Tuesday
August 3
Repertory Series!
Noir 100
Born to Kill
3:45, 7:30 PM
Double Feature
(1947) dir Robert Wise w/Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney [92 min]
Hard-nosed Helen Brent (Trevor) is freshly divorced and heading back to San Francisco to enjoy her new freedom. As she enters the rooming house where she is staying, she discovers a murdered young couple. Trying not to get mixed up in anything, she boards her train home but unwittingly meets the killer, Sam Wild (Tierney), on board, and the attraction is instantaneous.
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Repertory Series!
Noir 100
Johnny Angel
5:45, 9:30 PM
Double Feature
(1945) dir Edwin L. Manin w/George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso, Hoagy Carmichael [79 min]
Claire Trevor proves her power as a femme fatale in this Big Easy set noir. Raft plays Johnny Angel, a ship’s captain who discovers his father murdered and sets off to track down the killer. With the aid of a cab driver, Celestial O’Brien (Carmichael), Angel uncovers a smuggling plot gone awry and the fair-haired demon at the heart of it all (Trevor).
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Special Event! New Documentary Series!
Director in Person!
The DocYard Presents: Speaking in Tongues
8:00 PM
Q+A to follow screening. Tickets $10/$8 Brattle members, students, and seniors; No passes.
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(2009) Directed by Marcia Jarmel & Ken Schneider
What would it be like if your parents put you in a school where the teacher spoke a foreign language?
SPEAKING IN TONGUES uses this scenario to explore the provocative notion that being bilingual can be a national asset. Taking us beyond rote arguments and stereotypes, this intimate film witnesses the joys and challenges of four diverse children on their journey to become global citizens. Enter their world and ask, today is knowing one language enough?
Audience Award: 2009 San Francisco International Film Festival
Honorable Mention: Columbus International Film Festival
Official Selection: Independent Feature Project
About The DocYard:
For decades, Boston has been a center for documentary film making. It i
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August 4
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Repertory Series!
Noir 100
Johnny Angel
5:45, 9:30 PM
Double Feature
(1945) dir Edwin L. Manin w/George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso, Hoagy Carmichael [79 min]
Claire Trevor proves her power as a femme fatale in this Big Easy set noir. Raft plays Johnny Angel, a ship’s captain who discovers his father murdered and sets off to track down the killer. With the aid of a cab driver, Celestial O’Brien (Carmichael), Angel uncovers a smuggling plot gone awry and the fair-haired demon at the heart of it all (Trevor).
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Repertory Series!
(Some of the) Best of the Oughts
Wendy and Lucy
5:45, 9:30* PM
Double Feature w/GEORGE WASHINGTON. *Tentative, please call to confirm this showtime.
(2008) dir Kelly Reichardt w/Michelle Williams [80 min]
Proving why she is one of the most highly-regarded auteurs of current cinema, Kelly Reichardt uses subtle storytelling and a minimalist style to weave together a uniquely emotional and political road film. Wendy (Williams) is driving to Alaska in hopes of a summer of lucrative work at the Northwestern Fish cannery and the start of a new life with her dog, Lucy. When her car breaks down in Oregon, however, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart, and she confronts a series of increasingly dire economic decisions, with far-ranging repercussions for herself and Lucy.
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Thursday
August 5
Repertory Series!
(Some of the) Best of the Oughts
In the Mood for Love
3:15, 7:30 PM
Double Feature w/LOST IN TRANSLATION
(2000) dir Wong Kar Wai w/Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung [98 min]
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE is one of the most achingly romantic films of the decade. Wong sets his film against the backdrop of Hong Kong in the 1960s. Tony Leung plays a newspaper editor who has moved into a new apartment with his wife. At the same time Maggie Cheung moves in next door with her husband. With their spouses always away, Leung and Cheung form a friendship over common interests. Soon they discover that they share more in common than just favorite noodle shops as they begin to suspect that their spouses are having an affair.
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(Some of the) Best of the Oughts
Lost in Translation
5:15, 9:30 PM
Double Feature w/IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE
(2003) dir Sofia Coppola w/Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson [102 min]
Sofia Coppola’s sophomore film took the cinema world by storm and proved once again the serious acting chops of Bill Murray. Murray plays an aging actor visiting Japan to make whiskey commercials. He encounters the gorgeous Scarlett Johansson, a newlywed tagging along with her photographer husband’s latest assignment. They bond through their alienation, recognizing each other instantly as kindred spirits, and flirt with a relationship – maybe romantic, maybe platonic.
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My Tale of Two Cities by Carl Kurlander (2010, 85 min.). This funny and heartfelt film tells the comeback story of screenwriter Carl Kurlander (St. Elmo's Fire), who moved back to his hometown of Pittsburgh during his mid-life crisis. In an attempt to help his hometown while exploring with honesty and humor whether you can go home again, Kurlander asks his neighborsfrom the famous Franco Harris and Teresa Heinz Kerry, to his old gym teacher and the girl who inspired St. Elmo's Firehow this once great industrial giant which built America with its steel, conquered polio, and invented everything from aluminum to The Big Mac, might reinvent itself for a new age.
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Repertory Series!
(Some of the) Best of the Oughts
Wendy and Lucy
5:45, 9:30* PM
Double Feature w/GEORGE WASHINGTON. *Tentative, please call to confirm this showtime.
(2008) dir Kelly Reichardt w/Michelle Williams [80 min]
Proving why she is one of the most highly-regarded auteurs of current cinema, Kelly Reichardt uses subtle storytelling and a minimalist style to weave together a uniquely emotional and political road film. Wendy (Williams) is driving to Alaska in hopes of a summer of lucrative work at the Northwestern Fish cannery and the start of a new life with her dog, Lucy. When her car breaks down in Oregon, however, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart, and she confronts a series of increasingly dire economic decisions, with far-ranging repercussions for herself and Lucy.
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Friday
August 6
Directed by Nicholas Ray.
With Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
US 1950, 35mm, b/w, 94 min.
Print from Sony Pictures
Ray’s second collaboration with Humphrey Bogart is a jet-black film noir whose richly autobiographical undertones and cynical portrait of Hollywood channel what was a deeply troubled period in both Bogart and Ray’s lives, with Bogart recently forced to publicly recant his outspoken opposition to the Communist witch hunts and Ray watching the disintegration of his marriage to actress Gloria Grahame. Bogart’s brilliant but heavy-drinking screenwriter looks good for the murder of a hatcheck girl until his neighbor, played, in her finest performance, by Grahame, offers herself up as his alibi. But she can’t save him from himself, and his destructive actions threaten to destroy their love affair. A palpable sense of loss and loneliness pervades this incredible film, with Grahame and Bogart gazing at each other’s apartments across an empty courtyard in a building closely modeled after the one Ray lived in when he first arrived in Los Angeles.
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(Some of the) Best of the Oughts
Lost in Translation
5:15, 9:30 PM
Double Feature w/IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE
(2003) dir Sofia Coppola w/Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson [102 min]
Sofia Coppola’s sophomore film took the cinema world by storm and proved once again the serious acting chops of Bill Murray. Murray plays an aging actor visiting Japan to make whiskey commercials. He encounters the gorgeous Scarlett Johansson, a newlywed tagging along with her photographer husband’s latest assignment. They bond through their alienation, recognizing each other instantly as kindred spirits, and flirt with a relationship – maybe romantic, maybe platonic.
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Certainly one of Kinos greatest achievements of the past 10 years has been bringing this fantastic resurrection of one of cinemas masterpieces to the U.S. Amid the gleaming towers of a gigantic city of the future the pampered son of the big boss himself is smitten by a young woman and follows her into the depths of the city where he discovers what really makes Metropolis run. As slavishly regimented workers with numbers instead of names toil amid smoke-belching machinery, he has a vision of slaves lining up for sacrifice. Meanwhile, his father anticipates unrest and makes plans to defuse it, inciting an eccentric inventor to fashion an agent provocateur, the robot-Maria one of the most indelible icons of science fiction film.
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Senso by Luchino Visconti (Italy, 1954, 121 min.). As war threatens Austria-occupied Italy in 1866, a nationalist Italian countess (Alida Valli) begins an illicit affair with an Austrian military officer (Farley Granger). The countess must decipher the officers intentions as war and love compete in this operatic story of self-destruction, loyalty, and wealth. Visconti moves away from his neorealist background to melodramatic excess, inviting indulgence through luxurious mise-en-scnes. In all [Viscontis] films, regardless of period or subject matter, visual splendor is combined with meticulous realism and deep historical and psychological insight (Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, British Film Institute).
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Saturday
August 7
Certainly one of Kinos greatest achievements of the past 10 years has been bringing this fantastic resurrection of one of cinemas masterpieces to the U.S. Amid the gleaming towers of a gigantic city of the future the pampered son of the big boss himself is smitten by a young woman and follows her into the depths of the city where he discovers what really makes Metropolis run. As slavishly regimented workers with numbers instead of names toil amid smoke-belching machinery, he has a vision of slaves lining up for sacrifice. Meanwhile, his father anticipates unrest and makes plans to defuse it, inciting an eccentric inventor to fashion an agent provocateur, the robot-Maria one of the most indelible icons of science fiction film.
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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman by Albert Lewin (UK, 1951, 123 min.). James Mason and Ava Gardner star in this rich fantasy of desire and death based on the tale of the Flying Dutchman. Mason, playing a drifting yachtsman moored in a Spanish fishing port, finds a possible end to his curse to wander the seas when he encounters the temptress Pandora (Ava Gardner). With Technicolor and stellar cinematography rendering these stars immortally glorious, this film simply glows.
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Senso by Luchino Visconti (Italy, 1954, 121 min.). As war threatens Austria-occupied Italy in 1866, a nationalist Italian countess (Alida Valli) begins an illicit affair with an Austrian military officer (Farley Granger). The countess must decipher the officers intentions as war and love compete in this operatic story of self-destruction, loyalty, and wealth. Visconti moves away from his neorealist background to melodramatic excess, inviting indulgence through luxurious mise-en-scnes. In all [Viscontis] films, regardless of period or subject matter, visual splendor is combined with meticulous realism and deep historical and psychological insight (Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, British Film Institute).
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Before HOT FUZZ, there was SHAUN, another loving genre parody. Shaun is an almost-thirty-year-old slacker with a dead-end job and a girlfriend whos fed up with his affection for his shiftless friend Ed and the local pub. However, when the dead begin to rise from their graves and zombies threaten to take over London, Shaun finds himself in his element and, with Ed at his side, sets off on a quest to rescue his girl and his beloved mum.
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Sunday
August 8
Directed by Nicholas Ray.
With Maureen O’Hara, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Grahame
US 1949, 35mm, b/w, 85 min.
Print from Warner Bros.
Ray met his future wife Gloria Grahame during the making of this early film (they would subsequently split during the production of In a Lonely Place), in which she plays an ungrateful protégé to Maureen O’Hara’s sophisticated mentor. Set in the world of professional musicians, the film, written by Herman J. Mankiewicz, employs a flashback structure similar to his most famous screenplay, for Citizen Kane, focusing its central mystery around the shooting of Grahame’s character. In only his second film, Ray’s signature use of staircases and overhead shΩots to represent conflict is already evident, as is his incredible talent with actors, particularly the wonderful Jay C. Flippen in a memorable supporting role as a wise, world-weary police officer.
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The comedic masterminds behind SHAUN OF THE DEAD strike again with this relentlessly funny parody of/homage to American buddy cop movies. Wright, Pegg and Frost bring us the story of Nicholas Angel, a London cop who is so good he makes the rest of the force look bad. In retribution, he is transferred to a backwater town with the lowest crime rate in the country. Paired with an absolutely witless partner, Angel soon uncovers a number of suspicious deaths and embarks on a crusade to uncover the dark secret behind the peaceful berg of Sandford.
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Certainly one of Kinos greatest achievements of the past 10 years has been bringing this fantastic resurrection of one of cinemas masterpieces to the U.S. Amid the gleaming towers of a gigantic city of the future the pampered son of the big boss himself is smitten by a young woman and follows her into the depths of the city where he discovers what really makes Metropolis run. As slavishly regimented workers with numbers instead of names toil amid smoke-belching machinery, he has a vision of slaves lining up for sacrifice. Meanwhile, his father anticipates unrest and makes plans to defuse it, inciting an eccentric inventor to fashion an agent provocateur, the robot-Maria one of the most indelible icons of science fiction film.
showing through aug 9
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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman by Albert Lewin (UK, 1951, 123 min.). James Mason and Ava Gardner star in this rich fantasy of desire and death based on the tale of the Flying Dutchman. Mason, playing a drifting yachtsman moored in a Spanish fishing port, finds a possible end to his curse to wander the seas when he encounters the temptress Pandora (Ava Gardner). With Technicolor and stellar cinematography rendering these stars immortally glorious, this film simply glows.
showing through aug 7
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Senso by Luchino Visconti (Italy, 1954, 121 min.). As war threatens Austria-occupied Italy in 1866, a nationalist Italian countess (Alida Valli) begins an illicit affair with an Austrian military officer (Farley Granger). The countess must decipher the officers intentions as war and love compete in this operatic story of self-destruction, loyalty, and wealth. Visconti moves away from his neorealist background to melodramatic excess, inviting indulgence through luxurious mise-en-scnes. In all [Viscontis] films, regardless of period or subject matter, visual splendor is combined with meticulous realism and deep historical and psychological insight (Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, British Film Institute).
showing through aug 7
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Before HOT FUZZ, there was SHAUN, another loving genre parody. Shaun is an almost-thirty-year-old slacker with a dead-end job and a girlfriend whos fed up with his affection for his shiftless friend Ed and the local pub. However, when the dead begin to rise from their graves and zombies threaten to take over London, Shaun finds himself in his element and, with Ed at his side, sets off on a quest to rescue his girl and his beloved mum.
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Monday
August 9
The comedic masterminds behind SHAUN OF THE DEAD strike again with this relentlessly funny parody of/homage to American buddy cop movies. Wright, Pegg and Frost bring us the story of Nicholas Angel, a London cop who is so good he makes the rest of the force look bad. In retribution, he is transferred to a backwater town with the lowest crime rate in the country. Paired with an absolutely witless partner, Angel soon uncovers a number of suspicious deaths and embarks on a crusade to uncover the dark secret behind the peaceful berg of Sandford.
showing through aug 8
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Directed by Nicholas Ray.
With Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
US 1950, 35mm, b/w, 94 min.
Print from Sony Pictures
Ray’s second collaboration with Humphrey Bogart is a jet-black film noir whose richly autobiographical undertones and cynical portrait of Hollywood channel what was a deeply troubled period in both Bogart and Ray’s lives, with Bogart recently forced to publicly recant his outspoken opposition to the Communist witch hunts and Ray watching the disintegration of his marriage to actress Gloria Grahame. Bogart’s brilliant but heavy-drinking screenwriter looks good for the murder of a hatcheck girl until his neighbor, played, in her finest performance, by Grahame, offers herself up as his alibi. But she can’t save him from himself, and his destructive actions threaten to destroy their love affair. A palpable sense of loss and loneliness pervades this incredible film, with Grahame and Bogart gazing at each other’s apartments across an empty courtyard in a building closely modeled after the one Ray lived in when he first arrived in Los Angeles.
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Certainly one of Kinos greatest achievements of the past 10 years has been bringing this fantastic resurrection of one of cinemas masterpieces to the U.S. Amid the gleaming towers of a gigantic city of the future the pampered son of the big boss himself is smitten by a young woman and follows her into the depths of the city where he discovers what really makes Metropolis run. As slavishly regimented workers with numbers instead of names toil amid smoke-belching machinery, he has a vision of slaves lining up for sacrifice. Meanwhile, his father anticipates unrest and makes plans to defuse it, inciting an eccentric inventor to fashion an agent provocateur, the robot-Maria one of the most indelible icons of science fiction film.
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Repertory Series!
Noir 100
The Chase
5:30, 9:15 PM
Double Feature
(1946) dir Arthur Ripley w/Robert Cummings, Michele Morgan [86 min]
A prime example of the dark, chaotic world of Cornell Woolrich, THE CHASE features Cummings as Chuck Scott, a down on his luck vet who gets a lucky break from a big shot businessman, becoming his driver. Then he meets the boss’s wife and things get really weird. She asks Chuck to help her escape her unsavory husband and, after he agrees, he has a dream in which they are both murdered.
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Tuesday
August 10
Repertory Series!
Noir 100
The Chase
5:30, 9:15 PM
Double Feature
(1946) dir Arthur Ripley w/Robert Cummings, Michele Morgan [86 min]
A prime example of the dark, chaotic world of Cornell Woolrich, THE CHASE features Cummings as Chuck Scott, a down on his luck vet who gets a lucky break from a big shot businessman, becoming his driver. Then he meets the boss’s wife and things get really weird. She asks Chuck to help her escape her unsavory husband and, after he agrees, he has a dream in which they are both murdered.
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