A quick look at all of the films we’re screening this Spring on celluloid.
Friday, June 30
The Agronomist
Directed by Jonathan Demme
Jonathan Demme’s career as a feature filmmaker was paralleled by personal documentaries focusing on music and human rights, with a …
Saturday, July 1
Swimming To Cambodia
Directed by Jonathan Demme
“It would be wrong to think of Swimming to Cambodia as a one-man show, even though it captures the performance …
Friday, July 7
Eraserhead
Directed by David Lynch
Is the twisted child of Henry Spencer (Jack Nance) a metaphor for the paternal anxiety this new father is experiencing? …
Monday, July 10
M. Hulot’s Holiday
Directed by Jacques Tati
Tati’s second feature introduces the beloved character Monsieur Hulot, the bumbling, charming, near-silent uncle figure at the heart of his …
Friday, July 14
The Elephant Man
Directed by David Lynch
Surreptitiously produced by none other than Mel Brooks, Lynch’s haunting, macabre, and beautiful vision of Victorian London was—following the cult …
Monday, July 17
La Strada
Directed by Federico Fellini
Perhaps Fellini’s greatest film, La Strada straddles his early neorealist period and his later magical and fantastical work, combining elements …
Friday, July 21
Dune
Directed by David Lynch
Famed producers Dino and Rafaella De Laurentiis took a chance on Lynch directing Dune, after the beloved novel by Frank …
Saturday, July 22
Angels of Sin
Directed by Robert Bresson
Bresson’s first feature hints at the themes for which his later films would become famous: isolation, suffering, martyrdom, and the …
Sunday, July 23
Le samouraï
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville
For many Jean-Pierre Melville’s best film if not masterpiece, Hong Kong action film legend John Woo once called Le Samouraï …
Monday, July 24
2001: A Space Odyssey
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
The most legendary and widely discussed film of the 1960s, and Kubrick’s most famous work in a string of masterpieces, …
Monday, July 31
Rear Window
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
One of the most famous procedural thrillers in film history and routinely voted amongst the greatest films ever produced, Rear …
Friday, August 4
Wild at Heart
Directed by David Lynch
The promise of love in a violent world ripples under the surface of the unhinged Wild at Heart, in which …
Saturday, August 5
The Wizard of Oz
Directed by Victor Fleming
In 1939, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was at the height of its powers as a studio producing the most lavish films in Hollywood. …
Tuesday, August 15
Lolita
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Lolita began the string of masterpieces that form the second half of Kubrick’s career, through which he became one of …
Friday, August 18
The Straight Story
Directed by David Lynch
“Walt Disney presents...a film by David Lynch.” Stranger words have perhaps never opened an American film, but the belief in …
Friday, August 18
Lost Highway
Directed by David Lynch
While many of Lynch’s films work with the tropes and atmospheres of film noir, few are so directly in the …
Saturday, August 19
Casque d’or
Directed by Jacques Becker
In this tragic adult fairytale, set in the criminal underworld of Belle Époque Paris, Georges (Serge Reggiani), a humble woodworker, …
Sunday, August 20
Rules of the Game
Directed by Jean Renoir
Although it was met with diverse responses when it was released, few films have earned such universal critical acclaim as …
Monday, August 21
Vertigo
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Topping Sight & Sound’s most recent critics’ poll of the 50 greatest films of all time, this 1958 psychological thriller …
Tuesday, August 22
It’s a Gift
Directed by Norman McLeod
By 1934, W.C. Fields was at the top of his game, enormously popular in the US after a long string …
Friday, August 25
Mulholland Drive
Directed by David Lynch
Mulholland Drive, conceived as a television series in the Twin Peaks lineage and shot as a feature-length pilot episode, was …
Monday, August 28
Sunset Boulevard
Directed by Billy Wilder
Down-on-his-luck screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) seeks refuge at the home of former silent film star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson, …
Friday, September 1
Inland Empire
Directed by David Lynch
“A woman in trouble,” says Inland Empire’s poster tagline. Lynch took several years, following the success of Mulholland Drive, to …
Almayer’s Folly
Directed by Chantal Akerman
With Almayer’s Folly, Akerman tackles the terrible legacy of the European colonial project in Southeast Asia head-on through an adaptation …
Bamboozled
Directed by Spike Lee
Routinely overshadowed by Lee’s better-known films (Do the Right Thing, She’s Gotta Have It, Malcolm X, et al.), Bamboozled is …
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Directed by Benh Zeitlin
A deeply felt exploration of race and class in post-Katrina America filtered through the soaring fantasies and downcast reality of …
Bicycle Thieves
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
De Sica’s social drama, along with Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City, is the most emotionally engaging film of the Italian …
Crooklyn
Directed by Spike Lee
Spike Lee’s sentimental remembrance of growing up in 1970s Brooklyn centers on a young girl named Troy (Zelda Harris) as …
Fanny and Alexander
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
With his most pronounced cinematic meditation on childhood and memory, Ingmar Bergman abandons the expressionistic and existentially obsessive tendencies that …
Fish Tank
Directed by Andrea Arnold
With the arrival of her 2009 sophomore film, Academy Award-winning director Andrea Arnold (Red Road, American Honey) cemented herself as …
George Washington
Directed by David Gordon Green
Green’s debut feature masterfully captures the essence of childhood summers spent with kids your own age, free from parental supervision, …
Ivan’s Childhood
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
During World War II, young Ivan (Nikolay Burlyaev) scurries across Soviet and German lines, having been recruited as a spy …
La Vie de Jesus (The Life of Jesus)
Directed by Bruno Dumont
Since his 1997 debut with The Life of Jesus, Bruno Dumont has become one of European cinema’s most unsettling and provocative auteurs, …
Ratcatcher
Directed by Lynne Ramsay
Taking place during a 1970s garbage strike in Glasgow, Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher follows young James (William Eadie) who lives in …
Show Me Love
Directed by Lukas Moodysson
Elin (Alexandra Dahlstrom) lives in the unremarkable small town Åmål, a fact over which she despairs to anyone who will …
The Learning Tree
Directed by Gordon Parks
Based on his own autobiographical novel, The Learning Tree was, according to Roger Ebert, the first non-exploitation feature film made …
The Night of the Hunter
Directed by Charles Laughton
Charles Laughton, who made his name as a wide-ranging character actor in Hollywood (famed for his roles in such films at …
The Reflecting Skin
Directed by Philip Ridley
Someone has been abducting and murdering children in a rural 1950s American town. Seth (Jeremy Cooper) and the other boys …
The Spirit of the Beehive
Directed by Victor Erice
A traveling roadshow of the film Frankenstein comes to the small, Franco-era village where eight-year-old Ana (Ana Torrent), her sister …
The Tree of Life
Directed by Terrence Malick
In what was only his fifth feature in almost 40 years, the reclusive director Terrence Malick sets the lives of …
The White Balloon
Directed by Jafar Panahi
Winner of the Camera D’Or and International Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Panahi’s first foray into narrative filmmaking, …
The White Ribbon
Directed by Michael Haneke
Something dire is transpiring just below the surface of a charming, pre-World War I German village. A horse and rider …
Walkabout
Directed by Nicholas Roeg
Abandoned by their father in the Australian Outback, a teenaged girl (Jenny Agutter) and her young brother (Luc Roeg) wander …