Films
Upcoming Films
Films are displayed in chronological order by screening date.
Je tu il elle
Directed by Chantal Akerman
Next screening: Saturday, October 1 @ 7:00 pm
Like her spare, haunting portrait of a wandering filmmaker Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (1978), Akerman originally wrote Je tu il elle …
Hamlet Goes Business
Directed by Aki Kaurismäki
Next screening: Saturday, October 1 @ 4 pm
Deadpan humor abounds in this tongue-in-cheek noir adaptation of Shakespeare’s immortal Hamlet. When Hamlet (the delightfully named Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, munching …
Hamlet Act
Directed by Robert Nelson
Next screening: Saturday, October 1 @ 4 pm
Experimental filmmaker Robert Nelson brings his characteristic wit to this restaging of the famous “play rehearsal” scene from Hamlet, breaking …
Jheronimus Bosch—Touched by the Devil
Directed by Pieter van Huystee
Next screening: Sunday, October 2 @ 4:30 pm
2016 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Hieronimus Bosch (1460 - 1516), one of the most celebrated painters of all …
Starship Troopers
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Next screening: Sunday, October 2 @ 7 pm
Ostensibly a huge dumb sci-fi blockbuster starring mid-’90s Hollywood lukewarm up-and-comers, in lesser directorial hands Starship Troopers would have been …
Viola
Directed by Matías Piñeiro
Next screening: Monday, October 3 @ 7 pm
Beginning with Viola, director Matías Piñeiro embarked upon a cinematic exploration of Shakespeare’s “light” comedies, transmuting plays like Twelfth Night, …
The Princess of France
Directed by Matías Piñeiro
Next screening: Monday, October 3 @ 7 pm
Shifting focus from the women of Viola to the elliptical love affairs of a young man, the third entry in …
L’enfant aimé ou je joue à être une femme mariée, Le 15/8 & Dis-moi
Directed by Chantal Akerman
Next screening: Tuesday, October 4 @ 7 pm
These three early Chantal Akerman films (spanning the 1970s) bring together different structures by which Akerman finds her own voice—through …
When Two Worlds Collide
Directed by Heidi Brandenburg, Mathew Orzel
Next screening: Wednesday, October 5 @ 7 pm
Brandenburg and Orzel’s stirring film takes us to the heart of a tense and controversial battle between Peruvian leaders invested …
Brazil
Directed by Terry Gilliam
Next screening: Thursday, October 6 @ 7 pm
A shape-shifting film like few others, Brazil stands as Terry Gilliam’s foremost masterpiece and one of the finest political/dystopian satires …
Histoires d’Amérique (Food, Family, and Philosophy)
Directed by Chantal Akerman
Next screening: Friday, October 7 @ 7 pm
Shot in New York, Akerman’s first English-language film Histoires d’Amerique conjures up an informal history of Jewish life over the …
Andy Warhol – Part I
Directed by Ric Burns
Next screening: Saturday, October 8 @ 2 pm
Ric Burns’ epic documentary will change what you think you know about the famed Pop artist who redefined how we …