Week of February 9, 2014

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Sunday, February 9

Sunday, February 9, 2014
3pm
Satyajit Ray (India, 1963). 35mm Restored Print! In honor of the centenary of the writer Rabindranath Tagore's birth, Ray made this feature based on three Tagore stories. (171 mins)

Monday, February 10

Tuesday, February 11

Tuesday, February 11, 2014
7pm
Eyal Sivan (Israel/France/Germany, 1999). Inspired by Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, The Specialist is composed entirely from archival footage from the 1961 Israeli trial of the Nazi SS lieutenant colonel Adolf Eichmann. “An amazing document. Succeeds on quiet, frightening terms” (New York Times). Preceded by Deborah Stratman's Village, Silenced. (135 mins)

Wednesday, February 12

Wednesday, February 12, 2014
3:10PM
Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly (U.S., 1952). Lecture by Emily Carpenter. Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds dance their way across the screen in one of the greatest American musicals of all time, set during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound. (102 mins)
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
7 pm
Three award-winning portraits of African life, both on the continent and in the U.S.: Frances Bodomo's Boneshaker (starring Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis), Akosua Adoma Owusu's spellbinding Kwaku Ananse, and Bentley Brown's Faisal Goes West. (72 mins)

Thursday, February 13

Thursday, February 13, 2014
7pm
Anthony Mann (U.S., 1948). Introduced by Max Alvarez. Archival Print! Two U.S. Treasury Agents go underground to shut down a funny-money ring in this documentary-style noir, shot by the great John Alton. (92 mins)

Friday, February 14

Friday, February 14, 2014
7 pm
Howard Hawks (U.S., 1953). Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe are two gold diggers from Little Rock who prove that big shiny rocks are a girl's best friend in Hawks's brash, satiric take on the musical genre. Seriously saucy, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes augured the end of screwball and the opening of the cleavage comedy. (91 mins)
Friday, February 14, 2014
8:50pm
Anthony Mann (U.S., 1948). Introduced by Max Alvarez. Archival Print! A convict breaks out of jail in search of vengeance-but a demented thug (Raymond Burr) has other ideas. In another stylish, shadowy Mann/Alton collaboration from the 1940s, "the violence, both physical and emotional, is still shocking” (Chicago Reader). (78 mins)

Saturday, February 15

Saturday, February 15, 2014
5:45pm
Satyajit Ray (India, 1963). 35mm Restored Print! Ray sets his ironic and humorous eye on the plight of the Bengali middle class, caught amid the changing moralities of urban life. Focusing in particular on the role of women in this metamorphosis, Ray tells a story that is both minutely particular to Calcutta and universally recognizable. (135 mins)
Saturday, February 15, 2014
8:20 pm
Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1964). New Digital Restoration! Godard's Homeric homage to Fritz Lang, “one of the defining moments of modernist filmmaking” (Film Comment). With Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance. (103 mins)