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SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS
LA DANSE: THE PARIS OPERA BALLET
[La Danse: Le Ballet de l'Opera de Paris]
This documentary provides an in-depth look at how a ballet company (the Paris
Opera Ballet, one of the world's greatest) functions--from administration, technical support and classes, to the rehearsals and performances of seven ballets, including The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, Genus and Orpheus and Eurydyce. Frederick Wiseman, truly one of the masters of documentary form, delivers patient and insightful observations of all aspects of the company. "Since movies are about movement," he says, "I wanted to make a movie about a group of dancers and choreographers who represent the highest level of achievement in the conscious use of the body to express feeling and thought."
DIR/PROD Frederick Wiseman; PROD Pierre-Olivier Bardet. France/US, 2009, color, 158 min. NOT RATED
Friday, November 27, 1:30, 7:15; Saturday, November 28, 1:30, 7:15; Sunday, November 29, 1:30, 7:15; Monday, November 30, 1:00, 4:00, 7:00; Tuesday, December 1, 12:30, 3:30
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SOME LIKE IT HOT
50th Anniversary!
New 35mm Print!
# 1 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs
#22 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies
"Nobody's perfect," but Billy Wilder's boundary-breaking comedy just may be. Speakeasy musicians Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis happen to be in the wrong Chicago garage on St. Valentine's Day, 1929. To hide from the mob, they join
Marilyn Monroe's all-girl band--dressed in drag. With George Raft, Pat O'Brien and Joe E. Brown as the smitten zillionaire who delivers the immortal closer.
DIR/SCR/PROD Billy Wilder; SCR I.A.L. Diamond. US, 1959, b&w, 120 min.
Wednesday, November 25, 7:00; Thursday, November 26, 7:00; Friday, November 27, 4:45; Saturday, November 28, 4:45; Sunday, November 29, 4:45; Tuesday, December 1, 6:30*
*Denotes Montgomery College screening
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THE SHINING
New 35mm Print!
# 29 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills
"Heeeere's Johnny!" Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of the Stephen King novel finds off-kilter family man Jack Nicholson as winter caretaker of the isolated Overlook Hotel. As wife Shelley Duvall and telepathically gifted son Danny Lloyd try to make the best of things, Jack's level of insanity crescendos into murderous frenzy as cabin fever, a taste for alcohol and the demonic hotel begin to seize him.
DIR/SCR/PROD Stanley Kubrick; SCR Diane Johnson, based on the novel by Stephen King. US/UK, 1980, color, 146 min. RATED R
Wednesday, November 25, 4:00, 9:20; Thursday, November 26, 4:00, 9:20; Friday, November 27, 10:20; Saturday, November 28, 10:20; Monday, November 30, 10:00; Tuesday, December 1, 9:30
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NORTH BY NORTHWEST
50th Anniversary!
# 4 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills
# 7 on AFI's 10 Top 10 Mystery
#55 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies
Crackling dialogue and one memorable set piece after another--including a murder at the UN, the crop-duster attempt on Cary Grant's life, and the climactic duel on Mount Rushmore--make this mistaken-identity thriller a classic that shows no signs of age. With James Mason as the unctuous villain, Martin Landau as his creepy henchman and the luminous Eva Marie Saint as a double (maybe triple) agent.
DIR/PROD Alfred Hitchcock; SCR Ernest Lehman. US, 1959, color, 136 min.
Friday, December 4, 10:00; Saturday, December 5, 1:45, 4:20; Tuesday, December 8, 6:30, 9:00
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