June 2014

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Saturday, June 14, 2014
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Wojciech Has (Poland, 1964) Digital Restoration! Alice in Wonderland by way of Napoleon, this surrealist Polish fantasy was a favorite of both Luis Buñuel and Jerry Garcia. An army officer during the Napoleonic Wars gets lost-waaay lost. (184 mins)
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Sunday, June 15, 2014
6:30 pm
Andrzej Wajda (Poland, 1958) Digital Restoration! On the last day of the war, a young Resistance fighter (Zbigniew Cybulski) is caught in a Hamlet-like quandary: to kill or not to kill. (104 mins)
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014
7 pm
John Ford (U.S., 1940). Restored 75th Anniversary Version. Introduced by Susan Shillinglaw. Gray Brechin, Susan Shillinglaw, and Harvey Smith in conversation. John Ford's adaptation of the great John Steinbeck novel follows the Joad family on their harrowing journey from Oklahoma to California during the Great Depression. Henry Fonda stars. (129 mins)
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Thursday, June 19, 2014
7 pm
Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan, 1953). (Ugetsu monogatari). BAM/PFA Collection Print! Consistently named as one of the best films ever made, Mizoguchi's ethereal fable crafts the darkest shadows from the darkest human desires. In sixteenth-century Japan, a potter has his head turned by a phantom enchantress, with predictable results. (96 mins)
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Friday, June 20, 2014
7 pm
Andrzej Munk (Poland, 1958) Digital Restoration! Composed of two separate stories, Munk's breakthrough film was heralded as capturing “the heroic gesture and bitter irony of Polish fate.” (85 mins)
Friday, June 20, 2014
8:50 pm
Alain Resnais (France, 1961). It's déjà vu all over the place in Alain Resnais's elegant, labyrinthine puzzle, written by Alain Robbe-Grillet and starring Delphine Seyrig. (94 mins)
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Saturday, June 21, 2014
6:30pm
Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan, 1936). (Gion no shimai). In this famous melodrama, Mizoguchi strips away the romantic veneer of the geisha ideal in this unsentimental portrait of the sex business as a losing proposition for both the tradition-bound geisha and the modern girl alike. “A masterpiece” (Tadao Sato). (69 mins)
Saturday, June 21, 2014
8pm
Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan, 1936). (Naniwa hika). Imported Print! In a 1936 Osaka sparkling with the seductive allure of capitalism, Mizoguchi depicts the humiliations of a switchboard operator who adapts to the times. Isuzu Yamada stars in “Mizoguchi's most brilliant pre-war film” (Joan Mellen). (72 mins)
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Sunday, June 22, 2014
6:30pm
Aleksander Ford (Poland, 1960) Digital Restoration! Honorable knights, fair maidens, and sadistic villains battle for glory and love in this epic adaptation of one of the great works of Polish literature. “A super spectacle” (The Guardian). (173 mins)
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014
7 pm
Jerzy Kawalerowicz (Poland, 1961) Digital Restoration! A real-life devil possession in medieval France forms the basis of one of the most visually striking Polish New Wave films, “a protest against all dogmatism” (Jerzy Kawalerowicz). (101 mins)
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Thursday, June 26, 2014
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Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan, 1939). (Zangiku monogatari). Imported Print! Amid the clamorous and rigorous world of kabuki, a would-be actor owes his artistic development to his lover's encouragement and ultimate self-sacrifice. (142 mins)
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Friday, June 27, 2014
7 pm
Andrzej Wajda (Poland, 1960) Digital Restoration! A jazz-playing, motorcycle-riding doctor represents Poland's lost generation of the fifties, who survived the war but couldn't face the peace. (88 mins)
Friday, June 27, 2014
8:50 pm
Christopher Guest (U.S., 1996). Guest's spiffy spoof is Spinal Tap meets Samuel Beckett. A small town theater troupe, led by a self-deluded director (Guest), gets ready for a big show, and won't let its lack of talent get in the way. Eugene Levy, Parker Posey, Catherine O'Hara, and Fred Willard costar. (84 mins)
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Saturday, June 28, 2014
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Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan, 1941/1942). (Genroku Chushingura). Imported Print! Mizoguchi tackles one of Japan's most enduring tales-the vengeance of forty-seven warriors following their lord's forced hara-kiri-in this lavishly budgeted epic, filmed during WWII. Special admission prices apply. (219 mins, with a 15-minute intermission between parts I and II)
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Sunday, June 29, 2014
3:30 pm
Free Admission: BAM/PFA Family Day. Author/illustrator Christy Hale in person. These short animated films-films based on books by Leo Lionni, Maurice Sendak, Dr. Seuss, Tomi Ungerer, and more-explore trust, collaboration, difference, and the unexpected. (67 mins)
Sunday, June 29, 2014
6pm
Harold Ramis (U.S., 1993) In 4K Digital Cinema! It's one of those days again-literally, as Bill Murray finds himself reliving the same day over and over again in Harold Ramis's delightfully droll comedy. Andie MacDowell and cult comic Chris Elliott costar. (101 mins)
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Saturday, July 5, 2014
6:30pm
Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan, 1946). (Utamaro omeguru gonin no onna). This biography of the legendary eighteenth-century ukiyo-e artist Utamaro is “the closest Mizoguchi came to an autobiographical statement about the making of art” (Phillip Lopate). (93 mins)
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Saturday, July 5, 2014
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Derek Jarman, Paul Humfress (U.K., 1976) New Digital Restoration! Jarman's first feature caused riots at the 1977 Locarno Festival. Set on the sunny, sandy coastline of Sardinia, it is a homoerotic rendering of the legend of St. Sebastian-in Latin, with English subtitles. (82 mins)