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 | Monday, March 17 |
| 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 |
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 »
