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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 of cinema past and by their own us all— stories, explorations of the spirit, and studies in 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 , Ingmar Bergman, Chantal Akerman, from 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.

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Rashomon The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant An Evening with 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 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, 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 , 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 -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 , a portrait of human of a Cocteau”—and, with its striking locations and female cast. unique works with the filmmaker himself. , music, and a dream of the future. alienation, and a surreal critique of soulless industry. spooky score, succeeds.

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Agnès Varda Shorts: Black Panthers, Uncle Yanco, Mysterious Object at Noon Viridiana The River Picnic at Hanging Rock 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 , 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- 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.

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The Seventh Seal L’Avventura Shorts by Apichatpong Weerasethakul 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 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. in her breakout role). the past 14 years. those swaying trees. films ever made. to a mysterious hilltop cave—the birthplace of his first life.

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Sans Soleil with La Jetée Black Girl with Borom Sarret Knife in the Water A Touch of Zen , France, 1983/1962, TRT 132 min Ousmane Sembène, Senegal, 1966/1963, TRT 85 min , Poland, 1962, 94 min Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand/France, 2004, 118 min King Hu, Taiwan, 1971, 180 min SUNDAY • OCTOBER 9 • 2:00 PM SUNDAY • OCTOBER 9 • 5:00 PM SATURDAY • OCTOBER 15 • 8:30 PM SUNDAY • OCTOBER 16 • 2:00 PM SUNDAY • OCTOBER 23 • 6:00 PM Chris Marker has been challenging moviegoers, Ousmane Sembène transforms a deceptively simple When a young hitchhiker joins a couple on a weekend Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film A Touch of Zen depicts the journey of Yang, a fugitive philosophers, and himself for years with complex plot—about a young Senegalese woman who moves yacht trip, psychological warfare breaks out as the Festival, Tropical Malady is a lyrical and mysterious noblewoman in disguise who seeks refuge in a remote, queries about time, memory, and the rapid to France to work for a wealthy white couple—into a two men compete for the woman’s attention. A storm film that chronicles the love affair between a young and allegedly haunted, village. At once a film, advancement of life on this planet. is his complex, layered critique on the lingering colonialist forces the small crew below deck, and tension builds soldier and the country boy he seduces, which is the tale of a spiritual quest, and a study in human mind-bending freeform travelogue that journeys mindset of a supposedly postcolonial world. Black to a violent climax. With stinging dialogue and a disrupted by the boy’s sudden disappearance. Local nature, A Touch of Zen is an unparalleled work in King from Africa to Japan, while La Jetée is one of the Girl is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical mercilessly probing camera, Roman Polanski’s brilliant legends claim the boy was transformed into a wild Hu’s formidable career, characterized by breathtaking most influential and radical science fiction films ever political statement—and one of the essential films of creates a disturbing study of beast, and the soldier journeys alone into the jungle in choreography, stunning widescreen landscapes, made—a tale of time travel told in still images. the 1960s. Screened with Borom Sarret. fear, humiliation, sexuality, and aggression. search of him. and innovative editing.

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Photo credits: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, courtesy Cineteca di Bologna; Picnic at Hanging Rock, courtesy of Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles The Spirit of the Beehive Cemetery of Splendor of Janus Films; Black Girl with Borom Sarret, courtesy Janus Films; Pitfall, courtesy of Janus Films; Rashomon, Chantal Akerman, Belgium/France, 1975, 201 min Victor Erice, Spain, 1973, 99 min Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand, 2015, 122 min of Janus Films; Cemetery of Splendor, courtesy of Kick courtesy of Janus Films; The River, courtesy of Janus SUNDAY • OCTOBER 9 • 7:15 PM SUNDAY • OCTOBER 16 • 4:30 PM SUNDAY • OCTOBER 16 • 7:00 PM the Machine Films; Grey Gardens, courtesy of Janus Films; Sans Soleil, courtesy of Janus Films; The Seventh A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s In a small Castilian village in 1940 after Spain’s Apichatpong Weerasethakul proves masterful in exploring Films; Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Seal, courtesy of Janus Films; The Spirit of the Beehive, Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles devastating civil war, six-year-old Ana attends a the intersection of the human and spirit worlds through a Bruxelles, courtesy of Janus Films; Knife in the Water, courtesy of Janus Films; Syndromes and a Century, meticulously details the daily routine of a middle-aged traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes film of delicate, sumptuous beauty. Soldiers lie stricken by courtesy of Janus Films; L’Avventura, courtesy of Janus courtesy of Kick the Machine Films; A Touch of Zen, widow, whose chores include making the beds, cooking possessed by it. Produced as Franco’s long regime was a mysterious sleeping sickness in a rural town’s hospital. Films; La Jetée, courtesy of Janus Films; An Evening courtesy of Janus Films; Tropical Malady, courtesy of Kick dinner for her son—and turning the occasional trick. nearing its end and widely regarded as the greatest The film’s subtle theme of healing brought about with with Apichatpong Weerasethakul and all Apichatpong the Machine Films; Ugetsu, courtesy of Janus Films; Uncle Whether seen as an exacting character study or one of Spanish film of the 1970s, this bewitching portrait of the help of otherworldly forces encompasses not just the Weerasethakul director portraits, courtesy of Kick Yanco, courtesy of Ciné Tamaris; Uncle Boonmee Who cinema’s most complete depictions of space and time, a child’s haunted inner life is one of the most visually prone figures in bed, but characters including a hospital the Machine Films; Mekong Hotel, courtesy of Kick the Can Recall His Past Lives, courtesy of Strand Releasing; Jeanne Dielman is an astonishing movie experiment. arresting movies ever made. volunteer, a psychic, and an awakened soldier. Machine Films; Mysterious Object at Noon, courtesy of Viridiana, courtesy of Janus Films