In Focus: Writing for Cinema
In Focus: Writing for Cinema
January 16–February 27, 2019
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It Happened One Night
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The Fallen Idol
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Things to Come
- Upcoming
Films - Past
Films - Past
Events
Past Films
Everlasting Moments
Jan Troell
Sweden/Denmark, 2008Added Screening!
Wednesday, January 16 3:10 PMAgneta Ulfsäter-Troell and Linda H. Rugg in ConversationView DetailsBased on the life of Maria Larsson—wife, mother, and pioneering photographer in early twentieth-century Sweden—this exquisite period piece has much to tell us today about the bonds of family and the liberating power of art.
The Fallen Idol
Carol Reed
United Kingdom, 1948Wednesday, January 23 3:10 PMDavid Thomson and Michael Ondaatje in ConversationView DetailsGraham Greene and Carol Reed’s gripping, gorgeously visualized thriller about a boy, a butler, and the butler’s secrets “reminds us of the glories of the black-and-white cinema at its peak” (New York Observer).
Things to Come
Mia Hansen-Løve
France, 2016Wednesday, January 30 3:10 PMMia Hansen-Løve and Linda H. Rugg in ConversationView DetailsPhilosophy professor Isabelle Huppert competently juggles career and family—until an unexpected series of events forces her to rethink her entire life—in Hansen-Løve’s festival favorite. “Huppert is extraordinary” (Time).
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Fritz Lang
Germany, 1931Digital Restoration
BAMPFA Student Committee PickThis film is also screening (without in-person speakers) on:
Sunday, January 20, 2 PM
Friday, February 8, 8 PMWednesday, February 13 3:10 PMIntroduction by David ThomsonView DetailsA precursor to American noir, Lang’s masterpiece is a terrifying excursion into an urban underworld where there are few moral distinctions between organized crime and organized law enforcement. With Peter Lorre in his definitive performance.
Autobiography of a Princess
James Ivory
United Kingdom, 1975Wednesday, February 20 3:10 PMJames Ivory and Ajay Gehlawat in ConversationView DetailsThe adoring daughter (Madhur Jaffrey) of a once-powerful maharajah invites her father’s tutor (James Mason) to tea, and stories begin to flow, in Ivory’s critique of colonial memory. With shorts The Sword and the Flute and The Creation of Woman.
It Happened One Night
Frank Capra
United States, 1934Digital Restoration
Wednesday, February 27 3:10 PMVictoria Riskin and Joseph McBride in ConversationView DetailsRunaway heiress Claudette Colbert and reporter Clark Gable meet cute in this racy Depression-era romp with Oscar-winning repartee by Robert Riskin.