THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE Now Playing! - the second installment in the Millennium trilogy following THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO. BREATHLESS 50th Anniversary Restoration - Now Playing! - Jean Luc Godard's landmark film of the French New Wave returns in a widely-lauded new 35mm restoration. With its non-stop pace, it reinvented the grammar of movies and almost instantly changed the course of international filmmaking. LIFE DURING WARTIME Opens Friday, August 27th - Todd Solondz returns to Happiness territory in a characteristically squeamish yet humorous exploration of the boundaries of forgiveness, family, and love starring Paul Reubens, Charlotte Rampling, Ciaran Hinds and more. WILD GRASS Opens Friday, September 3rd - 88-year-old filmmaker Alain Resnais (Last Year at Marienbad) returns to retrace a chance encounter and its romantic implications framed in eight phases as corresponding to the rules of flying: a love story for people who think they've seen everything. WAKING SLEEPING BEAUTY Opens Fri, Sept 3 - An eye-opening look at the troubled Disney animation unit in the early '80s and how it reinvented itself, ushering in the second chapter of Disney's animation legacy, a decade of unparalleled creativy. FAREWELL Opens Fri, Sept 10 - An intricate and highly intelligent Gallic thriller pulled from the pages of history about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. COUNTDOWN TO ZERO Fri-Thu, Sept 10-16 - Traces the history of the atomic bomb from its origins to the present state of global affairs and makes a compelling case for worldwide nuclear disarmament, an issue more topical than ever I'M STILL HERE Opens Fri, Sept 17 - Actor Joaquin Phoenix made a career 180 and left his profession to become a rapper ...or did he? Brother-in-law Casey Affleck documents his subsequent descent into what may or may not be his greatest performance yet. SOUL KITCHEN Opens Friday, Sept 17 - An infectious, free-spirited comedy from the celebrated Turkish-German director Fatih Akin (HEAD-ON, THE EDGE OF HEAVEN), SOUL KITCHEN is a tribute to friendship, food and the power of soul music. THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF PHIL SPECTOR Part of Doctober. Opens Friday, Oct 1 - Interwoven with the court recording of his recent murder trial, the film casts a spotlight on the creative mind of a troubled genius and dissects Spector’s classic recordings from the perspective of his own inner world.
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BREATHLESS 50th Anniversary Restoration - Now Playing! - Jean Luc Godard's landmark film of the French New Wave returns in a widely-lauded new 35mm restoration. With its non-stop pace, it reinvented the grammar of movies and almost instantly changed the course of international filmmaking. GONE WITH THE POPE Midnight Movies: Fri-Sat, Sept. 3-4 - A long-lost equal opportunity offender and hilarious time capsule in which our hero's plan for a group of thugs is to kidnap the Pope and to charge a ransom of $1.50 from every Catholic in the world. THE HUSTLER Weekend Classics: new 35mm printSat-Mon, Sept 4-6 - Paul Newman scores as pool shark "Fast Eddie" Felson in this Oscar-winning drama that explores the synergies between good and evil, love and desperation. LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN Weekend Classics: New 35mm PrintSat-Mon, Sept 11-13 - "Spectacular...Pure drama and pure cine noir with brilliant, deceptive photography which knocks the spectator out when he discovers that those pastel shades conceal vast amounts of madness and sordidness.” – Pedro Almodóvar SUSPIRIA Midnight MoviesFri-Sat, Sept 17-18 - Dario Argento's 1977 milestone of Italian horror is a psychedelic fairy tale of murder and magic, a rare print on loan from the UK... FIVE EASY PIECES Weekend Classics: New 35mm PrintSat-Mon, Sept 18-20 - A promising concert pianist (Jack Nicholson) chucks it all to work on a California oil rig , the film that catapulted Nicholson into Hollywood's big leagues and helped cement him as an A-list star. The Films of Jacques Tati Two Weeks! Thu-Thu, Sept. 23 through Oct. 7 - Part of a nationwide tour, this chronological retrospective illuminates Tati's hapless characters, monumental set designs, meticulously choreographed compositions and belly-laugh sight gags that comes off as freewheeling as his best-known character, Monsieur Hulot.
