UPCOMING APPEARANCES AT FILM SOCIETY
TUESDAY, November 13
6:30PM
Art of the Real screening of CAPE SPIN! AN AMERICAN POWER STRUGGLE with directors John Kirby and Robbie Gemmel attending and participating in a post-screening Q&A.
THURSDAY, November 15
8:00PM
Indie Night screening of THE GIRL with director David Riker attending and participating in a post-screening Q&A.
UPCOMING FILM EVENTS
Short Takes: 30 Years of the Princess Grace Foundation
November 26 at 6:00PM
Grace Kelly played many iconic roles in her short but illustrious Hollywood career, and as Princess of Monaco, she was a humanitarian and patron of the arts. In 1982, Prince Rainier III of Monaco, along with Kelly’s friends and family in the U.S. and donors from around the world, mobilized to establish the Princess Grace Foundation-USA in her honor.
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Princess Grace Foundation-USA, FSLC will present a selection of award-winning short films from the Princess Grace Awards, given each year to emerging artists. The filmmakers presented here are at varying stages of their careers, from new directors to those who have successfully segued to the next level of their careers. Many of the filmmakers will attend and participate in post-screening Q&As.
LINTSCAPE (2008) 4 min.
Director: Caitlin Craggs
Country: USA
While doing laundry, a middle aged woman is attacked by a piece of lint lurking in the dryer; said lint will stop at nothing short of world domination.
SWINGING IN THE PAINTER’S ROOM (1989) 11 min.
Director: Greg Mottola
Country: USA
A comedy shot in black & white about young New Yorkers who are inordinately preoccupied by narcissism, infidelity, kleptomania and a large portrait of Frank Sinatra.
THE DANCE LESSON (2010) 14 min.
Director: Chinonye Chukwu
Country: USA
Against the backdrop of gentrified Philadelphia neighborhood, a young economically disadvantaged girl yearns to be a ballerina.
BRICKS (1995) 15 min.
Director: David Riker
Country: USA
In one of New York City’s poorer neighborhoods, Latin American immigrants, many of whom barely speak English, live at the mercy of exploitative employers and inflexible institutions.
HYPER (2002) 5 min.
Director: Michael Canzoniero
Country: USA
Ace Bivone has been fighting a battle every waking hour, minute, and second of his life. The enemy? Time. With Ace Bivone’s Timesavers you’ll learn all his trademark methods, such as How to Multi-Task Each Moment, Economize Your Actions and Create Your Own Shortcuts. If there’s a way to save a second, Mr. Bivone will teach you how.
Winter’s Eve Free Screening of ANNIE
Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
144 West 65th Street
Screenings at 2:30PM, 5:00PM, 7:30PM
ANNIE (1982) 126 min.
Director: John Huston
Country: USA
With the Tony-winning Broadway smash back on the Great White Way, and a new, Will Smith-produced movie in the works, what better time to rediscover the Oscar-nominated 1982 film version of ANNIE, directed by the legendary John Huston and starring a cast of stage and screen legends? Newcomer Aileen Quinn gives a Golden Globe-nominated performance as cartoonist Harold Gray’s precocious, Depression-era orphan, with Carol Burnett lending ace comic support as the perpetually soused orphanage warden Miss Hannigan, Albert Finney as the billionaire Daddy Warbucks, Bernadette Peters, Ann Reinking, Tim Curry and many more! Composer Charles Strouse and lyricist Martin Charnin’s iconic song score includes the smash hits “Tomorrow” and “It’s a Hard Knock Life” alongside the equally memorable “Let’s Go to the Movies,” “Little Girls” and “Easy Street.”
Film Comment Selects: Ray Bradbury x 2
November 27 at 6:15PM
FAHRENHEIT 451 (1966) 112 min.
Director: François Truffaut
Country: UK
Truffaut’s sole foray into English language filmmaking and science fiction is a cool, stylish adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s classic allegorical novel about a world where books are forbidden and firemen are tasked with starting fires not putting them out. Oskar Werner is the fireman who begins to have doubts, while Julie Christie and cameraman Nicolas Roeg provide ample proof that British cinema does exist after all, despite Truffaut’s notorious pronouncement.
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (1982) 95 min.
Director: Jack Clayton
Country: USA, 1982
Two boys try to save their town as its inhabitants one by one become in thrall to the diabolical proprietor (Jonathan Pryce) of a sinister travelling carnival, who has the power to make people’s secret wishes come true. A subtle, unsettling evocation of the darkness at the edge of town, this adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s masterful 1962 novel is an underappreciated gem from the director of THE INNOCENTS.
Ettore Scola x 2
November 28 at 6:30PM
On the heels of Film Society’s recent salutes to Mario Monicelli and Dino De Laurentiis, FSLC partners once again with Associazione Napolicinema and 41° Parallelo for an evening in celebration of another legendary figure of Italian cinema: Ettore Scola.
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A master of the commedia all’italiana, Scola began his career as a prolific screenwriter in the early 1950s, working for such directors as Antonio Pietrangeli, Dino Risi and Luigi Zampa, before making his directorial debut in 1964 with LET’S TALK ABOUT WOMEN (Se permettete parliamo di donne). In the nearly 50 years since, he has enchanted audiences worldwide with a series of lyrical, romantic comedy-dramas, including the Oscar nominees A SPECIAL DAY (1977), LE BAL (1983) and THE FAMILY (1987), and the hugely popular WE ALL LOVED EACH OTHER SO MUCH (1974).
DOWN AND DIRTY (Brutti, sporchi e cattivi) (1976) 115 min.
Director: Ettore Scola
Country: Italy
Scola won Best Director at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival for this outrageous “satirical tragedy” about a sprawling extended family living in extremely close quarters in a one-room shack alongside a busy highway. In an extraordinary comic performance, the great Nino Manfredi stars as Giacinto, the grizzled old patriarch who has received a one-million-lire insurance payout for the loss of his left eye–money he refuses to share with any of the two-dozen children, grandchildren and assorted other relatives who share his cramped abode. However, he doesn’t mind lavishing it on the obese prostitute whom he takes as a lover and brings home to live with him. Soon, the family members are plotting their revenge, only to discover that Giacinto has no plans of going gently into that good night. NOT ON DVD.
THE FAMILY (La famiglia) (1987) 122 min.
Director: Ettore Scola
Countries: Italy/France
A decade after investigating the cramped lower depths of Italian society in Down and Dirty, Scola turned his attention to the more spacious environs of the haute bourgeoisie for this deft family saga set entirely within the confines of a single Roman apartment. In the sixth of his seven collaborations with Scola, Vittorio Gassman stars as both the family’s patrician patriarch and, 80 years later, his own grandson, Carlo. In between, Italy and the world go through the seismic historical events of the 20th century–two World Wars, the rise and fall of Mussolini–while loved ones are born, grow old and life marches on. Featuring strong supporting performances by Stefania Sandrelli (as Carlo’s wife), Fanny Ardant (as Carlo’s sister-in-law, with whom he has an affair) and Philippe Noiret,The Family earned a 1988 Oscar nomination as Best Foreign Language Film, and received six David di Donatello awards (Italian Oscars) including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actor (Gassman). NOT ON DVD.
LOOKING FORWARD: MORE FOR NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER
Making Waves: A Festival of Romanian Cinema in New York
(November 29-December 5)
Through Our Eyes: A Retrospective of 3 Decades of EVC Youth Documentaries
(December 6)
ImageNation: Celebrate Brazil – Screening of 5X FAVELA: NOW BY OURSELVES
(December 6)
Spanish Cinema Now
(December 7-16)
Indie Night – I AM NOT A HIPSTER
(December 17)
All the Right Moves: The Films of Tom Cruise
(December 17-20)
Art of the Real – MONEY FOR NOTHING: INSIDE THE FEDERAL RESERVE
(December 18)
See it in 70mm!
(December 21-January 1)
