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 NETWORK
Sidney Lumet, U.S., 1976; 121m
Dunaway won a well-deserved Oscar for her performance as a high-powered
TV network executive, so high-powered that she has a very punctual
orgasm before her wizened bed partner (William Holden) has time to take
a breath. Given the onslaught of Reality-TV shows, Paddy Chayefsky’s
caustic, amphetamine-driven satire looks more prescient than ever.
Sidney Lumet, himself a veteran of live TV, gives it a terrific drive,
and cinematographer Owen Roizman gives the movie just the right cold,
glossy look. With Robert Duvall, Ned Beatty, Oscar winner Beatrice
Straight, and Peter Finch, who also won an Oscar (posthumously, sad to
say), as the "mad prophet of the airwaves."
preceded by
THE YELLOW BIRD
Faye Dunaway, U.S., 2001; 19m
Dunaway’s writing and directorial debut is a wildly inventive adaptation
of a Tennessee Williams short story, about a young girl (Cynthia Watros)
who leaves her tyrannical and bombastic preacher father (James Coburn)
to start a life of her own in the city of sin, New Orleans. With Brenda
Blethyn (Secrets and Lies) as her mother and the talented young Michael
Pitt (Finding Forrester) as the object of her affection.
Fri April 19: 1 & 6:15
 BONNIE AND CLYDE
Arthur Penn, U.S., 1967; 111m
Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty took the world by storm with BONNIE AND CLYDE, and changed the face of American cinema forever —
they made outlaw
life look sexy and fun, and they became icons of a new, revolutionary
youth culture. In fact, BONNIE AND CLYDE was such a cultural milestone
that it’s easy to forget what a thrilling movie it is, as vibrant and
exciting today as it was 35 years ago. With an altogether
amazing cast that includes Gene Hackman, Academy Award winner Estelle
Parsons, Michael J. Pollard, Dub Taylor and Gene Wilder. Brilliantly
directed by Arthur Penn and written by Robert Benton and David Newman
(with an uncredited Robert Towne).
Fri April 19: 3:50
Sat April 20: 9:30
 CHINATOWN
Roman Polanski, U.S., 1974; 131m
Dunaway’s Evelyn Mulwray, the sultry widow with a big secret, remains
one of the highlights of 70s cinema. Roman Polanski and Robert Towne’s
tragic period murder mystery out of Chandler and Hammett is now an
American classic, and it’s keyed to Dunaway’s delicate, tremulous
performance as a woman who conceals profound pain beneath an inscrutable
mask of seduction. Photographed by the late, great John A. Alonzo, whose
work is so exquisite that you can practically smell the orange groves in
1930s Los Angeles. With Burt Young as the irate husband, John Huston as
the terrifying patriarch Noah Cross, and, of course, Jack Nicholson as
J.J. Gittes.
Fri April 19: 9:15
Sat April 20: 6:15
Sun April 21: 1:30
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