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coming up at boston's independent moviehouses - the brattle, harvard film archive, mfa and coolidge

Cloud 9 by Andreas Dresen (Germany, 2008, 98 min.). Inge, who has been married to Werner for the last 30 years, works in her apartment altering clothes for a small profit. While delivering a pair of pants to a 76-year old client, Karl, she winds up kissing him and before long, finds herself involved wth him in a passionate affair. Winner of the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at last years Cannes Film Festival, as well as Best Director and Best Actress prizes at this years German Film Awards, the film is deeply moving [and] immaculately acted (Philip French, The Guardian). In German with English subtitles. showing through aug 7 find a trailer find/upload a trailer

Dogtooth by Yorgos Lathimos (Greece, 2009, 96 min.). Winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, Dogtooth is a darkly funny look at three teenagers confined to their parents isolated country estate, kept under strict rule and regimen. Terrorized into submission by their father, the children spend their days learning an invented vocabulary and living in an absurdist, nightmarish experimentuntil a trusted outsider, brought in to satisfy the sons libidinal urges, starts bringing gifts for the teens. A hyper-stylized mixture of physical violence and verbal comedy, Dogtooths ruthless satire of middle-class mores heralds the arrival of an important new voice in world cinema. In Greek with English subtitles. final showing find a trailer find/upload a trailer

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. showing through aug 9 find a trailer find/upload a trailer

Repertory Series! (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. http://www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/series/2010/images/julaug-best-lost.jpg showing through aug 5 find a trailer find/upload a trailer

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 view trailer not the right trailer?

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 find a trailer find/upload a trailer