Before the screening of Don Juan (1926), Anthony L'Abbate, preservation officer, will give a talk tracing motion picture sound, from the 1890s through 1930.
The Cinema will screen Swiss Army Man (Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, U.S. 2016, 97 min.) "A hopeless man stranded in the wilderness befriends a dead body and together they go on a surreal journey to get home."
The Dryden will screen Don Juan (Alan Crosland, U.S. 1926, 112 min., 35mm). John Barrymore was at his peak in 1926, both professionally—only a few years before, he had starred in a very successful stage production of Hamlet—and physically. At … Continue reading
What's your favorite movie? The one you've seen a hundred times, that you could quote from memory. What if you could never see that movie again? What if it were to completely disappear, and the world forgot it ever existed? … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Weiner (Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg, U.S. 2016, 96 min.) "An examination of disgraced New York Congressman Anthony Weiner's mayoral campaign and the landscape of today's political landscape."
What's your favorite movie? The one you've seen a hundred times, that you could quote from memory. What if you could never see that movie again? What if it were to completely disappear, and the world forgot it ever existed? … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, U.S. 1977, 137 min., 35mm). Spielberg wrote and directed this remarkable picture, a gathering of greats including celebrated French director François Truffaut in his only English-speaking role, Vilmos … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, Greece / Ireland / Netherlands / U.K. / France 2015, 119 min.) "In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Swiss Army Man (Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, U.S. 2016, 97 min.) "A hopeless man stranded in the wilderness befriends a dead body and together they go on a surreal journey to get home."
The Dryden will screen Morte a Venezia (Death in Venice, Luchino Visconti, Italy/France 1971, 130 min., 35mm, in English) as part of the Summer of Solidarity series. Visconti's screen adaptation of Thomas Mann's novella is a triumph of visual style … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Weiner (Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg, U.S. 2016, 96 min.) "An examination of disgraced New York Congressman Anthony Weiner's mayoral campaign and the landscape of today's political landscape."
The Dryden will screen Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, U.S. 1977, 137 min., 35mm). Spielberg wrote and directed this remarkable picture, a gathering of greats including celebrated French director François Truffaut in his only English-speaking role, Vilmos … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Swiss Army Man (Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, U.S. 2016, 97 min.) "A hopeless man stranded in the wilderness befriends a dead body and together they go on a surreal journey to get home."