Union Cinema

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

New 4K Restoration! A stylish and seductive submersion into the techno-scored neon nightlife of Taipei, Hou’s much-misunderstood marvel stars Shu Qi as an aimless bar hostess drifting away from her blowhard boyfriend and towards Jack Kao’s suave, sensitive gangster. Structured... Read More