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Meanwhile, back in Hollywood, Penn was emerging as the American filmmaker most directly influenced by the New Wave, with the existential paranoia of Mickey One and the form-shattering jolt of Bonnie and Clyde (a movie famously passed on by both Godard and Truffaut). On the occasion of their recent passing, we salute these giants of cinema—and longtime friends of the Film Society—with a combined retrospective. Thanks to: Jed Rapfogel/Anthology Film Archives; Pierre Muller and Chantal Lam/Artedis; Geoff Andrew and Sue Jones/British Film Institute; Regina Berry and Lorra-Lea Bartlett/CBS; Delphine Selles/Cultural Services of the French Embassy; Brian Belovarac/Janus Films; Ross Klein/MGM; Jonathan Howell/New Yorker Films; Katie Fry, Justin Rautenbach and Michael Schlesinger/Sony Pictures Repertory; Todd Weiner/UCLA Film & Television Archive; Sean Domachowski and Marilee Womack/Warner Bros. PLEASE NOTE: There have been some schedule updates since the November/December calendar went to print. Save with a Three-Film Pass! $27 General Public/ $21 Students & Seniors / $18 Members Buy your pass now! >> Calendar >> Admission $12 General Public $9 Students $8 Seniors $7 Members Weekday Matinee Admission* $9 General Public $7 Students $6 Seniors $5 Members *All screenings that begin prior to 6pm, Mon-Fri only. Tickets and passes are also on sale at the Walter Reade Theater's box office. Certain restrictions apply. VISITOR INFO >>   Le Beau Serge Claude Chabrol, France, 1958; 98m ADDED: Tuesday, December 7 at 6:15pm! Chabrol’s (and the New Wave’s) debut follows a theology student (Jean-Claude Brialy) back in his bleak hometown, comforting his drunken friend (Gérard Blain). With Bernadette Lafont. Read more...   Buy Tickets Fri Dec 3: 2 Tue Dec 7: 6:15 Les Bonnes Femmes Claude Chabrol, France/Italy, 1960; 102m In the finest of Chabrol’s early films, four shopgirls yearn by night for ways of escape. With Bernadette Lafont, Clotilde Joano, Lucile Saint-Simon, and Stéphane Audran. Read more... Buy Tickets Sun Dec 5: 1:45 Bonnie and Clyde Arthur Penn, USA, 1967; 112m In person: Three-time Oscar winner Robert Benton, the co-screenwriter of Bonnie and Clyde, will join us for a Q&A following the Friday, December 3 screening. Penn’s zeitgeist-altering masterpiece transfigured the exploits of two famed Depression-era outlaws (Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway) into a stylized commentary on the sociopolitical unrest gripping America. Read more... Buy Tickets Fri Dec 3: 6:30 Thu Dec 7: 3:10 Le Boucher Claude Chabrol, France, 1970; 94m Chabrol’s classic tale of a murderer in a tightly knit French village stars muse Stéphane Audran as a repressed schoolteacher opposite Jean Yanne’s butcher. Read more... Buy Tickets Sat Dec 4: 9 Wed Dec 8: 3:15 Les Cousins Claude Chabrol, France, 1959; 112m ADDED: Tuesday, December 7 at 8:15pm! In Chabrol’s award-winning country-mouse-city-mouse tale, a suave slacker (Jean-Claude Brialy) given to orgies and seductions gets visited by his studious, innocent country cousin (Gérard Blain). Read more... Buy Tickets Fri Dec 3: 4 Tue Dec 7: 8:15 La Femme Infidèle Claude Chabrol, France, 1969; 98m Chabrol’s masterpiece depicts the dawning awareness of a suburban husband (Michel Bouquet) that his wife (magnificent Stéphane Audran) has taken a lover. Read more... Buy Tickets Sat Dec 4: 4:30 Four Friends Arthur Penn, USA, 1981; 114m Penn’s last great film traces 1960s upheaval through four tight-knit high school friends, in a veritable primer on how to make the political personal, and vice versa. Read more... Buy Tickets Sun Dec 5: 8:45 Little Big Man Arthur Penn, USA, 1970; 139m Dustin Hoffman ages from 17 to 121 as the eponymous protagonist of Penn’s picaresque, politically pointed Western adventure, as a white man raised by Cheyenne Indians. Read more... Buy Tickets Sat Dec 4: 1:45 The Missouri Breaks Arthur Penn, USA, 1976; 126m Penn’s lyrical comic Western tracks cattle thief Jack Nicholson, pursued by flamboyant bounty hunter Marlon Brando. One of the last triumphs of the New Hollywood. Read more... Buy Tickets Sun Dec 5: 6:15 Thu Dec 9: 3:45 Mickey One Arthur Penn, USA, 1965; 93m Penn’s jazzy riff on Kafka’s The Trial follows Warren Beatty’s eponymous nightclub comic as he finds himself on the run from a shadowy underworld organization. Read more... Buy Tickets Thu Dec 9: 1:45 The Miracle Worker Arthur Penn, USA, 1962; 106m Penn’s electrifying adaptation of his 1959 Broadway success is a masterful study of language, communication, and human will. Starring Oscar-winners Patty Duke and Ann Bancroft. Read more... Buy Tickets Tue Dec 7: 1 Night Moves Arthur Penn, USA, 1975; 100m One of the decade’s great bottomed-out neo-noirs stars Gene Hackman as a dogged private eye investigating a possible murder. “The work of a master.” —Roger Ebert Read more... PLEASE NOTE: Night Moves will screen at 9:15pm; it was originally scheduled for 8:45pm. Buy Tickets Fri Dec 3: 9:15 Story of Women Claude Chabrol, France, 1988; 108m Inspired by the real-life story of Marie-Louise Girard, Chabrol’s harrowing wartime drama stars a superb Isabelle Huppert as a poverty-stricken mother and abortionist. Read more... Buy Tickets Thu Dec 9: 8:45 This Man Must Die Claude Chabrol, France, 1969; 110m Searching for the driver who killed his son, a writer gets drawn into the household of a brutal man and an affair with his sister-in-law. Read more... Buy Tickets Sun Dec 5: 4 Wed Dec 8: 1 Violette Nozière Claude Chabrol, France/Canada, 1978; 124m Seemingly innocent daughter of lower-class parents Isabelle Huppert leads a double life as a feral seductress and then plots to poison Mom and Dad. Read more... Buy Tickets Thu Dec 9: 6:15 Back to Top