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The Apostle
Thursday, June 25
Duvall delivers with volcanic, galvanizing energy. —New York Times
Actor/writer/director Robert Duvall won the National Society of Film Critics best actor award for his role as a Southern Pentecostal preacher gone astray who must rebuild his life after he loses everything. Also starring Farrah Fawcett, Billy Bob Thornton, June Carter Cash and Miranda Richardson.
(1997, 133 minutes)
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Ma Vie En Rose
Sunday, June 28
Deft and wildly colorful. —New York Times
This charming Belgian film explores childhood, difference and acceptance. Young Ludovic likes skirts, dolls, lipstick and the-boy-next-door, much to the vexation of his parents who make futile demands that he act like a boy.
(Alain Berliner, 1997, 88 minutes)
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Mrs. Dalloway
Thursday, July 2
Virginia Woolf’s landmark novel dazzles onscreen. —Newsweek
From the maker of the Academy Award-winning Dutch film Antonia’s Line, a lovely adaptation of Woolf’s acclaimed stream of consciousness work. Vanessa Redgrave stars as a woman in 1920s England who reviews the choices that have determined her path in life.
(Marleen Gorris, 1998, 97 minutes)
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Four Days in September
Sunday, July 5
Engrossing, smart and compassionate. —Chicago Tribune
Nominated for this year’s best foreign language Oscar, this fascinating thriller of infatuation, bank robbery and kidnapping is based on the true story of a band of student radicals who took on Brazil’s authoritarian regime in the 1960s.
(Bruno Barreto, 1998, 106 minutes)
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Mendel
Thursday, July 9
Grippingly real, full of strong emotions. —Variety
After World War II, Norway received a small quota of Jewish refugees. This bittersweet film chronicles nine-year-old Mendel’s coming to grips with his new life in a remote Norwegian town and the lasting scars worn by his Holocaust-surviving family.
(Alexander Rosler, 1997, 98 minutes)
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Two Special Screenings:
Speedy & Koko’s Earth Control
Sunday, July 12
A Harold Lloyd silent comedy featuring dramatic chases through the streets of Manhattan and clever silliness at the Coney Island amusement park will be enhanced by live piano accompaniment by composer Michael Mortilla. Speedy will screen with a classic animated short featuring Koko the Clown.
(Speedy: Ted Wilde, 1928, 86 minutes; Koko: Max and Dave Fleischer, 1927, 11 minutes)
Prints courtesy of the UCLA Film and Television Archive
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The Journey to Xia Empire
Sunday, July 12
Outstanding Filmmaking Award,
13th Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Set in the spacious beauty of north central China, this film tells a story as grand as its landscape: a cavalry unit raids the countryside for infant boys, and a tenacious mother struggles to rescue her newborn son.
(Lu Wei, 1996, 98 minutes)
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Inspirations & Velazquez’s Little Museum
Thursday, July 16
Illuminating the creative process, Inspirations surveys the work and ideas of seven artists including David Bowie, Roy Lichtenstein, glass sculptor Dale Chihuly, architect Tadao Ando, choreographer Édouard Lock and dancer Louise Lecavalier. Vélazquez’s Little Museum presents Lock’s audacious dances performed by Lecavalier and the groundbreaking Montreal-based dance.
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Who the Hell is Juliette?
Sunday, July 19
A stylishly innovative, vastly entertaining docudrama. —Variety
An engrossing story unfolds before the camera over three years of shooting by a two-member crew. This film tracks a 16-year-old girl from a Havana barrio and the Mexican model on vacation who introduces her to a new life in Manhattan and Mexico. A wildly inventive film starring Yuliet Ortega and Fabiola Quiroz.
(Carlos Marcovich, 1997, 92 minutes)
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Love and Death on Long Island
Thursday, July 23
Forget The Full Monty, this is British comedy at its best. —Time
John Hurt stars as a widowed British author, delightfully detached from contemporary culture, who mistakenly wanders into the screening of a teen movie and falls hard for its idol-star Jason Priestley of television’s Beverly Hills 90210.
(Richard Kwietniowski, 1998, 93 minutes)
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Jazz on a Summer’s Day
Sunday, July 26
A trip to the beach and a first rate jazz primer. —Timeout New York
One of the most pleasurable of all concert films, this legendary gem shot at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival features unforgettable performances by Thelonius Monk, Louis Armstrong, Dinah Washington and Mahalia Jackson.
(Bert Stern, 1960, 85 minutes)
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Happy Together
Thursday, July 30
An estranged gay couple from Hong Kong ends up facing, together, the vagaries of life without money in Buenos Aires. Starring Hong Kong superstars Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung, the film earned Wong Kar-wai, maker of Chungking Express, the Cannes best director award.
(1997, 97 minutes)
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