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

Screening Roundup Week of Sept 6

Showing this week

Saturday, September 6 – Friday, September 12

The International House

Tues Sept 9 7:00pm Lordville (Rea Tajiri) 2014. 67m.

Wed Sept 10 7:00pm L’eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni) 1962. 126m. 16mm / La Ciudad de los Signos (Samuel Alarcón) 2009. 63m. DCP.

Fri Sept 12 7:00pm White Elephant (Pablo Trapero) 2012. 105m. DCP.

Roxy (Philadelphia Film Society)

Fri Sept 12 midnight Videodrome (David Cronenberg) 1983. 84m. 35mm.

Prince Music Theater (Philadelphia Film Society)

Wed Sept 10 7:00pm Lost Highway (David Lynch), with director. 1997. 135m. 35mm.

Scribe Video Center (at the African American Museum in Philadelphia)

Sat Sept 6 3:00pm Muslim Voices of Philadelphia program. video

Ritz Theater (Bourse)

every day multiple showings Summer's Tale (Eric Rohmer) 1996. 113m. DCP.

Colonial Theatre

Sun Sept 7 2:00pm Seven Days in May (John Frankenheimer) 1964. 118m. 35mm.

Cinemark University City Penn

Sun Sept 7 2:00pm Scarface (Brian De Palma) 1983. 170m. DCP.

Galleries

Three One Nine Gallery (319 N. 11th Street)
New Sight exhibition
artwork from Dot Vile, Katie Dillon Low, EJ Herczyk, Michael Kuetemeyer, Joseph Opshinsky, Daniel Petraitis, Gerri Spilka, Sabina Tichindelaneau, and Joan Wadleigh Curran
opening Friday Sept 5

Screening Schedule Week of August 30

What’s showing this week? 

Saturday, August 30 – Friday, September 5

The International House

Martin Scorcese Presents Masterpieces of Polish Cinema  [series]

Sat Aug 30 2:00pm Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 1987 122m. DCP.

Sat Aug 30 5:00pm The Constant Factor (Krzysztof Zanussi) 1980. 90m. DCP.

Sat Aug 30 8:00pm  A Short Film About Killing (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 1987. 85m. DCP.

Ambler Theater

Wed Sept 3 7:00pm  Sabrina 1954. 113m.

Thurs Sept 4 7:00pm Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton) 1955. 93m.

County Theater

Wed Sept 3 7:00pm Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton) 1955. 93m.

Ritz 5 Theater

Fri Sept 5 midnight Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis) 1985. 116m.

Colonial Theatre

Sun Aug 31 2:00pm The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell) 1943. 163m. DCP.

UCLA Festival of Preservation

A lot of film events going on this spring in Philadelphia. Perhaps most exciting to me is a series of classic Hollywood films playing at the International House from the "UCLA Festival of Preservation." It's a chance to see hard-to-find Hollywood films on the big screen. Bonus is the strong representation from Paramount, a studio that's often slow to release its back archive on DVD.

The series starts tomorrow. Film descriptions are available at the links.

Wednesday 4/2   7:00 pm

Mantrap

dir. Victor Fleming, US, 1926, 35mm, b/w, silent, 75 min.
Silent Sinclair Lewis adaptation

Thursday 4/3    7:00 pm

Gun Crazy

dir. Joseph H. Lewis, US, 1950, 35mm, b/w, 86 min.

Freudian-infused B-noir masterpiece.

Friday 4/4     

7:00 pm

Double bill:

Double Door

dir. Charles Vidor, US, 1934, 35mm, b/w, 75 min. 

Based-on-a-true-story dynastic melodrama

Supernatural

dir. Victor Halperin, US, 1933, 35mm, b/w, 65 min.

Forgotten 30s horror film

Wednesday 4/9   7:00 pm

Midnight Madness

dir. F. Harmon Weight, US, 1928, 35mm, b/w & tinted, silent, 65 min.

Silent romantic melodrama set in Africa

Live musical accompaniment by Andrew Marsh and Kate Porter

Thursday 4/10    7:00 pm

The Chase

dir. Arthur Ripley, US, 1946, 35mm, b/w, 86 min.

Noir based on Cornell Woolrich novel

Thursday 4/17    7:00 pm

International House

dir. Edward Sutherland, US, 1933, b/w, 35mm, b/w, 68 min.

early sound comedy starring W.C Fields, George Burns, Gracie Allen and Peggy Hopkins Joyce

combined with:

Busy Bodies

dir. Lloyd French, US, 1933, 35mm, b/w, 19 min.

Laurel and Hardy short

Friday 4/18     

7:00 pm

That Cold Day in the Park

dir. Robert Altman, US, 1969, 35mm, 112 min.

early, pre-fame Altman feature

Saturday 4/5     2

:00 pm

Thirty Day Princess

dir. Marion Gering, US, 1934, 35mm, b/w, 74 min.

Paramount comedy with Sylvia Sidney and Cary Grant

(image credit DVD Beaver)

Michael Snow at PMA

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is having a film series of Michael Snow's work, starting tonight:

The Films of Michael Snow: Program A
Wavelength (1966–67); Standard Time (1967–68, with Joyce Wieland); and One Second in Montreal (1969)
By exploring individual cinematic techniques, such as camera zooms and pans, these films reveal Michael Snow’s interest in how films affect our perception of time and space.

Wednesday, February 5, 2014, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Friday, February 21, 2014, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

The Films of Michael Snow: Program B
See You Later (Au Revoir) (1990); and To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror (1991)
Michael Snow appears in two films produced in 1990s, both of which are concerned with breaking down basic ideas we hold about cinema, such as the physical properties of celluloid and Hollywood’s narrative drive, to push film towards greater abstraction.

Friday, February 7, 2014, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

The Films of Michael Snow: Program C
Reverberlin (2006) 
Incorporating concert footage of the free improvisational ensemble CCMC (Paul Dutton, John Oswald, Michael Snow), Reverberlin weaves together images and sounds from performances that have taken place across the globe.

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Films works screened on 16mm at the Van Pelt Auditorium. (free tickets required, presumably in addition to admission). This film program is guest-curated by filmmaker and writer J. Louise Makary.

Wicker Man

It's worth highlighting when a restoration makes a week-long run. For some reason, it feels like a rarity in Philly. Next week, the Ritz Bourse is showing 1973 cult horror film The Wicker Man, recently restored. It's an atmospheric film, worth seeing on the big screen.

Photo thanks to this review

New Middle East Cinema series

Screening at the International House this week: New Middle East Cinema series.


October 29-30 & November 1-2, 2013

Free admission

Tuesday, October 29 
5:30pm 

Life in Stills | Israel, Tamar Tal (2011)

presented by Nili Gold

Tuesday, October 29 
8:30pm 

Water | The Israeli-Palestinian Project (2012)

presented by Iris Drechler

Wednesday, October 30 
5:30pm

The Man and the Clock | Palestine, Gazi Abu Baker (2010)

presented by Ibrahim Miari

Wednesday, October 30 
6:00pm

The Repentant | Algeria, Merzak Allouache (2012)

Friday, November 1 
5:30pm 

Azis Ayse | Turkey, Elfe Uluc (2012)

presented by Mehmet Darakcıoglu

Friday, November 1 
8:30pm 

Facing Mirrors | Iran, Negar Azarbayjani (2011)

presented by Blake Atwood

Saturday, November 2 
5:30pm 

Horses of God | Morocco, Nabil Ayouch (2012)

presented by Mahyar Entezari

Saturday, November 2 
8:30pm

Rags and Tatters | Egypt, Ahmad Abdalla (2013)

presented by Ibrahim Miari

Sponsored by the Cinema Studies Program, the Jewish Studies Program, the Middle East Center, and the Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations Department at the University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with the Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival and International House of Philadelphia.

This Week at International House

This week is a busy one at the International House, so I thought I'd highlight the upcoming screenings.

Wed. 10/9 7pm
This is Not a Film 
dir. Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Iran, 2011, 35mm, Persian with English subtitles, 75 min.

Thurs. 10/10
Mekong Hotel
dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand/UK, 2012, HD, Thai with English subtitles, 61 min.

Fri. 10/11
Our Nixon
dir. Penny Lane, US, 2013, HD, 84 min.

Sat. 10/12
The Illusionist
dir. Sylvain Chomet, France, 2010, 35mm, English, 80 mins.

Sun. 10/13
Revanche
dir. Götz Spielmann, Austria, 2008, 35mm, German with English subtitles, 122 min.

Albanian cinema at I-House

I have never seen any Albanian cinema, and as a national cinema, it's definitely not on the radar of most cinephiles. All the more reason the International House's series of "uncovered" European cinemas is exciting to me. Tomorrow, Saturday, Oct. 5, 7pm, they will be screening Nëntori i dytë (The 2nd November, dir. Viktor Gjika, Albania, 1982, 84m), a classic historical drama.

Albanian cinema scholar Bruce Williams will be present to introduce the film and lead a Q&A afterward.

Poster image courtesy Albanian Cinema Project

Milcho Manchevski in person

A mini Macedonian film festival will take place next Saturday on Temple's campus. Admission is free.

two films directed by Milcho Manchevski: 

Before the Rain (1994) 

and Mothers (2011) 

Milcho Manchevski is a Macedonian director, writer, photographer, and an artist. He is well known for directing feature films such as Dust, Shadows, Mothers, and the Oscar nominated Before the Rain.

The director will be present and for a Q&A session after each film.

the Reel Cinema, 

basement in Temple's Student Center

13th and Montgomery

cosponsored by Temple Slavic Association and Film and Media Arts department

Vertigo at Rave

I've just discovered that Cinemark, the new owners of Rave Cinema in University City, has been running a classics series, culminating in this week's selection of Hitchcock's Vertigo, in digital projection.

Sunday, Sept. 29 (today), 2pm
Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2pm and 7pm

Hopefully they'll continue the series in the future.

22nd Philadelphia Film Fest

The schedule for the 22nd Philadelphia Film Festival is now available online. The Festival runs from October 17-27, and tickets go on sale October 1.

This year's program follows up on the festival's previous strengths as a best-of-festivals fest. It's a great chance to see films, particular world cinema films and smaller local productions, that otherwise might not get a Philadelphia theatrical release. I personally wish there would be more adventuresome repertory screenings and more international documentary selections, but I will hardly lack for films to see.

So far, these screenings are on my radar to attend:

Burning Bush, a Czech historical that's part of a trend of televisual art films
A Touch of Sin, Jia Zhang-Ke's latest work, a continuation of his thematic exploration of the cultural changes coming to contemporary China
In Bloom, a Georgian coming-of-age drama that's gotten good play on the European film festival circuit
Let the Fire Burn - as someone who did not live in Philadelphia in the 1980s, I could stand to see a good documentary about the MOVE saga, and this one sounds promising
La Maison de la Radio - Nicolas Philibert made the amazing observational documentary Etre et Avoir, but his other films have not always found wide distribution in the US

One Day Retrospective of Cleopatra

I can't say that Cleopatra (1963) has been top of the list of Classical Hollywood films I've been eager to see reissued theatrically, but that said I've not actually seen the film, and this Wednesday, May 22, the Ritz East will have a 1:00 and 7:00 screening of a digital restoration.

Other Mid-March screenings

As exciting as the Marker and Varda events are, they're not the only thing coming up.

Wednesday, March 13
7pm
The Last Days of Pompeii 
(dir. Mario Caserini, Italy, 1913)
35mm screening with live musical accompaniment
International House

Friday, March 15
8pm

Exhumed Horror:

Terror Train

dir. Roger Spottiswoode, 1980, 35mm

Horror Express

dir. Eugenio Martín, 1972, 35mm

International House

Saturday, March 16

11am

Howl’s Moving Castle 

part of a Hayao Miyazaki retrospective

Bryn Mawr Film Institute

Tuesday, March 19

7pm

Secret Cinema presents

B movie double feature: The Crime of Helen Stanley/Madame Spy

16mm

at The Chestnut Hill Film Group

at Woodmere Art Museum

9201 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia

Admission: FREE

Marker (and Varda)

There's an embarrassment of riches this week, as Penn, Temple, and Slought are organizing a commemorative symposium on Chris Marker's work, with visiting filmmakers to include Agnes Varda. Here's a rundown of events:

Wed. March 13

6pm
Agnès Varda, in conversation with Molly Nesbit

University of Pennsylvania, Meyerson Hall

Thurs. March 14
7PM
Screening: Beaches of Agnes (Varda 2008)

Varda in person

International House

Friday, March 15

5:30PM

opening panel and reception for Chris Marker event

Slought Foundation

reservation recommended

Saturday, March 16

10AM-6PM

Chris Marker event

Slought Foundation

reservation recommended

Saturday, March 16

7PM

Screening: early Chris Marker collaborations

International House