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MARCH 6 – APRIL 16, 2020 CINE FRIDAYS ’ROUND MIDNIGHT NUARTFILMCALENDAR MOVIES OPENING EXCLUSIVELY AT MAR “Don’t mess with the APR Iko Uwais in 6 crazy cat-lady!” 3 Gareth Evans’s Tom Hooper’s THE RAID: CATS REDEMPTION 35mm Print! MAR APR Jason Schwartzman, 30th Anniversary! 13 10 Olivia Williams & Bill Murray in John Lafia’s Wes Anderson’s CHILD’S PLAY 2 Co-presented with Shriekfest! RUSHMORE MAR Keanu Reeves, SATURDAYS ’ROUND MIDNIGHT 20 Michael Nyqvist & Alfie Allen in Chad Stahelski’s JOHN WICK MAR 50th Anniversary! 27 Michelangelo Antonioni’s ZABRISKIE Featuring Sins O’ The Flesh LIVE! POINT www.sins.la LANDMARKTHEATRES.COM/LOS-ANGELES NUART THEATRE /NuartTheatreLA 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard (at the 405 Freeway) • West Los Angeles @NuartTheatre (310) 473-8530 Matinees Daily! @NuartTheatre Email sign up: filmclub.landmarktheatres.com Werner Herzog In Person for NOMAD: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BRUCE CHATWIN © 2020 Landmark Theatres Sorry We Missed You Bacurau STARTS FRIDAY, MARCH 6 • ONE WEEK STARTS FRIDAY, MARCH 13 • ONE WEEK WINNER! JURY PRIZE 2019 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL HHHH! “Powerful...Ken Loach is in blistering form with this gripping “Gloriously demented!”—David Ehrlich, INDIEWIRE indictment of the modern gig economy.”—TIME OUT LONDON “Genre-bending…Sneaky, full of surprises, and often laced with humor.” HHHH! “Loach, clearly still buzzing from the success of I, Daniel Blake, is —Barbara Scharres, ROGEREBERT.COM having the time of his life. Don’t miss this. You’ll be sorry if you do.” “A modern-day western with some of the raw, hallucinatory power of a —Charlotte O’Sullivan, EVENING STANDARD Sergio Leone epic…Rich and extremely filling.” —Justin Chang, LOS ANGELES TIMES The British working class is once again the empathetic subject of the new film by master director Ken Loach (I, DANIEL BLAKE; THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY; SWEET SIXTEEN), a wrenching, intimate family drama that A few years from now... Bacurau, a small village isolated in the arid Brazilian backcountry, mourns the loss exposes the dark side of the so-called “gig economy.” Ricky (Kris Hitchen), a former laborer, and his home- of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants (among them Sônia Braga) notice attendant wife Abby (Debbie Honeywood), parents of two teenagers, lost their home in the 2008 financial that their village has literally vanished from most maps and a UFO-shaped drone starts flying overhead, crash and are desperate to make a better life for their family. When an opportunity comes for Ricky to work as tracking their movements. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes and eradicate the his own boss as a delivery driver, they sell their only asset, Abby’s car, to trade it in for a shiny new white van and town. Soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed foreign mercenaries led by Udo Kier arrive in town the dream that Ricky can work his way up to someday owning his own delivery franchise. But instead, it all goes picking off the inhabitants one by one. A fierce confrontation takes place when the townspeople turn the wrong. Capturing the sacred moments that make a family as well as the acts of desperation needed to make tables on the villainous outsiders, banding together by any means necessary to protect and maintain their it through each day, this universal story is skillfully and indelibly told with unforgettable performances and a remote community. Winner of over a dozen international awards, including the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film searing script by Loach’s long-time collaborator Paul Laverty. In English with English subtitles. (UK/France/ Festival. Written and directed by Kleber Medonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, who previously collaborated on Belgium, 2019) AQUARIUS and NEIGHBORING SOUNDS. (Brazil/France, 2019) zeitgeistfilms.com/film/sorrywemissedyou kinolorber.com/film/bacurau The Conversation Deerskin STARTS FRIDAY, MARCH 20 • ONE WEEK STARTS FRIDAY, MARCH 27 • ONE WEEK NEW 35MM PRINT! WINNER! PALME D’OR CANNES FILM FESTIVAL “A bleak and devastatingly brilliant film!”—TIME OUT “Bat-sh*t crazy!”—Alex Saveliev, FILM THREAT “An immaculate thriller, a study in paranoia and loneliness, partly inspired by “Enjoyably demented...Deerskin is a portrait of what happens when Antonioni’s Blow-Up.”—Philip French, THE GUARDIAN technology falls into the wrong hands, made through technology that “The movie captures [an] elusive and universal fear—that of losing the power clearly fell into the right ones.”—Justin Chang, LOS ANGELES TIMES to respond, emotionally and morally, to the evidence of one’s own senses.” “A loopy entertaining WTF lark…Dujardin gives an adventurous downbeat —Michael Sragow, THE NEW YORKER performance that tosses vanity—and sanity—right out the window.” —Owen Gleiberman, VARIETY THE CONVERSATION, Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 masterpiece of societal paranoia in the guise of a techno-thriller, is back on the big screen in newly struck 35mm prints supervised by the director. Lonely, reticent wiretapping In this mad black comedy/crime thriller of middle-aged masculinity run amok, Academy Award winner expert and devout Catholic Harry Caul (Gene Hackman, in one of his greatest performances) is hired to record a Jean Dujardin (THE ARTIST, OSS 117: CAIRO, NEST OF SPIES) plays Georges, a suave recent divorcé who becomes seemingly innocuous conversation in San Francisco’s Union Square between two lovers (Frederick Forsythe and obsessed with a snazzy vintage fringed deerskin jacket (it has “killer style”!) that begins to exert an uncanny Cindy Williams). Upon re-hearing the tapes, however, Caul believes he may be putting the couple in danger if hold on him, dominating his life and actions. Georges finds himself stranded without funds in a sleepy French he turns the material over to his client (Robert Duvall). But what one hears can ultimately turn out to be quite alpine village, and makes the best of it. Asked his profession he is at a loss, but the possession of a recently different from what was actually recorded. Winner of the 1974 Palme d’Or at Cannes, and nominated for three acquired movie camera prompts him to declare he is an independent filmmaker. This gives him status in the Oscars including Best Picture (losing out to Coppola’s own THE GODFATHER: PART II), THE CONVERSATION features eyes of a trusting bartender and aspiring film editor (Adèle Haenel, PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE) who becomes a cast of Coppola regulars, including John Cazale, Harrison Ford and Teri Garr. The minimalist piano score by his collaborator on a movie that will document a surprising new goal he sets himself. Written and directed by David Shire is considered one of the great film scores of that era. (USA, 1974) quirky maverick Quentin Dupieux (RUBBER). (France, 2019) rialtopictures.com/catalogue/the-conversation greenwichentertainment.com/film/deerskin The Ghost of Peter Sellers Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin STARTS FRIDAY, APRIL 3 • ONE WEEK STARTS FRIDAY, APRIL 10 • ONE WEEK Filmmaker Werner Herzog In Person Friday, April 10! (Details TBA) “Absolutely fascinating...An emotionally cathartic and absorbing movie about “Heartfelt…Conveys a sense of profound beauty and primordial mystery.” a man who can’t let go, yet wants to be free.”—Rodrigo Perez, THE PLAYLIST —Nick Schager, VARIETY “This can’t-take-your-eyes-off-it documentary feels like both a mea culpa and “A poignant testament to two friends’ shared curiosity about the world.” a purge of lingering ghosts...The excruciating experience of making a film that —John DeFore, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER never should have been put before the cameras is revisited in ghastly, jaw- “Despite walking many steps around the world and delivering many great dropping detail.”—Todd McCarthy, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER films in the process, he’s never quite made a self-portrait like this one. Werner’s latest might be his most Herzoggian film yet.”—Pat Mullen, POV In 1973 young director Peter Medak was at the peak of his career, having just made THE RULING CLASS with Peter O’Toole (nominated for the Palme d’Or). For his next project he was thrilled to be asked to direct Werner Herzog, legendary director of GRIZZLY MAN, MEETING GORBACHEV, and CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS, Peter Sellers (THE PINK PANTHER, DR. STRANGELOVE, BEING THERE), the world’s leading comic actor, in a turns the camera on himself and his decades-long friendship with the late travel writer and explorer big budget 17th century pirate comedy called GHOST IN THE NOONDAY SUN, scripted by Spike Milligan. What Bruce Chatwin, the prolific author of IN PATAGONIA and a champion of the nomadic lifestyle. He was a kindred followed was a mind-boggling catastrophe that rivals LOST IN LA MANCHA for its unprecedented set of disasters. spirit whose quest for ecstatic truth carried him to all corners of the globe. Herzog re-visits places that Chatwin Mercurial star Sellers lost confidence in the film as soon as it began on location in Cyprus, firing the producers loved, including Patagonia, the Australian outback, and Ghana, where they worked together on Herzog’s 1987 the first week and then setting his sights on director Medak, as well as his friend co-star Anthony Franciosa. film COBRA VERDE, adapted from Chatwin’s novel. Herzog’s deeply personal portrait of Chatwin, illustrated with The full-sized sailing ship on which they were shooting ran aground the first day. After more than 40 years the insightful interviews, archival discoveries, film clips and a perplexing “brontosaurus skin,” encompasses their wounds have barely healed for Medak, who exorcizes his demons by telling the story of his worst nightmare shared interest in aboriginal cultures, ancient rituals and the mysteries stitching together life on earth.