Band of Outsiders ( Bande à Part ) preceded by The Fiancés of Macdonald Bridge ( Les fiancés du pont Macdonald ) Sat, Sep 9 | 2pm | TMT Band of Outsiders ( Bande à Part ) Four years after Breathless (1960) , Jean-Luc Godard reimagined the gangster film even more radically with Band of Outsiders . In it, two restless young men (Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur) enlist the object of both of their fancies (Anna Karina) to help them commit a robbery—in her own home. This audacious and wildly entertaining French New Wave gem is at once sentimental and insouciant, effervescently romantic and melancholy, and it features some of Godard’s most memorable set pieces, including the headlong race through the Louvre and the unshakably cool Madison dance sequence. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Jean-Luc Godard. WITH: Anna Karina, Sami Frey, Claude Brasseur, Danièle Girard. 1964. 95 min. France. B&W. French. DCP. Preceded by The Fiancés of Macdonald Bridge ( Les fiancés du pont Macdonald ) Directed by Agnès Varda for her film Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), this silent short stars her French New Wave colleagues Jean- Luc Godard, Anna Karina, Sami Frey, and Eddie Constantine and is set on the titular bridge over the Canal Saint-Denis. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Agnès Varda. WITH: Jean-Luc Godard, Anna Karina, Sami Frey, Eddie Constantine. 1962. 5 min. France. B&W. French. Digital.
Four Nights of a Dreamer ( Quatre nuits d’un rêveur ) Sat, Sep 16 | 2pm | TMT On the first night, Jacques meets Marthe, who is contemplating suicide on the Pont Neuf. Jacques’s story begins in the busy streets of Paris following strangers with whom he falls in love, as relayed to Marthe. He’s a dreamer, longing for ideal love. Marthe’s story reveals a heartbreak that she hopes to revive with Jacques’s help. Based on White Nights , Fyodor Dostoevsky’s short story, Four Nights of a Dreamer portrays the sensibility of young hearts yearning for pure love. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Robert Bresson. WITH: Isabelle Weingarten, Guillaume des Forêts, Jean-Maurice Monnoyer. 1971. 87 min. France/Italy. Color. French. DCP.
Full Moon in Paris ( Les Nuits de la pleine lune ) Sat, Oct 7 | 2pm | TMT
Diva Sat, Sep 23 | 2pm | TMT
LIMITED SERIES ENTER THE VARDAVERSE:
Diva is a sensational thriller adapted from Daniel Odier’s novel of the same name, made of cult-like, obscure cinematic components driven by director Jean-Jacques Beineix’s distinctive creative style. It centers on Jules, a young postman who gets around the streets of Paris on his moped and is obsessed with opera. Jules’s trouble begins when he illicitly records the performance of an American soprano and accidentally stumbles on a tape which incriminates the corrupted chief of police. DIRECTED BY: Jean-Jacques Beineix. WRITTEN BY: Jean-Jacques Beineix, Jean Van Hamme. WITH: Frédéric Andréi, Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Roland Bertin. 1981. 117 min. France. Color. French, Italian, English, Latin. Rated R. 35mm.
AFTERNOONS IN PARIS
SEP 3–OCT 22, 2023
As the grandmother of the French New Wave, filmmaker Agnès Varda’s (1928–2019) influence on cinema history cannot be overstated. Working vigorously and spiritedly until her death at age 90 in 2019, Varda directed some two dozen features and almost as many short films, adapting her style to fit her ever-evolving curiosities and interests over her seven-decade career. For Part 3 of Enter the VardaVerse, which reflects on her place in the museum’s Director’s Inspiration gallery, currently on view in the exhibition Stories of Cinema , we track Varda’s filmmaking through the streets of Paris, where she lived on rue Daguerre for much of her life, and hold a mirror to her contemporaries. Join us on weekends this fall for cinematic getaways in the City of Lights, juxtaposing several of Varda’s rare shorts against classics old and new by the likes of Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Bresson, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Pierre Melville, Maurice Pialat, Eric Rohmer, Leos Carax, and other beloved filmmakers who shaped Paris on film in both physical and metaphorical ways. Programmed by K.J. Relth-Miller. Notes by Hyesung ii and K.J. Relth-Miller; select notes provided by distributors.
Céline and Julie Go Boating ( Céline et Julie vont en bateau: Phantom Ladies over Paris ) Sun, Sep 24 | 2pm | TMT
In Céline and Julie Go Boating , a magical world is created by Jacques Rivette’s visionary auteurship and the mesmerizing performances of his collaborators, Juliet Berto and Dominique Labourier, who play Céline and Julie, respectively. The film centers on these two Parisian women whose kinship is built on an exuberant and dreamy journey around the city of Paris. Every ground on which Céline and Julie stand becomes a metaphysical space that serves to fulfill the unfolding dreams and memories of these two women. DIRECTED BY: Jacques Rivette. WRITTEN BY: Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Jacques Rivette. WITH: Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier. 1974. 193 min. France. Color. French. DCP.
adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand ( The Umbrellas of Cherbourg ) and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina, who would make the iconic, Paris-set Band of Outsiders (1964) together just two years later. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Agnès Varda. WITH: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray. 1962. 90 min. France/Italy. B&W, Color. French. DCP. Preceded by Les dites cariatides Varda’s elegant investigation of female and male sculptures dignified within the architecture of Paris is manifested against a poetically composed soundtrack, voiceover, and array of carefully examined images. Historical context around the sculptures is shared through dimensional storytelling by Varda, and her continuous effort to perceive subjects with genuine curiosity enables viewers to perceive the stationary sculptural subjects through the scope of humane appreciation. DIRECTED BY: Agnès Varda. WRITTEN BY: Charles Baudelaire and Agnès Varda. 1984. 13 min. France. Color. French. Digital.
À Nos Amours Sun, Oct 1 | 2pm | TMT
LE SAMOURAÏ
Sandrine Bonnaire portrays a 15-year-old Parisian girl, Suzanne, who escapes from her volatile homelife and agonizing confusion about love and its complexity. As her coping mechanism, Suzanne falls into a pattern of impulsive promiscuity which makes her unsentimental and cynical to the idea of love in relation to sexuality. À Nos Amours is far from the conventional coming-of- age narrative, with director Maurice Pialat’s perspective on the intricate matters he is scrutinizing conveyed in exceptionally insightful and brutally honest fashion. DIRECTED BY: Maurice Pialat. WRITTEN BY: Arlette Langmann, Maurice Pialat. WITH: Sandrine Bonnaire, Evelyne Ker, Maurice Pialat. 1983. 100 min. France. Color. French. Rated R. DCP.
Le Samouraï Sun, Sep 10 | 2pm | TMT
“There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai, unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle… perhaps…” Jean-Pierre Melville’s masterpiece Le Samouraï begins with a quote from Bushido, the code of the samurai. Alain Delon portrays Jef Costello, a lone hit man armored in his signature trench coat and fedora, living in seemingly lifeless, gloomy surroundings. When a hit on a nightclub owner goes wrong, Costello’s quiet, desolate world is interrupted by ominous variables. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Jean-Pierre Melville. WITH: Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon. 1967. 101 min. France/Italy. Color. French. 35mm. Print courtesy of The Institut Français.
CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 (CLÉO DE 5 À 7)
Cléo from 5 to 7 ( Cléo de 5 à 7 ) preceded by Les dites cariatides Sun, Sep 3 | 2pm | TMT Cléo from 5 to 7 ( Cléo de 5 à 7 )
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the 1960s with this real-time portrait of a singer (Corinne Marchand) set
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