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, 05 Jul 2026 18:37:04 -0400 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61729 <p>Walter De Maria<br />HARD CORE<br />1969, 26.5 min, 16mm-to-DCP<br />“As minimal and sublime as De Maria’s sculptures, HARD CORE is a beautifully-shot Western distilled to the purest elements: a wide-open landscape and gunfight showdown. De Maria composed the sound for the film and cast fellow artist Michael Heizer as one of the gunfighters. The film was commissioned by James Newman of the Dilexi Foundation of San Francisco as part of a project to bring artists’ works to broadcast television. The film aired on KQED TV, San Francisco, in 1969.” –Ava Tews<br /><br />James Benning<br />DESERET<br />1995, 82 min, 16mm<br />“James Benning marks the centennial of Utah’s statehood with his excellent experimental documentary, DESERET. As befits its structuralist maker, the film examines the imposition of human design, both physical and conceptual, on nature. A chain of beautiful, static shots frame details of Utah’s landscapes, from windswept waters, to snowy pines, to immobile oil derricks and silent government buildings. Meanwhile, texts from the New York Times describing the state’s social history, 1852 to the present, are read in voice over. Just as the terrain is contained within human constructs – Indian paints mark rocks, graffiti mark the Indian paintings, the graffiti are enclosed in the filmmaker’s frame – the state’s human inhabitants are circumscribed by the stringent codes of Brigham Young and his burgeoning Mormon sect…and that group’s resistance to outside control and interference. (DESERET was the people’s original choice, rejected by Washington, for the state’s name.) Benning imposes his own strictly defined filmic formula, and it’s that intriguing complicity that gives DESERET the authority to transcend mere prettiness.” –Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, LA WEEKLY<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 115 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, July 05 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61558 <p>“Arguably Stanley Kubrick’s most perfectly conceived and executed film, this 1956 noirish thriller utilizes an intricate overlapping time structure to depict the planning and execution of a plot to steal $2 million from a racetrack. Adapted by Kubrick from Lionel White’s ‘Clean Break’, with an extraordinary gallery of B players: Sterling Hayden, Marie Windsor, J.C. Flippen, Elisha Cook Jr., Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Ted de Corsia, Joe Sawyer, and the unforgettable Timothy Carey. Orson Welles was so taken with this film that after seeing it he declared Kubrick could do no wrong; not to be missed.” –Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Sunday, July 05 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61731 <p>In Holly Fisher’s experimental, feminist feature, she explores ideas of the Western while visually constructing a story about gender relations. Interweaving and layering images from Ford’s MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (from a silent Super-8mm print she discovered in a NYC hardware store), she uses optical printing, postcards of Renaissance paintings of women, footage of women working in a Maine herring factory, feminist poetry, and excerpts from a pulp-Western author’s autobiography, in an attempt to, in her words, “understand how to make a structure that puts women as the subject, not the object.” She has further observed, “It’s a Western filtered through a post-feminist movement sensibility…It shows what I think is happening in my film, which is that history is relative to who is writing it and when.”<br /><br />Preceded by:<br />Esther Shatavsky <br />BEDTIME STORY 1981, 6 min, 16mm-to-35mm, silent. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Film Preservation Foundation.<br />“Among the most striking avant-garde films to emerge from 1980s New York. The piece is a silent, strobing cut-up, optically-printed from a bit of the old TV western ‘Gunsmoke’ depicting a woman in crisis, trapped by the frame that surrounds her.” –LIGHT INDUSTRY<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 85 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, July 05 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61734 <p>“Shot on location in Tucson, Arizona, LONESOME COWBOYS is a homoerotic satire of the Western genre, loosely based on ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Viva stars as Ramona, her lover Julian is played by Tom Hompertz, and Joe Dallesandro, Eric Emerson, and Louis Waldon play a close-knit group of brothers. The film also features brilliant performances by Taylor Mead and by Francis Francine, the star of Jack Smith’s FLAMING CREATURES, as a sheriff who dresses in drag.” –Callie Angell<br /><br />“The film’s production famously caught the attention of local authorities and led to an FBI investigation. As Warhol recounted in his memoir ‘POPism: The Warhol Sixties’: ‘Eventually, the grips, the electricians, and the people who build the sets formed a vigilante committee to run us out of town, just like in a real cowboy movie.’” –SFMOMA<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, July 05 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61568 <p>Wiseman’s 1985 documentary is about the Belmont Race Track, one of the world’s leading racetracks for thoroughbred racing. The film highlights the training, maintaining and racing of thoroughbred horses. Everyday occurrences are shown: in the backstretch – the grooming, feeding, shoeing, and caring for horses and the preparation for races; at the practice track the various aspects of training, exercising, and timing the horses; at the paddock – the pre-race presentation of the horses; and in the grandstand – betting and watching the races. The film also includes sequences showing the variety of work done by trainers, jockeys, jockey agents, grooms, hot walkers, stable hands, and veterinarians.<br /><br />“Wiseman wanders around Belmont finding ripe, illustrative material, most of which fits into the abiding themes of his films, the melancholia peculiar to industrial societies, the emotional wages of materialism. Horse racing is a small industry comparatively, but it serves as a rich microcosm.” –Tom Shales, WASHINGTON POST<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Sunday, July 05 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61716 <p>Adolfas Mekas’s second feature film was this adaptation of a Mark Twain short story. Hatfield is a carpetbagger who marries the daughter of a prominent plantation owner in order to humiliate him. He mistreats his wife, but she stoically refuses to complain to her father. Finally, he ties her to a tree and lets bloodhounds tear off her clothes. The girl’s father dies of embarrassment, and, shortly thereafter, she gives birth to a son who grows up and heads west to avenge his mother.<br /><br />“The first half has the deceptively rustic humor of Twain, as a dastardly Northerner marries the daughter of a mellow Southern plantation owner. The man (played by Hurd Hatfield) mistreats the girl to get revenge on the father…even tying her up to a tree with bloodhounds ripping her clothes. All this is done with the right use of mellow silent film techniques of obvious emoting, with the balance of mock seriousness, lampoon, and sentiments sans slush. […] Mekas again shows he has a way with parody and he gets disarmingly innocent performances from his actors.” –VARIETY<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Monday, July 06 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61737 <p>Matthew Barney<br />CREMASTER 2<br />1999, 79 min, DCP<br />“CREMASTER 2 alternates between the Columbia Icefield in Canada and the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. It is a gothic Western premised loosely on the real-life story of Gary Gilmore, who was executed in Utah for murder. Gilmore’s biography is conveyed through a series of fantastic sequences, including a séance to signify his conception and a prison rodeo staged in a cast-salt arena to represent his death by firing squad.” –GUGGENHEIM<br /><br />Preceded by:<br /><br />Mary Lucier<br />ARABESQUE<br />2004, 7 min, digital<br />“[ARABESQUE] explodes into dance, the dance of the bucking horse, the bull, the clown, the rodeo rider. This is the resplendent West, but Lucier undermines its glory with loss. Brilliantly, the artist sets her choreography to George Strait’s Country Western song, ‘I Can Still Make Cheyenne’. The music and the images cascade back over themselves, folding, repositioning, repeating, alive with rapture…and, again, longing.” –Laurel Reuter, NORTH DAKOTA MUSEUM OF ART<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 90 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Monday, July 06 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61740 <p>Moustapha Alassane<br />AN ADVENTURER’S HOMECOMING / RETOUR D’UN AVENTURIER<br />1966, 34 min, 16mm-to-DCP. In Hausa and French with English subtitles.<br />“Jimi flies back to his native village after a long absence and convinces his friends to become cowboys. Renamed Black Cooper, John Kelly, Breaker, Billy Walter, and Queen Christine, they steal horses, terrorize sheepherders, and brawl in the neighborhood saloon to the horror of the locals. Drawing maximum effects from an economy of means, Alassane’s brilliant comedy intertwines central modernization plots in West Africa and Europe after the war (a traveler’s return, the youth problem, the arrival of new technology) with the outlaw gang and frontier-town-under-attack narratives that were mainstays of the western genre. By stripping these stories of their conventional moral weight, he opens his film, ‘the first African western,’ to the widest scope of possible interpretations.” –Jamie Berthe & Sam Di Iorio<br /><br />Kevin Jerome Everson<br />TEN FIVE IN THE GRASS<br />2011, 32 min, Super-8mm-to-digital. Screening courtesy the artist and Picture Palace Pictures.<br />“The black western richly provokes the mythology of the American West and the idea of film genre as a historiographic Imagineering by tacitly revealing how the narrative form has covertly borne a racial and cultural ideal. The genre’s classical themes of nation-building, the civilizing of savage lands, utopianism, and the discreteness of good and evil become refabulated as Everson draws attention to absences, disavowals, and the difference of a culture other than pale riders. Everson’s TEN FIVE IN THE GRASS examines the craft of the black cowboy. The film illustrates Everson’s interest in everyday intellect by observing the rituals of the grooming of horses, riding, and roping. The piece is set in a practice space in Natchez, Mississippi run by Fred Mayberry, a rancher and professional rodeo calf roper.” –Michael B. Gillespie<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 70 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Tuesday, July 07 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61744 <p>Craig Baldwin<br />WILD GUNMAN<br />1978, 20 min, 16mm<br />“This film is a meditation on the Marlboro Man, a compilation of images and associations designed to deconstruct this image of masculinity and consumer addiction. Not only the Man himself, but the entire myth of the cowboy and the West are its targets. The film veers from heavily-manipulated optical printer work to straight advertising footage from commercials and B-movies. Though there is no ‘history’ (which is the basis for [Baldwin’s] subsequent films) the style that characterizes all his work is firmly in place. The combination of social satire/deconstruction and recovered film images is used as a detournement – a Situationist attack against the oppression of corporate advertising.” –Tim Maloney, SENSES OF CINEMA<br /><br />Charles I. Levine<br />HORSEOPERA (A WESTERN)<br />1970, 24 min, 16mm<br />“I have used individual shots as loops to achieve a visually harmonic form, in which a variation of particular actions is made to produce a rhythmic structure. The whole panorama of the winning of the West is at hand from horse and wagon to great railroad locomotives that charge across the plains and mountains relentlessly, always watched by the Indians. Stereotyped characters and actions are transformed and become larger than life, building blocks for a plastic mosaic. Epic conflict is in motion between good and evil…the bad guys kill, rape and plunder both the land and the people, nothing is beneath them and they will not let anyone stand in their way. Their greed is unquenchable.” –Charles I. Levine<br /><br />“Mr. Levine’s purpose is…to illustrate the winning of the West as defined by movements, gestures and responses that, in Hollywood Westerns, became as formalized as those in Noh theater. […] The fights with fists and guns, the cavalry charges, the land rushes and the barroom confrontations are repeated in loops so that eventually they become the hieroglyphics of popular history.” –Vincent Canby, NEW YORK TIMES<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 50 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Tuesday, July 07 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61747 <p>“An opening title describes Benning’s effort as a combination of images found in the desert landscape from Death Valley and the Mexican border with the entire sound track of the English-language version of Richard Dindo’s 1994 Swiss documentary, ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA, THE BOLIVIAN JOURNAL. Benning has added a few ambient sounds, but otherwise you might say that UTOPIA is two separate movies running on parallel tracks. There turns out to be more synchronicity than you might expect. Thanks to Dindo’s sound track the eye winds up narrativizing the images; even when there’s no apparent relation, the imagination tends to impose one. The sound track has so much narrative and political power in its own right that even if you kept your eyes closed you’d still have plenty to keep you engaged. Once you decide to keep them open, however, the issue becomes not only what sort of images Benning brings to the material but what convergences between sound and image are staged in the mind of each spectator. Most of Dindo’s documentary follows the last days of Che Guevara as a revolutionary guerrilla in the wilds of Bolivia, mainly alternating between a narration of his activities (recited by Judith Burnett) and quotations from his journals (recited by filmmaker Robert Kramer); there are also statements by Castro, Guevara, and others in Spanish. Benning’s images are always landscape shots of one sort or another, and the camera is almost always stationary; nearly all of his shots are handsome, and some are breathtakingly beautiful.” –Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER<br /><br />Preceded by:<br />Adison Norbury <br />CLOSE TO THE KNIVES <br />2025, 1 min, 8mm-to-DCP<br />Original Super-8 footage shot in Monument Valley and Texas’s Guadalupe Mountains illustrates an excerpt from David Wojnarowicz’s stream-of-consciousness memoir.<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 95 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Wednesday, July 08 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61834 <p>Made with an all-women cast and crew, WOMEN’S HAPPY TIME COMMUNE is an improvised comedy/western – a lively immersion into the feminist ferment of the early 1970s. From the 1972 distribution flyer: “An anarchic, unconventional movie in which the Old West is the stomping ground for a motley crew of young and middle-aged women who are considering banding together to form a commune. Having met by chance they merge (are dragged, cajoled), clash and ultimately separate in disarray of scenes that are alternately picturesque, infuriating, incomplete, yet always colorful.”<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Wednesday, July 08 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61720 <p>Bruce Baillie’s magnum opus, the four-reel masterpiece QUICK BILLY (1970), found Baillie synthesizing his previous work to conjure up a breathtakingly ambitious, visually exquisite meditation on the cycle of life. Purporting, for its first three reels, to represent an adaptation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, QUICK BILLY embodies Baillie’s unsurpassed camera eye, his mastery of editing and superimposition, his profoundly philosophical sensibility, as well as his mischievous sense of humor and bold sense of play. The latter qualities manifest most dramatically in the fourth and final reel, which – in a dramatic stylistic about-face – morphs into a kind of Beat parody of a melodramatic silent-era Western.<br /><br />“One of the masterpieces of the American avant-garde…a rare ‘synoptic’ film that tries to construct an entire cosmos. [It] immerses viewers in a timeless flow of indistinct forms that nearly obliterates self and place – the clarity of an erotic encounter ends when the woman leans forward into darkness. The finale is a parody western in which Baillie satirizes the aggression the rest of his film abjures.” –Fred Camper, CHICAGO READER<br /><br />Preceded by:<br />Toney W. Merritt <br />LONESOME COWBOY <br />1979, 30 sec, 16mm<br />“My late friend and fellow filmmaker, Dean Snider and I had a contest to see who could make the shortest film with a sound track. LONESOME COWBOY, a self portrait, clocked in at 29 seconds. Dean’s film, HEY!, was a single frame with a fleeting image of bales of hay. The prize? The loser, me, paid for breakfast at the U.S. Restaurant on Columbus Avenue.” –Toney W. Merritt<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 60 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Thursday, July 09 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61723 <p>“Staged at the Factory with a rented horse, this is a homoerotic parody of the Western genre. The acting out of Ronald Tavel’s script (followed with difficulty from cue cards held up off-screen) takes place on a set crowded with evidence of the film’s production: mounted lights, a boom mic, assorted onlookers, and the Factory doors and telephone all visible in the frame. The film may be shown with either two or three reels. The ‘action’ occurs in Reels 1 & 3; Reel 2, a 33-minute ‘documentary’ shot of the horse standing in front of the Factory doors, may be shown either in the middle or at the end of the film.” –Callie Angell<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Thursday, July 09 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61620 <p>“Multitalented performance artist Harriet ‘Harry’ Dodge (BY HOOK OR BY CROOK, CECIL B. DEMENTED) brings to life this innovative story of a butch dyke in San Francisco searching for love and self-discovery. Against a backdrop of stunning landscape cinematography, this bold, lyrical voiceover film evolves from a lesbian lust story to an inventive documentary – delving into explicit descriptions of lesbian sexuality and offering up a quick look at Frank Capra’s 1941 film MEET JOHN DOE before embarking on the fascinating and previously untold history of the Golden Gate Bridge as a suicide landmark. A true San Francisco experience, THE JOY OF LIFE also includes poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti intoning his ode to the City by the Bay, ‘The Changing Light’, and features music from legendary poet-painter (and probable Golden Gate suicide) Weldon Kees.” –FRAMELINE<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Friday, July 10 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61537 <p>REVIVAL RUN – NEWLY RESTORED 35MM PRINT!<br /><br />Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the family of Robert L. Goodwin Sr. Preservation of BLACK CHARIOT made possible by a generous grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Additional funding by the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts (CAAMA). Special thanks to Ina Archer & Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC); Rhea Combs; and George Schmalz (Kino Lorber).<br /><br />A fascinating rediscovery, BLACK CHARIOT is the sole feature film by Robert L. Goodwin, a writer, director, and actor who, in the 1960s, represented one of the very few Black artists working in the television industry. The son of writer, poet, and actress Ruby Berkley Goodwin – who was the author of the 1930s-40s syndicated column, “Hollywood in Bronze”, and appeared in numerous films, television programs, and stage plays throughout the 1940s-50s – Robert Goodwin’s career began when he wrote and produced the 1963 TV movie THE UPPER CHAMBER, a chamber drama about four men on death row that soon led to work writing scripts for television shows such as “Bonanza”, “Julia”, “The Big Valley”, “All in the Family”, and others. While gaining experience on these works-for-hire, Goodwin began marshaling his resources towards his passion project, a feature film that would be produced and financed entirely independently (the money was largely crowd-sourced from within the Black community in Los Angeles). Ultimately realized in 1971, with exterior shots filmed on 35mm and interiors on video, BLACK CHARIOT revolves around the character of Tuck – played by football-player-turned-prolific-actor Bernie Casey (BOXCAR BERTHA, CLEOPATRA JONES, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, THE GLASS SHIELD, etc) – who joins a Black-Panther-like radical group, and is forced to contend with the fallout that ensues from the betrayal of one of its members. Telling its story by means of an affecting flashback structure, and full of fascinating glimpses into the era’s radical Black politics – not to mention the urban landscapes of early-1970s Los Angeles – BLACK CHARIOT also marks the debut of iconic actress Barbara O.Jones, who would later deliver indelible performances in Haile Gerima’s CHILD OF RESISTANCE (1973) and BUSH MAMA (1979), Julie Dash’s DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST(1991), and many other films. <br /><br />Following its premiere in 1971 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, BLACK CHARIOT seems to have been screened only a handful of times, and was long feared lost until it was recently rediscovered by curator Rhea Combs. Over the past several years the film has been carefully restored by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), and thanks to their efforts, Anthology is able to present a week-long run – its first ever theatrical engagement on the East Coast – with all screenings on 35mm! <br /><br /><strong>Fri-Thurs, July 10-16 at 6:45 & 9:00 nightly. The screening on Fri, July 10 at 6:45 will be introduced by Rhea Combs, who is currently Senior Fellow in Contemporary and Global Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Further screenings (TBA) will be introduced by Ina Archer and Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC).<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></strong></p> Friday, July 10 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61623 <p>“Pamela Adlon (BETTER THINGS) stars in this whimsical 1980s teen comedy as a girl whose wish to become a boy is fulfilled overnight. When their parents insist they must now choose between being male or female, they sagely quip, ‘Can’t I be both?’ After a crash course in maleness, Willy starts at a new high school, where, of course, complications ensue. Adlon is uncannily boyish as Willy/Milly, while Patty Duke and out gay actor John Glover are in fine form as his parents. Briefly released in 1986, SOMETHING SPECIAL quickly disappeared from view and has been virtually unseen since.” –Jenni Olson<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Friday, July 10 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61538 <p>REVIVAL RUN – NEWLY RESTORED 35MM PRINT!<br /><br />Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the family of Robert L. Goodwin Sr. Preservation of BLACK CHARIOT made possible by a generous grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Additional funding by the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts (CAAMA). Special thanks to Ina Archer & Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC); Rhea Combs; and George Schmalz (Kino Lorber).<br /><br />A fascinating rediscovery, BLACK CHARIOT is the sole feature film by Robert L. Goodwin, a writer, director, and actor who, in the 1960s, represented one of the very few Black artists working in the television industry. The son of writer, poet, and actress Ruby Berkley Goodwin – who was the author of the 1930s-40s syndicated column, “Hollywood in Bronze”, and appeared in numerous films, television programs, and stage plays throughout the 1940s-50s – Robert Goodwin’s career began when he wrote and produced the 1963 TV movie THE UPPER CHAMBER, a chamber drama about four men on death row that soon led to work writing scripts for television shows such as “Bonanza”, “Julia”, “The Big Valley”, “All in the Family”, and others. While gaining experience on these works-for-hire, Goodwin began marshaling his resources towards his passion project, a feature film that would be produced and financed entirely independently (the money was largely crowd-sourced from within the Black community in Los Angeles). Ultimately realized in 1971, with exterior shots filmed on 35mm and interiors on video, BLACK CHARIOT revolves around the character of Tuck – played by football-player-turned-prolific-actor Bernie Casey (BOXCAR BERTHA, CLEOPATRA JONES, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, THE GLASS SHIELD, etc) – who joins a Black-Panther-like radical group, and is forced to contend with the fallout that ensues from the betrayal of one of its members. Telling its story by means of an affecting flashback structure, and full of fascinating glimpses into the era’s radical Black politics – not to mention the urban landscapes of early-1970s Los Angeles – BLACK CHARIOT also marks the debut of iconic actress Barbara O.Jones, who would later deliver indelible performances in Haile Gerima’s CHILD OF RESISTANCE (1973) and BUSH MAMA (1979), Julie Dash’s DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST(1991), and many other films. <br /><br />Following its premiere in 1971 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, BLACK CHARIOT seems to have been screened only a handful of times, and was long feared lost until it was recently rediscovered by curator Rhea Combs. Over the past several years the film has been carefully restored by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), and thanks to their efforts, Anthology is able to present a week-long run – its first ever theatrical engagement on the East Coast – with all screenings on 35mm! <br /><br /><strong>Fri-Thurs, July 10-16 at 6:45 & 9:00 nightly. The screening on Fri, July 10 at 6:45 will be introduced by Rhea Combs, who is currently Senior Fellow in Contemporary and Global Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Further screenings (TBA) will be introduced by Ina Archer and Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC).<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></strong></p> Friday, July 10 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61552 <p>Written and produced by Robert L. Goodwin. With Lew Ayres, Reed Hadley, Duane Grey, Preston Hanson, and Robert L. Goodwin. Preserved by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.<br /><br />This expertly written and mounted drama eavesdrops on four men awaiting execution on death row. In their final hours, as they contemplate the nature of fate, their stories are juxtaposed against the tale of the crucifixion, with the men appearing in flashback biblical scenes that replicate key events in their present-day lives.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Saturday, July 11 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61577 <p>With the exception of MOTION PICTURES NO. 1, PAT’S BIRTHDAY, BREATHING, and GULLS AND BUOYS, all of the films in this program were preserved by Anthology with generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.<br /><br />FORM PHASES I (1952, 2 min, 16mm)<br />FORM PHASES II (1953, 2 min, 16mm)<br />RECREATION (1956, 1.5 min, 16mm-to-35mm)<br />MOTION PICTURES NO. 1 (1956, 4.5 min, 16mm, silent)<br />JAMESTOWN BALOOS (1957, 6 min, 16mm-to-35mm)<br />EYEWASH (1959, 3 min, 16mm-to-35mm)<br />BLAZES (1961, 3 min, 16mm-to-35mm)<br />PAT’S BIRTHDAY (1962, 13 min, 16mm, b&w)<br />BREATHING (1963, 5 min, 35mm, b&w)<br />FIST FIGHT (1964, 9 min, 16mm-to-35mm)<br />66 (1966, 5.5 min, 16mm-to-35mm)<br />69 (1969, 4.5 min, 16mm-to-35mm)<br />70 (1970, 5 min, 16mm-to-35mm)<br />GULLS AND BUOYS (1972, 8 min, 16mm)<br />FUJI (1974, 9 min, 16mm-to-35mm)<br />“Roughly speaking [Breer’s] works belong to that category of films generally called ‘abstract’ (though his are also highly ‘concrete’), but differ from everything else that has been done along these lines in one basic respect: Breer is undoubtedly the first filmmaker to have brought to his medium the full heritage of modern painting and the sum of sophisticated experimentation that it represents.” – Noël Burch, FILM QUARTERLY<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 85 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, July 11 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61539 <p>REVIVAL RUN – NEWLY RESTORED 35MM PRINT!<br /><br />Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the family of Robert L. Goodwin Sr. Preservation of BLACK CHARIOT made possible by a generous grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Additional funding by the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts (CAAMA). Special thanks to Ina Archer & Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC); Rhea Combs; and George Schmalz (Kino Lorber).<br /><br />A fascinating rediscovery, BLACK CHARIOT is the sole feature film by Robert L. Goodwin, a writer, director, and actor who, in the 1960s, represented one of the very few Black artists working in the television industry. The son of writer, poet, and actress Ruby Berkley Goodwin – who was the author of the 1930s-40s syndicated column, “Hollywood in Bronze”, and appeared in numerous films, television programs, and stage plays throughout the 1940s-50s – Robert Goodwin’s career began when he wrote and produced the 1963 TV movie THE UPPER CHAMBER, a chamber drama about four men on death row that soon led to work writing scripts for television shows such as “Bonanza”, “Julia”, “The Big Valley”, “All in the Family”, and others. While gaining experience on these works-for-hire, Goodwin began marshaling his resources towards his passion project, a feature film that would be produced and financed entirely independently (the money was largely crowd-sourced from within the Black community in Los Angeles). Ultimately realized in 1971, with exterior shots filmed on 35mm and interiors on video, BLACK CHARIOT revolves around the character of Tuck – played by football-player-turned-prolific-actor Bernie Casey (BOXCAR BERTHA, CLEOPATRA JONES, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, THE GLASS SHIELD, etc) – who joins a Black-Panther-like radical group, and is forced to contend with the fallout that ensues from the betrayal of one of its members. Telling its story by means of an affecting flashback structure, and full of fascinating glimpses into the era’s radical Black politics – not to mention the urban landscapes of early-1970s Los Angeles – BLACK CHARIOT also marks the debut of iconic actress Barbara O.Jones, who would later deliver indelible performances in Haile Gerima’s CHILD OF RESISTANCE (1973) and BUSH MAMA (1979), Julie Dash’s DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST(1991), and many other films. <br /><br />Following its premiere in 1971 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, BLACK CHARIOT seems to have been screened only a handful of times, and was long feared lost until it was recently rediscovered by curator Rhea Combs. Over the past several years the film has been carefully restored by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), and thanks to their efforts, Anthology is able to present a week-long run – its first ever theatrical engagement on the East Coast – with all screenings on 35mm! <br /><br /><strong>Fri-Thurs, July 10-16 at 6:45 & 9:00 nightly. The screening on Fri, July 10 at 6:45 will be introduced by Rhea Combs, who is currently Senior Fellow in Contemporary and Global Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Further screenings (TBA) will be introduced by Ina Archer and Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC).<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></strong></p> Saturday, July 11 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61626 <p>After concealing his trans identity for decades and distancing himself from intimacy, Ahmad, an Iranian expat now in his 60s, goes to the LGBTQ archives to explore his latent homosexuality and engage in fantasy to reimagine his life as an out, gay trans man. He is assisted by Kieran, a twenty-something nonbinary archivist who is immersed in queer culture and trans community. Though they come from radically different cultures, their bond is strengthened by a shared fascination with Lou Sullivan, a gay transgender AIDS activist whose letters and interviews become the film’s historical core. Pivoting between fantasy, fiction, and fact, DESIRE LINES blends candid interviews, archival materials, and narrative fiction as a framework for exploring the complicated and often unwritten history of transmasculine sexuality.<br /><br />“If I tried to make a film where the content was asking audiences to let go of binary ways of thinking, but the form was operating from within a binary, I don’t think it would be as effective.” –Jules Rosskam<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, July 11 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61540 <p>REVIVAL RUN – NEWLY RESTORED 35MM PRINT!<br /><br />Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the family of Robert L. Goodwin Sr. Preservation of BLACK CHARIOT made possible by a generous grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Additional funding by the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts (CAAMA). Special thanks to Ina Archer & Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC); Rhea Combs; and George Schmalz (Kino Lorber).<br /><br />A fascinating rediscovery, BLACK CHARIOT is the sole feature film by Robert L. Goodwin, a writer, director, and actor who, in the 1960s, represented one of the very few Black artists working in the television industry. The son of writer, poet, and actress Ruby Berkley Goodwin – who was the author of the 1930s-40s syndicated column, “Hollywood in Bronze”, and appeared in numerous films, television programs, and stage plays throughout the 1940s-50s – Robert Goodwin’s career began when he wrote and produced the 1963 TV movie THE UPPER CHAMBER, a chamber drama about four men on death row that soon led to work writing scripts for television shows such as “Bonanza”, “Julia”, “The Big Valley”, “All in the Family”, and others. While gaining experience on these works-for-hire, Goodwin began marshaling his resources towards his passion project, a feature film that would be produced and financed entirely independently (the money was largely crowd-sourced from within the Black community in Los Angeles). Ultimately realized in 1971, with exterior shots filmed on 35mm and interiors on video, BLACK CHARIOT revolves around the character of Tuck – played by football-player-turned-prolific-actor Bernie Casey (BOXCAR BERTHA, CLEOPATRA JONES, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, THE GLASS SHIELD, etc) – who joins a Black-Panther-like radical group, and is forced to contend with the fallout that ensues from the betrayal of one of its members. Telling its story by means of an affecting flashback structure, and full of fascinating glimpses into the era’s radical Black politics – not to mention the urban landscapes of early-1970s Los Angeles – BLACK CHARIOT also marks the debut of iconic actress Barbara O.Jones, who would later deliver indelible performances in Haile Gerima’s CHILD OF RESISTANCE (1973) and BUSH MAMA (1979), Julie Dash’s DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST(1991), and many other films. <br /><br />Following its premiere in 1971 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, BLACK CHARIOT seems to have been screened only a handful of times, and was long feared lost until it was recently rediscovered by curator Rhea Combs. Over the past several years the film has been carefully restored by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), and thanks to their efforts, Anthology is able to present a week-long run – its first ever theatrical engagement on the East Coast – with all screenings on 35mm! <br /><br /><strong>Fri-Thurs, July 10-16 at 6:45 & 9:00 nightly. The screening on Fri, July 10 at 6:45 will be introduced by Rhea Combs, who is currently Senior Fellow in Contemporary and Global Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Further screenings (TBA) will be introduced by Ina Archer and Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC).<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></strong></p> Saturday, July 11 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61553 <p>Written and produced by Robert L. Goodwin. With Lew Ayres, Reed Hadley, Duane Grey, Preston Hanson, and Robert L. Goodwin. Preserved by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.<br /><br />This expertly written and mounted drama eavesdrops on four men awaiting execution on death row. In their final hours, as they contemplate the nature of fate, their stories are juxtaposed against the tale of the crucifixion, with the men appearing in flashback biblical scenes that replicate key events in their present-day lives.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></p> Sunday, July 12 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61621 <p>“Multitalented performance artist Harriet ‘Harry’ Dodge (BY HOOK OR BY CROOK, CECIL B. DEMENTED) brings to life this innovative story of a butch dyke in San Francisco searching for love and self-discovery. Against a backdrop of stunning landscape cinematography, this bold, lyrical voiceover film evolves from a lesbian lust story to an inventive documentary – delving into explicit descriptions of lesbian sexuality and offering up a quick look at Frank Capra’s 1941 film MEET JOHN DOE before embarking on the fascinating and previously untold history of the Golden Gate Bridge as a suicide landmark. A true San Francisco experience, THE JOY OF LIFE also includes poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti intoning his ode to the City by the Bay, ‘The Changing Light’, and features music from legendary poet-painter (and probable Golden Gate suicide) Weldon Kees.” –FRAMELINE<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, July 12 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61541 <p>REVIVAL RUN – NEWLY RESTORED 35MM PRINT!<br /><br />Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the family of Robert L. Goodwin Sr. Preservation of BLACK CHARIOT made possible by a generous grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Additional funding by the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts (CAAMA). Special thanks to Ina Archer & Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC); Rhea Combs; and George Schmalz (Kino Lorber).<br /><br />A fascinating rediscovery, BLACK CHARIOT is the sole feature film by Robert L. Goodwin, a writer, director, and actor who, in the 1960s, represented one of the very few Black artists working in the television industry. The son of writer, poet, and actress Ruby Berkley Goodwin – who was the author of the 1930s-40s syndicated column, “Hollywood in Bronze”, and appeared in numerous films, television programs, and stage plays throughout the 1940s-50s – Robert Goodwin’s career began when he wrote and produced the 1963 TV movie THE UPPER CHAMBER, a chamber drama about four men on death row that soon led to work writing scripts for television shows such as “Bonanza”, “Julia”, “The Big Valley”, “All in the Family”, and others. While gaining experience on these works-for-hire, Goodwin began marshaling his resources towards his passion project, a feature film that would be produced and financed entirely independently (the money was largely crowd-sourced from within the Black community in Los Angeles). Ultimately realized in 1971, with exterior shots filmed on 35mm and interiors on video, BLACK CHARIOT revolves around the character of Tuck – played by football-player-turned-prolific-actor Bernie Casey (BOXCAR BERTHA, CLEOPATRA JONES, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, THE GLASS SHIELD, etc) – who joins a Black-Panther-like radical group, and is forced to contend with the fallout that ensues from the betrayal of one of its members. Telling its story by means of an affecting flashback structure, and full of fascinating glimpses into the era’s radical Black politics – not to mention the urban landscapes of early-1970s Los Angeles – BLACK CHARIOT also marks the debut of iconic actress Barbara O.Jones, who would later deliver indelible performances in Haile Gerima’s CHILD OF RESISTANCE (1973) and BUSH MAMA (1979), Julie Dash’s DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST(1991), and many other films. <br /><br />Following its premiere in 1971 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, BLACK CHARIOT seems to have been screened only a handful of times, and was long feared lost until it was recently rediscovered by curator Rhea Combs. Over the past several years the film has been carefully restored by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), and thanks to their efforts, Anthology is able to present a week-long run – its first ever theatrical engagement on the East Coast – with all screenings on 35mm! <br /><br /><strong>Fri-Thurs, July 10-16 at 6:45 & 9:00 nightly. The screening on Fri, July 10 at 6:45 will be introduced by Rhea Combs, who is currently Senior Fellow in Contemporary and Global Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Further screenings (TBA) will be introduced by Ina Archer and Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC).<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></strong></p> Sunday, July 12 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61629 <p>Imagining a world without gender, SPACE IS QUITE A LOT OF THINGS takes us on a journey accompanied by jellyfish and disco uncles that explores and expands the trans imaginary. Juli Apponen (CAR WASH) and Max Göran (FILMING DAD’S ASS WHILE HE’S CHOPPING LOGS WITH HIS CHAINSAW) use the power of the frame to reclaim their own pleasure and power, whether from an invisible gaze or from a dad arguing right-wing politics right there in front of you in rural Sweden; and Lasse Långström’s CRY ALLIANCE OF OUR HATRED almost seems to continue the conversation, with the collective rage of Gothenburg’s campy, anarchist queers singing what we can’t always say in words. Reflecting on the life and death of trans ancestors, Zafira Vrba Woodski cries tears made of their own Estrogen gel and Testosterone gel they were gifted after a friend’s death (I’M CONTINUOUSLY CRYING TEARS OF ESTROGEN AND TEARS OF TESTOSTERONE), and Anna Linder’s SPERMWHORE uses hand-processed experimental Super-8mm filmmaking and their own queer extended family to represent radical new visions of creating life.<br /><br />August Joensalo SPACE IS QUITE A LOT OF THINGS 2021, 11 min, DCP<br />Juli Apponen CAR WASH 2018, 5 min, DCP<br />Max Göran FILMING DAD’S ASS WHILE HE’S CHOPPING LOGS WITH HIS CHAINSAW 2018, 23 min, DCP<br />Lasse Långström CRY ALLIANCE OF OUR HATRED 2010, 6 min, DCP<br />Zafira Vrba Woodski I’M CONTINUOUSLY CRYING TEARS OF ESTROGEN AND TEARS OF TESTOSTERONE 2020, 6 min, DCP<br />Anna Linder SPERMWHORE 2016, 12 min, DCP<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 70 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Sunday, July 12 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61542 <p>REVIVAL RUN – NEWLY RESTORED 35MM PRINT!<br /><br />Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the family of Robert L. Goodwin Sr. Preservation of BLACK CHARIOT made possible by a generous grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Additional funding by the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts (CAAMA). Special thanks to Ina Archer & Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC); Rhea Combs; and George Schmalz (Kino Lorber).<br /><br />A fascinating rediscovery, BLACK CHARIOT is the sole feature film by Robert L. Goodwin, a writer, director, and actor who, in the 1960s, represented one of the very few Black artists working in the television industry. The son of writer, poet, and actress Ruby Berkley Goodwin – who was the author of the 1930s-40s syndicated column, “Hollywood in Bronze”, and appeared in numerous films, television programs, and stage plays throughout the 1940s-50s – Robert Goodwin’s career began when he wrote and produced the 1963 TV movie THE UPPER CHAMBER, a chamber drama about four men on death row that soon led to work writing scripts for television shows such as “Bonanza”, “Julia”, “The Big Valley”, “All in the Family”, and others. While gaining experience on these works-for-hire, Goodwin began marshaling his resources towards his passion project, a feature film that would be produced and financed entirely independently (the money was largely crowd-sourced from within the Black community in Los Angeles). Ultimately realized in 1971, with exterior shots filmed on 35mm and interiors on video, BLACK CHARIOT revolves around the character of Tuck – played by football-player-turned-prolific-actor Bernie Casey (BOXCAR BERTHA, CLEOPATRA JONES, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, THE GLASS SHIELD, etc) – who joins a Black-Panther-like radical group, and is forced to contend with the fallout that ensues from the betrayal of one of its members. Telling its story by means of an affecting flashback structure, and full of fascinating glimpses into the era’s radical Black politics – not to mention the urban landscapes of early-1970s Los Angeles – BLACK CHARIOT also marks the debut of iconic actress Barbara O.Jones, who would later deliver indelible performances in Haile Gerima’s CHILD OF RESISTANCE (1973) and BUSH MAMA (1979), Julie Dash’s DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST(1991), and many other films. <br /><br />Following its premiere in 1971 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, BLACK CHARIOT seems to have been screened only a handful of times, and was long feared lost until it was recently rediscovered by curator Rhea Combs. Over the past several years the film has been carefully restored by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), and thanks to their efforts, Anthology is able to present a week-long run – its first ever theatrical engagement on the East Coast – with all screenings on 35mm! <br /><br /><strong>Fri-Thurs, July 10-16 at 6:45 & 9:00 nightly. The screening on Fri, July 10 at 6:45 will be introduced by Rhea Combs, who is currently Senior Fellow in Contemporary and Global Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Further screenings (TBA) will be introduced by Ina Archer and Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC).<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></strong></p> Sunday, July 12 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61624 <p>“Pamela Adlon (BETTER THINGS) stars in this whimsical 1980s teen comedy as a girl whose wish to become a boy is fulfilled overnight. When their parents insist they must now choose between being male or female, they sagely quip, ‘Can’t I be both?’ After a crash course in maleness, Willy starts at a new high school, where, of course, complications ensue. Adlon is uncannily boyish as Willy/Milly, while Patty Duke and out gay actor John Glover are in fine form as his parents. Briefly released in 1986, SOMETHING SPECIAL quickly disappeared from view and has been virtually unseen since.” –Jenni Olson<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Monday, July 13 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61543 <p>REVIVAL RUN – NEWLY RESTORED 35MM PRINT!<br /><br />Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the family of Robert L. Goodwin Sr. Preservation of BLACK CHARIOT made possible by a generous grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Additional funding by the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts (CAAMA). Special thanks to Ina Archer & Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC); Rhea Combs; and George Schmalz (Kino Lorber).<br /><br />A fascinating rediscovery, BLACK CHARIOT is the sole feature film by Robert L. Goodwin, a writer, director, and actor who, in the 1960s, represented one of the very few Black artists working in the television industry. The son of writer, poet, and actress Ruby Berkley Goodwin – who was the author of the 1930s-40s syndicated column, “Hollywood in Bronze”, and appeared in numerous films, television programs, and stage plays throughout the 1940s-50s – Robert Goodwin’s career began when he wrote and produced the 1963 TV movie THE UPPER CHAMBER, a chamber drama about four men on death row that soon led to work writing scripts for television shows such as “Bonanza”, “Julia”, “The Big Valley”, “All in the Family”, and others. While gaining experience on these works-for-hire, Goodwin began marshaling his resources towards his passion project, a feature film that would be produced and financed entirely independently (the money was largely crowd-sourced from within the Black community in Los Angeles). Ultimately realized in 1971, with exterior shots filmed on 35mm and interiors on video, BLACK CHARIOT revolves around the character of Tuck – played by football-player-turned-prolific-actor Bernie Casey (BOXCAR BERTHA, CLEOPATRA JONES, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, THE GLASS SHIELD, etc) – who joins a Black-Panther-like radical group, and is forced to contend with the fallout that ensues from the betrayal of one of its members. Telling its story by means of an affecting flashback structure, and full of fascinating glimpses into the era’s radical Black politics – not to mention the urban landscapes of early-1970s Los Angeles – BLACK CHARIOT also marks the debut of iconic actress Barbara O.Jones, who would later deliver indelible performances in Haile Gerima’s CHILD OF RESISTANCE (1973) and BUSH MAMA (1979), Julie Dash’s DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST(1991), and many other films. <br /><br />Following its premiere in 1971 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, BLACK CHARIOT seems to have been screened only a handful of times, and was long feared lost until it was recently rediscovered by curator Rhea Combs. Over the past several years the film has been carefully restored by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), and thanks to their efforts, Anthology is able to present a week-long run – its first ever theatrical engagement on the East Coast – with all screenings on 35mm! <br /><br /><strong>Fri-Thurs, July 10-16 at 6:45 & 9:00 nightly. The screening on Fri, July 10 at 6:45 will be introduced by Rhea Combs, who is currently Senior Fellow in Contemporary and Global Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Further screenings (TBA) will be introduced by Ina Archer and Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC).<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></strong></p> Monday, July 13 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61627 <p>After concealing his trans identity for decades and distancing himself from intimacy, Ahmad, an Iranian expat now in his 60s, goes to the LGBTQ archives to explore his latent homosexuality and engage in fantasy to reimagine his life as an out, gay trans man. He is assisted by Kieran, a twenty-something nonbinary archivist who is immersed in queer culture and trans community. Though they come from radically different cultures, their bond is strengthened by a shared fascination with Lou Sullivan, a gay transgender AIDS activist whose letters and interviews become the film’s historical core. Pivoting between fantasy, fiction, and fact, DESIRE LINES blends candid interviews, archival materials, and narrative fiction as a framework for exploring the complicated and often unwritten history of transmasculine sexuality.<br /><br />“If I tried to make a film where the content was asking audiences to let go of binary ways of thinking, but the form was operating from within a binary, I don’t think it would be as effective.” –Jules Rosskam<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Monday, July 13 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61544 <p>REVIVAL RUN – NEWLY RESTORED 35MM PRINT!<br /><br />Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the family of Robert L. Goodwin Sr. Preservation of BLACK CHARIOT made possible by a generous grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Additional funding by the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts (CAAMA). Special thanks to Ina Archer & Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC); Rhea Combs; and George Schmalz (Kino Lorber).<br /><br />A fascinating rediscovery, BLACK CHARIOT is the sole feature film by Robert L. Goodwin, a writer, director, and actor who, in the 1960s, represented one of the very few Black artists working in the television industry. The son of writer, poet, and actress Ruby Berkley Goodwin – who was the author of the 1930s-40s syndicated column, “Hollywood in Bronze”, and appeared in numerous films, television programs, and stage plays throughout the 1940s-50s – Robert Goodwin’s career began when he wrote and produced the 1963 TV movie THE UPPER CHAMBER, a chamber drama about four men on death row that soon led to work writing scripts for television shows such as “Bonanza”, “Julia”, “The Big Valley”, “All in the Family”, and others. While gaining experience on these works-for-hire, Goodwin began marshaling his resources towards his passion project, a feature film that would be produced and financed entirely independently (the money was largely crowd-sourced from within the Black community in Los Angeles). Ultimately realized in 1971, with exterior shots filmed on 35mm and interiors on video, BLACK CHARIOT revolves around the character of Tuck – played by football-player-turned-prolific-actor Bernie Casey (BOXCAR BERTHA, CLEOPATRA JONES, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, THE GLASS SHIELD, etc) – who joins a Black-Panther-like radical group, and is forced to contend with the fallout that ensues from the betrayal of one of its members. Telling its story by means of an affecting flashback structure, and full of fascinating glimpses into the era’s radical Black politics – not to mention the urban landscapes of early-1970s Los Angeles – BLACK CHARIOT also marks the debut of iconic actress Barbara O.Jones, who would later deliver indelible performances in Haile Gerima’s CHILD OF RESISTANCE (1973) and BUSH MAMA (1979), Julie Dash’s DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST(1991), and many other films. <br /><br />Following its premiere in 1971 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, BLACK CHARIOT seems to have been screened only a handful of times, and was long feared lost until it was recently rediscovered by curator Rhea Combs. Over the past several years the film has been carefully restored by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), and thanks to their efforts, Anthology is able to present a week-long run – its first ever theatrical engagement on the East Coast – with all screenings on 35mm! <br /><br /><strong>Fri-Thurs, July 10-16 at 6:45 & 9:00 nightly. The screening on Fri, July 10 at 6:45 will be introduced by Rhea Combs, who is currently Senior Fellow in Contemporary and Global Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Further screenings (TBA) will be introduced by Ina Archer and Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC).<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></strong></p> Monday, July 13 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61545 <p>REVIVAL RUN – NEWLY RESTORED 35MM PRINT!<br /><br />Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the family of Robert L. Goodwin Sr. Preservation of BLACK CHARIOT made possible by a generous grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Additional funding by the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts (CAAMA). Special thanks to Ina Archer & Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC); Rhea Combs; and George Schmalz (Kino Lorber).<br /><br />A fascinating rediscovery, BLACK CHARIOT is the sole feature film by Robert L. Goodwin, a writer, director, and actor who, in the 1960s, represented one of the very few Black artists working in the television industry. The son of writer, poet, and actress Ruby Berkley Goodwin – who was the author of the 1930s-40s syndicated column, “Hollywood in Bronze”, and appeared in numerous films, television programs, and stage plays throughout the 1940s-50s – Robert Goodwin’s career began when he wrote and produced the 1963 TV movie THE UPPER CHAMBER, a chamber drama about four men on death row that soon led to work writing scripts for television shows such as “Bonanza”, “Julia”, “The Big Valley”, “All in the Family”, and others. While gaining experience on these works-for-hire, Goodwin began marshaling his resources towards his passion project, a feature film that would be produced and financed entirely independently (the money was largely crowd-sourced from within the Black community in Los Angeles). Ultimately realized in 1971, with exterior shots filmed on 35mm and interiors on video, BLACK CHARIOT revolves around the character of Tuck – played by football-player-turned-prolific-actor Bernie Casey (BOXCAR BERTHA, CLEOPATRA JONES, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, THE GLASS SHIELD, etc) – who joins a Black-Panther-like radical group, and is forced to contend with the fallout that ensues from the betrayal of one of its members. Telling its story by means of an affecting flashback structure, and full of fascinating glimpses into the era’s radical Black politics – not to mention the urban landscapes of early-1970s Los Angeles – BLACK CHARIOT also marks the debut of iconic actress Barbara O.Jones, who would later deliver indelible performances in Haile Gerima’s CHILD OF RESISTANCE (1973) and BUSH MAMA (1979), Julie Dash’s DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST(1991), and many other films. <br /><br />Following its premiere in 1971 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, BLACK CHARIOT seems to have been screened only a handful of times, and was long feared lost until it was recently rediscovered by curator Rhea Combs. Over the past several years the film has been carefully restored by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), and thanks to their efforts, Anthology is able to present a week-long run – its first ever theatrical engagement on the East Coast – with all screenings on 35mm! <br /><br /><strong>Fri-Thurs, July 10-16 at 6:45 & 9:00 nightly. The screening on Fri, July 10 at 6:45 will be introduced by Rhea Combs, who is currently Senior Fellow in Contemporary and Global Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Further screenings (TBA) will be introduced by Ina Archer and Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC).<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></strong></p> Tuesday, July 14 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61546 <p>REVIVAL RUN – NEWLY RESTORED 35MM PRINT!<br /><br />Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the family of Robert L. Goodwin Sr. Preservation of BLACK CHARIOT made possible by a generous grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Additional funding by the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts (CAAMA). Special thanks to Ina Archer & Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC); Rhea Combs; and George Schmalz (Kino Lorber).<br /><br />A fascinating rediscovery, BLACK CHARIOT is the sole feature film by Robert L. Goodwin, a writer, director, and actor who, in the 1960s, represented one of the very few Black artists working in the television industry. The son of writer, poet, and actress Ruby Berkley Goodwin – who was the author of the 1930s-40s syndicated column, “Hollywood in Bronze”, and appeared in numerous films, television programs, and stage plays throughout the 1940s-50s – Robert Goodwin’s career began when he wrote and produced the 1963 TV movie THE UPPER CHAMBER, a chamber drama about four men on death row that soon led to work writing scripts for television shows such as “Bonanza”, “Julia”, “The Big Valley”, “All in the Family”, and others. While gaining experience on these works-for-hire, Goodwin began marshaling his resources towards his passion project, a feature film that would be produced and financed entirely independently (the money was largely crowd-sourced from within the Black community in Los Angeles). Ultimately realized in 1971, with exterior shots filmed on 35mm and interiors on video, BLACK CHARIOT revolves around the character of Tuck – played by football-player-turned-prolific-actor Bernie Casey (BOXCAR BERTHA, CLEOPATRA JONES, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, THE GLASS SHIELD, etc) – who joins a Black-Panther-like radical group, and is forced to contend with the fallout that ensues from the betrayal of one of its members. Telling its story by means of an affecting flashback structure, and full of fascinating glimpses into the era’s radical Black politics – not to mention the urban landscapes of early-1970s Los Angeles – BLACK CHARIOT also marks the debut of iconic actress Barbara O.Jones, who would later deliver indelible performances in Haile Gerima’s CHILD OF RESISTANCE (1973) and BUSH MAMA (1979), Julie Dash’s DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST(1991), and many other films. <br /><br />Following its premiere in 1971 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, BLACK CHARIOT seems to have been screened only a handful of times, and was long feared lost until it was recently rediscovered by curator Rhea Combs. Over the past several years the film has been carefully restored by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), and thanks to their efforts, Anthology is able to present a week-long run – its first ever theatrical engagement on the East Coast – with all screenings on 35mm! <br /><br /><strong>Fri-Thurs, July 10-16 at 6:45 & 9:00 nightly. The screening on Fri, July 10 at 6:45 will be introduced by Rhea Combs, who is currently Senior Fellow in Contemporary and Global Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Further screenings (TBA) will be introduced by Ina Archer and Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC).<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></strong></p> Tuesday, July 14 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61547 <p>REVIVAL RUN – NEWLY RESTORED 35MM PRINT!<br /><br />Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the family of Robert L. Goodwin Sr. Preservation of BLACK CHARIOT made possible by a generous grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Additional funding by the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts (CAAMA). Special thanks to Ina Archer & Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC); Rhea Combs; and George Schmalz (Kino Lorber).<br /><br />A fascinating rediscovery, BLACK CHARIOT is the sole feature film by Robert L. Goodwin, a writer, director, and actor who, in the 1960s, represented one of the very few Black artists working in the television industry. The son of writer, poet, and actress Ruby Berkley Goodwin – who was the author of the 1930s-40s syndicated column, “Hollywood in Bronze”, and appeared in numerous films, television programs, and stage plays throughout the 1940s-50s – Robert Goodwin’s career began when he wrote and produced the 1963 TV movie THE UPPER CHAMBER, a chamber drama about four men on death row that soon led to work writing scripts for television shows such as “Bonanza”, “Julia”, “The Big Valley”, “All in the Family”, and others. While gaining experience on these works-for-hire, Goodwin began marshaling his resources towards his passion project, a feature film that would be produced and financed entirely independently (the money was largely crowd-sourced from within the Black community in Los Angeles). Ultimately realized in 1971, with exterior shots filmed on 35mm and interiors on video, BLACK CHARIOT revolves around the character of Tuck – played by football-player-turned-prolific-actor Bernie Casey (BOXCAR BERTHA, CLEOPATRA JONES, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, THE GLASS SHIELD, etc) – who joins a Black-Panther-like radical group, and is forced to contend with the fallout that ensues from the betrayal of one of its members. Telling its story by means of an affecting flashback structure, and full of fascinating glimpses into the era’s radical Black politics – not to mention the urban landscapes of early-1970s Los Angeles – BLACK CHARIOT also marks the debut of iconic actress Barbara O.Jones, who would later deliver indelible performances in Haile Gerima’s CHILD OF RESISTANCE (1973) and BUSH MAMA (1979), Julie Dash’s DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST(1991), and many other films. <br /><br />Following its premiere in 1971 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, BLACK CHARIOT seems to have been screened only a handful of times, and was long feared lost until it was recently rediscovered by curator Rhea Combs. Over the past several years the film has been carefully restored by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), and thanks to their efforts, Anthology is able to present a week-long run – its first ever theatrical engagement on the East Coast – with all screenings on 35mm! <br /><br /><strong>Fri-Thurs, July 10-16 at 6:45 & 9:00 nightly. The screening on Fri, July 10 at 6:45 will be introduced by Rhea Combs, who is currently Senior Fellow in Contemporary and Global Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Further screenings (TBA) will be introduced by Ina Archer and Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC).<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></strong></p> Wednesday, July 15 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61631 <p>Amid the coastal landscapes of Ecuador and Peru, the debut feature by Juan Carlos Donoso Gómez reconstructs the fragmented memories of former huaqueros – artifact hunters who participated in the illegal excavation and trade of pre-Hispanic objects. Blending documentary and fiction through dramatic reenactments and firsthand testimonies from looters, archaeologists, and counterfeiters, the film explores the tensions between ancestral knowledge, heritage crime, and the enduring wounds of colonialism. Exquisitely shot on washed-out 16mm film evocative of vintage travelogues, HUAQUERO brushes away the dirt of memory to uncover competing versions of truth while remaining deeply rooted in the local perspectives of the communities whose histories have long been excavated, sold, and erased. A meditation on territory, belonging, and memory, the film explores the fragile line between truth and fiction, authenticity, and forgery, reclaiming the contemporary Andean world as a living, contested landscape still haunted by the legacy of colonialism.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Wednesday, July 15 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61548 <p>REVIVAL RUN – NEWLY RESTORED 35MM PRINT!<br /><br />Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the family of Robert L. Goodwin Sr. Preservation of BLACK CHARIOT made possible by a generous grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Additional funding by the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts (CAAMA). Special thanks to Ina Archer & Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC); Rhea Combs; and George Schmalz (Kino Lorber).<br /><br />A fascinating rediscovery, BLACK CHARIOT is the sole feature film by Robert L. Goodwin, a writer, director, and actor who, in the 1960s, represented one of the very few Black artists working in the television industry. The son of writer, poet, and actress Ruby Berkley Goodwin – who was the author of the 1930s-40s syndicated column, “Hollywood in Bronze”, and appeared in numerous films, television programs, and stage plays throughout the 1940s-50s – Robert Goodwin’s career began when he wrote and produced the 1963 TV movie THE UPPER CHAMBER, a chamber drama about four men on death row that soon led to work writing scripts for television shows such as “Bonanza”, “Julia”, “The Big Valley”, “All in the Family”, and others. While gaining experience on these works-for-hire, Goodwin began marshaling his resources towards his passion project, a feature film that would be produced and financed entirely independently (the money was largely crowd-sourced from within the Black community in Los Angeles). Ultimately realized in 1971, with exterior shots filmed on 35mm and interiors on video, BLACK CHARIOT revolves around the character of Tuck – played by football-player-turned-prolific-actor Bernie Casey (BOXCAR BERTHA, CLEOPATRA JONES, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, THE GLASS SHIELD, etc) – who joins a Black-Panther-like radical group, and is forced to contend with the fallout that ensues from the betrayal of one of its members. Telling its story by means of an affecting flashback structure, and full of fascinating glimpses into the era’s radical Black politics – not to mention the urban landscapes of early-1970s Los Angeles – BLACK CHARIOT also marks the debut of iconic actress Barbara O.Jones, who would later deliver indelible performances in Haile Gerima’s CHILD OF RESISTANCE (1973) and BUSH MAMA (1979), Julie Dash’s DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST(1991), and many other films. <br /><br />Following its premiere in 1971 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, BLACK CHARIOT seems to have been screened only a handful of times, and was long feared lost until it was recently rediscovered by curator Rhea Combs. Over the past several years the film has been carefully restored by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), and thanks to their efforts, Anthology is able to present a week-long run – its first ever theatrical engagement on the East Coast – with all screenings on 35mm! <br /><br /><strong>Fri-Thurs, July 10-16 at 6:45 & 9:00 nightly. The screening on Fri, July 10 at 6:45 will be introduced by Rhea Combs, who is currently Senior Fellow in Contemporary and Global Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Further screenings (TBA) will be introduced by Ina Archer and Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC).<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></strong></p> Wednesday, July 15 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61549 <p>REVIVAL RUN – NEWLY RESTORED 35MM PRINT!<br /><br />Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the family of Robert L. Goodwin Sr. Preservation of BLACK CHARIOT made possible by a generous grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Additional funding by the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts (CAAMA). Special thanks to Ina Archer & Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC); Rhea Combs; and George Schmalz (Kino Lorber).<br /><br />A fascinating rediscovery, BLACK CHARIOT is the sole feature film by Robert L. Goodwin, a writer, director, and actor who, in the 1960s, represented one of the very few Black artists working in the television industry. The son of writer, poet, and actress Ruby Berkley Goodwin – who was the author of the 1930s-40s syndicated column, “Hollywood in Bronze”, and appeared in numerous films, television programs, and stage plays throughout the 1940s-50s – Robert Goodwin’s career began when he wrote and produced the 1963 TV movie THE UPPER CHAMBER, a chamber drama about four men on death row that soon led to work writing scripts for television shows such as “Bonanza”, “Julia”, “The Big Valley”, “All in the Family”, and others. While gaining experience on these works-for-hire, Goodwin began marshaling his resources towards his passion project, a feature film that would be produced and financed entirely independently (the money was largely crowd-sourced from within the Black community in Los Angeles). Ultimately realized in 1971, with exterior shots filmed on 35mm and interiors on video, BLACK CHARIOT revolves around the character of Tuck – played by football-player-turned-prolific-actor Bernie Casey (BOXCAR BERTHA, CLEOPATRA JONES, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, THE GLASS SHIELD, etc) – who joins a Black-Panther-like radical group, and is forced to contend with the fallout that ensues from the betrayal of one of its members. Telling its story by means of an affecting flashback structure, and full of fascinating glimpses into the era’s radical Black politics – not to mention the urban landscapes of early-1970s Los Angeles – BLACK CHARIOT also marks the debut of iconic actress Barbara O.Jones, who would later deliver indelible performances in Haile Gerima’s CHILD OF RESISTANCE (1973) and BUSH MAMA (1979), Julie Dash’s DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST(1991), and many other films. <br /><br />Following its premiere in 1971 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, BLACK CHARIOT seems to have been screened only a handful of times, and was long feared lost until it was recently rediscovered by curator Rhea Combs. Over the past several years the film has been carefully restored by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), and thanks to their efforts, Anthology is able to present a week-long run – its first ever theatrical engagement on the East Coast – with all screenings on 35mm! <br /><br /><strong>Fri-Thurs, July 10-16 at 6:45 & 9:00 nightly. The screening on Fri, July 10 at 6:45 will be introduced by Rhea Combs, who is currently Senior Fellow in Contemporary and Global Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Further screenings (TBA) will be introduced by Ina Archer and Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC).<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></strong></p> Thursday, July 16 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61636 <p>Pang Ho-cheung announced himself as a major comic voice with this deadpan black comedy, a debut that doubles as a gleeful joke at the film industry’s expense. Bart is a contract killer whose business has gone soft, and his last hope is a demanding new client who will only pay if each killing is captured on video. Bart knows how to shoot a target. He has no idea how to shoot a movie. So he hires Chuen, a broke, unemployed film-school graduate brimming with artistic ambition, to direct his hits. What follows turns the mechanics of murder into a full-blown film production, complete with creative differences, budget panic, and a director who needs every assassination to mean something. Quick, dry, and ruthlessly funny.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Thursday, July 16 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61550 <p>REVIVAL RUN – NEWLY RESTORED 35MM PRINT!<br /><br />Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the family of Robert L. Goodwin Sr. Preservation of BLACK CHARIOT made possible by a generous grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. Additional funding by the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts (CAAMA). Special thanks to Ina Archer & Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC); Rhea Combs; and George Schmalz (Kino Lorber).<br /><br />A fascinating rediscovery, BLACK CHARIOT is the sole feature film by Robert L. Goodwin, a writer, director, and actor who, in the 1960s, represented one of the very few Black artists working in the television industry. The son of writer, poet, and actress Ruby Berkley Goodwin – who was the author of the 1930s-40s syndicated column, “Hollywood in Bronze”, and appeared in numerous films, television programs, and stage plays throughout the 1940s-50s – Robert Goodwin’s career began when he wrote and produced the 1963 TV movie THE UPPER CHAMBER, a chamber drama about four men on death row that soon led to work writing scripts for television shows such as “Bonanza”, “Julia”, “The Big Valley”, “All in the Family”, and others. While gaining experience on these works-for-hire, Goodwin began marshaling his resources towards his passion project, a feature film that would be produced and financed entirely independently (the money was largely crowd-sourced from within the Black community in Los Angeles). Ultimately realized in 1971, with exterior shots filmed on 35mm and interiors on video, BLACK CHARIOT revolves around the character of Tuck – played by football-player-turned-prolific-actor Bernie Casey (BOXCAR BERTHA, CLEOPATRA JONES, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, THE GLASS SHIELD, etc) – who joins a Black-Panther-like radical group, and is forced to contend with the fallout that ensues from the betrayal of one of its members. Telling its story by means of an affecting flashback structure, and full of fascinating glimpses into the era’s radical Black politics – not to mention the urban landscapes of early-1970s Los Angeles – BLACK CHARIOT also marks the debut of iconic actress Barbara O.Jones, who would later deliver indelible performances in Haile Gerima’s CHILD OF RESISTANCE (1973) and BUSH MAMA (1979), Julie Dash’s DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST(1991), and many other films. <br /><br />Following its premiere in 1971 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, BLACK CHARIOT seems to have been screened only a handful of times, and was long feared lost until it was recently rediscovered by curator Rhea Combs. Over the past several years the film has been carefully restored by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), and thanks to their efforts, Anthology is able to present a week-long run – its first ever theatrical engagement on the East Coast – with all screenings on 35mm! <br /><br /><strong>Fri-Thurs, July 10-16 at 6:45 & 9:00 nightly. The screening on Fri, July 10 at 6:45 will be introduced by Rhea Combs, who is currently Senior Fellow in Contemporary and Global Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Further screenings (TBA) will be introduced by Ina Archer and Bleakley McDowell (NMAAHC).<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a></strong></p> Thursday, July 16 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61640 <p>Almost never screened in North America in this form, Stephen Chow’s original Cantonese theatrical version of SHAOLIN SOCCER arrives at the festival from Universe’s recent 2K digital remaster DCP. For years, the film has too often circulated here in compromised form: old Blu-rays, soft home-video masters, or the notorious English-dubbed Miramax version that cut the film down and sanded away part of its Hong Kong lunacy. Chow plays Sing, a broke Shaolin disciple trying to bring kung fu back to the people before poverty finishes him first. His plan: reunite his washed-up martial-arts brothers, build a soccer team, and enter a tournament where physics, dignity, and basic sportsmanship all get kicked into the upper deck. This was the film that turned Chow into a global cult hero: wire-fu, underdog sports-movie delirium, Bruce Lee worship, Zhao Wei’s tai chi baker, and transcendent lowbrow genius.<br /><strong><br /></strong><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Friday, July 17 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61749 <p>The films gathered here all riff on the Western by repurposing, reediting, or manipulating footage – or in the case of THE SONG OF RIO JIM, soundtrack material – taken from classic instances of the genre.<br /><br />Raphael Montañez Ortiz COWBOY AND “INDIAN” FILM 1958, 2 min, 16mm-to-DCPThis film is constructed from randomly spliced pieces of Anthony Mann’s WINCHESTER ’73, which the artist had chopped with an axe and ritually cleansed by shaking the pieces inside a medicine bag while singing Yaqui healing chants.<br /><br />Hans Scheugl <br />SAFETY FILM <br />1968, 4 min, 16mm<br />“SAFETY FILM consists of a Hollywood Western shot directly off a movie screen and restored to its raw form – an act that strips the film of its narrative, reduces its size, and drains all color from the CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color Western.” –MUBI<br /><br />Maurice Lemaître <br />THE SONG OF RIO JIM <br />1978, 6 min, 16mm<br />“This film – designed to pay tribute to Ince and to Hart, ancestors and creators of the cowboy film – has a ‘western’ story but it is not on the image – which is black from beginning to end – but in the sound. […] During the screening, the spectator will thus be able to imagine all possible westerns and anti-westerns.” –LIGHT CONE<br /><br />Peter Tscherkassky <br />INSTRUCTIONS FOR A LIGHT AND SOUND MACHINE <br />2005, 17 min, 35mm<br />“THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY is retold through intense, widescreen 35mm warping and warbling techniques. It will change your ideas about the expressive potential of optical printing and sound remixing.” –Sean Uyehara, SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL<br /><br />Rebecca Baron & Douglas Goodwin <br />LOSSLESS #3 <br />2008, 10 min, digital<br />Removing key frames from a digital version of John Ford’s THE SEARCHERS, Baron and Goodwin attack the film’s temporal structuring to render a kinetic “painted desert” of the West.<br /><br />John Klacsmann & Walter Forsberg <br />TECHNICOLOR N.G. <br />2014, 20 min, 16mm, live score<br />In this film, “a Technicolor dye transfer printing error mis-registers a 1967 B-Western, revealing cyan ghosts and cinema’s psychedelic underpinnings.” With a live score by Forsberg and Klacsmann, the film is a mesmerizing investigation into the unseen foundations of the cinematic image of the West.<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 65 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Friday, July 17 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61835 <p>Made with an all-women cast and crew, WOMEN’S HAPPY TIME COMMUNE is an improvised comedy/western – a lively immersion into the feminist ferment of the early 1970s. From the 1972 distribution flyer: “An anarchic, unconventional movie in which the Old West is the stomping ground for a motley crew of young and middle-aged women who are considering banding together to form a commune. Having met by chance they merge (are dragged, cajoled), clash and ultimately separate in disarray of scenes that are alternately picturesque, infuriating, incomplete, yet always colorful.”<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Friday, July 17 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61642 <p>NYAFF Secret Screening Returns! Stay tuned. It’s headed to Anthology Film Archives on July 17!<br /><strong><em><br />Title: no.<br /><br />Country: no.<br /><br />Runtime:</em></strong><em> we know, you don’t. It’s a secret screening. A runtime is a clue, a clue is cheating, and we’ve met you.<br /></em><strong><em><br />Rating:</em></strong><em> also no. Nice try.<br /></em><strong><em><br />ADVISORY: Clear the whole evening. Make no assumptions. That’s all.</em></strong><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><br /><br /><strong><br />CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Friday, July 17 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61711 <p>Restored by Anthology Film Archives and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. Special thanks to Brian Block, Cyma Rubin, and Rosemary Rogers.<br /><br />A delightfully demented, surreal, and subversive religious allegory set in the days of covered wagons and American pioneers, GREASER’S PALACE is, at its core, an avant-garde parody of the classic American Western. Originally pitched as “Christ coming back in a Western,” the film follows Jesse (Allan Arbus), a zoot-suited Christ figure, from his sudden arrival at a small desert outpost to his prophesied death soon thereafter. Along the way, and much to the delight and bafflement of the outpost’s eccentric population, Jesse performs a variety of miracles, among them a show-stopping boogie-woogie performance in the wooden “palace” of the brutal, de facto leader Seaweedhead Greaser.<br /><br />While GREASER’S only had a short theatrical run, and has rarely been shown on film since, it found an audience years later on home video, as well as prominent champions such as directors Paul Thomas Anderson and the Coen brothers. Fortunately, the original 35mm negative, long thought to be lost, was rediscovered in 2017. This rediscovery enabled Anthology to initiate the years-long process of fully restoring this independent classic, Downey’s most singular work.<br /><br />“Giant themes, fabulous crazy story-line, brilliant performances, camerawork, editing, music and design, hilarious comedy, unspeakably heartbreaking (but sometimes funny) violence, and transcendent emotional and spiritual richness – GREASER’S PALACE has got it all and it comes together and cooks in a way that makes it impossible to describe GREASER’S as anything less than one of the very boldest and greatest motion pictures ever made.” –Jonathan Demme<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, July 18 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61726 <p>“Consciously self-reflexive and co-written by Hopper and REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE screenwriter Stewart Stern, THE LAST MOVIE follows a Hollywood movie crew in the midst of making a western in a remote Peruvian village. When production wraps, Hopper, as the baleful stuntman Kansas, remains, attempting to find redemption in the isolation of Peru and the arms of a former prostitute. Meanwhile, the local Indians have taken over the abandoned set and begun to stage a ritualistic re-enactment of the production – with Kansas as their sacrificial lamb. Among the most storied productions of the New Hollywood Era, Hopper was given carte blanche by Universal for his next directorial feature after the tremendous commercial success of EASY RIDER, and the writer-director-star took the money and ran – literally – staging THE LAST MOVIE in Peru at farthest remove from the Hollywood machine, with an on-screen entourage in tow that included Kris Kristofferson, Julie Adams, Stella Garcia, Peter Fonda, Dean Stockwell, Toni Basil, Russ Tamblyn, Michelle Phillips, and director Samuel Fuller. Although it won a special award at the Venice Film Festival, THE LAST MOVIE would effectively end Hopper’s career for many years – the Hollywood establishment gleefully writing him off as a self-indulgent madman. Yet the movie remains thrillingly innovative and remarkably contemporary – influenced greatly by the work of Bruce Conner and the French New Wave, as well as the Pop and Abstract artists Hopper revered.” –Jessica Hundley<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, July 18 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61644 <p>NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE – 4K RESTORATION!<br /><br />Kwak Jae-yong’s romantic comedy began life as a series of blog posts, supposedly true tales of one young man’s relationship, and grew into one of the defining popular films of early-2000s Korean cinema. A shy, mild-mannered student, played by Cha Tae-hyun, finds his quiet life completely upended by a fierce and wholly unpredictable young woman, played by Gianna Jun in the star-making role that made her an icon across Asia. Their courtship careens through public humiliation, slapstick, and sudden, real heartbreak, and the film swings between broad comedy and genuine ache without missing a step. A massive sleeper hit, endlessly imitated since, it returns in a gorgeous new 4K restoration.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, July 18 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61732 <p>In Holly Fisher’s experimental, feminist feature, she explores ideas of the Western while visually constructing a story about gender relations. Interweaving and layering images from Ford’s MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (from a silent Super-8mm print she discovered in a NYC hardware store), she uses optical printing, postcards of Renaissance paintings of women, footage of women working in a Maine herring factory, feminist poetry, and excerpts from a pulp-Western author’s autobiography, in an attempt to, in her words, “understand how to make a structure that puts women as the subject, not the object.” She has further observed, “It’s a Western filtered through a post-feminist movement sensibility…It shows what I think is happening in my film, which is that history is relative to who is writing it and when.”<br /><br />Preceded by:<br />Esther Shatavsky <br />BEDTIME STORY 1981, 6 min, 16mm-to-35mm, silent. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Film Preservation Foundation.<br />“Among the most striking avant-garde films to emerge from 1980s New York. The piece is a silent, strobing cut-up, optically-printed from a bit of the old TV western ‘Gunsmoke’ depicting a woman in crisis, trapped by the frame that surrounds her.” –LIGHT INDUSTRY<br /><br />Total running time: ca. 85 min.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, July 18 https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2026#showing-61646 <p>Few films have detonated on the festival circuit quite like Takashi Miike’s hardcore adaptation of Hideo Yamamoto’s manga. A quarter-century on, it has lost none of its power to shock. In Tokyo’s yakuza netherworld, the masochistic enforcer Kakihara finds his path crossing that of Ichi, a crybaby psycho killer engineered for violence by forces he barely grasps. Split-cheeked, peroxide-blond, and addicted to pain, Kakihara searches for the missing boss he loved and the sadist who can finally hurt him badly enough. His quarry turns out to be Ichi, a weeping wreck of a man conditioned into a human weapon by a manipulator with his own designs. Miike stages the carnage as nightmare slapstick and tender horror by turns, and Asano gives one of the great performances of his career. A landmark of Japanese extreme cinema, and one of NYAFF’s foundational obsessions.<br /><br /><a href="https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/sessions/?siteToken=bsrxtagjxmgh2qy0b6p646xdcr"><strong>CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS NOW!</strong></a> </p> Saturday, July 18