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Landmark. Revolutionary. Masterpiece. A New Wave. French film critic-turned director Jean-Luc Godard’s first film, Breathless has been called a number of things. A student of American crime films and a restless revolutionary artist, Godard upended most ... read more
Breathless (À bout de souffle)
Sponsored by Broadcast Film Critics Association / Critics' Choice Movie Awards
1960 | Not Rated | Crime, Drama | d. Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger

Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Saturday, Aug 14 at 10:00 PM
Archival 35mm

50th Anniversary, French with English Subtitles
Plaza Art House

Agnès Varda (the only female director of the French New Wave) eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer (Corinne Marchand) set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A ... read more
Cléo from 5 to 7
Sponsored by Moleen Foundation
1962 | Not Rated | Comedy, Drama | d. Agnès Varda
Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray

Philanthropy Theatre
Saturday, Aug 7 at 07:30 PM
Digital

French with English Subtitles
Plaza Art House / (re) Discovery

Secluded in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive doctor attempts a radical plastic surgery to restore the beauty of his daughter’s disfigured face—but at a horrifying price. At once ghastly and lyrical, Eyes Without a Face is a true rarity ... read more
Eyes Without a Face
French with English subtitles
1960 | Not Rated | Drama, Horror | d. Georges Franju
Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel

Philanthropy Theatre
Thursday, Aug 12 at 09:30 PM
Digital

50th Anniversary, French with English Subtitles
Plaza Art House

Having revolutionized film editing through such masterworks of montage as Potemkin and Strike, Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein emigrated west in hopes of testing the capabilities of the American film industry. Quickly ostracized from Hollywood, Eisenstein, Grigory Alexandrov and photographer Eduard ... read more
Que viva Mexico
Sponsored by
1932 | Not Rated | History, Documentary | d. Sergei Eisenstein
Félix Balderas, Sara García, Martín Hernández

Philanthropy Theatre
Sunday, Aug 8 at 07:30 PM
Digital

Russian with English Subtitles
Plaza Art House

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, Rashomon is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four ... read more
Rashômon
Sponsored by The Moor Foundation
1950 | Not Rated | Crime, Drama | d. Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori

Philanthropy Theatre
Tuesday, Aug 10 at 07:30 PM
Digital

60th Anniversary, Japanese with English Subtitles
Plaza Art House

Arguably the masterpiece of legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, Seven Samurai set a new standard for cinema around the world. It is an engrossing tale of a poor farming village forced to hire wandering ronin (masterless samurai) to help ... read more
Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai)
1954 | Not Rated | Action, Adventure | d. Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima

Philanthropy Theatre
Sunday, Aug 15 at 03:30 PM
Digital

Japanese with English Subtitles
Plaza Art House

“The awful thing about life is this: Everyone has their reasons.”

To say that Jean Renoir’s 1939 film is a masterpiece (if not THE masterpiece) is not only true, but perhaps counterproductive to the first time viewer. While ... read more
The Rules of the Game (La règle du jeu)
Sponsored by
1939 | Not Rated | Comedy, Drama | d. Jean Renoir
Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély

Philanthropy Theatre
Friday, Aug 13 at 07:30 PM
Digital

French with English Subtitles
Plaza Art House

The film that catapulted Swedish director Ingmar Bergman to the forefront of world cinema is the director’s richest, most humane movie. Traveling to receive an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg (masterfully played by the veteran Swedish director Victor Sjöström), is ... read more
Wild Strawberries
1957 | Not Rated | Drama, Drama | d. Ingmar Bergman
Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin

Philanthropy Theatre
Monday, Aug 9 at 07:30 PM
Digital

Swedish with English Subtitles
Plaza Art House

Toshiro Mifune, perhaps Japan’s most iconic actor, is the strong silent type – and deadly with a sword. In this indispensable chapter in Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s samurai collection, Mifune plays a disaffected ronin (a samurai without a lord) who ... read more
Yojimbo
1961 | Not Rated | Action, Comedy | d. Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa

Philanthropy Theatre
Saturday, Aug 7 at 04:00 PM
Digital

Japanese with English Subtitles
Plaza Art House / (re)Discovery

“Tools of the trade…” says Joe Shishido’s jowly assassin Jo as he opens a large and heavy metal case revealing sniper rifles, handguns and an assortment of knives. Later he’ll set a man’s hair on fire with an aerosol ... read more
Youth of the Beast
Sponsored by
1963 | Not Rated | Action, Crime | d. Seijun Suzuki
Jo Shishido, Ichiro Kijima, Misako Watanabe

Philanthropy Theatre
Friday, Aug 13 at 09:30 PM
Digital

Japanese with English Subtitles