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Philly’s premier exhibitor of film + moving image art, showing repertory, nonfiction, experimental + international cinema, @ University of the Arts.

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Ken Loach maps the rise and fall of the English welfare state in "Spirit of '45," don't miss this rare opportunity to see it tonight at Lightbox!

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ONE NIGHT ONLY! Béla Tarr’s mesmerizing parable of societal collapse has been restored and is screening this Saturday, June 9 at Lightbox. Don't miss this chance to catch it on the big screen!

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Marleen Gorris is perhaps best known for her 1995 indie hit "Antonia's Line." Her feature debut "A Question of Silence" is a powerful feminist statement that has been overlooked for too long. See the new restoration this Friday at 7 p.m.

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Thanks again to Scribe Video for co-presenting the complete Camille Billops retrospective with us. Tomorrow night's screening of "A String of Pearls" and "Take Your Bags" will take place at Scribe Video Center!

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Hong Sangsoo's latest chamber drama "Walk Up" finds the inhabitants of an apartment building have more to say about love, life and world around us than we would imagine. Don't miss the screening next Wednesday, May 10 at 7 p.m.

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Tomorrow, we begin our month-long collaboration with @JapanSocietyPHL and @Shofuso to present a seven film survey of legendary actor Toshiro Mifune. All films will be screened in 35mm thanks to @janusfilms

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We're working on a very special film restoration (several, actually). You'll be hearing more about them in the coming months!

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"Film, the Living Record of our Memory" is a globe spanning tour of some of the most important film archives as they race to preserve our cinematic history for future generations. See it this Friday at 7 p.m.

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Charlie Chaplin's "The Gold Rush" is often regarded as one of the greatest films of all time and one of the director's finest. We're excited to screen it in 35mm this Wednesday at 7 p.m. as part of Silents, Please, presented by Louis Bluver.

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We're excited that Courtney Stephens will be here Friday at 7 p.m. to present "Terra Femme," an essay film comprised of amateur travelogues shot largely by women from the 1920s through the 1950s. Stephens narrates the program live and will do a Q&A following the screening.

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#BOTD Tony Conrad, composer, filmmaker, video artist, writer and guy who seems to have been everywhere great avant-garde artists were working, would've been 83 today.

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Patrice Chéreau’s 1983 drama "The Wounded Man" follows teenager, Henri, as he descends into the dark world of hustlers and petty thieves in his small French village. Don't miss the new restoration by Altered Innocence, screening this Friday at 7 p.m.

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Lightbox is thrilled to premiere the César award winning new film by Elisabeth Subrin. "Maria Schneider, 1983" screens this Wednesday along with two earlier short films. Afterward, Subrin will be in conversation with writer, director and actress Isabel Sandoval.

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Long before "Gremlins," when he was still a student here at UArts, Joe Dante teamed up with his friend to assemble a monumental collage of 16mm film clips. This movie mashup has now been restored and is screening at the place where it all began. Catch it this Saturday at 5 p.m.

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Jacquelyn Mills' latest film "Geographies of Solitude" has been hailed as "a sensory adventure through nature's circle of life" by The Film Stage. Don't miss it this Wednesday, Feb. 22 at 7 p.m.

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Happy Valentine's Day! Need a date movie? How about tomorrow's screening of the newly restored "Flaming Ears?" It's a surreal lesbian sci-fi adventure originally shot on Super 8mm in Austria in the early '90s. You can watch "Love Actually" anytime, this is for one night only!

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Tomorrow night at 7:00, join us for a screening of the German documentary "Is this Fate? (Von Wegen ‘Schicksal’)" co-presented with Another Gaze, a journal of film and feminism. Co-founder Daniella Shreir will be here to introduce the film. Get tickets at the link in our bio!

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Alex Da Corte joins us tomorrow at 7:00 P.M. to present a program of short films and videos in conjunction with his show "The Street," which is currently on view at UArts' Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery!

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It's GOdard time! This week, we kick off a six film survey in honor of the late Jean-Luc Godard. JLG in Six covers a wide body of work by the ever-evolving French new wave legend, beginning with his homage to American musicals "A Woman is A Woman" this Thursday.

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This Saturday, Philly's own Secret Cinema presents an early Brigitte Bardot film as part of the Art House Oddities series. The program will also feature some special odds and ends from the SC collection, all on 35mm.

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