Harpur Cinema presents 'BlacKkKlansman' - Spike Lee – USA – 2018 Based on the protagonist’s memoir, the film relates how, in 1972, Colorado Springs’s first Black police officer and his Jewish partner succeeded in infiltrating the local Ku Klux Klan chapter. Combining his signature long-take tracking shots and tonal shifts with an impressive ensemble cast, Spike Lee questions the boundaries of group identity, and “efficiently conflates the struggles of the past and present into a powerful cinematic continuum” (The Guardian).…

Harpur Cinema presents 'BlacKkKlansman' - Spike Lee – USA – 2018 Based on the protagonist’s memoir, the film relates how, in 1972, Colorado Springs’s first Black police officer and his Jewish partner succeeded in infiltrating the local Ku Klux Klan chapter. Combining his signature long-take tracking shots and tonal shifts with an impressive ensemble cast, Spike Lee questions the boundaries of group identity, and “efficiently conflates the struggles of the past and present into a powerful cinematic continuum” (The Guardian).…

Harpur Cinema presents 'Zama' - Lucrecia Martel – Argentina/Brazil – 2017 Don Diego de Zama, an 18th-century corregidor (an administrator of the Spanish colonial empire) in a remote outpost on the Paraguay River waits, endlessly, for a more prestigious post. In this “cinematic marvel,” Lucrecia Martel exposes the absurdity and horrors of colonialism with “her limpid visual choices” (The New York Times), her stunning plastic inventiveness, and expressive use of framing and sound. In her pointed exploration of relations of…

Harpur Cinema presents 'Zama' - Lucrecia Martel – Argentina/Brazil – 2017 Don Diego de Zama, an 18th-century corregidor (an administrator of the Spanish colonial empire) in a remote outpost on the Paraguay River waits, endlessly, for a more prestigious post. In this “cinematic marvel,” Lucrecia Martel exposes the absurdity and horrors of colonialism with “her limpid visual choices” (The New York Times), her stunning plastic inventiveness, and expressive use of framing and sound. In her pointed exploration of relations of…

Harpur Cinema presents 'Cold War' - Paweł Pawlikowski – Poland – 2018 A director of remarkable economy and powerful emotional depth, Pawlikowski takes us from the countryside of Poland in 1949 to the streets of East Berlin, from Paris to Yugoslavia, over 15 years, to unfold his tale of a turbulent and passionate romance between two musicians, Wiktor and Zula, divided by incompatible ambitions and different responses to Poland’s political regime. With its gorgeous black-and-white photography, its 4:3 aspect ratio…

Harpur Cinema presents 'Cold War' - Paweł Pawlikowski – Poland – 2018 A director of remarkable economy and powerful emotional depth, Pawlikowski takes us from the countryside of Poland in 1949 to the streets of East Berlin, from Paris to Yugoslavia, over 15 years, to unfold his tale of a turbulent and passionate romance between two musicians, Wiktor and Zula, divided by incompatible ambitions and different responses to Poland’s political regime. With its gorgeous black-and-white photography, its 4:3 aspect ratio…

Harpur Cinema presents 'Shoplifters' - Kore-eda Hirokazu – Japan – 2018 In this “brilliant, audacious gem,” Kore-eda returns to a favorite subject of his, the family and “the ways in which it can be dismantled and reassembled” (The Guardian). With delicate brushstrokes, blurring the divide between the unforgivable and the understandable, the film follows with tenderness the five members of a family who all live in a cramped apartment and supplement their meager incomes selling what they steal on daily…

Harpur Cinema presents 'Shoplifters' - Kore-eda Hirokazu – Japan – 2018 In this “brilliant, audacious gem,” Kore-eda returns to a favorite subject of his, the family and “the ways in which it can be dismantled and reassembled” (The Guardian). With delicate brushstrokes, blurring the divide between the unforgivable and the understandable, the film follows with tenderness the five members of a family who all live in a cramped apartment and supplement their meager incomes selling what they steal on daily…

Harpur Cinema presents 'Spectres Are Haunting Europe' – Maria Kourkouta and Niki Giannari – Greece/France – 2016 The first collaborative work by Kourkouta and Giannari, this documentary is set in a makeshift refugee camp in Idomeni, a small village in Greece on the border with the Republic of Macedonia, where 15,000 people found themselves trapped when the European Commission closed the “Balkan route”. The film uncompromisingly discloses everyday life in the camp with images of the refugees protesting under the…

Harpur Cinema presents 'Spectres Are Haunting Europe' – Maria Kourkouta and Niki Giannari – Greece/France – 2016 The first collaborative work by Kourkouta and Giannari, this documentary is set in a makeshift refugee camp in Idomeni, a small village in Greece on the border with the Republic of Macedonia, where 15,000 people found themselves trapped when the European Commission closed the “Balkan route”. The film uncompromisingly discloses everyday life in the camp with images of the refugees protesting under the…

Harpur Cinema presents 'The Wild Boys' - Bertrand Mandico – France – 2017 Mandico’s first feature film, after more than 40 shorts, is “a grand burst of forms and textures, of artifices and effects laid bare, where the seams between images and sounds open as many breaches to the imaginary” (Le Monde). When a band of wealthy boys commit a terrible crime, they are sent off to work on a dreadful ship. After many adventures, they land on a paradise…