Archival Print! Live Music/Judith Rosenberg on piano
Tonight’s concluding chapters unravel the mystery of The Phantom Foe and, through a “veritable carnival of thrills and sensations,” restores some order to Janet Dale’s life.
James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, and Lee Marvin star in John Ford’s legendary Western, “one of the enduring masterpieces of that cinema which has chosen to focus on the mystical processes of time” (Andrew Sarris).
A would-be writer whose ambition has been dampened by domestic life is soon tempted by a former flame. “Dominating the picture is the feminine reaction to life. And this is Mr. Stahl’s forte” (LA Times).
A program of recent video art from India, including work from Mumbai, Goa, and New Delhi. Titles include Logic of Birds, Man with Cockerel, Fjaka, Iceboat, Between the Waves, Forerunner, and Night Noon.
A circus performer has his arms amputated to satisfy his lover’s strange desires in Tod Browning’s shocking tale of madness and love, starring Lon Chaney and Joan Crawford.
A callow playboy sets out on a path towards redemption after causing a doctor’s death, and blinding the doctor’s widow, in Stahl’s great melodrama. Robert Taylor and Irene Dunne star. Later remade by Douglas Sirk.
Andrei Tarkovsky’s epic, otherworldly portrait of the 15th-century Russian icon-painter is “a superproduction gone ideologically berserk” (Village Voice).