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Winner of the Palme d’Or for best film at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the riveting, timely, and masterfully constructed new feature from celebrated Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi (No Bears, This Is Not a Film) follows a group of citizens contemplating revenge against a man they believe was their torturer.
Winner of the Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival, acclaimed indie filmmaker Benny Safdie (Good Time, Uncut Gems) makes his solo directorial debut with The Smashing Machine, a gritty and gripping portrait of UFC legend Mark Kerr, featuring a transformative performance by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
A stripped-down and profoundly tactile reimagining of the Arthurian legend, Lancelot du Lac is one of Robert Bresson’s most mysterious films—a deeply elliptical, intrinsically musical work that contrasts the most intimate moral and spiritual imperatives with the brutality of war. Presented in a new 4K restoration, it screens as part of Museum Films' "Late Bresson" series.
A mesmerizing meditation on art and life, Ira Sachs’s richly textured new feature is based on rediscovered transcripts from a 1974 interview conducted by nonfiction writer Linda Rosenkrantz (played by Rebecca Hall), in which photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw) recounts the events of the previous day in minute detail.
A searing send-up of post-’68 France—and perhaps Robert Bresson’s most explicitly political film—The Devil, Probably tells the story of Charles, a young Parisian who tries and fails to find comfort where his contemporaries do: love, religion, activism, consumerism, drug use, and psychoanalysis. Presented in a new 4K restoration, it screens as part of Museum Films' "Late Bresson" series.
An adaptation of Tolstoy’s story The Forged Coupon, Robert Bresson’s crystalline final film, L’Argent, tells the story of a counterfeit bill’s passage from hand to hand, and the tragic consequences that result. Presented in a recent 4K restoration, it screens as part of Museum Films' "Late Bresson" series.
Soviet-born American filmmaker Julia Loktev’s (The Loneliest Planet) extraordinary five-part documentary observes independent journalists in Moscow facing a government crackdown as Russia invades Ukraine, capturing their fight for freedom of expression and the country's escalating shift toward authoritarianism. (Screening in two sections with a separate ticket required for each section.)