Past Programs

2026

• Monday, January 26, 2026
  

  CMIA - Film Sound

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:50 pm EST/GMT-5
  M
  (Fritz Lang, 1931, Germany, 118 minutes, 35mm) The Conversation
  (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974, USA, 113 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, February 9, 2026
  

  CMIA - Sunrise

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 8:45 pm EST/GMT-5
  Sunrise
  (F.W. Murnau, 1927, USA, 92 minutes, 35mm)
  *Restored PrintPlease check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, February 9, 2026
  

  CMIA - The Prestige

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  9:00 pm – 11:15 pm EST/GMT-5
  The Prestige
  (Christopher Nolan, 2006, USA, 130 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, February 10, 2026
  

  CMIA - The Films of Alfred Hitchcock

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 11:55 pm EST/GMT-5
  Rear Window
  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954, USA, 112 minutes, 35mm)* Vertigo
  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, USA, 117 minutes, 35mm)*
  *Restored 35mm PrintsPlease check Bard.edu/CMIA for the full spring schedule.
   
  
  
• Monday, February 16, 2026
  

  CMIA - Montage

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  Un Chien Andalou
  (Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali, 1929, France, 16 minutes, 35mm) Battleship Potemkin
  (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925, USSR, 75 minutes, 35mm) Méditerranée
  (Jean-Daniel Pollet, 1963, France, 45 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, February 17, 2026
  

  CMIA - The Films of Alfred Hitchcock

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 11:55 pm EST/GMT-5
  The Thirty-Nine Steps
  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935, UK, 81 minutes) Notorious
  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946, USA, 101 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full spring schedule
   
  
  
• Tuesday, February 24, 2026
  

  CMIA - The Films of Alfred Hitchcock

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 11:55 pm EST/GMT-5
  Blackmail
  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1929, UK, 89 minutes) Sabotage
  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1936, UK, 76 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full spring schedule
   
  
  
• Monday, March 2, 2026
  

  CMIA - Color

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EST/GMT-5
  The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  (Jacques Demy, 1964, France, 91 minutes, 35mm)*
  *Restoration Print The Red Shoes
  (Michael Powell, 1948, UK, 142 minutes, 35mm)*
  *Restored Technicolor PrintPlease check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, March 3, 2026
  

  CMIA - The Films of Alfred Hitchcock

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 11:55 pm EST/GMT-5
  The Birds
  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963, USA, 119 minutes, 35mm) Rebecca
  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940, USA, 130 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full spring schedule
   
  
  
• Monday, March 9, 2026
  

  CMIA - The Conversation

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  The Conversation
  (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974, USA, 113 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, March 10, 2026
  

  CMIA - The Films of Alfred Hitchcock

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 11:55 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Shadow of a Doubt
  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1943, USA, 108 minutes) Foreign Correspondent
  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940, USA, 120 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full spring schedule
   
  
  
• Monday, March 23, 2026
  

  CMIA - 2001: A Space Odyssey

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  2001: A Space Odyssey
  (Stanley Kubrick, 1968, UK, 144 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, March 24, 2026
  

  CMIA - Color and Camera Movement

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1998, Taiwan, 117 minutes, 35mm)*
              *New 35mm Print The Wedding
  (Andrzej Wajda, 1973, Poland, 106 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, March 31, 2026
  

  CMIA - Color and Time

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:55 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Blue
  (Derek Jarman, 1992, UK, 70 minutes) Stalker
  (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979, USSR, 163 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, April 7, 2026
  

  Albertine Film Festival/CMIA - Army of Shadows

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Army of Shadows
  (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969, France, 142 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, April 13, 2026
  

  CMIA - The Godfather, Part II

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 10:55 pm EDT/GMT-4
  The Godfather, Part II
  (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974, USA, 200 minutes, 35mm)*
  *Restored printPlease check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, April 14, 2026
  

  CMIA - Chiaroscuro

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 11:55 pm EDT/GMT-4
  The Yards
  (James Gray, 2000, USA, 115 minutes, 35mm) Psycho
  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960, USA, 100 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, April 20, 2026
  

  CMIA - The Mirror

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  The Mirror
  (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975, USSR, 106 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, April 21, 2026
  

  CMIA - Digital Color

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 11:55 pm EDT/GMT-4
  In Praise of Love
  (Jean-Luc Godard, 2001, France/Switzerland, 96 minutes, 35mm) Dancer in the Dark
  (Lars von Trier, 2000, Denmark, 140 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, April 27, 2026
  

  Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild]

  

  Film screening and directors panel 
  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  A Screening & Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies Alumni Speaker Series with directors Adam Khalil ‘11 and Zack Khalil ‘14, co-presented by the Center for Moving Image Arts. Panel discussion will follow the screening. 
  
  Trapped in museum archives, Ancestors bend time and space to find their way home. History, spirituality, and the law collide as tribal repatriation specialists fight to return and rebury Indigenous human remains, offering a revealing look at the still-pervasive worldviews that justified collecting them in the first place.
  
  
• Monday, April 27, 2026
  

  CMIA - Animation

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  9:00 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Fantasmagorie (Émile Cohl, 1908, France, 1 minute) The Cameraman’s Revenge (Wladyslaw Starewicz, 1912, Russia, 13 minutes) Skeleton Dance (Walt Disney, 1928, USA, 5 minutes) Carmen (Lotte Reiniger, 1933, Germany, 9 minutes) Circles (Oskar Fischinger, 1933, Germany, 3 minutes) Rainbow Dance (Len Lye, 1936, UK, 4 minutes) Tale of Tales (Yuri Norshtein, 1979, USSR, 26 minutes) My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1989, Japan, 91 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, May 4, 2026
  

  CMIA - Entering the Twenty-First Century

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 11:55 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Beau Travail
  (Claire Denis, 1999, France, 93 minutes, 35mm) In the Mood for Love
  (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000, Hong Kong, 98 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, May 5, 2026
  

  CMIA - Casino

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 10:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Casino
  (Martin Scorsese, 1995, USA, 178 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, August 31, 2026
  

  CMIA - The Space of Viewing

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Sherlock, Jr.
  (Buster Keaton, 1924, USA, 45 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, August 31, 2026
  

  CMIA - The Prestige

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  8:00 pm – 10:15 pm EDT/GMT-4
  The Prestige
  (Christopher Nolan, 2006, USA, 130 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, September 7, 2026
  

  CMIA - Ghost Stories: Vertigo

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 9:15 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Vertigo
  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, USA, 129 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, September 7, 2026
  

  CMIA - Sunrise

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  9:15 pm – 11:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Sunrise
  (F.W. Murnau, 1927, USA, 92 minutes, 35mm)
  *Restored PrintPlease check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, September 8, 2026
  

  CMIA - Ghost Stories: Ugetsu

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Ugestu
  (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953, Japan, 91 minutes, 4k Projection)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, September 8, 2026
  

  CMIA - Late Spring

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  9:00 pm – 11:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Late Spring
  (Yasujirō Ozu, 1949, Japan, 110 minutes, 4k projection)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, September 14, 2026
  

  CMIA - Montage

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Un Chien Andalou
  (Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali, 1929, France, 16 minutes, 35mm) Battleship Potemkin
  (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925, USSR, 75 minutes, 35mm) Méditerranée
  (Jean-Daniel Pollet, 1963, France, 45 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, September 15, 2026
  

  CMIA - Postwar Japan and China

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Ikiru
  (Akira Kurosawa, 1952, Japan, 142 minutes) Spring in a Small Town
  (Fei Mu, 1948, China, 85 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, September 21, 2026
  

  CMIA - Film Sound

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:50 pm EDT/GMT-4
  M
  (Fritz Lang, 1931, Germany, 118 minutes) The Conversation
  (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974, USA, 113 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, September 22, 2026
  

  CMIA - Japanese New Wave

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  The Face of Another
  (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966, Japan, 124 minutes) Death by Hanging
  (Nagisa Ōshima, 1968, Japan, 118 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, September 28, 2026
  

  CMIA - Color

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  (Jacques Demy, 1964, France, 90 minutes, 35mm) Ran
  (Akira Kurosawa, 1985, Japan, 162 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, September 29, 2026
  

  CMIA – The Indian New Wave

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Mirror of Illusion
  (Kumar Shahani, 1972, India, 107 minutes) Dhrupad
  (Mani Kaul, 1983, India, 72 minutes)Please check bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, October 5, 2026
  

  CMIA - 2001

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  2001: A Space Odyssey
  (Stanley Kubrick, 1968, UK/USA, 142 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, October 6, 2026
  

  CMIA - Ghost Stories: Kwaidan

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Kwaidan
  (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964, 183 minutes, 4k Projection)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, October 19, 2026
  

  CMIA - Ghost Stories: Ten Canoes

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Ten Canoes
  (Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr, 2006, Australia, 92 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, October 19, 2026
  

  CMIA - Avant-Garde and Animation Program

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  8:45 pm – 11:55 pm EDT/GMT-4
  The Cameraman’s Revenge
  (Wladyslaw Starewicz, 1912, Russia, 13 minutes) Meshes of the Afternoon
  (Maya Deren, 1943, USA, 14 minutes, 16mm) At Land
  (Maya Deren, 1944, USA, 15 minutes, 16mm) All My Life
  (Bruce Baillie, 1966, USA, 3 minutes, 16mm) Creation
  (Stan Brakhage, 1979, USA, 16 minutes, 16mm) Visions in Meditation, Part 1
  (Stan Brakhage, 1987, USA, 16 minutes, 16mm) The Dante Quartet
  (Stan Brakhage, 1987, USA, 7 minutes, 35mm) Chartres Series
  (Stan Brakhage, 1994, USA, 6 minutes) Tale of Tales
  (Yuri Norshtein, 1979, USSR, 26 minutes) My Neighbor Totoro
  (Hayao Miyazaki, 1989, Japan, 89 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, October 20, 2026
  

  CMIA - The Fifth Generation

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Yellow Earth
  (Chen Kaige, 1984, China, 84 minutes, 35mm) Raise the Red Lantern
  (Zhang Yimou, 1991, China, 125 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, October 26, 2026
  

  CMIA - Mouchette

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Mouchette
  (Robert Bresson, 1967, France, 78 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, October 26, 2026
  

  CMIA - Ghost Stories: The Shining

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  8:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  The Shining
  (Stanley Kubrick, 1980, UK/USA, 140 minutes, 4k Projection)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, October 27, 2026
  

  CMIA - Martial Heroes

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  The Killer
  (John Woo, 1989, Hong Kong, 111 minutes, 35mm) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  (Ang Lee, 2000, Taiwan, 119 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, November 2, 2026
  

  CMIA - Ghost Stories: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 9:10 pm EST/GMT-5
  Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
  (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010, Thailand, 114 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, November 2, 2026
  

  CMIA - Mirror

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  9:15 pm – 11:15 pm EST/GMT-5
  Mirror
  (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975, USSR, 100 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, November 3, 2026
  

  CMIA - Hou Hsiao-hsien

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  Dust in the Wind
  (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1986, Taiwan, 110 minutes, 35mm) Good Men, Good Women
  (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1995, Taiwan, 115 minutes, 35mm)*
  *New 35mm PrintPlease check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, November 9, 2026
  

  CMIA - Special Silent Film Event with Live Musical Accompaniment

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:55 pm EST/GMT-5
  East and West
  (Ivan Abramson and Sidney M. Goldin, Austria, 1924, 85 minutes, Newly
  restored 4K Projection)*
  *With live presentation and discussion of an original score with piano, keyboard, and klezmer by Donald Sosin and Alicia Svigals and a discussion about film scoring The Water Magician
  (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1933, 94 minutes, Digital Projection)
  * With recorded benshi narrationPlease check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.