35mm print “A brisk, snappy comedy with Robinson in a double role: as the timid, dependable clerk Jones, and the notorious gangster, Killer Mannion. An accountant with a cat he calls Abelard and a canary named Heloise, Jones dreams of exotic places and his spunky colleague Miss Clark (Arthur). It is only after he has […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/the-whole-towns-talking/Q&A with actor John Turturro and director Roman Paska In REHEARSAL FOR A SICILIAN TRAGEDY, actor John Turturro takes audiences on a haunting, intimate journey to his maternal homeland of Sicily. There, while exploring the island’s vanishing traditions, he is taken under the wing of one of the puppet theater’s few remaining practitioners, Mimmo Cuticchio, […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/rehearsal-for-a-sicilian-tragedy/Last October 2010, the documentary world was devastated to lose fellow documentarian Gail Dolgin. Activist, mother, “sister”, beloved friend, mentor, collaborator and comrade to many, and a deep believer in the power of non-fiction to be as riveting as it is strange. She courageously and artfully battled breast cancer for over a decade, all the […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/tribute-to-gail-dolgin/35mm print! One of the most celebrated screen adaptations of Shakespeare into film, Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood reimagines Macbeth in feudal Japan. Starring Kurosawa’s longtime collaborator Toshiro Mifune and the legendary Isuzu Yamada as his ruthless wife, the film tells of a valiant warrior’s savage rise to power and his ignominious fall. With Throne […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/throne-of-blood/Tonight at 7:00pm! Provocative French auteur Catherine Breillat (Fat Girl, Romance, The Last Mistress) in person to present and discuss a personal favorite, Elia Kazan’s steamy 1956 drama BABY DOLL. “Elia Kazan was not known for his drolleries, although his sometime collaborator Tennessee Williams had a taste for the absurd. Together, these two giants of […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/event/movie-night-with-catherine-breillat/Playing with Denis’s short Pour Ushari Ahmed Mahmoud! From the director who has given contemporary cinema some of its most breathtakingly choreographed moments (has ironing ever looked better than it did in Beau Travail?), VERS MATHILDE documents Claire Denis’ encounter with Mathilde Monnier, the head of the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier and France’s foremost […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/vers-mathilde/Part of “Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2010.” A taut, revealing thriller about the French Resistance, whose leaders and foot soldiers were often foreigners—Poles, Jews, Armenians, Spaniards, Italians—who had to fear French collaborators as well as the Germans. Armenian poet Missak Manouchian (a stand-out performance by Simon Abkarian) and his French wife Mélinée (Virginie Ledoyen) lead […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/the-army-of-crime/Claire Denis’s delicate and graceful film begins in the territory of Renoir’s La Bete humaine and develops into an unlikely and enchanted evocation of Ozu’s Late Spring. Denis regular Alex Descas is Lionel, a Parisian train driver who lives in peace and contentment with his “marriageable” daughter Josephine (Mati Diop), until she notices the stirrings […]
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