[Press release from the Cleveland Cinematheque.]
Thirty-five films from around the world
make up the November-December film schedule of the Cleveland
Institute of Art Cinematheque. Included are:
-11 new international films from around
the world, all making their exclusive Cleveland debuts. Titles
include Chantal Akerman’s ALMAYER’S FOLLY, which has the
highest metacritic.com score of 2012; 10 YEARS, a high school reunion
comedy starring Channing Tatum; and the new, extended director’s
cut of Volker Schlondorff’s Oscar-winning THE TIN DRUM,
shown at the Capitol Theatre.
-12 film classics (including Sergio
Corbucci’s 1968 spaghetti western THE GREAT SILENCE
starring Klaus Kinski and Hayao Miyazaki’s HOWL’S MOVING
CASTLE) and eight recent second-run movies (including AI
WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY, PINA, SAMSARA, and COMPLIANCE,
which was co-produced by Cleveland film producer Tyler Davidson).
-4 historical dramas by Russia’s
Aleksei Guerman, who survived government censorship, loss of funding,
and the fall of the Soviet Union to establish himself as one of
Russia’s most important filmmakers.
There will also be two special guests.
Mary Badham, who was nominated for an Oscar for her performance as
“Scout” Finch in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, will answer
audience questions after a Nov. 9 showing of that 1962 film. And
Ichiro Kataoka, a Japanese actor who keeps alive the vanished
Japanese art of the “benshi” (or silent-film narrator), will
perform live during a Japanese silent feature on Nov. 16.
Unless noted, all movies will show in the Aitken
Auditorium of the Cleveland Institute of Art, 11141 East Boulevard in
University Circle, telephone (216) 421-7450,
www.cia.edu/cinematheque, and admission to each film is $9;
Cinematheque members $7; age 25 & under $5 (with proof of age). A
second program on the same evening costs an additional $5 (with some
exceptions). Free parking for filmgoers is available in the adjacent
CIA lot.
NOVEMBER 1-4
Thursday, November 1, at 6:45 pm &
Sunday, November 4, at 8:40 pm
Imported 35mm Print!
ALPS
ALPEIS
Greece/France, 2011, Yorgos Lanthimos
The new film from the director of Dogtooth is as strange as that Oscar-nominated movie but perhaps even more chilling and haunting. Alps tells
of four people who make their living by impersonating individuals who
have recently died, role-playing in order to help grieving survivors
gradually come to terms with the loss of their loved ones. Blending
absurdist comedy with human tragedy, this tale of surrogates is truly
one of a kind. “Puzzling and provocative…Has a lingering power and an
effect that is thrillingly difficult to define.” –Time Out New York. Adults only! Subtitles. 93 min. Imported
35mm print; special admission $10; members $8; age 25 & under $6
(also second-film price on 11/4); no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
Special thanks to Films We Like, Toronto (Michael Boyuk).
Thursday, November 1, at 8:40 pm &
Friday, November 2, at 7:45 pm
AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY
USA, 2012, Alison Klayman
This
profile of Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei captures the activist and
provocateur as he prepares for a major museum exhibition, interacts
with friends and family members, and clashes publicly with Chinese
government officials. Ai’s Zodiac Project goes on view at the Cleveland
Museum of Art in 2013. “The Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn of the Twitter
age…[A] stirring, important documentary.” –Entertainment Weekly. Subtitles. 35mm. 91 min. aiweiweineversorry.com
Friday, November 2, at 9:40 pm &
Saturday, November 3, at 9:30 pm
KILLER JOE
USA, 2011, William Friedkin
Matthew McConaughey plays a Texas cop who moonlights as a hit man in William (The Exorcist, The French Connection) Friedkin’s florid, filthy, foul-mouthed redneck freakshow, based on a play by Tracy Letts (August: Osage County ).
With Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Gina Gershon, and (in an Oscar-worthy
turn) Thomas Haden Church. “A hideously funny tabloid noir.” –Village Voice. Rated NC-17; no one under 18 admitted! East Side Cleveland premiere. 35mm. 102 min. www.killerjoethemovie.com
Saturday, November 3, at 5:15 pm
Rare Spaghetti Western Classic!
Imported 35mm Print!
THE GREAT SILENCE
IL GRANDE SILENZIO
Italy/France, 1968, Sergio Corbucci
Sergio Corbucci (1927-1990) was an Italian director of violent and stylish spaghetti westerns, including the original Django (1966), which spawned one official sequel and over 30 unofficial ones. (Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained opens in December.) But tonight we show a different Corbucci classic—one that filmmaker Alex Cox (Repo Man) regards as “the greatest spaghetti western ever made.” The Great Silence stars Klaus Kinski (Aguirre, Fitzcarraldo, Nosferatu the Vampyre) as Loco, a vicious bounty hunter, and Jean-Louis Trintignant (My Night at Maud’s, The Conformist)
as Silence, a mute gunslinger who hates bounty hunters. The two lock
horns in the snowy mountains of Utah in the late 1800s, with a group of
persecuted Mormons in the middle. Music by Ennio Morricone, natch. The Great Silence
is unavailable on film in the U.S., so we will show an archival 35mm
color print from Europe (English-dubbed version) that is in North
America for just a few months. 105 min. Special admission $12,
members & CIA I.D. holders $10, age 25 & under $8 (with proof of
age); no passes, twofers, or radio winners. Advance tickets available
at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/285446.
Saturday, November 3, at 7:20 pm &
Sunday, November 4, at 6:30 pm
360
UK/Austria/France/Brazil, 2011, Fernando Meirelles
Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, and Ben Foster star in the new film from the Brazilian director of City of God and The Constant Gardener—a daring contemporary romance inspired by Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde that
links characters and stories in seven cities on three continents into
one swooning, circular, interconnected narrative. Written by Peter
Morgan (The Queen, Frost/Nixon). “Has visual flair to burn.” –NPR. Cleveland premiere. Some subtitles. 35mm. 110 min. www.magpictures.com/360/
Saturday, November 3, at 9:30 pm
KILLER JOE
See 11/2 at 9:40 for description
Sunday, November 4, at 3:45 pm
Imported 35mm Print!
ALMAYER’S FOLLY
LA FOLIE ALMAYER
Belgium/France, 2011, Chantal Akerman
The new film by master filmmaker Chantal Akerman (Jeanne Dielman)
has the highest overall metacritic.com rating of 2012: 92 out of 100!
Based on Joseph Conrad’s first novel (but updated by many decades), this
hypnotic, dreamy, anti-colonialist film tells of a brooding European
treasure hunter living in the lush jungles of Southeast Asia. When his
estranged, embittered mixed-race daughter, now grown, returns home after
being educated in Europe, Almayer tries to reconnect with her. But she
feels more affinity for a local insurgent. Undistributed in the U.S., Almayer’s Folly will
be shown in a 35mm print from Europe that is temporarily in North
America. “One of the year’s most hypnotic and fascinating films.” –Village Voice. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. 35mm. 127 min. Special
admission $12, members & CIA I.D. holders $10, age 25 & under
$8 (with proof of age); no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
Sunday, November 4, at 6:30 pm
360
See 11/3 at 7:20 for description
Sunday, November 4, at 8:40 pm
ALPS
See 11/1 at 6:45 for description
NOVEMBER 8-13
Thursday, November 8, at 6:45 pm &
Sunday, November 11, at 8:35 pm
10 YEARS
USA, 2011, Jamie Linden
Channing
Tatum, Rosario Dawson, Justin Long, Chris Pratt, Max Minghella, and
Aubrey Plaza head an attractive, all-star young cast in this Big Chill-style
romantic comedy about high school classmates who reconnect at their
ten-year reunion. Though these young adults now understand that real
life is different from high school, some of them can’t help falling
again for old flames. “[Finds] a novel and nuanced approach to
addressing the ways that our mistakes make us better, wiser and more
human.” –Washington Post. Cleveland premiere. 35mm. 100 min.
Thursday, November 8, at 8:45 pm &
Saturday, November 10, at 5:00 pm
Four Films by Aleksei Guerman
New 35mm Print!
TRIAL ON THE ROAD
PROVERKA NA DOROGAKH
USSR, 1971, Aleksei Guerman
Banned
for 15 years by Soviet authorities for injecting ambiguity, nuance, and
anti-heroism into a genre (the WWII drama) that was always solidly
heroic (if not downright mythic), Aleksei Guerman’s first solo work is a
masterpiece. The movie tells of a Red Army officer turned Nazi
collaborator who is recaptured by Russian partisans and must prove his
loyalty to their cause by going on a series of dangerous missions. “The
most interesting debut film in Soviet cinema since Tarkovsky’s Ivan’s Childhood.” –Time Out Film Guide. Not available on DVD. Subtitles. 97 min. www.seagullfilms.com
Friday, November 9, at 7:00 pm
A Special Event!
Mary Badham in Person!
50th Anniversary!
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
USA, 1962, Robert Mulligan
Mary
Badham, who played “Scout” Finch in the beloved film version of Harper
Lee’s novel, will appear in person tonight to answer audience questions
after a 50th anniversary screening of this landmark movie.
Gregory Peck stars in the film, winning an Oscar for his iconic
performance as widowed Alabama lawyer Atticus Finch, whose two young
children witness prejudice and racial hatred firsthand when he defends
an innocent black man in an inflammatory rape case. For her indelible
performance, 10-year-old Badham was nominated for an Academy Award for
Best Supporting Actress—the youngest nominee in that category up to that
time. Ironically, she lost to another child performer, 16-year-old
Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker. 35mm. Total approx. 3 hrs. Special
admission $20, members and CIA I.D. holders $15, age 25 & under $10
(with proof of age); no passes, twofers, or radio winners. Advance
tickets available at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/284785.
Saturday, November 10, at 5:00 pm
TRIAL ON THE ROAD
See 11/8 at 8:45 for description
Saturday, November 10, at 7:00 pm &
Sunday, November 11, at 3:30 pm
BELOVED
LES BIEN-AIMÉS
France/UK/Czech Republic, 2011, Christophe Honoré
Catherine
Deneuve, Milos Forman, Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Garrel, and Chiara
Mastroianni star in this new romance that closed the 2011 Cannes Film
Festival. The movie tells of a young Paris shop girl (Sagnier) who falls
for a Czech doctor, moves to Prague, and has a daughter with him. Four
decades (and a divorce) later, these same lovers are played by Deneuve
and Forman, and their now grown-up daughter (Mastroianni) is caught up
in romantic entanglements that echo those of her parents from years
before. Cross-cutting between time periods and relationships, and having
characters burst into song or confront their earlier selves, director
Christophe Honoré (Love Songs, Dans Paris) has constructed a funny, sad, whimsical, and lyrical epic as expansive and emotional as life itself. “Amazingly moving.” –Washington Post. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. 35mm. 139 min. www.ifcfilms.com/films/beloved
Saturday, November 10, at 9:40 pm &
Sunday, November 11, at 6:30 pm
Back by Popular Demand!
PINA
Germany/France/UK, 2011, Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire, The Buena Vista Social Club)
celebrates the groundbreaking work of his friend and fellow German,
legendary dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch (1940-2009). This
Oscar-nominated movie captures Bausch and members of her company
performing some of her most celebrated works both on stage and around
the German city of Wuppertal, home of Bausch’s dance theatre since 1972.
Shown in 2D. Subtitles. 35mm. 103 min. www.ifcfilms.com/films/pina
Sunday, November 11, at 3:30 pm
BELOVED
See 11/10 at 7:00 for description
Sunday, November 11, at 6:30 pm
PINA
See 11/10 at 9:40 for description
Sunday, November 11, at 8:35 pm
10 YEARS
See 11/8 at 6:45 for description
Tuesday, November 13, at 7:00 pm
Special Offsite Event!
The Cinematheque at the Capitol Theatre
New Digital Restoration!
THE TIN DRUM: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT
DIE BLECHTROMMEL
W. Germany, 1979, Volker Schlöndorff
The Cinematheque returns to the Capitol Theatre to present a newly restored, extended version of the film that won both the Palme d’Or at
the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign
Language Film. Filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff has restored 20 minutes of
original footage that he was forced to remove 33 years ago to shorten
the running time. His director’s cut expands the story of Oskar, a
precocious German child living in 1920s Germany who decides to stop
growing at age three when he witnesses the hypocrisy and stupidity of
adult society. Not even Oskar’s piercing screams of alarm or frantic
beating of a toy drum can halt his countrymen’s relentless march toward
World War II. This surreal, satirical black comedy (based on the novel
by Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass) was initially banned in Ontario and
Oklahoma. Now it’s a widely admired modern classic. Adults only!
Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 163 min. www.janusfilms.com Shown
on the big screen at the Capitol Theatre, 1390 W. 65th St. at Detroit
Ave. Special admission $10, members & CIA I.D. holders $8, age 25
& under $6 (with proof of age); no Cinematheque passes, twofers, or
radio winners and no Cleveland Cinemas passes or discounts. $10 tickets
available in advance at www.clevelandcinemas.com.
Free parking available next to theatre and at other lots in the Gordon
Square Arts District. Special thanks to Jon Forman and Dave Huffman,
Cleveland Cinemas.
NOVEMBER 15-18
Thursday, November 15, at 6:45 pm &
Sunday, November 18, at 8:50 pm
Four Films by Aleksei Guerman
New 35mm Print!
THE SEVENTH COMPANION
SED’MOI SPUTNIK
USSR, 1968, Grigori Aronov, Aleksei Guerman
Set
during the “Red Terror” campaign that swept across Russia in the wake
of the 1917 Revolution, Aleksei Guerman’s first feature (co-directed
with Grigori Aronov) tells of a former Tsarist army officer in St.
Petersburg who is arrested as a counterrevolutionary. This moral man,
innocent of all charges, must not only clear his name but also adapt to
life in an immoral new world. Not available on DVD. Cleveland premiere.
Subtitles. 89 min. www.seagullfilms.com
Thursday, November 15, at 8:35 pm &
Saturday, November 17, at 5:15 pm
50th Anniversary!
THE TRIAL
LE PROCÈS
France/W. Germany/Italy, 1962, Orson Welles
“The Trial is
the best film I have ever made,” said Orson Welles about his virtuosic,
visually-stunning adaptation of Kafka’s nightmarish classic. Tony
Perkins plays the young bank clerk Joseph K., who is arrested one day on
unspecified charges and becomes entrapped in a labyrinthine justice
system while trying to learn what he did wrong. Welles and Jeanne Moreau
co-star in this chilling, expressionistic classic. In English. 35mm.
119 min.
Friday, November 16, at 7:30 pm
Silent Film with Live Narration by Benshi Ichiro Kataoka!
AN INN AT TOKYO
TOKYO NO YADO
Japan, 1935, Yasujiro Ozu
In Japan silent films were accompanied not only by live music, but also by a benshi, or silent film narrator. Standing next to the screen, the benshi
provided a running commentary on the movie while relaying the film’s
story in a theatrical manner (playing multiple roles with a variety of
voices). Some benshi were so popular that they were more of a draw than the movie itself! Though benshi
disappeared with the coming of sound, some individuals kept the
tradition alive. Tonight we welcome one of Japan’s foremost
practitioners of this vanished art, Ichiro Kataoka, who will perform
during a silent feature by the great Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story). Kataoka was the star pupil of master benshi
Midori Sawato (who performed at The Cleveland Museum of Art in 1989).
He is also a film and television performer, a voice actor for video
games, and a historian. Although Kataoka’s narration will be in
Japanese, Ozu’s film—a moving drama about the relationship between an
unemployed father and an equally destitute single mother—has English
subtitles, as well as a music track. Kataoka will also answer audience
questions after the screening. 35mm. 80 min. Special admission $11,
members & CIA I.D. holders $9, age 25 & under $7 (with proof of
age); no passes, twofers, or radio winners. Advance tickets available at
www.brownpapertickets.com. Special thanks to Markus Nornes of the University of Michigan and Stacie Matsumoto and Haden Guest of Harvard University.
Saturday, November 17, at 5:15 pm
THE TRIAL
See 11/15 at 8:35 for description
Saturday, November 17, at 7:35 pm &
Sunday, November 18, at 4:00 pm
FAREWELL, MY QUEEN
LES ADIEUX À LA REINE
France/Spain, 2012, Benoît Jacquot
The
last days of Marie Antoinette (Diane Kruger) are seen through the eyes
of a sympathetic and loyal servant, her reader (Léa Seydoux), in this
lavish historical drama. Set at Versailles and beginning on the first
Bastille Day (July 14, 1789), the movie co-stars Virginie Ledoyen as a
countess with whom the queen is secretly in love. “Critics’ Pick…[A]
tense, absorbing, pleasurably original look at three days in the life
and lies of a doomed monarch.” –The NY Times. East Side Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. 35mm. 100 min. cohenmedia.net/farewell-my-queen/
Saturday, November 17, at 9:35 pm &
Sunday, November 18, at 6:30 pm
Hayao Miyazaki Returns!
HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE
HAURU NO OGOKU SHIRO
Japan, 2004, Hayao Miyazaki
Here’s
an English-subtitled 35mm print of a Hayao Miyazaki animated epic that
we did not show in our Sept-Oct Miyazaki series. (It became available
after that retrospective was booked.) The film follows a teenage girl
who is transformed by a witch into a wrinkled old woman. She seeks out
the wizard Howl to lift the spell and takes refuge in his magical,
shape-shifting, ambulatory castle, the doorway to an assortment of
fantastical alternate realities. 119 min.
Sunday, November 18, at 4:00 pm
FAREWELL, MY QUEEN
See 11/17 at 7:35 for description
Sunday, November 18, at 6:30 pm
HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE
See 11/17 at 9:35 for description
Sunday, November 18, at 8:50 pm
THE SEVENTH COMPANION
See 11/15 at 6:45 for description
NOVEMBER 22-25
NO FILMS NOV. 22 & 23;
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Saturday, November 24, at 5:15 pm &
Sunday, November 25, at 8:30 pm
50th Anniversary!
LONELY ARE THE BRAVE
USA, 1962, David Miller
In
this one-of-a-kind modern western written by Dalton Trumbo (from a
novel by Edward Abbey), Kirk Douglas plays a fiercely independent,
freedom-loving cowboy who breaks out of prison and tries to escape to
Mexico before a posse armed with advanced technology can apprehend him.
This poignant, “passing of the Old West” drama indelibly captures two
conflicting American ways of life. It is reputedly Kirk Douglas’
favorite of all his films. With Gena Rowlands and Walter Matthau. 35mm
scope print! 107 min.
Saturday, November 24, at 7:25 pm &
Sunday, November 25, at 3:45 pm
THE EYE OF THE STORM
Australia, 2011. Fred Schepisi
Geoffrey
Rush, Charlotte Rampling, and Judy Davis star in this new drama that
won the critics award at the 2011 Melbourne Int’l Film Festival. The
film tells of two grown children of a wealthy Australian matriarch—a
stage actor (Rush) and a neurotic divorcee (Davis)—who fly from Europe
to the deathbed of their mother (Rampling) Down Under. There unfolds a
bitter, caustic family reunion that’s more about the disposition of
wealth than the dispensing of goodbyes. From the director of The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Roxanne, Six Degrees of Separation, et
al. Based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Patrick White. “An
intelligent, visually sumptuous drama that embraces the grandeur of the
Australian literary classic upon which it's based.” –The Hollywood Reporter. Cleveland premiere. 35mm. 119 min. www.theeyeofthestormmovie.com
Saturday, November 24, at 9:45 pm &
Sunday, November 25, at 6:30 pm
THE IMPOSTER
UK, 2012, Bart Layton
Truth
is stranger than fiction in this gripping and acclaimed documentary
about a bold young European man who convinces a grieving Texas family
that he is their 16-year-old son and brother who mysteriously
disappeared three years ago. “A mesmerizing psychological thriller
bulging with twists, turns, nasty insinuations and shocking revelations
that might have leapt from the pages of a Patricia Highsmith novel…All
the more astonishing because it actually happened.” –The Hollywood Reporter. “The documentary equivalent of a page-turner.” –Entertainment Weekly. East Side Cleveland premiere. 35mm. 99 min. imposterfilm.com
Sunday, November 25, at 3:45 pm
THE EYE OF THE STORM
See 11/24 at 7:25 for description
Sunday, November 25, at 6:30 pm
THE IMPOSTER
See 11/24 at 9:45 for description
Sunday, November 25, at 8:30 pm
LONELY ARE THE BRAVE
See 11/24 at 5:15 for description
NOVEMBER 29 – DECEMBER 4
Thursday, November 29, at 6:45 pm &
Sunday, December 2, at 8:55 pm
Four Films by Aleksei Guerman
TWENTY DAYS WITHOUT WAR
DVADTSAT DNEY BEZ VOYNY
USSR, 1977, Aleksei Guerman
In
1942 a Soviet Army officer and writer on a 20-day leave from the front
travels to his hometown of Tashkent. Witnessing the effects of war on
the general populace along the way, he meets up in Tashkent with his
ex-wife and strikes up a new romance with another woman. He also
observes the production of a film version of his wartime memoirs, taking
special note of the disconnect between his lived reality and the
moviemakers’ filmed “truth.” This Aleksei Guerman feature was also
banned by authorities—though only for a few years. Not available on DVD.
Subtitles. 35mm. 101 min. www.seagullfilms.com
Thursday, November 29, at 8:45 pm &
Saturday, December 1, at 9:20 pm
New 35mm Color Print!
Complete, Uncensored Version!
POSSESSION
France/W. Germany, 1981, Andrzej Zulawski
Short
of over 40 minutes when first released in the U.S. (and banned outright
for a number of years in Britain), this bloody, over-the-top exercise
in Grand Guignol stars Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani as a married couple
going through a traumatic break-up. Arguments and furniture-smashing
soon give way to self-mutilation, killings, and sex with doppelgangers
and with a tentacled monster created by Oscar-winning F/X master Carlo
Rambaldi (E.T., Alien), who died in August. Adjani won the César
Award and the Best Actress prize at Cannes for her hysterical
performance. “Begins at a head-banging pitch and builds to a state of
genuine derangement.” –The NY Times. “Five stars (highest
rating)…A head-spinning masterpiece! Incorporates more and more
fantastical elements as it goes on…but the story somehow remains rooted
in the harsh realities of human experience.” –Time Out New York. No one under 18 admitted! Cleveland premiere. In English. 123 min.
Friday, November 30, at 7:00 pm &
Saturday, December 1, at 5:00 pm
50th Anniversary!
Introduction by Grafton Nunes on Friday!
THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
USA, 1960, John Ford
John
Wayne, James Stewart, and Lee Marvin star in this great John Ford
western—a poignant, melancholy account of the taming of the Old West.
The movie revolves around three men: a tenderfoot Eastern lawyer
(Stewart), an outlaw who terrorizes him (Marvin), and a grizzled,
gun-toting rancher who befriends him (Wayne). With Vera Miles, John
Carradine, Woody Strode, Lee Van Cleef, et al. The film will
be introduced on Friday night by Cleveland Institute of Art President
Grafton Nunes, a film scholar and John Ford expert who regards this as
his favorite Ford film. 35mm. 123 min.
Friday, November 30, at 9:40 pm &
Saturday, December 1, at 7:25 pm
TEDDY BEAR
Denmark, 2012, Mads Matthiesen
An
imposing but painfully shy 38-year-old Danish bodybuilder (Kim Kold)
who lives at home with his mom and has never experienced love travels to
Thailand to find a bride. This sweet, disarming film is one of the
year’s most pleasant (and acclaimed) surprises. As the man of steel with
a heart of cotton candy, Kim Kold “gives what may be the performance of
the year” (Time Out Film Guide). Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. 35mm. 92 min. www.filmmovement.com
Saturday, December 1, at 5:00 pm
THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
See 11/30 at 7:00 for description
Saturday, December 1, at 7:25 pm
TEDDY BEAR
See 11/30 at 9:40 for description
Saturday, December 1, at 9:20 pm
POSSESSION
See 11/29 at 8:45 for description
Sunday, December 2, at 6:30 pm
50th Anniversary!
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
USA, 1962, John Frankenheimer
This
exciting Cold War thriller tells a paranoid story of political
extremists in Washington (what a concept!) and a decorated Korean War
hero who’s been brainwashed into becoming an assassin. Frank Sinatra,
Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, and a villainous Angela Lansbury star.
“Daring, funny, and far-out…May be the most sophisticated political
thriller ever made in Hollywood.” –Pauline Kael. 35mm. 126 min.
Sunday, December 2, at 8:55 pm
TWENTY DAYS WITHOUT WAR
See 11/29 at 6:45 for description
Tuesday, December 4, at 7:00 pm
Special Offsite Event!
The Cinematheque at the Capitol Theatre
TOYS IN THE ATTIC
NA PŮDĚ ANEB KDO MÁ DNESKA NAROZENINY?
France/Czech Republic/Slovakia/Japan, 2009/12, Jirí Barta, Vivian Schilling
Next
to Jan Švankmajer, Jirí Barta is the foremost stop-motion animator
working in the Czech Republic today. And that’s saying a lot, because
the Czechs have excelled at grown-up puppet films and grotesque object
animation for decades. Having shown a number of Barta’s movies over the
years, the Cinematheque returns to the Capitol Theatre tonight to
present his first feature film in two decades—a twisted Toy Story that’s perfect for the sick-of-Christmas season. Toys in the Attic
(which may be too dark, sinister, and creepy for young children) tells
of a group of abandoned, old-fashioned, slightly ratty toys who spring
into action when one of their own, a dainty blonde doll named Buttercup,
is kidnaped by the autocratic ruler of the evil kingdom across the
room. We will show the English-language version of the movie, which has
voices by Forest Whitaker, Joan Cusack, Cary Elwes, et al. “Manna for
anyone who likes animated fantasias without wisecracks, commercials, and
overwrought warbling about self-actualization, meaning that it's
suitable for those who will grow up either to be the next Tim Burton or
simply to enjoy his movies.” –The NY Times. Cleveland premiere. DCP. 75 min. www.toysfilm.com Shown
on the big screen at the Capitol Theatre, 1390 W. 65th St. at Detroit
Ave. Regular Cinematheque prices apply; no Cinematheque passes, twofers,
or radio winners and no Cleveland Cinemas passes or discounts. $9
tickets available in advance at www.clevelandcinemas.com.
Free parking available next to theatre and at other lots in the Gordon
Square Arts District. Special thanks to Jon Forman and Dave Huffman,
Cleveland Cinemas.
DECEMBER 6-9
Thursday, December 6, at 6:45 pm &
Sunday, December 9, at 8:45 pm
Four Films by Aleksei Guerman
MY FRIEND IVAN LAPSHIN
MOY DRUG IVAN LAPSHIN
USSR, 1986, Aleksei Guerman
The
funny-sad-heroic life of a 1930s provincial police investigator is
fondly remembered in this acclaimed memory piece set in a young,
optimistic Soviet Union shortly before Stalin’s Great Purge. It’s one of
Aleksei Guerman’s greatest movies (as well as one of the most revered
Russian films of the past 25 years); Guerman adapted a novel by his
writer father, Yuri. Subtitles. 35mm. 100 min. www.seagullfilms.com
Thursday, December 6, at 8:45 pm &
Sunday, December 9, at 6:30 pm
New, Restored 35mm Color Print!
WAKE IN FRIGHT
aka OUTBACK
Australia, 1971, Ted Kotcheff
This
re-discovered and newly restored “Ozploitation” classic follows an
Australian teacher on his way to Sydney for Christmas break who spends
one night in a brutal Outback small town. Succumbing to local
traditions, the teacher begins drinking and gambling with the rough,
uncouth townspeople. Pretty soon he is at their mercy—trapped in a
remote, morally bankrupt desert town where macho rituals of womanizing,
fighting, and hunting test one’s manhood. Eventually the educator’s
civilized exterior falls away, exposing his “heart of darkness” and
rendering complete his total degradation. From the director of First Blood and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. With Donald Pleasance (Halloween). “The best and most terrifying film about Australia in existence.” –Nick Cave. “"It
may be the greatest Australian film ever made and is the closest a
movie can get to a primal scream." –Rex Reed. No one under 18 admitted!
Cleveland revival premiere. 35mm. 114 min.
drafthousefilms.com/film/wake-in-fright
Friday, December 7, at 7:15 pm &
Saturday, December 8, at 5:00 pm
EASY MONEY
SNABBA CASH
Sweden, 2010, Daniel Espinosa
This hit Swedish crime thriller, which has spawned two Swedish sequels and a coming American remake, stars Joel Kinnaman (AMC’s The Killing)
as a poor but handsome Swedish business student who turns to organized
crime and cocaine dealing to finance a second, double life within
Stockholm’s wealthy jet set. “One of the best underworld films I’ve seen
in years.” –Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly. “A great gangster pic.” -Philadelphia Inquirer. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. 35mm. 124 min. weinsteinco.com/films/easy-money/
Friday, December 7, at 9:40 pm &
Saturday, December 8, at 7:25 pm
SAMSARA
USA, 2011, Ron Fricke
Ron Fricke, the cinematographer of Koyaanisqatsi and director of Baraka, returns
with another visually stunning, non-verbal movie filmed in remote,
exotic locations around the world. Shot on large-format 70mm film over a
period of five years in 25 countries and five continents, Samsara (the
title is a Sanskrit word that means “the ever-turning wheel of life”)
captures sacred rituals, natural wonders, huge industrial complexes, and
epic disaster areas in a series of eye-popping, mind-blowing images
married to music. (Fricke calls it a “guided meditation.”) The end
result is a spectacular snapshot of our planet, teeming with people
situated somewhere between the everyday and the eternal. First time in
35mm in Cleveland! 102 min. www.barakasamsara.com
Saturday, December 8, at 5:00 pm
EASY MONEY
See 12/7 at 7:15 for description
Saturday, December 8, at 7:25 pm
SAMSARA
See 12/7 at 9:40 for description
Saturday, December 8, at 9:30 pm &
Sunday, December 9, at 3:30 pm
50th Anniversary!
LOLITA
UK, 1962, Stanley Kubrick
The movie Kubrick made right before Dr. Strangelove is
a funny, fascinating adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s famous novel
about a respectable professor’s unnatural love for his landlady’s
teenage daughter. James Mason plays the obsessed Humbert Humbert and Sue
Lyon is Lolita. Shelley Winters and Peter Sellers also star; script
credited to Nabokov. 35mm. 152 min.
Sunday, December 9, at 6:30 pm
WAKE IN FRIGHT
See 12/6 at 8:45 for description
Sunday, December 9, at 8:45 pm
MY FRIEND IVAN LAPSHIN
See 12/6 at 6:45 for description
DECEMBER 13-15
Thursday, December 13, at 6:45 pm &
Saturday, December 15, at 9:50 pm
RARE EXPORTS: A CHRISTMAS TALE
RARE EXPORTS
Finland/Norway/France/Sweden, 2010, Jalmari Helander
This
isn’t your typical heartwarming holiday classic but a spooky, darkly
comic, grim fairy tale rooted in ancient Scandinavian mythology. (When
we first showed it last year, the audience lapped it up.) Set in
northern Finland, it tells of a Santa found frozen in a block of ice who
turns out to be more monster than merrymaker. With similarities to Gremlins and The Thing, Rare Exports is a surefire cult classic in the making. “The best anti-Christmas Christmas movie since Bad Santa.” -Village Voice. Rated R. Subtitles. 35mm. 84 min. www.rareexportsmovie.com
Thursday, December 13, at 8:30 pm &
Friday, December 14, at 7:15 pm
COMPLIANCE
USA, 2012, Craig Zobel
Accused
of theft by a policeman on the phone, an attractive young woman working
at an Ohio fast-food restaurant is detained, strip-searched,
humiliated, and violated in the restaurant’s back room by her boss,
fellow employees, and one outsider—all of them following spoken orders
from the unseen cop. Based on a true case, this disturbing account of
how ordinary people kowtow to authority was co-produced by Cleveland’s
Tyler Davidson (Take Shelter). It’s one of the most acclaimed American films of 2012. “A taut, understated minimalist masterwork.” –Philadelphia Inquirer. Adults only! East Side Cleveland premiere. 35mm. 90 min. www.magpictures.com/compliance/
Friday, December 14, at 9:05 pm &
Saturday, December 15, at 6:55 pm
LITTLE WHITE LIES
LES PETITS MOUCHOIRS
France, 2010, Guillaume Canet
Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose), François Cluzet (The Intouchables), and Jean Dujardin (The Artist) star in the new film from the director of the hit French thriller Tell No One. It’s
a seriocomic drama about a group of attractive, successful Paris
friends with assorted personal/interpersonal problems who embark on
their annual beach vacation in the south of France—despite the
conscience-pricking fact that one member of their group lies injured in a
hospital back home. “It could have been called Le Big Chill.” –The NY Post. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. 35mm. 154 min. www.mpi.com
Saturday, December 15, at 5:15 pm
50th Anniversary!
THE INTRUDER
aka SHAME
USA, 1962, Roger Corman
One
of Roger Corman’s most serious and powerful movies was also, reputedly,
the only film of his to lose money on its initial release. William
Shatner plays a rabble-rousing racist who shows up one day in a small
Southern town to foment white hatred for blacks and prod them to protest
the forced integration of their schools. Screenplay by frequent Twilight Zone writer Charles Beaumont. 35mm print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. 80 min. Special thanks to New Horizons Picture Corp. and May Haduong.
Saturday, December 15, at 6:55 pm
LITTLE WHITE LIES
See 12/14 at 9:05 for description
Saturday, December 15, at 9:50 pm
RARE EXPORTS
See 12/13 at 6:45 for description
NO FILMS DEC. 16 – JAN. 2;
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
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