Monday, August 26 at 7pm
Mulholland Drive
Directed by David Lynch (U.S. 2001) 147 min. 35 MM. With Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, Justin Theroux.
A midnight wreck on winding Mulholland Drive opens this outlandish neo-noir. “Fashioned from the ruins of a two-hour TV pilot rejected by ABC in 1999, David Lynch’s erotic thriller careens from one violent non sequitur to another… Whatever Mulholland Drive was originally, it has become a poisonous valentine to Hollywood.” (J. Hoberman, Village Voice)
Monday, September 2 at 7pm
Early Cinema Program
Professor Eric Faden will give a multimedia presentation on early cinema featuring shorts by Lumière, Porter, Méliès and Alice Guy.
Monday, September 9 at 7pm
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Directed by Wes Anderson (U.S. 2014) 100 min. DCP. With Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, Saoirse Ronan, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux, Jude Law, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe, Adrian Brody, Tom Wilkinson, Jason Schwartzman, Jeff Goldblum.
Admired for his meticulously designed cinematic confections, Wes Anderson is among a small handful of contemporary American Hollywood directors whose name is known and esteemed by the 18-49 demographic. His latest creation, for which he assembled an all-star cast, depicts the adventures of a legendary concierge working at a famous European hotel between the wars, and the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend.
Monday, September 16 at 7pm
Fallen Angels
Wong Kar Wai (1995, Hong Kong) 99 min. DCP. With Leon Lai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Michelle Reis. In Cantonese
with English subtitles.
Lost souls reach out for human connection amidst the glimmering night world of Hong Kong in Wong Kar Wai’s hallucinatory, neon-soaked nocturne. Originally conceived as a segment of Chungking Express only to spin off on its own woozy axis, this hyper-cool head rush plays like the dark, moody flip side to Wong’s breakout feature as it charts the subtly interlacing fates of a handful of urban loners, including a coolly detached hitman (Lai) looking to go straight, his business partner (Michelle Reis) who secretly yearns for him, and a mute delinquent (Kaneshiro) who wreaks mischief by night. Swinging between hardboiled noir and slapstick lunacy with giddy abandon, Fallen Angels is both a dizzying, dazzling city symphony and a poignant meditation on love, loss, and longing in a metropolis that never sleeps.
Monday, September 23 at 7pm
Run Lola Run
Directed by Tom Tykwer (Germany 1998) 79 min. 35MM. With Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup. German with English subtitles.
Lola runs not for her own life but for her boyfriend, who has lost a hundred thousand marks of drug money. Tykwer’s breathless roller-coaster of a film gives flame-haired Lola three races against time, three chases through the streets of Berlin, three chances to cheat death.
Monday, September 30 at 7pm
Days of Heaven
Directed by Terrence Malick (U.S. 1978) 95 min. DCP. With Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard.
Released five years after his debut feature Badlands, Malick’s second film is a decadently illustrated tragedy whose majestic cinematography (by Nestor Almendros) earned the film universal acclaim as a visual masterpiece. Among the fertile wheat fields of the Texas Panhandle in the early 20th century, a wealthy landowner (Shepard, in his first on-screen role) falls in love with the girlfriend (Adams) of a quick-tempered farmhand (Gere). Tensions give way to greed and deception, compromising the harmony of the natural environment that fuels the film’s atmosphere of grace and lyricism.
Monday, October 7 at 7pm
Casablanca
Directed by Michael Curtiz (U.S. 1942) 102 min. DCP. With Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Paul Henreid.
Boasting a stellar cast, this iconic American film is renowned for its “impudent wit and doomed romanticism, all of it held together by voluptuously emotional anti-fascist sentiment”(David Denby, The New Yorker). Coming up on a century after its release, Casablanca maintains its status as one of the best loved films in the history of American cinema.
Monday, October 21 at 7pm
The Searchers
John Ford (U.S. 1956) 119 min. DCP. With John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles.
John Ford’s 1956 epic Western is a captivity narrative mixed with a revenge tale, as former Confederate soldier John Wayne returns briefly to his family before setting out for years in search of a niece abducted by Comanches. Arguably Ford’s greatest work, and subject of imitations and homages from Star Wars to Taxi Driver, The Searchers’ Monument Valley setting and early VistaVision Technicolor cinematography demand the big screen.