Cinematheque Film Schedule

United States | 2022 | Mike Cheslik

There will be no in-person special guests (or beavers) this time around, but here’s a second chance to catch the comedy sensation of the year on the big, crowded screen! A wordless, wildly inventive, live-action comic book-cum-videogame about a 19th-century trapper battling scores of buck-toothed varmints (all played by humans in mascot costumes) one Upper Midwestern winter, this indie anomaly saw sold-out shows during its Jan-Feb “Great Lakes Roadshow.” It has since conquered NYC and...

United States | 1972 | John Boorman

A canoe trip down a remote, soon-to-be-dammed Georgia river turns into a hellish outdoor adventure for four Atlanta city slickers in John Boorman’s harrowing wilderness thriller. Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox star in this nightmarish classic that also features “Duelling Banjos.” Adults only! DCP. 109 min.

Taiwan | 1994 | Edward Yang

Edward Yang’s intricate comedy is set in a world of compromised artists, trash TV, and vacuous public relations firms. Taking place over two intense days, the movie follows a group of bored, affluent, twentysomething Taipeians who anguish over love and money, art and commerce, and each other. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 125 min.

Taiwan | 1994 | Edward Yang

Edward Yang’s intricate comedy is set in a world of compromised artists, trash TV, and vacuous public relations firms. Taking place over two intense days, the movie follows a group of bored, affluent, twentysomething Taipeians who anguish over love and money, art and commerce, and each other. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 125 min.

United States | 1976 | Sidney Lumet

Paddy Chayefsky’s most celebrated original screenplay is a sardonic account of an aging TV news anchor (Peter Finch) whose on-air mental breakdown and subsequent rants are exploited by network executives to boost ratings. Nominated for nine Oscars including Best Picture and Director, it took home four: Actor (Finch), Actress (Faye Dunaway), Supporting Actress (Beatrice Straight), and Original Screenplay. William Holden, Robert Duvall, and Ned Beatty co-star. DCP. 122 min.

United States | 1982 | Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola has reimagined, recut, and restored his innovative follow-up to Apocalypse Now—a visually stupendous ode to amour set in a lavishly theatrical Las Vegas dreamland. Featuring original songs and a score by Tom Waits, the film focuses on a bored couple (Frederic Forrest and Teri Garr) who separate and have flings with two exotics (Nastassja Kinski, Raul Julia) one Independence Day weekend in Vegas. Cinematography by Vittorio Storaro. “Some of the best work...

United States | 1976 | Sidney Lumet

Paddy Chayefsky’s most celebrated original screenplay is a sardonic account of an aging TV news anchor (Peter Finch) whose on-air mental breakdown and subsequent rants are exploited by network executives to boost ratings. Nominated for nine Oscars including Best Picture and Director, it took home four: Actor (Finch), Actress (Faye Dunaway), Supporting Actress (Beatrice Straight), and Original Screenplay. William Holden, Robert Duvall, and Ned Beatty co-star. DCP. 122 min.

United States | 1972 | John Boorman

A canoe trip down a remote, soon-to-be-dammed Georgia river turns into a hellish outdoor adventure for four Atlanta city slickers in John Boorman’s harrowing wilderness thriller. Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox star in this nightmarish classic that also features “Duelling Banjos.” Adults only! DCP. 109 min.

United States | 1982 | Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola has reimagined, recut, and restored his innovative follow-up to Apocalypse Now—a visually stupendous ode to amour set in a lavishly theatrical Las Vegas dreamland. Featuring original songs and a score by Tom Waits, the film focuses on a bored couple (Frederic Forrest and Teri Garr) who separate and have flings with two exotics (Nastassja Kinski, Raul Julia) one Independence Day weekend in Vegas. Cinematography by Vittorio Storaro. “Some of the best work...

United States | 1958 | John Cromwell

Either Marilyn Monroe or Ava Gardner was Paddy Chayefsky’s inspiration for the screen “goddess” at the center of his first original movie script. Kim Stanley, an esteemed Actors Studio alum who appeared in only five theatrical features during her illustrious career (and earned Oscar nominations for two of them), made her film debut in the movie. She plays a poor Southern girl who becomes a motion picture sexpot adored by millions—while remaining deeply unhappy and...

France, Italy | 1962 | Michelangelo Antonioni

The stunning final entry in Antonioni’s 1960s “trilogy of alienation” (following L’Avventura and La Notte) focuses on a Roman woman (Monica Vitti) who leaves her lover of four years (Francisco Rabal) for a fling with a young stockbroker (Alain Delon). But she really seems to prefer solitude to a relationship. Antonioni’s great opus concludes with a unique sequence—58 shots lasting a total of seven minutes, without dialogue or even people—that has been discussed for decades....

United States | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann

Gary Cooper stars in one of the most famous and celebrated westerns ever made—a real-time nail-biter about a soon-to-retire lawman who must decide whether to face a vicious, vengeful outlaw alone, or leave town with his beautiful new bride (Grace Kelly). Called “un-American” by John Wayne, the film became one of the first 25 movies selected for the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. Features Lee Van Cleef’s film debut. 4K DCP. 84 min.

Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Poland | 2023 | Agnieszka Holland

Legendary filmmaker Agnieszka Holland (“Europa Europa,” “The Secret Garden”) won the Golden Lion at the 2023 Venice Film Festival with this ground-level examination of the refugee crisis at the titular exclusion zone between Belarus and Poland, as seen through the eyes of a Syrian family fleeing their war-torn home. From master filmmaker and Academy Award® nominee Agnieszka Holland, and winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, GREEN BORDER dramatizes the...

Taiwan | 1996 | Edward Yang

“A screwball comedy made by an arthouse director” is how Variety described Edward Yang’s funny, convoluted tale of trendy foreigners in modern Taipei who get caught up with Chinese hoodlums. Yang’s theme is the amorality and soullessness of life in the booming, all-consuming metropolis, but colorful characters and amusing incidents help his bitter pill go down. With Virginie Ledoyen. “A razor-sharp satire on mercantilism versus morality.” –Film Comment. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 121 min. ...

Taiwan | 1996 | Edward Yang

“A screwball comedy made by an arthouse director” is how Variety described Edward Yang’s funny, convoluted tale of trendy foreigners in modern Taipei who get caught up with Chinese hoodlums. Yang’s theme is the amorality and soullessness of life in the booming, all-consuming metropolis, but colorful characters and amusing incidents help his bitter pill go down. With Virginie Ledoyen. “A razor-sharp satire on mercantilism versus morality.” –Film Comment. Cleveland revival premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 121 min. ...

United States | 1933 | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack

A giant ape is captured on a South Pacific island and brought to New York City, where he is put on display—before escaping and wreaking havoc. This famous adventure movie, with awesome special effects and stop-motion animation by Willis O’Brien, remains unsurpassed for horror and heartbreak. Fay Wray plays the “beauty” to Kong’s “beast.” DCP. 104 min.

United States | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann

Gary Cooper stars in one of the most famous and celebrated westerns ever made—a real-time nail-biter about a soon-to-retire lawman who must decide whether to face a vicious, vengeful outlaw alone, or leave town with his beautiful new bride (Grace Kelly). Called “un-American” by John Wayne, the film became one of the first 25 movies selected for the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. Features Lee Van Cleef’s film debut. 4K DCP. 84 min.

United States | 1933 | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack

A giant ape is captured on a South Pacific island and brought to New York City, where he is put on display—before escaping and wreaking havoc. This famous adventure movie, with awesome special effects and stop-motion animation by Willis O’Brien, remains unsurpassed for horror and heartbreak. Fay Wray plays the “beauty” to Kong’s “beast.” DCP. 104 min.

Croatia, France, Luxembourg, Romania | 2023 | Radu Jude

In the exhilarating, idea-filled new satire by Radu Jude (Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn), an overworked and underpaid production assistant in Bucharest prepares a workplace safety video for a multinational company. But when a participant in the movie makes an unacceptable statement during the shoot, the beleaguered filmmaker is compelled to re-work his story in a manner consistent with the company's narrative. Variety‘s Jessica Kiang proclaimed Jude’s comedy her favorite film of 2023, writing...

Ireland, United Kingdom | 2022 | Simon Chambers

Veteran documentary filmmaker Simon Chambers spends five years caring for and filming his elderly, eccentric gay Uncle David, a retired actor who lives in a cluttered, squalid, mouse-infested house in London, where he constantly declaims Shakespeare. Uncle David is dying, but this lonely old bohemian refuses to go gentle into that good night—a spectacle both entertaining and exasperating. “A thought-provoking study of what it means to live.” –Screen Int’l. Cleveland premiere. DCP. 84 min.

United States | 1964 | Arthur Hiller

James Garner, Julie Andrews, and Melvyn Douglas star in this sardonic anti-war black comedy adapted by Paddy Chayefsky from William Bradford Huie’s novel. Set in WWII London shortly before D-Day, the film tells of a cowardly, fun-loving naval officer who falls for a young British war widow shortly before he is selected by his commanding officer for the dubious honor of (probably) becoming the first American to die during the Normandy invasion. Julie Andrews has...

Croatia, France, Luxembourg, Romania | 2023 | Radu Jude

In the exhilarating, idea-filled new satire by Radu Jude (Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn), an overworked and underpaid production assistant in Bucharest prepares a workplace safety video for a multinational company. But when a participant in the movie makes an unacceptable statement during the shoot, the beleaguered filmmaker is compelled to re-work his story in a manner consistent with the company's narrative. Variety‘s Jessica Kiang proclaimed Jude’s comedy her favorite film of 2023, writing...

Algeria, France, Mauritania | 1979 | Med Hondo

The most expensive African film production up to that time, this long-neglected, anti-colonialist musical extravaganza is set on a vast slave-ship set, where centuries of French oppression in the West Indies are explored via a mix of theatrical and cinematic conventions. French-Mauritanian filmmaker Med Hondo said he “wanted to free the very concept of musical comedy from its American trade mark,” and he succeeded. “An exhilarating cinema experience…A scathing and unapologetic attack on French imperialism...

France, Japan | 2023 | Nicolas Philibert

Winner of the top prize at last year’s Berlin Film Festival, the uplifting new movie from France’s nonfiction master Nicolas Philibert (To Be and To Have) takes us on board the Adamant, a Parisian daycare center floating in the Seine River, where compassionate caregivers use art and music to enrich the lives of adults with mental disorders. “Profoundly affecting.” –Observer (UK). Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 109 min.

Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Qatar, United Kingdom | 2023 | Jessica Hausner

Mia Wasikowska stars in the new English-language satire by Austria’s Jessica Hausner (Lourdes). She plays a charismatic nutrition instructor at an elite boarding school who instructs students in “conscious eating.” The impressionable teens swallow every extreme idea this pied piper dishes out, and soon they’re headed for anorexia—and worse! “[A] supremely audacious and disturbing eating-disorder thriller.” –Variety. Not for the squeamish! Cleveland premiere. DCP. 110 min.

Algeria, France, Mauritania | 1979 | Med Hondo

The most expensive African film production up to that time, this long-neglected, anti-colonialist musical extravaganza is set on a vast slave-ship set, where centuries of French oppression in the West Indies are explored via a mix of theatrical and cinematic conventions. French-Mauritanian filmmaker Med Hondo said he “wanted to free the very concept of musical comedy from its American trade mark,” and he succeeded. “An exhilarating cinema experience…A scathing and unapologetic attack on French imperialism...

France, Japan | 2023 | Nicolas Philibert

Winner of the top prize at last year’s Berlin Film Festival, the uplifting new movie from France’s nonfiction master Nicolas Philibert (To Be and To Have) takes us on board the Adamant, a Parisian daycare center floating in the Seine River, where compassionate caregivers use art and music to enrich the lives of adults with mental disorders. “Profoundly affecting.” –Observer (UK). Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 109 min.

United States | 1974 | Martin Scorsese

Made between Mean Streets and Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese’s fourth dramatic feature is one of the director’s most moving and endearing works. It won the Oscar for Best Actress (Ellen Burstyn) and inspired the long-running TV sitcom Alice. Scorsese’s film focuses on a recently-widowed, middle-aged woman who decides to return to her California hometown (along with her precocious preteen son) and resume a singing career she had abandoned when she married. But the road home...

Belgium, France, United Kingdom | 2023 | Ken Loach

Master British filmmaker Ken Loach, who has won the Cannes Palme d’Or two separate times, has declared that this new feature will be his last. Written by Loach’s longtime collaborator Paul Laverty, the film is set in a once-thriving mining village in northern England, where the angry, downtrodden residents are trying to hold on to the local pub, their last public gathering space. An influx of Syrian refugees spurs additional tensions in the community. “If...

Belgium, France, United Kingdom | 2023 | Ken Loach

Master British filmmaker Ken Loach, who has won the Cannes Palme d’Or two separate times, has declared that this new feature will be his last. Written by Loach’s longtime collaborator Paul Laverty, the film is set in a once-thriving mining village in northern England, where the angry, downtrodden residents are trying to hold on to the local pub, their last public gathering space. An influx of Syrian refugees spurs additional tensions in the community. “If...

United States | 1974 | Martin Scorsese

Made between Mean Streets and Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese’s fourth dramatic feature is one of the director’s most moving and endearing works. It won the Oscar for Best Actress (Ellen Burstyn) and inspired the long-running TV sitcom Alice. Scorsese’s film focuses on a recently-widowed, middle-aged woman who decides to return to her California hometown (along with her precocious preteen son) and resume a singing career she had abandoned when she married. But the road home...

Japan, Taiwan | 2000 | Edward Yang

It opens with a wedding and ends with a funeral, and in between are almost three hours of some of the most rapturous cinema you will ever see. Edward Yang’s final film is an extravagantly praised, multi-generational saga that focuses on a middle-aged, middle-class Taipei couple (he works at a computer company, she joins a religious cult), their young daughter and son, and assorted friends and relatives who complicate their lives. Characters represent different stages...

United States | 2009 | Karyn Kusama

Megan Fox plays a demonically-possessed high school hottie who turns literal man-eater in this feminist cult horror-comedy written by Diablo Cody (Juno). Amanda Seyfried is her nerdy BFF. “A witty, subversive look at the darker side of teen friendship.” –Time Out Film Guide. DCP. 102 min.

Canada | 1980 | Peter Medak

One of Martin Scorsese’s 11 scariest movies of all time, this award-winning chiller follows a grieving composer (George C. Scott) who rents an old Victorian mansion that is haunted by the restless ghost of a child. Trish Van Devere and Melvyn Douglas co-star. DCP. 107 min.

Canada | 1980 | Peter Medak

One of Martin Scorsese’s 11 scariest movies of all time, this award-winning chiller follows a grieving composer (George C. Scott) who rents an old Victorian mansion that is haunted by the restless ghost of a child. Trish Van Devere and Melvyn Douglas co-star. DCP. 107 min.

United States | 2009 | Karyn Kusama

Megan Fox plays a demonically-possessed high school hottie who turns literal man-eater in this feminist cult horror-comedy written by Diablo Cody (Juno). Amanda Seyfried is her nerdy BFF. “A witty, subversive look at the darker side of teen friendship.” –Time Out Film Guide. DCP. 102 min.

United Kingdom | 1961 | Jack Clayton

A repressed Victorian governess (Deborah Kerr) suspects that her two young charges may be possessed by the evil spirits of dead former servants in this literate, exquisitely photographed adaptation of Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw. Screenplay co-written by Truman Capote. “One of the most elegantly beautiful ghost movies ever made.” –Pauline Kael. 4K DCP. 100 min.

United States | 1956 | Mervyn LeRoy

A woman slowly gleans that her pig-tailed, picture-perfect eight-year-old daughter is in fact a holy terror, prone to lying, theft, and much, much worse. What’s a mother to do? This overwrought, outrageous, but vastly entertaining film version of Maxwell Anderson’s stage shocker is both operatic and campy. Stars Nancy Kelly and Patty McCormack re-create their Broadway roles. 35mm. 129 min.

United Kingdom, United States | 1976 | Richard Donner

After a series of unfortunate events, an American diplomat living in London (Gregory Peck) and his wife (Lee Remick) begin to suspect that their unholy terror of a child, Damien, is in fact the Antichrist. (And you thought you had a bad day!) Composer Jerry Goldsmith’s much celebrated score won him his only Oscar. DCP. 111 min.

United Kingdom | 1961 | Jack Clayton

A repressed Victorian governess (Deborah Kerr) suspects that her two young charges may be possessed by the evil spirits of dead former servants in this literate, exquisitely photographed adaptation of Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw. Screenplay co-written by Truman Capote. “One of the most elegantly beautiful ghost movies ever made.” –Pauline Kael. 4K DCP. 100 min.

United Kingdom, United States | 1976 | Richard Donner

After a series of unfortunate events, an American diplomat living in London (Gregory Peck) and his wife (Lee Remick) begin to suspect that their unholy terror of a child, Damien, is in fact the Antichrist. (And you thought you had a bad day!) Composer Jerry Goldsmith’s much celebrated score won him his only Oscar. DCP. 111 min.

United Kingdom | 1960 | Wolf Rilla

An unexplained “blackout” in a small English village leaves all the women of child-bearing age pregnant. Eventually they give birth to an eerie race of precocious, blonde-haired, emotionless children with supernatural powers. This tight, haunting, atmospheric chiller was remade, less effectively, by John Carpenter in 1995. 35mm. 78 min.