Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame by Hana Makhmalbaf (France, 2008, 81 min.). The beauty and grief of present-day Afghanistan receives epic, poetic treatment in this remarkable film. Baktay, a six-year-old Afghan girl, attends school, taking her mother's lipstick for a pencil. On her way to school, she encounters boys playing games that mimic the violence they have witnessed in their daily lives. Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame is an exotic and frightening journey into the minds of the children who live in areas where violence is everywhere. Part of this description was adapted from the Toronto Film Festival.
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Special Engagements
Exclusive Area Premiere!
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 at 5:00, 7:15, 9:30
(2008) dir dir Kevin Rafferty [105 min]
Harvard Stadium, November 23, 1968: for the first time since 1909, the football teams of Harvard and Yale are both undefeated as they meet for their final game. Yale is heavily favored, with Brian Dowling, its captain and quarterback, satirized in classmate Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury strip. Harvard's lineman is Tommy Lee Jones - Al Gore's roommate. Kevin Rafferty (Atomic Cafe) intercuts original footage with the hilarious, suspenseful recollections of the 50 men who played in what has become one of college football's most famous games. - Notes from the Film Forum, NYC
We're thrilled to be hosting this engaging new documentary on the eve of the 40th Anniversary of this famous game! Please join us for an illuminating walk down memory lane that, not only opens up the details of this momentous match-up, but also touches on politics, sex, ethics, war, and class.
showing through wednesday
Directed by John Boorman, Appearing in Person
With Lee Marvin, Toshirô Mifune
US 1968, 35mm, color, 103 min.
Print courtesy of the Irish Film Archive
One of the most inspired casting decisions of 20th century cinema pairs Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune as a United States Marine and a Japanese officer stranded together on a deserted Pacific island during World War II. The initial hostility and distrust brought on by the soldiers' unwillingness and inability to communicate eventually gives way to a fragile, tense relationship forged by their struggle to survive the harsh conditions of the island. For Boorman’s second film with Marvin after Point Blank, the actors and director drew on the Marvin's own hellish experiences in the Pacific War. The typically Boormanian trial by fire undergone by Marvin and Mifune gives way to a reflective variation on the war film, that eschews combat for deeper inner and inter-personal conflicts.
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Repertory Series: John Boorman's Primeval Screen
Excalibur at 2:00
(1981) dir John Boorman w/ Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, Nicolas Clay [140 min]
*Director John Boorman will appear schedule permitting.
Possibly the pinnacle of the "King Arthur" genre, EXCALIBUR follows its namesake, the sword Excalibur, through its many lives in Arthurian myth. It serves as almost a narrator through the rise and fall of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table - bearing witness to love, lust, adultery, battle, triumph, and defeat. Generally agreed to be among Boorman's finest films, EXCALIBUR succeeds in being both epic and romantic, earning its place at the head of the medieval pack.
showing through friday
Repertory Series: John Boorman's Primeval Screen
Point Blank at 12:00 noon
(1967) dir John Boorman w/ Lee Marvin, Andie Dickenson, Keenan Wynn [92 min]
*Director John Boorman will appear schedule permitting.
Lee Marvin is Walker, a traditional gunman figure living in the untraditional world of 1967 Los Angeles. Walker is double crossed not once, but twice, by his partner Reese (Vernon), who both tries to kill him AND steals his wife all in one fell swoop. Unfortunately for Reese, Walker does not die, and sets out to reclaim his rightful piece of the monetary pie. He must find a way to make it past his biggest adversary, the spread of the corporate dogma over a Los Angeles whose underbelly was once governed by might and brawn instead of fine print and red tape.
final showing
Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet by Maria Anna Tappeiner (Germany, 2005, 94 min.). This elegant portrait of the art worlds man of steel, Richard Serras monumental sculptures are among the defining works of our time. The film focuses on The Matter of Time, a $20 million installation comprised of several 40-ton steel plates commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. This sight-specific installation, the biggest sculptural commission ever created for a concrete space, reaches the limits of what is feasible in terms of size, form and technology. Serra is wonderfully articulate, whether talking about his early paintings, Brancusis influence upon him, the historical context in which his work developed, or the public controversies and even hostility his art has engendered. In German and English with English subtitles.
final showing
$10 adults/ $8 children/seniors
Michael Trautman has his HEAD IN THE CLOUDS. Where else would he come up with the inspired looniness that he presents in his solo theater performance? This show is comprised of Mr. Trautman's finest works developed over a career spent performing and touring around the world, working in theaters, festivals, circuses, universities, schools, plays, and even on street corners. From his signature clown routine revolving around far too many things to do with ping-pong balls, to his stage version of the Road Runner cartoon, to his manic run-in with the IRS, to his humorous and deeply touching story about the keys collected throughout the lifetime of a gracefully aging grandfather, Michael brings a delightful array of ec
showing through sunday
Based on the classic novel, by Carson McCullers, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, features Alan Arkin in his award-winning performance as John Singer, a Deaf man who moves to a 1930's Georgia mill town to be close to his institutionalized friend who is deaf and mentally impaired. The film follows the struggles of Singer's acquaintances. A powerful, difficult and poignant chronicle of America's oppressed, Deaf Scholars have studied and challenged the portrayal of Singer in this literary classic. 1h45m
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Box Office Babies presentation Fri, Sept 5 @ 1:00
“RIVETING. This exhilarating film makes you shake your head in amazement.” – Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between New York's twin towers, then the world’s tallest buildings. After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail before he was finally released.
Following six and a half years of dreaming of the towers, Petit spent eight months in New York City planning the execution of the coup. Aided by a team of friends and accomplices, Petit was faced with numerous extraordinary challe
showing through tuesday
Fri, Oct 17 @ 1:00
Box Office Babies Presentation
Tues, Oct 21 @ 7:30
Off the Couch Presentation with discussion leader Steven Cooper, PhD
Please note: This show replaces our program originally scheduled for Oct 14
When Kym (Anne Hathaway) returns to the Buchman family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel (Rosemarie Dewitt), she brings a long history of personal crisis, family conflict and tragedy along with her. The wedding couple’s abundant party of friends and relations have gathered for a joyful weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym—with her biting one-liners and flair for bo
showing through nov 27
"There's never been anything like this densely detailed phantasmagoria -- groundbreaking in substance, damned near earth-shaking in style." - Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
From director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Millions) and screenwriter Simon Beaufoy (The Full Monty) comes this darkly funny rags-to-riches story that was a breakout hit at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE is the story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India’s “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” But when the show breaks for t
showing through nov 27
Off the Couch Presentation Tues, Sept 9 @ 7:00 with discussion leader RACHEL SEIDEL, MD
In Woody Allen' latest, two young Americans spend a summer in Spain and meet a flamboyant artist (Javier Bardem) and his beautiful but insane ex-wife (Penelope Cruz). Vicky (Rebecca Hall) is straight-laced and about to be married. Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) is a sexually adventurous free spirit. When they all become amorously entangled, the results are both hilarious and harrowing.
dir. Woody Allen, w/ Bardem, Cruz, Johansson, and Hall
showing through tuesday
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