Film Calendar

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and garden. This includes our holiday classics, talk
backs, film festivals, visits from directors, producers,
and actors, as well as our regular midnight, matinee,
and feature presentations.
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Classic Matinees
Saturdays & Sundays at 11:30am
Foreign Masterpieces
The Music Box takes you around the world
with seminal classics from master filmmakers.
May 14 & 15 May 28 & 29
8 ½
Dir. Federico Fellini, 1963, 35mm,
138 mins, Italy
Marcello Mastroianni plays
Guido Anselmi, a director
whose new project is collapsing
around him, along with his
life. One of the greatest films
about film ever made, Federico
Fellini’s 8½ turns one man’s
artistic crisis into a grand
epic of the cinema. An early
working title for 8½ was THE
BEAUTIFUL CONFUSION, and
Fellini’s masterpiece is exactly
that: a shimmering dream, a
circus, and a magic act.
THE SEVENTH SEAL
Dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1957, 35mm,
96 mins, Sweden
Disillusioned and exhausted
after a decade of battling in
the Crusades, a knight (Max von
Sydow) encounters Death on a
desolate beach and challenges
him to a fateful game of chess.
Much studied, imitated, even
parodied, but never outdone,
Bergman’s stunning allegory of
man’s search for meaning, THE
SEVENTH SEAL was one of the
benchmark foreign imports
of America’s 1950s art-house
heyday.
June 4 & 5 June 18 & 19
June 25 & 26
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THE RED SHOES
Dir. Michael Powell & Emeric
Pressburger, 1948, 35mm, 133 mins,
United Kingdom
A glorious Technicolor epic
that influenced generations
of filmmakers, artists, and
aspiring ballerinas, THE RED
SHOES intricately weaves
backstage life with the thrill of
performance. A young ballerina
(Moira Shearer) is torn between
two forces: the composer who
loves her, and the impresario
determined to fashion her into
a great dancer.
YOJIMBO
Dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1961, 35mm,
110 mins, Japan
The incomparable Toshiro
Mifune stars in Akira Kurosawa’s
visually stunning and darkly
comic YOJIMBO. To rid a terrorstricken
village of corruption,
wily masterless samurai Sanjuro
turns a range war between two
evil clans to his own advantage.
Remade twice, by Sergio Leone
and Walter Hill, this exhilarating
genre-twister remains one
of the most influential and
entertaining films of all time.
M
Dir. Fritz Lang, 1931, DCP, 99 mins,
Germany
In his harrowing masterwork
M, Fritz Lang merges trenchant
social commentary with
chilling suspense, creating a
panorama of private madness
and public hysteria that to
this day remains the blueprint
for the psychological thriller.
A psychopathic murderer of
young girls terrorizes a German
city causing public hysteria and
intense police investigations,
which in turn disrupts organized
crime. The contrasting worlds of
the police and the underworld
are juxtaposed as they both
resolve to hunt, capture, and try
the murderer.
Matinees 21