CHELSEA CLASSICS 2025, Chelsea Theater
CHELSEA CLASSICS 2025
SUMMER 2025
As always, this Summer, our repertory film series, Chelsea Classics, celebrates the art of cinema through the years.
We've got a bit of everything for you to enjoy.
Anniversary films, Pride films, Labor films, the cinematography of Vittorio Storaro, the animation of Sylvain Chomet, eight Akira Kurosawa 4K restorations, 20 4K restorations in total, not to mention Late Night Cult Classics as picked by our film obsessed Staff!
On top of all of that there are a couple of major throughlines in cinematic history we'll follow this Summer:
L.A. REBELLION
We're showing five major works from the UCLA school of Black filmmakers who looked out at the horizon and did not see themselves nor thier lives reflected back. They set out over the last half of the 2oth Century to build a vision of what Black independent cinema could and would become. These artists not only created their own visual language and style, but they laid the foundation to mentor Black artists across generations. Their works represent some of the best of independent cinema, though their films are sadly underseen.
FROM RAY TO MERCHANT IVORY
We'll explore the early films of the father of Indian cinema, Satyajit Ray, including his much beloved Apu Trilogy, and track the influence and mentorship Ray had on Producer/Director team Merchant/Ivory. We'll show the recent documentary MERCHANT IVORY, which contextualizes the relationships between all of these artists including the quartet of Director James Ivory, Producer Ismail Merchant, Screenwriter/Novelist/Poet Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and Composer Richard Robbins. We'll end with some of the quintessential works of Merchant Ivory. We'll be sure to bring the tissues!
We hope you'll come on these cinematic journeys with us!
THE DARJEELING LIMITED (Wes Anderson Weekend)
Mon. 6/9 @ 1:00PM, 7:00PM
Our Chelsea Classics exploration of the films of Satyajit Ray, Ismail Merchant, and James Ivory culminates h
ere in their influence on Wes Anderson's films. One of the great soundtracks in film, Wes Anderson uses scores composed by Satyajit Ray, the father of Indian Art Cinema, in THE DARJEELING LIMITED, to connect his story, character, and place to these great filmmakers.
THE DARJEELING LIMITED follows three estranged brothers—Francis, Peter, and Jack Whitman—who embark on a train journey across India in an attempt to reconnect with each other and heal after their father's death.
THE FALL (4K Restorations/Reissues)
Wed. 6/11 @ 8:00 PM
Relive the adventure of Tarsem’s visionary fantasy epic THE FALL, as it returns to theaters in a stunning new 4k restoration, presented by David Fincher and Spike Jonze.
In silent-era Hollywood, stuntman Roy Walker (Lee Pace, Foundation, Bodies Bodies Bodies) is brought to a hospital after an on-set accident. There, he befriends a young girl (Catinca Untaru) and tells her a fantastical tale of epic heroes taking revenge on an evil ruler. The story transports her from the hospital into the exotic landscapes of her imagination.
A monumental production that filmed over four years in 28 breathtaking locations across multiple continents, with dazzling costumes designed by Academy Award® winner Eiko Ishioka, THE FALL remains one of the most gorgeous films ever made, a genre-defying cult classic like no other.
ENTER THE VOID (Late Nights)
Fri. 6/13 @ 10:00 PM
Sat. 6/14 @ 10:00 PM
Sun. 6/15 @ 10:30 AM
CHELSEA LATE NIGHTS: CLASSICS EDITION
PHOTO SENSITIVITY WARNING: THIS FILM CONTAINS INTENSE STROBING LIGHTS.
Staff Pick: Charlie
ENTER THE VOID (Gaspar Noé, 2009, 161min)
Gaspar Noé's undeniable drug-fueled trance film is an instant cult classic. Come find us where the neon lights of Tokyo blur the edges between life and death, drug and dream, space and time.
PATHER PANCHALI (From Ray to Merchant Ivory)
Sat. 6/14 @ 4:30 PM
Wed. 6/18 @ 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: FROM RAY TO MERCHANT/IVORY
PATHER PANCHALI (Satyajit Ray, 1955, 125min)
"SONG OF THE LITTLE ROAD"
With the release in 1955 of Satyajit Ray’s debut, Pather Panchali, an eloquent and important new cinematic voice made itself heard all over the world. A depiction of rural Bengali life in a style inspired by Italian neorealism, this naturalistic but poetic evocation of a number of years in the life of a family introduces us to both little Apu and, just as essentially, the women who will help shape him: his independent older sister, Durga; his harried mother, Sarbajaya, who, with her husband away, must hold the family together; and his kindly and mischievous elderly “auntie,” Indir—vivid, multifaceted characters all. With resplendent photography informed by its young protagonist’s perpetual sense of discovery, Pather Panchali, which won an award for Best Human Document at Cannes, is an immersive cinematic experience and a film of elemental power.
BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS (L.A. Rebellion)
Sun. 6/15 @ 4:30 PM
Thu. 6/19 @ 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: L.A. REBELLION
BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS (Billy Woodberry, 1984, 80min)
Unemployed, depressed and running out of options for supporting his wife and three children, Charlie Banks (Nate Hardman) is just barely eking out a living in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts in the early 1980s. His wife, Andais (Kaycee Moore), accuses him of irresponsibility, and even of cheating on her, an allegation that isn't true until Charlie decides it may as well be. Charlie's friends try their best to help him get by, but their well-intentioned plans don't always pan out.
APARAJITO (From Ray to Merchant Ivory)
Sat. 6/21 @ 4:30 PM
Wed. 6/25 @ 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: FROM RAY TO MERCHANT/IVORY
APARAJITO (Satyajit Ray, 1956, 110min)
"THE UNVANQUISHED"
Satyajit Ray had not planned to make a sequel to Pather Panchali, but after the film’s international success, he decided to continue Apu’s narrative. Aparajito picks up where the first film leaves off, with Apu and his family having moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Varanasi (then known as Benares). As Apu progresses from wide-eyed child to intellectually curious teenager, eventually studying in Kolkata, we witness his academic and moral education, as well as the growing complexity of his relationship with his mother. This tenderly expressive, often heart-wrenching film, which won three top prizes at the Venice Film Festival, including the Golden Lion, not only extends but also spiritually deepens the tale of Apu.
TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (L.A. Rebellion)
Sun. 6/22 @ 4:30 PM
Thu. 6/26 @ 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: L.A. REBELLION
TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (Charles Burnett, 1990, 102min)
A slow-burning masterwork of the early 1990s, this third feature by Charles Burnett is a singular piece of American mythmaking. In a towering performance, Danny Glover plays the enigmatic southern drifter Harry, a devilish charmer who turns up out of the blue on the South Central Los Angeles doorstep of his old friends. In short order, Harry’s presence seems to cast a chaotic spell on what appeared to be a peaceful household, exposing smoldering tensions between parents and children, tradition and change, virtue and temptation. Interweaving evocative strains of gospel and blues with rich, poetic-realist images, To Sleep with Anger is a sublimely stirring film from an autonomous artistic sensibility, a portrait of family resilience steeped in the traditions of African American mysticism and folklore.
DESERT HEARTS (Pride)
Mon. 6/23 @ 1:00 PM, 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: PRIDE
DESERT HEARTS (Donna Deitch, 1985, 91min)
Donna Deitch’s swooning and sensual first film, Desert Hearts, was groundbreaking upon its 1986 release: a love story about two women, produced and directed by a woman. In the 1959-set film, an adaptation of a beloved novel by Jane Rule, straitlaced East Coast professor Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver) arrives in Reno to file for divorce, but winds up catching the eye of someone new, the younger free spirit Cay (Patricia Charbonneau), touching off a slow seduction that unfolds against the breathtaking desert landscape. With smoldering chemistry between its two leads, an evocative jukebox soundtrack, and vivid cinematography by Robert Elswit, Desert Hearts beautifully exudes a sense of tender yearning and emotional candor.
DOGTOOTH - 4K RESTORATION (Late Nights)
Fri. 6/27 @ 10:00 PM
Sat. 6/28 @ 10:00 PM
Sun. 6/29 @ 10:30 AM
CHELSEA LATE NIGHTS: CLASSICS EDITION
Staff Pick: Matt
DOGTOOTH - 4K Restoration (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009, 97min)
Graceful, enigmatic, and often frightening, Dogtooth is an ingenious dark comedy that won the Un Certain Regard Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award® nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, propelling Oscar® winner Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Favourite) to the forefront of contemporary cinema's most ambitious young filmmakers. In an effort to protect their three children from the corrupting influence of the outside world, a Greek couple transforms their home into a gated compound of cultural deprivation and strict rules of behavior. But children cannot remain innocent forever.
APUR SANSAR (From Ray to Merchant Ivory)
Sat. 6/28 @ 4:30 PM
Wed. 7/2 @ 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: FROM RAY TO MERCHANT/IVORY
APUR SANSAR (Satyajit Ray, 1959, 105min)
"THE WORLD OF APU"
By the time Apur Sansar was released, Satyajit Ray had directed not only the first two Apu films but also the masterpiece The Music Room, and was well on his way to becoming a legend. This extraordinary final chapter brings our protagonist’s journey full circle. Apu is now in his early twenties, out of college, and hoping to live as a writer. Alongside his professional ambitions, the film charts his romantic awakening, which occurs as the result of a most unlikely turn of events, and his eventual, fraught fatherhood. Featuring soon to be Ray regulars Soumitra Chatterjee and Sharmila Tagore in star-making performances, and demonstrating Ray’s ever-more-impressive skills as a crafter of pure cinematic imagery, Apur Sansar is a breathtaking conclusion to this monumental trilogy.
DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (L.A. Rebellion)
Sun. 6/29 @ 4:30 PM
Thu. 7/3 @ 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: L.A. REBELLION
DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (Julie Dash, 1991, 113min)
At the dawn of the 20th century, a multi-generational family in the Gullah community on the Sea Islands off of South Carolina – former West African slaves who adopted many of their ancestors’ Yoruba traditions – struggle to maintain their cultural heritage and folklore while contemplating a migration to the mainland, even further from their roots.
PARIS IS BURNING (Pride)
Mon. 6/30 @ 1:00 PM, 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: PRIDE
PARIS IS BURNING (Jennie Livingston, 1990, 78min)
Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag ball scene. Made over seven years, Paris Is Burning offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion “houses,” from fierce contests for trophies, to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia and transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women—including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza—Paris Is Burning brings it, celebrating the joy of movement, the force of eloquence, and the draw of community.
THE GRAPES OF WRATH (Anniversaries)
Sat. 7/5 @ 4:30 PM
Wed. 7/9 @ 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: ANNIVERSARIES
THE GRAPES OF WRATH (John Ford, 1940, 129min)
John Ford’s 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath stands as a cornerstone of American cinema, blending raw social realism with poetic visual storytelling. Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the film follows the Joad family’s harrowing journey from the dust-choked fields of Oklahoma to the uncertain promise of California, capturing both the desperation and resilience of migrant workers. Ford’s direction, which earned him an Academy Award, is masterful in its evocative use of landscape and focus on the importance of family and community, while Gregg Toland’s stark cinematography imbues each frame with a haunting authenticity. Henry Fonda’s portrayal of Tom Joad is both empathetic and iconic, and Jane Darwell’s performance as Ma Joad won her an Oscar for its quiet strength.
NASHVILLE (Anniversaries)
Sun. 7/6 @ 4:30 PM
Thu. 7/10 @ 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: ANNIVERSARIES
NASHVILLE (Robert Altman, 1975, 160min)
This cornerstone of 1970s American moviemaking from Robert Altman is a panoramic view of the country’s political and cultural landscapes, set in the nation’s music capital. Nashville weaves the stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—into a cinematic tapestry that is equal parts comedy, tragedy, and musical. Many members of the astonishing cast wrote their own songs and performed them live on location, which lends another layer to the film’s quirky authenticity. Altman’s ability to get to the heart of American life via its eccentric byways was never put to better use than in this grand, rollicking triumph, which barrels forward to an unforgettable conclusion.
MATEWAN (May Days: Labor On the Move!)
Mon. 7/7 @ 1:00 PM, 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: MAY DAYS: LABOR ON THE MOVE!
MATEWAN (John Sayles, 1987, 135min)
"Matewan" is a minecart to the heart of the Appalachian coal country in the 1920s, where tensions between miners and the coal company reach a boiling point. Directed by the masterful storyteller John Sayles, and executed by a crew of entirely women artists/activists, this gripping film weaves together the threads of labor strife, racial tensions, and the struggle for justice in a landscape fraught with danger and uncertainty. Against the backdrop of a small West Virginia town, "Matewan" unfolds as a riveting tale of courage and solidarity, drawing audiences into a world where ordinary people defy extraordinary odds to fight for their rights.
LADY SNOWBLOOD (Late Nights)
Fri. 7/11 @ 10:00 PM
Sat. 7/12 @ 10:30 AM
CHELSEA LATE NIGHTS: CLASSICS EDITION
Staff Pick: Veda
LADY SNOWBLOOD (Toshiya Fujita, 1973, 97min)
Gory revenge is raised to the level of visual poetry in Toshiya Fujita’s stunning Lady Snowblood. A major inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill saga, this endlessly inventive film, set in late nineteenth-century Japan, charts the single-minded path of vengeance taken by a young woman (Meiko Kaji) whose parents were the unfortunate victims of a gang of brutal criminals. Fujita creates a wildly entertaining action film of remarkable craft, an effortless balancing act between beauty and violence.
LADY SNOWBLOOD 2: LOVESONG OF VENGEANCE (Late Nights)
Sat. 7/12 @ 10:00 PM
Sun. 7/13 @ 10:30 AM
CHELSEA LATE NIGHTS: CLASSICS EDITION
Staff Pick: Veda
LADY SNOWBLOOD 2: LOVESONG OF VENGEANCE (Toshiya Fujita, 1974, 89min)
Meiko Kaji returns in Toshiya Fujita’s invigorating sequel to his own cult hit Lady Snowblood. Our furious heroine is captured by the authorities and sentenced to death for the various killings she has committed; however, she is offered a chance of escape—if she carries out dangerous orders for the government. More politically minded than the original, Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance is full of exciting plot turns and ingenious action sequences.
CHARULATA (From Ray to Merchant Ivory)
Sat. 7/12 @ 7:00 PM
Wed. 7/16 @ 4:30 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: FROM RAY TO MERCHANT IVORY
CHARULATA (Satyajit, Ray, 1964, 117min)
Satyajit Ray’s exquisite story of a woman’s artistic and romantic yearning takes place in late nineteenth-century, pre-independence India, in the gracious home of a liberal-minded, workaholic newspaper editor and his lonely wife, Charulata (Madhabi Mukherjee). When her husband’s poet cousin (Soumitra Chatterjee) comes to stay with them, Charulata finds herself both creatively inspired and dangerously drawn to him. Based on a novella by the great Rabindranath Tagore, Charulata is a work of subtle textures, a delicate tale of a marriage in jeopardy and a woman taking the first steps toward establishing her own voice.
A natural thematic bridge between the films of Satyajit Ray and the films of Producer/Director team, Merchant/Ivory, Charulata, explores the trappings and subversions of societal expectations.
L’AVVENTURA (Trilogy of Incommunicability)
Sun. 7/13 @ 4:30 PM
Thu. 7/17 @ 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: TRILOGY OF INCOMMUNICABILITY
L'AVVENTURA (Michaelangelo Antonioni, 1960, 144min)
A girl mysteriously disappears on a yachting trip. While her lover and her best friend search for her across Italy, they begin an affair.
Antonioni’s penetrating study of the idle upper class offers stinging observations on spiritual isolation, modern ennui, and the many meanings of love. Initially greeted with jeers and confusion, L’avventura was then awarded a Cannes Special Jury Prize “for the beauty of its images, and for seeking to create a new film language.” Michelangelo Antonioni had indeed invented a new film grammar with this masterwork. An iconic piece of challenging 1960s cinema and a gripping narrative on its own terms, L'avventura is now established as a landmark work of modern cinema and has become one of the most influential films ever made.
WOODSTOCK (Anniversaries)
Mon. 7/14 @ 1:00 PM, 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: ANNIVERSARIES
WOODSTOCK (Michael Wadleigh, 1970, 184min)
An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits of the concertgoers; negative and positive aspects are shown, from drug use by performers to naked fans sliding in the mud, from the collapse of the fences by the unexpected hordes to the surreal arrival of National Guard helicopters with food and medical assistance for the impromptu city of 500,000.
SHAKESPEARE-WALLAH (From Ray to Merchant Ivory)
Sat. 7/19 @ 4:30 PM
Wed. 7/23 @ 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: FROM RAY TO MERCHANT IVORY
SHAKESPEARE-WALLAH (James Ivory, 1965, 120min)
The story of a family troupe of English actors in India. They travel around the towns and villages giving performances of Shakespearean plays. Through their travels we see the changing face of India as the old is replaced by the new, Maharajas become hotel owners, sports become more important than culture and the theater is replaced by Bollywood movies. Based on the travels of Geoffrey Kendal with his daughter Felicity Kendal.
LA NOTTE (Trilogy of Incommunicability)
Sun. 7/20 @ 4:30 PM
Thu. 7/24 @ 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: TRILOGY OF INCOMMUNICABILITY
LA NOTTE (Michaelangelo Antonioni, 1961, 122min)
This psychologically acute, visually striking modernist work was director Michelangelo Antonioni’s follow-up to the epochal L’avventura. Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau star as a novelist and his frustrated wife, who, over the course of one night, confront their alienation from each other and the achingly empty bourgeois Milan circles in which they travel. Antonioni’s muse Monica Vitti smolders as an industrialist’s tempting daughter. Moodily sensual cinematography and subtly expressive performances make La notte an indelible illustration of romantic and social deterioration.
THE GREAT DICTATOR (Anniversaries)
Mon. 7/21 @ 1:00 PM, 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: ANNIVERSARIES
THE GREAT DICTATOR (Charles Chaplin, 1940, 125min)
In his controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure talkie, brings his sublime physicality to two roles: the cruel yet clownish “Tomainian” dictator and the kindly Jewish barber who is mistaken for him. Featuring Jack Oakie and Paulette Goddard in stellar supporting turns, The Great Dictator, boldly going after the fascist leader before the U.S.’s official entry into World War II, is an audacious amalgam of politics and slapstick that culminates in Chaplin’s famously impassioned speech.
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: END OF EVANGELION (Late Nights)
Sat. 7/25 @ 10:00 PM
Sun. 7/26 @ 10:00 PM
Fri. 7/27 @ 10:30 AM
CHELSEA LATE NIGHTS: CLASSICS EDITION
Staff Pick: Sam
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: END OF EVANGELION (Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki, 1997, 87min)
One of the last films to use VistaVision film stock as its main stock before VistaVision's resurgence with The Brutalist and Paul Thomas Anderson's upcoming One Battle After Another, End of Evangelion delivers a bold and uncompromising conclusion to Hideaki Anno’s seminal and much beloved anime series, Neon Genesis Evangelion.
BOMBAY TALKIE (From Ray to Merchant Ivory)
Sat. 7/26 @ 4:30 PM
Wed. 7/30 @ 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: FROM RAY TO MERCHANT IVORY
BOMBAY TALKIE (James Ivory, 1970, 112min)
Lucia Lane (Jennifer Kendal), an English novelist, comes to Bombay to research the Bollywood film scene for a book she is planning to write. She is introduced by a producer (none other than Ismail Merchant) to the dashing movie star Vikram (Shashi Kapoor) and the screenwriter Hari (Zia Mohyeddin). Vikram, who is married to the beautiful but barren young Mala (Aparna Sen), falls in love with Lucia and they begin an affair, evoking a fierce rivalry between Vikram and Hari, and a painful envy on the part of Vikram's wife. Lucia, seeking escape and enlightenment, flees to a guru (Pincho Kapoor) but cannot bring herself to abandon her worldly desires for a subservient life in the ashram. She returns to Vikram and the various love triangles collapse, bringing the characters to desperation and the entanglement to a startling resolution.
L’ECLISSE (Trilogy of Incommunicability)
Sun. 7/27 @ 4:30 PM
Thu. 7/31 @ 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: TRILOGY OF INCOMMUNICABILITY
L'ECLISSE (Michaelangelo Antonioni, 1962, 126min)
The concluding chapter of Michelangelo Antonioni’s informal trilogy on contemporary malaise (following L’avventura and La notte), L’eclisse tells the story of a young woman (Monica Vitti) who leaves one lover (Francisco Rabal) and drifts into a relationship with another (Alain Delon). Using the architecture of Rome as a backdrop for the doomed affair, Antonioni achieves the apotheosis of his style in this return to the theme that preoccupied him the most: the difficulty of connection in an alienating modern world.
THE CONFORMIST, “IL CONFORMISTA” (Anniversaries)
Mon. 7/28 @ 1:00 PM, 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: ANNIVERSARIES
THE CONFORMIST, “IL CONFORMISTA”
(Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970, 113min)
The first film of three we're playing this Summer during Chelsea Classics to feature the cinematography of Vittorio Storaro, The Conformist remains one of the most influential films in cinema history. Two Italian-American sons, Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese directly cite The Conformist's cinematography with opening their eyes and refining their visual palettes.
Francis Ford Coppola saw The Conformist and brought its visual style to his work on The Godfather, literally telling legendary cinematographer Gordon Willis that he wanted The Godfather films to look like The Conformist. He then hired Vittorio Storaro to shoot his most massive undertaking, the second Vittorio Storaro film we're playing this Summer, Apocalypse Now.
HEAT AND DUST (From Ray to Merchant Ivory)
Sat. 8/2 @ 4:30 PM
Wed. 8/6 @ 7:00 PM
Adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from her Booker Prize-winning novel , Heat and Dust is the story of two English women living in India more than fifty years apart. Olivia (Greta Scacchi) shares a troubled marriage with Douglas Rivers (Christopher Cazenove), an English civil servant in the colonial India of the 1920s. Anne, Olivia's grand niece (Julie Christie), comes to the subcontinent -- thirty years after the sun has set on the British empire -- to investigate Olivia's life, which her family regarded as "something dark and terrible."
RAGING BULL (Anniversaries - 4K RESTORATION)
Sun. 8/3 @ 4:30 PM
Thu. 8/7 @ 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: ANNIVERSARIES -
4K RESTORATIONS/REISSUES
RAGING BULL - 4K Restoration (Martin Scorsese, 1980, 129min)
A lacerating biopic of Jake LaMotta, the middleweight boxing champion who was known as “The Bronx Bull” and “The Raging Bull” during his brief reign. LaMotta had early lessons in life: to steal and to fight. He channelled his tough childhood into the ring, where his aggression became a way of combating deep-seated anxieties and emotional fears. This determination and rage turned him from a young hoodlum into a champion. But his drive for the title, his brutality outside of the ring and his almost-psychotic sexual jealousy will destroy his marriage, his deepest friendships and the career he fought to build.
NORMA RAE (May Days: Labor On the Move!)
Mon. 8/4 @ 1:00 PM, 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS:
MAY DAYS: LABOR ON THE MOVE!
NORMA RAE (Martin Ritt, 1979, 114min)
On the list of great U.S. labor films, Norma Rae is certainly near the top. The 1979 film, starring Sally Field, for which she won the Oscar Best Actress award, is based on a real 17-year campaign to organize the J.P. Stevens textile mill in Roanoke Rapids, NC. The main character, Norma Rae Wilson, is based on a real mill worker, Crystal Lee Sutton, who had experiences similar to the ones depicted in the film. For most of that time, the union involved was the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA), the union shown in the film. In 1976, TWUA merged with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, so that the union which negotiated the contract at Stevens was the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU).
At the Chelsea Theater, we've wanted to play this film for quite some time, and we're finally able to show it. Don't miss this excellent labor film!
TAMPOPO (Late Nights)
Fri. 8/8 @ 10:00 PM
Sat. 8/9 @ 10:00 PM
Sun. 8/10 @ 10:30 AM
CHELSEA LATE NIGHTS: CLASSICS EDITION
Staff Pick: Oliver S.
TAMPOPO (Jûzô Itami, 1985, 114min)
Juzo Itami’s rapturous “ramen western” returns to U.S. screens for the first time in decades, in a new 4K restoration. The tale of an enigmatic band of ramen ronin who guide the widow of a noodle shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe, Tampopo serves up a savory broth of culinary adventure seasoned with offbeat comedy sketches and the erotic exploits of a gastronome gangster. Sweet, sexy, surreal, and mouthwatering, Tampopo remains one of the most delectable examples of food on film.
A ROOM WITH A VIEW (From Ray to Merchant Ivory)
Sat. 8/9 @ 4:30 PM
Wed. 8/13 @ 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: FROM RAY TO MERCHANT IVORY
A ROOM WITH A VIEW (James Ivory, 1985, 117min)
A Room With a View captured the attention of the world upon its release, bringing the novel by E.M. Forster to dazzling life in the Florentine countryside and in the well-appointed homes of the English Edwardian upper classes. A comedy of manners with a quick wit and impeccable comic timing, A Room With A View is also a portrait of the quiet solitude that lies beneath Forster's characters, and of the need for human connection in a world of rigid convention.
HEAT (Anniversaries)
Sun. 8/10 @ 4:30 PM
Thu. 8/14 @ 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: ANNIVERSARIES
HEAT (Michael Mann, 1995, 170min)
Heat isn’t just a crime thriller—it’s a cinematic collision of titans. Robert De Niro and Al Pacino ignite the screen with a magnetic tension that simmers in every glance and explodes in their legendary face-off. Directed by Michael Mann with a style as sleek as it is raw, Heat plunges you into the heart of L.A.’s underworld, where loyalty, obsession, and fate intertwine. Val Kilmer rounds out a cast that breathes fire into every frame. From the pulse-pounding downtown shootout to quiet, soul-searching moments of clarity, Heat is a masterclass in character-driven action.
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Anniversaries)
Mon. 8/11 @ 1:00 PM, 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: ANNIVERSARIES
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton, 1955, 92min)
The Night of the Hunter—incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed—is truly a stand-alone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell (he of the tattooed knuckles), whose nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow, played by Shelley Winters, are uncovered by her terrified young children. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this ethereal, expressionistic American classic—also featuring the contributions of actress Lillian Gish and writer James Agee—is cinema’s most eccentric rendering of the battle between good and evil.
MAURICE (From Ray to Merchant Ivory)
Sat. 8/16 @ 4:30 PM
Wed. 8/20 @ 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: FROM RAY TO MERCHANT IVORY
MAURICE (James Ivory, 1987, 140min)
The traditional bildungsroman, or novel of education, ends with a marriage. E.M. Forster's Maurice(1914), the second of his novels to be adapted by Merchant Ivory, takes on a subject that no major novel in the genre had ever addressed: the problem of coming of age as a homosexual in a restrictive society. First published in 1971, after Forster's death, and long neglected by critics, it is only recently (and largely since the release of the film adaptation) that critics have come to set Mauricein its unique place among "Reader, I married him" narratives.Starring James Wilby (Maurice) and Hugh Grant (Clive) as two Cambridge undergraduates who fall in love, the film is set amidst the hypocritical homoerotic subculture of the English university in Forster's time. In an environment in which any reference to " the unspeakable vice of the Greeks" is omitted, and any overture toward a physical relationship between men might be punishable by law, Maurice and Clive struggle to come to terms with their own feelings toward each other and toward a repressive society.
BARRY LYNDON (Anniversaries)
Sun. 8/17 @ 4:30 PM
Thu. 8/21 @ 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: ANNIVERSARIES
BARRY LYNDON (Stanley Kubrick, 1975, 185min)
Ryan O'Neal and Marisa Berenson star in director Stanley Kubrick's lavish adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's classic 18th-century novel about the rise and fall of a sensitive and dashing rogue, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq..
John Alcott’s (2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange) cinematography in Barry Lyndon is nothing short of a visual revelation—a meticulous, painterly achievement that transforms each frame into a living 18th-century oil painting. Collaborating closely with director Stanley Kubrick, Alcott used natural light and custom-modified lenses, including ultra-fast NASA-developed Zeiss lenses, to shoot scenes entirely by candlelight, capturing an authenticity and intimacy rarely seen on film. The result is a series of compositions that echo the works of Gainsborough, Watteau, and other masters of the era, with rich textures, soft diffused light, and a serene stillness that evoke the fragility of a time steeped in human vanity. More than a period piece, Barry Lyndon becomes a gallery in motion—each shot composed with such precision and grace that the screen itself feels like canvas.
Stanley Kubrick was once quoted as saying filmmaking is "painting with light". Kubrick and Alcott took that mantra to the next level with this stunning effort to marry the two disciplines.
AMORES PERROS (Anniversaries)
Mon. 8/18 @ 1:00 PM, 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: ANNIVERSARIES
AMORES PERROS (Alejandro G. Iñárritu, 2000, 154min)
In Spanish, the phrase amores perros refers to relationships that are cursed, impossible, and foolish. In the title of Iñárritu’s movie, perros is an adjective (meaning “stubborn” or “dogged”), but the film also reflects the word’s meaning as a noun, in its dogs, which embody both the best and worst attributes of the human characters. The animals also stand for loyalty, abandonment, betrayal, and redemption.
Amores perros represented a quantum leap in the audiovisual grammar of Mexican cinema.
NIGHT MOVES (Late Nights)
Fri. 8/22 @ 10:00 PM
Sat. 8/23 @ 10:00 PM
Sun. 8/24 @ 10:30 AM
CHELSEA LATE NIGHTS: CLASSICS EDITION
Staff Pick: Matt
NIGHT MOVES (Arthur Penn, 1975, 100min) - Gene Hackman
Honoring the Late, Great Gene Hackman (1930 - 2025)
Arthur Penn’s haunting neonoir reimagines the hard-boiled detective film for the disillusioned, paranoid 1970s. In one of his greatest performances, Gene Hackman oozes world-weary cynicism as a private investigator whose search for an actress’s missing daughter (Melanie Griffith) leads him from the Hollywood Hills to the Florida Keys, where he is pulled into a sordid family drama and a sinister conspiracy he can hardly grasp. Bolstered by Alan Sharp’s genre-scrambling script and Dede Allen’s elliptical editing, the daringly labyrinthine Night Moves is a defining work of post-Watergate cinema—a silent scream of existential dread and moral decay whose legend has only grown with time.
HOWARDS END (From Ray to Merchant Ivory)
Sat. 8/23 @ 4:30 PM
Wed. 8/27 @ 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: FROM RAY TO MERCHANT IVORY
HOWARDS END (James Ivory, 1992, 142min)
Based on the 1910 novel, Howards End is a tour-de-force portrayal of E.M. Forster's masterpiece about a society in transition. The film was named Best Picture of 1992 by the National Board of Review, received nine Academy Award nominations, including that of Best Picture, and was one of the most critically acclaimed pictures of the 90s.
The free-spirited, free-thinking Schlegel sisters, Margaret (played by Emma Thompson, who received an Academy Award for her performance) and Helen (played by Helena Bonham Carter), are swept into a relationship with the Wilcoxes, a wealthy conservative English trading family; and the Basts, a couple near the lowest tier of the Edwardian class system. In an ever deepening palimpsest of relationships and obligations, Margaret must reconcile her irrepressible, independent spirit with her desire for companionship, and Helen must come to terms with her sister's choices and her unexpected passion for a match that, seemingly, should never be.
THE GLEANERS AND I (Anniversaries)
Sun. 8/24 @ 4:30 PM
Thu. 8/28 @ 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: ANNIVERSARIES
THE GLEANERS AND I (Agnes Varda, 2000, 82min)
Agnès Varda’s extraordinary late-career renaissance began with this wonderfully idiosyncratic, self-reflexive documentary in which the ever-curious French cinema icon explores the little-known world of modern-day gleaners: those living on the margins who survive by foraging for that which society throws away. Embracing the intimacy and freedom of digital filmmaking, Varda posits herself as a kind of gleaner of images and ideas, one whose generous, expansive vision makes room for ruminations on everything from aging to the birth of cinema to the beauty of heart-shaped potatoes. By turns playful, philosophical, and subtly political, The Gleaners and I is a warmly human reflection on the contradictions of our consumerist world from an artist who, like her subjects, finds unexpected richness where few think to look.
THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE (REPertory PREPeration)
Mon. 8/25 @ 1:00 PM & 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: REPertory PREPeration
THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE (Sylvain Chomet, 2003, 80min)
With Sylvain Chomet's A Magnificent Life, his first major animated work since 2010's The Illusionist, coming to the Chelsea later this year, it felt right to remind ourselves of his unique visual style and sensibility. This instant classic is a wild ride! Hop on and strap in!
THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (From Ray to Merchant Ivory)
Sat. 8/30 @ 4:30 PM
Wed. 9/3 @ 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: FROM RAY TO MERCHANT IVORY
THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (James Ivory, 1993, 134min)
In the entracte between world wars, Stevens (Anthony Hopkins) is the perfect English butler at the estate of the politically-inclined Lord Darlington (James Fox). Stevens's obsessively dutiful, thoroughly unsentimental way of life is challenged with the arrival of the new housekeeper Miss Kenton (Emma Thompson), who is as spirited as she is capable. Stevens's myopic worldview, his unequivocal loyalty to his master, comes to blows with Miss Kenton's sense of moral outrage as Lord Darlington is made an unwitting Nazi pawn. While England wavers between "peace in our time" appeasement and war against Hitler, Darlington Hall becomes the fulcrum upon which the fate of the continent rests and Stevens, who has spent his adult life more concerned with attending to his master than with attending to his own personal happiness, begins to awaken to the possibility of a relationship with Miss Kenton.
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (Anniversaries)
Sun. 8/31 @ 4:30 PM
Thu. 9/4 @ 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: ANNIVERSARIES
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (David Lean, 1965, 197min)
Boris Pasternak's only novel, Doctor Zhivago, was critical of the Bolshevik Revolution and thus was banned by the Soviet regime and labeled dangerous propaganda. David Lean's Doctor Zhivago and Warren Beatty's Reds represent two different romantic visions of the sweeping, dangerous, and passionate upheaval during the ten days that shook the world and the reverberations thereafter. Regardless of how you feel about the need for a monarchy and serfdom to be overthrown in the Twentieth Century, Doctor Zhivago is a stunning achievement in film from David Lean's team of expert artists.
REDS (May Days: Labor On the Move!)
Mon. 9/1 @ 1:00 PM, 7:00 PM
CHELSEA CLASSICS: MAY DAYS: LABOR ON THE MOVE!
REDS (Warren Beatty, 1981, 195min)
Warren Beatty's award winning epic mixes drama and interviews with major social radicals of the period. "Reds" tells the story of the love affair between activists Louise Bryant and John Reed. Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous start of the twentieth century, the two journalists' on-again off-again romance is punctuated by the outbreak of WWI and the Bolshevik Revolution. Louise's assignment in France at the outbreak of the war puts an end to their affair. John Reed's subsequent trip to Russia, and his involvement with the Communist party, rekindles their relationship. When Louise arrives in Petrograd, she finds herself swept up in the euphoria of the Revolution. Reed, however, eventually becomes disillusioned with Communism when he sees his words and intentions augmented and controlled by the growing Soviet propaganda machine.
MERCHANT IVORY (From Ray to Merchant Ivory)
DATE & TIME TBD
Merchant Ivory is a feature documentary film produced and directed by Stephen Soucy in collaboration with Oscar-winner, Director and Screenwriter, James Ivory.
The film is the definitive presentation and tribute to the Merchant Ivory partnership, anchored by interviews with James Ivory and forty-one Merchant Ivory close collaborators detailing and celebrating their experiences of being a part of the “wandering company” helmed by legendary producer Ismail Merchant.
With six Academy Award-winners among the notable artists participating, including Emma Thompson and Vanessa Redgrave, the documentary provides new and compelling perspectives on a unique partnership that produced seminal films over four decades.
NORTHERN LIGHTS (4K Restorations/Reissues)
DATE & TIME TBD
CHELSEA CLASSICS: 4K RESTORATIONS/REISSUES
NORTHERN LIGHTS (John Hanson, Rob Nilsson, 1978, 95min)
Winner of the 1979 Camera d'Or, Northern Lights, a unique work of political cinema from the late 1970s, dramatizes small North Dakotan wheat farmers' political struggle against the bankers and railroad magnates pushing them into bankrupcy. Two young lovers get swept up in the turmoil surrounding the formation of the populist Nonpartisan League in the mid-1910's. Shot on location in black-and-white 16mm with a cast of nonprofessional actors, this deeply moving, politically committed film is a masterpiece of American independent cinema. The 4K digital restoration of Northern Lights was created by IndieCollect and Metropolis Post in collaboration with directors John Hanson and Rob Nilsson.
KILLER OF SHEEP (4K Restorations/Reissues)
DATE & TIME TBD
CHELSEA CLASSICS: L.A. REBELLION - 4K RESTORATIONS/RESISSUES
KILLER OF SHEEP (Charles Burnett, 1978, 80min)
Charles Burnett's cinematic masterpiece Killer of Sheep, magnificently restored in 4K with sparkling picture and sound, is one of the crown jewels of the Black indie filmmaking movement known as the L.A. Rebellion. The film evokes the everyday trials, fragile pleasures, and tenacious humor of blue-collar African Americans living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles in the 1970s. Burnett made it on a minuscule budget with a mostly nonprofessional cast, combining keen on-the-street observation with a carefully crafted script.
COMPENSATION (4K Restorations/Reissues) 
DATE & TIME TBD
CHELSEA CLASSICS: L.A. REBELLION - 4K RESTORATIONS/RESISSUES
COMPENSATION (Zeinabu Irene Davis, 1999, 95min)
A landmark of independent cinema by Zeinabu irene Davis, Compensation is an ambitious portrait of the struggles of deaf African Americans and the complexities of love. In extraordinary dual performances, Michelle A. Banks and John Earl Jelks play two Chicago couples: Malindy and Arthur, living at the dawn of the twentieth century, and Malaika and Nico, living at its close.
A MAN AND A WOMAN (4K Restorations/Reissues)
DATE & TIME TBD
CHELSEA CLASSICS: 4K RESTORATIONS/REISSUES
A MAN AND A WOMAN (Claude Lelouch, 1966, 102min)
In A MAN AND A WOMAN, race car driver Trintignant and “la scripte-girl” Aimée meet at their kids’ boarding school, and then the flashbacks and Francis Lai’s can’t-get-it-out-of-your-head main love theme begin, in the undeniably romantic international smash hit –
winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or and two Academy Awards® (Best Foreign Film and Best Original Screenplay) and two nominations (Best Director and Best Actress).
GIRLS TOWN (4K Restorations/Reissues)
DATE & TIME TBD
CHELSEA CLASSICS: 4K RESTORATIONS/REISSUES
GIRLS TOWN (Jim McKay, 1996, 90min)
Mid-1990s, New York City. Patti, Angela, Emma and Nikki are high school seniors and best friends preparing for life beyond graduation. Their dreams for the future differ greatly – Angela wants to become a poet, Emma and Nikki have are heading for college, and Patti is a young mother looking for stability in her kid’s life – but the four bright, young women are steadfastly loyal to each other in a way only teenagers know how to be. Their lives are then completely upended when, after being sexually assaulted, Nikki unexpectedly commits suicide. Grieving, angry and forced to return to daily life without satisfying recourse for their feelings, the girls must come of age with a newfound understanding about the patriarchal world in which they live.
RAN (4K Restorations/Reissues)
DATE & TIME TBD
CHELSEA CLASSICS: ANNIVERSARIES - 4K RESTORATIONS/REISSUES
RAN (Akira Kurosawa, 1985, 160min)
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.
STRAY DOG (4K Restorations/Reissues)
DATE & TIME TBD
CHELSEA CLASSICS: 4K RESTORATIONS/REISSUES
STRAY DOG (Akira Kurosawa, 1949, 122min)
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo's sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami's own dark side. Starring Toshiro Mifune, as the rookie cop, and Takashi Shimura, as the seasoned detective who keeps him on the right side of the law, Stray Dog (Nora Inu) goes beyond a crime thriller, probing the squalid world of postwar Japan and the nature of the criminal mind.
THRONE OF BLOOD (4K Restorations/Reissues) 
DATE & TIME TBD
CHELSEA CLASSICS: 4K RESTORATIONS/REISSUES
THRONE OF BLOOD (Akira Kurosawa, 1957, 110min)
A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, Throne of Blood, directed by Akira Kurosawa, sets Shakespeare’s definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan. As a hardened warrior who rises savagely to power, Toshiro Mifune gives a remarkable, animalistic performance, as does Isuzu Yamada as his ruthless wife. Throne of Blood fuses classical Western tragedy with formal elements taken from Noh theater to create an unforgettable cinematic experience.
THE HIDDEN FORTRESS (4K Restorations/Reissues)
DATE & TIME TBD
CHELSEA CLASSICS: 4K RESTORATIONS/REISSUES
THE HIDDEN FORTRESS (Akira Kurosawa, 1958, 139min)
A grand-scale adventure as only Akira Kurosawa could make one, The Hidden Fortress stars the inimitable Toshiro Mifune as a general charged with guarding his defeated clan’s princess (a fierce Misa Uehara) as the two smuggle royal treasure across hostile territory. Accompanying them are a pair of bumbling, conniving peasants who may or may not be their friends. This rip-roaring ride is among the director’s most beloved films and was a primary influence on George Lucas’s Star Wars. The Hidden Fortress delivers Kurosawa’s trademark deft blend of wry humor, breathtaking action, and compassionate humanity.
YOJIMBO (4K Restorations/Reissues)
DATE & TIME TBD
CHELSEA CLASSICS: 4K RESTORATINS/REISSUES
YOJIMBO (Akira Kurosawa, 1961, 110min)
The incomparable Toshiro Mifune stars in Akira Kurosawa's visually stunning and darkly comic Yojimbo. To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily masterless samurai Sanjuro turns a range war between two evil clans to his own advantage. Remade twice, by Sergio Leone and Walter Hill, this exhilarating genre-twister remains one of the most influential and entertaining films of all time.
SANJURO (4K Restorations/Reissues)
DATE & TIME TBD
CHELSEA CLASSICS: 4K RESTORATIONS/REISSUES
SANJURO (Akira Kurosawa, 1962, 96min)
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Akira Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed Sanjuro. In this sly companion piece to Yojimbo, jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a "proper" samurai on its ear. Less brazen in tone than its predecessor but equally entertaining, this classic character's return is a masterpiece in its own right.
IKIRU (4K Restorations/Reissues) 
DATE & TIME TBD
CHELSEA CLASSICS: 4K RESTORATIONS/REISSUES
IKIRU (Akira Kurosawa, 1952, 143min)
One of the greatest achievements by Akira Kurosawa, Ikiru shows the director at his most compassionate—affirming life through an exploration of death. Takashi Shimura beautifully portrays Kanji Watanabe, an aging bureaucrat with stomach cancer who is impelled to find meaning in his final days. Presented in a radically conceived two part structure and shot with a perceptive, humanistic clarity of vision, Ikiru is a multifaceted look at what it means to be alive.
THIS IS SPINAL TAP (4K Restorations/Reissues)
DATE & TIME TBD
CHELSEA CLASSICS: 4K RESTORATIONS/REISSUES
THIS IS SPINAL TAP (Rob Reiner, 1984, 82min)
Conceived by comedy greats Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer, THIS IS SPINAL TAP chronicles one of England's loudest bands on what proves to be a disastrous U.S. tour. Experience the remastered, remixed, definitive version of this mockumentary masterpiece only in theaters this summer!
APOCALYPSE NOW FINAL CUT (4K Restorations/Reissues) 
DATE & TIME TBD
CHELSEA CLASSICS: 4K RESTORATIONS/REISSUES
APOCALYPSE NOW: FINAL CUT (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979, 183min)
Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now in its 40th year presents a new, never-before-seen restored version of the film. The new film Apocalypse Now Final Cut, has been remastered in 4K.
Apocalypse Now Final Cut employs a ground-breaking sound system engineered to create a truly visceral experience. In addition, the film has been enhanced with High Dynamic Range HDR, delivering spectacular colors and highlights, with brighter brights and darker-dark the result is breathtaking realism.
HEARTS OF DARKNESS (4K Restorations/Reissues)
DATE & TIME TBD
CHELSEA CLASSICS: 4K RESTORATIONS/REISSUES
HEARTS OF DARKNES: A FILMMAKER'S APOCALYPSE (Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, 1991, 96min)
In the late 1970s, celebrated director Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, The Conversation) and his cast, crew, and family ventured into the dense jungles of the Philippines to begin work on what would eventually become his masterpiece, Apocalypse Now. But the journey from page to screen soon spiraled into a hellish, life-threatening
nightmare that echoed the film’s narrative. Plagued with adversity, one of the most influential films ever made had one of the most notorious shoots in cinema history that few survived unscathed.
PRIDE & PREJUDICE (4K Restorations/Reissues)
DATE & TIME TBD
CHELSEA CLASSICS: 4K RESTORATIONS/REISSUES
PRIDE & PREJUDICE (Joe Wright, 2005, 129min)
One of the greatest love stories of all time, Pride & Prejudice, comes to the screen in a glorious new adaptation starring Keira Knightley. When Elizabeth Bennet (Knightley) meets the handsome Mr. Darcy (Matthew MacFadyen), she believes he is the last man on earth she could ever marry. But as their lives become intertwined in an unexpected adventure, she finds herself captivated by the very person she swore to loathe for all eternity. Based on the beloved masterpiece by Jane Austen, it is the classic tale of love and misunderstanding that sparkles with romance, wit and emotional force. Critics are calling it "Exhilarating. A joy from start to finish" (Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times).