Past Programs

2025

• Monday, February 3, 2025
  

  CMIA - The Space of Viewing

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 8:15 pm EST/GMT-5
  Sherlock, Jr.
  (Buster Keaton, 1924, USA, 45 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, February 3, 2025
  

  CMIA - Vertigo

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  8:30 pm – 10:45 pm EST/GMT-5
  Vertigo
  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, USA, 129 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, February 4, 2025
  

  CMIA - Jean Renoir and the 1930s

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  La Chienne
  (Jean Renoir, 1931, France, 90 minutes, 35mm) Toni
  (Jean Renoir, 1935, France, 85 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, February 10, 2025
  

  CMIA - Montage

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 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) Sunrise
  (F. W. Murnau, USA, 1927, 90 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, February 11, 2025
  

  CMIA - Jean Renoir and the 1930s

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  Boudu Saved from Drowning
  (Jean Renoir, 1932, France, 100 minutes) L’Atalante
  (Jean Vigo, 1934, France, 82 minutes)
   Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, February 17, 2025
  

  CMIA - Film Sound

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 11:30 pm EST/GMT-5
  La Chienne
  (Jean Renoir, 1931, France, 95 minutes, 35mm) M
  (Fritz Lang, 1931, Germany, 118 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, February 18, 2025
  

  CMIA - Renoir and French Literature, Part 1

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  Night at the Crossroads
  (Jean Renoir, 1931, France, 75 minutes) Madame Bovary
  (Jean Renoir, 1933, France, 102 minutes)
   Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, February 24, 2025
  

  CMIA - Color

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 11:30 pm EST/GMT-5
  The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  (Jacques Demy, 1964, France, 110 minutes, 35mm)*
              *Restoration Print The Red Shoes
  (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948, UK, 132 minutes, 35mm)*
              *Restoration PrintPlease check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, February 25, 2025
  

  CMIA - Forms Become Style

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  The Crime of Monsieur Lange
  (Jean Renoir, 1935, France, 85 minutes) Le Plaisir
  (Max Ophuls, 1952, France, 96 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, March 3, 2025
  

  CMIA - 2001

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 10:30 pm EST/GMT-5
  2001: A Space Odyssey
  (Stanley Kubrick, 1968, UK/USA, 142 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, March 4, 2025
  

  CMIA - The Popular Front

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  Grand Illusion
  (Jean Renoir, 1937, France, 116 minutes, 35mm) La Marseillaise
  (Jean Renoir, 1938, France, 130 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, March 11, 2025
  

  CMIA - La Marseillaise and Rules of the Game

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  La Marseillaise
  (Jean Renoir, 1938, France, 132 minutes, 35mm) The Rules of the Game
  (Jean Renoir, 1939, France, 110 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Thursday, March 13, 2025
  

  CMIA - Kids

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Kids
  (Larry Clark, 1996, USA, 91 minutes, 35mm)This is a special student-intiated screening organized in conjunction with the World Cinema Club. All are welcome.
  Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, March 24, 2025
  

  CMIA - Forms of Realism

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Man of Aran
  (Robert Flaherty, 1934, UK, 80 minutes, 35mm) Jazz on a Summer’s Day
  (Aram Avakian and Bert Stern, 1959, USA, 85 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, March 25, 2025
  

  CMIA - Renoir and the Second World War

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Salute to France
  (Jean Renoir, 1944, USA, 34 minutes) This Land is Mine
  (Jean Renoir, 1943, USA, 94 minutes) Swamp Water
  (Jean Renoir, 1941, USA, 90 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, March 31, 2025
  

  CMIA - Avant-Garde Program

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 11:55 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Details TBAPlease check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, April 1, 2025
  

  CMIA - Renoir and Film Noir

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Woman on the Beach
  (Jean Renoir, 1947, USA, 71 minutes) Scarlet Street
  (Fritz Lang, 1945, USA, 105 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, April 7, 2025
  

  CMIA - The Godfather

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  The Godfather
  (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972, 175 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, April 8, 2025
  

  CMIA - Renoir and Color

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  The River
  (Jean Renoir, 1951, USA/India, 99 minutes, 35mm) Black Narcissus
  (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1947, UK, 10 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, April 14, 2025
  

  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 15, 2025
  

  CMIA - Return to France

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  The Golden Coach
  (Jean Renoir, 1953, France/Italy, 103 minutes, 35mm) French Cancan
  (Jean Renoir, 1955, France, 93 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, April 21, 2025
  

  CMIA - The Mirror

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 9:55 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 22, 2025
  

  CMIA - Late Style

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Picnic on the Grass
  (Jean Renoir, 1959, France, 91 minutes, 35mm) The Little Theater of Jean Renoir
  (Jean Renoir, 1970, France, 105 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, April 28, 2025
  

  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, April 29, 2025
  

  CMIA - The House of Fiction

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Celine and Julie Go Boating
  (Jacques Rivette, 1974, France, 193 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, May 5, 2025
  

  CMIA - Mulholland Drive

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 10:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Mulholland Drive
  (David Lynch, 2001, USA/France, 143 minutes)
   Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, August 26, 2025
  

  CMIA - Forms of Realism

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Man with a Movie Camera
  (Dziga Vertov, 1929, USSR, 68 minutes, 35mm) Jazz on a Summer’s Day
  (Aram Avakian and Bert Stern, 1959, USA, 85 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, September 1, 2025
  

  CMIA - The Space of Viewing

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Sherlock, Jr.
  (Buster Keaton, 1924, USA, 45 minutes) Rear Window
  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954, USA, 112 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, September 2, 2025
  

  CMIA - Vertigo

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 9:45 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 8, 2025
  

  CMIA - Silent Art Films

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  The Kid
  (Charles Chaplin, 1921, USA, 72 minutes, 35mm) Sunrise
  (F.W. Murnau, 1927, USA, 91 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, September 9, 2025
  

  CMIA - Solaris

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  9:00 pm – 11:55 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Solaris
  (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972, USSR, 167 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, September 15, 2025
  

  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 16, 2025
  

  CMIA - Ivan the Terrible

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Ivan the Terrible, Part One
  (Sergei Eisenstein, 1944, USSR, 95 minutes, 35mm) Ivan the Terrible, Part Two
  (Sergei Eisenstein, 1946-1958, USSR, 80 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, September 22, 2025
  

  CMIA - Film Sound

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
  La Chienne
  (Jean Renoir, 1931, France, 95 minutes, 35mm) M
  (Fritz Lang, 1931, Germany, 118 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, September 23, 2025
  

  CMIA - Film and Dance

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 10:55 pm EDT/GMT-4
  The Red Shoes
  (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948, UK, 138 minutes, 35mm) A Study in Choreography for the Camera
  (Maya Deren, 1945, USA, 4 minutes, 16mm) Dhrupad
  (Mani Kaul, 1983, India, 72 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, September 29, 2025
  

  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 30, 2025
  

  CMIA - Theater and Film

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:55 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Henry V
  (Laurence Olivier, 1944, UK, 132 minutes, 35mm) My Night at Maud’s
  (Éric Rohmer, 1969, France, 110 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, October 6, 2025
  

  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 7, 2025
  

  CMIA - The Operatic Imagination

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  I Am Love
  (Luca Guadagnino, 2009, Italy, 122 minutes, 35mm) Two Lovers
  (James Gray, 2008, USA, 110 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, October 20, 2025
  

  CMIA - Avant-Garde Program

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:30 pm – 11:55 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Details TBAPlease check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, October 21, 2025
  

  CMIA - The Lives of the Artists

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  With Dieric Bouts
  (André Delvaux, 1975, Belgium, 35 minutes) Edvard Munch
  (Peter Watkins, 1976, Norway, 210 minutes)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, October 27, 2025
  

  CMIA - The Godfather, Part II

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 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, October 28, 2025
  

  CMIA - La Belle Noiseuse

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  La Belle Noiseuse
  (Jacques Rivette, 1991, France, 238 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, November 3, 2025
  

  CMIA - Animation

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EST/GMT-5
  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.
  
  
• Tuesday, November 4, 2025
  

  CMIA - Cinematic Museums

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EST/GMT-5
  Histoire(s) du cinéma, 3a: The Currency of the Absolute
  (Jean-Luc Godard, 1998, France, 27 minutes) Barry Lyndon
  (Stanley Kubrick 1975, UK, 184 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, November 10, 2025
  

  CMIA - Sympathy for the Devil

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EST/GMT-5
  Sympathy for the Devil
  (Jean-Luc Godard, 1968, 100 minutes) Gimme Shelter
  (Albert and David Maysles, 1970, 91 minutes)This is a special collaboration with the Center for Curatorial Studies and their Stan Douglas exhibition. More details TBA. 
  
  Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, November 11, 2025
  

  CMIA - Public Dialogue about Stan Douglas

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5
  Public Dialogue about Stan Douglas with Casey Robertson (Bard Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of ArtThis is a special collaboration with the Center for Curatorial Studies and their Stan Douglas exhibition. Please visit the exhibition before the discussion.
  
  The full schedule is at https://www.bard.edu/cmia.
  
  
• Tuesday, November 11, 2025
  

  CMIA - Sculpture

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:30 pm EST/GMT-5
  Night and Day
  (Chantal Akerman, 1991, Belgium/France/Switzerland, 92 minutes, 35mm) AI - Artificial Intelligence
  (Steven Spielberg, 2001, USA, 146 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Monday, November 17, 2025
  

  CMIA - Sculpting in Time

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:55 pm EST/GMT-5
  Loves of a Blonde
  (Miloš Forman, 1965, Czechoslovakia, 88 minutes, 35mm) The Mirror
  (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975, USSR, 106 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.
  
  
• Tuesday, November 18, 2025
  

  CMIA - Architecture

   

  Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  7:00 pm – 11:55 pm EST/GMT-5
  Brutality in Stone
  (Alexander Kluge and Peter Schamoni, 1961, West Germany, 12 minutes) La Notte
  (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961, Italy, 122 minutes) Eternity and a Day
  (Theo Angelopoulos, 1998, Greece, 137 minutes, 35mm)Please check https://www.bard.edu/cmia for the full schedule.