Cinematheque
Year-round timeless classics, cult favourites & contemporary masterpieces.
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The Southerner
- Mon, Apr 29
Director: Jean Renoir Run Time: 92 min. Release Year: 1945
Starring: Betty Field, Beulah Bondi, J. Carrol Naish, Percy Kilbride, Zachary Scott
The picture that never lets go of your heart!
The Young and the Damned
- Wed, May 1
Director: Luis Buñuel Run Time: 82 min. Release Year: 1950 Language: Spanish
Starring: Alfonso Mejía, Alma Delia Fuentes, Estela Inda, Miguel Inclán, Roberto Cobo
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them...
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
- Mon, May 6
Director: Luis Buñuel Run Time: 101 min. Release Year: 1972 Language: French
Starring: Bulle Ogier, Delphine Seyrig, Fernando Rey, Paul Frankeur, Stéphane Audran
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts...
Belle de Jour
- Wed, May 8
Director: Luis Buñuel Run Time: 101 min. Release Year: 1967 Language: French
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Geneviève Page, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Pierre Clémenti
Luis Bunuel's Masterpiece of Erotica!
Poltergeist
- Mon, May 13
Director: Tobe Hooper Run Time: 114 min. Release Year: 1982
Starring: Beatrice Straight, Craig T. Nelson, Dominique Dunne, JoBeth Williams, Oliver Robins
It knows what scares you.
The Thing
- Wed, May 15
Director: John Carpenter Run Time: 109 min. Release Year: 1982
Starring: David Clennon, Keith David, Kurt Russell, T.K. Carter, Wilford Brimley
Man is the warmest place to hide.
Videodrome
- Mon, May 20
Director: David Cronenberg Run Time: 88 min. Release Year: 1983
Starring: Debbie Harry, James Woods, Leslie Carlson, Peter Dvorsky, Sonja Smits
Long live the new flesh.
They Live
- Wed, May 22
Director: John Carpenter Run Time: 93 min. Release Year: 1988
Starring: George Buck Flower, Keith David, Meg Foster, Peter Jason, Roddy Piper
You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they're people just like you. You're wrong. Dead wrong.
The Falls (Pt 1)
- Mon, May 27
Director: Peter Greenaway Run Time: 98 min. Release Year: 1980
Starring: Adam Leys, Colin Cantlie, Sheila Canfield, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
The exploration of the effects of an unexpected catastrophe, known as VUE (violent unknown event) through the bios...
The Falls (Pt 2)
- Wed, May 29
Director: Peter Greenaway Run Time: 195 min. Release Year: 1980
Starring: Adam Leys, Colin Cantlie, Sheila Canfield, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
The exploration of the effects of an unexpected catastrophe, known as VUE (violent unknown event) through the bios...
The Draughtsman’s Contract
- Mon, Jun 3
Director: Peter Greenaway Run Time: 108 min. Release Year: 1982
Starring: Anne-Louise Lambert, Anthony Higgins, Dave Hill, Hugh Fraser, Janet Suzman
A landscape of lust and cunning.
A Zed & Two Noughts
- Wed, Jun 5
Director: Peter Greenaway Run Time: 115 min. Release Year: 1985
Starring: Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon, Frances Barber, Geoffrey Palmer, Joss Ackland
Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.
The Merchant of Four Seasons
- Wed, Jun 12
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Run Time: 88 min. Release Year: 1972 Language: German
Starring: Andrea Schober, Hanna Schygulla, Hans Hirschmüller, Irm Hermann, Karl Scheydt
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him...
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
- Mon, Jun 17
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Run Time: 93 min. Release Year: 1974 Language: German
Starring: Barbara Valentin, Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Elma Karlowa, Irm Hermann
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her...
Effi Briest
- Wed, Jun 19
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Run Time: 141 min. Release Year: 1974 Language: German
Starring: Hanna Schygulla, Herbert Steinmetz, Lilo Pempeit, Ulli Lommel, Wolfgang Schenck
When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town...
Fox and His Friends
- Mon, Jun 24
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Run Time: 125 min. Release Year: 1975 Language: German
Starring: Adrian Hoven, Christiane Maybach, Karlheinz Böhm, Peter Chatel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Survival of the fittest.
Chinese Roulette
- Wed, Jun 26
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Run Time: 86 min. Release Year: 1977 Language: German
Starring: Alexander Allerson, Anna Karina, Brigitte Mira, Margit Carstensen, Ulli Lommel
A husband and wife lie to each other about their weekend travel plans, only to both show up...