Week of March 24, 2013

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Sunday, March 24

Sunday, March 24, 2013
3 pm
Jean Rouch (France/Niger, 1965). A chronicle of the technological aspects of lion hunting, filmed in northern Niger and Mali. “A fascinating account” (Jonathan Rosenbaum). With Ghana short Mammy Water. (95 mins)
Sunday, March 24, 2013
5 pm
Alfred Hitchcock (U.S., 1956). This remake of Hitchcock's own 1934 spy film stars Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day as an American couple caught up in a spy ring and an assassination attempt while visiting Technicolor Marrakech. “One of the suspense master's best pictures” (San Francisco Chronicle). (120 mins)

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Thursday, March 28

Thursday, March 28, 2013
7 pm
Dino Risi (Italy, 1962). Imported 35mm Print! Il sorpasso is a pungent, satiric view of the economic boom of the late fifties and early sixties. Vittorio Gassman plays a seasoned playboy who tutors a reluctant student (Jean-Louis Trintignant) in the ways of the world. (105 mins)
Thursday, March 28, 2013
9 pm
Alain Cavalier (France, 1962). Cavalier's first feature embeds the political tensions of early-sixties France in a New Wave love triangle, with Anne (Romy Schneider) and Clément (Jean-Louis Trintignant) as an almost a model bourgeois couple-except for Clément's jealous rages, and the fact that he is a right-wing extremist. (104 mins)

Friday, March 29

Friday, March 29, 2013
7 pm
Luis García Berlanga (Spain, 1953). Archival print! A tiny Spanish backwater pulls out all the stops to reinvent itself as a postcard-perfect Andalusian village-complete with flamenco dancing, bullfights, and more-in order to impress delegates doling out financial rewards in Berlanga's satirical jab at Spanish national values. (86 mins)
Friday, March 29, 2013
8:45 pm
Eric Rohmer (France, 1969). Imported 35mm Print! Language and philosophy form the centerpieces of seduction in Rohmer's elegant tale, involving a young Catholic (Jean-Louis Trintignant) holed up during a winter storm with the witty, seemingly irresistible divorcée, Maud. (105 mins)

Saturday, March 30

Saturday, March 30, 2013
6 pm
Claude Lelouch (France, 1966). New Restored 35mm Print! Winner of both the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, A Man and a Woman boasts two of France's biggest stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant and the supernal Anouk Aimée, whose characters are both recovering from tragic loss. (102 mins)
Saturday, March 30, 2013
8 pm
In this special presentation, director of the Munich Filmmuseum Stefan Drössler illuminates the beginnings of Schroeter's film career through photos, documents, and tantalizing rare clips of Schroeter's first 8mm films and home movies, digitally preserved by the Munich Filmmuseum. (90 mins)