• Special Seasons 2008
    • Roman Polanski
      February 20 - March 05
    • François Truffaut
      April 16 - April 30
    • Andrzej Wajda
      May 7 - May 21
    • Cathay
      May 28 - June 11
    • Carl Dreyer
      June 25 - July 9
    • Fritz Lang
      August 20 - September 3
    • Cinema '68
      September 17 - October 15
    • Arnaud Desplechin
      October 22 - November 5
    • Pedro Costa
      November 12 - November 26
    • Howard Hawks
      December 3 - December 17
  • Browse Films by Title
    • 6 Bagatelas
      (2001 Pedro Costa)
    • A
    • A Hell of a Good Life: Howard Hawks
      (1978 Hans C. Blumenburg)
    • A Woman of Paris
      (1923 Charles Chaplin)
    • Airey's Inlet
      (1997 Corinne & Authur Cantrill)
    • America is Hard to See
      (1970 Emilio de Antonio)
    • Ashes & Diamonds
      (1959 Andrzej Wajda)
    • B
    • Backstage
      (1919 Roscoe Arbuckle)
    • Bones
      (1997 Pedro Costa)
    • C
    • Carlton + Godard = Cinema
      (2003 Nigel Buesst)
    • Casa De Lava
      (1995 Pedro Costa)
    • Chinese Firedrill
      (1968 Will Hindle)
    • Ceiling Zero
      (1936 Howard Hawks)
    • Colossal Youth
      (2006 Pedro Costa)
    • Come Out Fighting
      (1973 Nigel Buesst)
    • D
    • Day For Night
      (1973 François Truffaut)
    • Day of Wrath
      (1943 Carl Dreyer)
    • Demoiselles de Wilko
      (1979 Andrzej Wajda)
    • Die Vier um Die Frau
      (1921 Fritz Lang)
    • Dr. Mabuse, Der Spieler pt 1
      (1922 Fritz Lang)
    • Dr. Mabuse, Der Spieler pt 2
      (1922 Fritz Lang)
    • Dracula
      (1958 Terrence Fisher)
    • E
    • Eaux D'artifice
      (1953 Kenneth Anger)
    • Escorts Over Tiger Hills
      (1969 Wang Xinglei)
    • Esther Kahn
      (2000 Arnaud Desplechin)
    • F
    • From The Highway
      (1970 Zhang Zengze)
    • Fury
      (1936 Fritz Lang)
    • G
    • Gertrud
      (1964 Carl Dreyer)
    • Glimpse of the Garden
      (1957 Marie Menken)
    • H
    • Hearts & Minds
      (1968 Bruce Petty)
    • Histoire(s) du Cinèma
      (1988-1998 Jean-Luc Godard)
    • I
    • If...
      (1968 Lindsay Anderson)
    • Interviews with My Lai Veterans
      (1970 Joseph Strick)
    • In Vanda's Room
      (2000 Pedro Costa)
    • J
    • Jules et Jim
      (1961 François Truffaut)
    • K
    • Kanal
      (1956 Andrzej Wajda)
    • Kings & Queen
      (2004 Arnaud Desplechin)
    • Knife in the Water
      (1962 Roman Polanski)
    • L
    • La Sentinelle
      (1992 Arnaud Desplechin)
    • Landscape After Battle
      (1970 Andrzej Wajda)
    • Landscape Suicide
      (1986 James Benning)
    • Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent
      (1971 François Truffaut)
    • Lichtenstein in London
      (1968 Bruce Beresford)
    • M
    • Macbeth
      (1971 Roman Polanski)
    • Mambo Girl
      (1970 Yi Wen)
    • Mammals
      (1963 Roman Polanski)
    • Man of Marble
      (1977 Andrzej Wajda)
    • Medium Cool
      (1969 Haskell Wexler)
    • Mississippi Mermaid
      (1969 François Truffaut)
    • Moonfleet
      (1955 Fritz Lang)
    • My Sex Life...Or How I Got Into An Argument
      (1996 Arnaud Desplechin)
    • N
    • Ne Change Rien
      (2005 Pedro Costa)
    • Near Coober Pedy
      (1977 C & A Cantrill)
    • Night of The Eagle (Burn Witch Burn)
      (1961 Sidney Hayers)
    • No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger
      (1969 Loeb Wiess)
    • O
    • Once Upon a Time
      (1922 Carl Dreyer)
    • Only Angels Have Wings
      (1939 Howard Hawks)
    • Ordet
      (1955 Carl Dreyer)
    • Our Sister Hedy
      (1957 Qin Tao)
    • P
    • Petulia
      (1968 Richard Lester)
    • Picnic With Wiessmann
      (1968 Jan Švankmajer)
    • Playing "In The Company of Men"
      (2003 Arnaud Desplechin)
    • Q
    • R
    • Remember the Night
      (1939 Mitchell Leisen)
    • Rosemary's Baby
      (1968 Roman Polanski)
    • Russian Ark
      (2002 Alexander Sokurov)
    • S
    • Scarlett Street
      (1945 Fritz Lang)
    • Sister Long Legs
      (1960 Tang Huang)
    • State Legislature
      (2007 Frederick Wiseman)
    • T
    • Targets
      (1968 Peter Bogdanovich)
    • Tarrafal
      (2007 Pedro Costa)
    • Tess
      (1979 Roman Polanski)
    • Tiger Shark
      (1932 Howard Hawks)
    • The 400 Blows
      (1959 François Truffaut)
    • The Blood
      (1989 Pedro Costa)
    • The Bride Wore Black
      (1968 François Truffaut)
    • The Criminal Code
      (1931 Howard Hawks)
    • The Crowd Roars
      (1932 Howard Hawks)
    • The Dawn Patrol
      (1930 Howard Hawks)
    • The Fat & The Lean
      (1961 Roman Polanski)
    • Dance Of The Vampires
      (1967 Roman Polanski)
    • The First Sword
      (1967 Tu Guangqi)
    • The Flat
      (1968 Jan Švankmajer)
    • The Garden
      (1968 Jan Švankmajer)
    • The Godless Girl
      (1929 Cecil B. Demille)
    • The Hayseed
      (1919 Roscoe Arbuckle)
    • The End of St. Petersburg
      (1927 Vsevolod Pudovkin)
    • The Joke
      (1969 Jaromil Jires)
    • The Land of Nothing
      (1996 Péter Forgács)
    • The Lottery
      (1969 Larry Yust)
    • The Mother & The Whore
      (1973 Jean Eustache)
    • The Passion of Joan of Arc
      (1927 Carl Dreyer)
    • The Palm Beach Story
      (1942 Preston Sturges)
    • The President
      (1919 Carl Dreyer)
    • The Rabbit Hunters
      (2007 Pedro Costa)
    • The Shores of Pho
      (1972 Stan Brakhage)
    • The Tailor From Torzhok
      (1925 Yakov Protazonov)
    • The Wedding
      (1973 Andrzej Wajda)
    • The Witchfinder General
      (1968 Michael Reeves)
    • T.O.U.C.H.I.N.G.
      (1968 Paul Sharits)
    • Two Men & A Wardrobe
      (1958 Roman Polanski)
    • U
    • V
    • Valentin de las Sierras
      (1968 Bruce Baillie)
    • Vampyr
      (1932 Carl Dreyer)
    • W
    • Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?
      (2001 Pedro Costa)
    • Wild Night in El Reno
      (1978 George Kuchar)
    • Witches' Hammer
      (1969 Otakár Vavra)
    • X
    • Y
    • You Only Live Once
      (1937 Fritz Lang)
    • Z
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    • February 13
      Opening Night: Classic Horror
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      Roman Polanski Season
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      Roman Polanski Season
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      Roman Polanski Season
    • March 12
      "Women in Trouble"
    • March 19
      "Eternal St. Petersburg"
    • March 26
      Jean-Luc Godard
    • April 2
      Frederick Wiseman
    • April 9
      "Experimental Landscapes"
    • April 16
      François Truffaut Season
    • April 23
      François Truffaut Season
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      François Truffaut Season
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      Andrzej Wajda Season
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      Andrzej Wajda Season
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      Cathay Season
    • June 4
      Cathay Season
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      Cathay Season
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      Nigel Buesst
    • June 25
      Carl Dreyer Season
    • July 2
      Carl Dreyer Season
    • July 9
      Carl Dreyer Season
    • July 16
      "American Screwball"
    • BREAK
      No screenings.
    • August 20
      Fritz Lang Season
    • August 27
      Fritz Lang Season
    • September 3
      Fritz Lang Season
    • September 10
      Jean Eustache
    • September 17
      Cinema 68' Season
    • September 24
      Cinema 68' Season
    • October 1
      Cinema 68' Season
    • October 8
      Cinema 68' Season
    • October 15
      Cinema 68' Season
    • October 22
      Arnaud Desplechin Season
    • October 29
      Arnaud Desplechin Season
    • November 5
      Arnaud Desplechin Season
    • November 12
      Pedro Costa Season
    • November 19
      Pedro Costa Season
    • November 26
      Pedro Costa Season
    • December 3
      Howard Hawks Season
    • December 10
      Howard Hawks Season
    • December 17
      Howard Hawks Season

NOVEMBER 26 - SPECIAL SEASON: STILL LIVES: PEDRO COSTA

November 26 - 7:00pm

In Vanda's Room

Pedro Costa (2000) 170 mins

Nothing can quite prepare you for Costa’s portrait of 2 drug-addicted sisters, Vanda & Zita Duarte, who spend their days “in Vanda’s room”, scraping crack from the pages of an old telephone book to smoke while the shantytown in which they live is being demolished. Surprisingly funny, the film was shot on digital video & displays both a rigorous cinematic formalism & great humanity. Life may treat these people with nothing but contempt, but in their fleeting connections with each other they assert their worth, their compassion & their dignity.

Imported 35mm print.

November 26 - 10:10pm

Bones

Pedro Costa (1997) 94 mins

Costa asks his players to move & express sparingly, invoking Bresson: A young mother loses her (barely wanted) newborn to her boyfriend who tries to sell it on the perilous streets of the shantytown in which they live. The mother enlists her best friend to help her find it, without luck. Under the lamp of the director’s artistry, this devastating, bleak, highly stylised & minimalist work also wields the power to amaze.

Imported 35mm print.

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