Week of August 4, 2013

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Sunday, August 4

Sunday, August 4, 2013
4:30 pm
Goro Miyazaki (Japan, 2011). (Kokuriko-zaka kara). Ages 8 and up. A tale of teenage love set in a lovingly recreated cityscape of 1960s Yokohama, From Up on Poppy Hill is the latest release from Studio Ghibli. (91 mins)
Sunday, August 4, 2013
6:30 pm
Jacques Demy (France, 1970). (Peau d'âne). Digital Restoration! This charming adaptation of a fairy tale by Charles Perrault (creator of Cinderella) has been called Demy's “grand synthesis of Cocteau and Minnelli.” Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, and Delphine Seyrig star. (90 mins)

Monday, August 5

Tuesday, August 6

Wednesday, August 7

Wednesday, August 7, 2013
7 pm
Raoul Walsh (U.S., 1941). High Sierra ushered in the era of the gangster as existential antihero, with Humphrey Bogart as “Mad Dog” Roy Earle hiding out in the Sierras and Ida Lupino as the cabaret singer who loves him. (96 mins)

Thursday, August 8

Thursday, August 8, 2013
7 pm
Jacques Demy (France, 1967). (Les demoiselles de Rochefort). Catherine Deneuve and sister Françoise Dorléac are twins lifted out of their small-town reveries by a troupe of wandering entertainers led by Mr. American in Paris himself, Gene Kelly. "Not merely charming or amusing, but profoundly moving" (Sight and Sound). Repeated on Friday, August 30. (124 mins)

Friday, August 9

Friday, August 9, 2013
7 pm
Agnès Varda (France, 1993). (Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans). Agnès Varda's splendid documentary revisits the town of Rochefort on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the shooting of The Young Girls of Rochefort, where she finds evidence of the film's lasting effects on the townspeople. The perfect accompaniment to Demy's masterful achievement. With short, Ars. (83 mins)
Friday, August 9, 2013
8:45 pm
Cédric Kahn (France, 2003). (Feux rouges). In Kahn's taut, stylized thriller, a couple's holiday excursion to pick up their children from summer camp devolves into a nightmarish road trip. Simenon's novel is set in the United States; Kahn's lost highways span Paris to Bordeaux. “A pitch-perfect, paranoid fantasy” (Film Comment). (105 mins)

Saturday, August 10

Saturday, August 10, 2013
6:30 pm
Raoul Walsh (U.S., 1940). An atmospheric tale of long-haul truckers (Humphrey Bogart and George Raft) during the Great Depression. With Ida Lupino, as the wronged woman, whose performance made her an overnight star. (93 mins)
Saturday, August 10, 2013
8:30 pm
Raoul Walsh (U.S., 1949). A fast-paced, violent classic of the American gangster genre starring James Cagney as the cocky Cody Jarrett, hell-bent on mayhem. “Ma. Top of the world!” (114 mins)