Welcome you to a new year of Cine Club! We’re excited to share a wonderful new batch of films with you for our 2024-2025 season.
Films on Fridays at the Randall Museum (199 Museum Way, a short walk from Castro Station) start with refreshments at 6:30 and the film presentation begins at 7pm unless otherwise noted.
SEPTEMBER
AUG 16 RANDALL MUSEUM
STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL
Join us as we kick off our new season with films from some of the most exciting, emerging directors—you! We’ll be showing student made films from our Film Workshop and Summer Intensive.
SEPT 6 RANDALL MUSEUM
Wes Anderson MOONRISE KINGDOM (2012)
Two young misfits meet and vow to love each other forever. Our hero escapes from his boy scout camp, and our heroine from her warring parents. Their adventures pit them against the forces of nature and society both. Will love triumph?
SEPT 13 RANDALL MUSEUM
Peter Weir THE TRUMAN SHOW (1998)
Reality TV has come to dominate our media. In this visionary comedy we follow an innocent dupe who is unaware that his life since birth has been the subject of a TV show that has the entire world enthralled. A brilliant performance by Jim Carrey makes this film as hilarious as it is grimly truthful.
SEPT 20 RANDALL MUSEUM
Federico Fellini NIGHTS OF CABIRIA (1957)
An idealistic yet resilient prostitute has her dreams thwarted by grim reality in Rome’s shady Ostia district. In the face of an uncaring world, she endures. Grounded by a masterful performance by Fellini’s wife, Giulietta Masina.
SEPT 27 RANDALL MUSEUM
Spike Lee DO THE RIGHT THING (1989)
A slice of life in Brooklyn on the hottest day of the year; the bigotry and resentment that simmer under the surface of one New York neighborhood finally boil over. Lee’s masterwork remains as profoundly relevant today as it was 35 years ago.
OCTOBER
OCT 4 RANDALL MUSEUM
Hirokazu Kore-eda SHOPLIFTERS (2018)
The close-knit Shibata family steals to survive but an act of charity risks unraveling the hard-won stability that they have created. A beautifully nuanced family drama with mysteries and twists worthy of a suspense film!
OCT 11 RANDALL MUSEUM
Gillo Pontecorvo BATTLE OF ALGIERS (1966)
An up-close view of the war for independence fought by Algerians against the colonial French occupiers. Filmed on location only four years after the war ended, the cast and crew were filled with people who witnessed the events firsthand—and it shows.
OCT 18 RANDALL MUSEUM
Céline Sciamma PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (2019)
Set in France in the late 1700s, this film tells the story of a lesbian affair between two young women: an aristocrat and the painter commissioned to paint her portrait. A sumptuous yet tense study of love and desire.
OCT 25 RANDALL MUSEUM
Robert Eggers THE WITCH (2015)
This folk horror film sees a puritan family thrown out of their village and forced to rebuild at the edge of a forest. Strange things begin to happen, sending the family into a spiral of religious paranoia and madness. You’ll be on the edge of your seat from beginning to end!
NOVEMBER
NOV 1 RANDALL MUSEUM
Georges Franju EYES WITHOUT A FACE (1960)
A brilliant but obsessive doctor attempts a radical plastic surgery to restore the beauty of his daughter’s disfigured face—at a horrifying price. This film is a rare mixture of the ghastly and the lyrical, and became a major influence on the horror genre!
NOV 8 RANDALL MUSEUM
Jean Renoir RULES OF THE GAME (1939)
A biting satire about a group of French aristocrats who have gathered in a country house for a hunting party on the eve of WWII. The shenanigans that unfold over the evening are filled with the joy and wonder of living.
NOV 15 RANDALL MUSEUM
Juzo Itami TAMPOPO (1985)
A truck driver stops at a small noodle shop and decides to help the fledgling business in this cleverly comedic meditation on life. The main story is intertwined with surprising and even shocking vignettes all about the relationship between love and food.
NOV 22 RANDALL MUSEUM
Gabriel Axel BABETTE’S FEAST (1987)
A strict religious community in a Danish village takes in a French refugee, Babette. In an act of gratitude and self sacrifice, she uses her money to prepare an incredible feast for them that will change their lives forever!
DECEMBER
DEC 6 RANDALL MUSEUM
Alice Rohrwacher LA CHIMERA (2023)
This marvelous film is filled with humanity and beauty. It follows an archeologist as he emerges from prison for stealing Etruscan artifacts from ancient graves. A band of robbers start leading him back to ruin but he begins to get his life together. You’ll never guess where this charming film will turn next!
DEC 13 RANDALL MUSEUM
Paweł Pawlikowski IDA (2014)
A young novice nun about to take her vows must set out into the world to uncover a family secret dating back to the German occupation. With exquisite performances, this film is a revelation in stunning black and white. You will be amazed.
DEC 20 RANDALL MUSEUM
Wayne Wang SMOKE (1995)
SPECIAL EVENT! MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
Pioneering director Wayne Wang will join us in person to present the brand new remaster of Smoke! This beguiling film interconnects a half-dozen New Yorkers and their stories through an unassuming smoke shop. This film is about the secrets that keep us apart and the unpredictable forces that bring us together. A special Christmas screening you won’t want to miss!
JANUARY
JAN 17 RANDALL MUSEUM
Andrei Tarkovsky THE MIRROR (1975)
Tarkovsky attempts to piece together the beguiling memories of his childhood and produces a film packed with rich imagery and tantalizing enigmas. One of the most challenging yet potentially rewarding film experiences you’ll have!
JAN 24 RANDALL MUSEUM
Kirsten Johnson CAMERAPERSON (2016)
An autobiographical documentary about Johnson’s life and career as a cinematographer. Even without any knowledge about filmmaking, her tale is accessible and absorbing. We follow her from Brooklyn to Bosnia to Nigeria, documenting herself as much as her subjects.
JAN 31 RANDALL MUSEUM
Stanley Kubrick PATHS OF GLORY (1957)
A dynamic and complex film about soldiers in the trenches during WWI who are put on trial for desertion. It was suppressed by several governments upon its release and remains one of a handful of great anti-war films.
FEBRUARY
FEB 7 RANDALL MUSEUM
Claire Denis BEAU TRAVAIL (1999)
Based on Herman Melville's famous novel Billy Budd about desire and its deadly consequences. The calm ordered life of a French Foreign Legion officer overseeing soldiers training in the nation of Djibouti is unbalanced by the arrival of a charismatic young recruit. This stunningly shot film made Claire Denis internationally famous.
FEB 14 RANDALL MUSEUM
Julie Dash DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (1991)
Julie Dash’s rapturous vision of black womanhood and the vanishing ways of life in the South Carolina Sea Islands in 1902. This film presents the story of three generations of Gullah women in gorgeously poetic, sun-dappled images.
FEB 21 RANDALL MUSEUM
Garret Bradley TIME (2020)
In this heartrending documentary, a mother spends 20 years campaigning for the release of her husband, who is serving 60-years for a robbery they committed in a moment of desperation. Though she faces great obstacles, she is dauntless and reveals many truths about the American justice system in pursuit of her husband’s freedom.
FEB 28 RANDALL MUSEUM
Jean Cocteau ORPHEUS (1950)
A modern reimagining of the Greek myth. In this version, Orpheus is a Death obsessed poet, Death’s henchmen are motorcycle punks and the underworld is the bombed-out remains of Paris from the Nazi occupation.
MARCH
MAR 7 RANDALL MUSEUM
Debra Granik WINTER’S BONE (2010)
An unflinching Ozark Mountain teen hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact. A dark coming-of-age film that examines many of the challenges of rural American life.
MAR 14 RANDALL MUSEUM
Jane Campion POWER OF THE DOG (2021)
A charismatic rancher who inspires fear and awe in those around him lashes out when his brother disrupts his life by bringing home a new wife and her son. Everything changes yet again when he is surprised by the possibility of finding love himself.
MAR 21 RANDALL MUSEUM
David Lean LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
We finish with one of the great film epics. This is the story of T. E. Lawrence, hero of World War I—at least in his version of it. Watch one of the most complex and captivating characters in film as he treks across deserts, defies governments and conquers cities, but at what cost?