Spike à Paris, etc.

After shutting down in August (like quite a few French businesses) for vacation, the Cinémathèque Française is open for business again next Monday with a vengence. Let’s start with the Spike Lee retrospective running from September 3-28 (!): kicking off with La 25^e Heure (2002’s 25th Hour to you), the cinémathèque is showing every single Spike Lee Joint, including Miracle at St. Anna, not released in America till the 26th. This special screening on the 12th will feature a Q&A with Shelton Jackson Lee himself, and tickets are up for grabs on the 10th at 3:00 by calling 01 71 19 32 39, or emailing libre-pass@ cinematheque.fr. I won’t run the schedule below (it’s over 15 movies, even the Katrina documentary four hours straight), but click here for the run-down.

The rest ain’t nothing to sleep on either. A Dennis Hopper retrospective is going on too (hence the healthy helping of his movies below). See as much as you can if you’re here, or just imagine you’re in a Parisian theater watching Basquiat. This is hardly everything at the cinémathèque, just everything I think is dope.

Eyes Wide Shut – October 6
Citizen Kane – October 9
The Last Movie – October 16, 25 (only recently re-released)
Easy Rider – October 19, 30
Monterey Pop – October 23
Cool Hand Luke – October 22, November 8
Tarzan and Jane Regained… Sort Of – October 25 (Warhol, gotta love it)
Apocalypse Now Redux – October 26, November 15
Collateral – October 27
The Mark of Zorro – October 29 (Bruce Wayne’s favorite)
Blue Velvet – November 1
The Parallax View – November 6
Basquiat – November 9
Five Easy Pieces – November 20
La Strada – November 21
Giant– November 22
Jackie Brown – November 24
Chocolat – November 24
Rebel Without a Cause – November 30