August

"Apocalypse / Anhedonia" (series of curated double features; commentary by HERZ Art Director Patrick Simpson)

• Saturday, August 9: "Long Takes of the End of the World"
  • 4 pm: Tarkovsky's NOSTALGHIA
  • 6:30 pm: Tarr's SÁTÁNTANGÓ (two 10-min intermissions; program ends around 2 am)
• Sunday, August 10: "It's Coming / It (Already) Happened"
  • 6 pm: von Trier's MELANCHOLIA
  • 8:30 pm: Resnais's HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR
• Wednesday, August 13: "French Auteur Apocalypse Visions"
  • 6 pm: Godard's WEEKEND
  • 8:30 pm: Bresson's THE DEVIL, PROBABLY
• Friday, August 15: "Contemporary Depression Cinema"
  • 7 pm: Kaufman's SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK
  • 9:30 pm: Hertzfeldt's IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY
  • 11 pm: Hertzfeldt after hours program #1: REJECTED; THE MEANING OF LIFE; couch gag for THE SIMPSONS; WORLD OF TOMORROW
  • 12:30 am: Hertzfeldt after hours program #2: WORLD OF TOMORROW 2: THE BURDEN OF OTHER PEOPLE'S THOUGHTS; WORLD OF TOMORROW 3: THE ABSENT DESTINATIONS OF DAVID PRIME; ME (2024)
• Sunday, August 17: "The Space of Alienation"
  • 6 pm: Antonioni's L'AVVENTURA
  • 8:30 pm: Akerman's THE MEETINGS OF ANNA
• Friday, August 22: "Artists: Personal Apocalypse, Revelation"
  • 6 pm: Watkins' EDVARD MUNCH
  • 9:30 pm: Tarkovsky's ANDREI RUBLEV
• Sunday, August 24: "The End"
  • 6 pm: Diaz's NORTE: THE END OF HISTORY

Two new series begin at the end of the month: "After the End: Digital Corporate Apocalypse" and "SPEED(s) (of becoming)"

• "After the End" preview: Ferrara's NEW ROSE HOTEL; Assayas's DEMONLOVER; Mann's BLACKHAT; Bonello's NOCTURAMA; Cronenberg's COSMOPOLIS; Kiyoshi Kurosawa's PULSE; Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE
• "SPEED(s) (of becoming)" preview: Jan de Bont's SPEED; the Wachowski Sisters' THE MATRIX and SPEED RACER; Lynch's BLUE VELVET, TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME, LOST HIGHWAY, MULHOLLAND DRIVE, THE STRAIGHT STORY; Nolan's INTERSTELLAR; Russ Meyer's FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL!

Ongoing series: "HERZGEWӒCHSE Canon Construction" (commentary by Patrick Simpson and Timmy "tim" Schmidt)

• Tuesday, August 12: inaugural double feature, "Durations (Short and Long)"
  • 7 pm: Godard's BREATHLESS
  • 9 pm: Duras's INDIA SONG
• "tim picks" ARE BACK starting Thursday August 14: double feature, "Hospital Rooms"
  • 6 pm: Weerasethakul's SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (*tim pick)
  • 8:30 pm: Pialat's THE MOUTH AGAPE
• ALL-NIGHT SATURDAYS ARE BACK starting August 16:
  • 7 pm: Kim Ki-duk's SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER... AND SPRING (*tim pick)
  • 9:30 pm: Kiyoshi Kurosawa's CURE
  • 12:00 am: Welles's CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT
  • 2:30 am: Welles's F FOR FAKE
  • 4:30 am: Chytilová's DAISIES
  • 6 am: Hu's A TOUCH OF ZEN (*tim pick)
• Tuesday, August 19:
  • 3:30 pm matinee: Jarmusch's COFFEE AND CIGARRETTES
  • Double feature, "Men Who Are Very Afraid (of Women, Among Other Things)"
  • 7 pm: Chahine's CAIRO STATION
  • 9:30 pm: Lynch's ERASERHEAD
• Thursday, August 21: double feature, "Rosselini's Spiritual Vision"
  • 6 pm: Rosselini's FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS (*tim pick)
  • 8:30 pm: Rosselini's EUROPA '51 (*tim pick)
• ALL-NIGHT SATURDAY August 23:
  • 6 pm: Renoir's THE RULES OF THE GAME
  • 8:30 pm: Pialat's WE WON'T GROW OLD TOGETHER
  • 11 pm: Yang's TAIPEI STORY
  • 1:30 am: Mann's MIAMI VICE
  • 4:00 am: Ferrara's KING OF NEW YORK
  • 6:30 am: Ferrara's THE ADDICTION