Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair - Global Film Festival

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL:

American Cinematheque is expanding ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair’ beyond Los Angeles to 73 cities and nearly 100 theaters across the United States and Puerto Rico, Canada, England, Scotland, Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile.

The festival will continue to have its home in Los Angeles at the Aero Theatre, Egyptian Theatre and Los Feliz 3, but this year it will broaden its reach with screenings at renowned national venues including Digital Gym Cinema (San Diego, CA); Roxie Theater (San Francisco, CA); Sie FilmCenter (Denver, CO); Cinestudio (Hartford, CT); Cinema Art Theater (Rehoboth Beach, DE); Sun-Ray Cinema (Tampa, FL); Tropic Cinema (Key West, FL); Plaza Theatre (Atlanta, GA); Honolulu Museum of Art Doris Duke Theatre (Honolulu, HI); FilmScene (Iowa City, IA); Idaho Film Society (Boise, ID); Music Box Theatre and Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago, IL); The Historic Artcraft Theatre (Franklin, IN); Kan-Kan Cinema & Bar (Indianapolis, IN); The Kentucky Theatre (Lexington, KY); Coolidge Corner Theatre (Brookline, MA); AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center (Silver Spring, MD); Portland Museum of Art (Portland, ME); The Redford Theatre (Detroit, MI); Trylon Cinema (Minneapolis, MN); Ragtag Cinema (Columbia, MO); Stray Cat Film Center (Kansas City, MO);  The Moxie Cinema (Springfield, MO); The Hi-Pointe Theatre (St. Louis, MO); The Roxy Theater (Missoula, MT); The Independent Picture House (Charlotte, NC); Princeton Garden Theatre (Princeton, NJ); Guild Cinema (Albuquerque, NM); The Beverly Theater (Las Vegas, NV); Paris Theater (New York, NY); The Little Theatre (Rochester, NY); Esquire Theatre (Cincinnati, OH); Film/Video Theater at the Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH); Cinematheque at Cleveland Institute of Art (Cleveland, OH); Rodeo Cinema (Oklahoma City, OK); Hollywood Theatre (Portland, OR); Lightbox Film Center and Philadelphia Film Society (Philadelphia, PA); Row House Cinema (Pittsburgh, PA); The Gap Theatre (Wind Gap, PA); Sioux Falls State Theatre (Sioux Falls, SD); Central Cinema (Knoxville, TN); Belcourt Theatre (Nashville, TN); The Paramount Theatre and Hyperreal Film Club (Austin, TX); Texas Theatre (Dallas, TX); The River Oaks Theatre (Houston, TX); Salt Lake Film Society – Broadway Centre Cinemas (Salt Lake City, UT); The Byrd Theatre (Richmond, VA); Pickford Film Center (Bellingham, WA); Olympia Film Society (Olympia, WA); The Beacon Cinema (Seattle, WA); UW Cinematheque (Madison, WI); The Oriental Theatre (Milwaukee, WI); and Fine Arts Miramar (Miramar, Puerto Rico).

Internationally, ‘Bleak Week’ will expand to renowned Canadian venues including Globe Cinema (Calgary, AB); Metro Cinema (Edmonton, AB); The Screening Room Movie Theatre (Kingston, ON); Cinéma du Parc, Cinéma Beaubien and Cinéma du Musée (Montreal, QC); ByTowne Cinema (Ottawa, ON); Revue Cinema (Toronto, ON); Park Theatre (Vancouver, BC); and Dave Barber Cinematheque (Winnipeg, MB). In the United Kingdom, the festival will take place at the Prince Charles Cinema (London, UK), who will also be co-presenting ‘Bleak Week’ at Watershed (Bristol, UK); Filmhouse (Edinburgh, UK); Glasgow Film Theatre (Glasgow, UK); Hyde Park Picture House (Leeds, UK); Tyneside Cinema (Newcastle, UK); and The Ultimate Picture Palace (Oxford, UK).

In Latin America, venues include Caligari at Cine Gaumont and Caligari at Malba, the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Cinemateca Uruguaya (Montevideo, Uruguay); Cineteca de la Universidad de Chile (Santiago, Chile); and Cineteca Universidad de Guadalajara (Guadalajara, Mexico).

Full lineup to be announced in April. For dates and lineups at other ‘Bleak Week’ venues, visit their website.