Every Tuesday at nine an "Uitkijk Special"!
These carefully curated evenings change theme every two months. Four completely different films, one overarching theme: from Sexy Cinema to Czech New Wave; nothing is too crazy during the Uitkijk Specials. Be surprised by titles you've never heard of before, and immerse yourself in the warm bath of your favorite films.
Every Sunday (9:00 PM) De Uitkijk screens a beautiful Classic. Every month we choose the most beautiful, touching or most shocking from film history to show our loyal audience. From Fritz Lang's Metropolis to Agnès Varda's Cleo 5 à 7, and from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining to Michelangelo Antonioni's La Notte, you'll see them all come by during the Sunday Classic!
JANUARY - FEBRUARY
Invisible Forces
In January and February, the new Uitkijk series is dedicated to Invisible Forces. For this program, we have selected films in which characters are confronted with elusive, all-encompassing forces that shape their lives in different ways. Think of being caught in a bureaucracy that leaves you dazed and paranoid (The Trial), facing paranormal influences (The Innocents), or experiencing mysterious natural phenomena (Cemetery of Splendor).
The films move between horror, magical realism, and existential nightmares, showing how people struggle, falter, and sometimes break under the weight of the unknown. Where power is invisible, nothing remains untouched. Will you let yourself be carried away by these powerful stories at our cinema in the coming months?
JANUARY
In Memoriam: David Lynch
In Memoriam David Lynch (January 20, 1946 – January 15, 2025)
David Lynch opened cinematic worlds where dream and nightmare intertwined. With radical visuals, unsettling sounds, and often elusive logic, he showed that cinema does not always need to explain, but above all should be felt. In this mini-series, we are screening Eraserhead, The Straight Story and Mulholland Drive during the month of January in honour of this extraordinary filmmaker.
februari - maart
'66 REVISITED
'66 REVISITED: A look back at a radical year in film. In February and March, De Uitkijk is bringing two extraordinary films back to the big screen.
WINTER PROGRAMME 2025
In the darkest months of the year, December and January, De Uitkijk dedicates the final months of 2025 to films about a universal, human, yet elusive feeling: loneliness. During Winterreeks: Alone Again, we present a selection of films that each explore this theme in their own way. We follow characters who wander aimlessly through world cities, are stuck in routines, endure suffocating relationships, or desperately search for connection. While some try to escape loneliness, others learn to embrace it, yet all drift through a world that only amplifies their solitude.
From Ottinger’s flamboyant Berlin in Ticket of No Return to Antonioni’s bleak industrial landscapes in Red Desert; from the claustrophobic intimacy of Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant to the spiritual voids in Reygadas’ Japón; from Hertzfeldt’s existential animated film, It's Such a Beautiful Day, to Downey Sr.’s satirical social critique Putney Swope.
Some, like Kieślowski’s Julie in Three Colours: Blue or Fellini’s hopeful Cabiria in Nights of Cabiria, seek a fresh start. Others, like the wandering men in Naked and An Elephant Sitting Still, teeter on the edge of despair. Béla Tarr depicts the loneliness of the end of times in The Turin Horse, while Hou Hsiao-hsien captures the melancholic rhythm of nightlife in Millennium Mambo. In contrast, social and institutional loneliness becomes painfully tangible in Black Girl (Ousmane Sembène) and The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu).
Together, these films do not offer a comforting answer, but rather provide a raw, poetic, absurd, quiet, tender, destructive, and sometimes even liberating glimpse into the world of the lonely.
Retrospective: Jean-Louis Trintignant
Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930–2022) is considered an icon of post-war European cinema. Although he took to the stage as a shy student to overcome his insecurity, he grew to become a monument of cinematic art with a body of work comprising almost 150 titles. Throughout his career, Trintignant remained true to his characteristic, understated style. In honour of his impressive career, De Uitkijk is screening four of his most poignant masterpieces.