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.
| Caligula: The Ultimate Cut | |
| Fight Club | Thursday, March 20 |
| LADY AND THE TRAMP | Saturday, March 22 |
| La Dolce Vita | Monday, March 24 |
| Blue Velvet | Thursday, March 27 |
| Early Spring | Saturday, March 29 |
| Saturday Night Fever | Thursday, April 3 |
| Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat | Saturday, April 5 |
| Mulholland Drive | Thursday, April 10 |
| A Woman is A Woman | Saturday, April 12 |
| Alphaville | Thursday, April 17 |
| Killer of Sheep | Saturday, April 19 |
This version, ostensibly remade from unused footage, is meant to redeem the longtime cinema punchline from ignominy. But it’s not as if a film about the most notorious Roman emperor directed by a softcore auteur was likely to end up a tasteful bore. Caligula redux lacks the hardcore-porn inserts and tells a more coherent story b more »
The film that inspired a generation of the most chud-like male behavior imaginable has dated in some respects—sooo many CGI fly- throughs! But it remains as light on its feet as a flyweight, dancing and landing dark comedic jabs even as its testosterone-poisoned “philosophy” inspires eyerolls. Say what you will about Brad Pitt—h more »
A pampered cartoon cocker slums it with the street dogs and complications ensue. The animation falls deep into the trough between classic old-school Disney magic and airless contemporary pixel-pushing, but the story and songs remain charming if pretty racist in spots. What was Walt’s deal with the 1910s, anyway? -Lee Gardner more »
One Show Only! It’s become a shorthand reference for swinging Rome and the louche early ‘60s, but then Moby Dick isn’t really about a whale. Marcello Mastroianni’s playboy journalist cavorts through the city, chasing celebrities and women and eroding his soul in the process. Speaking of shorthand, this is where the full floweri more »
David Lynch presaged the modern internet back when the real thing was two tin cans and a string. Noir always posited a realm of vice and violence just beneath the surface of the sunlit world of family dinners and dates to the dance, but Blue Velvet makes the dark underneath’s accessibility—and more »
Yasujirō Ozu gets a bit soapy here, albeit in an Ozu kind of way. A bored salaryman (Ryō Ikebe) feeling distanced from his wife (Chikage Awashima) starts an affair with a young colleague (Keiko Kishi). Really, just admiring the director’s trademark three-or-four-shot transitions is almost worth the price of admission alone. -Lee more »
The soundtrack spins wall-to-wall bangers and the disco sequences thrill, but the reason journeyman John Badham’s epochal smash still works like a 4/4 beat comes down to character and story. John Travolta, never better as a sort of human husky dog, senses a bigger life beyond the 9-to-5 and the release of the dancefloor. But can more »
The United States’ involvement in the 1960 assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba and the country’s subsequent decline into decades of dictatorship and ongoing instability is well-established. Filmmaker John Grimonprez creates a stylish and verve-y account of that history by infusing his 2024 documentary with the musi more »
David Lynch took a failed post-Twin Peaks TV pilot and transformed it into a film regularly acclaimed as one of this century’s best, an LA story that’s both love letter and poison pen, a sun-baked/noir-lit Persona, a star-is-born showcase for Naomi Watts, the spawning grounds for at least a dozen memes, and an more »
Based on the unlikely premise that a man doesn’t want to have a baby with Anna Karina, Jean-Luc Godard’s first color film is soufflé-light but wicked smart. The director manages to make a ‘60s romantic comedy and an exploded drawing of one at the same time, playing with sound, music, dialogue, the fourth wall, credits, and other more »
Jean-Luc Godard mashes up sci-fi and noir to create something very much like a mid-’60s Godard film. Pug-faced Eddie Constantine plays a hard-boiled private eye dispatched to the titular future city on a mission who encounters a somewhat dystopian reality that closely resembles mid-century Paris. Both a time capsule and a visio more »
Charles Burnett’s debut feature, shot mostly in the early ‘70s at the height of the Blaxploitation boom, captures an entirely different slice of Black life—thankless labor, scraping by, ordinary family, dreams deferred—via discursive vignettes and Burnett’s richly poetic eye. It feels like a miracle that this great film exists a more »
