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

August 21–October 19

The Cold Heart is More Precious than Diamonds. The Cinema of Graham Greene

September 11–October 30

João César Monteiro, Poet-Provocateur

September 12

Marathon '77 All-Night Movie Marathon

September 18–November 15

Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola

September 27–28

The Adventures of Lotte Reiniger

October 2–18

The Human Condition

October 23–November 20

Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960