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1990 98mins Iran (U) Documentary
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami Starring Hossain Sabzian, Monoochehr Ahankhah, Mahrokh Ahankhah

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.

The Movie Orgy
1968 275mins USA (18) Comedy
Directed by Joe Dante Starring Goodman Ace, Jane Ace, Ann-Margret

Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.

Her Name Was Moviola
2024 70mins UK (18) Documentary
Directed by Howard Berry Starring Walter Murch, Dan Farrell, Mike Leigh

Featuring Post-Film Q&A with Walter Murch and Director Howard Berry

Invented in 1922, the Moviola remained for a long time the dominant machine for editing film in English-language cinema. Mastering it allowed an editor, in tandem with the director and producer, to create a language and rhythm within a film. Her Name Was Moviola sees Academy Award®-winning sound and film editor Walter Murch working with a team to rebuild a Moviola editing suite to take us through the process of how a film was pieced together. Using two scenes from Mike Leigh’s 2014 drama Mr. Turner – reverse-engineered from digital to 35mm prints – Murch and his collaborators take us through the way the Moviola was employed to bring a multitude on individual shots together into one cohesive narrative. It’s a riveting deep-dive into a process that is key to every form of filmmaking.

Hospital
1970 84mins USA (15) Documentary
Directed by Frederick Wiseman Starring Eugene Friedman, Robert Schwartz, Stanley Friedman

Daily activities of the Metropolitan Hospital in New York City, with emphasis on the emergency ward and outpatient clinics. The cases depicted illustrate how medical expertise, availability of resources, organizational considerations and the nature of communication among the staff and patients affect the delivery of health care.