Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
The ninth film from Quentin Tarantino revisits Los Angeles at the tail end of the 1960s, when the Hollywood studio system was fading and hippie subversion was ascendant.
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JFK
At the height of his cinematic powers, Oliver Stone got this miraculously personal studio film green-lit—a feat that now feels all but unthinkable. This free-wheeling, brilliantly constructed head-trip feels awfully prescient in its “there is no bottom” perspective on American history and conspiracy.
Summer Wars
See a newly restored 2009 anime feature from Mamoru Hosoda, the Academy Award–nominated director of Belle and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
The Wild Bunch
Peckinpah’s masterpiece is at once classical and revisionist, an exemplar of the very genre it so brilliantly subverts, building towards a famously violent climax that seemed to all but put a fork in the genre.
Summer Wars
See a newly restored 2009 anime feature from Mamoru Hosoda, the Academy Award–nominated director of Belle and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Field Report: The Filmmaker & The Scientist
What is the role of the filmmaker in scientific research and conservation? Expedition films show us the work of scientists in the field and document important behavior. But does adding more humans to the scene disrupt animal activity or damage the environment? Join us for a screening of Ivohiboro: The Lost Forest, followed by a conversation about fieldwork and the collaboration between scientists and filmmaking teams.
Ivohiboro: The Lost Forest
In fall 2023, Dr. Patricia Wright—renowned primatologist, MacArthur Fellow, and pioneer in rainforest conservation—led a team of young scientists on a daring 30-day expedition into this Ivohiboro, a pristine tropical forest reigning over the rugged plains of Southeast Madagascar.
The Long Day Closes + Book Event
A portrait of the budding artist as a young boy, told completely from inside the child’s mind, The Long Day Closes is Terence Davies’s exquisitely beautiful work of autobiographical fantasia. Followed by book event celebrating the reissue of Terence Davies’s novel Hallelujah Now.
The Terence Davies Trilogy
Terence Davies’s first three shorts are among the most accomplished debuts in film history, profoundly personal in theme and with a preternatural grasp of cinematic grammar. Consisting of Children (1976), Madonna and Child (1980), and Death and Transfiguration (1973), the films together form nothing less than the complete scope of a man’s earthly existence, set in the Liverpool of Davies’s youth.
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Terence Davies broke through on the international cinema scene after his debut feature stunned audiences at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. The film illustrates with abstraction, beauty, and occasional horror Davies’s memories of his family in 1950s Liverpool.
Of Time and the City
Davies’s first film after an eight-year hiatus following The House of Mirth was his sole feature documentary, an archival-rich yet typically personal rumination on place and time. Autobiographical elements are fused with evocative, inescapably haunting images (still and moving) of Liverpool as it changed and mutated over Davies's life.
The Neon Bible
Based on John Kennedy Toole’s celebrated Depression-era novel, The Neon Bible is Davies’s first American film, yet still fully of a piece with his nostalgia-suffused filmography. David is a young man growing up in a small Southern Bible Belt town in the 1940s. When his aunt Mae (Gena Rowlands) a former club singer, comes to stay in the threadbare home he shares with his parents, she soon becomes his sole companion.