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08/03/2026

Catch THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY and PASSING SUMMER this week at Doc.

07/31/2026

As the season flies by, slow down with PASSING SUMMER (Angela Schanelec, 2001), screening Thursday, Aug. 6 at 8PM and Friday, Aug. 7 at 5PM.

A web of relations between everyday city-dwellers — lovers, friends, relatives, and chance acquaintances — is quietly drawn out over the course of a languid Berlin summer (the German title translates to ‘My Slow Life’). The central figure, Valerie (Ursina Lardi), drifts about in the same emptiness and circularity of the season itself, as she waits for something to happen, for her life to change.

Courtesy of the Deutsche Kinemathek.

07/27/2026

Rescheduled screenings on Wednesday are accompanied by Disco Godfather and Afternoon on Thursday and Friday.

07/26/2026

Rudy Ray Moore is the DISCO GODFATHER (1979). Screening Thursday, July 30 at 5PM and Friday, July 31 at 8PM.

After making blaxploitation history in 1975 with DOLEMITE, Rudy Ray Moore stars as Tucker Williams, a cop-turned-discotheque-owner who dons a shiny, blue V-neck, adorned with jewelry. After a string of angel dust overdoses at his club, Tucker tries to crack down on the mob who have been dealing the drug in the club, providing a dazzling disco-infused experience fused with kung-fu action.

07/25/2026

Bathe in soft summer light with AFTERNOON (Angela Schanelec, 2007), screening Thursday, July 30 at 8PM and Friday, July 31 at 5PM.

Set over the course of languid summer days at a lake house outside Berlin, AFTERNOON reinterprets Chekhov's THE SEAGULL into a contemporary drama of desire and estrangement. When actress Irene (played by Schanelec herself) returns to visit her brother and her son, old wounds and resentments come to the surface. The film allows its tangle of relationships to emerge in the subtlest of gestures and silences.

Courtesy of the Deutsche Kinemathek.

07/24/2026

Our previously cancelled screenings of BRINGING UP BABY (Howard Hawks, 1938) and DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (Carl Franklin, 1995) will screen Wednesday, July 29.

07/20/2026

The first of our Angela Schanelec series, I WAS AT HOME, BUT... (2019) screens Tuesday, July 21 at 5PM and Friday, July 24 at 5PM.

Perhaps Schanelec’s most acclaimed film to date, I WAS AT HOME, BUT… draws on Bresson’s AU HASARD BALTHAZAR and HAMLET in this family drama of a prodigal son's return. Longtime Schanelec collaborator Maren Eggert gives a grounding performance as a mother in crisis dealing with the her teenage son's return after his unexplained disappearance. Ozu's influence goes beyond the title, a play on I WAS BORN, BUT...; Schanelec was inspired by the "very very deep kindness in those films. And mercy."

Courtesy of Cinema Guild.

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