A provoking mystery-suspense drama explores the morality of privacy in the story of Harry Caul, a surveillance expert, who conducts a routine surveillance job only to later find himself suspicious that he has become an unwitting player in murder scheme.

Classic film noir based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett. Directed by Stuart Heisler starring Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd.

Showing as a 35mm double feature with This Gun for Hire (35mm) as part of our Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid series.

Ridley Scott’s legendary techno-noir stars Harrison Ford as a detective sent to uncover a group of lifelike robots on the run. One of the most influential films of the 1980s and indisputably gorgeous on the big screen.

Part of the UNIQLO Festival of Films from Japan

Helmed by Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire; Paris, Texas) with a screenplay by Wenders and Takuma Takasaki, Perfect Days is a lyrical portrait tracing the daily movements of a man named Hirayama (Kōji Yakusho; Tampopo, Shall We Dance). Deeply content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo, Hirayama also cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and photographing trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.

At the Harry and Mildred Remis Auditorium (Auditorium 161)

Members
$12.00
Nonmembers
$15.00

A British psychological horror-thriller film directed by Michael Powell, written by Leo Marks, and starring Carl Boehm, Anna Massey, and Moira Shearer. The film revolves around a serial killer who murders women while using a portable film camera to record their dying expressions of terror, putting his footage together into a snuff film used for his own self pleasure. Its title derives from the expression “peeping Tom”, which describes a voyeur. The film’s controversial subject matter and its extremely harsh reception by critics had a severely negative impact on Powell’s career as a director in the United Kingdom.[5] However, it attracted a cult following, and in later years, it has been re-evaluated and is now widely considered a masterpiece

Part of the Boston Turkish Film Festival.

Fearing she has a serious illness after losing her sense of smell, Reyhan decides to leave her life behind, follow her instincts, and establish new bonds with the world. Among her adventures, she moves into her late grandmother’s flat, gets a random job at a hotel, and befriends a blind man. As Reyhan ventures away from the life prescribed to her, she goes back to the origins of her biggest wounds—to a fisherman’s coast where her childhood passed, and to a woman called Leman, with whom guilt and desire are meshed together. Just as assuming a new life begins to feel plausible, Reyhan realizes she has become a missing person. She wonders: Is this her chance for freedom? Directed by Melisa Önel inTurkish with English subtitles.

Stick around after the film for a Q&A with the director!

In the Harry and Mildred Remis Auditorium (Auditorium 161)

Giuseppe Tornatore’s loving homage to the cinema tells the story of Salvatore, a successful film director, returning home for the funeral of Alfredo, his old friend who was the projectionist at the local cinema throughout his childhood.

A celebration of an artist’s life in the purest sense, this film is the definitive swan song of one of the world’s greatest musicians.

In late 2022, as a parting gift, Ryuichi Sakamoto mustered all of his energy to leave us with one final performance: a concert film featuring just him and his piano. Curated and sequenced by Sakamoto himself, the twenty pieces featured in the film wordlessly narrate his life through his wide-ranging oeuvre. The selection spans his entire career, from his pop-star period with Yellow Magic Orchestra and his magnificent scores for filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci to his meditative final album,12. Directed by Neo Sora in Japanese with English subtitles.

Marlon T. Riggs Spotlight

Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act. The film intercuts footage of Hemphill reciting his poetry, Riggs telling the story of his growing up, scenes of men in social intercourse and dance, and various comic riffs, including a visit to the “Institute of Snap!thology,” where men take lessons in how to snap their fingers: the sling snap, the point snap, the diva snap.

Presented with…

Affirmations
Marlon T. Riggs • USA • English • 10 min

An exploration of Black gay male desires and dreams, Affirmations starts with an affectionate, humorous confessional and moves on to a wish for empowerment and incorporation.

Anthem
Marlon T. Riggs • USA • English • 9 min

Marlon Riggs’ experimental music video politicizes the homoeroticism of African-American men. With sensual, sexual, and defiant images and words intended to provoke, Anthem reasserts the “self-evident right” to life and liberty.

Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (No Regret)
Marlon T. Riggs • USA • English • 38 min

Through music, poetry and quiet, at times, chilling self-disclosure, five positive black gay men speak of their individual confrontation with AIDS, illuminating the difficult journey black men throughout America have made in coping with the personal and social devastation of the epidemic.

Radha is unwavering in her devotion to her husband, Ashok, despite their barren and sexless arranged marriage. For 15 years, Radha has been the consummate Indian wife, while Ashok, under the guidance of a spiritual leader, is attempting to rid himself completely of any form of desire. Meanwhile, Ashok’s brother Jatin has brought home his new wife, Sita, but is unwilling to give up his relationship with his Chinese girlfriend. Slowly, Sita’s presence causes the threads that held the family together to unravel.

A dystopian action film written and directed by Alex Garland. The film stars Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Nick Offerman, the film follows a team of journalists who travel across the United States during a rapidly escalating Second American Civil War, which has engulfed the entire nation.

20th Anniversary!

After returning home from their honeymoon Shrek and Fiona must meet with Fiona’s parents. They return from their honeymoon to find an invitation to visit Fiona’s parents, the King and Queen of the Kingdom of Far, Far Away. With Donkey along for the ride, the newlyweds set off. All of the citizens of Far, Far Away turn out to greet their returning Princess, and her parents happily anticipate the homecoming of their daughter and their new son-in-law, not to mention how much their little girl had…well..changed.

$5 FAN FAVES!

A 2022 production featuring the Paris Opera Orchestra Part of the Opera at Cinema series

King Herod’s stepdaughter, Salome, princess of Judea, finds palace life dreary. Her curiosity is roused when she hears the voice of Jochanaan, a prophet held prisoner by Herod who is afraid of him. Obsessed by this enigmatic and virtuous man, Salome is ready to do anything to possess him, dead or alive. Drawing on Oscar Wilde’s scandalous play of the same name, in 1905 Richard Strauss produced the work that was to ensure his status as Wagner’s successor in the history of German opera. “Dance for me, Salome”. From Herod’s lubricious injunction to the young woman stems one of the most emblematic orchestral passages in opera. Directed by Lydia Steier, Simone Young  in German with English subtitles.

Part of the Wicked Queer: Boston’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival

In the Harry and Mildred Remis Auditorium (Auditorium 161)Members: $12.00, Nonmembers: $15.00.

Kirsten Dunst portrays the ill-fated child princess who married France’s young and indifferent King Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman). Feeling isolated in a royal court rife with scandal and intrigue Marie Antoinette defied both royalty and commoner by living like a rock star which served only to seal her fate.

While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft (Richard Roundtree, in a career-defining role), a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers.

Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home.

The Wizard of oz (35mm) is screening with It Happened One Night (35mm) as part of our A Tale of Two Studios double feature series. 

Synchronized sound romantic comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects. The story follows the misadventures of Chaplin’s Tramp as he falls in love with a blind girl and develops a turbulent friendship with an alcoholic millionaire.

Admission is FREE (brought to you by the DeFlorez Fund for Humor)

From Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, the film stars Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker and avid bowler. He is assaulted as a result of mistaken identity, then learns that a millionaire, also named Jeffrey Lebowski (David Huddleston), was the intended victim. The millionaire Lebowski’s trophy wife is supposedly kidnapped, and millionaire Lebowski commissions The Dude to deliver the ransom to secure her release. The plan goes awry when the Dude’s friend, Walter Sobchak (John Goodman), schemes to keep the ransom money for the Dude and himself. Sam Elliott, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, John Turturro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tara Reid, David Thewlis, Peter Stormare, Jon Polito, and Ben Gazzara also appear in supporting roles.

Midnight Madness! 

When a mysterious virus breaks out across South Korea, the infected transform into the murderous undead. As terrified travelers fight for their lives on a bullet train from hell, the result is a gory high-speed collision between the rich and the poor, the living and the undead, and the best and worst of human nature. However, when some of them prove willing to sell their soul for survival, the trust may prove to be a luxury even the most affluent passengers cannot afford. Directed by Yeon Sang-ho.

Metropolis is one of the great achievements of the silent era, a work so audacious in its vision and so angry in its message that it is, if anything, more powerful today than when it was made. In this 1927 classic, a city of the future is threatened with destruction when a wealthy corporate leader enlists a mad scientist to put down labor reformers. Directed by Fritz Lang.

LIVE SCORE BY JEFF RAPSIS

Special Double Feature Celebrating the new production of GATSBY!

50th Anniversary! Co-presented with the American Repertory Theater

Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby’s circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.

Note: THE GREAT GATSBY (1974) and THE GREAT GATSBY (2013) screen as a double feature on Tue, Apr 23 only.

American Repertory Theater presents GATSBY May 23 – July 21. Learn more and get tickets at americanrepertorytheater.org.

The film explores the Peter’s character as he faces new challenges and struggles with ‘the gift and the curse,’ desperately trying to balance his dual identities as the web-slinging superhero Spider-Man and his life as a college student. Tormented by his secrets, Peter finds that his relationships with all those he holds dear are in danger of unraveling. His life-long yearning for M.J. (Kirsten Dunst) becomes even stronger as he fights the impulse to reveal his secret life and declare his love.Directed by Sam Raimi.

From visionary filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, Challengers stars Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy turned coach and a force of nature who makes no apologies for her game on and off the court. Married to a champion on a losing streak (Mike Faist – West Side Story), Tashi’s strategy for her husband’s redemption takes a surprising turn when he must face off against the washed-up Patrick (Josh O’Connor -The Crown) – his former best friend and Tashi’s former boyfriend. As their pasts and presents collide, and tensions run high, Tashi must ask herself, what will it cost to win.

Admission is FREE

Loosely based on the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War. The film follows a river journey from South Vietnam into Cambodia undertaken by Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), who is on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a renegade Special Forces officer who is accused of murder and presumed insane. The ensemble cast also features Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne and Dennis Hopper. Harrison Ford, who at the time of filming was not yet a major star, appears in a minor role. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Newly restored in 4K to coincide with its 40th anniversary, considered by critics—and pretty much anyone who has ever seen it—to be one of the greatest concert films of all time. Directed by Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs) and featuring core band members David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison along with Bernie Worrell, Alex Weir, Steve Scales, Lynn Mabry, and Edna Holt, the film dynamically captures the legendary Talking Heads at the peak of their powers. This incredible film creates a kind of time-travel magic, transporting the viewer back in time to Hollywood’s Pantages Theater in December of 1983 to watch the band perform some of their most memorable songs.