Arco - Animation - 89 minutes - France - English - Director: Ugo Bienvenu - Trailer - Tickets
Fri. 02/06 - 2:00, 3:50, 7:50
Sat. 02/07 - 2:00, 3:50, 7:50
Sun. 02/08 - 2:35, 4:35
Mon. 02/09 - 4:05, 7:50
Tues. 02/10 - 4:05, 7:50
Wed. 02/11 - 4:05, 5:55
Thurs. 02/12 - 4:05, 7:50
A magical and beautifully animated journey through time, ARCO is a dazzling adventure about a 10-year-old boy from a peaceful, distant future who accidentally travels back to the year 2075 and discovers a world in peril.
A Private Life - Mystery - 105 min. - France - French (subtitled) - Director: Rebecca Zlotowski - Trailer - Tickets
Fri. 02/06 - 12:25, 2:35, 5:40
Sat. 02/07 - 12:25, 2:35, 5:40
Sun. 02/08 - 12:25, 2:00, 6:00
Mon. 02/09 - 1:55, 3:30, 5:40
Tues. 02/10 - 1:55, 3:30, 5:40
Wed. 02/11 - 1:55, 3:30
Thurs. 02/12 - 1:55, 3:30, 5:40
The renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner (Jodie Foster) mounts a private investigation into the death of one of her patients, whom she is convinced has been murdered.
The Voice of Hind Rajab - Drama - 89 min. - Tunisia - Arabic (subtitled) - Director: Kaouther Ben Hania - Trailer - Tickets
Fri. 02/06 - 12:10, 4:45, 6:35, 8:25
Sat. 02/07 - 12:10, 4:45, 6:35, 8:25
Sun. 02/08 - 12:10, 4:10, 6:25
Mon. 02/09 - 1:40, 6:05, 8:05
Tues. 02/10 - 1:40, 6:05, 8:05
Wed. 02/11 - 1:40, 5:40, 7:50
Thurs. 02/12 - 1:40, 6:05, 8:05
January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 5-year-old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.
A French critic coined the term cinéma du look as an insult, describing the glitzy, shallow work of a trio of hip, young directors from Paris.
Jean-Jacques Beineix, Leos Carax, and Luc Besson loved movies as intensely as their nouvelle vague forebears had, but unlike Godard, Rohmer, or Rivette, whose movement had defined the youth culture of the previous generation, these new commercial artists seemed to have little in the way of politics, philosophy, or critical theory undergirding their cinephilia. The glossy, energetically romantic films of the cinéma du look coincided with the rise of MTV as a celebration of style and spectacle for their own sake.
Yet their studied superficiality made them deep in their own way. The great Marxist theorist Fredric Jameson called Beineix’s Diva “the first French post-modernist film.”
And some of the films weren’t so totally superficial in the first place. Though closer to a fad than a movement, the cinéma du look left a lasting mark — not just on advertisers and music video directors but also on Michael Mann, Wong Kar-Wai, and even some of the New Hollywood auteurs from whose earlier work it had drawn (particularly Francis Ford Coppola).
It also left behind a small handful of the most purely pleasurable big-screen viewing experiences available anywhere. Please join us on Wednesdays in February for a retrospective.
Boy Meets Girl (1984) - Drama - 105 min. - France - French (subtitled) - Director: Leos Carax - Trailer - Tickets
Wed. 02/04 - 7:50
The first feature by Leos Carax (made when he was just twenty-three years old) is an intoxicating, lusciously stylized evocation of a nocturnal Paris populated by moody misfits and lost souls. Among them are Alex (Denis Lavant), an aspiring filmmaker whose girlfriend has just left him for his best friend, and Mireille (Mireille Perrier), a young woman who is contemplating suicide after being jilted by her lover. Over the course of a night, the two find themselves joined by fate in a passionate romance alive to both the ecstasy and ennui of youth.
Diva (1981) - Thriller - 117 min. - France - French (subtitled) - Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix - Trailer - Tickets
Wed. 02/11 - 7:30
Jules (Frédéric Andréi) goes on the run from every conceivable pursuer - from drug dealers and music pirates to the cops - after obtaining a recording of the woman of his dreams, the never-recorded opera star Cynthia Hawkins (Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez).
Betty Blue (1986, director’s cut) - Romance - 185 min. - France - French (subtitled) - Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
Wed. 02/18
When the easygoing would-be novelist Zorg meets the tempestuous Betty in a sunbaked French beach town, it’s the beginning of a whirlwind love affair that sees the pair turn their backs on conventional society in favor of the hedonistic pursuit of freedom, adventure, and carnal pleasure. But as the increasingly erratic Betty’s grip on reality begins to falter, Zorg finds himself willing to do things he never expected to protect both her fragile sanity and their tenuous existence together.
The Big Blue (1988) - Adventure - 168 min. - France - English - Director: Luc Besson
Wed. 02/25
This is the story of two divers. It begins in the late fifties when, even as boys, Jacques Mayol and Enzo Molinari would vie to set deep-sea diving records. Twenty years later, they are both frontrunners for the championship. The portrait of two men bound to the sea and the love between Jacques and his earth woman, Johanna.
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