Screening Roundup Week of Nov 8

Showing this week
Wednesday, November 5 – Friday, November 14

The International House
Thurs Nov 6 7:00pm The Big Liebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen) 1988. 117m. 35mm.
Fri Nov 7 7:00pm Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati) 1958. 115m. 35mm.
Sat Nov 8 2:00pm Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi) 1959. 75m. 35mm.
Sat Nov 8 7:00pm Il Sorpasso (Dini Riso) 1962. 105 min. DCP.
Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival:
Wed Nov 12 7:00pm A Leading Man (Steven J Kung) 2013. 96 m.
Thurs Nov 13 6:30pm Family Ingredients (Ty Sanga) 2013. 57m.
Thurs Nov 13 8:30pm Cicada (Dean Yamada) 2014. 100m.

Roxy Theater (Philadelphia Film Society)
Tues Nov 11 7:00pm National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman), with director. 2014. 181m.

County Theater
Thurs Nov 6 7:30pm Young and Innocent (Alfred Hitchcock) 1937. 83m. DCP.

Colonial Theatre
Sun Nov 9 2:00pm A Tale of Two Cities (Jack Conway) 1935. 128m. 35mm

Cinemark University City Penn
Sun Nov 9 2:00pm One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman) 1975. 129m. DCP

Galleries

Fabric Workshop and Museum
Question Bridge: Black Males
transmedia video installation [exhibition description]
ongoing: September 13, 2014–November 9, 2014

Screening Roundup Week of Sept 13

Showing this week

Saturday, September 13 – Friday, September 19

The International House

Sat Sept 13 2:00pm Fly Away Home (Carroll Ballard) 1996. 107m. 35mm.

Sat Sept 13 7:00pm City Lights (Charlie Chaplin) 1931. 86m. 35mm.

Wed Sept 17 7:00pm The Illiac Passion (Gregory Markopoulos) 1967. 92m. 16mm.

Fri Sept 19 8:00pm Aliens (James Cameron) 1986. 137m. 35mm / Critters (Stephen Herek) 1986. 82m. 35mm.

Roxy (Philadelphia Film Society)

Tues Sept 16 7:30pm Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of WWII (LeAnn Erickson) 2010. 57m.

Prince Music Theater (Philadelphia Film Society)

Wed Sept 17 7:00pm Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch), with director. 1992. 135m.

Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Tues Sept 16 7:00pm  Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar)1988. 90m.
Wed Sept 17 7:00pm Mulholland Drive (David Lynch) 2001. 147m.

Ambler Theater
Thurs Sept 4 The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock) 1934. 75m. DCP.

Ritz 5 Theater
Fri Sept 19 midnight Rocky Horror Picture Show

Colonial Theatre
Sun Sept 14 2:00pm Three Days of the Condor (Sydney Pollack) 1975. 117m. DCP.

Cinemark University City Penn
Sun Sept 14 2:00pm The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis) 1963. 107m. DCP


Galleries

Fabric Workshop and Museum
Question Bridge: Black Males
transmedia video installation [exhibition description]
ongoing: September 13, 2014–November 9, 2014

Three One Nine Gallery (319 N. 11th Street)

Time Lens: Bioscope (Michael Kuetemeyer) part of New Sight exhibition

Plans for the Roxy?

It's all in the preliminary/rumor phase, but Molly Eichel of the Inquirer reports that the Roxy is planning both a renovation and a switch to a first run/repertory mix. If true, that would be an amazing addition to Philly's film offerings.

Robin Hood (1938)

For some reason - I suspect a free print lent out to promote the upcoming Russell Crowe film - the Roxy (2023 Sansom) has been running a two-week engagement of the 1938 Warner Bros. Robin Hood, with Errol Flynn. That's right: a decent 35mm Technicolor print (if not perfect: the first reel has a scratch) of a film that really shines on the screen. When I went I was the only person in the cinema, so had what amounted to a private screening.

It's a famous film that probably does not need me talking it up, but if you're wondering why you should care about a fluffy classic adventure film, I'd say two reasons. One, the film does give a fun fairy-tale account but yokes it with a political message that clearly speaks to the Depression yet raises more questions than it answers (New Dealism as monarchism?). Two, the color scheme helped expand the expressive possibilities of Technicolor. As film historian Scott Higgins notes, previously Hollywood cinematographers had argued between flamboyant, thematic color (red = passion, etc) and a realistic, muted color palette. What Robin Hood does is combine them both, muting backgrounds and keeping palettes relatively controlled, but also using bright, saturated color for specific characters and thematic effects.

As a bonus, the Bugs Bunny "Rabbit Hood" screens beforehand.