A Theater Near You

9/23/11 to 10/30/11

An ongoing series featuring rare prints of classic and contemporary films, A Theater Near You presents a new 35mm print of Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest (1950); a stunning new 35mm restoration of Alberto Cavalcanti's World War II drama Went the Day Well? (1942); and two wonderful films from Eric Rohmer, Summer (Le rayon vert, 1986) and Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987).

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  • Summer

    • Sunday, October 30 4 pm

    Eric Rohmer (France, 1986) (Le rayon vert) New 35mm Print! The astounding performance of Marie Rivière as a lonely woman searching for company-yet unwilling to compromise-grounds this airy, ephemeral summertime tale. “Rohmer's ultimate masterwork” (Andrew Sarris). Best Film, Venice Film Festival. (98 mins)

  • Summer

    • Saturday, October 29 6:30 pm

    Eric Rohmer (France, 1986) (Le rayon vert) New 35mm Print! The astounding performance of Marie Rivière as a lonely woman searching for company-yet unwilling to compromise-grounds this airy, ephemeral summertime tale. “Rohmer's ultimate masterwork” (Andrew Sarris). Best Film, Venice Film Festival. (98 mins)

  • Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle

    • Saturday, October 29 8:30 pm

    Eric Rohmer (France, 1987) New 35mm print! Two women, country artist and city student, in a comedy “apparently evanescent, yet remarkably weighty and memorable” (N.Y. Times). (95 mins)

  • Went the Day Well?

    • Thursday, October 6 7 pm

    Alberto Cavalcanti (U.K., 1942) New 35mm Restoration! Cavalcanti's noir/wartime propaganda satire, made at the height of WWII, involves the infiltration of an unsuspecting British village by sixty German paratroopers. “A prescient masterpiece! A conspiracy thriller, a black-comic nightmare, and a surrealist masterpiece!” (Guardian). (92 mins)

  • Diary of a Country Priest

    • Sunday, September 25 4:15pm

    Robert Bresson (France, 1950) New 35mm Print! A young country priest tries to live a pure life of goodness, but his parishioners respond with only scorn and indifference, in Bresson's masterful work. “A film of great purity, and at the end, almost Bach-like intensity” (Pauline Kael). (114 mins)

  • Diary of a Country Priest

    • Friday, September 23 8:30pm

    Robert Bresson (France, 1950) New 35mm Print! A young country priest tries to live a pure life of goodness, but his parishioners respond with only scorn and indifference, in Bresson's masterful work. “A film of great purity, and at the end, almost Bach-like intensity” (Pauline Kael). (114 mins)