A Theater Near You
January 13, 2008 - February 24, 2008
This installment in our ongoing repertory series presents classic films and cult favorites, from Ophuls to Eraserhead, in restored or newly struck prints.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
4:15 p.m. Muriel
Alain Resnais’s fractured memory-piece returns in a restored print. Delphine Seyrig stars as a widow haunted by a former love, as her son is haunted by memories of military service in Algeria. Repeated on Wednesday, January 16.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
8:30 p.m. Muriel
See Sunday, January 13.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
7:00 p.m. Lola Montez
Lecture by Stefan Drössler. In Max Ophuls’s audacious final film, a life of passion becomes the stuff of carnival. “The ultimate cinephilic object: a color-and-CinemaScope dream.”—Boston Phoenix
Thursday, February 14, 2008
6:30 p.m. Let’s Get Lost
Bruce Weber’s portrait of jazz legend Chet Baker, in a restored print, “remains a stunning object of scrutiny. . . . It’s the music doc as film noir.”—Village Voice. Repeated on Friday, February 15.
Friday, February 15, 2008
9:00 p.m. Let’s Get Lost
See Thursday, February 14.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
6:30 p.m. Dillinger Is Dead
Marco Ferreri’s rare, seminal film, shown here in a new print. Michel Piccoli stars in a provocative chamber piece that unfolds in comic, unsettling gestures. Repeated on Sunday, February 24.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
8:30 p.m. Eraserhead
David Lynch’s debut feature, still creepy after all these years: “a masterpiece of texture . . . an ingenious assemblage of damp, dust, rock, wood, hair, flesh, metal, ooze. The immaculate restoration brings all this to new light.”—Village Voice
Sunday, February 24, 2008
6:15 p.m. Dillinger Is Dead
See Saturday, February 23.
