Él

Directed by Luis Buñuel, 1953

4K Digital Restoration

A psychological thriller: one of Luis Buñuel’s rawest, angriest indictments of religious and social hypocrisy, Él stands as the Surrealist master’s great excursion into dark melodrama, where civilization can find no answer to the raging urges of the irrational id.

Series: Special Screenings 2025

Untamed

Directed by Mikio Naruse, 1957

Oshima (Hideko Takamine) experiences a series of failed relationships as she works toward financial independence and self-realization. “Hideko Takamine’s performance . . . is among her most active and energetic and her character is one of the most liberated in [Mikio] Naruse’s oeuvre.”

Series: Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman

Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer

Directed by Andrei A. Tarkovsky, 2019

An account of the life and work of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky in his own words—his memories, his vision of art, and his reflections on the meaning of human existence—made by his son, Andrei A. Tarkovsky, in 2019.

Series: Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time

Gosford Park

Directed by Robert Altman, 2001

35mm Archival Print

In 1932 the wealthy and their servants descend on the titular English manor for a hunting party that quickly transforms into a comic and biting upstairs-downstairs murder mystery. “A beautifully proportioned work in which 30 fairly well defined characters don’t seem excessive” (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader).

Series: Robert Altman at 100

Summer with Monika

Directed by Ingmar Bergman, 1953
Introduction: Linda Haverty Rugg

Digital Restoration

Inspired by the earthy eroticism of Harriet Andersson, in the first of her many roles for him, Ingmar Bergman had a major international breakthrough with this sensual and ultimately ravaging tale of young love.

Series: Smiles of a Summer Night: Swedish Auteurs

Ivan’s Childhood

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, 1962

BAMPFA Collection

Lyrical and brutal by turns, Andrei Tarkovsky’s first feature tells of a child’s experiences during World War II. “Tarkovsky would go on to make grander, weightier, more iconic films, but it’s tough to argue he ever made a better one” (Time Out).      

Series: Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time

3 Women

Directed by Robert Altman, 1977

Young Pinky (Sissy Spacek) finds herself in the thrall of her extroverted but unpopular roommate, Millie (Shelley Duvall), in this exploration of identities fractured and fused. “3 Women is a film whose provocative schizophrenia is both gripping and contagious” (Kier-La Janisse).

Series: Robert Altman at 100

The Player

Directed by Robert Altman, 1992

Hollywood hotshot executive Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) is receiving poison pen postcards in this metatext for film lovers. “With breathtaking assurance, the movie veers from psychological-thriller suspense to goofball comedy to icy satire” (Terrence Rafferty, New Yorker).                  

Series: Robert Altman at 100