revival cinema
Welcome to revival cinema, devoted to screenings of films that are outside of a current release. Revival cinemas (or repertory houses as they are also called) had their heyday in the 1960s and 70s before the rise of VHS, DVD, and TCM. James Wolcott, cultural critic for Vanity Fair says it best, “Revival houses were where epiphany-seeking cinephiles and less exalted film junkies could dip into the dark for a few hours and cut their Dracula fangs on Hollywood golden oldies, the latest foreign craze, avant-garde provocations, and camp treasures with cult followings.”
There are still many of these celebrated revival cinemas in existence today (think Film Forum in New York) and the occasional new one opening up (Metrograph in New York).
The Conformist
A dazzling movie.
8½
A picture that goes beyond what men think about – because no man ever thought about it in quite this way!
Pather Panchali
Song of the Little Road
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Don’t regret. Remember.
PlayTime
With every inch of its superwide frame crammed with hilarity and inventiveness, PlayTime is a lasting record of a modern era tiptoeing on the edge of oblivion.
City Lights
True Blind Love
Do the Right Thing
It’s the hottest day of the summer. You can do nothing, you can do something, or you can …
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with this…
Mulholland Dr.
A love story in the city of dreams . . . Blonde Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) has only…
Yi Yi
The extraordinary, internationally embraced Yi Yi (A One and a Two . . .), directed by the late Taiwanese master…
GoodFellas
Three Decades of Life in the Mafia.