Blazing Saddles (35mm)
100 Years of Mel Brooks Mel Brooks’s third feature, and his first box-office blockbuster, turns the western upside down and inside out. Scheming politician Hedley (not Hedy!) Lamarr (Harvey Korman) appoints a Black sheriff (Cleavon Little) to the small town of Rock Ridge in order to drive the people away.
Forever a Woman (DCP)
Lose Yourself Fumiko, a mother of two and wife to an unfaithful husband, attempts to balance domestic responsibility with her work as a poet. Just as her writing career takes off, she divorces her husband and is diagnosed with breast cancer.
Lose Yourself
What does it mean to lose oneself? Can you get caught up in your own lies? Or find yourself in a drug-addicted spiral? You can find yourself in a completely alien world or give yourself completely up to a job. Can you get caught up in seeking new pleasure? Or is that simply an excuse because you’ve already lost who you were? For the first time, students from The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation have curated a series around this concept, selecting films and following the booking process, and writing text for notes and introductions. Throughout May and June, ten students will participate in both post-screening discussions and and roundtables to talk about their films, their experiences at the school, now in its thirtieth year, and how losing yourself is one of the most enduring themes in film history.
Dates and Titles:
May 9 (2 p.m.): Dryden Roundtable: Lose Yourself #1
May 13: 3 Women (Robert Altman, US 1977, 124 min., 35mm)
May 14: A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, US 1951, 122 min., 35mm)
May 16: Score (Radley Metzger, US 1973, 90 min., DCP)
May 28: Enemy (Denis Villeneuve, Canada/Spain/France 2013, 91 min., DCP)
June 12: Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, UK 1996, 93 min., DCP)
June 13 (2 p.m.): Dryden Roundtable: Lose Yourself #2
June 16: Forever a Woman (Chibusa yo eien nare, Kinuyo Tanaka, Japan 1955, 106 min., DCP, Japanese with English subtitles)
June 17: Legend of the Mountain (Shan zhong zhuan qi, King Hu, Taiwan/Hong Kong 1979, 184 min., DCP)
June 23: Session 9 (Brad Anderson, US 2001, 97 min., DCP)
June 25: The Face Behind the Mask (Robert Florey, US 1941, 68 min. DCP)
July 16: For All Mankind (Al Reinert, US 1989, 80 min., DCP)
The Face Behind the Mask (DCP)
Lose Yourself Peter Lorre stars in this cult noir as a Hungarian who takes the slow boat to Manhattan in search of a better life, only to almost immediately have his face horribly disfigured in a tenement fire.
The Producers (DCP)
100 Years of Mel Brooks From the masterful comic mind of Brooks comes the original film farce that inspired the smash Broadway musical.
Okraina (35mm)
Boris Barnet The use of sound in motion pictures was never as daring and experimental as in the early 1930s: there were no rules to break and no stereotypes to follow. Still, Boris Barnet’s The Outskirts stood out.
Matinee: The Producers (DCP)
100 Years of Mel Brooks From the masterful comic mind of Brooks comes the original film farce that inspired the smash Broadway musical.
Dark is the Night (35mm)
Boris Barnet
Plan Your Visit
darker (DCP)
Nitrate Picture Show Special Screening Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Bill Morrison is proud to present the world premiere of the standalone film version of darker. Created in collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang, darker marks the ninth collaboration between Lang and Morrison across twenty-four years of working together.
Alionka (35mm)
Boris Barnet Alionka is a nine-year-old girl who must travel 500 kilometers in a truck across the steppes. Her fellow travelers share stories from their lives: funny ones, tragic ones, absurd ones—and all of them are presented on screen through the little girl's perspective.
Edward Steichen and the Garden
Over a professional life spanning seven decades, Edward Steichen (1879–1973) established himself as one of the most important figures in the history of photography. What is less known is that for much of that time, Steichen devoted himself to the nurturing of plants and gardens, an activity that sustained him and through which he developed ardently held beliefs regarding the relationship of art, nature, and creativity.
Octavia Spencer to Receive George Eastman Award for Contribution to the Art of Cinema
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (35mm)
A Summer Trip through Europe(an Cinema) | The Sight & Sound Club One night, Emmi (Brigitte Mira), an aging cleaning woman, wanders into an unfamiliar bar during a downpour. She ends up dancing with a young Moroccan guest worker named Ali (El Hedi ben Salem). Soon they are close friends, then lovers, then they decide to be married, despite their near 20 year age difference.
