Films Week of Friday, September 13, 2024-Thursday, September 19, 2024
Knights in Shining Armor: The Pavia Tapestries Through May 26, 2025
History comes alive! Witness a Renaissance battle play out across royal tapestries. Knights in Shining Armor: The Pavia Tapestriesoffers an unprecedented look at some of the most awe-inspiring …
23 Mar Sun / 2025
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The Blond Boy from the Casbah (Le petit blond de la casbah)
3 p.m.—5 p.m.Growing up in war-torn 1960s Algiers, Antoine Lisner discovers a profound fascination with cinema. Revisiting the place as an adult, now a filmmaker, he remembers emotional moments of his youth, spent between school, friends, and his Jewish family.
27 Mar Thu / 2025
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Vishniac
7 p.m.—8:45 p.m.Vishniac follows photographer Roman Vishniac from his early years in czarist Russia to his emergence as a Modernist photographer in Weimar Berlin, as well as his journeys across Eastern Europe before WWII and his family’s dramatic escape to America in 1940.
28 Mar Fri / 2025
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The One Man Band (L’homme orchestre)
7 p.m.—8:30 p.m.A woman joins a ballet group whose manager forbids his dancers any distractions outside of dance. Little does he know she has a son in Italy, and the troupe goes to great lengths to create an explanation for the boy’s existence.
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Hibernatus
9 p.m.—10:30 p.m.After he is awakened from a 65-year cryogenic freeze, a man’s relatives plan an elaborate ruse on their long-lost relative so as not to shock him with contemporary reality.
29 Mar Sat / 2025
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La chèvre
7 p.m.—8:30 p.m.A French tycoon’s accident-prone daughter is kidnapped in Acapulco. Her father hires a private detective to go to Mexico, but realizes he also needs the assistance of an accountant (Pierre Richard), whose entire life has been an endless series of mishaps, to find the girl.
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Les compères
9 p.m.—10:30 p.m.When a mother is dissatisfied with the police not searching for her runaway son, she contacts two former lovers, convincing them to help find her boy by claiming that one of the men is her son’s father.
