35MM: The Celluloid Dream

35MM: The Celluloid Dream

JUNE 29-AUGUST 23, 2012

The days of 35mm film are numbered, but celluloid 35mm has been the format of choice for the film industry since its inception in the late 1890s and has denied all comers until now, as the digital revolution affecting all aspects of our lives turns its eye on the cinema screen. As the era of celluloid comes to a close, we’re screening as many new prints in the next few months and years as possible.

>> Check out an interview with our Program Director in CityArts about film's digital destiny.

 
 
 
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Celine and Julie Go Boating

New 35mm Print!

Jun 29 - Jul 05, 2012

(Jacques Rivette, France, 1974, 35mm, 192 min)

An elaborate fairy tale with literary roots in Lewis Carroll, Henry James and Borges, this whimsical story involves a white rabbit chase through Montmartre, a mysterious old house in the Paris suburbs and strange potions in the form of little candles placed on the tongue.

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Grand Illusion

New 35mm Print! 

Jul 13 - Jul 19, 2012

(Jean Renoir, France, 1937, 35mm, 114 min)

Often cited in the same breath as Citizen Kane as the best film ever made, Grand Illusion is French director Jean Renoir's anti-war masterpiece, produced two years before Europe plunged into World War II. Join us to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Grand Illusion, a film that continues to pulse with energy and powerful intelligence.

 

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The Graduate

New 35mm print!

45th Anniversary!

Jul 27 - Aug 02, 2012

(Mike Nichols, USA, 1967, 35mm, 106 min)

Glamorous, sexy and sad, The Graduate is an emotional touchstone for an entire generation.  Benjamin Braddock is a recent college graduate in search of life direction, who soon starts an affair with the wife of his father's partner, Mrs. Robinson.  The film darkly and humorously captures the restlessness and ennui of the era and remains a glorious classic of the American screen.

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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

 New 35mm Print!

Aug 03 - Aug 09, 2012

(Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, UK, 1943, 35mm, 163 min)

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp traces the history of British Major General Clive Wynne Candy, a World War II military man who seems nothing but a stubborn windbag to his younger officers.  Made in 1942 at the peak of the Nazi threat to Great Britain, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a rare look at war and soliers that reveals a pigheaded old man as a one-time idealist and romantic.

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The Long Day Closes

New 35mm Print!

20th Anniversary!

Aug 10 - Aug 16, 2012

(Terence Davies, UK, 1992, 35mm, 85 min)

The Long Day Closes continues Terence Davies' autobiographical exploration of working-class family life in northern England in the mid-1950s.  Lush images give viewers a look through the imagination of Bud, the film's 11-year-old protagonist, who remains a solitary pubescent figure experiencing his first moments of homosexual desire in conflict with the weight of his Catholic guilt.

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The Devil Probably

New 35mm print!

35th Anniversary!

Aug 17 - Aug 23, 2012

(Robert Bresson, France, 1977, 35mm, 93 min)

In the late 1970s, an aging director set out to complicate his society's unsympathetic portrait of cynical French youth.  In The Devil Probably, although the lives of the protagonist Charles and his peers are not without moral inconsistencies, Bresson brings a fresh sensibility to their surly despair through his signature commitment to ordinary moments in everyday life.

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