Week of July 23, 2017

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Sunday, July 23

Sunday, July 23, 2017
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

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Sunday, July 23, 2017
4:30 PM
Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel,
France, Switzerland,
2016,
(104 mins)
This new documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.
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Sunday, July 23, 2017
7 PM
Servando González,
United States,
1965,
(99 mins)

Based on the novel by Helen Eustis

In post–Civil War Tennessee, a young boy escapes abuse at home only to encounter Americana gone berserk in this eerily faithful rendering of Eustis’s novel. Anthony Perkins costars.

Monday, July 24

Tuesday, July 25

Wednesday, July 26

Wednesday, July 26, 2017
7 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1963,
(143 mins)
A kidnapping becomes a moral dilemma for executive Mifune in “one of the best detective thrillers ever filmed” (New York Times).

Thursday, July 27

Thursday, July 27, 2017
4–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Included with admission
Thursday, July 27, 2017
7 PM
Pedro Almodóvar,
Spain,
1988,
(88 mins)
Longtime Almodóvar icon Carmen Maura is but one of many women on the verge in Almodóvar’s international breakthrough, a riotous blend of screwball comedy and fifties melodramas that’s “as crowd-pleasing as it is color-coordinated” (J. Hoberman).

Friday, July 28

Friday, July 28, 2017
4–9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Included with admission
Friday, July 28, 2017
7 PM
Roy Ward Baker,
United States,
1952,
(76 mins)

Based on Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong

Marilyn Monroe and Richard Widmark make an unstable pair in this psychological thriller involving a suicidal young woman and the jaded pilot who hopes to use her as a quick fling.
Friday, July 28, 2017
8:45 PM
(96 mins)
Kurosawa’s spirited follow-up to Yojimbo finds Mifune leading a band of comically inept samurai. “A superb parody” (Donald Richie).

Saturday, July 29

Saturday, July 29, 2017
6 PM
Andrei Konchalovsky,
USSR,
1966,
(96 mins)

BAMPFA Collection Print

Konchalovsky’s first feature, set in a Kirghiz village shortly after the Revolution. “Expressed with a deft simplicity of style and a rare quality of emotion” (Michel Ciment).
Saturday, July 29, 2017
7:30 PM
Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins,
United States,
1961,
(185 mins)

Free on Our Outdoor Screen!

Sharks and Jets sing, dance, and rumble their way through the streets and back alleys of late-fifties NYC in a dizzying rush of youth that knows no bounds.
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Saturday, July 29, 2017
8 PM
Julien Duvivier,
France,
1947,

New Digital Restoration

Duvivier’s long-unseen Simenon adaptation, starring Michel Simon and Viviane Romance, is an “allegory of wartime collaborationism and the cruel madness of rumor, fear and spite” (Village Voice).