Friday Repertory Roundup

Friday Repertory Roundup

For today’s survey of films connected to the Criterion Collection that you can catch on the big screen over the coming week, let’s start right here at Manhattan’s Film Forum, where Janus Films’ Chaplin series premieres with a weeklong run of a new 35 mm print of The Circus. This retrospective of the work of “the greatest star the movies ever produced” (J. Hoberman) runs through August 3 and features all the delightful usual suspects, from City Lights to Limelight. Silence is also golden at San Francisco’s legendary Castro Theatre, which will host the fifteenth annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Screenings will include Benjamin Christensen’s diabolical 1922 witchcraft wonder Häxan (pictured), in a restored, tinted 35 mm print from the Swedish Film Institute and accompanied by the Matti Bye Ensemble, on Saturday, July 17.

And there are treasures to be found between the coasts too: Malick’s Days of Heaven at Ciné in Athens, Georgia (July 16–22); the continuation of a Kurosawa celebration at Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford, Connecticut, with Yojimbo, Ikiru, and Throne of Blood (July 16–22); Obayashi’s freak-out House (a big-screen must!) at the Landmark Magnolia in Dallas on July 16 and 17; Truffaut’s The Last Metro at Montreal’s Cinéma du parc (July 16–22); Bresson’s Pickpocket at the International House in Philadelphia on July 17; Ophuls’s The Earrings of Madame de . . . at the Canadian Film Institute in Ottawa on July 17; Powell and Pressburger’s Black Narcissus at Pittsburgh’s Regent Square Theater on July 18; Tati’s M. Hulot’s Holiday at Ann Arbor’s Michigan Theater on July 18 and 20; Bergman’s Autumn Sonata at Dartmouth’s Hopkins Center for the Arts in Hanover, New Hampshire, on July 22; and Ermanno Olmi’s Il posto at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, on July 22 (in a double feature with Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point).

And New Yorkers, be sure to keep an eye on Anthology Film Archives’ ongoing Anti-Biopics series, which in the coming week includes Alex Cox’s Walker (July 16) and Rossellini’s Cartesius and Blaise Pascal (July 18).

Thanks to the programmers and others who offered suggestions of screenings to include and theaters to keep an eye on. Keep ’em coming!
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By John
July 16, 2010
03:04 PM

The theater in Athens, Ga., is called Ciné, not BarCaféCinéma.
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By Inney
July 16, 2010
03:46 PM

Keep an eye on the Detroit Film Theatre- Breathless and the Exterminating Angel are upcoming
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By RAY
July 16, 2010
06:57 PM

Viz Cinema in San Francisco's Japantown has been playing Janus prints of Criterion titles, yet they always seem to escape your Friday Repertory Roundup posts. Tomorrow (7/12) is the last screening of Kobayashi's Samurai Rebellion at this venue but they've recently screened Harakiri, Sword of Doom, and Kill! (as part of... their Samurai Saga Vol. 1 series) as well as four each from Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu. Oh, and next month Viz is playing The Burmese Harp, Fires on the Plain, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Rashomon, Throne of Blood, and The Hidden Fortress. I'm sure the cinema and its patrons would appreciate the extra attention your Friday Rep posts would bring.
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By Jason
July 18, 2010
04:30 PM

I like this feature - hope you keep it going.
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By Sookie Yucky
July 18, 2010
06:26 PM

Surprised you didn't mention that AFA has Schrader's Mishima coming up any day now in that series -- since that's one of yours -- as well as Listzomania which ... isn't?? ... Had a trip to NYC but had to cancel -- did go to Berkeley instead and see Stray Dog at the PFA -- thinking of buying your DVD now, though, because the staff started rolling the film while there was still a long line-up in the lobby due to super-slow cashiers ... Lots of protests, but they refused to halt it and I missed quite a bit ...
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