Original title: Cadaveri eccellenti
Director: Francesco Rosi
Starring: Lino Ventura as Inspector Amerigo Rogas
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Film: Army of Shadows (1969) Director Jean-Pierre Melville
Philippe (Lino Ventura), aided by Resistance compatriots including maitresse of disguise Mathilde (Simone Signoret), goes underground in the face of the German Occupation – but the price of heroism can be truly horrific.
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/483-army-of-shadows-out-of-the-shadows
Saturday, March 12, 2022
Film: Red Lion
Red Lion
Japan, 1969
Directed by Kihachi Okamoto
Starring Toshirō Mifune, Shima Iwashita
35mm print courtesy Japan Foundation. Approx. 115 min.
1868. Stuttering former “village idiot” Mifune returns to his hometown resplendent in a borrowed officer’s red lion headdress, to announce their liberation by advancing anti-shogunate imperialist forces — but there’s a sting in the tale as slapstick farce turns to something far more serious…
Well past his prime, once-famed actor Georges (Gérard Depardieu) is struggling with health problems and a reputation for being difficult to work with. While preparing for his latest role, Georges is thrown for a loop when his assistant takes time off, leaving him temporarily dependent on help from replacement security guard (and amateur female wrestler) Aïssa (Déborah Lukumuena). The two develop an increasingly warm and supportive relationship in Constance Meyer’s assured feature debut, whose premise is reminiscent of the unlikely friendship in 2012’s Rendez-Vous selection The Intouchables, but with a drier sense of humor that’s all its own. Front and center is Depardieu, winking at his own image as an increasingly difficult and divisive legend in a part as hilarious as it is poignant.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: French
Director: Constance Meyer
Producer: Isabelle Madelaine
Writer: Constance Meyer, Marcia Romano
Runtime: 1h 35m
Film: A Tale of Love and Desire - Une histoire d'amour et de désir
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2022
A Tale of Love and Desire - Une histoire d'amour et de désir
Dir. Leyla Bouzid
Two students from very different backgrounds, both enrolled at the Sorbonne, find themselves passionately attracted to each other in Tunisian-born writer-director Leyla Bouzid’s sophomore feature. Ahmed (Sami Outalbali) is a shy, socially conservative Arab of Algerian background, born and raised in Paris; Farah (Zbeida Belhajamor) is an outgoing, sexually confident young Tunisian immigrant. They meet on the way to the same bookstore to purchase ancient, sexually charged Arabic poetry, and their mutual study of these texts helps kindle a spark between the two that causes Ahmed to increasingly question his values. Bouzid’s sensual and sensitive drama is a cross-sectional portrait of the diverse varieties of Arab diaspora life unfolding in the heart of a very contemporary Paris. A Distrib Films US release
Live Theater: Out of Time, Public Theater, NYC 2022
Mia Katigbak
Ena, BALL IN THE AIR
Glenn Kubota
Taki, JAPANESE FOLK SONG
Page Leong
Woman, MY DOCUMENTARY
Natsuko Ohama
Leonie, DISTURBANCE SPECIALIST
Rita Wolf
Carla, BLACK MARKET CAVIAR
The Public and The National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO) join forces in presenting OUT OF TIME, a collection of brand-new monologues by five award-winning Asian American playwrights, performed by an ensemble of actors all over the age of 60. Conceived and directed by Obie Award-winning director Les Waters and commissioned by NAATCO, OUT OF TIME is a theatrical tapestry exploring age, memory, parenthood, and identity in moving new works by writers Jaclyn Backhaus, Sam Chanse, Mia Chung, Naomi Iizuka, and Anna Ouyang Moench.
Out of Time
Program:
My Documentary by Anna Ouyang Moench, featuring Page Leong
Ball in the Air by Mia Chung, featuring Mia Katigbak
Black Market Caviar by Jaclyn Backhaus, featuring Rita Wolf
INTERMISSION
Japanese Folk Song by Naomi Iizuka, featuring Glenn Kubota
Disturbance Specialist by Sam Chanse, featuring Natsuko Ohama
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