Suns Cinema
L’ARGENT
- Today, Dec 6
Director: Robert Bresson Run Time: 85 min. Release Year: 1983 Language: French
Starring: Caroline Lang, Christian Patey, Michel Briguet, Sylvie Van Den Elsen, Vincent Risterucci
In his ruthlessly clear-eyed final film, French master Robert Bresson pushed his unique blend of spiritual rumination and...
LOLA MONTÈS
- Today, Dec 6
Director: Max Ophüls Run Time: 116 min. Release Year: 1955 Language: French
Starring: Adolf Wohlbrück, Henri Guisol, Lise Delamare, Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov
Lola Montès is a visually ravishing, narratively daring dramatization of the life of the notorious courtesan and showgirl,...
FAMILY PLOT
- Thu, Dec 7
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 120 min. Release Year: 1976
Starring: Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, Ed Lauter, Karen Black, William Devane
There's no body in the family plot.
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
- Thu, Dec 7
Director: Charles Laughton Run Time: 93 min. Release Year: 1955
Starring: Evelyn Varden, James Gleason, Lillian Gish, Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters
The wedding night, the anticipation, the kiss, the knife, BUT ABOVE ALL...THE SUSPENSE!
GREMLINS
- Fri, Dec 8
Director: Joe Dante Run Time: 106 min. Release Year: 1984
Starring: Corey Feldman, Frances Lee McCain, Hoyt Axton, Phoebe Cates, Zach Galligan
Don't get him wet, keep him out of bright light, and never NEVER feed him after midnight.
BATMAN RETURNS
- Fri, Dec 8
Director: Tim Burton Run Time: 126 min. Release Year: 1992
Starring: Christopher Walken, Danny DeVito, Michael Gough, Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer
The Bat, the Cat, the Penguin.
THE ASCENT
- Sat, Dec 9
Director: Larisa Shepitko Run Time: 111 min. Release Year: 1977 Language: Russian
Starring: Boris Plotnikov, Lyudmila Polyakova, Sergey Yakovlev, Viktoriya Goldentul, Vladimir Gostyukhin
Shepitko’s emotionally overwhelming final film won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and has been...
THE SACRIFICE
- Sat, Dec 9
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky Run Time: 149 min. Release Year: 1986 Language: Swedish
Starring: Allan Edwall, Erland Josephson, Guðrún Gísladóttir, Susan Fleetwood, Sven Wollter
The final film of Andrei Tarkovsky
PERSONAL PROBLEMS
- Tue, Dec 12
Director: Bill Gunn Run Time: 165 min. Release Year: 1980
Starring: Bill Gunn, Ishmael Reed, Jim Wright, Vertamae Grosvenor, Walter Cotton
This entirely African American-conceived and produced ensemble drama is the result of a collaboration of a pair of...
STREET OF SHAME
- Wed, Dec 13
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi Run Time: 87 min. Release Year: 1956 Language: Japanese
Starring: Aiko Mimasu, Ayako Wakao, Kumeko Urabe, Machiko Kyō, Michiyo Kogure
Men were their prey! Beauty was their lure!
AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON
- Wed, Dec 13
Director: Yasujirō Ozu Run Time: 114 min. Release Year: 1962 Language: Japanese
Starring: Chishū Ryū, Keiji Sada, Mariko Okada, Shima Iwashita, Teruo Yoshida
An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.
THE STRANGER
- Thu, Dec 14
Director: Satyajit Ray Run Time: 120 min. Release Year: 1991 Language: Bengali, Bangla
Starring: Bikram Bhattacharya, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Dipankar Dey, Mamata Shankar, Utpal Dutt
Satyajit Ray’s valedictory film is a multifaceted character study that contains both humor and melancholy rumination. Based on...
MADADAYO
- Thu, Dec 14
Director: Akira Kurosawa Run Time: 134 min. Release Year: 1993 Language: Japanese
Starring: George Tokoro, Hisashi Igawa, Kyōko Kagawa, Masayuki Yui, Tatsuo Matsumura
For his final film, Akira Kurosawa paid tribute to the immensely popular writer and educator Hyakken Uchida, here...
DIE HARD
- Sat, Dec 16
Director: John McTiernan Run Time: 131 min. Release Year: 1988
Starring: Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, Bonnie Bedelia, Bruce Willis, Reginald VelJohnson
Forty Stories. Twelve Terrorists. One Cop.
CAROL
- Sun, Dec 17
Director: Todd Haynes Run Time: 118 min. Release Year: 2015
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Jake Lacy, Kyle Chandler, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson
Some people change your life forever.
THE TIME THAT REMAINS
- Tue, Dec 19
Director: Elia Suleiman Run Time: 109 min. Release Year: 2009 Language: Arabic
Starring: Ali Suliman, Amer Hlehel, Elia Suleiman, Menashe Noy, Saleh Bakri
PRESENTED BY FARGO NISSIM TBAKHI: Fargo Nissim Tbakhi is a queer Palestinian performance artist, a Taurus, and a...
THE DEAD
- Wed, Dec 20
Director: John Huston Run Time: 83 min. Release Year: 1987
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Cathleen Delany, Dan O'Herlihy, Donal McCann, Helena Carroll
A vast, merry, and uncommon tale of love.
IMITATION OF LIFE
- Wed, Dec 20
Director: Douglas Sirk Run Time: 125 min. Release Year: 1959
Starring: John Gavin, Lana Turner, Robert Alda, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner
Fannie Hurst's best selling novel of today's tormented generation!
L’INNOCENTE
- Thu, Dec 21
Director: Luchino Visconti Run Time: 125 min. Release Year: 1976 Language: Italian
Starring: Giancarlo Giannini, Jennifer O'Neill, Laura Antonelli, Massimo Girotti, Rina Morelli
Visconti's Sensual Epic of a Diabolical Marriage
THE DAY OF THE BEAST
- Thu, Dec 21
Director: Álex de la Iglesia Run Time: 103 min. Release Year: 1995 Language: Spanish
Starring: Álex Angulo, Armando De Razza, Nathalie Seseña, Santiago Segura, Terele Pávez
A devilishly dark comedy
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
- Fri, Dec 22
Director: Frank Capra Run Time: 130 min. Release Year: 1946
Starring: Donna Reed, Henry Travers, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell
It's a wonderful laugh! It's a wonderful love!
DEEP RED
- Fri, Dec 22
Director: Dario Argento Run Time: 127 min. Release Year: 1975 Language: Italian
Starring: Daria Nicolodi, David Hemmings, Eros Pagni, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Méril
When the Screaming starts and the Blood begins to flow... Pinch yourself and keep repeating I'M AT THE MOVIES! I'M AT THE MOVIES! I'M AT THE MOVIES! I'M AT THE MOVIES!
DIAL CODE SANTA CLAUS
- Sat, Dec 23
Director: René Manzor Run Time: 87 min. Release Year: 1990 Language: French
Starring: Alain Lalanne, Brigitte Fossey, François-Eric Gendron, Louis Ducreux, Patrick Floersheim
When the World of Childhood Encounters That of Horror
BLACK CHRISTMAS
- Sat, Dec 23
Director: Bob Clark Run Time: 98 min. Release Year: 1974
Starring: John Saxon, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, Marian Waldman, Olivia Hussey
If this picture doesn’t make your skin crawl...it’s on TOO TIGHT.