Friday January 24 at 1pm
Ferrari
Directed by Michael Mann (U.S. 2023) 130 min. DCP. With Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz, Patrick Dempsey.
Michael Mann brings his astonishing command of technique and storytelling to bear on this emotional, elegantly crafted dramatization of the life of the legendary car manufacturer and entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari at a professional and personal/domestic fulcrum. Dovetailing these narrative strands, Mann effortlessly shifts gears between elegiac and spectacular, climaxing in an exhilarating and terrifying race across the Northern Italian landscape—a visual and aural wonder of revving machinery against bucolic splendor—that ranks with the greatest set pieces of Mann’s career (adapted from Lincoln Center program notes).
Friday, January 31 at 1pm
Henry Fool
Directed by Hal Hartley (U.S. 1997) 137 min. 35MM. With Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, Parker Posey.
Situated between the working-class Long Island of Hal Hartley’s early films and the cosmopolitan world that some of his protagonists aspire to, Queens is the lovingly filmed setting for Hartley’s rowdy, hilarious literary saga Henry Fool. A depraved wanderer with a literary flair, Henry Fool (Ryan) inspires the shy sanitation worker Simon Grim (Urbaniak) to write a book-length poem that, of course, catapults him to literary fame. An unlikely ode to bohemian life, Henry Fool is also a bracing examination of the age-old struggle between art and commerce, and a domestic odyssey about young adults looking to escape their tortured family lives. Winner of the Best Screenplay award at Cannes (Museum of the Moving Image notes).