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

• EC: CROCKWELL / GRANT / JACOBS & FLEISCHNER
  September 28 at 7:00 PM
  
• Marcel Hanoun
  EC: UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE
  September 28 at 8:30 PM
  
• EC: JEROME HILL
  September 29 at 7:00 PM
  
• EC: LARRY JORDAN
  September 29 at 9:00 PM
  
• EC: HUGO / JACOBS / LEVITT / MAAS
  September 30 at 6:00 PM
  
• Ken Jacobs
  EC: TOM, TOM, THE PIPER’S SON
  September 30 at 7:30 PM
  
• Jean Epstein
  EC: THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
  October 4 at 7:30 PM
  
• EC: JENNINGS / KIRSANOFF
  October 6 at 7:30 PM
  
• Buster Keaton
  EC: THE GENERAL
  October 7 at 3:30 PM
  October 8 at 5:00 PM
  
• Dimitri Kirsanoff
  EC: RAPT
  October 7 at 5:45 PM
  
• EC: KUBELKA / LYE
  October 8 at 7:30 PM
  
• EC: GEORGE & MIKE KUCHAR
  October 27 at 7:30 PM
  
• EC: LAUREL AND HARDY
  October 28 at 3:15 PM
  
• EC: GEORGE LANDOW, AKA OWEN LAND
  October 28 at 5:15 PM
  
• EC: LÉGER & MURPHY / PICABIA & CLAIR / MAN RAY & DUCHAMP
  October 28 at 7:00 PM
  
• EC: CHRISTOPHER MACLAINE
  October 29 at 4:45 PM
  
• EC: GEORGES MÉLIÈS, PROGRAM #1
  October 31 at 7:15 PM
  
• EC: GEORGES MÉLIÈS, PROGRAM #2
  October 31 at 8:45 PM
  
• EC: GEORGES MÉLIÈS, PROGRAM #3
  November 4 at 3:30 PM
  
• EC: MARIE MENKEN
  November 4 at 5:00 PM
  
• F.W. Murnau
  EC: SUNRISE
  November 24 at 6:30 PM
  November 25 at 8:30 PM
  
• Yasujiro Ozu
  EC: I WAS BORN, BUT…
  November 24 at 8:45 PM
  November 26 at 6:15 PM
  
• Yasujiro Ozu
  EC: THERE WAS A FATHER
  November 25 at 6:30 PM
  November 26 at 8:30 PM
  
• EC: ROBERT NELSON
  December 2 at 4:30 PM
  
• EC: SIDNEY PETERSON
  December 9 at 4:45 PM
  
• Vsevolod I. Pudovkin
  EC: MOTHER
  December 10 at 4:30 PM
  
• Jean Renoir
  EC: THE RULES OF THE GAME
  December 13 at 7:00 PM
  December 16 at 5:15 PM
  December 17 at 5:15 PM
  
• Jonas Mekas
  EC: DIARIES, NOTES & SKETCHES (WALDEN)
  December 18 at 7:30 PM
  
• Jonas Mekas
  EC: REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA
  December 19 at 6:45 PM