Weekly NYC & LA Screening Recommendations 4/22 - 4/28
PRESENTED BY MISE EN SCÈNT
NYC Screenings
Quad – Vault Series
That Man From Rio
A smash in France that crossed over to worldwide success, netting de Broca and his fellow screenwriters an Oscar nomination as they created a new template for Romantic Adventure Comedy. A criminal hunt for treasures of a lost Amazon civilization takes a Parisian detour when Françoise Dorléac is abducted; Army-private fiancé Jean-Paul Belmondo sprints, leaps, and clambers to her rescue in Rio and beyond. With Jean Servais, Simone Renant, and Adolfo Celi.
Plays Wednesday as a part of the ongoing From the Vault series at Quad Cinema!
April 23rd @ 12:45 & 5:15
MoMA – The Lady at 100: Columbia Classics from the Locarno Film Festival
In celebration of Columbia Pictures’ centennial, MoMA and the Locarno Film Festival present a series tracing the evolution of Hollywood’s scrappiest major studio. From the Oscar-winning breakthrough of Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night (1934) to the digital-age ambiguities of David Fincher’s The Social Network (2010), the 30 newly restored films in this program illuminate Columbia’s transformation from a “Poverty Row” outfit to a major industry force, highlighting how the studio balanced commercial imperatives with artistic ambition. Under Harry Cohn’s decisive leadership, Columbia came to prominence by fostering distinctive voices like Capra, Howard Hawks, and Budd Boetticher, while nurturing stars from Jean Arthur to Judy Holliday.
This series will play into next month, so this week we recommend…
Mr Deeds Goes to Town
April 24th @ 4:00 PM
In a Lonely Place
April 28th @ 4:00 PM
Nitehawk Cinema – Apocalyptic Visions
Depictions of end times is a favorite subject of storytellers. The ticking clock of how we’ll get there, be it nuclear war, alien invasion, disease or severe weather, and how the few who survive it will continue to live, has been imagined often as a not-too-distant future. For this series we share cinematic portrayals of the just before, during and after of the apocalypse.
This week we recommend…
The Fifth Element
April 25th & 26th @ 11:55pm
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
April 26th & 27th @ 11:00am
LA Screenings
The New Beverly Cinema –
Friday Matinee, Legend
Legend, from director Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Gladiator), is a visually stunning fantasy-adventure in which pure good and evil battle to the death amidst spectacular surroundings. Set in a timeless mythical forest inhabited by fairies, goblins, unicorns and mortals, this fantastic story stars Tom Cruise as a mystical forest dweller, chosen by fate, to undertake a heroic quest. He must save the beautiful Princess Lily (Mia Sara) and defeat the demonic Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry), or the world will be plunged into a never-ending ice age. (Universal Studios)
April 25th @ 2:00 PM
American Cinematheque –
30th Anniversary of La Haine
Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with LA HAINE, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui)—a Jew, an African, and an Arab—give human faces to France’s immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point. A work of tough beauty, LA HAINE is a landmark of contemporary French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country’s ongoing identity crisis.
April 24th @ 10:00 PM
Pride and Prejudice 20th Anniversary Screening in LA & NY
One of the greatest love stories of all time, Pride & Prejudice, comes to the screen in a glorious adaptation starring Keira Knightley. When Elizabeth Bennet (Knightley) meets the handsome Mr. Darcy (Matthew MacFadyen), she believes he is the last man on earth she could ever marry. But as their lives become intertwined in an unexpected adventure, she finds herself captivated by the very person she swore to loathe for all eternity. Based on the beloved masterpiece by Jane Austen, it is the classic tale of love and misunderstanding that sparkles with romance, wit, and emotional force.
Check your local listings for a screening near you!
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