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Tue
26
Jun
- Western
- USA
- 111 mins.
Former blacklisted Martin Ritt ("Hud") directs this superior revisionist western, with a liberal slant, based on the novel by Elmore Leonard. It's a variant on John Ford's 1939 ‘Stagecoach’, as the outcast hero (played by Paul Newman) instead of running away from civilization in his final desperate…
Tue
16
Jun
- Comedy
- USA
- B&W
- 68 mins.
The zaniest Marx Brothers comedy of them all with an anarchic finale involving banana peels, a chariot, an elastic band and a whole lot of footballs! Scheming president of Huxley University Quincy Adams Wagstaff, (Groucho Marx) hires two misfits he mistakes for professional footballers to win a…
Thu
20
Sep
- Colour
The story of Norbu, a horse thief, who is thrown out of his tribe in an effort to purge it of evil. Norbu repents after the birth of his son, but he is forced to steal again after the birth of a second son.
Tue
21
Aug
- Animation
- Japan
- Colour
- 119 mins.
A surreal love story between an 18-year-old girl named Sophie, cursed by a witch into an old woman's body, and a magician named Howl. Under the curse, Sophie sets out to seek her fortune, which takes her to Howl's strange moving castle. In the castle, Sophie meets…
Tue
25
Jun
- Film noir
- USA
- B&W
- 90 mins.
Fritz Lang's 1954 American version of the Zola novel (and Renoir film) La bete humaine. Gloria Grahame, at her brassiest, pleads with Glenn Ford to do away with her slob of a husband, Broderick Crawford. Lang mines the railroad setting for a remarkably rich series of visual correlatives…
Tue
18
Mar
- Drama
- USA
- B&W
- 134 mins.
Paul Newman stars as "Fast Eddie" Felson, an ambitious, small time pool shark who takes on legendary player "Minnesota Fats" (Jackie Gleason) to prove himself and hit the big time. Taken under the wing of shady gambler Bert Gordon (George C. Scott), Eddie pursues high stakes glory…
Tue
29
Nov
- Drama
- Italian / Russian / English (subtitles)
- Colour
- 120 mins.
"Bold, refreshing and unorthodox as ever in her choice of projects, Tilda Swinton takes the lead in this family drama from Italian film maker Luca Guadagnino...I Am Love is an arresting film and in many ways, displaying, in parallel with the Recchi family's theatrical deployment of the…
Tue
03
Mar
- Comedy, Drama
- Italy
- B&W
- 109 mins.
I vitelloni is a 1953 Italian comedy-drama directed by Federico Fellini from a screenplay by Fellini, Ennio Flaiano and Tullio Pinelli. The film launched the career of Alberto Sordi, one of post-war Italy's most significant and popular comedians, who stars with Franco Fabrizi and Franco Interlenghi in…
Tue
26
Nov
- Silent comedy drama
- Japan
- B&W
- 100 mins.
Special Event! Yasujirô Ozu's classic silent comedy performed with Live Piano Accompaniment by Forrester Pyke One of legendary director Yasujirô Ozu's most popular films I Was Born But... is a brilliant comedy of everyday life, seen through the eyes of two young brothers who become leaders of…
Tue
08
Mar
- Romantic drama
- HK/Fr
- Colour
- 97 mins.
A man and a woman move in to neighboring Hong Kong apartments and form a bond when they both suspect their spouses of extramarital activities.
