Fight the Power: Cinematic Tales of Resistance One of the most influential political films in history, The Battle of Algiers, by Gillo Pontecorvo, vividly recreates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women […]

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. Fight the Power: Cinematic Tales of Resistance Both a landmark of radical political cinema and one of the most visually ravishing films ever made, this legendary hymn to revolution shimmers […]

This mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown time in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circus—complete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Prince—arrives and […]

We honor the great actress/filmmaker Diane Keaton with a new restoration of her first venture behind the camera (she’d direct four films, eventually, and even an episode of Twin Peaks).  Heaven is a talking-head documentary that probes humanity’s evolving relationship to the puzzle of what happens to us after we die. Keaton conducted wide-ranging conversations […]

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. Rob Reiner wasn’t an international or indie filmmaker, but he sure did make some great films. Like, a lot. We could go back and forth picking favorites all day, but […]

Set in a rural, remote Chilean mining town in 1982, Diego Céspedes’ dazzling debut feature follows young Lidia, who grows up within a vibrant queer household led by drag performers and trans women. When a mysterious illness—rumored to spread through the gaze between men—sows fear and hysteria, the community becomes the target of suspicion and […]

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. If you’ve ever dreamed of a personal visit with the Dalai Lama—who hasn’t?—this film is about to make your dream come true. Wisdom of Happiness shows us that happiness is […]

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. If you’ve ever dreamed of a personal visit with the Dalai Lama—who hasn’t?—this film is about to make your dream come true. Wisdom of Happiness shows us that happiness is […]

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. Hardly seen at all during its 1980 debut, Night of the Juggler came and went with very little notice. But its restoration 45 years later has uncovered a hidden gem […]

If you’ve ever dreamed of a personal visit with the Dalai Lama—who hasn’t?—this film is about to make your dream come true. Wisdom of Happiness shows us that happiness is still possible, even in the midst of chaos and uncertainty. This powerful message of hope is delivered as a personal audience with one of the […]

Italian neo-realism meets film noir meets the exploitation picture in this fabulous post-war effort by Guiseppe De Santis. During planting season in Northern Italy’s Po Valley, an earthy rice-field worker (Silvana Mangano) falls in with a small-time criminal (Vittorio Gassman) who is planning a daring heist of the crop, as well as his femme-fatale-ish girlfriend, […]

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. If you’ve ever dreamed of a personal visit with the Dalai Lama—who hasn’t?—this film is about to make your dream come true. Wisdom of Happiness shows us that happiness is […]

A decadent late-silent masterpiece, Erich von Stroheim’s epic unfinished swan song pulls no punches. His characters contend with whippings, suicide, a German East African bordello, and more in this story of a prince, the orphan girl he falls in love with, and the mad queen whose jealousy wreaks havoc on everyone involved. The great silent […]

If you’ve ever dreamed of a personal visit with the Dalai Lama—who hasn’t?—this film is about to make your dream come true. Wisdom of Happiness shows us that happiness is still possible, even in the midst of chaos and uncertainty. This powerful message of hope is delivered as a personal audience with one of the […]

Electric Eye presents First of the Month Films Weaving a tapestry of 1930s New York artists—Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Orson Welles, and John Houseman among them—Cradle Will Rock is one of director Tim Robbins’ most heartfelt lefty chronicles. At the height of the Great Depression, the Federal Theatre Project brings low-cost theater to millions across […]