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.
| Twin Peaks Season One, Episodes 6-8 | Thursday, September 24 |
| Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Saturday, September 26 |
| Ikiru | Monday, October 5 |
| Twin Peaks Season Two, Episode 1 | Thursday, October 8 |
| Cleo From 5 to 7 | Saturday, October 10 |
| The Spook Who Sat By The Door | Thursday, October 15 |
| Conversation Piece | Saturday, October 17 |
| Twin Peaks Season Two, Episodes 2-3 | Thursday, October 22 |
| Curse of the Demon | Saturday, October 24 |
| Possession | Thursday, October 29 |
| After Life | Saturday, October 31 |
| Twin Peaks Season Two, Episodes 4-5 | Thursday, November 5 |
| Sabotage | Saturday, November 7 |
| I Shot Andy Warhol | Thursday, November 12 |
| Vertigo | Saturday, November 14 |
| Twin Peaks Season Two, Episodes 6-7 | Thursday, November 19 |
| Out of the Past | Saturday, November 21 |
| Lolita | Saturday, November 28 |
| Twin Peaks Season Two, Episodes 8-9 | Thursday, December 3 |
| The King of Marvin Gardens | Saturday, December 5 |
| City on Fire | Thursday, December 10 |
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 »
As a harbinger of the New Hollywood, Mike Nichols’ calling card now seems pretty tame compared to, say, The Graduate. But the thespian firepower the director assembled to deliver Edward Albee’s play can still singe the eyebrows once the long, drunken night of black-comedic recriminations catches a more »
Akira Kurosawa’s 20th-century-set masterpiece comprises at least two films. In one, Takashi Shimura’s inert bureaucrat receives a terminal diagnosis and faces the fact he hasn’t really been alive for the past 30 years. In the other, those around him reckon with his final extraordinary burst of spirit. Heart-crushing, clear more »
The feature-length season-2 opener is the penultimate episode of the original series’ run directed by David Lynch himself and, appropriately, introduces the mysterious giant (Carel Struycken) who calls on the (not dead) Agent Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) from time to time. Cooper survived last season’s cliffhanger, but so did Leo more »
In France, “cinq à sept” isn’t just a time of day, but a liminal zone between workaday concerns and the more intimate evening. Corinne Marchand’s young blonde pop singer spends those minutes wandering Paris while awaiting a doctor’s diagnosis, trying to outpace existential dread. Agnès Varda’s second feature outcla more »
A film so far ahead of its time we still haven’t caught up. A flailing politician shames the Civil Rights era CIA into hiring Black agents, which brings them more than they bargained for in Lawrence Cook. Cook’s cool customer soon tires of the agency’s bullshit and takes his training to Chicago to form an underground guerilla ar more »
The Leopard director Luchino Visconti reteams with its star Burt Lancaster for another tale of an old-school gentleman confronting a new age. A crass bougie gaggle (led by Sillivana Mangano and Helmut Berger) browbeat Lancaster’s oldmoney scholar into renting them rooms, whereupon they upend his life. But this is no wacky comedy more »
Quentin Tarantino fetish object Michael Parks shows up as villain Jean Renault, and oddball character actor Lenny Von Dohlen pops up as an agoraphobe with a secret Laura Palmer diary. Subplots involving Meals on Wheels and a disability-payment scam telegraph the series’ puddling sprawl. People more »
Stolid Yank skeptic Dana Andrews just can’t buy that there’s a devil cult bustling in the tidy hedgerows of Merrie Olde England until it comes for him. There’s no real reason this vintage Brit creeper/thriller should work as well as it does except for, well, somehow everything about it. Kate Bush fans absolute more »
After years in the “cult” ghetto, Andrzej Żuławski’s film seems to have crept into the broader consciousness—so much so that there’s a prestige remake in development. It’s nearly impossible to imagine any other filmmaker or cast getting anywhere close to the sweaty desperation, the loony energy, the quite-literally-le more »
Once they die, ordinary Japanese report to a disheveled office to pick one memory from their lives that they will carry with them through eternity. That’s the premise behind Hirokazu Kore-eda’s deceptively simple classic. While the recently departed compile their highlight reels, the folks who staff the office (Arata Iura and Er more »
Things start getting really coconuts. A secret-shopper food critic (!) visits Twin Peaks, and Nadine (Wendy Robie) suffers a TV illness. A character believed dead returns in an obvious disguise. David Lander (Squiggy from Laverne and Shirley) shows up in one scene for a gag worthy of a Jerry Lewis flick. Capers of varying levels more »
Alfred Hitchcock did his part to push back against the rise of fascism with this tale of a sinister foreign agent (Oscar Homolka) up to no good in pre-World War II London behind the back of his unaccountably lovely wife (Sylvia Sidney). Sabotage unfolds light on the suspense set pieces that made the master famous, but it builds more »
Ever wanted to hang at Andy Warhol’s Factory in the ‘60s? This is as close as you’ll get. The underrated Mary Harron peers through the eyes of Valerie Solanas (Lily Taylor), an aggro lesbian writer who pursues Warhol (Jared Harris) as a benefactor before making him a target. Taylor delivers chunks of Solanas’s more »
If you think about it, parts of Vertigo are kind of silly. “The Mad Carlotta”? The level of coincidence involved? The jump scare at the end? But typically you’re not thinking about it, because the rest of Alfred Hitchcock’s film (aided by Bernard Herrmann’s score) taps into a relentless frisson of obsession that pulls James Stew more »
The old bellhop at the Great Northern? That’s Hank Worden, who was in a bunch of John Ford’s films and has 227 acting credits on IMDb. Regardless, David Lynch returns to Twin Peaks on camera as Agent Cooper’s hard-of hearing boss. Death also returns to Twin Peaks as a couple of characters meet grim fates. A disguised character i more »
Perhaps best known for the microbudget horror landmark Cat People, Jacques Tourneur reached his true pinnacle here. Robert Mitchum plays an ex-private eye drawn back to his former associations with a ruthless gambler (Kirk Douglas) and his beautiful moll (Jane Greer), and it all goes to hell. Hardboiled pulp master James M. Cain more »
Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel still holds up because it was made at a time when onscreen sexuality of any kind was fraught at best, allowing it to smuggle the worst implications past viewers via the formidable charm of James Mason as the title nymphet’s father-figure/abductor. The most scandalous aspec more »
Wanna know who killed Laura Palmer? This is when you find out, as the folks running the show in David’s Lynch’s creative absence shift the show into sorta-kinda standard crime mode for a couple of episodes to wrap it up. Which is kind of weird considering the second season is only halfway over! more »
Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern playing brothers represents some minor summit of maximum ‘70s-ness. The former plays a buttoned-up radio host (picture a depressed Ira Glass). The latter plays a glad-handing hustler trying to lure his little bro to a grotty pre-revival Atlantic City and into a dubious scheme to open a casino in Haw more »
Ringo Lam is no John Woo, but they also serve who put rising star Chow Yun-fat in a series of sweet fits in a violent Hong Kong crime film. Here Chow plays an undercover detective looking for a cop killer and getting a bit too close to a crew of vicious thieves. Some observers have noticed similarities between Lam’s film and Que more »
