HIDDEN
Michael Haneke
France/Austria 2005
117 min., 35mm

Television host Georges (Daniel Auteuil) and his wife Anne (Juliette Binoche) begin receiving mysterious and disturbing surveillance videos taken outside their home. While official investigations prove futile, Georges’s search for the person sending the tapes leads him to revisit his own troubled past—a journey that throws his home and professional life into severe disarray. Haneke’s most recent masterpiece is as quietly and meticulously provocative as any of his features. The final shot is just one aspect of Caché that will have you talking and thinking about it for a long time.

(Ernst Lubitsch, US 1940, 97 min., 35mm)

Just in time for the holidays comes this warm-hearted and charming human comedy. At Christmastime in Budapest, in a leather goods shop owned by Frank Morgan, rival employees James Stewart and Margaret Sullivan unwittingly carry on a letter romance. While they think they detest each other, the young couple have already fallen in love. The inevitable remake, You’ve Got Mail, doesn’t hold a candle to this still sparkling classic.

Lennie (Charles Grodin) and Lila (Jeannie Berlin) are newlyweds who embark on what they expect to be the perfect honeymoon in Florida. They are greeted by blue skies, gorgeous beachfront, and a siren in the form of Kelly (Cybill Shepherd), who threatens to distract the impressionable Lennie from the matters at hand. Grodin and Berlin (in an Oscar®-nominated turn) work the perfect comedic anti-chemistry in one of the best-kept secrets of 1970s cinema. Director Elaine May is one of the sharpest satirists of our time, and woefully under-appreciated; The Heartbreak Kid is testament to her cinematic acuity. New 35mm print restored by the Academy Film Archive.

71 FRAGMENTE EINER CHRONOLOGIE DES ZUFALLS
Michael Haneke
Austria 1994
95 min.
German and Romanian with subtitles, 35mm

Haneke based this drama on the true story of a teenager who randomly murdered three people in a Viennese bank, then committed suicide. Occasionally using documentary footage, the filmmaker methodically structures 71 sequences, following all four characters backward from the moment of death. Haneke’s trilogy about the banality of violence ends brilliantly in this masterwork.

(Vincente Minnelli, US 1948, 102 min., 35mm)

On a Caribbean Island in the 1820s, native girl Judy Garland fantasizes about a notorious pirate named Macoco, whom strolling minstrel Gene Kelly impersonates to win her heart. Minnelli’s lavish, old-fashioned MGM musical is dripping with lush color, festooned with magnificent sets and costumes, and peppered with swirling Cole Porter song-and-dance numbers like “Be a Clown” and “Mack the Black.”