” –Stanley Kauffmann. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles.
DCP. 101 min. www.janusfilms.com
Saturday, November 7, at 7:00 pm &
Sunday, November 8, at 6:30 pm
New Digital Restoration!
Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road
ALICE IN THE CITIES
ALICE IN DEN STÄDTEN
West Germany, 1974, Wim Wenders
A
blocked German photojournalist (Rüdiger Vogler), visiting America for a
story, becomes saddled with an inquisitive nine-year-old German girl,
Alice, on his way back to Europe. On the continent they search for
Alice’s grandmother, with only a photograph of her front door to guide
them. Wenders’ early road movie is one of his most charming and poetic
works. Cinematography by Robby Müller. Cleveland revival premiere.
Subtitles. DCP. 110 min. www.janusfilms.com
Saturday, November 7, at 9:10 pm
QUEEN OF EARTH
See 11/5 at 6:45 for description
Sunday, November 8, at 4:15 pm
BLIND
Norway/Netherlands, 2014, Eskil Vogt
A
newly blind woman in her 30s, holed up in the familiar high rise
apartment she shares with her architect husband, finds her erotic
fantasy life taking over her perceptions. This acclaimed movie is the
first film written and directed by the co-writer of Joachim Trier’s Reprise and Oslo, August 31. It’s a playful, mischievous, puzzling work that shuffles the objective and the subjective. “Critics’ pick...A dreamy,
dour fusion of Charlie Kaufman and Ingmar Bergman. Its few flashes of
wry humor are outweighed by mystically beautiful images.” –The NY Times. No one under 18 admitted! Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 96 min. www.kimstim.com
Sunday, November 8, at 6:30 pm
ALICE IN THE CITIES
See 11/7 at 7:00 for description
Sunday, November 8, at 8:40 pm
THE GOALIE’S ANXIETY AT THE PENALTY KICK
See 11/7 at 5:00 for description
NOVEMBER 12-15
Thursday, November 12, at 6:45 pm
New Digital Restorations!
Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road
SHORT FILMS BY WIM WENDERS
West Germany, 1968-82, Wim Wenders
Five
early shorts that Wim Wenders made during film school or for
television, plus one made during his problem-plagued production of Hammett for Francis Coppola. Program includes: Same Player Shoots Again (1968); Silver City Revisited (1969); Police Film (1969); Alabama – 2000 Light Years (1970); 3 American LPs (1969); and Reverse Angle (1982). DCP. Total 99 min. www.janusfilms.com
Thursday, November 12, at 8:45 pm &
Saturday, November 14, at 6:55 pm
EXPERIMENTER
USA, 2015, Michael Almereyda
Peter
Sarsgaard and Winona Ryder star in this acclaimed drama inspired by a
notorious experiment conducted by Yale social psychologist Stanley
Milgram in 1961. Milgram demonstrated that ordinary people would
administer electric shocks to distressed strangers if ordered to do so
by an authority figure. With Taryn Manning, Anton Yelchin, Jim Gaffigan,
et al. “A kind of cinematic Rorschach test, prodding viewers to
consider what they would do if sitting in the same seat as Milgram's
subjects.” –Screen Int’l. Cleveland theatrical premiere. DCP. 90 min. www.magpictures.com
NO FILMS FRI., 11/13
Saturday, November 14, at 5:00 pm
The Suzuki Method
YOUTH OF THE BEAST
YAJÛ NO SEISHUN
Japan, 1963, Seijun Suzuki
Seijun
Suzuki’s breakthrough film was this hyperbolic yakuza thriller about a
man who infiltrates two rival Tokyo gangs and pits them against each
other. “You’ll need to sit well back from the startling visuals, the
outré designs and the florid action.” –Tony Rayns. 35mm color &
scope print! Subtitles. 91 min. Special admission $10; members, CIA I.D. holders, age 25 & under $8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
Saturday, November 14, at 6:55 pm
EXPERIMENTER
See 11/12 at 8:45 for description
Saturday, November 14, at 8:45 pm &
Sunday, November 15, at 6:30 pm
New 4K Digital Restoration!
Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road
KINGS OF THE ROAD
IM LAUF DER ZEIT
West Germany, 1976, Wim Wenders
Wim
Wenders’ masterful road movie stars Rüdiger Vogler as a traveling
motion picture projector repairman who meets up one day with a bereft
child psychologist (Hans Zischler) who has wrecked his car. Together
they traverse rural West Germany along the East German border, trying to
find themselves amid the cultural desolation. Cinematography by Robby
Müller. “A film of great depth and beauty, and its black and white
photography is worthy of comparison with John Ford's.” –Roger Ebert.
Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 175 min. Special admission $10; members, CIA I.D. holders, age 25 & under $8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners. www.janusfilms.com
Sunday, November 15, at 3:30 pm
THE CUT
Germany/France/Italy/Russia/Poland/Canada/Turkey/Jordan, 2014, Fatih Akin
Prominent Turkish-German filmmaker Fatih Akin (In July, Head-On) commemorates the 100th
anniversary of the Armenian genocide with this expansive historical
epic. An Armenian man from a small town in the Ottoman Empire is
separated from his wife and twin daughters when the Ottomans enter WWI,
but he survives the mass killings of 1915. After the war he hears that
his daughters are still alive, so he embarks on an epic quest to Cuba
and America to find them. “Has great intensity, beauty and sweeping
grandeur.” –Martin Scorsese. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 138
min. www.strandreleasing.com
Sunday, November 15, at 6:30 pm
KINGS OF THE ROAD
See 11/14 at 8:45 for description
NOVEMBER 19-22
Thursday, November 19, at 6:45 pm &
Friday, November 20, at 9:15 pm
IRRATIONAL MAN
USA, 2014, Woody Allen
Despite
generally mixed reviews and disappointing box office results, this
fleet, philosophical new film by Woody Allen is one of his best recent
movies. Joaquin Phoenix plays a tormented college professor—and campus
heartthrob—who becomes involved with both a student (Emma Stone) and an
older colleague (Parker Posey) but finds real clarity and purpose when
he decides to commit a morally reprehensible “meaningful act” that he
feels will bring some justice and happiness into the world. 4K DCP. 95
min. www.sonyclassics.com/irrationalman/
Thursday, November 19, at 8:40 pm &
Friday, November 20, at 7:30 pm
WELCOME TO LEITH
USA, 2015, Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker
In
2012, a notorious white supremacist tried to take over a distressed
North Dakota small town, buying up property to establish an
ultra-right-wing settlement there. His push, and the community’s push
back, are captured in this chilling documentary that The Hollywood Reporter called “a nail-biter from start to finish.” Cleveland premiere. DCP. 85 min. www.welcometoleithfilm.com
Friday, November 20, at 9:15 pm
IRRATIONAL MAN
See 11/19 at 6:45 for description
Saturday, November 21, at 5:00 pm
The Suzuki Method
TATTOOED LIFE
IREZUMI ICHIDAI
Japan, 1965, Seijun Suzuki
A
yakuza hit man and his peace-loving younger brother, an artist, flee to
the Japanese countryside after a betrayal and a murder. They take
construction jobs, but the art student becomes dangerously obsessed with
doing nude studies of their boss’s wife. This 1920s-set thriller boasts
an over-the-top finale that sees the screen go entirely red at one
point. Subtitles. 35mm color & scope print! 87 min. Special admission $10; members, CIA I.D. holders, age 25 & under $8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
Saturday, November 21, at 6:50 pm &
Sunday, November 22, at 3:30 pm
New 4K Digital Restoration!
Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road
UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD: DIRECTOR’S CUT (PART 1)
BIS ANS ENDE DER WELT
Germany/France/Australia/USA, 1991, Wim Wenders
Shot
in 15 cities on four continents and intended as his Ultimate Road
Movie, Wim Wenders’ all-star sci-fi epic proved a critical and
commercial flop in the 158-min. version released in 1991. But here’s his
intended 295-min. cut, which we’ve wanted to show for 24 years! Set in
1999, the film stars William Hurt as a man with a revolutionary camera
that can help the blind see. On the run from the CIA, he meets another
fugitive (Solveig Dommartin of Wings of Desire) with whom he
crisscrosses the globe on his way to his father’s research facility in
Australia. The all-star supporting cast includes David Byrne, Allen
Garfield, David Gulpilil, Jeanne Moreau, Sam Neill, Max von Sydow,
Rüdiger Vogler, Tom Waits, and Chishu Ryu. Cleveland premiere. DCP. 132
min. www.janusfilms.com Special
admission to the whole five-hour film $14; members, CIA I.D. holders,
age 25 & under $10; tickets to both parts must be purchased at the
same time. Regular admission fees apply to tickets for individual parts.
No passes, twofers, or radio winners.
Saturday, November 21, at 9:25 pm &
Sunday, November 22, at 6:30 pm
UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD: DIRECTOR’S CUT (PART 2)
See 11/21 at 6:50 for description. 155 min.
Sunday, November 22, at 3:30 pm
UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD: DIRECTOR’S CUT (PART 1)
See 11/21 at 6:50 for description
Sunday, November 22, at 6:30 pm
UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD: DIRECTOR’S CUT (PART 2)
See 11/21 at 9:25 for description
NOVEMBER 26-29
NO FILMS 11/26 & 27;
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Saturday, November 28, at 5:00 pm
The Suzuki Method
FIGHTING ELEGY
KENKA EREJÎ
Japan, 1966, Seijun Suzuki
A
high school student in 1935 Japan turns to fighting when he is unable
to express his feelings for a virginal young girl. An antimilitarist
masterpiece! 35mm scope print! Subtitles. 86 min. Special admission $10; members, CIA I.D. holders, age 25 & under $8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
Saturday, November 28, at 6:50 pm &
Sunday, November 29, at 8:40 pm
New 4K Digital Restoration!
Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road
THE AMERICAN FRIEND
DER AMERIKANISCHE FREUND
West Germany/France, 1977, Wim Wenders
In Wim Wenders’ terrific neo-noir thriller based on Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley’s Game, an
enigmatic American living in Hamburg (Dennis Hopper) tries to coerce a
terminally ill German picture framer (Bruno Ganz) into becoming a hired
assassin. Cinematography by Robby Müller. “The best acted, the most
beautifully photographed, the most exciting and entertaining work of the
New German Cinema yet to be shown in this country.” –David Denby.
Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 127 min. www.janusfilms.com
Saturday, November 28, at 9:20 pm &
Sunday, November 29, at 3:45 pm
New Digital Restoration!
RIFIFI
DU RIFIFI CHEZ LES HOMMES
France, 1954, Jules Dassin
Here’s
a new digital restoration of the granddaddy of all caper/heist movies,
made in France by American Jules Dassin when he was blacklisted in the
U.S. A motley bunch of Paris jewel thieves band together for one big
job, then experience a falling out over the loot. This classic is most
famous for its wordless, 30-min. robbery sequence. “The best film noir I
have ever seen.” –François Truffaut. Cleveland revival premiere. 115
min. www.rialtopictures.com
Sunday, November 29, at 6:30 pm
COUNTING
USA, 2015, Jem Cohen
Jem Cohen’s first feature since his sublime Museum Hours is
a poetic collection of shots and scenes captured in cities from New
York to Moscow to Istanbul and arranged in 15 chapters. This combination
city symphony, film diary, essay film, and polemic finds the
inveterate, itinerant independent NYC filmmaker doing what he does best:
capturing the world through his unique lens. “This is the kind of
contemplative cinematheque piece that washes pleasurably over you,
inviting the viewer to tune in or out, to free-associate or locate the
subtle connections and recurring themes as Cohen trains his restless,
inquisitive gaze on faces and features that represent a wide spectrum of
life.” –Hollywood Reporter. Cleveland premiere. DCP. 111 min. www.cinemaguild.com
Sunday, November 29, at 8:40 pm
THE AMERICAN FRIEND
See 11/28 at 6:50 for description
DECEMBER 3-6
Thursday, December 3, at 6:45 pm &
Friday, December 4, at 9:20 pm
THE NEW GIRLFRIEND
UNE NOUVELLE AMIE
France, 2014, François Ozon
The subversive new film by François Ozon (Swimming Pool, In the House)
begins with the untimely death of a beautiful young wife and mother. At
the funeral, her best friend vows to watch over the deceased’s infant
daughter and widowed husband (Romain Duris). But she soon discovers that
the husband leads a shocking secret life. From a Ruth Rendell story.
“An air of Hitchcockian menace and free-floating sexual perversity is by
now nothing new for François Ozon, but rarely has this French master
analyzed the cracks in his characters’ bourgeois facades to such smooth
and pleasurable effect.” -Variety. Adults only! Cleveland premiere. DCP. 109 min. cohenmedia.net/films/the-new-girlfriend
Thursday, December 3, at 8:55 pm &
Friday, December 4, at 7:30 pm
BREATHE
RESPIRE
France, 2014, Mélanie Laurent
The second film directed by French actress Mélanie Laurent (best known for her role in Inglorious Basterds) charts
the relationship between a 17-year-old French schoolgirl and a
rebellious and charismatic new transfer student. Their platonic
friendship soon grows toxic, and tenderness gives way to terror. “A
compelling, superbly acted portrait of an adolescent friendship perched
on the brink of obsession.” –Variety. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 91 min. www.filmmovement.com
Friday, December 4, at 9:20 pm
THE NEW GIRLFRIEND
See 12/3 at 6:45 for description
Saturday, December 5, at 5:00 pm
The Suzuki Method
CARMEN FROM KAWACHI
KAWACHI KARUMEN
Japan, 1966, Seijun Suzuki
Loosely
inspired by the French opera, this sardonic sex comedy tells of a
seductive young Japanese woman who moves from her sordid small town to
Osaka, where she takes a string of demeaning, exploitative jobs: bar
hostess, fashion model, kept woman, porn actress. Suzuki’s eye and
methods are as unorthodox and outrageous as ever. Subtitles. 35mm. 89
min. Special admission $10; members, CIA I.D. holders, age 25 & under $8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
Saturday, December 5, at 6:50 pm &
Sunday, December 6, at 8:50 pm
The Suzuki Method
New Digital Restoration!
TOKYO DRIFTER
TOKYO NAGAREMONO
Japan, 1966, Seijun Suzuki
Seijun
Suzuki’s wildest color film is a breathtaking action masterpiece about a
lone yakuza caught up in gang warfare. But the plot is just a pretext
for Suzuki’s true purpose—the shattering of genre conventions with
flashy camerawork, dark comedy, and expressionistic flourishes. In this
movie, wind and lightning erupt out of nowhere to enhance dramatic
effect. Seasons are scrambled. A nightclub is rendered all white in
order to offset the inevitable pools of blood that will appear there.
Topping it all off is a heavy dose of retro-cool, 1960s pop culture
artifacts (sun glasses, Sans-A-Belt slacks, etc.). “One of the most
brilliant genre movies ever made.” -Tony Rayns. Subtitles. DCP. 83 min. www.janusfilms.com Special admission $10; members, CIA I.D. holders, age 25 & under $8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
Saturday, December 5, at 8:35 pm &
Sunday, December 6, at 3:30 pm
Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road
New Digital Restoration!
PARIS, TEXAS
West Germany/France/UK/USA, 1984, Wim Wenders
Winner of the Palme d’Or at
the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, Wim Wenders’ drama stars Harry Dean
Stanton as an amnesiac, missing and wandering for four years, who seeks
reconciliation with his young son and estranged wife (Nastassja Kinski).
Written by L. M. Kit Carson and Sam Shepard; music by Ry Cooder;
cinematography by Robby Müller. Cleveland revival premiere. DCP. 148
min. www.janusfilms.com Special admission $10; members, CIA I.D. holders, age 25 & under $8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
Sunday, December 6, at 6:30 pm
Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road
New 4K Digital Restoration!
THE STATE OF THINGS
DER STANDE DER DINGE
West Germany/Portugal/USA/France/Spain/Netherlands/UK, 1982, Wim Wenders
A
respected European filmmaker (Patrick Bauchau) shooting an American
remake of a low-budget science fiction film finds himself, his cast, and
his crew stranded on a remote Portuguese location while the movie’s
nutty producer (Allen Garfield) drives around L.A. in a motor home
looking for money to finish the picture. Wim Wenders’ bleak and funny
view of the movie industry—made while the production of his own American
film Hammett was stalled—won the top prize at the 1982 Venice
Film Festival. With Sam Fuller and Viva. Cleveland revival premiere. In
English. DCP. 121 min. www.janusfilms.com
Sunday, December 6, at 8:50 pm
TOKYO DRIFTER
See 12/5 at 6:50 for description
DECEMBER 10-13
Thursday, December 10, at 6:45 pm
The Suzuki Method
KANTO WANDERER
KANTÔ MUSHUKU
Japan, 1963, Seijun Suzuki
In
this visually dazzling yakuza thriller, two lovesick killers, torn
between lust and loyalty, rebel against their own gangs. Subtitles. 35mm
color & scope print! 92 min. Special admission $10; members, CIA I.D. holders, age 25 & under $8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
Thursday, December 10, at 8:40 pm &
Sunday, December 13, at 8:20 pm
IN THE BASEMENT
IM KELLER
Austria, 2014, Ulrich Seidl
What
do people do in the privacy of their own basements? You may not want to
know! The latest ethnographic exposé and shocker from inveterate button
pusher Ulrich Seidl (Animal Love, Import/Export, the Paradise trilogy)
shows that certain subterranean dens are furnished with more than
workbenches, washing machines, and wet bars—at least in Austria. No one
under 18 admitted! Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 81 min. www.strandreleasing.com
Friday, December 11, at 7:30 pm
A Special Event!
Silent Film with Live Music!
Jeff Rapsis accompanies
THREE’S A CROWD
USA, 1927, Harry Langdon
New
Hampshire-based pianist Jeff Rapsis is one of the busiest silent film
musicians in New England (and beyond)! Tonight he makes his Cleveland
debut by scoring and accompanying two silent comedy classics in a
special holiday program. Three’s a Crowd was
the directorial debut of Harry Langdon, the baby-faced comedian who is
considered the fourth great clown (after Chaplin, Keaton, and Harold
Lloyd) of the American silent screen. Langdon also stars in the picture,
a little-known, under-rated, Chaplinesque mix of comedy and pathos. It
tells of a lovelorn man who, one cold and snowy night, takes in a
pregnant woman who has walked out on her hard-drinking husband. He cares
for this outcast and her child as if they were his own family. “Worthy
of Beckett, rivals the best of Chaplin…THE unjustly maligned, hopelessly
misunderstood, dark horse masterpiece of silent cinema. –Alfred Eaker.
35mm. 63 min. Preceded at 7:30 by Laurel and Hardy’s celebrated 19-min.
short “Big Business” (USA, 1929, dir. J. Wesley Horne, Leo McCarey), in
which Stan and Ollie play door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen who deal
badly with an unsatisfied customer (James Finlayson). jeffrapsis.com Special
admission $12; members, CIA I.D. holders, age 25 & under $9; no
passes, twofers, or radio winners. Jeff Rapsis accompanies another
silent film tomorrow night at 6:55 pm.
Friday, December 11, at 9:30 pm &
Sunday, December 13, at 6:30 pm
The Suzuki Method
New Digital Restoration!
BRANDED TO KILL
KOROSHI NO RAKUIN
Japan, 1967, Seijun Suzuki
The
film that got director Seijun Suzuki fired from Nikkatsu studio (for
making “incomprehensible” movies) is frequently cited as his greatest
achievement. Its ardent fans include Quentin Tarantino, Jim Jarmusch,
Wong Kar-wai, and John Woo, and it has been variously hailed as an
absurdist masterpiece, an avant-garde classic, and a stylistic precursor
to the Japanese New Wave. The movie is an extreme and flamboyant yakuza
thriller in which the hitman regarded as Tokyo’s Number Three Killer
gives his all to become Number One. Subtitles. DCP. 91 min. www.janusfilms.com Special admission $10; members, CIA I.D. holders, age 25 & under $8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
Saturday, December 12, at 5:00 pm
Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road
New Digital Restoration!
TOKYO-GA
USA/West Germany, 1985, Wim Wenders
Wim
Wenders pays tribute to one of his idols—master Japanese filmmaker
Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963)—in this self-described “diary on film.” Wenders
journeys to Japan to interview Ozu’s perennial star Chishu Ryu and his
longtime cameraman Yuharu Atsuda, while also musing on aspects of
modern Japanese life. Wonderful! Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles.
DCP. 92 min. www.janusfilms.com See next blurb for a film directed by Yasujiro Ozu.
Saturday, December 12, at 6:55 pm
A Special Event!
Silent Film with Live Music!
Jeff Rapsis accompanies
PASSING FANCY
DEKIGOKORU
Japan, 1933, Yasujiro Ozu
Composer
and pianist Jeff Rapsis (see 12/11 at 7:30) accompanies one of Yasujiro
Ozu’s last—and best—silent films. Winner of Japan’s Kinema Junpo Award
for best film of 1933, Passing Fancy is a touching tale of a
poor, widowed, illiterate, middle-aged (but warm-hearted) brewery
worker, his feisty 8-year-old son whom he is raising alone, and a young
woman who comes between them. With Chishu Ryu. Subtitles. 35mm. 103 min.
jeffrapsis.com Special admission $12; members, CIA I.D. holders, age 25 & under $9; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
Saturday, December 12, at 9:15 pm &
Sunday, December 13, at 3:30 pm
Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road
New Digital Restoration!
WINGS OF DESIRE
DER HIMMEL ÜBER BERLIN
West Germany/France, 1987, Wim Wenders
“A sublimely beautiful, deeply romantic film for our times” is what Variety called
Wim Wenders’ exhilarating, magical tale of an angel (Bruno Ganz) whose
love for a beautiful trapeze artist (Solveig Dommartin) allows him to
become human. One of the most beloved modern movies, Wenders’ haunting
love story, filmed in a richly expressive mix of black and white and
color, is a serene hymn to humanity. With Peter Falk; co-written by
Peter Handke. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 130 min. www.janusfilms.com Special admission $10; members, CIA I.D. holders, age 25 & under $8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
Sunday, December 13, at 6:30 pm
BRANDED TO KILL
See 12/11 at 9:30 for description
Sunday, December 13, at 8:20 pm
IN THE BASEMENT
See 12/10 at 8:40 for description
DECEMBER 18-19
Friday, December 18, at 7:00 pm
World War I + 100
A LITTLE PRINCESS
USA, 1995, Alfonso Cuarón
Before he made Y Tu Mamá También, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Children of Men, and Gravity, the great Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón made this lovely, little-seen adaptation of a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden).
It tells of a privileged 10-year-old girl, raised in India by her
British father, who is sent to live in a lavish New York City boarding
school when her father goes off to World War I. But this popular student
soon butts heads with the school’s stern headmistress (Eleanor Bron),
and a sudden reversal of fortune makes her life even more miserable. A
rare chance to see one of the most overlooked treasures of the past two
decades on the big screen! Rated G. 35mm. 97 min. Special admission $10; members, CIA I.D. holders, age 25 & under $8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
Friday, December 18, at 9:00 pm
TANGERINE
USA, 2015, Sean Baker
In
this delightful, energetic comedy set in Tinseltown on Christmas Eve, a
trans woman sex worker (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez), back on the streets
after 28 days in prison, goes ballistic when she learns that her pimp
boyfriend cheated on her while she was locked up (and with a
heterosexual female no less). She storms off looking for this “bitch,”
and in the process others (her trans BFF, an Armenian cab driver, an
Asian donut shop owner, et al.) are unwittingly sucked into the vortex
of her fury. This is one of the best reviewed—and best—movies of 2015,
and it was shot completely on an iPhone 5s! “Jumps off the screen and
wows you like nobody’s business…A groundbreaking film that leaves you in
stitches while quietly breaking your heart…A visually innovative
knockout that grabs you from the first frame.” –Rolling Stone. Adults only! East Side Cleveland premiere. Blu-ray. 88 min. www.magpictures.com
Saturday, December 19, at 5:00 pm
The Suzuki Method
GATE OF FLESH
NIKUTAI NO MON
Japan, 1964, Seijun Suzuki
Seijun
Suzuki’s soft-porn masterpiece is a lurid, anti-American tale of
prostitutes and black marketeers in the bombed-out slums of postwar
Tokyo. In another’s hands, this subject might have called for black and
white cinematography and a gritty newsreel aesthetic (à la Italian
neorealism). But Suzuki employs garish colors and cinemascope to
heighten the harshness of his vision—“like the blush and lipstick in a
funeral home that somehow make the dead look even deader” (David Chute).
Subtitles. 35mm. 90 min. Special admission $10; members, CIA I.D. holders, age 25 & under $8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
Saturday, December 19, at 6:50 pm
FANNY AND ALEXANDER
FANNY OCH ALEXANDER
Sweden, 1982, Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar
Bergman’s sumptuous family epic is a magnificent summation of the
themes (love and loneliness; dreams and nightmares; pain and ecstasy;
God and emptiness; reality and illusion; theatre and cinema) that
preoccupied the great filmmaker throughout his long career. Set in early
20th-century Sweden, the film focuses on a young brother and
sister who must leave the bosom of their warm and loving theatrical
family for a severe, Spartan existence with a stern minister, their
mother’s new husband. Winner of four Oscars, Fanny and Alexander is
alternately a dazzling Christmas pageant, a harrowing horror film, a
magical-realist mystery, and a generous celebration of family and
friends. The stunningly beautiful color cinematography is by the late,
great Sven Nykvist. “Bergman’s most optimistic film…Pure
enchantment…Comedy, tragedy, romance, realism and fantasy blend into a
perfect evocation of childhood, place and period…A superlative
culmination of (Bergman’s) 37 years as one of the cinema’s greatest
artists.” –Holt Foreign Film Guide. Subtitles. 35mm. 188 min. Special admission $10; members, CIA I.D. holders, age 25 & under $8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
NO FILMS DEC. 20 – JAN. 6;
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
No comments:
Post a Comment
We approve all legitimate comments. However, comments that include links to irrelevant commercial websites and/or websites dealing with illegal or inappropriate content will be marked as spam.