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Germany, 2025, Christian Petzold
MIRRORS NO. 3 begins on a weekend trip to the countryside, when Laura (Paula Beer) miraculously survives a car crash. Physically unhurt but deeply shaken, she is taken in by a local woman who witnessed the accident and now cares for Laura with motherly devotion. When her husband and adult son also give up their initial resistance to Laura's presence, the four of them slowly build up some family-like routine. But soon they can no longer ignore their pasts. 86 min.
Cleveland premiere. Film Club discussion Friday.
Friday 7:00 pm & Saturday 4:00 pm
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USA/France, 2025, Amber Fares
COEXISTENCE, MY ASS! follows Noam Shuster Eliassi who grew up the literal poster child for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process before making a hard pivot to stand-up comedy and political satire. But as the region sinks deeper into devastating violence, she must meet the moment by challenging her audiences with hard truths that are no laughing matter. 95 min.
Cleveland premiere. Post-screening Film Club discussion.
Sunday 2:00 pm
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Germany/Georgia, 2025, Alexandre Koberidze
In DRY LEAF, Lisa, a sports photographer, vanishes off into the greener pastures of the Georgian countryside, traces of her passing embedded in the landscape like clues. Her father picks up her scent in the ochre foliage and communal soccer fields she documented for her last assignment. Undulating between impressionistic reverie and subversive detective story, his near-fruitless search invites us to see—with renewed eyes—the quotidian elements which constitute both cinema and life. 186 min.
Cleveland premiere.
Saturday 5:45 pm & Sunday 4:00 pm
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USA, 1984, Nick Castle
Arcade regular Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering the video game Starfighter, only to find out it was just a test. He is then recruited to join a team of best Starfighters to defend their world from the attack. CIA & CWRU professor Steven Ciampaglia will introduce THE LAST STARFIGHTER and lead a discussion afterwards, as part of his class "Wargames: The US Military and Videogames." 101 min. plus discussion.
Classics in 35mm.
Thursday 7:00 pm
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USA, 1994, Michael Almereyda
In 1993, invited by David Lynch to come up with a low-budget genre movie, Michael Almereyda recombined characters from Bram Stoker and set them loose in contemporary New York. Nadja (Elina Löwensohn) is a disillusioned "young" vampire who imagines herself liberated by the death of her father, Count Dracula, but the unhinged Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Fonda) wants to destroy her as well, interrupting her reunion with twin brother Edgar (Jared Harris) and pursuing them into a netherworld of shadows. Part seductive reverie, part spoof, NADJA is a delirious mashup of Andre Breton’s 1928 surrealist novel of the same name and Universal Pictures’ Dracula’s Daughter (1936). Lynch has a cameo as a hypnotized morgue attendant. 93 min.
Old Blood, New Blood. New 4K Restoration.
Friday 8:50 pm & Saturday 9:10 pm
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Hong Kong, 1989, John Woo
Mob assassin Jeffrey (Chow Yun-Fat) views his chosen profession as a calling rather than simply a job. When beautiful nightclub chanteuse is blinded in the crossfire of his most recent hit, Jeffrey chooses to retire after one last job to pay for his unintended victim's sight-restoring operation. THE KILLER is an exquisite dissection of morals in a corrupt society, highlighted with slow-motion sequences of brilliantly choreographed gun battles. Subtitles. 110 min.
John Woo's Hong Kong Action Classics. New 4K Restoration. A pre-recorded interview with John Woo follows the film.
Sunday 7:30 pm
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Japan, 1991, Hisayasu Satô
A master of combining the macabre with nihilistic and ill-fated character studies of women on the brink of madness, TURTLE VISION is one of pinku master Hisayasu Satô's most melancholic, unsettling and unpredictable looks at doomed and demented relationships. Satô updates the tropes of a classic "rape and revenge" drama in a context of violent voyeurism and abstracted trauma. The story is framed around a dejected amateur videographer infatuated with documenting the vengeful mutilations of a stoic sex-worker. Subtitles. 60 min. Strictly adults only.
New 4K Restoration. Introduced by Alex O'Dell.
Thursday 9:30 pm
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The Cinematheque will be a community partner for two acclaimed new films showing in this year’s 50th Cleveland International Film Festival, which takes place April 9-18 at Playhouse Square and The Cedar Lee Theatre.
For what it's worth, these are the ten films that Cinematheque Assistant Director Genevieve Schwartz is most interested in catching at the festival: BARBARA FOREVER; BETTER GO MAD IN THE WILD; CAROLINA CAROLINE; DON'T FORGET ME; FATHER; HEN; IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME; MĀRAMA; ROSE OF NEVADA; and RUN AMOK.
Don't miss outgoing Cinematheque Director Bilgesu Sisman's recommendations in next week's newsletter.
Advance tickets are now on sale at clevelandfilm.org. Use the code "CINE" and receive $1 off the ticket price—not only to our partnered film but to any regular CIFF screening.
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| This Week
Thu., Apr. 2, 7:00 pm
THE LAST STARFIGHTER
In 35mm
Introduced by Steven Ciampaglia
$14/$11
Thu., Apr. 2, 9:30 pm
TURTLE VISION
New 4K Restoration
$12/$9
Fri., Apr. 3, 7:00 pm
Sat., Apr. 4, 4:00 pm
MIRRORS NO. 3
Film Club Friday
$12/$9
Fri., Apr. 3, 8:50 pm
Sat., Apr. 4, 9:10 pm
Old Blood, New Blood
NADJA
New 4K Restoration
$12/$9
Sat., Apr. 4, 5:45 pm
Sun., Apr. 5, 4:00 pm
DRY LEAF
$12/$9
Sun., Apr. 5, 2:00 pm
COEXISTENCE, MY ASS!
Film Club discussion
$12/$9
Sun., Apr. 5, 7:30 pm
John Woo's Hong Kong Action Classics
THE KILLER
New 4K Restoration
$12/$9
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Next Week
THE SHORT FILMS OF DAVID LYNCH: EXPANDED
THE ADDICTION
AFTER LIFE
introduced by Bilgesu Sisman
DEAD LOVER
in Stink-o-Vision!
BITTER RICE
YES
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