Tati’s clownish alter ego Monsieur Hulot takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another.
When sound recording came to cinema in the late 1920s, it altered the future of the art, heralding a heyday in studio sound films over the next decades. But not all filmmakers wanted to leave the unique aesthetic choices and visual language of the previous era behind. This series focuses on a select few filmmakers who created work indebted to early cinema—while making films with synchronized soundtracks, they turn the visual language of the silents to new purposes. From silent-era auteur Charlie Chaplin making Modern Times, a “silent” film with synchronized sound effects, to later masters like Jacques Tati and Chantal Akerman, who drew upon early cinema elements to create works thoroughly of their own time, these films declare the significance of “silence” in the interplay between image and sound.
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PlayTime
Nov 1—Nov 4, 2024
PlayTime
Nov 1—Nov 4, 2024Jacques Tati’s hapless, old-world alter ego Monsieur Hulot traverses Paris in this quintessential example of the French auteur’s singular medley of sight gags and precise physical comedy.
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Tabu
Nov 1—Nov 6, 2024
Tabu
Nov 1—Nov 6, 2024Acclaimed director Miguel Gomes offers this sweeping, exquisite two-part tale of forbidden love in 60s Portuguese Africa.
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Archangel
Nov 1—Nov 6, 2024
Archangel
Nov 1—Nov 6, 2024Guy Maddin’s weird, wild, and extraordinary homage to the “part-talkies” of the late 1920s follows a one-legged allied trooper in snow-covered Russia during the country’s civil war.
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Shaun the Sheep Movie
Nov 2—Nov 4, 2024
Shaun the Sheep Movie
Nov 2—Nov 4, 2024When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for in this dialogue-free stop-motion adventure, based on the Wallace and Gromit spin-off series.
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To Sleep So as to Dream
Nov 3—Nov 6, 2024
To Sleep So as to Dream
Nov 3—Nov 6, 2024Two private detectives hunt for an actress trapped within the reel of a silent ninja film in Kaizo Hayashi’s dreamlike debut.
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Modern Times
Nov 3—Nov 5, 2024
Modern Times
Nov 3—Nov 5, 2024Charlie Chaplin’s imaginative and hilarious send-up of the modern industrialized world mixes joyful comedy gags with a satire of modern bureaucracy.
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The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting + The Suitcase
Nov 3—Nov 5, 2024
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting + The Suitcase
Nov 3—Nov 5, 2024Two surreal works by Chilean auteur Raúl Ruiz question the ways in which we perceive ourselves and the world around us.
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Je tu il elle
Nov 5—Nov 7, 2024
Je tu il elle
Nov 5—Nov 7, 2024A landmark investigation of female subjectivity, Chantal Akerman journeys from isolation to love in her first narrative feature.