Restoration Roundup

THELONIOUS MONK: STRAIGHT NO CHASER highlights the life of one of the most extraordinary individuals in the history of jazz. Using precious film footage shot in the late 1960s of the great pianist and composer, this film provides a special opportunity to savor the work of this one-of-a-kind musical revolutionary. New 4K DCP

When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border (in one of the most astounding one-take crane shots in cinema history), a Mexican drug enforcement agent (Charlton Heston) and an American cop (Orson Welles) investigate.

On the Pont Neuf, Jacques befriends Marthe, potentially suicidal over the non-appearance of her lover, and over the next four nights, desperately falls for her himself. But what if that lover shows up? With his signature minimalism, Robert Bresson films the shimmering beauty of nocturnal Paris as it enfolds his characters in endless possibility — subtly capturing the wonder of unexpected connection and the mystery of fate.

From the strobelit stages of gentlemen’s clubs to the neon otherworld of casino-strewn pageantry, Nomi Malone has come to Las Vegas to make a wager. 30th Anniversary 4K Restoration.

75th Anniversary – Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, an aging silent film queen, and William Holden as the struggling writer who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters. From the unforgettable opening sequence through the inevitable unfolding of tragic destiny, the film is Billy Wilder’s definitive statement on the dark and desperate side of Hollywood.

Seasoned stunt driver Ken Carter is determined to achieve legend status — by jumping a car a mile over the St. Lawrence Seaway. An epic journey to the heart of one man’s dangerous obsession, this 1981 doc is an unforgettable immersion into the mind of a dreamer that's often described as a Canadian forerunner to AMERICAN MOVIE.

Part of Staff Picks and programmed by Nathan, who says “What happens when the future director of GHOST IN THE SHELL and the concept artist behind Final Fantasy make a meditative arthouse film? Well they don’t make any money, but they do create an intricately illustrated, hauntingly beautiful and bizarre cult classic that’s one of the most transcendent film experiences I’ve ever had.”

Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8½ turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. An early working title for 8½ was “The Beautiful Confusion,” and Fellini’s masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream, a circus, and a magic act. New 35mm Print.

IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments — as well as a stylistic influence on the past quarter century of filmmaking and a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career.

Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling vision of a pitiless aristocracy. The result is a masterpiece — a sardonic, devastating portrait of a vanishing world whose opulence conceals the moral vacancy at its heart.