David Fincher |
2014 | 145 mins
Opening Night
World Premiere
David Fincher’s film version of Gillian Flynn’s phenomenally successful best seller (adapted by the author) is one wild cinematic ride, a perfectly cast and intensely compressed portrait of a recession-era marriage contained within a devastating depiction of celebrity/media culture.
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Friday, September 26
6:00pm
Friday, September 26
6:15pm
Friday, September 26
6:30pm
Friday, September 26
6:45pm
Friday, September 26
9:15pm
Friday, September 26
9:30pm
Friday, September 26
9:45pm
Friday, September 26
11:59pm
Paul Thomas Anderson |
2014 | 148 mins
Encore screening added October 12 at 9:30pm!
Paul Thomas Anderson’s wild and entrancing new movie, the very first adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel, is a time machine, placing the viewer deep within the world of the paranoid, hazy L.A. dope culture of the early ’70s.
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Saturday, October 04
5:30pm
Saturday, October 04
5:45pm
Saturday, October 04
9:00pm
Saturday, October 04
9:15pm
Saturday, October 04
11:59pm
Sunday, October 12
9:30pm
Alejandro G. Iñárritu |
2014 | 119 mins
Closing Night
One-time action hero Riggan Thomson (a jaw-dropping Michael Keaton) stages his own adaptation of Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love while contending with a scene-hogging narcissist, a vulnerable actress, and an unhinged girlfriend for co-stars; a resentful daughter; a manager who’s about to come undone... and his ego, the inner demon of the superhero that made him famous, Birdman.
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Saturday, October 11
6:00pm
Saturday, October 11
6:15pm
Saturday, October 11
6:30pm
Saturday, October 11
6:45pm
Saturday, October 11
9:00pm
Saturday, October 11
9:15pm
Saturday, October 11
9:30pm
Saturday, October 11
9:45pm
Laura Poitras |
2014
Special Presentation
World Premiere
When filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong to meet Edward Snowden for the first time, Poitras brought her camera with her. The result is a 100% real-life thriller unfolding minute by minute before our eyes. CITIZENFOUR is a major work on multiple levels, and a deeply unsettling experience.
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Friday, October 10
6:00pm
Saturday, October 11
1:00pm
Yann Demange |
2014 | 99 mins
A riveting thriller set in the mean streets of Belfast over the course of 24 hours, ’71 brings the grim reality of the Troubles to vivid, shocking life as a squaddie (Jack O’Connell) finds himself trapped and unarmed in hostile territory and the lines between friend and foe become increasingly blurred.
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Saturday, September 27
6:00pm
Sunday, September 28
6:00pm
Dominik Graf |
2014 | 170 mins
North American Premiere
Romantic sentiment runs high but aristocratic decorum holds sway in this beautiful and thoroughly modern rendering of the real-life 18th-century love triangle involving German poet Friedrich Schiller and two sisters of noble birth, Charlotte and Caroline, whose strikingly intense relationship and profound mutual devotion verge on symbiosis.
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Tuesday, September 30
8:00pm
Wednesday, October 01
6:00pm
Mathieu Amalric |
2014 | 76 mins
North American Premiere
A perfectly twisted, timeless adaptation of a Georges Simenon domestic crime novel in which an adulterous man (Mathieu Amalric) and woman (Stéphanie Cléau) meet in a country hotel’s blue room... but have very different visions of their future.
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Monday, September 29
9:00pm
Tuesday, September 30
9:00pm
Olivier Assayas |
2014 | 124 mins
U.S. Premiere
Juliette Binoche plays an aging actress and Kristen Stewart her personal assistant in Olivier Assayas’s brilliant new film, a close meditation on the passage of time.
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Wednesday, October 08
6:00pm
Thursday, October 09
9:00pm
Mia Hansen-Løve |
2014 | 131 mins
U.S. Premiere
Mia Hansen-Løve’s fourth feature is based on the experiences of her brother (and co-writer) Sven—one of the pioneering DJs of the French rave scene in the early 1990s—and plays in the mind as a swirl of beautiful faces and bodies, impulsive movements, rushes of cascading light and color, and music, music, and more music.
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Sunday, October 05
9:00pm
Tuesday, October 07
6:00pm
Bennett Miller |
2014 | 133 mins
A vivid portrait of a side of American life that has never been touched in movies, Bennett Miller’s meticulously crafted new film deals with the tragic story of the the fatally dissociated billionaire John E. du Pont (Steve Carell) and the brothers and championship wrestlers (played by Mark Ruffalo and Channing Tatum) recruited by du Pont to create a national wrestling team on his family’s sprawling property in Pennsylvania.
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Friday, October 10
9:00pm
Saturday, October 11
2:00pm
Jean-Luc Godard |
2014 | 70 mins
Jean-Luc Godard’s 43rd feature, shot in 3-D and “starring” his beloved dog Roxy, is a work of the greatest freedom and joy, as impossible to summarize as a poem by Wallace Stevens or a Messiaen quartet.
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Saturday, September 27
9:00pm
Wednesday, October 01
9:00pm
Josh & Benny Safdie |
2014 | 94 mins
U.S. Premiere
Harley is madly in love with Ilya. She’s sure he loves her just as much, if only he could express it. Both of them are heroin addicts, kids who wander around New York trying to scare up money for a fix. The Safdie Brothers’ toughest movie, it’s not romantic but it will break your heart.
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Thursday, October 02
9:00pm
Sunday, October 05
8:00pm
Hong Sang-soo |
2014 | 66 mins
U.S. Premiere
Kwon is given a packet of undated letters from Mori, who has come to Seoul to propose to her. As she walks down a flight of stairs, they are dropped and scattered. While reading them, she must make sense of the chronology… and so must we, in Hong Sang-soo’s daring new film, made up of a series of disordered scenes based on the letters.
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Tuesday, September 30
6:00pm
Wednesday, October 08
9:00pm
Sunday, October 12
12:30pm
Pedro Costa |
2014 | 103 mins
U.S. Premiere
Pedro Costa’s astonishing new film, which “takes place” in the soul-space of Costa regular Ventura, is a self-reckoning, a moving memorialization of lives in danger of being forgotten, and a great and piercingly beautiful work of cinema.
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Tuesday, October 07
6:00pm
Wednesday, October 08
3:30pm
Lisandro Alonso |
2014 | 108 mins
U.S. Premiere
A work of tremendous beauty and a source of continual surprise, Alonso’s first period piece stars Viggo Mortensen as a Danish military engineer who traverses a visually stunning variety of Patagonian shrub, rock, grass, and desert on horseback and on foot in search of his teenage daughter.
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Tuesday, October 07
9:00pm
Thursday, October 09
6:00pm
Alain Resnais |
2014 | 108 mins
U.S. Premiere
The final work from Alain Resnais, based on British playwright Alan Ayckbourn’s Relatively Speaking, is a moving, graceful, and surprisingly affirmative farewell to life from a truly great artist.
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Friday, October 10
9:00pm
Saturday, October 11
2:00pm
Alex Ross Perry |
2014 | 108 mins
For his sly, very funny portrait of artistic egomania, Alex Ross Perry draws on literary models (mainly Philip Roth and William Gaddis) to achieve a brazen mixture of bitter humor and unexpected pathos.
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Thursday, October 09
6:00pm
Friday, October 10
9:00pm
David Cronenberg |
2014 | 111 mins
U.S. Premiere
Cronenberg takes Bruce Wagner’s script—a pitch-black Hollywood satire—chills it down, and gives it a near-tragic spin. The terrible loneliness of narcissism afflicts every character from the fading star Havana (Julianne Moore) to the available-for-anything chauffeur (Robert Pattinson) to the entire Weiss family, played by John Cusack, Olivia Williams, Evan Bird, and Mia Wasikowska.
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Saturday, September 27
9:00pm
Sunday, September 28
3:00pm
Asia Argento |
2014 | 103 mins
North American Premiere
As preteen Aria shuttles between the well-appointed homes of her divorced showbiz parents, a large affectionate cat her only companion, she elaborates her walks into sometimes life-threatening adventures. Blurring the line between imagination and actuality, Asia Argento’s irrepressible projection of young female subjectivity is ingenious, direct, and utterly real.
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Saturday, September 27
12:00pm
Monday, September 29
7:00pm
Mike Leigh |
2014 | 149 mins
A portrait of the great painter J.M.W. Turner and his time, but also an extremely clear-eyed film about art and its creation, and the great human problem of sharing a life with other people. Featuring a remarkable performance from director Mike Leigh’s frequent collaborator, Timothy Spall.
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Friday, October 03
9:00pm
Saturday, October 04
2:00pm
Various |
2013/2014 | 86 mins
In August (Jenna Hasse, 9m)
Young Lions of Gypsy (Jonas Carpignano, 16m)
Ophelia (Sergei Rostropovich, 12m)
Humor (Tal Zagreba, 5m)
A Paradise (Jayisha Patel, 14m)
Wu Gui (Jordan Schiele, 15m)
The Girl and the Dogs (Selma Vilhunen & Guillaume Mainguet, 15m)
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Sunday, September 28
1:00pm
Monday, September 29
2:00pm
Various |
2013/2014 | 88 mins
Chlorine (Marcelo Grabowsky, 18m)
The Return (Yohann Kouam, 20m)
Hepburn (Tommy Davis, 6m)
La Estancia (Federico Adorno, 14m)
The Kármán Line (Oscar Sharp, 24m)
Crooked Candy (Andrew Rodgers, 6m)
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Sunday, September 28
3:30pm
Monday, September 29
4:30pm
Abel Ferrara |
2014 | 87 mins
U.S. Premiere
Abel Ferrara’s new film compresses the many contradictory aspects of his subject’s life and work into a distilled, prismatic portrait, with a brilliant Willem Dafoe in the title role.
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Thursday, October 02
6:00pm
Friday, October 03
9:00pm
Sunday, October 12
7:15pm
Matías Piñeiro |
2014 | 70 mins
U.S. Premiere
Matías Piñeiro’s dazzling fifth feature, which follows a group of young people involved in a radio production of Love’s Labour’s Lost, doesn’t transplant Shakespeare to the present day so much as summon the spirit of his polymorphous comedies.
Screening with: The Old Man of Belem (Manoel de Oliveira, 19m)
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Sunday, October 05
12:00pm
Monday, October 06
6:00pm
Sunday, October 12
7:00pm
Eugène Green |
2014 | 100 mins
U.S. Premiere
In Eugène Green’s exquisite new film, an unhappy married couple travel to Italy so that the husband can research the Baroque architect Francesco Borromini. There they encounter a brother and sister, whose friendship helps to restore their own sense of inner balance.
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Saturday, September 27
3:00pm
Sunday, September 28
12:15pm
Nick Broomfield |
2014 | 105 mins
Four years after the arrest of the Grim Sleeper serial killer in South Central Los Angeles, filmmaker Nick Broomfield interviews friends, neighbors, and community activists to unravel the chilling story, while giving voice to his victims and illuminating the racial divide that still exists.
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Monday, October 06
6:00pm
Tuesday, October 07
3:00pm
Abderrahmane Sissako |
2014 | 97 mins
U.S. Premiere
A serenely composed vision of the humiliation and terror wrought by foreign Islamic jihadists who occupy the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu. A film by turns wondrous and terrifying.
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Wednesday, October 01
6:00pm
Thursday, October 02
4:00pm
Oren Moverman |
2014 | 117 mins
U.S. Premiere
As George, a man forced onto the streets, Richard Gere may be the “star” of Oren Moverman’s haunting new film, but he allows the world around him to take center stage, and himself to simply be.
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Sunday, October 05
6:00pm
Thursday, October 09
8:45pm
Sunday, October 12
4:45pm
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne |
2014 | 95 mins
A factory worker on the verge of being laid off (Marion Cotillard) has 48 hours to convince her co-workers to forego their bonuses so that she might keep her job. At once an unforgettable drama and a tough ethical inquiry, from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.
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Sunday, October 05
3:00pm
Monday, October 06
9:00pm
Martín Rejtman |
2014 | 105 mins
U.S. Premiere
Martín Rejtman’s seventh feature, about a family’s curious methods of coping with their 16-year-old son’s inexplicable suicide attempt, is an engrossing, digressive comedy with the weight of an existentialist novel.
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Monday, September 29
8:45pm
Tuesday, September 30
3:00pm
Damien Chazelle |
2014 | 106 mins
A pedagogical thriller and an emotional S&M two-hander, Whiplash is brilliantly acted by Miles Teller as an eager jazz drummer at a prestigious New York music academy and J.K. Simmons as the teacher whose method of terrorizing his students is beyond questionable, even when it gets results.
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Sunday, September 28
9:00pm
Monday, September 29
6:00pm
Alice Rohrwacher |
2014 | 110 mins
North American Premiere
Alice Rohrwacher’s sophomore feature, a vivid yet mysterious story of teenage yearning and confusion, conjures a richly concrete world that is subject to the magical thinking of adolescence.
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Friday, October 03
6:00pm
Saturday, October 04
3:15pm
Sunday, October 12
4:30pm