Cinematheque . Film Schedule
Monday, April 02, 2018
6:45pm
A Special Event! New 4K Restoration!
Hong Kong, Taiwan | 1978 | King Hu
In this visually stunning epic from the director of Dragon Inn and A Touch of Zen, a travelling scholar who has come to a remote mountain village to copy a Buddhist sutra soon finds himself inhabiting a strange, supernatural world populated by ghosts and demons. The movie’s mystical mood is leavened by comedy and a climactic drum battle. With Sylvia Chang. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 184 min.
Friday, April 06, 2018
7:30pm
A Special Event! Cleveland Cult Film Festival 9! Film Classics in 35mm!
United Kingdom | 1970 | Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell
A petty hood on the lam (James Fox) hides out in the mansion of a reclusive pop star (Mick Jagger), where liberal doses of sex and drugs shake the foundations of both men’s identities and sanity. Originally rated X, this psychedelic psychodrama was shelved by Warner Brothers for almost two years. Now it is regarded as one of the great British films. Adults only! 105 min.
9:35pm
Cleveland Cult Film Festival 9! New 4K Restoration! World War I + 100
France, Italy | 1966 | Philippe de Broca
The French anti-war film that played continuously for over five years (!) in a Cambridge, MA, theater during the early 1970s has been fully restored for its 50th anniversary! (It was one of the Cannes Classics at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.) Alan Bates plays a Scottish soldier during the First World War whose mission takes him to a deserted French village now occupied by escaped lunatics from the local asylum. These nutjobs have set...
Saturday, April 07, 2018
7pm
Cleveland Cult Film Festival 9! New 4K Restoration! World War I + 100
France, Italy | 1966 | Philippe de Broca
The French anti-war film that played continuously for over five years (!) in a Cambridge, MA, theater during the early 1970s has been fully restored for its 50th anniversary! (It was one of the Cannes Classics at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.) Alan Bates plays a Scottish soldier during the First World War whose mission takes him to a deserted French village now occupied by escaped lunatics from the local asylum. These nutjobs have set...
9:05pm
A Special Event! Cleveland Cult Film Festival 9! Film Classics in 35mm!
United Kingdom | 1970 | Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell
A petty hood on the lam (James Fox) hides out in the mansion of a reclusive pop star (Mick Jagger), where liberal doses of sex and drugs shake the foundations of both men’s identities and sanity. Originally rated X, this psychedelic psychodrama was shelved by Warner Brothers for almost two years. Now it is regarded as one of the great British films. Adults only! 105 min.
Friday, April 13, 2018
7:30pm
A Special Event! Cleveland Cult Film Festival 9! Film Classics in 35mm!
Japan | 1984 | Hiroshi Teshigahara
In this all-time favorite, the Japanese director of Woman in the Dunes lets his cameras prowl in and around, over and above some of Barcelona’s most beautiful and intricate buildings and spaces—all designed by the great Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926). Sagrada Família is one of the structures, of course, in this mesmerizing, meditative movie that has music by Tōru Takemitsu. Subtitles. 72 min.
9:05pm
Cleveland Cult Film Festival 9! New Digital Restoration! Original, Uncut Version!
Italy | 1975 | Dario Argento
The thriller that Dario Argento made right before Suspiria is one of his most stylish and accomplished works. David Hemmings plays a jazz pianist in Rome who teams up with a gung-ho female reporter to solve a string of grisly killings. Soon they are both in harm’s way. Music by Goblin. Has a 95% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Adults only! Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 126 min.
Saturday, April 14, 2018
7pm
A Special Event! Cleveland Cult Film Festival 9! Film Classics in 35mm!
Japan | 1984 | Hiroshi Teshigahara
In this all-time favorite, the Japanese director of Woman in the Dunes lets his cameras prowl in and around, over and above some of Barcelona’s most beautiful and intricate buildings and spaces—all designed by the great Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926). Sagrada Família is one of the structures, of course, in this mesmerizing, meditative movie that has music by Tōru Takemitsu. Subtitles. 72 min.
8:35pm
Cleveland Cult Film Festival 9! New Digital Restoration! Original, Uncut Version!
Italy | 1975 | Dario Argento
The thriller that Dario Argento made right before Suspiria is one of his most stylish and accomplished works. David Hemmings plays a jazz pianist in Rome who teams up with a gung-ho female reporter to solve a string of grisly killings. Soon they are both in harm’s way. Music by Goblin. Has a 95% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Adults only! Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 126 min.
9:35pm
At the 42nd Cleveland International Film Festival, Tower City Cinemas downtown!
United States | 2017 | Tony Zierra
Once again the Cinematheque is a community partner on a new film showing as part of the Cleveland International Film Festival. (This year's 42nd festival runs April 4-15 at Tower City Cinemas and at various other locations around town.) Filmworker is a new documentary that profiles Leon Vitali, the actor who played Lord Bullingdon in Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon but who later abandoned his acting career to become Kubrick’s dedicated assistant. For more than two decades,...
Sunday, April 15, 2018
3:15pm
At the 42nd Cleveland International Film Festival, Tower City Cinemas downtown!
United States | 2017 | Tony Zierra
Once again the Cinematheque is a community partner on a new film showing as part of the Cleveland International Film Festival. (This year's 42nd festival runs April 4-15 at Tower City Cinemas and at various other locations around town.) Filmworker is a new documentary that profiles Leon Vitali, the actor who played Lord Bullingdon in Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon but who later abandoned his acting career to become Kubrick’s dedicated assistant. For more than two decades,...
Thursday, April 19, 2018
6:45pm
Abbas Kiarostami's last film!
France, Iran | 2017 | Abbas Kiarostami
The final film by the late, great Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami is a series of two dozen single-shot short films, each four-and-a-half minutes long. These “frames” originate as static landscape paintings or Kiarostami’s own nature photographs, but digital technology animates animals or people in each tableau. Sound is added. The resulting studies, mini-stories, and vignettes range from the academic and the anecdotal to the poetic and the sublime. “Among [Kiarostami’s] finest, most uplifting works.” –Hollywood...
9pm
Ingmar Bergman 100: Essentials. New Digital Restoration!
Sweden | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman looks at war. Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann play a musician couple living in near-isolation on a remote Baltic island. Their quiet world is shattered, and humanity challenged, by a civil war that engulfs their lives. With Gunnar Björnstrand. “One of Bergman’s greatest films.” –Pauline Kael. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 105 min.
Friday, April 20, 2018
7:15pm
A Special Event! New Digital Restoration!
West Germany | 1972-73 | R. W. Fassbinder
One of the major movies by Germany’s prolific auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) was never distributed in America—until now. Made for German TV, Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day is a five-episode, eight-hour miniseries (total 472 min.), released between Fassbinder’s The Merchant of Four Seasons and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, that stars some of the key members of the director’s stock company: Hanna Schygulla, Gottfried John, Irm Hermann, and Kurt Raab. Set in Cologne,...
Saturday, April 21, 2018
5pm
Ingmar Bergman 100: Essentials. New Digital Restoration!
Sweden | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman looks at war. Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann play a musician couple living in near-isolation on a remote Baltic island. Their quiet world is shattered, and humanity challenged, by a civil war that engulfs their lives. With Gunnar Björnstrand. “One of Bergman’s greatest films.” –Pauline Kael. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 105 min.
7:05pm
A Special Event! New Digital Restoration!
West Germany | 1972-73 | R. W. Fassbinder
One of the major movies by Germany’s prolific auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) was never distributed in America—until now. Made for German TV, Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day is a five-episode, eight-hour miniseries (total 472 min.), released between Fassbinder’s The Merchant of Four Seasons and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, that stars some of the key members of the director’s stock company: Hanna Schygulla, Gottfried John, Irm Hermann, and Kurt Raab. Set in Cologne,...
Sunday, April 22, 2018
2:15pm
A Special Event! Philippe Garrel. Film Classics in 35mm! New 35mm Scope Print!
France | 1969 | Philippe Garrel
This early Philippe Garrel feature is a hippie update of the New Testament, with Zouzou playing both Mary and Mary Magdalene, Pierre Clémenti as Jesus, and the director himself as an apostle. “Elemental, mysterious, and nearly overpowering in its widescreen imagery and moving camera.” –Metrograph.com. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. 95 min. NOTE: In our printed March-April schedule, this film is announced, erroneously, for 6:30 pm today. We apologize for any inconvenience.
4:15pm
A Special Event! New Digital Restoration!
West Germany | 1972-73 | R. W. Fassbinder
One of the major movies by Germany’s prolific auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) was never distributed in America—until now. Made for German TV, Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day is a five-episode, eight-hour miniseries (total 472 min.), released between Fassbinder’s The Merchant of Four Seasons and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, that stars some of the key members of the director’s stock company: Hanna Schygulla, Gottfried John, Irm Hermann, and Kurt Raab. Set in Cologne,...
6:30pm
A Special Event! Film Classics in 35mm!
Denmark, Sweden | 2011 | Lars von Trier
Winner of the European Film Award for best film of 2011, Lars von Trier’s apocalyptic fantasy is a visually stunning drama with an all-star cast: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, et al. The film follows two sisters at a disastrous dusk-to-dawn wedding reception at a lavish estate. After the party, they remain on the property as a rogue planet hurtles toward earth on a possible collision course. This moody movie...
9pm
Abbas Kiarostami's last film!
France, Iran | 2017 | Abbas Kiarostami
The final film by the late, great Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami is a series of two dozen single-shot short films, each four-and-a-half minutes long. These “frames” originate as static landscape paintings or Kiarostami’s own nature photographs, but digital technology animates animals or people in each tableau. Sound is added. The resulting studies, mini-stories, and vignettes range from the academic and the anecdotal to the poetic and the sublime. “Among [Kiarostami’s] finest, most uplifting works.” –Hollywood...
Thursday, April 26, 2018
6:45pm
Ingmar Bergman 100: Essentials. New Digital Restoration!
Sweden | 1973 | Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman’s painterly color film is an unforgettable dream play about a woman dying of cancer and the two sisters and servant who care for her. This is another Bergmanesque tale of suffering, confinement, and isolation, but with a heightened intensity and explicit (rather than implicit) sado-eroticism. With Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann, and Erland Josephson. Cinematography by Sven Nykvist. Adults only! Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 91 min.
8:35pm
Cleveland premiere!
Argentina | 2017 | Lucrecia Martel
An ineffectual functionary working for the Spanish crown in a remote, tropical colonialist outpost somewhere in South America during the 18th century waits in vain for a transfer to Buenos Aires or back home. The first film in nine years by Argentinean master Lucrecia Martel is dense, languorous, perplexing, comic, and intoxicating. It’s also one of the most rapturously received movies of the past year. From the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto. Subtitles. DCP. 115...
Friday, April 27, 2018
7:15pm
Cleveland premiere!
Argentina | 2017 | Lucrecia Martel
An ineffectual functionary working for the Spanish crown in a remote, tropical colonialist outpost somewhere in South America during the 18th century waits in vain for a transfer to Buenos Aires or back home. The first film in nine years by Argentinean master Lucrecia Martel is dense, languorous, perplexing, comic, and intoxicating. It’s also one of the most rapturously received movies of the past year. From the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto. Subtitles. DCP. 115...
9:30pm
Ingmar Bergman 100: Essentials. New Digital Restoration!
Sweden | 1958 | Ingmar Bergman
In 19th-century Stockholm, a traveling mesmerist and magician (Max von Sydow) runs afoul of a thoroughly rational, local medical examiner (Gunnar Björnstrand) who thinks he is a con man. A game of wits ensues. Ingmar Bergman’s gothic fable—part comedy, part horror film—is really an allegory about science and the supernatural. “Widely underrated…One of [Bergman’s] most genuinely enjoyable films.” –Time Out Film Guide. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 101 min.
Saturday, April 28, 2018
4pm
A Special Event! New Digital Restoration!
West Germany | 1972-73 | R. W. Fassbinder
One of the major movies by Germany’s prolific auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) was never distributed in America—until now. Made for German TV, Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day is a five-episode, eight-hour miniseries (total 472 min.), released between Fassbinder’s The Merchant of Four Seasons and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, that stars some of the key members of the director’s stock company: Hanna Schygulla, Gottfried John, Irm Hermann, and Kurt Raab. Set in Cologne,...
7:50pm
Ingmar Bergman 100: Essentials. New Digital Restoration!
Sweden | 1973 | Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman’s painterly color film is an unforgettable dream play about a woman dying of cancer and the two sisters and servant who care for her. This is another Bergmanesque tale of suffering, confinement, and isolation, but with a heightened intensity and explicit (rather than implicit) sado-eroticism. With Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann, and Erland Josephson. Cinematography by Sven Nykvist. Adults only! Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 91 min.
9:45pm
A Special Event! Philippe Garrel. Film Classics in 35mm! New 35mm Color Print!
France | 1972 | Philippe Garrel
Nico, Philippe Garrel, and a naked Pierre Clémenti star in Garrel’s hypnotic experimental feature, a cryptic collection of human figures (and at least one horse) in a series of stunningly photographed color landscapes. Filmed in remote regions of Iceland, Morocco, and Death Valley and filled with long, exquisite tracking shots, the film revels in the elements of earth, air, water, and fire by fixating on deserts, wind, and clouds. Nico sings the songs on the...
Sunday, April 29, 2018
3pm
A Special Event! New Digital Restoration!
West Germany | 1972-73 | R. W. Fassbinder
One of the major movies by Germany’s prolific auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) was never distributed in America—until now. Made for German TV, Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day is a five-episode, eight-hour miniseries (total 472 min.), released between Fassbinder’s The Merchant of Four Seasons and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, that stars some of the key members of the director’s stock company: Hanna Schygulla, Gottfried John, Irm Hermann, and Kurt Raab. Set in Cologne,...
7pm
A Special Event! New Digital Restoration!
West Germany | 1972-73 | R. W. Fassbinder
One of the major movies by Germany’s prolific auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) was never distributed in America—until now. Made for German TV, Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day is a five-episode, eight-hour miniseries (total 472 min.), released between Fassbinder’s The Merchant of Four Seasons and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, that stars some of the key members of the director’s stock company: Hanna Schygulla, Gottfried John, Irm Hermann, and Kurt Raab. Set in Cologne,...
8:50pm
A Special Event! Philippe Garrel. Film Classics in 35mm! New 35mm Color Print!
France | 1972 | Philippe Garrel
Nico, Philippe Garrel, and a naked Pierre Clémenti star in Garrel’s hypnotic experimental feature, a cryptic collection of human figures (and at least one horse) in a series of stunningly photographed color landscapes. Filmed in remote regions of Iceland, Morocco, and Death Valley and filled with long, exquisite tracking shots, the film revels in the elements of earth, air, water, and fire by fixating on deserts, wind, and clouds. Nico sings the songs on the...
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