[NEohioPAL]Cinematheque plays classic Visconti, Murnau and more!
Tim Harry
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Mon Nov 8 10:11:19 PST 2004
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CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART CINEMATHEQUE
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, Ohio 44106
Among our films this weekend are two classic films, one from the silent
era and one about an era of lavish wealth and influence. Don't miss
these films directed by Luchino Visconti and F.W. Murnau in new,
restored 35 mm prints!
THE LEOPARD
New, Restored 35mm Print!
IL GATTOPARDO
Italy/France, 1963, Luchino Visconti
Saturday, November 13, at 8:00 pm
Sunday, November 14, at 2:45 pm
This great historical spectacle doubles as one of the most lavish and
splendid movies ever made in scope! Burt Lancaster plays the scion of
an aristocratic, 19th-century Sicilian family living at the time of
Garibaldi and the unification of Italy. Despite his best attempts to
cling to his patrician lifestyle of privilege and influence, he can't
hold back the populist tide of history. Visctonti's sumptuous film is
an elegy for a lost way of life, and for a bygone era of grace, style,
and elegance; its climactic ballroom sequence inspired a similar finale
in RUSSIAN ARK. For years THE LEOPARD was regarded as the "most wanted"
film never released on home video and DVD. Although it is now available
on DVD, you don't want to see it on TV when you have a big-screen
alternative. The new print we will show this weekend is supposed to be
even more beautiful than the restored British print that drew over 500
people to the Cleveland Museum of Art in September, 2003! THE LEOPARD
proved so popular at New York's Film Forum that the theatre is bringing
it back for a whole other engagement later this year. With Alain Delon
and Claudia Cardinale. Music by Nino Rota; cinematography by Giuesppe
Rotunno. Subtitles. 180 min.
THE LAST LAUGH
New 35mm Print!
Original German Version!
Sebastian Birch Accompanies
DER LETZTE MANN
Germany, 1924, F.W. Murnau
Sunday, November 14, at 7:00 pm
The proud old doorman at a German luxury hotel is stripped of his
cherished uniform and demoted to washroom attendant in this famous
silent movie that tells its story entirely through visuals, without the
aid of intertitles. The great Emil Jannings stars. We will show a new
print of the original German version of this masterpiece, which differs
slightly from the better-known American cut. Live piano accompaniment
by Sebastian Birch. Cleveland revival premiere. Approx. 84 min.
www.kino.com
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THE BLIND SWORDSMAN: ZATOICHI
ZATOICHI
Japan, 2003, Takeshi Kitano
Thursday, November 11, at 7:00 pm
Sunday, November 14, at 8:45 pm
Winner of the Audience Award for Best Picture at the 2003 Venice Film
Festival, and the People's Choice Award for Best Film at the 2003
Toronto International Film Festival, Takeshi (FIREWORKS, SONATINE)
Kitano's cartoonish action drama resurrects a Japanese icon -- the
19th-century blind masseur and swordsman Zatoichi -- who was the subject
of 26 feature films and over 100 television episodes made between 1962
and 1989. Kitano's Zatoichi is perhaps faster and more lethal than his
precursor (played by the stalwart Shintaro Katsu); he fights villains
with aplomb in this handsome, funny, bloody movie that even has musical
numbers! Subtitles. 35mm. 116 min. miramax.com/zatoichi/index.html
STANDER
Canada/Germany/South Africa/Britain, 2003, Bonwen Hughes
Thursday, November 11, at 9:15 pm
Friday, November 12, at 7:30 pm
A 1970's Johannesburg police captain, an anti-authoritarian white
officer whose secret contempt for apartheid compelled him to revolt
against the system and become a Robin Hood folk hero, bank robbing
bandit is chronicled in this crackling thriller. "Riveting true-life
drama." - Entertainment Weekly. Cleveland premiere! 35mm. 111 min.
www.standerfilm.com
TOUCH OF PINK
Canada/Britain, 2004, Ian Iqbal Rashid
Friday, November 12, at 9:40 pm
Saturday, November 13, at 6:10 pm
A Canadian-born, South Asian Muslim man living with his male lover in
London frequently consults the spirit of Cary Grant (impeccably
personified by Kyle MacLachlan) for advice on love and suavity. A
movie-besotted closet case unable to come out to his traditional mother,
he faces a real crisis when she comes to London intent on getting him
married. "A clever and big-hearted gay screwball comedy." -NY Post.
Cleveland premiere! 35mm. 91 min. www.sonyclassics.com/touch of pink
NEXT WEEK:
SUNRISE - Perhaps the pinnacle of silent screen art! F.W. Murnau's
story of a country hick seduced by a vamp has been voted the 7th Best
Movie of All Time in a 2002 poll of international critics conducted by
Britain's Sight and Sound magazine. Don't miss this classic in a new
print!
FREE RADICALS - The fragility of existence is explored in this
penetrating new drama from the 2003 New York Film Festival.
THE BROWN BUNNY - Vincent Gallo's follow-up to BUFFALO '66 is a newly
edited version that still includes the explicit sex scene with Chloe
Sevigny.
SHE HATE ME - Spike Lee's new movie tells the story of an unemployed VP
who begins impregnating lesbians for $10,000 a hit. Huge cast includes
Monica Bellucci, Ellen Barkin, Ossie Davis, Woody Harrelson, John
Tuturro, Brian Dennehy, and Jim Brown.
*JUST ANNOUNCED!
NEW FILM WITH MUSICAL SCORE FROM RADIOHEAD'S JONNY GREENWOOD! **
BODYSONG - In the tradition of KOYAANISQATSI comes this award-winning
new found footage film with a musical score by Radionhead's Jonny
Greenwood. Structured around the life cycle (birth, childhood, puberty,
adulthood, old age, death), the movie is constructed from 100 years of
cinema to find amazing images that constitute a beautiful, mesmerizing
hymn to Homo sapiens. NO ONE UNDER 18 ADMITTED! Cleveland premiere!
See it before it ships back to Britain. 35mm. 83 min. Monday,
November 22, at 7:00 pm & 8:45 pm
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CINEMATHEQUE<br>
<small><small>11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, Ohio 44106</small></small><br>
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<font face="Arial"><small><i>Among our films this weekend are two
classic films, one from the silent era and one about an era of lavish
wealth and influence. Don't miss these films directed by Luchino
Visconti and F.W. Murnau in new, restored 35 mm prints!</i><br>
<br>
THE LEOPARD<br>
<small>New, Restored 35mm Print!</small><br>
</small></font></b><small><font face="Arial"><small><small>IL GATTOPARDO<br>
Italy/France, 1963, Luchino Visconti<br>
<b>Saturday, November 13, at 8:00 pm<br>
Sunday, November 14, at 2:45 pm<br>
</b>This great historical spectacle doubles as one of the most lavish
and splendid movies ever made in scope! Burt Lancaster plays the scion
of an aristocratic, 19th-century Sicilian family living at the time of
Garibaldi and the unification of Italy. Despite his best attempts to
cling to his patrician lifestyle of privilege and influence, he can't
hold back the populist tide of history. Visctonti's sumptuous film is
an elegy for a lost way of life, and for a bygone era of grace, style,
and elegance; its climactic ballroom sequence inspired a similar finale
in RUSSIAN ARK. For years THE LEOPARD was regarded as the "most
wanted" film never released on home video and DVD. Although it is now
available on DVD, you don't want to see it on TV when you have a
big-screen alternative. The new print we will show this weekend is
supposed to be even <i>more </i>beautiful than the restored British
print that drew over 500 people to the Cleveland Museum of Art in
September, 2003! THE LEOPARD proved so popular at New York's Film
Forum that the theatre is bringing it back for a whole other engagement
later this year. With Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale. Music by Nino
Rota; cinematography by Giuesppe Rotunno. Subtitles. 180 min.<br>
<br>
<big><big><b>THE LAST LAUGH<br>
<small>New 35mm Print!<br>
Original German Version!<br>
Sebastian Birch Accompanies<br>
</small></b><small><small>DER LETZTE MANN<br>
Germany, 1924, F.W. Murnau<br>
<b>Sunday, November 14, at 7:00 pm<br>
</b>The proud old doorman at a German luxury hotel is stripped of his
cherished uniform and demoted to washroom attendant in this famous
silent movie that tells its story entirely through visuals, without the
aid of intertitles. The great Emil Jannings stars. We will show a new
print of the original German version of this masterpiece, which differs
slightly from the better-known American cut. Live piano accompaniment
by Sebastian Birch. Cleveland revival premiere. Approx. 84 min.
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.kino.com">www.kino.com</a><br>
<b>********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************<br>
<big><big>THE BLIND SWORDSMAN: ZATOICHI<br>
</big></big></b><big><big><small><small>ZATOICHI<br>
Japan, 2003, Takeshi Kitano<br>
<b>Thursday, November 11, at 7:00 pm<br>
Sunday, November 14, at 8:45 pm<br>
</b>Winner of the Audience Award for Best Picture at the 2003 Venice
Film Festival, and the People's Choice Award for Best Film at the 2003
Toronto International Film Festival, Takeshi (FIREWORKS, SONATINE)
Kitano's cartoonish action drama resurrects a Japanese icon -- the
19th-century blind masseur and swordsman Zatoichi -- who was the
subject of 26 feature films and over 100 television episodes made
between 1962 and 1989. Kitano's Zatoichi is perhaps faster and more
lethal than his precursor (played by the stalwart Shintaro Katsu); he
fights villains with aplomb in this handsome, funny, bloody movie that
even has musical numbers! Subtitles. 35mm. 116 min.
miramax.com/zatoichi/index.html<br>
<br>
<big><big><b>STANDER<br>
</b><small><small>Canada/Germany/South Africa/Britain, 2003, Bonwen
Hughes<br>
<b>Thursday, November 11, at 9:15 pm <br>
Friday, November 12, at 7:30 pm<br>
</b>A 1970's Johannesburg police captain, an anti-authoritarian white
officer whose secret contempt for apartheid compelled him to revolt
against the system and become a Robin Hood folk hero, bank robbing
bandit is chronicled in this crackling thriller. "Riveting true-life
drama." - <i>Entertainment Weekly. </i>Cleveland premiere! 35mm.
111 min. <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.standerfilm.com">www.standerfilm.com</a><br>
<br>
<big><big><b>TOUCH OF PINK<br>
</b><small><small>Canada/Britain, 2004, Ian Iqbal Rashid<br>
<b>Friday, November 12, at 9:40 pm<br>
Saturday, November 13, at 6:10 pm<br>
</b>A Canadian-born, South Asian Muslim man living with his male lover
in London frequently consults the spirit of Cary Grant (impeccably
personified by Kyle MacLachlan) for advice on love and suavity. A
movie-besotted closet case unable to come out to his traditional
mother, he faces a real crisis when she comes to London intent on
getting him married. "A clever and big-hearted gay screwball comedy."
-<i>NY Post. </i>Cleveland premiere! <i> </i>35mm. 91 min.
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.sonyclassics.com/touch">www.sonyclassics.com/touch</a> of pink<br>
<br>
<br>
<b><big>NEXT WEEK:<br>
</big><br>
</b><big><big><b>SUNRISE</b></big> - Perhaps the pinnacle of silent
screen art! F.W. Murnau's story of a country hick seduced by a vamp
has been voted the 7th Best Movie of All Time in a 2002 poll of
international critics conducted by Britain's <i>Sight and Sound </i>magazine.
Don't miss this classic in a new print<b>!</b></big><b><big> </big><br>
<br>
<big><big>FREE RADICALS<small> - </small></big></big></b><big><big><small>The
fragility of existence is explored in this penetrating new drama from
the 2003 New York Film Festival.<br>
<br>
<big><b>THE BROWN BUNNY </b><small>- Vincent Gallo's follow-up to
BUFFALO '66 is a newly edited version that still includes the explicit
sex scene with Chloe Sevigny. <br>
<br>
<big><b>SHE HATE ME - </b><small>Spike Lee's new movie tells the story
of an unemployed VP who begins impregnating lesbians for $10,000 a
hit. Huge cast includes Monica Bellucci, Ellen Barkin, Ossie Davis,
Woody Harrelson, John Tuturro, Brian Dennehy, and Jim Brown.<br>
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ANNOUNCED! <br>
NEW FILM WITH MUSICAL SCORE FROM RADIOHEAD'S JONNY GREENWOOD! **</big><br>
</i><b>BODYSONG </b><small>- In the tradition of KOYAANISQATSI comes
this award-winning new found footage film with a musical score by
Radionhead's Jonny Greenwood. Structured around the life cycle (birth,
childhood, puberty, adulthood, old age, death), the movie is
constructed from 100 years of cinema to find amazing images that
constitute a beautiful, mesmerizing hymn to <i>Homo sapiens. </i>NO
ONE UNDER 18 ADMITTED! Cleveland premiere! See it before it ships
back to Britain. 35mm. 83 min. <b>Monday, November 22, at 7:00 pm
& 8:45 pm</b><br>
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