Full Moon in Paris ( Les Nuits de la pleine lune ) preceded by You’ve Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know ( T’as de beaux escaliers, tu sais ) Sat, Oct 7 | 2pm | TMT Full Moon in Paris ( Les Nuits de la pleine lune ) One of Éric Rohmer’s most renowned films, Full Moon in Paris has been heralded as “a small masterpiece” and “the very best of Rohmer.” Louise (Pascale Ogier), a young interior designer bored with her life in the sleepy suburbs, arranges to move back into her Paris apartment during the week. Balancing a steady boyfriend in the suburbs with a best friend, Octave (Fabrice Luchini), who makes plain his interest in her, and a bad boy musician who catches her eye at a party, eventually even the sophisticated and aloof Louise cannot untangle herself from the emotional realities of her various romantic encounters. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Eric Rohmer. WITH: Pascale Ogier, Tchéky Karyo, Fabrice Luchini. 1984. 101 min. France. Color. French. Rated R. DCP.
Preceded by Diary of a Pregnant Woman ( L’opéra-mouffe )
Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro felice) Mon, Sep 11 | 8pm | TMT
Varda’s observational short film made up of juxtaposed staged scenes starts with images of a pregnant woman’s body, followed by images of a pumpkin that is cut open and gutted mercilessly. Diary of a Pregnant Woman is a gateway into the streets of “La Mouffe,” guided by the tender gaze of Varda, who was pregnant with her first child during production of the film. Varda’s sincere intention to fundamentally understand the disconnect between the disparity that exists in “La Mouffe” and the hopeful anticipation of happy lovers is conveyed without imposing subjective emotional or philosophical engagement. DIRECTED BY: Agnès Varda. 1958. 16 min. France. B&W. French. Digital.
LIMITED SERIES NEW ITALIAN
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NUOVO CINEMA ITALIANO SEP 6–OCT 4, 2023
Preceded by You’ve Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know ( T’as de beaux escaliers, tu sais )
CINEMA
“Come to the Cinémathèque. You won’t be disappointed.” Varda’s tribute to celebrate the Cinémathèque française’s 50th anniversary, narrated by Isabelle Adjani, is centered around its iconic stairs, as the title suggests, and contrasting them with a series of classic film images revolving around stairs. Three minutes are more than enough for Varda to deliver an homage while employing her magical cinematic language that embeds a playful and accessible gateway to the work. DIRECTED BY: Agnès Varda. WITH: Isabelle Adjani. 1986. 3 min. France. Color. French. Digital.
With 14 Academy Award wins in the Foreign Language Film category (now called International Feature Film), Italy has historically been recognized in this category more than any other country. Beginning with the neorealism period that saw both Vittorio De Sica’s Shoeshine (1946) and The Bicycle Thief (1948) take home Honorary Awards, the country has seen nominations or wins in every decade, most notably for the virtuosic Federico Fellini. Since the turn of the century, the increasingly globalized market has created an influx of international co-productions, allowing Italian films to extend beyond the borders of the filmmakers’ birthplace to reflect the interconnected world in which we exist and in which art is made. Complementary to our limited series Ennio Morricone: Essential Scores from a Movie Maestro (screening October 6–November 25, 2023), the Academy Museum is proud to present this unique window into the last five years of cinema, Italian style. Programmed and notes by K.J. Relth-Miller.
GIRLHOOD
Girlhood Sat, Oct 21 | 2pm | TMT
Oppressed by her family, uninspired school prospects, and the boys who rule her neighborhood, Marieme (Karidja Touré) starts a new life after meeting a group of free- spirited girls. She changes her name to Vic, updates her dress code, and quits school to be accepted in the gang, hoping that this will be a way to freedom. Set primarily in the Cité de la Noue housing project on the northeastern outskirts of Paris, the girls venture into the city center for shopping trips within the Forum des Halles, a shopping mall that provides the perfect setting for female teenage rebellion and freedom. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Céline Sciamma. WITH: Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh, Mariétou Touré. 2014. 113 min. France. Color. French. DCP.
This film series is presented by the Academy Museum in partnership with Cinecittà.
Dakota Johnson stars as an American newly arrived at a Berlin dance academy run by a coven of witches, including Tilda Swinton’s Mother Helena Markos, one of three roles embodied by Guadagnino’s longtime muse and collaborator. DIRECTED BY: Luca Guadagnino. WRITTEN BY: David Kajganich. WITH: Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Chloë Grace Moretz. 2018. 152 min. Italy/USA. Color. English, German, French. Rated R. DCP.
HOLY MOTORS
Happy as Lazzaro ( Lazzaro felice ) Mon, Sep 11 | 8pm | TMT
Holy Motors preceded by Diary of a Pregnant Woman ( L’opéra-mouffe ) Sun, Oct 8 | 2pm | TMT Holy Motors
Nocturama Sun, Oct 22 | 2pm | TMT
For her third narrative feature, the Tuscan-born, Oscar- nominated filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher explores the harsh economic realities of rural Italy. The Cannes-winning screenplay follows Lazzaro, an innocente working as a sharecropper on the isolated Inviolata estate—so isolated, in fact, that its residents and workers are unaware that enslavement was outlawed years ago. Once released from his impossible situation, Lazzaro explores the world, bringing his own sense of humble magic to everyone he encounters. Added to Bong Joon-ho’s Sight and Sound list of 20 filmmakers to watch, Rohrwacher’s endless sense of wonder makes her one of the more fascinating storytellers to emerge this century. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Alice Rohrwacher. WITH: Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani, Alba Rohrwacher, Luca Chikovani. 2018. 128 min. Italy/Switzerland/ France/Germany. Color. Italian. Rated PG-13. DCP. Courtesy of Cinecittà.
There is no redemption in Bertrand Bonello’s third feature, Nocturama , a thriller about a group of Parisian teenagers who roam around the streets of Paris, orchestrating a terrorist attack by planting bombs at multiple locations. On the night of the explosions, they gather in a department store hoping to escape the authorities. The hideout ironically becomes the teenagers’ playground as they explore materialistic desire with merchandise. Bonello stays away from contextual explanation to the story and, in turn, creates an experience of unconventional cinematic engagement. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Bertrand Bonello. WITH: Finnegan Oldfield, Vincent Rottiers, Hamza Meziani. 2016. 130 min. France/Germany/Belgium. Color. French. DCP.
SUSPIRIA
Mr. Oscar (Denis Lavant) is driven around the city of Paris by his chauffer, Céline (Édith Scob), in a limousine that doubles as a dressing room, full of costumes and props for his acting gigs, aka “appointments.” In a span of a day, Mr. Oscar transforms into nine diverse characters, performed in his elaborate disguises, constantly crossing over the blurred line between the worlds of reality and fantasy beaming through “the beauty of act.” DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Leos Carax. WITH: Denis Lavant, Édith Scob, Eva Mendes. 2012. 115 min. France/Germany/Belgium. Color. French. DCP. Courtesy of Shout! Factory and the American Genre Film Archive.
Suspiria Wed, Sep 6 | 8pm | TMT
Lauded Sicilian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino’s remake of one of cinema’s best-known giallo films plunges even deeper into the occult themes and dark metaphors established in the 1977 version for a contemporary update on Italian auteur Dario Argento’s classic, itself inspired by Thomas De Quincy’s 1845 poetic essays on memory as experienced through psychedelics. Set in the “German Autumn” of 1977,
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