Directed by John Boorman.
With Dave Clark, Barbara Ferris, Lenny Davidson
UK 1965, 35mm, b/w, 91 min.
Print from Warner Brothers
Conceived by the Dave Clark Five as an answer to the Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night, Catch Us If You Can is both an expression of the spirit of Swinging London in the 1960s and a prescient critique of its inevitable commodification. The story tells of a famous young model (Barbara Ferris, in a part designed for Marianne Faithfull) who flees the set of a television commercial with a stuntman. Their subsequent road trip in a white Jaguar leads to encounters with beatniks, military training exercises and a costume ball, all the while being chased by henchmen from the ad agency. The film’s style blends New Wave playfulness with the analytic coolness that underpins much of Boorman’s work. “We drew a portrait of a shallow, materialistic society, controlled and manipulated by advertising where youth was a commodity. It was a bleak picture, but expressed as comedy.”—J.B.
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Directed by John Boorman.
With John Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty
US 1972, 35mm, color, 110 min.
Print from Warner Brothers
One of the high points of the 1970s “New Hollywood,” Deliverance was a hugely influential critical and commercial success. Boorman's classic film lays bare two key Seventies preoccupations—anxiety about the environment and uncertainty about the meaning and worth of masculinity—into a brilliantly brooding existential horror story about a group of four middle aged Atlanta men whose weekend canoe trip in the woods turns into a fight for their lives. While a faithful adaptation the riveting novel by poet James Dickey, who also wrote the screenplay, Deliverance is also an important extension of the critique of violence central to key Boorman films such as Point Break and Hell in the Pacific.
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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.
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Head Wind by Mohammad Rasoulof (2008, 65 min.). A candid and searing look inside the Islamic Republic, revealing its losing battle for control over the flow of information into the country from the outside world. What at first seems like an effort to deny people access to Hollywood films, the documentary unfolds to reveal that at the heart of this struggle beats the desire of the people for self-determination and open access to information. This remarkable film touches on one of the major post-1979 Iranian issues by examining Irans underground satellite, Internet, and DVD culture. Description adapted from the Tribeca Film Festival.
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Directed by John Boorman.
Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Geraldine Muir, Sarah Miles
UK 1987, 35mm, color, 113 min.
Print from Sony
Many of Boorman’s best works center around a protagonist whose placid existence is suddenly transformed by a strange and violent eruption from the outside world. In Hope and Glory, it is Bill, a nine year-old living in London, whose life is upturned and intensified by the brutality of the 1940-41 Blitz. As the grownups worry, the adolescents flirt and fall in love, and the children rejoice in the freedom afforded by the disruptions of the bombing. The film is perhaps Boorman’s most classical, linking streamlined storytelling at its most entertaining to the director’s fascination with the anarchic side of human nature that is both troubling and cathartic.
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Repertory Series: John Boorman's Primeval Screen
Zardoz at 9:30
(1974) dir John Boorman w/ Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman [105 min]
I'm not sure that even John Boorman would be able to tell you what ZARDOZ is about. And you know what? It doesn't matter, this movie rules! Zed (Connery) is some sort of maverick/renegade/warrior who sneaks into another dimension through the mouth of a giant floating stone head, and does so while looking mildly embarrassed and mostly nude. This stone head is Zardoz, a god who promises immortality for all who believe in him. When Zed crosses into this other dimension things go awry and suddenly there are angry septuagenarians, a whole bunch of brief nudity, and a lot of Sean Connery riding a horse while wearing a sarong made of bullets and the gnarliest mustache-ponytail combo you have ever seen.
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Lonely Tune of Tehran by Saman Salour (France, 2008, 75 min.). Quiet loner, Behrouz, a former radio operator who served in the Iran/Iraq war, meets up with his long lost cousin, Hamid, a flamboyant, unemployed telecommunications engineer. They decide to make some money installing satellite dishes in private homes, an illegal, but lucrative activity. A hopeful film about two lost souls whose songs of solitude ring out in the vastness of the city.
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Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine by Amei Wallach and Marion Cajoli (2008, 99 min.). This complex, fascinating, and unpredictable documentary about sculpture artist Louise Bourgeois shows how the emotions of the past reveal themselves in her evocative and often terrifying works. Strongly influenced by Surrealists like Brancusi and Picasso, the aggressive nature and elemental design is still used in her sculptures, installations, and drawings today. Bourgeois use of unorthodox materials and techniques fused with a postwar sensibility helped her create artwork that represented the emerging radical ideas of the body, gender and sexuality. The uncommonly elegant and evocative portrait reveals much about this haunting and haunted master. (The New York Times).
showing through nov 30
$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
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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
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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
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WARCHILD, the second part of Christian Wagner's planned Balkan Blues Trilogy, describes the dilemma of the people whose lives were ruptured by the Bosnian conflict. Thirty-year-old Senada tries to find peace after the war. In the whirlwind of the conflict, she has been separated from her then two-year-old daughter Aida, who has since been listed as missing. But Senada refuses to give up her search and finds out that she's been given to German foster parents. After a harrowing illegal border crossing to Ulm, a town in Southern Germany, Senada finds her: now 12 and renamed Kristina, being raised by a well-to-do German couple. As she observes her daughter from a cafe near their home, Senada discovers she can't trust anyone.
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