Welcome you to a new year of Cine Club! We’re excited to share a wonderful new batch of films with you for our 2025-2026 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 2024
SEPT 12 RANDALL MUSEUM
STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL
We’re kicking the year off with our 2024 Student Film Festival! Don't miss out on the premier of exciting new short films by students of our award-winning Film Workshop and Summer Film Intensive!
SEPT 19 RANDALL MUSEUM
Alfonso Cúaron ROMA (2018)
Roma tells the story of Cleo, a live-in housekeeper, and the upper class family she works for in 1970’s Mexico City. Loosely based on the director's own upbringing in the Colonia Roma neighborhood, this film is a personal and heartfelt narrative you won't want to miss.
SEPT 26 RANDALL MUSEUM
Tom Tykwer RUN LOLA RUN (1998)
A young woman has just twenty minutes to come up with a large sum of money to save her boyfriend's life after a robbery gone wrong. This thrilling race against time shows how small choices can dramatically alter a person's fate. Truly a one-of-a-kind film you don't want to miss!
OCTOBER
OCT 3 RANDALL MUSEUM
Mathieu Kassovitz LA HAINE (1995)
24 hours in the life of three young men from the suburbs of Paris who spend a freewheeling night in the city, alternately fun and frightening. Brilliant performances by its young stars ground this film about the effects of racism and resentment towards immigrants in France.
OCT 10 RANDALL MUSEUM
Celine Song PAST LIVES (2023)
Nora and Hae Sung, two childhood friends separated by continents and time, are reunited in New York City twenty years after she emigrated from South Korea. Director Celine Song's critically acclaimed debut is a quiet, devastating meditation on destiny and identity.
OCT 17 RANDALL MUSEUM
Terrence Malick DAYS OF HEAVEN (1978)
A young couple on the run pretend to be siblings in order to find work on a wealthy Texas farm, but their plans crumble as love and jealousy consume them. Hailed as one of the most beautiful films ever made, it is a visual feast that tells a heartbreaking story. Not to be missed!
OCT 24 RANDALL MUSEUM
Jordan Peele NOPE (2022)
A brother and sister who run a horse ranch discover a menacing otherworldly presence in the clouds above their home. Blending horror and science fiction with unexpected humor, Jordan Peele's film is a mind-bending take on our desire to capture the uncapturable.
NOVEMBER
NOV 7 RANDALL MUSEUM
Agnès Varda CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 (1962)
This marvel of an existential comedy follows a pop singer as she wanders Paris trying to distract herself while she anxiously awaits the results of a medical test. One of the jewels of the French New Wave.
NOV 14 RANDALL MUSEUM
Satyajit Ray CHARULATA (1964)
Charulata, a wealthy young housewife in 1870s India, lives a life of leisure. Leisure turns to boredom and she soon falls in love with her husband’s cousin, a charming but pretentious writer. Her unrequited love for him sparks her own desire to create. A rich and moving story about the journey of an artist.
NOV 21 RANDALL MUSEUM
Ernst Lubitsch TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942)
A troupe of Polish actors finds themselves caught in the middle of the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. Using their theatrical skills of disguise and improvisation, they must outwit the Gestapo and save the Polish resistance, proving that in the darkest of times, art can be a powerful weapon.
DECEMBER
DEC 5 RANDALL MUSEUM
Billy Wilder SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)
This masterpiece of noir opens on our narrator floating face-down in a movie star’s pool. The rest of the film tells us how he got there. Golden Age Hollywood glamour radiates from the screen with larger than life performances and snappy dialogue written by people who knew the business inside and out. Both funny and suspenseful!
DEC 12 RANDALL MUSEUM
Laurie Anderson HEART OF A DOG (2015)
This experimental film is a moving and philosophical meditation on loss, love, and memory, anchored by Laurie’s relationship with her beloved rat terrier, Lolabelle. The result is a deeply personal and unconventional essay that explores how we cope with grief and find meaning in a chaotic world.
DEC 19 RANDALL MUSEUM
Terry Gillam BRAZIL (1985)
A little typo causes all hell to break loose in this brilliantly dark, surreal comedy about a world gone mad with bureaucracy and paranoia, where a repressive police state battles libertarian rebels for control of the future. An all-time favorite film of Cine Club students!
JANUARY
JAN 9 RANDALL MUSEUM
Tarsem THE FALL (2006)
A young girl in a 1920’s hospital befriends a paralyzed stuntman who tells her a fantastical tale, intertwining epic adventure with their grim reality. The film is celebrated for its captivatingly surreal imagery, which were shot entirely on location across 26 countries!
JAN 16 RANDALL MUSEUM
Ingmar Bergman WILD STRAWBERRIES (1957)
An aging professor, cold and isolated by his own nature, embarks on a car trip to receive an honorary degree, during which a series of vivid dreams and encounters with people from his past force him to confront his life's regrets and his own mortality. This film poignantly blurs the line between memory, dream, and reality to explore the profound weight of a life lived.
JAN 23 RANDALL MUSEUM
Powel and Pressburger THE RED SHOES (1948)
A young ballerina is torn between her love for a composer and her passion for dance, as she is given the lead role in a new ballet adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Red Shoes." The film is a stunning visual feast, celebrated for its Technicolor cinematography and breathtaking ballet sequences, that explores the sacrifices demanded by art.
JAN 30 RANDALL MUSEUM
Fritz Lang M (1931)
A serial killer who hunts children tries to avoid suspicion as the police (and the criminal underworld) circle ever closer. This film’s expressionist style and dramatic lighting create such a chilling atmosphere, it helped inspire a whole new genre: the film noir.
FEBRUARY
FEB 6 RANDALL MUSEUM
Richard Eichberg PAVEMENT BUTTERFLY (1929)
In this early silent film, Anna May Wong stars as a young Chinese dancer in Paris who attempts to find love and escape poverty, only to find herself torn between a criminal who loves her and the wealthy man who can offer her a new life. A pivotal role in her career, the film is a visually stunning showcase for Wong's on-screen presence, celebrated for its breathtaking cinematography
FEB 13 RANDALL MUSEUM
Wong Kar-wai HAPPY TOGETHER (1997)
A gay couple from Hong Kong travel to Argentina for a fresh start, but can't escape their relationship troubles. This beautiful and deeply emotional film from director Wong Kar-wai explores what it means to try to find a place to truly belong.
FEB 20 RANDALL MUSEUM
Jazmin Jones SEEKING MAVIS BEACON (2024)
Two filmmakers go on a years-long search for the real-life woman who served as the face of the iconic 1980s typing software, Mavis Beacon. Part documentary and part internet detective story, the film is a genre-defying and deeply personal exploration of race, digital identity, and the power of representation.
FEB 27 RANDALL MUSEUM
Chantal Akerman JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 COMMERCE… (1975)
A widow's meticulous routine of cooking, cleaning, and caring for her son is quietly thrown into disarray over the course of three days. A landmark of feminist cinema, the film uses its unique, slow-burn style to reveal the profound psychological pressure hidden beneath a seemingly ordinary life.
MARCH
MAR 6 RANDALL MUSEUM
David Lynch THE ELEPHANT MAN (1980)
This experimental film is a moving and philosophical meditation on loss, love, and memory, anchored by Laurie’s relationship with her beloved rat terrier, Lolabelle. The result is a deeply personal and unconventional essay that explores how we cope with grief and find meaning in a chaotic world.
MAR 13 RANDALL MUSEUM
Marzieh Meshkini THE DAY I BECAME A WOMAN (2000)
This film tells three interconnected stories of women in Iran at different stages of their lives, from a girl's first day of womanhood to an elderly woman's final act of rebellion. A powerful and visually poetic film, it uses allegorical vignettes to explore themes of female identity, freedom, and the subtle struggles against a restrictive society.
MAR 20 RANDALL MUSEUM
Michael Haneke THE WHITE RIBBON (2009)
In a small, Protestant village in Germany on the eve of World War I, a series of bizarre accidents terrorizes the community, hinting at a sinister plot brewing among the local children. Shot in haunting black-and-white, the film is a chilling allegory for the origins of social violence.
MAR 27 RANDALL MUSEUM
Andrei Tarkovsky ANDREI RUBLEV (1973)
We end the year with a monumental work of cinema. This film is a deeply philosophical and visually breathtaking epic that meditates on the nature of art, faith, and the artist's place in a world of both divine beauty and human brutality. It chronicles the life of the 15th-century Russian icon painter, Andrei Rublev, following his journey to becoming a great artist through a series of vignettes that capture the brutal violence and spiritual turmoil of medieval Russia.