This revolving, ongoing series of classic films and cutting-edge new work will get you moving into the week. On first Mondays, we offer a selection of classic American films both independently-produced and studio-made; second Mondays are the time for experimental cinema in all its various modes; on third Mondays, we screen essential foreign films from all over the world; finally, on fourth Mondays, we focus on documentary new and old.
In Pursuit of Silence
Directed by Patrick Shen
Few documentaries (or feature narratives, for that matter), are as meditative and deeply engrossing as In Pursuit of Silence, Shen’s …
Killer of Sheep
Directed by Charles Burnett
Made as the thesis film for his Master’s degree from UCLA, Burnett’s piercing yet tender look into post-’68 African-American life …
Sixty Six
Directed by Lewis Klahr
Los Angeles based collage film artist Klahr, whose vital work has unfolded over the last thirty years, has made the …
Playtime
Directed by Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati made a fitfully long career out of diagnosing and then holding a mirror to normative tendencies in French …
Night School
Directed by Andrew Cohn
Following three adult students—Melissa, Shynika, and Greg—through their year in a high school diploma program in Indianapolis, Cohn’s tender, empathetic …
By the Time it Gets Dark
Directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong
One of the most thrillingly assured experimental works of the last several years, Anocha Suwichakornpong’s second feature (following 2009’s Mundane …
Double Indemnity
Directed by Billy Wilder
Wilder’s prototypical film noir, featuring the archetypal femme fatale in Barbara Stanwyck’s chilling Phyllis Dietrichson, is one of the most …
La chinoise
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Starring French New Wave icons Jean-Pierre Léaud (The 400 Blows), Anne Wiazemsky (Au Hasard Balthazar, Weekend), and Juliet Berto (Celine …