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September 23

Hustle

Hustle

DIRECTOR: ROBERT ALDRICH
1975 / 120min / 35mm
Reynolds’ spiritually-exhausted LAPD detective dallying with Catherine Deneuve’s high-class escort while trying to crack the case of a teenaged girl washed up on a beach, whose daddy (the God-level Ben Johnson) doesn’t buy that this was a routine suicide.
The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith

The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith

DIRECTOR: SARA FISHKO
2016 / 87min / DCP
A rundown loft on Sixth Avenue in the Flower District—it doesn’t look like much. Yet between 1957 and 1965 it was the scene for all-night jams and recordings, a regular meeting place for the jazz-obsessed and legends like Thelonious Monk and Hall Overton.
4 For Texas

4 For Texas

DIRECTOR: ROBERT ALDRICH
1963 / 124min / 35mm
The Rat Pack rides West as preening junior tycoon Zack Thomas (Frank Sinatra, loathed by Aldrich) and sharpshooter Joe Jarrett (Dean Martin) roll into Galveston, quibbling over who gets to dump $100,000 into a waterside casino.

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The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith

The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith

DIRECTOR: SARA FISHKO
2016 / 87min / DCP
A rundown loft on Sixth Avenue in the Flower District—it doesn’t look like much. Yet between 1957 and 1965 it was the scene for all-night jams and recordings, a regular meeting place for the jazz-obsessed and legends like Thelonious Monk and Hall Overton.
Hustle

Hustle

DIRECTOR: ROBERT ALDRICH
1975 / 120min / 35mm
Reynolds’ spiritually-exhausted LAPD detective dallying with Catherine Deneuve’s high-class escort while trying to crack the case of a teenaged girl washed up on a beach, whose daddy (the God-level Ben Johnson) doesn’t buy that this was a routine suicide.
4 For Texas

4 For Texas

DIRECTOR: ROBERT ALDRICH
1963 / 124min / 35mm
The Rat Pack rides West as preening junior tycoon Zack Thomas (Frank Sinatra, loathed by Aldrich) and sharpshooter Joe Jarrett (Dean Martin) roll into Galveston, quibbling over who gets to dump $100,000 into a waterside casino.
OJ: Made in America

OJ: Made in America

DIRECTOR: EZRA EDELMAN
2016 / 464min / DCP
It is the defining cultural tale of modern America - a saga of race, celebrity, media, violence, and the criminal justice system. Two decades after its unforgettable climax, it continues to fascinate, polarize, and develop new chapters. Now, Peabody and Emmy-award winning director Ezra Edelman and the producers of ESPN’s “30 for 30” series have made it the subject of their most ambitious project yet.
Chimpanzee

Chimpanzee

DIRECTOR: ALASTAIR FOTHERGILL & MARK LINFIELD
2012 / 78min / DCP
After chimp Oscar’s mom disappears, he’s left to fend for himself, and the chances of his finding someone to adopt him look grim until he comes to his last possible hope, the gruff and macho alpha Freddy, who becomes an unlikely protector and friend.
A Matter of Life and Death

A Matter of Life and Death

DIRECTOR: MICHAEL POWELL & EMERIC PRESSBURGER
1946 / 104min / DCP
World War II RAF pilot David Niven, going down fast over the English Channel, makes a last minute connection to American radio operator Kim Hunter before he bails out, sans parachute. Then, in one of cinema’s most magical conceits, the angel of death loses him in the fog! Heaven wants him, but he is determined to stay on Earth with his new love, and is willing to fight for it in celestial court.
Mikey And Nicky

Mikey And Nicky

DIRECTOR: ELAINE MAY
1976 / 105min / 35mm
Since they were kids, it’s always been the same: Nicky (John Cassavetes) gets in trouble, and Mikey (Peter Falk) bails him out. This time, however, there’s a price on Nicky’s head, so the guys have to keep on the move over the course of one night in the lower depths of Philadelphia.
Vera Cruz

Vera Cruz

DIRECTOR: ROBERT ALDRICH
1954 / 94min / 35mm
South-of-the-border joy ride Vera Cruz teams up Burt Lancaster, an amoral, black-clad gun-for-hire with a huge, white, carnivorous grin, and Gary Cooper, a straight-backed ex-Confederate cavalier.
Autumn Leaves

Autumn Leaves

DIRECTOR: ROBERT ALDRICH
1956 / 107min / 35mm
An undeniably accomplished Gothic melodrama in which Joan Crawford, in one of her finest late roles, stars as a middle-aged typist who gets involved with a younger, newly returned war veteran (Cliff Robertson), only to discover that he ain’t exactly who he seems to be.
PRIVATE EVENT

PRIVATE EVENT

DIRECTOR: -
- / 360min / 35mm
Due to a private event, we will have no public screenings this evening. We look forward to seeing you soon!
The Last Sunset

The Last Sunset

DIRECTOR: ROBERT ALDRICH
1961 / 112min / 35mm
Written by Dalton Trumbo, The Last Sunset stars Kirk Douglas as Brendan O’Malley, a cowboy hiding out from justice in Mexico.
Margaret

Margaret

DIRECTOR: KENNETH LONERGAN
2011 / 186min / DCP
Highschooler Lisa (Anna Paquin) shoulders a burden of guilt after witnessing, and she feels causing, a pedestrian to be killed by a bus.
Ten Seconds to Hell

Ten Seconds to Hell

DIRECTOR: ROBERT ALDRICH
1959 / 93min / 35mm
Revisiting a dynamic familiar from Vera Cruz, Ten Seconds pits a man of principle (a tormented Jack Palance) against a feckless, mercenary cynic (Jeff Chandler, sipping champagne amid the rubble of civilization).
The Garment Jungle

The Garment Jungle

DIRECTOR: VINCENT SHERMAN (ROBERT ALDRICH)
1957 / 88min / 35mm
Prodigal son Kerwin Mathews returns from Korea to find that father Lee J. Cobb has given anti-union gangsters an awful lot of say in the family business Roxton Fashions.
The Longest Yard

The Longest Yard

DIRECTOR: ROBERT ALDRICH
1974 / 121min / 35mm
Burt Reynolds’s QB and professional dirtbag Paul “Wrecking” Crewe gets himself tossed in Georgia State Prison and finds a new reason to live when he’s put in charge of the prisoners’ team in an exhibition game against the brutal guards.
The Killing of Sister George

The Killing of Sister George

DIRECTOR: ROBERT ALDRICH
1968 / 138min / 35mm
On the popular British radio serial Applehurst, “Sister George” is the sweetas- pie gal next-door, but June Buckridge (Beryl Reid), who provides her voice, is a gin-soaked sadist who lords over her young girlfriend, “Childie” (Susannah York).
African Cats

African Cats

DIRECTOR: ALASTAIR FOTHERGILL & KEITH SCHOLEY
2011 / 89min / DCP
On the Kenyan savanna we meet the majestic big cats who hunt and fight to survive on the hostile plains, where every day is high drama.
Twilight's Last Gleaming

Twilight's Last Gleaming

DIRECTOR: ROBERT ALDRICH
1977 / 146min / 35mm
Burt Lancaster’s Air Force General leads a team of disaffected patriots on a mission to capture nine nuclear missiles, holding the world for ransom until the president (Charles Durning) makes classified information about the Vietnam War public.
Oldboy

Oldboy

DIRECTOR: PARK CHAN-WOOK
2003 / 120min / DCP
Kidnapped and stuffed in a hole without explanation, when Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) is suddenly let loose on the streets after fifteen years, he’s stone-cold pissed off.
The Handmaiden

The Handmaiden

DIRECTOR: PARK CHAN-WOOK
2016 / 144min / DCP
One of the most celebrated premieres at Cannes this year, a twisty, kinky, 1930s-set period piece constructed of interlocking narratives which come together in an old-dark-house mystery that’s taut with thrills and S&M restraints.
The Dirty Dozen

The Dirty Dozen

DIRECTOR: ROBERT ALDRICH
1967 / 150min / 35mm
Aldrich’s World War II actioner stars Lee Marvin as an Army major ordered to lead a squad of death row prisoners—Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes, Jim Brown, and many more—on a suicide mission that’s headed right down the Nazis’ throat.
The Pit and The Pendulum

The Pit and The Pendulum

DIRECTOR: ROGER CORMAN
1961 / 80min / 35mm
An imperious Vincent Price knows more than he lets on about the mysterious recent death of his wife.
Old Days

Old Days

DIRECTOR: HAN SUN-HEE
2016 / 110min / DCP
Combining vintage footage from the set of Oldboy with new interviews from cast and production crew (including rarely-heard-from craftsmen), Han Sun-hee’s new documentary offers a front row seat to film history.
J.S.A.: Joint Security Area

J.S.A.: Joint Security Area

DIRECTOR: PARK CHAN-WOOK
2000 / 110min / DCP
An international incident: two North Korean soldiers have been shot in the fortified DMZ that separates the Koreas, and a South Korean soldier stands accused. It’s up to an officer from neutral Switzerland to try to quash an international incident and find the truth.
The Grissom Gang

The Grissom Gang

DIRECTOR: ROBERT ALDRICH
1971 / 128min / 35mm
Aldrich’s super-violent period crime flick concerns the kidnapping of a young heiress by a depraved gang of perverts presided over by venomous old ma Grissom and her cretinous son.
Nothing But A Man

Nothing But A Man

DIRECTOR: MICHAEL ROEMER
1964 / 95min / 35mm
New in town railway worker Duff meets minister’s daughter Josie in Jim Crow Birmingham, where every aspect of daily life - work, relationships, parenthood, Church - is tainted by pervasive, systemic racism.
Park Chan-Wook Secret Screening

Park Chan-Wook Secret Screening

DIRECTOR: PARK CHAN-WOOK
TBA / 120min / 35mm
Please join us for a secret screening of a Park Chan-Wook film on 35mm for its U.S. Premiere.
Poison

Poison

DIRECTOR: TODD HAYNES
1991 / 85min / 35mm
Poison takes its influence from the patron saint of all queer outlaw art, Jean Genet; the result was a trio of intercut, stylistically distinct stories drawn together by their conceptual rigor and openly-gay themes.
...All the Marbles

...All the Marbles

DIRECTOR: ROBERT ALDRICH
1981 / 113min / 35mm
Ride along with the California Dolls (Vicki Frederick and Laurene Landon) and their crusty manager (Peter Falk) as they gig their way across an economically depressed U.S.
Set It Off

Set It Off

DIRECTOR: F. GARY GRAY
1996 / 123min / 35mm
Four girlfriends from L.A. decide to plan the heist of a lifetime. Queen Latifah’s butch-tough, cornrowed Cleopatra Simms is in it for her bleach blonde femme girlfriend Ursula.
Too Late the Hero

Too Late the Hero

DIRECTOR: ROBERT ALDRICH
1970 / 145min / 35mm
On an island in the Pacific in the early days of World War II, Cliff Robertson and Michael Caine, a US translator and a Cockney medic, are attached to an almost certain-death commando raid on a Japanese communications post.
My Own Private Idaho

My Own Private Idaho

DIRECTOR: GUS VAN SANT
1991 / 104min / 35mm
A Pacific Northwestern retelling of Shakespeare’s Falstaff-Hal bromance, with a narcoleptic queer hustler, Mike, and the slumming scion of a wealthy family, Scott, who looks after Mike, and takes him on a quest for his mother.
Nowhere

Nowhere

DIRECTOR: GREGG ARAKI
1997 / 82min / 35mm
One wig-out day in the life of Dark Smith, an 18-year-old negotiating a SoCal landscape which the director described as “90210 on acid.”
Wings of Life

Wings of Life

DIRECTOR: LOUIE SCHWARTZBERG
2011 / 81min / DCP
The story of the birds and the bees—no, not that one, but how they work to help exotic flowers to reproduce, and the role that all of this plays in a complex, interrelated, and very fragile ecosystem which also happens to be jaw-droppingly beautiful.
The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon

DIRECTOR: JOHN HUSTON
1941 / 100min / 35mm
John Huston's hard-boiled directorial debut follows Bogart as a private dick on the prowl for "the stuff that dreams are made of."
Cruel Intentions

Cruel Intentions

DIRECTOR: ROGER KUMBLE
1999 / 97min / 35mm
A seamy NYC prep-set reworking of Les Liaisons dangereuses for the high school horndog crowd.
The Choirboys

The Choirboys

DIRECTOR: ROBERT ALDRICH
1977 / 119min / 35mm
Aldrich’s unruly, gregarious, unbuckled film puts you front and center on the off-duty antics of officers during their “choir practice” meetings in MacArthur Park.
All About My Mother

All About My Mother

DIRECTOR: PEDRO ALMODóVAR
1999 / 101min / 35mm
Manuela (Cecilia Roth) travels to Barcelona after the death of her teenaged son to give the news to his father, a transvestite named Lola (Toni Cantó).
The Legend of Lylah Claire

The Legend of Lylah Claire

DIRECTOR: ROBERT ALDRICH
1968 / 130min / 35mm
A film director who’s a spiritual casualty of his own success (Peter Finch) is hired to helm a tawdry biopic of his recently-deceased exwife, starring a newcomer who’s her dead ringer (Kim Novak, not coincidentally recalling Vertigo).
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia

Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia

DIRECTOR: FRANK CAPRA & ANATOLE LITVAK
83min / 35mm
A belated American counterpoint to powerful Axis propaganda.
Blue

Blue

DIRECTOR: DEREK JARMAN
1993 / 79min / 35mm
Over the same, unceasing monochromatic blue frame, the voices of filmmaker Derek Jarman and collaborating actors read a poetic text in which Jarman muses on his physical and mental deterioration as well as the endless implications of the color blue.
Gia

Gia

DIRECTOR: MICHAEL CRISTOFER
1998 / 120min / VHS
The HBO biopic of Philadelphia-born fashion model Gia Carangi, an iconic 1970s cover girl.
Oceans

Oceans

DIRECTOR: JACQUES PERRIN & JACQUES CLUZAUD
2009 / 84min / DCP
This survey of the five oceans and everything that lives in and around them shows the staggering variety of marine life, as well as the grave threat posed to that teeming life by man.
The Inside Story

The Inside Story

DIRECTOR: ALLAN DWAN
1948 / 87min / 35mm
A warm, funny, folksy fable which goes on its rounds through one Vermont village, never stooping to self-seriousness even when laying out some very concrete lessons in economics.
Earth

Earth

DIRECTOR: ALASTAIR FOTHERGILL & MARK LINFIELD
2007 / 90min / DCP
Possibly the most ambitious of the Nature series films covers a year in the life of our one and only planet, beginning at the North Pole in January and working its way down to end the year in Antarctica.
Heat and Sunlight

Heat and Sunlight

DIRECTOR: ROB NILSSON
1987 / 97min / 35mm
Mel Hurley, a photographer during the last violent days of the Biafran War, is overcome with jealousy over a suspected affair his lover and model may be having. Obsessed by erotic images of her clashing with the photographs of war and starving children covering his studio wall, he begins to spin out of control.
Permission to Touch

Permission to Touch

DIRECTOR: ROB NILSSON
2015 / 97min / 35mm
Rob Nilsson reprises his role as Mel Hurley for a photo session with the exotic Funmi Marlowe (T. Moon), an artist and model who has commissioned him to do erotic photographs of her for her upcoming gallery show.
Double Door

Double Door

DIRECTOR: CHARLES VIDOR
1934 / 75min / 35mm
Dictatorial spinster Victoria Van Brett, lording over her dependent relations in the family mansion/madhouse, and kicking the craziness up a notch when her slightly too beloved half-brother gets hitched.
Supernatural

Supernatural

DIRECTOR: VICTOR HALPERIN
1933 / 65min / 35mm
Grief-stricken widow Roma makes an easy mark for a predatory con artist medium, but that sham spiritualist doesn’t count on catching the attention of very real spirits, much less a ghost with a thirst for vengeance.