BLEAK WEEK

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BLEAK WEEK: CINEMA OF DESPAIR

Bleak Week

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The Esquire Theatre is proud to partner with the American Cinematheque to present BLEAK WEEK: CINEMA OF DESPAIR, a seven day film festival showcasing some of the greatest works of cinema from across the globe that venture into the darkest sides of humanity and the bleakest points in human history. The Esquire is one of 82 theaters from around the world taking part in this year's Bleak Week, and the regular programmers at our theater, including Outer Cinema Cincinnati, Conveyor Belt Books, Secret Base Cinema and Leontine CInema Collective, have curated a line-up of seventeen of the most challenging feature films from eighty years of arthouse cinema for this special event!

Friday 6/5/26

THE KILLING OF A SCARED DEER (2017) 7:00pm

VAGABOND (1985) 10:00pm

Saturday 6/6/26

DETOUR (1945) 1:40pm

QUEEN OF DIAMONDS (1991) 4:00pm

THE VANISHING (1988) 6:30pm

HIGHWAY HYPNOSIS/ SHOCK VIDEO Ken Camp Double Feature (1984,1985) 9:20pm

Sunday 6/7/26

AMERICAN JOB (1996) 1:00pm

MENACE II SOCIETY (1993) 3:40pm

PUSHER (1996) 6:30pm