Week 1: Haunted by Cinema Week 2: Apichatpong Weerasethakul Week 3: Haunted Cinema Modern Cinema’s inaugural season kicks off with a weekend of films that have Adding a contemporary dimension to the season, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s The final weekend in the first season of Modern Cinema celebrates films that haunt haunted the creative world since they were first screened—the works whose films are haunted both by the ghosts of cinema past and by their own us all—ghost stories, explorations of the spirit, and studies in fantasy from all over influence remains and whose power has inspired our most important filmmakers. characters, who move between past and present, life and death. For the world and from some of filmmaking’s greatest practitioners. Eerie, unsettling, The lineup features landmark films from the Criterion/Janus catalog, with work Weerasethakul, cinema itself is haunted. The artist has selected several titles and startling, these works set the standard for subtle psychological horror and from such masters as Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Chantal Akerman, from the Criterion Collection that have haunted his films to accompany this changed the way we think about supernatural encounters. Michelangelo Antonioni, and more. retrospective of his own work. IN 35MM! Rashomon The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant An Evening with Mekong Hotel Pitfall Carnival of Souls Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1950, 88 min Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Germany, 1972, 125 min Apichatpong Weerasethakul Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand, 2012, 61 min Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japan, 1962, 97 min Herk Harvey, USA, 1962, 78 min FRIDAY • OCTOBER 7 • 6:00 PM FRIDAY • OCTOBER 7 • 8:30 PM THURSDAY • OCTOBER 13 • 7:00 PM FRIDAY • OCTOBER 14 • 6:00 PM FRIDAY • OCTOBER 21 • 6:00 PM FRIDAY • OCTOBER 21 • 8:30 PM A riveting psychological thriller that investigates the This unforgettable, unforgiving dissection of the Join visionary filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul Mekong Hotel sits on the border of Thailand and Laos. When a miner leaves his employers to become a migrant A woman in a Kansas town survives a car accident, nature of truth and the meaning of justice, Rashomon imbalanced relationship between a haughty fashion for an illustrated discussion of his films and art. There, Apichatpong Weerasethakul holds a rehearsal worker, he finds himself moving from one eerie landscape then agrees to take a job as a church organist in Salt is widely considered one of the greatest films ever designer and a beautiful, icy ingénue—based on the For this evening, he will present brief remarks and for a treatment for a movie that he wrote years ago. to another, intermittently followed by an enigmatic man Lake City. En route, an apparition compels her toward made. Four people give different accounts of a man’s writer-director’s own desperate obsession with a introduce several shorts made in the last 15 years, This study shuffles between realms and fact and in a clean, white suit—eventually coming face-to-face an abandoned lakeside pavilion. Made on a modest murder and the rape of his wife, which director Akira young actor—is a true Fassbinder affair, featuring including the hour-long Haunted Houses. This is a rare fiction, expressing the bonds between a vampire-like with his inescapable destiny. Hiroshi Teshigahara’s debut budget, this eerily effective B-movie classic was Kurosawa presents with striking imagery and an exquisitely claustrophobic cinematography by Michael opportunity to explore his fertile cross-pollination of mother and her daughter, two young lovers and the feature and first collaboration with novelist Kobo Abe, intended to have “the look of a Bergman and the feel ingenious use of flashbacks. Ballhaus and full-throttle performances by an all- art and cinema and the themes that illuminate these river, while weaving in themes of political history, Pitfall is an unsettling ghost story, a portrait of human of a Cocteau”—and, with its striking locations and female cast. unique works with the filmmaker himself. science fiction, music, and a dream of the future. alienation, and a surreal critique of soulless industry. spooky score, it succeeds. IN 35MM! IN 35MM! Agnès Varda Shorts: Black Panthers, Uncle Yanco, Mysterious Object at Noon Viridiana The River Picnic at Hanging Rock Grey Gardens and Documenteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand, 2000, 89 min Luis Buñuel, Spain, 1961, 90 min Jean Renoir, France, 1951, 99 min Peter Weir, Australia, 1975, 107 min Albert and David Maysles, USA, 1976, 94 min Agnès Varda, France, 1981/1968/1967, TRT 113 min SATURDAY • OCTOBER 8 • 3:45 PM FRIDAY • OCTOBER 14 • 8:00 PM SATURDAY • OCTOBER 15 • 1:00 PM SATURDAY • OCTOBER 22 • 3:00 PM SATURDAY • OCTOBER 22 • 6:00 PM SATURDAY • OCTOBER 8 • 1:00 PM Part fiction, part documentary, and part pseudo- Denounced by the Vatican, Luis Buñuel’s vision of Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature— Set at the turn of the 20th century, Picnic at Hanging Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother and daughter, After temporarily relocating to California in the late documentary about several unrelated lives, Mysterious life as a beggar’s banquet is regarded by many as shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de Rock concerns a small group of students from an high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of 1960s with her husband Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda, Object at Noon was shot without a conventional script. his masterpiece. In it, novice nun Viridiana does force. The film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of all-female college who vanish on a St. Valentine’s Jackie Onassis. The two manage to thrive together inspired by the politics, youth culture, and sunshine of The crew set out across Thailand, asking each subject her utmost to maintain Catholic principles, but her three young women with the immutability of the Bengal Day outing. Less a mystery than a journey into the amid the decay of their East Hampton mansion. An San Francisco and Los Angeles, created three works to continue a story started by the prior subject but lecherous uncle and a motley assemblage of paupers river around which their daily lives unfold. Enriched mystic and an inquiry into issues of class and sexual impossibly intimate portrait, this 1976 documentary that use documentary and fiction in various ways. with freedom of expression. After the journey, the crew force her to confront the limits of her idealism. by Renoir’s subtle understanding and appreciation for repression, Peter Weir’s gorgeous film is a work of by Albert and David Maysles quickly became a cult Together, they demonstrate that Varda was as deft an returns to Bangkok, where all is retold in a fiction-drama Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1961 Cannes Film India and its people, The River gracefully explores both poetic horror whose secrets haunt viewers to this day. classic and established Little Edie as a fashion icon and artist in unfamiliar terrain as she was on her own turf. style with non-professional actors. Festival, Viridiana remains as audacious as ever. transitory emotions and everlasting creation. philosopher-queen. IN 35MM! IN 35MM! IN 35MM! IN 35MM! The Seventh Seal L’Avventura Shorts by Apichatpong Weerasethakul Syndromes and a Century Ugetsu Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1957, 96 min Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy, 1960, 143 min SATURDAY • OCTOBER 15 • 3:30 PM Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand/France, 2006, 105 min Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1953, 97 min Apichatpong Weerasethakul, UK/Thailand/Germany/France/Spain, 2010, 113 min SATURDAY • OCTOBER 8 • 5:45 PM SATURDAY • OCTOBER 8 • 8:00 PM Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a highly original moving- SATURDAY • OCTOBER 15 • 6:00 PM SATURDAY • OCTOBER 22 • 8:00 PM Disillusioned and exhausted after a decade of battling Michelangelo Antonioni invented a new film grammar image artist, is one of the few filmmakers who Dedicated to Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s doctor “Quite simply one of the greatest of filmmakers,” said SUNDAY • OCTOBER 23 • 3:00 PM in the Crusades, a knight (Max von Sydow) encounters with this masterwork. An iconic piece of 1960s successfully bridge the gap between narrative forms parents, Syndromes and a Century begins in a rural Jean-Luc Godard of Kenji Mizoguchi. And Ugetsu, a Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, this film is a unique Death on a desolate beach and challenges him to a cinema and a gripping narrative on its own terms, and the avant-garde. A graduate of the School of the hospital that basks in a light so radiant it finds all doctors ghost story like no other, is surely the Japanese tale of a man embracing life’s greatest mystery. Uncle fateful game of chess. Much studied, imitated, even L’Avventura concerns the enigmatic disappearance of Art Institute of Chicago, he is one of a small group in love. Concerned with how memory (and, by extension, director’s supreme achievement. Derived from stories Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days with loved parodied, but never outdone, Ingmar Bergman’s stunning a young woman during a yachting trip off the coast of independent Thai filmmakers working outside the cinema) works to recall and rephrase stories and by Akinari Ueda and Guy de Maupassant, this haunting ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his allegory of man’s search for meaning The Seventh Seal of Sicily and the search taken up by her disaffected country’s studio system. This program comprises emotions, the film is blissfully impervious to narrative tale of love and loss—with its exquisite blending of the deceased wife appears, and his long lost son returns. was one of the benchmark foreign imports of America’s lover (Gabriele Ferzetti) and best friend (Monica Vitti, Weerasethakul’s rarely seen short works made over concerns and is as seductive as an afternoon spent under otherworldly and the real—is one of the most beautiful Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks 1950s art-house heyday.