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100 Rifles
Tom Gries, 1969
Buy Tickets: Tue Feb 14: 3:45 pm |
In this energetic gun-crazy Western, Raquel Welch plays gorgeous, untamed revolutionary Sarita, opposite bronzed gunrunner Burt Reynolds. With Jim Brown and a pioneering interracial tryst.
17 Girls
Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin, 2011
Buy Tickets: Fri Mar 2: 9:15 pm | Sun Mar 4: 1:00 pm |
Director Muriel Coulin in person for both screenings!
Based on a headline-grabbing incident in the U.S., sisters Delphine and Muriel Coulin’s provocative debut feature follows the fallout in a sleepy French coastal town when a group of teenage girls all decide to become pregnant at the same time.
18 Years Old and Rising
Fred Louf, 2011
Buy Tickets: Sat Mar 10: 3:45 pm |
Director Fred Louf in person!
As France prepares for a presidential election that will determine the fate of François Mitterand, a young man from the provinces falls head over heels for a bourgeois girl from Paris in this charming and inventive spin on a classic tale of first love.
38 Witnesses
Lucas Belvaux, 2012
Buy Tickets: Sat Mar 10: 6:15 pm | Sun Mar 11: 1:30 pm |
A woman is brutally murdered in front of an apartment building, but all of the residents claim to have seen and heard nothing in this taut, haunting thriller from Rapt director Lucas Belvaux. Inspired by New York’s infamous 1964 Kitty Genovese case.
A Conversation with Gary Oldman
Buy Tickets: Wed Feb 8: 7:00 pm |
Gary Oldman will appear at the Walter Reade in person for a conversation with Film Society Program Director Richard Peña, featuring clips of several of Mr. Oldman's finest performances.
A Gang Story
Olivier Marchal, 2011
Buy Tickets: Thu Mar 8: 8:45 pm | Fri Mar 9: 4:00 pm |
Based on the autobiography of a real crime boss, A Gang Story follows aging ex-gangster Momon (Gérard Lanvin) as he agrees to break his old partner (Tchéky Karyo) out of prison. A solid return to the gangster genre—in the French style, of course!
A Stoker
Alexei Balabanov, 2010
Buy Tickets: Sat Feb 25: 5:30 pm |
An elderly, not-all-there Afghan war veteran known as “the major” feeds the murder victims of cops and mobsters into an apartment building furnace while working on an epic historical novel in the latest nihilistic crime drama from Russian provocateur Alexei Balabanov (Cargo 200).
All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
Adam Curtis, 2011
Buy Tickets: Sat Feb 18: 1:30 pm |
The BBC essay filmmaker behind 2007’s The Power of Nightmares is back with a new three-part work on mankind’s dependency on computer technology. Compulsive viewing.
Almanac of Fall
Béla Tarr, 1984
Buy Tickets: Tue Feb 7: 8:30 pm | Wed Feb 8: 3:30 pm |
Four apartment-dwellers scheme against a rich elderly woman and each other, in a key work that bridges Tarr’s early social realism and later stylistic brio.
Almayer’s Folly
Chantal Akerman, 2011
Buy Tickets: Sun Feb 26: 1:00 pm |
Chantal Akerman updates the first novel by Joseph Conrad from the late 1890s to the 1950s, and uses it as a springboard for an examination of the bankruptcy of colonialism through the struggle between a European father and Malaysian mother for possession of their daughter.
Alps
Yorgos Lanthimos, 2011
Buy Tickets: Thu Mar 1: 9:30 pm |
In the latest warped and absurdly funny exploration of unnatural doings from the director of Dogtooth, a secret society consisting of four members offers a unique service: the recently bereaved can hire them for a few hours a week to act as surrogates for deceased loved ones, in order to help them adjust to their loss.
Altered States
Ken Russell, 1980
Buy Tickets: Fri Feb 24: 9:30 pm |
Fearless scientist William Hurt plumbs the unborn soul of mankind through psychedelic freak-outs in a sensory-deprivation tank. In memory of Ken Russell, who died in November.
Americano
Mathieu Demy, 2011
Buy Tickets: Sat Mar 3: 6:30 pm |
In person: Mathieu Demy and Chiara Mastroianni!
When thirty-something Martin (played by actor-writer-director Mathieu Demy) travels from Paris to Los Angeles to settle his estranged mother’s estate, the journey dredges up long-submerged emotions...and unexpected revelations about a woman he hardly knew.
An American in Paris
Vincente Minnelli, 1951
Buy Tickets: Fri Feb 24: 2:00 pm | Sun Mar 18: 2:00 pm |
Minnelli’s beloved musical comedy boasts a George Gershwin score that includes such iconic songs as "I Got Rhythm," and "'S Wonderful," and dances choreographed by Gene Kelly. All ages.
Better Mus’ Come
Storm Saulter, 2010
Buy Tickets: Thu Feb 16: 7:00 pm |
Passion, politics and poverty collide as this stunning love story unfolds against a backdrop of political turmoil. Set in 1970's Jamaica, Better Mus' Come is based on a violent moment in history when rival gangs were enlisted by warring political factions to disrupt the democratic process, and bloodshed was unleashed in the streets of Jamaica.
Body Troopers aka Chasing the Kidneystone
Vibeke Idsöe, 1996
Children's Movie Buy Tickets: Sun Feb 19: 2:00 pm | Sun Feb 26: 11:00 am |
Eight-year-old Simon shrinks himself down to travel into his grandfather’s body to fight the kidney-stone that is making him sick. In Norwegian with English subtitles read aloud.
Boy
Taika Waititi, 2010
Buy Tickets: Thu Mar 1: 7:00 pm |
Writer, director, actor, painter and all-around artistic renaissance man, Taika Waititi began his career as an award-winning stand-up comedian (together with Flight of the Conchords’ Jemaine Clement) before moving into filmmaking with the Oscar-nominated short Two Cars, One Night and the acclaimed features Eagle Vs. Shark and Boy, the latter of which shattered all records to become the highest-grossing local film of all time in Waititi’s native New Zealand. We are delighted to welcome Waititi for a celebration of his eclectic body of work, including a career-spanning on-stage conversation and an advance screening of Boy.
Boy
Taika Waititi, 2010
Buy Tickets: Fri Mar 2: 11:30 am | Fri Mar 2: 1:30 pm | Fri Mar 2: 3:30 pm | Fri Mar 2: 5:30 pm | Fri Mar 2: 7:30 pm | Fri Mar 2: 9:30 pm | Sat Mar 3: 11:30 am | Sat Mar 3: 1:30 pm | Sat Mar 3: 3:30 pm | Sat Mar 3: 5:30 pm | Sat Mar 3: 7:30 pm | Sat Mar 3: 9:30 pm | Sun Mar 4: 11:30 am | Sun Mar 4: 1:30 pm | Sun Mar 4: 3:30 pm | Sun Mar 4: 5:30 pm | Sun Mar 4: 7:30 pm | Sun Mar 4: 9:30 pm | Mon Mar 5: 11:30 am | Mon Mar 5: 1:30 pm | Mon Mar 5: 3:30 pm | Mon Mar 5: 5:30 pm | Mon Mar 5: 7:30 pm | Mon Mar 5: 9:30 pm | Tue Mar 6: 11:30 am | Tue Mar 6: 1:30 pm | Tue Mar 6: 3:30 pm | Tue Mar 6: 5:30 pm | Tue Mar 6: 7:30 pm | Tue Mar 6: 9:30 pm | Wed Mar 7: 11:30 am | Wed Mar 7: 1:30 pm | Wed Mar 7: 3:30 pm | Wed Mar 7: 5:30 pm | Wed Mar 7: 7:30 pm | Wed Mar 7: 9:30 pm | Thu Mar 8: 11:30 am | Thu Mar 8: 1:30 pm | Thu Mar 8: 3:30 pm | Thu Mar 8: 5:30 pm | Thu Mar 8: 7:30 pm | Thu Mar 8: 9:30 pm |
Opens March 2!
The year is 1984, and on the rural East Coast of New Zealand “Thriller” is changing kids’ lives. Inspired by the Oscar nominated Two Cars, One Night, Boy is the hilarious and heartfelt coming-of-age tale about heroes, magic and Michael Jackson.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Long, Hot Summer
Buy Tickets: Tue Feb 14: 6:30 pm |
Paul Newman x 2 for Valentine’s Day! First, Newman plays drunk, dissolute Brick, husband to sultry Maggie the Cat (Elizabeth Taylor), in director Richard Brooks’s lively adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play, co-starring a torrential Burl Ives as cancer-stricken patriarch Big Daddy. Then, Newman swaggers into town as a roughneck drifter who makes an unlikely match for the wholesome daughter (Joanne Woodward, Newman’s future wife) of a Mississippi bigwig (Orson Welles). Lee Remick and Angela Lansbury co-star in Martin Ritt’s sumptuous CinemaScope take on stories by William Faulkner.
Children of Paradise
Marcel Carné, 1945
Buy Tickets: Wed Mar 7: 7:00 pm |
Special Centerpiece Screening!
Positif magazine editor Michel Ciment in person!
A magnificent new restoration of one of the best-loved masterworks of French cinema, Marcel Carné’s classic tale of a notorious actress/courtesan and the four men who pine for her during the German Occupation of Paris.
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