Week of August 31, 2014

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Sunday, August 31

Sunday, August 31, 2014
5 pm
Satyajit Ray (India, 1991). (Agantuk). Introduced by Dilip Basu. A comfortable Calcutta couple are visited by a seemingly long-lost uncle, who regales them with tales of his adventures until certain doubts emerge. Ray's last film is “an extraordinary summing up of so much of Ray's worldview” (Film Society of Lincoln Center). (120 mins)
Sunday, August 31, 2014
7:30 pm
Robin Hardy (U.K., 1973) Restored “Final Cut”! A police sergeant heads to a rustic British isle to investigate the disappearance of a young girl, and finds far more than he bargains for, in this eerie and influential horror film. Christopher Lee and Britt Ekland costar. “The Citizen Kane of horror movies” (Cinefantastique Magazine). Plus free scratch-and-sniff cards! (94 mins)

Monday, September 1

Tuesday, September 2

Wednesday, September 3

Wednesday, September 3, 2014
7:00 PM
Laura Heit (US, 1997–2011). Laura Heit in person. Plus special performance and book signing. Heit's ingenious, do-it-yourself approach to animation takes a variety of forms and formats, including puppets, hand drawing, and computer animation. She will perform one of her Matchbook Shows featuring a miniature cabaret, and discuss her recent book, Animation Sketchbooks. (70 mins)

Thursday, September 4

Thursday, September 4, 2014
7:00 PM
Stanley Kubrick (US, 1953 & 1955). A classic double bill of Kubrick's first two films, one an existentialist exercise in war's futility, the other a tough-as-nails noir set in the underbelly of New York City. (129 mins)

Friday, September 5

Friday, September 5, 2014
7:00 PM
Andreas Johnsen (Denmark, 2013). The Fake Case follows Ai in the aftermath of imprisonment and a retaliatory lawsuit meant to silence him. Still undaunted, the artist rails against injustice on the Internet and creates his politically inflected art, such as S.A.C.R.E.D., an installation comprising scaled-down replicas of his jail cell. (89 mins)
Friday, September 5, 2014
8:50 PM
Elia Kazan (US, 1955). 4K Digital Restoration! James Dean made a thrilling debut in this adaptation of a Steinbeck novel, which transposes the story of Cain and Abel to the Salinas Valley. (115 mins)

Saturday, September 6

Saturday, September 6, 2014
6:30 PM
Stanley Kubrick (US, 1957). “Kubrick's first full-fledged masterpiece is a peerless insanity-of-war picture . . . Kirk Douglas has never been better” (Time Out NY). (87 mins)
Saturday, September 6, 2014
8:20 PM
Stanley Kubrick (US, 1956). Sterling Hayden heads up a phenomenal cast of B players plotting a racetrack holdup in Kubrick's high-voltage thriller. “Not to be missed” (Chicago Reader). (84 mins)