A Black American soldier stationed in France is granted a three-day leave during which he embarks on a whirlwind romance with a French woman. Channeling the brazen exuberance of the French New Wave, Melvin Van Peebles’s edgy first feature astutely dissects bigoted attitudes hindering interracial relations. (New Restoration)
Featuring evocative black-and-white imagery and profoundly felt performances, this aching portrait of a dying West, adapted from Larry McMurtry’s novel, remains the pivotal film in the career of director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich.
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 cinema. (4K DCP Restoration)
The Fu-Ho movie house is shutting down for good and as a motley smattering of spectators take in the final screening, a sense of the otherworldly begins to pervade the proceedings. Directed by Tsai Ming-liang. (New 4K Restoration)
