Weekend Classics

Julie, a daydreaming librarian, meets Céline, an enigmatic magician — and together they become the heroines of a time-warping adventure involving a haunted house, psychotropic candy, and a murder-mystery melodrama. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland meets the freewheeling invention of French New Wave gamesman Jacques Rivette in this giddy surrealist fantasia.

In the early 1980s, filmmaker Ross McElwee planned to make a documentary tracing the route Union General William Tecumseh Sherman took when he laid siege to Confederate forces during the Civil War. As the filmmaker surveys Sherman’s path, he reflects on his own wake of past romances while attempting new ones. Screens alongside REMAKE (Tue, Jul 21), McElwee’s reevaluation of SHERMAN’S MARCH in light of the recent death of his son. New 4K DCP Restoration

This acclaimed drama from director Oliver Stone presents the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner).

Master filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky traces renowned icon painter Andrei Rublev through the harsh realities of 15th century Russian life, vividly conjuring the dark and otherworldly atmosphere of the age.

David Lean's splendid biography of the enigmatic T.E. Lawrence paints a complex portrait of the desert-loving Englishman who united Arab tribes in a battle against the Ottoman Turks during World War I. One of the screen's grandest epics “remains the first word in big-screen spectacle…I've never forgotten that famous cut of blue-eyed devil Peter O'Toole blowing out a match, only to have the full screen suddenly irradiated with a blaze of Saharan sunlight.” (Jim Ridley)

Director Sergio Leone sets in motion his “ballet of the dead” when a hired gunslinger murders a landowner, forcing his widow to enlist the help of two renegades to exact her revenge in the revered master’s magnum opus.

Actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) gained fame and fortune by starring in a 1950s television Western, but struggles to find work. He spends most of his time with Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), his easygoing best friend and longtime stunt double — who happens to live next door to Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate, the couple whose futures will forever be altered by members of the Manson Family. Directed by Quentin Tarantino.