Milwaukee Premiere! On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the High Commissioner of the Republic and French government official De Roller is a calculating man with flawless manners. His somewhat broad perception of his role brings him to navigate the... Read More

Milwaukee Premiere! On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the High Commissioner of the Republic and French government official De Roller is a calculating man with flawless manners. His somewhat broad perception of his role brings him to navigate the... Read More

Marguerite Duras Series Les Mains Négatives (1978, 18 min), an ode to the excluded of humanity, traces a slow advance through Paris, deepened by the reference to the drawings of hands found in many caves dating from the Magdalenian age.... Read More

Marguerite Duras Series Marguerite Duras’s most celebrated work is a mesmerizing, almost incantatory experience with few stylistic precedents in the history of cinema. Within the insular walls of a lavish, decaying embassy in 1930s India, the French ambassador’s wife staves... Read More

New Restoration! Nobuhiro Suwa’s second feature and breakout film telescopes in on the seemingly mannered, domestic life of a young couple – Kei, a cash-strapped aspiring actor and Yu, a junior employee at a high-end clothing store – and finds... Read More

A darkly comic portrait of late Thatcher-era London, High Hopes examines the different lives of a pair of siblings: Cyril, a caustic motorcycle courier who takes pride in his working class roots, and Valerie, a high-strung aspirant to upper-middle class... Read More

New 4K Restoration! A lost treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith’s Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/romance. Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are... Read More

2 x 16mm projection, filmmaker present "Stubbornly looking at the ruins of a commune we search for auguries. For instance: ‘Fair weather for drifters. We wander by foot across times, erratically shooting images and recording sounds through the kaleidoscopic spatiality... Read More

December 1969, Thelonious Monk arrives in Paris. Before his evening concert, he records a program for French television. The rushes that have been preserved show us a Thelonious Monk who is rare, close, and in the grip of the violent... Read More

Programmed by Jesse Malmed / on 16mm! Let's start with some big pronouncements: before film wasn't film it was film and film was a lot of things, like light, like sound, like projection psychological and literal, like plastic, like ribbon.... Read More

On 35mm! In the waning days of second-wave feminism and its anti-pornography discourse, Bette Gordon directed her second feature, about a young woman, Christine, who takes a job as a ticket taker at a Times Square porno theater. There she... Read More