https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org An international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video with a particular focus on American independent and avant-garde cinema and its precursors found in classic European, Soviet and Japanese film. en-us Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:06:34 -0500 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=12&year=2025#showing-60402 <p>Andy Warhol<br />QUEEN OF CHINA (HANOI HANNA)<br />1966, 66 min, 16mm-to-digital. Scenario by Ronald Tavel. With Mary Woronov, Susan Bottomly, Angelina “Pepper” Davis, and Ingrid Superstar. Digital restoration courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum.<br />“QUEEN OF CHINA (HANOI HANNA) – which was incorporated into Warhol’s hugely successful, three-hour-plus, two-screen film, THE CHELSEA GIRLS – based on Ronald Tavel’s scenario, loosely refers to the real-life radio show host who broadcast antiwar propaganda to American soldiers in Vietnam. It is Mary Woronov’s showcase piece, in which she metes out physical and psychological abuse to Susan Bottomly, Angelina ‘Pepper’ Davis, and Ingrid Superstar in a room at the Chelsea Hotel. At first, the cast tries to accurately adhere to Tavel’s scenario, but by reel two it all falls apart—the performers begin to use their real names and exhibit a sort of residual stress disorder that permeates the rest of the film.” –MUSEUM OF MODERN ART<br /><br />Preceded by:<br />Andy Warhol MARY WORONOV SCREEN TEST (ST357) (1966, 4 min, 16mm-to-DCP, silent. Digital restoration courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum.)<br /><br />Conrad Ventur 13 MOST BEAUTIFUL / SCREEN TESTS REVISITED: MARY WORONOV (2009-2011, 4 min, digital)<br /><br />[Documentation of John Vaccaro’s “Conquest of the Universe”] (ca. 1967, ca. 15 min, 16mm-to-DCP, silent)<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 95 min.<br /><br />[<em><strong>Unfortunately, the digital transfer of the “Conquest of the Universe” footage will not be completed in time for the screening on Thurs, Dec 11; it will, however, be included in the second screening on Sun, Dec 21.</strong></em>]<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Sunday, December 21 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=12&year=2025#showing-60390 <p>Humphrey Jennings<br />LISTEN TO BRITAIN (1941, 19 min, 35mm)<br />Jennings’s film is a masterpiece of sound mixing; it creates an audio landscape of Britain during the war, with images both accompanying and conflicting with the multitude of sounds.<br /><br />Dimitri Kirsanoff<br />MÉNILMONTANT (1924-25, 38 min, 35mm, silent)<br />“[T]o a remarkable degree, MÉNILMONTANT seems an autonomous creation, as sophisticated and demanding as any narrative film of the silent period, without obvious imitators. Although Richard Abel has astutely called attention to aspects the film shares with Abel Gance’s LA ROUE (1923) and Leon Moussinac’s LE BRASIER ARDENT (1923)…and with Jean Epstein’s COEUR FIDELE (1923)…any comparison of the film as a whole with those admirable works would have to underline the intensity, uniqueness, and exceptional rigor of Kirsanoff’s achievement.” –P. Adams Sitney, THE CINEMA OF POETRY<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 60 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BOOK TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, December 21 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=12&year=2025#showing-60413 <p>“As new principal Miss Togar (Mary Woronov) says, ‘The minute there’s not a teacher in the room the entire school erupts into a shameless display of adolescent abandon!’ Initially conceived by Roger Corman as DISCO HIGH SCHOOL, Alan Arkush rejiggered the project for the Ramones, who wrote ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll High School’ and ‘I Want You Around’ for the soundtrack. (Dee Dee complained that Arkush made them look ‘like Martians.’)” –Rachel Churner<br /><br />“Underneath its chipper, anything-for-a-laugh grin, ROCK ‘N’ ROLL is as subversive as teen movies get, with an ending that, for all its absurdity, is still surprisingly shocking. It’s hard to imagine a similar conclusion being shot today.” –Zack Handlen, THE ONION<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Sunday, December 21 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=12&year=2025#showing-60391 <p>With Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavendar, Jim Farley, and Joseph Keaton.“<br /><br />In the funniest of all silent feature comedy classics, the imperturbable Buster Keaton is cast as a daring Federal Spy with an outlandish plan to change the course of the Civil War. This sophisticated and grotesque screen farce – eloquently touching, uproariously hilarious – is a perfect example of Keaton’s art. Engulfed by switches, stolen engines, valves, and other mechanical contrivances, the immortal comedian – an engine driver literally on the wrong side of the tracks – solemnly attempts to behave normally in a world which is plainly bewitched.” –CINEMA 16 program notes, 1958<br /><br />Preceded by:<br />Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline NEIGHBORS (1920, 18 min, 16mm, silent)<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BOOK TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, December 21 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=12&year=2025#showing-60425 <p>With Jacqueline Bisset, Ray Sharkey, Mary Woronov, Robert Beltran, Ed Begley Jr., Wallace Shawn, Paul Bartel, and Paul Mazursky.<br /><br />“Written with LA novelist-screenwriter Bruce Wagner, SCENES is Bartel’s answer to the bed-hopping French farce, updated for the age of DYNASTY and LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS. Jacqueline Bisset stars as Clare, a TV actress with a career stuck in re-runs and a freshly buried husband who died of auto-erotic strangulation. Her next-door neighbor, Lisabeth (Mary Woronov) is recently divorced. The two women decide that what they need most at this moment in their lives is to sleep with each other’s manservants (Ray Sharkey and Robert Beltran), who, meanwhile, have made a sexual wager of their own. Complicating matters is the sudden appearance of Lisabeth’s brother (Ed Begley, Jr.) who shows up with a new bride, To-Bel von Cartier (Arnetia Walker).” –David Savage<br /><br />“At its best, SCENES FROM THE CLASS STRUGGLE plays like a cross between Buñuel and the Marx Brothers.” –Jay Carr, BOSTON GLOBE<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Sunday, December 21 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=01&year=2026#showing-60535 <p>BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!<br /><br />This past fall, Anthology premiered a new digital restoration of William H. Whyte’s THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES (1980), and the response was overwhelming. As a result, we’re bringing it back for an encore run in the New Year!<br /><br />The film emerged from city planner William H. Whyte’s years of research into pedestrian behavior and city dynamics, conducted as part of his Street Life Project. This research resulted both in a film and a book, both of which closely analyzed the functioning of public spaces in various cities, above all in NYC. The book quickly became a classic text within the realm of city planning, and remains beloved not only for the wisdom and elegance of its insights, but for its disarmingly unpretentious, no-nonsense, and often flat-out funny tone. The film version fully embodies all the qualities of the book, and adds one special feature: Whyte’s own voice. Sounding very much like Jimmy Stewart’s city planner cousin, Whyte delivers the narration with an often-self-deprecatory folksiness that’s charmingly at odds with the stentorian tone of most educational films. The film is also effectively a work of street photography. Whyte and his team’s dedication to observing – and recording – the actual behavior of city dwellers, and their sharp eye for the behaviors and gestures that are most revealing of city life, result in a film that is – almost incidentally – a classic city symphony. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES is one of the great films about that strangest of creatures – the city dweller – in its natural habitat.<br /><br />In collaboration with Project for Public Spaces (an organization that grew out of Whyte’s Street Life Project) and the Municipal Art Society of New York (which acted as the film’s initial distributor and where Whyte was a board member), Anthology has restored the film, and we’re thrilled to bring it back for these encore screenings.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Friday, January 02 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=01&year=2026#showing-60536 <p>BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!<br /><br />This past fall, Anthology premiered a new digital restoration of William H. Whyte’s THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES (1980), and the response was overwhelming. As a result, we’re bringing it back for an encore run in the New Year!<br /><br />The film emerged from city planner William H. Whyte’s years of research into pedestrian behavior and city dynamics, conducted as part of his Street Life Project. This research resulted both in a film and a book, both of which closely analyzed the functioning of public spaces in various cities, above all in NYC. The book quickly became a classic text within the realm of city planning, and remains beloved not only for the wisdom and elegance of its insights, but for its disarmingly unpretentious, no-nonsense, and often flat-out funny tone. The film version fully embodies all the qualities of the book, and adds one special feature: Whyte’s own voice. Sounding very much like Jimmy Stewart’s city planner cousin, Whyte delivers the narration with an often-self-deprecatory folksiness that’s charmingly at odds with the stentorian tone of most educational films. The film is also effectively a work of street photography. Whyte and his team’s dedication to observing – and recording – the actual behavior of city dwellers, and their sharp eye for the behaviors and gestures that are most revealing of city life, result in a film that is – almost incidentally – a classic city symphony. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES is one of the great films about that strangest of creatures – the city dweller – in its natural habitat.<br /><br />In collaboration with Project for Public Spaces (an organization that grew out of Whyte’s Street Life Project) and the Municipal Art Society of New York (which acted as the film’s initial distributor and where Whyte was a board member), Anthology has restored the film, and we’re thrilled to bring it back for these encore screenings.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Friday, January 02 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=01&year=2026#showing-60537 <p>BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!<br /><br />This past fall, Anthology premiered a new digital restoration of William H. Whyte’s THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES (1980), and the response was overwhelming. As a result, we’re bringing it back for an encore run in the New Year!<br /><br />The film emerged from city planner William H. Whyte’s years of research into pedestrian behavior and city dynamics, conducted as part of his Street Life Project. This research resulted both in a film and a book, both of which closely analyzed the functioning of public spaces in various cities, above all in NYC. The book quickly became a classic text within the realm of city planning, and remains beloved not only for the wisdom and elegance of its insights, but for its disarmingly unpretentious, no-nonsense, and often flat-out funny tone. The film version fully embodies all the qualities of the book, and adds one special feature: Whyte’s own voice. Sounding very much like Jimmy Stewart’s city planner cousin, Whyte delivers the narration with an often-self-deprecatory folksiness that’s charmingly at odds with the stentorian tone of most educational films. The film is also effectively a work of street photography. Whyte and his team’s dedication to observing – and recording – the actual behavior of city dwellers, and their sharp eye for the behaviors and gestures that are most revealing of city life, result in a film that is – almost incidentally – a classic city symphony. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES is one of the great films about that strangest of creatures – the city dweller – in its natural habitat.<br /><br />In collaboration with Project for Public Spaces (an organization that grew out of Whyte’s Street Life Project) and the Municipal Art Society of New York (which acted as the film’s initial distributor and where Whyte was a board member), Anthology has restored the film, and we’re thrilled to bring it back for these encore screenings.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Saturday, January 03 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=01&year=2026#showing-60551 <p>“RAPT is, paradoxically, both a film which looks back anachronistically toward the silent era and a work which belongs to the vanguard of sound cinema. Part of that paradox can be resolved by an understanding of the film’s complex utilization of music. RAPT employs very little dialogue, and in this respect it is reminiscent of the part-talkie genre…. It is linked to such abstract and hybrid avant-garde works as VAMPYR and L’ÂGE D’OR. The radical nature of RAPT, however, resides in its vision of a cinematic musical score. In making the film, Kirsanoff worked closely with the composers Honegger and Hoerce.” –Lucy Fisher<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BOOK TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, January 03 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=01&year=2026#showing-60538 <p>BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!<br /><br />This past fall, Anthology premiered a new digital restoration of William H. Whyte’s THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES (1980), and the response was overwhelming. As a result, we’re bringing it back for an encore run in the New Year!<br /><br />The film emerged from city planner William H. Whyte’s years of research into pedestrian behavior and city dynamics, conducted as part of his Street Life Project. This research resulted both in a film and a book, both of which closely analyzed the functioning of public spaces in various cities, above all in NYC. The book quickly became a classic text within the realm of city planning, and remains beloved not only for the wisdom and elegance of its insights, but for its disarmingly unpretentious, no-nonsense, and often flat-out funny tone. The film version fully embodies all the qualities of the book, and adds one special feature: Whyte’s own voice. Sounding very much like Jimmy Stewart’s city planner cousin, Whyte delivers the narration with an often-self-deprecatory folksiness that’s charmingly at odds with the stentorian tone of most educational films. The film is also effectively a work of street photography. Whyte and his team’s dedication to observing – and recording – the actual behavior of city dwellers, and their sharp eye for the behaviors and gestures that are most revealing of city life, result in a film that is – almost incidentally – a classic city symphony. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES is one of the great films about that strangest of creatures – the city dweller – in its natural habitat.<br /><br />In collaboration with Project for Public Spaces (an organization that grew out of Whyte’s Street Life Project) and the Municipal Art Society of New York (which acted as the film’s initial distributor and where Whyte was a board member), Anthology has restored the film, and we’re thrilled to bring it back for these encore screenings.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Saturday, January 03 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=01&year=2026#showing-60552 <p>Peter Kubelka<br />MOSAIC IN CONFIDENCE / MOSAIK IM VERTRAUEN (1955, 16 min, 35mm, <span>Made in collaboration with Ferry Radax.</span>)<br />ADEBAR (1957, 1 min, 35mm)<br />SCHWECHATER (1958, 1 min, 16mm)<br />ARNULF RAINER (1960, 7 min, 35mm)<br />OUR TRIP TO AFRICA / UNSERE AFRIKAREISE (1966, 12 min, 16mm)<br />“Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world’s greatest filmmaker – which is to say, simply: see his films!…by all means/above all else…etcetera.” –Stan Brakhage<br /><br />Len Lye<br />TUSALAVA (1929, 10 min, 16mm, silent)<br />TRADE TATTOO (1937, 5 min, 35mm. Print courtesy of the Austrian Film Museum.)<br />RHYTHM (1957, 1 min, 16mm)<br />FREE RADICALS (1958/79, 4 min, 16mm)<br />A giant of experimental animation, Len Lye was born in New Zealand in 1901. He moved to England in the 1920s and subsequently to New York in 1944, where he spent the last 40 years of his life. A pioneer of ‘scratch’ or ‘direct’ filmmaking, Lye used various tools to mark patterns, shapes, and images directly onto the film’s surface, and often explored the dynamic energy of abstract images propelled into life by lively jazz scores or Pacific-inspired rhythms.<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 60 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BOOK TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, January 03 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=01&year=2026#showing-60539 <p>BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!<br /><br />This past fall, Anthology premiered a new digital restoration of William H. Whyte’s THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES (1980), and the response was overwhelming. As a result, we’re bringing it back for an encore run in the New Year!<br /><br />The film emerged from city planner William H. Whyte’s years of research into pedestrian behavior and city dynamics, conducted as part of his Street Life Project. This research resulted both in a film and a book, both of which closely analyzed the functioning of public spaces in various cities, above all in NYC. The book quickly became a classic text within the realm of city planning, and remains beloved not only for the wisdom and elegance of its insights, but for its disarmingly unpretentious, no-nonsense, and often flat-out funny tone. The film version fully embodies all the qualities of the book, and adds one special feature: Whyte’s own voice. Sounding very much like Jimmy Stewart’s city planner cousin, Whyte delivers the narration with an often-self-deprecatory folksiness that’s charmingly at odds with the stentorian tone of most educational films. The film is also effectively a work of street photography. Whyte and his team’s dedication to observing – and recording – the actual behavior of city dwellers, and their sharp eye for the behaviors and gestures that are most revealing of city life, result in a film that is – almost incidentally – a classic city symphony. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF SMALL URBAN SPACES is one of the great films about that strangest of creatures – the city dweller – in its natural habitat.<br /><br />In collaboration with Project for Public Spaces (an organization that grew out of Whyte’s Street Life Project) and the Municipal Art Society of New York (which acted as the film’s initial distributor and where Whyte was a board member), Anthology has restored the film, and we’re thrilled to bring it back for these encore screenings.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Saturday, January 03