JACQUES ROZIER — AN AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE RETROSPECTIVE
What better way to close out the season than a series of films by Jacques Rozier, the “chronicler of summer”?* Presented by the American Cinematheque, this retrospective of 4K restorations includes all five features by the filmmaker whose 1957 short,
WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES — BÉLA TARR IN CONVERSATION
As part of its forthcoming Béla Tarr retrospective, the American Cinematheque presents the new 4K restoration of his late period masterpiece WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES. The filmmaker—on a rare visit to California—will introduce a members-only screening in Santa Monica, followed by a
JEAN-PIERRE AND LUC DARDENNE IN LOS ANGELES
Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne are in town to present their new film TORI AND LOKITA and to introduce and discuss the opening selections in the American Cinematheque’s complete retrospective BROTHERS WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: THE CINEMA OF JEAN-PIERRE AND
NEPTUNE FROST — SAUL WILLIAMS AND ANISIA UZEYMAN IN CONVERSATION
As part of the Los Angeles engagements of their new film NEPTUNE FROST, Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman will participate in a Q & A in Los Feliz this weekend. A musical, anti-colonialist dreamscape traversed by an intersex runaway, NEPTUNE
SPENCER — KRISTEN STEWART IN CONVERSATION
This week, join Kristen Stewart—who plays Princess Diana on a nightmarish country-house weekend with the royals—for Spencer screenings and Q & A's. Included in the American Cinematheque series is a double bill with Kubrick’s The Shining—another film about a house
THE SOUVENIR PART II — JOANNA HOGG AND HONOR SWINTON BYRNE IN CONVERSATION
There is really a point where I don’t know what was real and what isn’t. So it’s a real confusion of fact and fiction, and I enjoy that dance, but there are essential things that are true. I was talking
WORKING GIRLS — LIZZIE BORDEN IN CONVERSATION
In WORKING GIRLS, I basically ask, What is worse, forty hours a week in some boring office job, or eight hours in a brothel? It depends on what you can handle. Some people can’t deal with it, but is renting
BARBARA LODEN — WANDA
I think that there is a miracle in WANDA. Usually there is a distance between the visual representation and the text, as well as the subject and the action. Here this distance is completely nullified; there is an instant and