20 Years. 10 Films.

THE MILLENNIUM SO FAR. 20 YEARS. 10 FILMS.
Our re-opening program celebrating the cinematic experience with a personal selection of some masterpieces from the last twenty years that are meant especially for the big screen.

Part I: MULHOLLAND DRIVE | LA GRANDE BELLEZZA | AMERICAN HONEY | MELANCHOLIA | THE RIDER

Part II: THE TREE OF LIFE | IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE | CALL ME BY YOUR NAME | TONI ERDMANN | LOST IN TRANSLATION

Special
20 Years. 10 Films.
Original English version
Director
Terrence Malick
Cast
Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken, Finnegan Williams, Michael Koeth, Laramie Eppler, Tye Sheridan, Kari Matchett
Plot Outline

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

Special
20 Years. 10 Films.
Original version with German subtitles
Director
Wong Kar-Wai
Cast
Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Maggie Cheung, Ping Lam Siu
Plot Outline

Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.

Director
Luca Guadagnino
Cast
Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, Victoire Du Bois, Vanda Capriolo, Antonio Rimoldi, Peter Spears
Plot Outline

Elio Perlman is spending the summer with his family at their vacation home in Lombardy, Italy. When his father hires a handsome doctoral student, the curious 17-year-old finds himself developing a growing attraction to the young man.

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20 Years. 10 Films.
Original German version
Director
Maren Ade
Cast
Sandra Hüller, Peter Simonischek, Michael Wittenborn, Thomas Loibl, Trystan Pütter, Ingrid Bisu, Hadewych Minis, Lucy Russell, Victoria Cociaș
Plot Outline

Without warning a father comes to visit his daughter abroad. He believes that she lost her humor and therefore surprises her with a rampage of jokes.

Director
Sofia Coppola
Cast
Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris, Akiko Takeshita, Fumihiro Hayashi, Kazuyoshi Minamimagoe, Kazuko Shibata, Take
Plot Outline

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.

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20 Years. 10 Films.
Original English version
Director
David Lynch
Cast
Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya
Plot Outline
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Special
20 Years. 10 Films.
Original version with German subtitles
Director
Paolo Sorrentino
Cast
Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso, Iaia Forte, Pamela Villoresi, Galatea Ranzi, Franco Graziosi, Sonia Gessner
Plot Outline

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

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20 Years. 10 Films.
Original English version
Director
Andrea Arnold
Cast
Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough, McCaul Lombardi, Arielle Holmes, Crystal Ice, Veronica Ezell, Chad Cox, Garry Howell
Plot Outline

A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.

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20 Years. 10 Films.
Original English version
Director
Lars von Trier
Cast
Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Alexander Skarsgård, Stellan Skarsgård, Brady Corbet, Udo Kier
Plot Outline

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.

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20 Years. 10 Films.
Original English version
Director
Chloé Zhao
Cast
Brady Jandreau, Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau, Cat Clifford, Terri Dawn Pourier, Lane Scott, Tanner Langdeau, James Calhoon, Derrick Janis
Plot Outline

Once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, and a gifted horse trainer, young cowboy Brady is warned that his riding days are over after a horse crushed his skull at a rodeo. In an attempt to regain control of his own fate, Brady undertakes a search for a new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of the United States.