Week of August 24, 2014

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Sunday, August 24

Sunday, August 24, 2014
5 pm
Satyajit Ray (India, 1989). A beloved doctor discovers that the holy water from a local temple is the source of his community's illness, in this timeless tale of science versus religion adapted from an Ibsen play. (100 mins)
Sunday, August 24, 2014
7pm
Judd Apatow (U.S., 2007). A dumpy stoner (Seth Rogen) accidentally knocks up a comely careerist (Katherine Heigl) in Apatow's classic boy-bleeps-girl story. (129 mins)

Monday, August 25

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Wednesday, August 27

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
7pm
Lewis Milestone (U.S., 1930). New 35mm Print! Director Lewis Milestone won an Academy Award for this film, one of the boldest statements ever made about the cruelty and futility of war. Set in Europe during WWI, the plot follows the disillusionment of idealist young German soldiers as they confront the realities of the battlefield. (143 mins)
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
8:30pm
Ed Dein (U.S., 1955). Free outdoor screening! Who would have thought a burger joint could be a command center for commie spies? Lee Marvin stars in this deliriously trashy espionage flick that mixes short-order cooks, top-secret scientists, and over-the-top Cold War paranoia. Plus surprise short! (80 mins)

Thursday, August 28

Thursday, August 28, 2014
7 pm
Derek Jarman (U.K., 1993). One of the most intense and personal cinematic experiences ever made, a philosophical rumination on illness, death, life, and most of all, transcendence. With Andy Kipton Nye's short portrait, The Gospel According to St. Derek. (112 mins)

Friday, August 29

Friday, August 29, 2014
7pm
Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan, 1956). (Akasen chitai). Mizoguchi's last film brought together some of Japan's greatest actresses-including Machiko Kyo and Ayako Wakao-to dramatize the struggles and dreams of five prostitutes in Tokyo's red-light district. “The best of all films examining the problems of women in postwar Japan” (Donald Richie). (86 mins)
Friday, August 29, 2014
8:45pm
Larry Charles (U.S., 2006). Cultural comic and chameleon Sacha Baron Cohen transforms himself into a curious, and curiously thonged, Kazakh journalist on tour through the stranger edges of America. Will he survive rodeos, beach culture, and more? (84 mins)

Saturday, August 30

Saturday, August 30, 2014
6:30 pm
Satyajit Ray (India, 1990). (Shakha Proshakha). Family ties turn to family binds in this tale of a dying patriarch and his four sons, none of whom are ready to forget their past. “Everything moves and breathes, everything has nuance and depth”(Jean-Michel Frodon, Le Monde). (130 mins)
Saturday, August 30, 2014
8:50pm
Wes Anderson (U.S., 2004). Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) is an oddball oceanographer assembling a ship-of-fools with long-lost son (Owen Wilson) and crew, along with the ever-mellifluous Seu Jorge, who punctuates the proceedings by singing David Bowie songs in Portuguese. (118 mins)