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.
| Patton | |
| Hard Boiled | Thursday, September 3 |
| The Lady From Shanghai | Saturday, September 5 |
| The Driver | Thursday, September 10 |
| Alice | Saturday, September 12 |
| Popeye | Thursday, September 17 |
| Leave Her To Heaven | Saturday, September 19 |
| Twin Peaks Season One, Episodes 6-8 | Thursday, September 24 |
Released near the height of the Vietnam War, Franklin Schaffner’s epic portrait poses the title general as both an anachronistic knight-errant and a brutal sociopath. The script spends as much time on the political maneuvering between generals as the battlefield kind, but it all pales beside George C. Scott’s magisterial perform more »
John Woo’s final first-phase Hong Kong blockbuster pushed the limits of what he could do with action before he left for Hollywood, with ballistic set pieces that outdid everything he’d done before. The teahouse! The warehouse! The climactic hospital blowout! Hard Boiled can’t top The Killer’s story beats and drippy heart, but Ch more »
Don’t know why this Orson Welles film isn’t held up alongside the likes of Touch of Evil at least. Maybe because, like Welles’ feckless Irish accent here, it’s kind of A Lot. The director’s scuffling sailor falls in with a rich lawyer (Everett Sloane) and his bombshell young wife (Rita Hayworth), launching a seafaring noir and more »
The literal missing link between Le Samouraï and Drive. Ryan O’Neal is the frosty pro getaway driver who seems to have no life except for brooding and accelerating. Bruce Dern is the detective who aches to bust him. Isabelle Adjani is the cool customer who drifts into it all. Writer/director Walter Hill’s script devel more »
Lewis Carroll’s twee surrealist classic takes on a twisted new shape courtesy of visionary Czech animator Jan Švankmajer. In this stop-motion cult fave, Alice is a real girl and the White Rabbit is a moth-nibbled taxidermied corpse whom she alternately trails and flees. The fall to Neverland becomes a dusty museum trundle, Never more »
One of the more fascinating chapters in the annals of How Did This Get Made? Robert Altman plays it straight with his musical take on the comics’ nautical strongman, which is not to say it comes out straight, exactly. Robin Williams and Shelly Duvall preside over an insanely detailed village set and a cast of character-actor ecc more »
Sirk with teeth. John M. Stahl’s melodrama tumbles into Technicolor noir as Gene Tierney’s sociopathic rich girl starts eliminating rivals for new husband Cornel Wilde’s affections. The disconnect between Tierney’s glittering surface and the lengths she’s willing to go make for a delicious thrill throughout. A fantastic studio-s more »
The fact that wholesome-seeming Laura Palmer turns out to be a drug-using sex worker was a wild leap for 1990. One of the underrated pleasures of the series is watching Sherilyn Fenn work the manager of her character’s father’s department store. The wild plot threads start to converge as the season nears an end, but who’s expec more »
