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

Smiles of a Summer Night

Directed by Ingmar Bergman, 1955
Introduction: Linda Haverty Rugg

Digital Restoration

Couples meet, split, and reconverge at a country house in the summer of 1900 in Ingmar Bergman’s carnal comedy. “A tragic-comic chase and roundelay [carried] into elegance and lyric poetry” (Pauline Kael).

Series: Smiles of a Summer Night: Swedish Auteurs

Daughters, Wives, and a Mother

Directed by Mikio Naruse, 1960

Daughters, Wives, and a Mother features a stellar cast in a saga of a comfortable suburban family’s unraveling after the family home is mortgaged.

Series: Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman

The 400 Blows

Directed by François Truffaut, 1959

Jean-Pierre Léaud plays François Truffaut’s alter ego, Antoine Doinel, in the quintessential coming-of-age film, a lyrical but unsentimental portrait of adolescence and of Paris.

Series: Special Screenings 2025

Andrei Rublev

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966

Digital Restoration

Andrei Tarkovsky’s epic, otherworldly portrait of a fifteenth-century Russian icon painter is “a superproduction gone ideologically berserk” (Village Voice). “The best arthouse film of all time” (The Guardian).

Series: Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time

A Wanderer’s Notebook

Directed by Mikio Naruse, 1962

A revealing biopic, based on the journals of Fumiko Hayashi, the writer Mikio Naruse most frequently adapted, and starring his favorite actress, Hideko Takamine, who gives an “amazingly detailed, unglamorized portrait of the writer . . . imbued with a strong passion for life and writing” (National Film Theatre, London).    

Series: Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman

Vincent & Theo

Directed by Robert Altman, 1990

35mm Archival Print

This unconventional and direct biopic provides a portrait of codependent brothers, artist Vincent and art dealer Theo van Gogh. “The relationship between van Gogh and his brother supplies the canvas for a rumination on life, art and commerce, featuring passionate performances from Tim Roth and Paul Rhys” (Ryan Gilbey, Guardian).

Series: Robert Altman at 100

Through a Glass Darkly

Directed by Ingmar Bergman, 1961
Introduction: Linda Haverty Rugg

Digital Restoration

Ingmar Bergman’s still-provocative portrait of a young woman sinking into insanity while both family and God fail to save her. Winner of the 1962 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Series: Smiles of a Summer Night: Swedish Auteurs