After the one-armed boxer kills his students, a blind kung fu expert thirsting for revenge travels to a town where a martial arts tournament is being held. His mission is clear — to decapitate every one-armed man he encounters with his flying guillotine. Featuring extravagant choreography, this film set the template for martial-arts video games with its centerpiece kung-fu tournament and the fireworks of its final showdown.
FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) must assume the identity (and face) of terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) in order to foil a plot to set off a bomb in a populated area of Los Angeles in Hong Kong action maestro John Woo's phenomenally underrated big-budget Hollywood thriller. See also: John Woo’s ONCE A THIEF (Fri, Dec 4 at 9:35pm | Sun, Dec 6 at 2:25pm)
Retired gunslinger Shane (Alan Ladd) rides into a small Wyoming town with hopes of quietly settling down as a farmhand, but gets drawn into a battle between the townsfolk and a ruthless cattle baron. Mysterious, moody and atmospheric, George Stevens' legendary rendition of the quintessential Western myth earned six Academy Award nominations and made SHANE one of the enduring classics of the American cinema.
The ultimate ‘90s Hong Kong action sleazefest by bullet balletmaster Ringo Lam. Chow Yun-Fat steps into the most gleefully tasteless shoot-em-up of his storied career. Queer arms dealers, fields of exploding automobiles, harsh neon greens and blues, madness with butterfly knives, biker punk chic, ripping donuts on motorbikes, and heaping helpings of horniness, oh my!
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when Stella (Clara Bow) goes too far at a local bar and is rescued by her professor, gossip linking the two escalates. This new restoration of the pre-code gem — an early talkie — is the earliest surviving film by Dorothy Arzner, a successful Hollywood director when there were few women at the top of the profession.
Madeleine Smith’s murder trial for the poisoning of her lover inspired several books, two plays and three films. The first screen treatment, LETTY LYNTON, stars Joan Crawford as a woman who flees her possessive paramour in South America and falls for American tycoon (Robert Montgomery). Meticulously restored, LETTY LYNTON finally returns to the screen for the first time in 90 years, showcasing Crawford at her most glamorous.
Fri, Nov 27 at 12:15pm | Tue, Dec 1 at 8:00pm, 10:00pm
An entire civilization must confront its destiny in alternative-animation pioneer René Laloux’s final feature, a cult classic of mind-bending science fiction. Featuring stunningly surreal creatures and wondrously bizarre environments designed by renowned comic-book artist Caza, GANDAHAR is a visceral, visionary head-trip in which animation opens a gateway to the furthest reaches of the imagination.
Sat, Nov 28 at 11:00am | Mon-Tue, Nov 30-Dec 1 at 3:15pm
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI — the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare. Featuring a brilliant cast, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES garnered seven Oscars, including Best Picture.
Betrothed to King Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman), the naïve Marie Antoinette (Kirsten Dunst) is thrown into the opulent French court which is steeped in conspiracy and scandal. Sofia Coppola’s 2006 interpretation of the life of France’s legendary teenage queen screens alongside Eleanor Coppola’s newly completed-by-Sofia MAKING MARIE ANTOINETTE (Sun, Nov 29 at 2:35pm).
Presented in a surreal, gory and entirely visual manner, BEGOTTEN tells of the death of religion, the abuse of nature by Man and a nihilistic outlook on the essence of life. This new 4K restoration reveals the full photographic body of E. Elias Merhige’s elusive 1989 film, preserving its otherworldly organic texture and retaining its visceral impact, a previously unknown life form captured in cinematic amber.
