I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me
On May 5, see this engrossing dark comedy from Mexican director Fernando Frías, based on the novel by acclaimed writer Juan Pablo Villalobos, followed by a Q&A with Frías.
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On May 5, see this engrossing dark comedy from Mexican director Fernando Frías, based on the novel by acclaimed writer Juan Pablo Villalobos, followed by a Q&A with Frías.
Screening 5/5, Hiroshi Shimizu's beloved road movie fashions a tour of depression-era Japan that deserves mention in the company of Ford’s Stagecoach and Renoir’s The Crime of Monsieur Lange.
Prismatic Ground kicks off its fourth edition with the Belgian Film Archive restoration of this mournful, poetic glimpse of everyday life in the occupied West Bank.
Bertrand Bonello has created a dynamic and disturbing parable that jumps between three different time periods (1910, 2014, and 2044) to diagnose our acute—and perhaps eternal—feelings of estrangement and alienation. Screening 5/10–5/18.
In Shimizu’s most renowned and adored film in Japan, the idyllic country life of two brothers is suddenly thrown into crisis one summer when their father is wrongly arrested for embezzlement. Screens Friday, 5/10.
Kermit the Frog and the Muppets take the show to Broadway in this classic comedy directed by Frank Oz, screening 5/11 and 5/12 for its 40th anniversary, with Craig Shemin, President of the Jim Henson Legacy, in person!
Shimizu's film draws on the then widely circulated story of a 17-year-old Taiwanese aboriginal girl whose patriotic zeal so gripped her that she drowned amid a storm while seeing off her Japanese teacher for the Chinese front.
Singled out by several Shimizu scholars as a masterpiece, this first part of the two-volume sequel to Children in the Wind portrays the ongoing trials of boys Zenta and Sanpei as their family once again falls on hard times. Screening 5/11.
Legendary documentarian Kirchheimer speaks with various women on the beautiful, fragile, and sometimes fraught relationship between daughter and parent and the role it played in shaping their identity. Director will appear in person.
Singled out by several Shimizu scholars as a masterpiece, this two-volume sequel to Children in the Wind portrays the ongoing trials of boys Zenta and Sanpei as their family once again falls on hard times.
Bertrand Bonello has created a dynamic and disturbing parable that jumps between three different time periods (1910, 2014, and 2044) to diagnose our acute—and perhaps eternal—feelings of estrangement and alienation. Screening 5/10–5/18.
Shimizu’s plaintive romance turns on the encounter between a convalescing soldier (Ozu stalwart Chishu Ryū) and a young woman (the great Kinuyo Tanaka) fleeing her sordid past at a secluded mountain spa.