May 12, 2021
Dir. Jean Renoir. 1937, 113 mins. 35mm. With Jean Gabin, Marcel Dalio, Erich von Stroheim. Jean Renoir’s undisputed anti-war masterpiece, The Grand Illusion is also one of the most perfectly cast and most entertaining movies …
Dir. Rob Reiner. 1984, 82 mins. DCP. With Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer. In Reiner’s timeless spoof of The Last Waltz, Spinal Tap is the loudest band in England and they are …
Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville. 1969, 145 mins. DCP. With Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret. Philippe (Ventura), aided by Resistance compatriots including maitresse of disguise Mathilde (Signoret), goes underground in the face of the German Occupation; but the …
Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo. 1966, 120 mins. DCP. With Brahim Haggiag, Jean Martin, Saadi Yacef. A history of the three-year Battle of Algiers, chronicling the escalating terrorism and violence between French military forces and the Algerian …
Dir. Luis Buñuel. 1974, 104 mins. 35mm. With Adriana Asti, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Piccoli. One of Buñuel’s more purely surreal films moves in constant interruption from highlight to highlight, most famously a scatological dinner party …
Dir. Nicolas Roeg. 1976, 140 mins. DCP. With David Bowie. Roeg’s mind-bending science fiction cult favorite features one of David Bowie’s iconic screen performances. Bowie plays an alien who crashes to Earth and immediately registers …
Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni. 1962, 122 mins. DCP. With Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti. A talented but callow novelist (Mastroianni) enjoys the acclaim afforded his just-published novel while his marriage to a well-to-do Milanese woman …
Dir. Orson Welles. 1962, 119 mins. DCP. With Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau. Josef K. (Perkins) is accused of an unspecified crime and shambles through a series of bizarre encounters in an attempt to clear his …
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard. 1963, 102 mins. DCP. With Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance. Scenes from a marital breakdown between screenwriter (Michel Piccoli) and his wife (Brigitte Bardot), as both become enmeshed in the behind-the-camera …
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard. 1960, 90 mins. 35mm. With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg. Paying homage to hard-boiled American crime fiction and Humphrey Bogart, brash young genius Godard rewrote the rules of cinema with this exciting, romantic …