Anthology Film Archives

A very special series of films screened on a repertory basis, the Essential Cinema Repertory collection consists of 110 programs/330 titles assembled in 1970-75 by Anthology’s Film Selection Committee – James Broughton, Ken Kelman, Peter Kubelka, P. Adams Sitney, and Jonas Mekas. It was an ambitious attempt to define the art of cinema. The project was never completed but even in its unfinished state the series provides an uncompromising critical overview of cinema’s history.

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Upcoming Screenings

• Hollis Frampton
  EC: ZORNS LEMMA & HAPAX LEGOMENA I (nostalgia)
  December 15 at 4:30 PM
  
• EC: FRANJU / GENET
  December 18 at 6:45 PM
  
• EC: ERNIE GEHR
  December 18 at 8:30 PM
  
• EC: EGGELING / GRANT / JACOBS & FLEISCHNER
  December 21 at 5:45 PM
  
• Marcel Hanoun
  EC: UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE
  January 3 at 6:45 PM
  
• EC: HUGO / JACOBS / LEVITT / MAAS
  January 4 at 6:15 PM
  
• Ken Jacobs
  EC: TOM, TOM, THE PIPER’S SON
  January 4 at 6:15 PM
  
• EC: LAWRENCE JORDAN
  January 5 at 5:45 PM
  
• EC: JENNINGS / KIRSANOFF
  January 5 at 8:00 PM
  
• Buster Keaton
  EC: THE GENERAL
  January 7 at 7:00 PM
  January 8 at 7:00 PM
  
• Dimitri Kirsanoff
  EC: RAPT
  January 9 at 6:30 PM
  
• EC: KUBELKA / LYE
  January 9 at 8:45 PM
  
• EC: GEORGE & MIKE KUCHAR
  January 10 at 6:30 PM
  
• EC: GEORGE LANDOW, AKA OWEN LAND
  January 10 at 8:45 PM
  
• EC: LAUREL AND HARDY
  January 11 at 5:45 PM
  
• EC: LÉGER & MURPHY / PICABIA & CLAIR / MAN RAY & DUCHAMP
  January 11 at 8:00 PM
  
• EC: CHRISTOPHER MACLAINE
  January 12 at 4:30 PM
  
• Jonas Mekas
  EC: WALDEN (DIARIES, NOTES, AND SKETCHES)
  January 12 at 6:30 PM
  
• Jonas Mekas
  EC: REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA
  January 15 at 6:15 PM
  
• EC: GEORGES MÉLIÈS, PROGRAM #1
  January 15 at 8:30 PM
  
• EC: GEORGES MÉLIÈS, PROGRAM #2
  January 18 at 5:15 PM
  
• EC: GEORGES MÉLIÈS, PROGRAM #3
  January 19 at 5:15 PM
  
• EC: MARIE MENKEN
  February 8 at 4:45 PM
  
• F.W. Murnau
  EC: SUNRISE
  February 13 at 7:30 PM
  
• EC: ROBERT NELSON
  February 23 at 4:15 PM
  
• Yasujiro Ozu
  EC: I WAS BORN, BUT…
  February 26 at 6:15 PM
  February 28 at 9:00 PM
  
• Yasujiro Ozu
  EC: THERE WAS A FATHER
  February 26 at 8:45 PM
  February 28 at 6:45 PM