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CINEMA OF DESPAIR
CO-PRESENTED BY AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE
The Paris Theater is proud to partner with the American Cinematheque to bring you BLEAK WEEK NEW YORK from June 9-16. For the past three years, the Cinematheque has hosted Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair, a weeklong festival in Los Angeles that spotlights some of the greatest films from around the world to explore the darkest sides of humanity, as well as some of the bleakest points in human history. A harrowing, yet powerful lineup of films defined by stark imagery, unimaginable tragedies, existential fear, nihilism and shocking acts of brutality, this series features the world’s leading filmmakers who wholly embrace a cinema of despair in pursuit of unpleasant truths and raw empathy.
HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
June 9:
Director Ari Aster (Midsommar)
to introduce Elem Klimov's Come and See
June 9:
Star Daniel London and DP Peter Sillen
will speak after a screening of Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy
June 10:
Q&A with Kenneth Lonergan and J. Smith-Cameron
after Margaret: Extended Cut
June 12:
Never Rarely Sometimes Always followed by a
Q&A with writer/director Eliza Hittman
June 13:
Director Jerry Schatzberg
Q&A following The Panic In Needle Park
June 14:
Matthew Modine Q&A after
Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket