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.
| Alphaville | Thursday, April 17 |
| Killer of Sheep | Saturday, April 19 |
| Spring Breakers | Thursday, April 24 |
| The Servant | Saturday, April 26 |
| Seven | Thursday, May 1 |
| Mildred Pierce | Saturday, May 3 |
| Heavy Metal | Thursday, May 8 |
| Let’s Get Lost | Saturday, May 10 |
| The Princess Bride | Thursday, May 15 |
| The Magnificent Ambersons | Saturday, May 17 |
| River’s Edge | Thursday, May 22 |
| Last Year at Marienbad | Saturday, May 24 |
| All About My Mother | Thursday, May 29 |
| Two by Herzog | Saturday, May 31 |
| Tenebrae | Thursday, June 5 |
| The Wages of Fear | Saturday, June 7 |
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 »
Harmony Korine transcends his usual Cinema of Troll-ery as a quartet of college students (headlined by former Disney teens Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez) turn to crime to escape their ordinary lives for a week. But when you stare into the bikini-clad beer-bong abyss, it stares back. James Franco has to be seen to be believed. more »
James Fox is a classic upper-crust Brit twit. Dirk Bogarde is the perfect manservant for a respectable gentleman —or is he? Rather than settle for class-war cliches, screenwriter Harold Pinter and director Joseph Losey serve up something altogether more complex and delicious, and Fox gets in a dry run for his turn in Performance more »
Endlessly ripped-off to this day, David Fincher’s breakout manages the neat trick of balancing deep stylization (e.g. the constant rain) with palpable grit and realism as beleaguered cops chase a next-level serial killer. It helps that he’s got Morgan Freeman to ballast the emotional tone and aspirations to profundity. Brad Pitt more »
Michael Curtiz out-pulps James M. Cain’s original novel, staging a murder in the very first scene and streamlining the melodrama. The resulting adaptation not only brings the noir, it amps up the class division and the mother/daughter love/hate. If you ever wondered why Joan Crawford was a big deal, this is an excellent way to f more »
For 13-year-old boys of all ages. Back in the day, the titular comic brought European artists like Jean “Moebius” Giraud and “adult” themes to newstands. The titular film brings a brace of the comic’s stories to life through budget animation and a soundtrack crammed with bespoke tunes from classic rockers. Content warning: many, more »
It’s a genuine shock when Chet Baker cops to being 57 in this biodoc—he looks 30 years older. The contrast between his heartthrob younger days as the Great White Hope of jazz trumpet and the withered, scuffling addict of his final year on earth fuels fashion photographer Bruce Weber’s suitably elegant film. Despite the ad-campai more »
Is there anyone who doesn’t light up a little about this movie? Part fairy tale, part meta-comedy, Rob Reiner’s take on William Goldman’s story of farm boys, princesses, pirates, and giants still delights with its wry wit and flashes of genuine pathos. Secret MVP: Robin Wright Penn, who makes something really hard look easy. -Le more »
The fact that RKO cut nearly an hour out of Orson Welles’ follow-up to Citizen Kane and it still stands as one of the greatest films ever made has inspired decades of pained what-ifs. Welles shadows the title Midwestern clan as their 19th-century wealth and influence succumbs to onrushing modernity and simple hubris. Every scene more »
Every generation seems to have their coming-of-age film that Gets It. For the ‘80s kids, it was River’s Edge. A suburban hesher kills his girlfriend and shows his friends (including Keanu Reeves and Crispin Glover) her discarded body. Poorly equipped to deal by their ‘70s-hangover upbringings, they react mostly by not reacting a more »
The Nouveau Roman’s big-screen bow remains baffling and entrancing. Alain Renais’ camera prowls the Baroque halls and grounds of a luxe resort and occasionally alights on the dispassionate constituents of a love triangle as screenwriter Alain Robbe-Grillet’s narration goes on about its own elliptical business. An indelible cinem more »
As usual for a Pedro Almodóvar film, the plot here is so kinked and outrageous as to defy encapsulation. But wellspring performances from Cecelia Roth, Marisa Paredes, and Penélope Cruz wow. The director’s exploration of motherhood, sisterhood, and chosen family beguiles. And it looks like a billion pesetas. -LeeGardner more »
A pair of Werner Herzog’s underseen documentary shorts. God’s Angry Man focuses on Gene Scott, an old-school televangelist with a combative style—Herzog finds him glowering silently into a live television camera until the donations flow. High-speed cameras catch champion ski jumper Steiner flying high over spectators on his way more »
Dario Argento’s black-gloved hands strike again, this time racking up gruesome killings that mirror the ones Tony Franciosa’s novelist invented for his books. Can the scribbler figure out who’s taking his work as bloody inspiration before he falls victim? Crazy stalkers! Axe murders! Lesbians! Insane twists! C-movie bellwether J more »
What was the first action movie? One could make an argument for Henri-George Clouzot’s hot-sweat epic. There are only a few fights or firearms involved as desperate men (led by Yves Montand) stranded in a jungle hellhole seize a shot at trucking volatile nitroglycerin over hundreds of miles of gnarly road, but the two-fisted plo more »
