JBFC
E-Bulletin
Thurs. Oct. 26, 2006
49 UP Oct. 31 & Nov. 1 only. "Brilliant!
The UP Series is on my list of the ten greatest films of all time!" (Roger
Ebert)
"Viva Pedro!" final
week of films by director Pedro Almodóvar in new 35mm prints!
Halloween Events: Abbott & Costello
Meet Frankenstein Oct. 28 & 29 at noon (Oct. 29
w/Arthur Yorinks); and Carrie w/screenwriter
Lawrence Cohen Sat.
Oct. 28 at 10:00 pm.
The Nov./Dec.
calendar is on the website with tickets available now for all events
including: this year's "Global
Watch 2006: Crisis, Culture and Human Rights" series; "Catching
Up," our annual roundup of deserving films not
yet shown; two live radio plays performed onstage in a new series,
"The
Art of Adaptation;" new releases, including Almodóvar's Volver,
and much, much more.
Opening Fri. Nov. 3: 51
Birch Street - details and showtimes to be announced.
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Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
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October /
November
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26
Lunacy 5:00,
7:30 Reel Talk w/Chris Funderburg
The
Last King of Scotland 5:05
Babel 7:00
Preview w/Alejandro González Iñárritu & Jon Kilik *Sold-Out
The
Queen 7:35 |
27
Law
of Desire 5:00, 9:40
The Queen 5:05,
7:25, 9:50
The Last King
of Scotland 5:10, 7:40, 10:10
Matador 7:15 |
28
Abbott
and Costello Meet Frankenstein 12:00
The Last
King of Scotland 12:05, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10
The Queen 12:10,
2:35, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30
Law
of Desire 2:30, 7:10
Matador 4:45
Carrie 10:00
w/Lawrence Cohen |
29
Abbott
and Costello Meet Frankenstein 12:00 w/Arthur Yorinks,
book signing
The Last
King of Scotland 12:05, 2:35, 5:10
The
Queen 12:10, 2:50, 5:05, 7:40
Live
Flesh 2:30, 7:20
Bad
Education 5:00 |
30
The
Last King of Scotland 5:00, 7:30
The Queen 5:05,
7:20
Live
Flesh 5:30
Bad
Education 7:50 |
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Live
Flesh 5:00
The Queen 5:05,
7:30
49 UP 6:00
The Last King
of Scotland 7:20 |
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The
Last King of Scotland 5:00, 7:30
The Queen 5:05,
7:20
49 UP 6:00 |
2
The
Last King of Scotland 5:00, 7:30
The Queen 5:05,
7:20 |
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Best
of Current Cinema (click
to see other upcoming films) |
49 UP
SHOWTIMES/TICKETS |
49
UP Tues.
Oct. 31 & Wed. Nov. 1 only
Michael Apted. 2006. 135 min. NR. UK.
"49 UP is more than a deeply satisfying movie; it's a reminder
of the wonder contained in ordinary lives." (Los Angeles Times)
"Brilliant! The UP Series is on my list of the ten greatest films
of all time!" (Roger Ebert)
49 UP is the seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that
began 42 years ago when UK-based Granada's World in Action team, inspired by
the Jesuit maxim "Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you
the man," interviewed a diverse group of seven-year-old children from
all over England, asking them about their lives and their dreams for the future.
Michael Apted, a researcher for the original film, has returned to interview
the "children" every seven years since, at ages 14, 21, 28, 35, 42
and now again at age 49.
Click
Here for the Los Angeles Times review.
Click
Here for the film's website. |
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The Queen
SHOWTIMES/TICKETS
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THE
QUEEN Continues
Stephen Frears. 2006. 97 min. PG-13. UK/France/Italy.
"Deliciously written and expertly played." (Variety)
An intimate, revealing, often humourous portrait of
the British Royal family immediately following the death of Princess
Diana, starring Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II, James Cromwell
as Prince Phillip, and Michael Sheen as Tony Blair. Click
Here for the film's website. |
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The Last King of Scotland
SHOWTIMES/TICKETS |
THE
LAST KING OF SCOTLAND Continues
Kevin MacDonald. 2006. 123 min. R. UK.
"Forest Whitaker...gives a chilling, bravura performance." (Newsweek)
In an incredible twist of fate, a Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) on a Ugandan
medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world's most barbaric
figures, Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker). Whitaker's performance powers this fictionalized
political thriller, a blunt and brutal tale about power and corruption.
Click
Here for the film's website. |
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Family
Films (click to see
other upcoming family films) |
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
SHOWTIMES/TICKETS
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ABBOTT
AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN
Oct. 28, *29 at noon
Charles Barton. 1948. 83 min. NR. US. Universal Pictures.
An incomparable line-up of monsters, including Dracula (Bela Lugosi), the Wolfman
(Lon Chaney, Jr.), and the Frankenstein monster himself (Glenn Strange) are all
after Costello’s brain - and then the full moon rises. Happy Halloween!
*Q&A Oct. 29 at 12:00: Award-winning children’s
book author, Arthur Yorinks. Yorinks is the coauthor
(with Maurice Sendak) of a new pop-up book, Mommy?, the
story of a plucky little boy in a house full of monsters from
classic horror stories and films. He will sign copies after the
screening. |
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Special
Events |
Lunacy
SHOWTIMES/TICKETS
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"The
Wide World of Animation"
JAN
SVANKMAJER'S LUNACY
Tonight at 5:00 & *7:30
2006. 118 min. Czech Republic/Slovakia, in Czech
with subtitles. Zeitgeist Films
"The
world is divided into two unequal camps... those who have never
heard of Jan Svankmajer and those who happen upon his work
and know that they have come face to face with genius." (New
Yorker)
Czech animator Jan Svankmajer enjoys a cult following
for his wondrously inventive and eerie brand of animation.
His latest, Lunacy, inspired by the Marquis de Sade
and Edgar Allen Poe, is "raucously inventive and completely
out of its mind" (Premiere).
*7:30: Reel Talk with JBFC programmer Chris Funderburg. |
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Carrie
BUY
TICKETS
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CARRIE Sat.
Oct. 28 at 10:00 pm
Brian
De Palma. 1976. 98 min. R. US. MGM.
"An absolutely spellbinding horror movie." (Roger Ebert)
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the landmark horror
film, Carrie screenwriter Lawrence Cohen will join us
to introduce this terrifying view of one teenager’s rites
of passage. Featuring a career-making (and blood-drenched) performance
by Sissy Spacek.
Introduction by screenwriter Lawrence Cohen. Carrie was
Cohen’s first screenplay. He’s also adapted several
of Stephen King’s other stories. |
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 Oct.
20 - 31 All new 35mm prints!
An eight-film retrospective
of director Pedro Almodóvar.
Click
Here for a recent Journal News article
about the films, by the JBFC's Vicente Rodriguez-Ortega.
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Law of Desire
SHOWTIMES/TICKETS
Matador
SHOWTIMES/TICKETS
Bad Education
SHOWTIMES/TICKETS
Live Flesh
SHOWTIMES/TICKETS
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LAW
OF DESIRE Oct. 27, 28
1987. 97 min. NC-17. Spain, in Spanish with subtitles. Sony
Pictures Classics.
"A lively cast, a turbulent plot and a textbook-worthy collection
of case histories." (New York Times)
A graphic look at a famous movie director
and his anything-goes world of casual drug use and sex
(gay, incestuous, and otherwise). Starring a pre-Hollywood
Antonio Banderas and the brilliant Carmen Maura as a
transsexual, this is an outrageous, funny, and tragic
melodrama murder mystery.
MATADOR Oct.
27, 28
1988. 110 min. NC-17. Spain, in Spanish with subtitles.
Sony Pictures Classics.
"The terrain where camp and pornography and poetry converge." (Washington
Post)
An injured bullfighter (Nacho Martinez) retires
early and finds that his obsession with killing hasn’t
faded - it’s just more finely honed now that it’s
blended with raw sex and involves human victims. Only
Almodóvar could sustain this level of flamboyance
and comedy in a movie that includes murder, mutilation,
suicide, and rape.
BAD
EDUCATION Oct. 29, 30
2004. 109 min. NC-17. Spain, in Spanish with subtitles.
Sony Pictures Classics.
"A brilliantly structured hall of mirrors that wraps Catholicism
and the movie industry into a tasty film noir." (Boston
Globe)
Featuring an astonishing performance by Gael
García Bernal, Bad Education is an audacious
Hitchcockian identity puzzle. With enough sexual content
to earn it an NC-17 rating, it’s an emotional time-tripping
story of two men who discovered love and fear as boys
in a parochial school run by an abusive priest.
LIVE
FLESH Oct. 29, 30, 31
1997. 110 min. R. France/Spain, in Spanish/Italian with
subtitles. Sony Pictures Classics.
"A richly detailed tale of passion, perfidy
and revenge." (New York Times) Adapted
from a tricky Ruth Rendell novel, this stylish, dark,
and erotic film noir focuses on three men (including the
hunky Javier Bardem), a woman (Francesca Neri), a gunshot,
and a heap of deliciously intricate gamesmanship.
Coming Up:
Almodóvar's
latest film, Volver opens
Wed. Nov. 22. |
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Coming Soon |
Ghosts of Cité Soleil
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Nov. 3 -
21
A selection of 18 new documentary films from the front lines of civil
rights, war, agribusiness, globalization, women's rights, politics,
and even the right to a painless death. Click
Here for more info. |
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James and the Giant Peach
SHOWTIMES/TICKETS
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JAMES
AND THE GIANT PEACH Nov. *4, 5, 11, 12
Henry Selick. 1996. 79 min. PG. UK/US. Buena Vista.
Roald Dahl's tale of an orphan who escapes his evil aunts with
the help of magical crocodile tongues, a crew of talking bugs, and
an outsize piece of fruit takes on new life in this fantastical and
sometimes dark adaptation.
*Sat. Nov. 4 at noon: BOOK CHAT FOR FAMILIES. After the screening of James
and the Giant Peach, Anne Marie Santoro, an acclaimed educator
and founder of our third-grade visual literacy program,
See • Hear • Feel • Film,
will lead a discussion about the movie and Dahl's beloved book.
HEY KIDS! Show us your copy of the book and you'll receive one free child's
ticket for this screening. |
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