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Part of First & Last<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

“La Pointe-Courte<\/span><\/a>” (1955) \u2013 November 6 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Directed by Agn\u00e8s Varda<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By many reckonings a New Wave film before the term New Wave had been invented, Varda\u2019s daring debut made after her years as an official photographer for the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Nationale Populaire in Paris, was shot in the Mediterranean port city of S\u00e8te, where the director spent part of her youth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its two narrative strands \u2014 one a neorealism-inspired story of the hardscrabble lives of local fishermen, the other following recriminations and reconciliations of a married couple (Philippe Noiret and Silvia Monfort) \u2014 travel parallel lines while never quite overlapping, a still-singular structural conceit borrowed from William Faulkner\u2019s The Wild Palms<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Varda by Agn\u00e8s<\/span><\/a>” (2019) \u2013 November 6 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Directed by Agn\u00e8s Varda<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In what would be her final film, which draws upon archival footage, clips drawn from the whole of her filmography, and an abundance of onstage interviews and lectures, Varda offers a guided tour of her remarkable life, from her early years as a still photographer, her fiction and documentary film work, to her late-in-life turn to gallery installation pieces. A tender farewell from an artist to her audience as well as a summation of an eternally curious, tirelessly experimental, and steadfastly politically engaged career. \u201cA breathtaking self-portrait by an artist at the height of her powers.<\/em>\u201d \u2014 Artforum<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Part of Zeitgeist Films at 35<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

“Lumumba<\/span><\/a>” (2001) \u2013 November 11 & 12<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Directed by Raoul Peck<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rousing, raging political thriller that made the international reputation of Haitian filmmaker Peck (I Am Not Your Negro), Lumumba tells the true story of the first Prime Minister of the Congo after its declaration of independence from Belgium, Patrice Lumumba: his visionary dream of a united Africa; the stiff opposition this gained him in Europe and the United States; and his tragic, terrible assassination after mere months in office. Anchored by a commanding lead performance from Eriq Ebouaney, Peck\u2019s film fairly vibrates with anti-colonial ardor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introduction and Q&A with filmmaker Raoul Peck on Saturday, November 11th at 5:00pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Irma Vep<\/span><\/a>” (1996) \u2013 November 17, 18 & 19<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Directed by Olivier Assayas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maggie Cheung in the role she was literally born to play: Maggie Cheung. The Hong Kong actress is imported to star in a remake of Louis Feuillade\u2019s 1915 serial Les Vampires directed by a New Wave has-been (Jean-Pierre L\u00e9aud), but then finds herself submerged in a strange world of flirtatious lesbians, bourgeois ex-radicals, Luc Besson admirers, and all-night raves, all the while becoming oddly in thrall to her form-fitting S\/M catsuit, which lures her out onto the rooftops of Paris. A meditation on global cinema at a moment of transition, a comedy about filmmaking and cultural crosstalk, and a movie so alive to the textures of contemporaneity that it hasn\u2019t aged a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“The Umbrellas of Cherbourg<\/span><\/a>” (1964) \u2013 November 24 & 26<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Directed by Jacques Demy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shared with a new generation of filmlovers in the US when Zeitgeist released a restored version of the film theatrically in NYC in 1996, Demy\u2019s poignant, particolored, all-singing musical tracks the budding romance between ridiculously good-looking young couple Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo. The discovery of true love is depicted in a spree of bright, playful springtime hues and trilling, thrilling song, only for the star-crossed amour to conclude with a white-out and the most wrenching Christmas scene in all of cinema: a steady fall of stage snow, a dash of tinsel, a gas station office pregnant with regret, a swell of music, and a heavenward lift of the camera. 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