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Beauty and the Beast
(La Belle et la Bête)
(1946) The landmark cinematic
fantasy in
which film maker Jean Cocteau conjures
spectacular visions of enchantment, desire and death that have never
been equaled. French with English subtitles. (1 hour 33 minutes)
Sunday, August 5th at 7:30 pm |
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Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro) (1959) This colorful 1960 Oscar® winner retells the Greek myth of
Orpheus and Eurydice against the madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.
Portuguese with English subtitles. (1 hour 47 minutes)
Sunday, August 12th at 4:00 pm |
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Casablanca
(1942)
The script wasn't even finished when this Academy
Award-winning classic went into production, and no
one was quite sure who the leading lady (Ingrid
Bergman) was going to end up with -- her husband,
Victor (Paul Henreid), or the great love of her
life, Rick (Humphrey Bogart). Screen romances
just don't get any better than this World War II era
classic. (1 hour 43 minutes)
Sunday, August 5th at 2:00 pm
Saturday, August 15th at 8:30 pm |
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Gone With the Wind (1939) One
of the most successful and beloved films ever to come out of the
Hollywood system, this epic four-hour cinema masterpiece starring Clark
Gable and Vivien Leigh will be screened in all its full screen Technicolor®
splendor. (3 hours 58 minutes)
Saturday, August 4th at 4:00 pm
Saturday, August 11th at 6:30 pm |
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The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi-toride
no san-akunin)
(1958) Akira Kurosawa's spirited, wide-screen adventure about a
princess and her protectors was George Lucas's primary inspiration for
Star Wars. In Japanese with English subtitles. (2 hours 19
minutes)
Sunday,
August 5th at 4:30 pm |
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La Strada (1954) Giulietta Masina's
performance is a highlight of this Oscar® winner for Best Foreign Film
of 1956, directed by Federico Fellini. Since both of the male
stars, Anthony Quinn and
Richard Basehart, performed their roles in English and were dubbed by
Italian actors, we will be showing the original English language
version. (1 hour 48 minutes)
Saturday, August 11th at 4:00 pm |
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Lord of the Flies
(1963) Famed theater director Peter Brook’s daring translation of
William Golding’s novel about 30 English schoolboys stranded on an
uncharted island. In English. (1 hour 30 minutes)
Saturday, August 11th at 2:00 pm |
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My Uncle
(Mon Oncle) (1958) Although in French with English subtitles, this
laugh-out-loud comedy with the deadpan Jacques Tati as Monsieur Hulot about a boy and his eccentric uncle is
almost all pantomime, so even kids will understand it. A perfect film
for family audiences. (1 hour 56 minutes)
Saturday, August 18th at 2:00 pm |
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Pygmalion (1938) Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller star in George Bernard Shaw's
comic masterpiece about a Cockney flower seller who learns to speak like a lady,
later adapted into the hit musical My Fair Lady by Alan
Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe. In English. (1 hour 35 minutes)
Sunday, August 12th at 2:00 pm |
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The Rules of
the Game (La Règle du jeu) (1939) A newly restored print of the
original uncut version of Jean Renoir's cinema
masterpiece about a group of wealthy Parisian
aristocrats, a selection of society’s finest, who
gather for a rural sojourn and shooting party.
Over the course of a weekend, they reveal themselves
to be absurdly, almost primitively, cruel and vapid.
(1 hour 46 minutes)
Saturday, August 4th at 9:00 pm |
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Seven Samurai
(Shichinin
no samurai) (1954) One of the greatest action films ever made, this 3 hour 27
minute original version is full of character and visual detail and never
bores. Remade as The Magnificent Seven, Akira
Kurosawa's original masterpiece should be seen on a big screen. In Japanese with
English subtitles. (3 hours 27 minutes)
Sunday, August 12th at 6:30 pm |
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Wages of Fear
(Le Salaire de la peur) (1953) A group of men
(including Yves Montand) have to transport a shipment of nitroglycerine
over a mountain pass in
one of the greatest thrillers ever filmed, a white-knuckle ride from
France’s legendary master of suspense, Henri-Georges Clouzot. In French
with English subtitles. (2 hours 27minutes)
Saturday, August 18th at 5:30 pm |