Each week repertory films will be presented on 35mm prints and DCP in The Charles’ original 362 seat theatre. There are three showings of a movie each week.
| The Leopard | Saturday, April 27 |
| The Watermelon Woman | Thursday, May 2 |
| Suspicion | Saturday, May 4 |
| Raising Arizona | Thursday, May 9 |
| Peeping Tom | Saturday, May 11 |
| Re-Animator | Thursday, May 16 |
| Nostalghia | Saturday, May 18 |
| Starship Troopers | Thursday, May 23 |
| Smog | Saturday, May 25 |
| After Hours | Thursday, May 30 |
| The Pianist | Saturday, June 1 |
| Yakuza Graveyard | Thursday, June 6 |
| I Heard It Through The Grapevine with James Baldwin | Saturday, June 8 |
| Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros | Monday, June 10 |
| Vanishing Point | Thursday, June 13 |
| Pickup on South Street | Saturday, June 15 |
| Badlands | Thursday, June 20 |
| Osamu Tezuka’s Metropolis | Thursday, June 27 |
"Cut, dubbed, and printed in an inferior color process, the U.S. release of Luchino Visconti’s epic didn’t leave much of an impression in 1963; 20 years later, a restoration of the much longer Italian version revealed this as not only Visconti’s greatest film but a work that transcends its creator, achieving a sensitivity and in more »
"A witty exploration of black American culture, past and present. Shooting in breezy, boppy fashion, Dunye soon has two narratives on the go: her quest for the 'truth' behind 'the Watermelon Woman', a beautiful, undocumented '30s film actress forever cast as a 'black mammy', and her own life working in a video store, bickering w more »
"Despite a silly cop-out ending (imposed by RKO), a gripping domestic thriller with Fontaine suitably nervy as the prim young woman who marries Grant, only to come increasingly to suspect that he intends to murder her. Marred by a blatantly artificial English countryside and by a somewhat clichéd story, it's nevertheless a supre more »
The superbly labyrinthine plotting of Blood Simple must have been a hard act to follow; praise be, then, to the Brothers Coen for confounding all expectations with this fervently inventive comedy. Sublimely incompetent convenience-store robber Hi McDonnough (Cage, at his best yet) seems doomed to return repeatedly to the same pe more »
"Michael Powell’s suppressed masterpiece, made in 1960 but sparsely shown in the U.S. with its ferocity and compassion intact. The German actor Carl Boehm plays a shy, sensitive British boy (Powell doesn’t try to cover his accent, which is typical of the film’s deliberate sacrifice of realism for effect) who loves movies with al more »
"When cleancut med student Dan Cain (Abbott) advertises for a roommate, little does he suspect how spectacularly his life - and the laws of creation - are about to be turned upside down. He soon wishes he'd heeded the caution of girlfriend Megan (Crampton), who can obviously spot a crazed re-animator when she sees one. In no tim more »
Andrei Tarkovsky’s first film made outside the Soviet Union led not to a burst of freedom but a consolidation of themes and stylistic tics: dreams, mystic attempts at saving the world, standing and trickling water, et al. But the director remained one of the foremost poets of the screen, and several sequences astound with their more »
"Four friends just out of high school join the military: Denise Richards wants to pilot enormous spaceships, Casper Van Dien wants to be near her, Dina Meyer wants to be near him, and Neil Patrick Harris wants to pit his brain power against that of giant enemy insects—if they have brains. The plot of this 1997 feature may sound more »
"...The first Italian feature ever to be shot entirely in the US. Premiered at the Venice Film Festival before almost completely disappearing from view for 60 years, Smog tells the Didionesque story of an Italian lawyer’s accidental layover in LA, where his encounters with the flora and fauna of the sprawling and futuristic, sun more »
Once upon a time, there were these princelings called yuppies, and if they lived in Manhattan, they didn’t really go below 14th Street because it was Different. You see, Soho wasn’t a ritzy mall back then. Also, there were no cell phones or ATMs. Return to that magical time with Martin Scorsese’s nightmare comedy, which features more »
Compared to some of Roman Polanski’s true masterworks, The Pianist is unflashy, almost workmanlike in its filmmaking. The better to bear witness, perhaps, to the incredible true story of Wƚadysƚaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody), a Polish Jew during World War II who survived the Nazi invasion, the liquidation of the ghetto, and the fina more »
Kinji Fukasaku is known in the West, if at all, as the director of Battle Royale or the Battles Without Honor or Humanity films, but this is the real humdinger. The plot involves a disillusioned cop (Tetsuya Watari) who gets sucked into the orbit of a yakuza gang, but the plot matters far less than the downwardly mobile vibes an more »
Little more than a decade after he served as the literary clarion for the civil rights movement, writer James Baldwin revisits some of the sites of its critical moments and finds that not nearly enough has changed. This powerful and long-obscure documentary from Dick Fontaine and Pat Hartley speaks to the current moment as much more »
Documentary master Frederick Wiseman turns his unblinking eye on 21st-century fine dining in a fashion that fascinates, tantalizes, and occasionally appalls. His camera follows the Troisgros family as they shop, plan, prep, cook, and oversee service at their three restaurants in rural France (including one with three Michelin st more »
Pop existentialism at its most ‘70s, and the film that parked the Dodge Charger in the cinematic pantheon. Barry Newman powers a pill-popping gear-jammer who spends the entire film in flight from the law and his past (doled out in flashbacks) as he hurtles toward an inevitable fate. Journeyman director Richard Sarafian lensed th more »
Samuel Fuller pummels the screen with his two-fisted filmmaking style, this time applied to a crafty noir that pits wily pickpocket Richard Widmark against the feds and the reds after he lifts some atomic secrets off an unwitting moll played by Jean Peters. Almost worth seeing just for the great character actor Thelma Ritter as more »
The next time someone trots out the canard about using narration as a sign of weak filmmaking skills, throw Terence Malick’s debut back in their face. Forget the writer/director's nascent visual style. It’s the pitch-perfect narration that Malick puts in the voice of Sissy Spacek’s smalltown teen that imbues this retelling of a more »
This Japanese anime isn't merely a cartoon version of Fritz Lang's 1927 vision, with a screenplay by Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira, Roujin Z), it's actually adapted from the 1949 work of groundbreaking illustrator Osamu Tezuka. In Tezuka's dystopia, technology is both more »
