leos carax times two september 12--14, 2000 photo: boy meets girl

box office and ticket information | calendar program description On the occasion of Winstar’s release of Carax’s Pola X program: BOY MEETS GIRL (France, 1984; 100m) The revelation of the 1984 Cannes Film Festival was this first feature by the then-23-year-old Carax. In its fervent film sense, chilling humor, and strong autobiographical slant, it suggests the first films of the French New Wave, but it is in no sense derivative. Carax demonstrates a very personal, subtly disorienting sense of space in his captivating black-and-white images, and the soundtrack has been constructed with an equally dense expressivity. Carax’s hero, a surly (but cute) young outsider, has just been abandoned by his girlfriend. As he moves through a nocturnal Paris, his adolescent disillusionment is amplified into a cosmic cry of pain. Carax’s formal control and distance keep the film in a state of constant tension. Tues Sept 12: 2 & 6:30 Wed Sept 13: 4:15 & 8:45 Thurs Sept 14: 1 & 6:30

bad blood

BAD BLOOD (France, 1987; 105m) The natural heir of Jean-Luc Godard, Carax carries the New Wave sensibility into the 80s, constructing inventive and compelling formal structures out of apparently off-the-cuff moment. BAD BLOOD, his second feature, is set in a city of the near future, where a mysterious, sexually transmitted disease threatens to make affection extinct. Carax draws on a seemingly inexhaustible supply of original visual ideas, through his profound appreciation of actors is also evident in the edgy performances he elicits from Denis Lavant, Juliette Binoche, Michel Piccoli and Serge Reggiani. Tues Sept 12: 4:10 & 8:30 Wed Sept 13: 2 & 6:30 Thurs Sept 14: 3 & 8:30