Country: United Kingdom Language: EnglishThe Film Center is proud to partner with National Theatre Live to present world-class performances filmed live on Britain’s most exciting stages. Be one of the first to see The Book of Dust, an imaginative new production set several years before Philip Pullman’s “The Golden Compass”.
Country: United States Language: EnglishCloverfield director Matt Reeves crafted an ambitiously grim Batman for our time, with Robert Pattinson as the titular dark detective and Zoë Kravitz as a fierce and focused Selina Kyle. Received three nominations at the 95th Academy Awards, including Best Achievement in Visual Effects.
New year, new universe. An aging Chinese immigrant is just trying to finish her taxes. Instead she is continuously swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save the world. This surreal and exhilarating exploration of identity and existence won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture. | Country: United States | Language: English, Mandarin, Cantonese
Country: United States Language: EnglishIn the Nee brothers’ wildly comedic refresh of the genre, a reclusive romance novelist and her cover model are swept up in a cutthroat jungle adventure. World Premiere at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival.
Country: France Language: French, Mandarin, EnglishFour young people fall in and out of love while figuring out their lives in Paris. From acclaimed director Jacques Audiard, based on stories by Adrian Tomine. World Premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.
Country: France Language: FrenchPresented at the Film Center and in our Virtual Screening Room as part of Young French Cinema 2022.Aurélia Georges’s adaptation of Wilkie Collins’ novel “The New Magdalen” focuses on the impact of rigid class hierarchy on the lives of three women, offering a nuanced feminist reading that resonates with the iniquities of our era. Premiered at Locarno IFF 2021.
A beautifully crafted film exploring the Easter story through the ages. The final edition of Exhibition on Screen offers a unique opportunity to experience, as never before, some of the world’s most meaningful art.
Country: FranceLanguage: FrenchPresented at the Film Center and in our Virtual Screening Room as part of Young French Cinema 2022, with Adrian Moyse Dullin’s short film Haut les Cœurs/The Right Words.Adding to her distinguished track record as an editor for Palme d’Or winner Abdellatif Kechiche, writer-director Emma Benestan makes an exhilarating feature debut with this wryly feminist update on the romantic comedy. Benestan upends gender and class stereotypes to take the pulse of romance in an era of role reversals.
Country: Switzerland Language: GermanA few days in the lives of two young people on the verge of change. The Zürcher brothers follow their 2013 fest hit The Strange Little Cat with an emotional tale crafted in their signature cinematic language.
Winner of Best Director at the 2021 Berlin Film Festival.
World Premiere, SXSW 2022. In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives. | Country: United States | Language: English
Country: France Language: FrenchPresented at the Film Center and in our Virtual Screening Room as part of Young French Cinema 2022, with Vincent Maël Cardona’s short film Le Monde en Soi/The World Within.Deploying a stellar soundtrack of European post-punk classics, Cardona juxtaposes the eternal thrills of first love and the frustrations of provincial life with a lovingly specific depiction of a bygone period, lending tremendous emotional immediacy to the lives of those who came of age at the dawn of the 1980s. Premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2021.
Country: United States, FranceLanguage: American Sign Language, English As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family’s fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.Siân Heder’s CODA won Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor at the 94th Academy Awards.
Country: United States Language: EnglishDangerously ill with a rare blood disorder, and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. What at first appears to be a radical success soon reveals itself to be a remedy potentially worse than the disease in Marvel’s latest anti-hero story.
