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Something Wild

Jonathan Demme was at the height of his madcap powers with this quintessential rollicking eighties comic adventure starring a breakout Melanie Griffith as the maniacally free-spirited Lulu.

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The Wedding Banquet

On 3/30 and 3/31, see the breakthrough film in America for Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, the moving, New York–set story of a gay Taiwanese immigrant who marries a woman from China, both to help her procure a green card and to convince his parents that he is straight.

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The Wedding Banquet

On 3/30 and 3/31, see the breakthrough film in America for Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, the moving, New York–set story of a gay Taiwanese immigrant who marries a woman from China, both to help her procure a green card and to convince his parents that he is straight.

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Henry Fool

Hal Hartley’s rowdy, hilarious literary saga about a depraved wanderer who inspires a shy sanitation worker to write a book-length poem is an unlikely ode to bohemian life. Screening 4/7.

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The Sweet East

Nothing is sacred in the knockabout feature directorial debut of acclaimed cinematographer Sean Price Williams and critic-turned-screenwriter Nick Pinkerton, screening in 35mm.

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The Sweet East

Nothing is sacred in the knockabout feature directorial debut of acclaimed cinematographer Sean Price Williams and critic-turned-screenwriter Nick Pinkerton, screening in 35mm.

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Seven Seas: Chapter 1—Virginity

This harrowing, intricately plotted urban melodrama depicts the disgrace and subsequent revenge of a virtuous young woman from a traditional middle-class household who suffers at the hands of the predatory scion of the wealthy, westernized Yagibashi family.

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Seven Seas: Chapter 2—Chastity

Part two of Shimizu's harrowing, intricately plotted urban melodrama depicting the disgrace and subsequent revenge of a virtuous young woman from a traditional middle-class household, who suffers at the hands of the predatory scion of the wealthy, westernized Yagibashi family.

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A Hero of Tokyo

In just over an hour of tautly paced, plot-filled action, Shimizu unspools the tragic generational tale of Kenichi, a boy whose backsliding father abandons him.

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Japanese Girls at the Harbor

Hiroshi Shimizu’s most celebrated silent film—about the jealousy that ensnares devoted Catholic school mates Sunako and Dora as they both fall for the motorcycle-sporting playboy Henry—screens with live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura on 5/4.

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Forget Love for Now

This devastating story of a single mother Oyuki who supports herself and her son Haruo by working at a “chabuya,” a hostess bar catering to foreigners, is set in the cosmopolitan harbor city of Yokohama.