[Press release from the Cleveland Museum of Art.]
It Precedes
Five
earlier works with or by five of 2015’s breakout film
personalities—Alicia Vikander, Damien Chazelle, Eddie Redmayne, Pawel
Pawlikowski, and David Robert Mitchell, writer-director of
It Follows.
A Royal Affair
Sunday, July 5, 1:30. Directed by Nikolaj Arcel. With Mads Mikkelsen. Alicia Vikander
(Ava in Ex Machina) stars in this sumptuous 18th-century
period piece that was nominated for the 2013 Academy Award for Best
Foreign Language Film. She plays the British-born Queen of Denmark who
has a love affair with the royal physician after
her husband, King Christian VII, proves mentally ill.
Denmark/Sweden/Czech Republic, 2012, subtitles, color, 35mm, 137 min.
Grand Piano
Sunday, July 12, 1:30. Directed by Eugenio Mira. With Elijah Wood and John Cusack. Before he wrote and directed
Whiplash, twentysomething wunderkind Damien Chazelle penned this
preposterous but clever, stylish, and heart-stopping thriller. A young
concert pianist, just getting over a debilitating bout of stage fright,
discovers a threatening note scribbled on
his sheet music (“play one wrong note and you die”) just before a
performance.
Spain, 2013, in English, color, Blu-ray, 90 min.
My Week with Marilyn
Sunday,
July 26, 1:30. Directed by Simon Curtis. With Michelle Williams, Eddie
Redmayne, and Kenneth Branagh. Prior to winning the Oscar for Best Actor
in
The Theory of Everything, Eddie Redmayne was last the leading man
in a movie four years ago, playing Laurence Olivier’s assistant who
escorted Marilyn Monroe around London during the 1956 filming of
The Prince and the Showgirl.
UK/USA, 2011, color, 35mm, 99 min.
The Woman in the Fifth
Friday,
August 14, 7:00. Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. With Ethan Hawke and
Kristin Scott Thomas. The film that Poland’s Pawel Pawlikowski made just
before his Oscar-winning
Ida, this enigmatic thriller is about a divorced American
writer who moves to Paris to be closer to his young daughter, but his
mental state deteriorates as he becomes involved with a mysterious
widow.
France/Poland/UK, 2011, color, 35mm, 85 min.
The Myth of the American Sleepover
Wednesday, August 19, 7:00. Directed by David Robert Mitchell. The debut feature from the director of the indie horror hit
It Follows was also shot in Detroit with a cast of teenagers—but
it’s not a thriller. Set on the last night of summer vacation, it’s a
tender coming-of-age movie that follows four high schoolers who cross
paths while cruising their suburban neighborhood
for love and adventure. “The American debut film of the year.”—Salon.
USA, 2010, color, 35mm, 93 min.
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