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7/10 @ 7:30pm / Series: Saturday Night Showcase
Le Combat Dans L'Ile
A cool romantic noir from the French New Wave, Le Combat Dans L’Ile stars Louis Trintignant and the impossibly gorgeous Romy Schneider in a zigzagging narrative suffused with brooding, dysfunctional romance and political tension. Schneider is Anne, a free-spirited actress struggling to find meaning in her marriage to Trintignant's uptight right-wing reactionary who casually leaves his bazooka lying around the house. The marriage hits the skids after Louis splits to indulge in some South American revenge-killing, leaving Anne to buddy up to pacifist heartthrob Paul (Jules et Jim’s Henri Serre). Produced by Louis Malle as a pointed reprisal to a few notorious right-wing Cahiers du Cinema critics (including Godard and Truffaut at the time), the film shares Elevator to the Gallows’ fatalist tension and smoky monochromatic imagery (by Army of Shadows cameraman Pierre Lhome). In his directorial debut, Alain Cavalier’s originality and gutsy tone reveals the generous first indication of a voice that would grow into one of the New Wave’s most essential.
Dir. Alain Cavalier, 1962, 35mm, 104 min.

Tickets - $10

7/31 @ 7:30pm / Series: Saturday Night Showcase
SPECIAL SATURDAY SCREENING:
The Last Movie
Following the massive reverberations of Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper had carte blanche and a $1 million budget to realize the project of his dreams. The result was The Last Movie, a beautifully raw folk symphony of cinematic romanticism -- and his most ambitious effort behind the camera. Hopper plays a movie stuntman who's working on the set of a Peruvian-shot, Hollywood-funded western. Then, he falls in love. Sound simple? It's not. Initially conceived and edited as a linear narrative, The Last Movie was obsessively retooled by a haunted Hopper for nearly an entire year, and what emerged was an epic, constantly-in-flux fever dream that lobotomized the Godardian ideals of fiction vs. reality, reality vs. reality, form vs. content, and everything between. Rightly eulogized in Europe upon release (and wrongly reviled in the U.S.), this mesmerizing film is both a benchmark and an epitaph for Hollywood’s unhinged hippies and their uncompromising home movies. You may be challenged, but you’ll never be bored by The Last Movie. Join us on our backyard Spanish patio after the film for the closing reception in honor of our Dennis Hopper retrospective!
Dir. Dennis Hopper, 1971, 35mm, 108 min.

Tickets - $12 general admission/$8 MOCA members/free for Cinefamily members

8/7 @ 2:00pm / Series: Don't Knock The Rock 2010
SPECIAL AFTERNOON EVENT -
Don't Knock The Rock BMI Roundtable:
Music in Film, TV and New Media '10
Join us for an intimate discussion of the changing landscape for music rights and new media. Musicians can find out how to get their music into films, TV and new media, and filmmakers can learn how to clear the rights for music for their work. Guests include: Allison Anders (director, Grace Of My Heart, Sugar Town), Tiffany Anders (music supervisor, Kaboom, Douchebag), Carter Armstrong (composer), Michelle Belcher (music supervisor, District 9, The Resident), Jeff Danna (composer, Lakeview Terrace, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus), Michael Des Barres (moderator, musician), Drake Doremus (director, Douchebag), Stephen Kijak (director, Stones In Exile), Howard Parr (music supervisor, "The L Word", Sympathy For Delicious), and Doreen Ringer Ross (BMI)!

Tickets - $7/free for members

8/7 @ 7:00pm
For All Mankind
shown with
Project Apollo

Co-presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Less a history lesson than a philosophical inquiry, Al Reinert's immaculately composed chronicle of humanity’s conquest of the moon lets the truly awesome original sounds and images do most of the talking, in 35mm no less! Culled entirely from contemporary NASA recordings and presented with a beauty and clarity never before seen, For All Mankind is a profoundly immersive cinematic experience of space travel. Equally impressive are the intimate observations and remembrances of the space shuttle crews; the astronauts themselves provide the only commentary, presented anonymously, the reverential voices forming a chorus of incredible shared experience and insight. While it's sublime in its contemplation of mankind's great endeavor, the film is also full of warmth and humor -- perhaps no other documentary features zero-G montages scored to Merle Haggard, or extended sequences of giggling moonwalkers falling on their face. A rich and remarkable fusion of focus, concision and wonder, For All Mankind aspires, like all the best visions of science, to the level of poetry. Also showing before the feature is Project Apollo, the half-hour experimental educational film (directed by Ed Emshwiller for the United States Information Agency) that gives a fascinating portrait of NASA's Apollo project a full year before the actual moon landing!
For All Mankind   Dir. Al Reinert, 1989, 35mm, 80 min. (35mm print courtesy of Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences)
Project Apollo   Dir. Ed Emshwiller, 1968, digital presentation, 30 min.

Watch an excerpt from "From All Mankind"!


Tickets - $10

8/21 @ 7:00pm / Series: Saturday Night Showcase
Harper Simon presents
Nothing Lasts Forever
(w/ director Tom Schiller in person!)
shown with
"Schiller's Reel"
Take the whimsical social satire of Frank Capra, filter it through the startling future dream of Terry Gilliam's Brazil and add a few drops of the gentle madness of both Forbidden Zone and The Hudsucker Proxy -- and you've got Nothing Lasts Forever, the vastly underseen early '80s gem from Tom Schiller, director of some of SNL's most ingenious early film shorts. Zach Galligan (Gremlins) plays Adam, an upstanding wannabe artist trapped in a discreetly ever-mutating retro future dystopia (is it '30s? '50s? '80s?), where the Port Authority has assumed control of Manhattan's government, and has denied him an "artist's license." A secret cabal of hobos, however, sees Adam's worth and sends him packing on a shuttle bus to the Moon! Shelved by MGM after its completion and never released theatrically or on video, this subtle and charming B&W curio -- even with the added presence of its co-stars Bill Murray and Dan Ackroyd -- was too "outside the box" and ahead of its time in the boom era of teen sex romps, slasher films and buddy action flicks. Lucky for us, however, Nothing Lasts Forever remains as one of the most truly unique film works of its time. Director Tom Schiller will be here in person to introduce "Schiller's Reel", a half-hour compendium of his early short films -- and for a Q&A after the screening! Plus, special guests TBA!
Dir. Tom Schiller, 1984, 35mm, 82 min.

Tickets - $10

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