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The General and Cut And Run
All Of A Sudden
(Soudain)
(Country: Japan, France, Belgium, Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi; Writer: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Léa Le Dimna; Stars: Virginie Efira, Tao Okamoto, Kyōzō Nagatsuka, Kodai Kurosaki, Jean-Louis Garçon, Marie Bunel, Jean-Charles Clichet, Margot Maricot, Lazare Gousseau, Jérôme Chappatte, Evelyne Istria, Elisabeth Tamaris, Aurélia Petit, Heidi Becker-Babel)
The director of a nursing home in Paris has an encounter with a terminally ill Japanese playwright that transforms her life.
An American Werewolf In London
(Country: UK, US; Year: 1981; Director: John Landis; Writer: John Landis; Stars: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, John Woodvine, Lila Kaye, Joe Belcher, David Schofield, Brian Glover, Rik Mayall, Sean Baker, Paddy Ryan, Anne-Marie Davies, Frank Oz, Don McKillop, Paul Kember)
Fully restored version of the werewolf classic.
Cut And Run
(Inferno In Diretta, Amazon: Savage Adventure, Straight to Hell)
(Country: Italy; Year: 1985; Director: Ruggero Deodato; Writer: Cesare Frugoni, Dardano Sacchetti; Stars: Lisa Blount, Leonard Mann, Willie Aames, Richard Lynch, Richard Bright, Michael Berryman, Eriq La Salle, Gabriele Tinti, Valentina Forte, John Steiner, Karen Black)
A journalist gets into deep trouble after following a drug-running and kidnap story deep into the jungles of the Amazon.
Death Has No Master
(La muerte no tiene dueño)
(Country: Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Spain, Venezuela; Year: 2026; Director: Jorge Thielen Armand; Writer: Jorge Thielen Armand; Stars: Asia Argento)
In Venezuela, the heiress of a colonial cacao plantation and its entrenched guardians enter a duel for the land, where the only harvest left is violence.
The Fountain
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Darren Aronofsky; Writer: Darren Aronofsky; Stars: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn, Mark Margolis, Stephen McHattie, Fernando Hernandez, Cliff Curtis, Sean Patrick Thomas, Donna Murphy, Ethan Suplee, Richard McMillan, Lorne Brass)
Three parallel stories, running across more than 1000 years explore the notions of life, love, obssession and loss.
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait and All Of A Sudden
Frankenstein Unbound
(Country: US; Year: 1990; Director: Roger Corman; Writer: FX Feeney, Roger Corman; Stars: John Hurt, Raúl Juliá, Nick Brimble, Bridget Fonda, Jason Patric, Michael Hutchence, Catherine Rabett, Catherine Corman, William Geiger, Mickey Knox, Myriam Cyr, Terri Treas, Cynthia Allison, Isabella Rocchietta, John Karlsen)
Particle physicist Dr. Joe Buchanan builds a device capable of vaporising anything it touches, in the hope of ending war once and for all. While testing the prototype, he is accidentally sent backwards in time to a small Swiss village in 1817, where he meets Dr Frankenstein.
The General
(Country: US; Year: 1926; Director: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton; Writer: Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman, Al Boasberg, Charles Henry Smith, William Pittenger, William Pittenger, Paul Girard Smith; Stars: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley, Frederick Vroom, Charles Henry Smith, Frank Barnes, Joe Keaton, Mike Donlin, Tom Nawn, Henry Baird, Joe Bricher, Jimmy Bryant, Sergeant Bukowski, C.C. Cruson)
A train engineer tries to retrieve his locomotive from behind enemy lines.
Ghosts & Guests
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 1989; Director: Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch; Stars: Jo Mihaly)
Documentary that brings to life the illustrious history of the Grand Hotel Brissago.
Grave Of The Fireflies
(Hotaru no haka, Graveyard of Fireflies)
(Country: Japan; Year: 1988; Director: Isao Takahata; Writer: Isao Takahata. based on the novel by Akiyuki Nosaka; Stars: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara, Akemi Yamaguchi, J Robert Spencer, Rhoda Chrosite, Veronica Taylor, Amy Jones)
Isao Takahata's fiercely beautiful anti-war animated classic. Out for 25th anniversary re-release.
Green Porno
(Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Isabella Rossellini; Writer: Isabella Rossellini; Stars: Isabella Rossellini)
Screening as part of an Isabella Rossellini showcase
A series about the sex lives of bugs, insects, and various creatures. The films are a comical, but insightful study of the curious ways that "bugs" make love.
An American Werewolf In London and Two Lovers
Letter from My Village
(Kaddu Beykat)
(Country: Senegal; Year: 1976; Director: Safi Faye; Stars: Assane Faye, Maguette Gueye, Safi Faye)
Ngor and Columba live in a Senegalese village. They wish to marry, but due to the droughts and reduction in crops, Ngor does not have enough to pay the dowry. He travels to the city to find work, but there he faces exploitation and returns to the village to tell of his experiences.
Mother!
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Darren Aronofsky; Writer: Darren Aronofsky; Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, Domhnall Gleeson, Brian Gleeson, Stephen McHattie, Kristen Wiig, Stefan Simchowitz, Jovan Adepo, Robert Higden, Amanda Warren, Eric Davis, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Mizinga Mwinga)
Uninvited guests threaten a couple's relationship.
The Nutty Professor
(Country: US; Year: 1996; Director: Tom Shadyac; Writer: David Sheffield, Barry W. Blaustein, Steve Oedekerk, Tom Shadyac, Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman; Stars: Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Coburn, Larry Miller, Dave Chappelle, John Ales, Patricia Wilson, Jamal Mixon, Nichole McAuley, Hamilton von Watts, Chao Li Chi, Tony Carlin, Quinn Duffy, Montell Jordan, Doug Williams)
In search of romance a genetics professor tries an experimental fat-reducing serum.
Siren Island
(Sirenen-Eiland)
(Country: Germany, Switzerland; Year: 1981; Director: Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch; Writer: Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch; Stars: Julie Goel, Antoinette Novak)
Inspired by the mythological sirens and created by a predominantly female team, the film – shot in New York, France, and Switzerland – connects locations, dances, songs, and poems performed by various artists.
Two Lovers
(2 Lovers)
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: James Gray; Writer: James Gray, Ric Menello; Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Isabella Rossellini, Elias Koteas, Moni Moshonov, Julie Budd, Nick Gillie, Carmen M. Herlihy, Samantha Ivers, Anne Joyce)
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A man struggles with his emotions as his founds tentative relationships with two women.
Mother! and The Fountain
Uli der Knecht
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 1954; Director: Franz Schnyder; Writer: Richard Schweizer, Franz Schnyder; Stars: Hannes Schmidhauser, Emil Hegetschweiler, Liselotte Pulver, Heinrich Gretler, Hedda Koppé, Marianne Matti, Erwin Kohlund, Stephanie Glaser, Alfred Rasser, Linda Geiser, Max Haufler)
Story of a peasant as he progresses from humble origins to the homes of the wealthy.
We Own The Night
(Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: James Gray; Writer: James Gray; Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Eva Mendes, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Duvall, Alex Veadov, Dominic Colon, Danny Hoch, Moni Moshonov)
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A nightclub manager is caught between his relatives in the police force and his contacts in the Russian mafia.
Yankee
(Country: Italy, Spain; Year: 1966; Director: Tinto Brass; Writer: Alberto Silvestri, Giancarlo Fusco, Alfonso Balcázar, Tinto Brass; Stars: Philippe Leroy, Adolfo Celi, Víctor Israel, Valentino Macchi, Jacques Herlin, Mirella Martin, Tomás Torres, Francisco Sanz, Pasquale Basile, Franco De Rosa, Antonio Basile)
Apaghetti western pits a bounty killer against El Grande Concho, a bandit king.
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
(Zidane, un Portrait du 21e Siècle)
(Country: France; Year: 2006; Director: Douglas Gordon, Philippe Parreno; Stars: Zinedine Zidane)
Study of Zinedine Zidane during a Real Madrid match against Villarreal.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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