Proudly presented by A24
110 minutes
In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history.
From director Lance Oppenheim and starring Robert Pattinson, Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, Matthew Maher and Bokeem Woodbine.
Relased 2026
Rated R
Directed by Lance Oppenheim
Proudly presented by Janus Films
123 minutes
Introducing Night School, MSP Film’s new monthly repertory series exploring film history and form. Local experts heighten our appreciation of cinema as an art form, social institution, and object of study. Class is in session the second Wednesday of every month – enroll today!
The Night School screening of Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence will feature a discussion of framing and score with Christine Marran, Professor of Japanese Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Minnesota.
In this captivating, skewed World War II drama from Nagisa Oshima, David Bowie regally embodies Celliers, a British officer interned by the Japanese as a POW. Rock star Ryuichi Sakamoto (who also composed this film’s hypnotic score) plays the camp commander, obsessed with the mysterious blond major, while Tom Conti is the British lieutenant colonel Lawrence, who tries to bridge the emotional and language divides between captor and prisoner. Also featuring actor-director Takeshi Kitano in his first dramatic role, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is a multilayered, brutal, at times erotic tale of culture clash, and one of Oshima’s greatest successes.
Relased 1983
Directed by Nagisa Oshima
Proudly presented by Rialto Pictures
103 minutes
Introducing Night School, MSP Film’s new monthly repertory series exploring film history and form. Local experts heighten our appreciation of cinema as an art form, social institution, and object of study. Class is in session the second Wednesday of every month – enroll today!
The Night School screening of Contempt will feature a discussion of camera movement and intermediality with Shima Sahranavard, PhD Candidate, Department of French & Italian, University of Minnesota.
Scenes from a marital breakdown between screenwriter (Michel Piccoli) and his wife (Brigitte Bardot), as both become enmeshed in the behind-the-camera struggles of a director (Fritz Lang) and producer (Jack Palance) as they film an adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey.
Restoration: Restored and digitized in 4K by Studiocanal at Hiventy with support from the CNC, from the original 35mm negative, interpositive, and reference print by Raoul Coutard.
Relased 1963
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard