Arthouse Revival
Dive into bold, thought-provoking Arthouse, International, and Independent films in this dynamic series that revives cinematic masterpieces and brings eccentric gems back to life. Each week, explore cutting-edge genres, groundbreaking movements, and visionary filmmakers, with the month culminating in a member-selected screening that celebrates the very best in film.
The Short Films of David Lynch
November 10 | 7:00 PM
Featuring Six short films by David Lynch: Six Men Getting Sick (1967), The Alphabet (1968), The Grandmother (1970), The Amputee, Version 1 and Version 2 (1974), Premonitions Following an Evil Deed (1995), The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1988) and Dumbland (2002).
Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray
November 24 | 7:00 PM
The four films Man Ray directed between 1923 and 1929, Le Retour à la raison, Emak-Bakia, L'Étoile de mer and Les Mystères du Château du Dé represent a high watermark of early European avant-garde cinema, a seminal nexus of experimental technique, surrealist narrative, and playful abstraction as suffused with dark eroticism. In these films Ray began discovering the limitless possibilities of montage as well as the direct application onto celluloid of objects such as salt, pepper, pins, and thumbtacks. Juxtaposing undulating geometric patterns, a twirling fairground ride, and a female nude, among other striking images, Ray finds subconscious correspondences among seemingly incongruous materials and figures. In celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Le Retour à la raison, the Jim Jarmusch-Carter Logan combo Sqürl present Man Ray: Return to Reason, with a newly-recorded drone rock soundtrack for that title as well as the three other Ray films. The band’s cosmic sounds complement Ray’s work by conjuring the beautiful, ineffable, haunting, and sublime.