New Releases and Restorations
Superman (2025)
James Gunn · 130m · DCP
He is back and he is wearing the cape. After years of multiverse whiplash, Superman soars in with a clean jawline, a noble heart, and a lot of heavy lifting, both emotional and literal. Directed by James Gunn and starring David Corenswet, this is truth, justice, and Kansas values repackaged for a new era. He saves the world, wears the same outfit every day, and still somehow pulls it off.
Saturday, October 4 4:00 PM
After the Hunt (2025)
Luca Guadagnino · 139m · DCP
Alma (Julia Roberts), a philosophy professor up for tenure at Yale, is caught between her protege and colleague when her star student Maggie (Ayo Edebiri), accuses her friend and rival professor Hank (Andrew Garfield) of sexual assault. When Hank then accuses Maggie of plagiarism, Alma must choose who to believe, a decision with both personal and professional implications.
This is an advance screening, free for all UCID holders.
Saturday, October 4 7:00 PM
War Correspondent (2024)
David Čálek, Benjamin Tuček · 78m · DCP
David Čálek and Benjamin Tuček document the work of Martin Dorazín, a longtime Czech war correspondent who left his job in Warsaw to chronicle the war in Ukraine. Covering not only the military conditions, but also the lives, thoughts, and motivations of civilians who continue to live in the area, Dorazín emphasizes the importance of conveying the conditions of war to those who "can’t imagine" them.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures.
Sunday, October 5 4:00 PM
Caught by the Tides (2024)
Jia Zhangke · 111m · DCP
Another lucid portrait of Chinese modernization, Jia Zhangke’s latest project utilizes 22 years of footage and outtakes from his previous films to portray a pair of estranged lovers navigating everything from the Beijing Olympics to the COVID-19 pandemic. As characters and the country visibly age — and the Yangtze River piles up trash — so does the medium, as formats and aspect ratios from different eras contrast each other; the current of time is relentless and ubiquitous.
Saturday, October 11 7:00 PM
By the Stream (2024)
Hong Sang-soo · 111m · DCP
In one of Hong Sang-soo’s latest, recently blacklisted actor-director Chu Si-eon (Kwon Hae-hyo) is invited by his estranged niece Jeon-im (Kim Min-hee), an artist and lecturer, to direct a short play at her university. His visit echoes his time spent at the same university forty years previous and provides the opportunity to reforge old relationships as well as create new ones. Meanwhile, Jeon-im goes out to sketch the patterns of a stream.
Sunday, October 12 4:00 PM
The Shrouds (2024)
David Cronenberg · 120m · DCP
Karsh (Vincent Cassel), a recently widowed entrepreneur, invents a MRI-like scanner and application that allows him to monitor his wife’s grave as her body decomposes. Confined by the lucrative technology that exacerbates his grief and necrophilic longing, Karsh’s story grows more unsettling as graves are mysteriously desecrated. Cronenberg, whose wife passed away in 2017, described The Shrouds as his most autobiographical film.
Saturday, October 18 7:00 PM
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Stanley Kubrick · 185m · DCP
Through the use of his own wit and cunning, Irish rogue Redmond Barry manages to secure a position within the high society of 18th century England as Barry Lyndon. However, his exploits and misadventures expose the world of the aristocracy as one where dazzling beauty and opulence coexist with a profoundly corrosive moral lack. Epic in both ambition and scope, Kubrick’s historical drama captures a fleeting glimpse of a bygone era.
Saturday, October 25 7:00 PM
Fright Night (1985)
Tom Holland · 106m · DCP
Doc Films welcomes you to our late-night Halloween screening of this classic vampire horror film. Fright Night follows Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) on his mission to expose his neighbor, Jerry Dandrige (Chris Sarandon), as a vampire. When girls start mysteriously dying, Charley recruits the vampire-killing star of his favorite TV show to stop his neighbor once and for all.
Friday, October 31 11:45 PM
Cloud (2024)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa · 124m · DCP
Ryosuke makes a living collecting miscellaneous goods and selling them at inflated prices on the internet. After receiving ominous threats from incensed customers, he flees with his girlfriend to the countryside, but the mob lags not far behind. Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure, Pulse) contrasts the personal nature of both Ryosuke’s swindling and the mob’s violence with the searing indifference of the digital age.
Saturday, November 1 7:00 PM
Killer of Sheep (1978)
Charles Burnett · 80m · DCP
In this classic of the the L.A. Rebellion, filmed in the aftermath of the 1965 Watts Rebellion against the LAPD’s brutality, a string of vignettes tell the story of a slaughterhouse worker who, seeking to better his family’s economic outlook, runs into difficulties. In addition to its neorealist influences, the film draws on the tradition of blues music, depicting brief moments of the family’s tenderness (featuring the music of Dinah Washington and Louis Armstrong) amid hardship and alienation.
Saturday, November 15 7:00 PM
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Sergio Leone · 166m · DCP
Once Upon a Time in the West is Sergio Leone’s sweeping Western of shifting power, slow-burning vengeance, and the arrival of new forces of change in the desert. Charles Bronson is a man with a harmonica and a gruesome past, Henry Fonda plays against type as a cold-blooded killer, and Claudia Cardinale arrives with mysterious plans of her own. With glacial tension and a legendary Morricone score, this is the West as myth, music, and reckoning.
Saturday, November 22 7:00 PM
Afternoons of Solitude (2024)
Albert Serra · 125m · DCP
Albert Serra turns his lens on the rituals and routines of Spanish bullfighting in this documentary following a day in the life of matador Andrés Roca Rey. His careful observation and attention to detail paint a conflicted portrait of the sport — one capable of deeply disturbing cruelty, and yet punctuated by moments of profound beauty.
Saturday, November 22 4:00 PM
It Was Just an Accident (2025)
Jafar Panahi · 103m · DCP
When an Iranian man enters a garage to get his vehicle fixed, five men suspect he is the intelligence officer that tortured them. Kidnapping him, they contemplate the morality of exacting revenge against a man whose true identity remains obscure. Director Jafar Panahi, who filmed this Palme D’or winner as well as many of his other films in secret from the Iranian government, uses the cinematic medium to deliver a striking rebuke of authoritarianism.
