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
Repertory Series: John Boorman's Primeval Screen
Exorcist 2 at 9:30
(1977) dir John Boorman w/ Linda Blair, Richard Burton, Max Von Sydow [118 min]
This sequel to the wildly popular The Exorcist attempts to answer many of the questions left from the first installment of what was to become a multi-sequeled phenomenon. Four years after the events of the first film, Father Philip Lamont (Burton) has been summoned by the church to investigate the exorcism of Regan (Blair). Father Lamont finds himself entangled with Regan's memories and the demon itself, and must travel to Africa to uncover how to banish the demon once and for all. The plot is at times convoluted, but Boorman's baroque imagery, a score by Ennio Morricone (most famous for the spaghetti westerns of the 1960's), and tinges of religious rebellion, help to make EXORCIST II an underrated cult classic.
one day only
Directed by John Boorman.
With Marcello Mastroianni, Billie Whitelaw, Calvin Lockhart
UK 1970, 35mm, color, 104 min.
Print from MGM
In this Felliniesque allegory of racial and class tension, Marcello Mastroianni plays the title role, a deposed prince living in exile in a run-down London mansion. Watching birds from his window and ignoring the plans of hangers-on to restore him to his lost throne, Leo's gradual involvement with his impoverished black neighbors leads to a climactic act of self-dispossession. One of Boorman's unsung masterpieces, Leo the Last marks an early highpoint in his experiments in art direction. Decor, costumes, and backgrounds are all black, white or brown, and even the exteriors are severely desaturated. The soundtrack is even more experimental, revealing the director’s interest in the musical collages of composer Luciano Berio.
one day only
Directed by John Boorman.
With Powers Boothe, Meg Foster, Yara Vaneau
UK 1985, 35mm, color, 113 min.
Print courtesy of the Irish Film Archive
The Emerald Forest echoes the deep concern of Deliverance for the alienation of modern society caused by its radical separation from nature. Boorman cast his own son as a young American boy whose kidnapping by an indigenous tribe in Brazil leads his father—an engineer building a dam in the Amazon—on a desperate search that lasts several years. Unlike Deliverance's vision of nature as a terrifyingly indifferent force, The Emerald Forest explores its ultimately benevolent side. It is at once an engrossing ecological fable, a recasting of the Oedipal drama and a post-colonial remake of The Searchers.
one day only
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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