Every Saturday at 11:30am, Monday at 7pm and Thursday at 9pm, the Charles presents repertory films in DCP format (and from time to time on 35mm film) in The Charles’ original 360 seat theatre.
| Viridiana | Monday, February 9 |
| Angel’s Egg | Thursday, February 12 |
| Cabaret | Saturday, February 14 |
| DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN | Thursday, February 19 |
| Dark Passage | Saturday, February 21 |
| Naked Lunch | Thursday, February 26 |
| All That Jazz | Saturday, February 28 |
| La Haine | Thursday, March 5 |
| The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her lover | Saturday, March 7 |
| Predator | Thursday, March 12 |
| The Verdict | Saturday, March 14 |
| Adaptation | Thursday, March 19 |
How does that saying go about good deeds? Silvia Pinal’s nun-to-be loathes her creepy old uncle (Fernando Rey) but nonetheless consents to visit him one last time before she takes her final vows. What ensues represents one of Luis Buñuel’s most thoroughgoing savagings of the Catholic Church, and that’s saying something. -Lee Gar more »
A boy shouldering a cross-shaped weapon wanders a war–ravaged waste. A young girl cradles a round belly — in fact, it’s a large egg hidden under her dress, an egg she’s convinced is special. Writer/ director Mamuro Oshii (Ghost in the Shell) and illustrator Yoshitaka Amano (Final Fantasy) teamed up for this terse mindblower, nev more »
Everybody’s broke, people are being rounded up on the streets, and Nazis are on the rise. Yes, it’s Germany between the world wars, the setting of Bob Fosse’s screen adaptation of the Broadway smash. The ambisexual bed-hopping at the heart of the plot is au courant, too, though the film is at its louche best on the grotty stage more »
Madonna was never going to be a great actress, but she’s undeniable as a screen presence. She shot to stardom while Susan Seidelman was shooting this downtown romp with Rosanna Arquette as a Jersey housewife whose amnesia leads to her swapping lives with the Material Girl’s title wastrel. Lots of fun, not least for Manhattan pre more »
Humphrey Bogart stars, though you don’t see his face for a third of the film. Delmer Daves shot the early reels from Bogart’s character’s POV—a bold gambit/ gimmick that helps enliven this solid noir. After plastic surgery, Bogart tries to prove his innocence with the help of Lauren Bacall. Several tense sequences and a kindly c more »
Turns out you can film pretty much any novel, though apparently there are limits to how queer you make it. David Cronenberg’s take on William S. Burroughs’ subterranean classic leans into surrealism, squalor, and ick as Peter Weller’s authorial stand-in infiltrates a nightmare demimonde undercover as a straight guy. If nothing e more »
Womanizing workaholic substance-abusing chainsmoking Bob Fosse transformed his decline into one of the great American films, as clear-eyed about death, creativity, and denial as any movie ever made. You might not imagine Roy Scheider as the star of a musical, but then it’s tough to imagine a director making a film about his own more »
It’s reductive to call it the French Do the Right Thing, but not inaccurate. Vincent Cassel, Saȉd Taghmaoui, and Hubert Koundé star as three young men living in a Parisian slum in the wake of an uprising. A friend lying near death after a beating by police and a cop’s lost gun complicate matters. Director Mathieu Kassovitz’s sil more »
Peter Greenaway’s prickly cinema finally hit big with arthouse audiences here. Food and sex will do that. Everybody despises Michael Gambon’s vile gangster, but he holds money and violence over restaurateur Richard Bohringer, just violence over wife Helen Mirren. That doesn’t prevent her from pursuing an affair in the restaurant more »
Lumetland is full of courthouses and bars and unappealing apartments, with the occasional posh paneled room just to make the regular Joes feel inferior. Paul Newman is a serious Lumet guy, a clay-footed lawyer with scotch for blood who gets a chance to turn it all around and blows nearly every shot at it. You’ve seen it all befo more »
That this movie ever existed, much less continues to, seems like some fake Wikipedia entry that will get taken down any minute. Nicolas Cage plays screenwriter/director Charlie Kaufman, who was hired to adapt Susan Orlean’s book The Orchid Thief. He did. That’s the film you’re watching. But it’s mostly about Kaufman’s inability more »
