Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Undoubtedly one of the greatest films ever made, Chantal Akerman’s singular avant-garde epic screens April 29 and May 8.
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Stories We Tell
In this genre-bending, deeply personal documentary, Oscar-nominated writer-director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who is telling it, uncovering a web of secrets kept by her family.
Tampopo with Toby Talbot
On April 30, one of the most original and delightful comedies of the eighties, with Toby Talbot in conversation with Michael Barker—plus a book signing!
Les Rendez-vous d’Anna
In one of Akerman’s greatest films, a celebrated Belgian filmmaker tours cities in West Germany, Belgium, and France with her work, and passes through anonymous, depopulated spaces like a ghost.
Dick Tracy
Warren Beatty’s big-budget, color-drenched adaptation of Chester Gould’s classic mid-century comic strip is a visual delight from start to finish, featuring lovingly detailed noir photography by Vittorio Storaro.
Letters Home
Adapting Rose Leiman Goldemberg’s off-Broadway play based on Sylvia Plath’s letters to her mother Aurelia, Akerman delivers a spare reflection on the inextricable ties binding mother and daughter.
The Last of Sheila
Sondheim’s only foray into screenwriting is this delightful, complexly woven comic-tinged mystery, co-written with his friend Anthony Perkins.
The Wrong Man + “Queens on Screens” with Cosmo Bjorkenheim
On April 30, see Alfred Hitchcock's stark 1956 masterpiece starring Henry Fonda and Vera Miles alongside Cosmo Bjorkenheim's cinematic tour of Queens.
No Home Movie
Built around a series of conversations in person and online between the filmmaker and her mother, a Belgian Holocaust survivor, No Home Movie is both diaristic and avant-garde, a meditation on family relations, memory, and death in the modern world.
Smyrna, My Beloved
This moving historical saga follows a prominent Greek family forced to endure the burning of the vibrant cosmopolitan city of Smyrna in 1922 by the Turks and the killing of its Greek and Armenian populations.
The Afterlight
Charlie Shackleton’s provocative found footage film—May 4!
Twitch, Pop, Bloom: Science in Action
This video exhibition presents films produced for scientific education and entertainment between 1904 and 1936, an era when cinema was still a novel tool for manipulating time and scale to show what was imperceptible to the naked eye.