NEW 35mm PRINT OF NOEL BLACK'S BLACK COMEDY THRILLER, STARRING TUESDAY WELD AND ANTHONY PERKINS, STARTS FRIDAY FOR ONE WEEK ONLY!

Showtimes: DAILY (except Monday) 1:00, 2:50, 4:40, 6:30, 8:20, 10:10
MON 1:00, 2:50, 4:40, 6:30, 10:10

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"HAS AN EROTIC ALLURE THAT WILL JOLT YOU!"
– Entertainment Weekly

"SUBTLE AND VERY SMART! Perkins gives what may be his most sensitively conceived performance.”
– Pauline Kael

"EDITORS' PICK! A WELCOME REVIVAL!"
– New York magazine

"A simmering small-town New England noir with an acidic comic streak. Retains its vintage 1968 aura, a studio film casting stars as its unlikely and unsavory couple, linking the blood-spattered eros of Bonnie and Clyde (produced the year before) with coming indie pulp like the The Honeymoon Killers."
– Bill Weber, Slant Magazine

“SENSITIVE AND UNSETTLING! A MINOR AMERICAN CLASSIC! A large part of what makes Pretty Poison chilling is Ms. Weld’s amazing performance... Pointing a gun, as she’s preparing to commit a murder she has long dreamed of, her smile has never been sweeter.”
– Charles Taylor, The New York Times

“WELD BOASTS THE DELIRIOUS BLOODLUST OF A 200-PROOF SOCIOPATH!”
– Nathan Rabin, The A.V. Club

MONDAY NIGHT FESTIVAL OF MGM SILENTS CONCLUDES FEBRUARY 6 WITH KING VIDOR'S THE PATSY, STARRING MARION DAVIES, AT 8:20 ONLY. LIVE PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT BY STEVE STERNER!

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"Utterly delightful! The film’s unpretentious charm is a surefire bet even for those new to silent cinema."
– Cullen Gallagher, Our Town Downtown

"A tour de farce, in which Miss Davies performs devastating parodies of Lillian GIsh, Mae Murray, and Pola Negri... Establishes Vidor's almost unequalled versatility and his flair for romantic comedy."
– Charles Silver

"Wonderfully good-humored."
– Pauline Kael

“Has a wonderfully satiric bent... Davies exudes a breezy underdog appeal. While even some of the most hypnotic silent film performances are deeply mannered, she comes across as au naturel.”
– Victoria Large

FREDERICK WISEMAN, DEAN OF DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKERS,
EXPLORES PARIS’S FAMED NUDE DANCE REVIEW
FINAL WEEK - MUST END TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7.

Showtimes: 1:00, 3:45, 6:45, 9:20

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"SPELLBINDING! The filmmaker's exceptional artistry restores the faith of those wearied by the glut of cruddy-looking and poorly structured documentaries from the past decade... (Wiseman) demands, but amply rewards, our close attention."
– Melissa Anderson, Village Voice

“Visits a French cabaret famous for its erotic dancers. In this film, as in its predecessors BOXING GYM and LA DANSE: THE PARIS OPERA BALLET, he pays equal attention to the movement of bodies and the function of an institution. CRAZY HORSE is a study of artistic process that is itself a work of art, and, as such, a reminder of what a documentary can be. Mr. Wiseman has planted his camera at the intersection of the cerebral and the sensual... Some of the dances, at least as captured on film, are both pretentious and beautiful. Others are silly (occasionally on purpose), and a few do seem to touch the lofty and mysterious realms of the sexual imagination.”
– A.O. Scott, The New York Times

“ENGROSSING and MESMERIZING! Plenty of perky bare breasts; swaying bottoms; and eye-popping, sensual and surprisingly artistic avant-garde dance sequences.”
– Miranda Siegel, New York magazine

“Frederick Wiseman remains at the top of his game… (with this) typically first-rate vérité look at the famous Parisian cabaret club. The Crazy Horse, with its undulating bodies and gleaming fluorescent lights, offers a dazzling cinema experience. The choreographers strive to use their dancers in service of creativity entirely alien to audiences expecting simple striptease. Grade A-”
– Eric Kohn, indieWIRE

ASGHAR FARHADI'S ACCLAIMED, GOLDEN GLOBE-WINNING IRANIAN DRAMA OF A MARRIAGE IN CRISIS
NOW PLAYING

Showtimes: 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:10

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[highest rating]
“Extraordinary. A total triumph!”
– Josh Rothkopf, Time Out New York

“THE BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR. Combines a plot worthy of a great novel with the emotional impact of a great melodrama. In its reconstruction of several versions of a significant event, it is as baffling as RASHOMON. A SEPARATION will become one of those enduring masterpieces watched decades from now.”
– Roger Ebert

“A WORLD-CLASS MASTERPIECE. Flawlessly crafted, brilliantly performed and elegantly photographed. Poses profound moral questions without venturing judgments. A SEPARATION appears to flow as life flows, mysteriously and irreversibly. It catches life on the fly.”
– Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal

“CALLING IT A MASTERPIECE IS TOO MILD A COMPLIMENT.”
– Dave Fear, Time Out New York

“RIVETINGLY TOLD. GRIPS YOU LIKE A GREAT THRILLER.”
– John Powers, Vogue

“Perhaps the finest movie of the year... about cruelty, slander, perjury, threats, extortion and (very nearly) negligent homicide. Acted without a trace of pretense and filmed as intimately as if a camera-toting friend of the family had just tagged along.”
– Stuart Klawans, The Nation

“A MUST-SEE. A deceptive, Hitchcockian mystery whose clues are laid out so carefully you'll probably miss them, and a complex philosophical fable in which every character is morally compromised... A profoundly humane work with the emotional payoff and far-sighted tragic vision of a great novel. Something close to a contemporary masterwork.”
– Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com

LAST 2 DAYS! FROM THE DIRECTOR OF ON THE BOWERY. NEW 35mm PRINT OF LIONEL ROGOSIN'S GROUNDBREAKING DEPICTION OF SOUTH AFRICA UNDER APARTHEID MUST END THURSDAY!

Showtimes: 1:00, 2:50, 4:40, 6:30, 8:20, 10:10

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[4 stars]
"A WORK OF AMAZING GRACE AND A FORGOTTEN TREASURE!"
– Sam Adams, Time Out New York

"POETIC AND ELECTRIFYING! A movie whose very existence seems a miracle... its artful despair is matched by its raw immediacy."
– New York magazine

"Rogosin shows a vital culture on the brink, at the moment when it was calcifying into the form it would hold for more than three decades to come... His films are to be treasured for imprinting vanished worlds in celluloid... Miriam Makeba performs two songs that show why she'd soon become an international name."
– Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice

“A HEROIC FILM! A film of terrible beauty, of the ongoing life it captured and of the spirit embodied by Rogosin and his fellow artists."
– Martin Scorsese

“A TIMELY AND REMARKABLE PIECE OF CINEMA!”
– Time

“The sound of the beating of the consciousness of a waking Africa.”
– Jonas Mekas, Village Voice

“Its strength is the same as Rogosin’s previous picture On the Bowery. That is its candid, forceful and often poignant pictorial quality — its distinction of catching the image in sharp and relentless terms.”
– The New York Times

BILL MORRISON MAKES FASCINATING USE OF RARE ARCHIVAL MATERIAL IN THE MINERS’ HYMNS (PLUS 3 OTHER SHORT FILMS)
PROGRAM HAS THEATRICAL PREMIERE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8
ONE WEEK ONLY!

Showtimes: 1:00, 2:45, 4:30, 6:15, 8:00, 10:00

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“The film opens with a 4.5 minute sequence of aerial shots, in gorgeous HD color, of innocuously suburban and rustic England: sports arenas, empty fields, and shopping centers, all identified in onscreen text as the location of former coalmine sites… Following this sequence, we are confronted with a beautifully crisp, black and white ode to the British Miners’ Union, the workers and their families and their close-knit communities… Morrison manipulates the footage, slowing down each movement to match the tempo of the plaintive music…The soundtrack… reinforces the combined themes of joyful celebration and acute loss.”
– Roberta Friedman, Millennium Film Journal

“THE MINERS’ HYMNS is an intensely emotional experience… As Lee Hall, writer of Billy Elliot notes: ‘There is no romance in the history of mining.’ However, there are strikingly lyrical moments in some scenes that Morrison includes in this elegy. Most indelible is the timeworn visage of an elderly woman, a miner’s wife, widow or mother… in what looks like an hour of mourning.”
– Graham Fuller, Sight + Sound

FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHTING HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR WILLIAM WELLMAN STARTS NEXT FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10 WITH NEW RESTORATION OF FIRST BEST PICTURE WINNER WINGS. 3 WEEKS! 42 FILMS!

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WINGS
"STUNNINGLY RESTORED!" – Lou Lumenick, New York Post

WINGS
“A MASTERPIECE! Wellman's first great work, with dazzling cinematography and stunts, documentary-like realism, dynamic direction, and a warm, engaging cast. It stands as a pioneering motion picture achievement and a prototypical adventure movie, retaining its potency over 70 years after its release.”
– John Andrew Gallagher & Frank Thompson

“Wellman hurls his camera around the vast battlefield with exhilarating abandon... His epic handling of the big drive is overwhelming, and the superimposition of thousands of men marching into a horizon where their destruction is pictured in split screen is a moment worthy of Abel Gance’s J’Accuse.”
– Kevin Brownlow