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Friday Repertory Roundup
Local repertory movie houses are magical places, and, with a wealth of fabulous summer series beginning all over North America, the coming week promises to be a great time to put yourself under their spell. Here are some films from the Criterion Collection that you can see in an air-conditioned theater over the next several days.
On the East Coast: Harvard Film Archive starts its monthlong series Nicholas Ray: Hollywood’s Last Romantic with a screening of Bigger Than Life, featuring a Q&A with the director’s widow, Susan Ray. Anthology Film Archives in New York goes against convention for Anti-biopics, showing such radical alternatives to bloated Hollywood hagiographies as Walker, Blaise Pascal, Secret Honor, and Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters. New York’s IFC Center begins a Yasujiro Ozu retrospective—running on weekends through November—that features the usual suspects (Early Summer, Late Spring) as well as some serious rarities (An Inn at Tokyo kicks it off this weekend). Meanwhile, Toronto’s TIFF Cinematheque eschews Ozu-like gentility with its series Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Poet of Contamination, beginning with the Anna Magnani tour de force Mamma Roma.
Out west, two wildly different auteurs are getting their due. At the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, an unsung Italian filmmaker is honored in Modernist Master: The Cinema of Francesco Rosi, featuring such highly charged political dramas as Salvatore Giuliano and Hands over the City. And Los Angeles’s LACMA goes to the lighter side with Laughter in Paradise: The American Comedies of Ernst Lubitsch, opening with the sparking Trouble in Paradise.
Other repertory screenings that may be of interest to Criterion viewers include Stanley Donen’s Charade at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on July 10 (part of a Cary Grant series), Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-up at the Pacific Film Archive on July 10, David Lean’s Summertime at the Akron Civic Theatre in Ohio on July 10, an Army of Shadows and Bob le flambeur double feature at Los Angeles’s Egyptian Theater on July 11, and G. W. Pabst’s Pandora’s Box with a live score by Cabeza de Vaca Arcestra at L.A.’s Cinefamily on July 14.
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