Week of August 25, 2013

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Sunday, August 25

Sunday, August 25, 2013
1 pm
Just added! Hayao Miyazaki (Japan, 1988). (Tonari no Totoro). English-language version. Ages 4 and up. Two sisters encounter wood sprites, magical trees, and flying “cat buses” in this enchanting tale that has become one of the most beloved of all family films. (87 mins)
Sunday, August 25, 2013
3 pm
Hayao Miyazaki (Japan, 1988). (Tonari no Totoro). English-language version. Ages 4 and up. Two sisters encounter wood sprites, magical trees, and flying “cat buses” in this enchanting tale that has become one of the most beloved of all family films. (87 mins)
Sunday, August 25, 2013
5 pm
Hayao Miyazaki (Japan, 1984). (Kaze no tani no Nausicaä). Ages 10 and up. A girl both soldier and scientist seeks to reconcile the last remnants of her still-warring species with the monstrous biological order overtaking earth. “One of the best science-fiction films made anywhere during the 1980s” (Carl Horn). (116 mins)

Monday, August 26

Tuesday, August 27

Wednesday, August 28

Wednesday, August 28, 2013
7 pm
Alfred Hitchcock (U.K., 1928). Digital Restoration! Judith Rosenberg on piano. Betty Balfour is a frivolous flapper whose millionaire father looks to teach her a lesson in frugality by letting her think he's gone bankrupt. (105 mins)
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
8:30 pm
Theodore J. Flicker (U.S., 1964). Free Outdoor Screening. Poetry reading by Adam Sussman. Kick off the fall semester in some troublemaking style with this retro beat "classic," involving a finger-snapping beatnik, some Greenwich Village mobsters, and a handful of nubile, too-cool-for-school beauties. Written by Buck Henry of The Graduate.(80 mins)

Thursday, August 29

Thursday, August 29, 2013
7 pm
Béla Tarr (Hungary, 2007). (A Londoni férfi). Hungarian master of metaphysical melancholy Béla Tarr (Sátántangó, Werckmeister Harmonies) ventures deep into the shadows of film noir with this stately, stunningly photographed adaptation of Simenon's L'homme de Londres, featuring an intense performance by Tilda Swinton. (132 mins)

Friday, August 30

Friday, August 30, 2013
7 pm
Alfred Hitchcock (U.K., 1927). Digital Restoration! Judith Rosenberg on piano. An adaptation of the Noël Coward play, a drama about an uptight British society family. With one of the first cameos by the director. (82 mins)
Friday, August 30, 2013
8:30 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). Also playing on Thursday, August 8. (124 mins)

Saturday, August 31

Saturday, August 31, 2013
6:15 pm
Alfred Hitchcock (U.K., 1929). Digital Restoration! Judith Rosenberg on piano. A powerful love triangle set among the fishing community on the Isle of Man. Hitchcock's last silent. (90 mins)
Saturday, August 31, 2013
8:15 pm
Jacques Demy (France, 1964). (Les parapluies de Cherbourg). Digital Restoration! A paean to Catherine Deneuve, French design, 1960s chic, MGM musicals, and the songs of Michel Legrand. A boy and girl love, lose, love again, and lose again against an assortment of fabulous wallpaper, singing all the while. Also playing on Saturday, July 27. (92 mins)