Friday | May 13, 2016 9:00 pm

Tuesday | May 24, 2016 9:15 pm

Passport to Darkness
(Ankoku no ryoken)

Screening on Film

Directed by Seijun Suzuki.
With Ryoji Hayama, Chako van Leeuwen, Masumi Okada.
Japan, 1959, 35mm, black & white, 88 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.
Print source: Japan Foundation

In this stylish film noir, a trombonist goes on an all-night bender after his wife disappears during their honeymoon. When he returns home to find her corpse in their apartment, he sets off on a frantic quest to find her killer by piecing together a night he can’t remember. Suzuki used this classic noir material to play with genre tropes and make expressive use of darkness and light.

May 13 – June 2, 2016

Time and Place are Nonsense!
The Cinema According to Seijun Suzuki

February 2–April 27

The Complete Stanley Kubrick

February 14–May 9

Community in Cinema

March 6–April 18

Crime Scenes as History. Five Korean Films

March 13–21

The Lady and the Typewriter

March 27–April 24

Sixties Shinoda

April 3

From the Collection – Bob Hoskins

April 9

The Dutchman by André Gaines

April 11–25

Tarr / Krasznahorkai

May 4–10

Little Fugitive