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 PREVIEW: 'THE SAVAGES' WITH LAURA LINNEY, TAMARA JENKINS, PHILIP BOSCO IN PERSON
VARIETY/MOVING IMAGE SCREENING SERIES
Tuesday, November 20, 7:00 p.m.
2007, 113 mins. 35mm print courtesy Fox Searchlight. A competitive brother (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and sister (Laura Linney) deal with their father’s (Philip Bosco) dementia in Tamara Jenkins’s savagely funny comedy. At Loews Kips Bay, 550 2nd Avenue at 32nd Street, Manhattan.
Tickets $12 Museum members/free for Sponsor level and above/$18 non-members. Buy tickets online or call 718.784.4520.
 PREVIEW: 'YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH' WITH FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA, TIM ROTH, AND ALEXANDRA MARIA LARA IN PERSON
VARIETY/MOVING IMAGE SCREENING SERIES
Monday, December 3, 7:00 p.m.
2007, 124 mins. 35mm print courtesy Sony Pictures Classics. Francis Ford Coppola's first movie in ten years is a meditative thriller about a Romanian professor (Tim Roth) who, after being struck by lightning, becomes young again. At The Paris Theater, 4 West 58th Street, Manhattan. Tickets: $12 Museum members/free for Sponsor level and above/$18 non-members. Buy online or call 718.784.4520.
 'AN EVENING WITH DANNY GLOVER' WITH REMARKS BY JOHN SAYLES AND LIVE MUSIC BY GARY CLARK JR.
MOVING IMAGE AT THE TIMES CENTER
Wednesday, December 19, 7:00 p.m.
Actor Danny Glover (Brothers & Sisters, Dreamgirls, Lethal Weapon, To Sleep with Anger) stars in John Sayles’s enchanting new drama Honeydripper as the owner of a 1950s Alabama roadhouse threatened by the rise of rock ‘n roll. Glover will discuss his career, and the evening will include live music by the astonishing blues guitarist Gary Clark Jr. Sayles will introduce the evening, and scenes from Honeydripper will be shown. At The Times Center, 242 West 41st Street, Manhattan. Tickets: $17 Museum members/free for Sponsor level and above/$25 non-members. Buy online or call 718.784.4520.
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 GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR!
The Museum celebrates the installation of a rare three-strip Technicolor camera with three weekends of Technicolor movies. "Glorious Technicolor! is a pocket history lesson in the use of cinematic color"—The Village Voice. Click here to read the full story.
Saturday, November 17
2:00 p.m.
BECKY SHARP and FLOWERS AND TREES
Introduced by Scott Higgins. Followed by a reception and book signing.
 GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR!
Restored 35mm print from the UCLA Film and TV Archive. In the first three-strip Technicolor feature, an adaptation of William Thackeray's Vanity Fair about a doomed social climber (Miriam Hopkins), Rouben Mamoulian experimented with the dramatic power of color. Scott Higgins, author of Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow will introduce the film. Preceded by Flowers and Trees (1932, 8 mins. 35mm.) The first commercial three-strip film is a Disney animation in which a spring idyll is interrupted by a grouchy tree.
 6:00 p.m.
TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE
GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR!
1936, 102 mins. 35mm IB Tech print. Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, and Henry Fonda appear in Henry Hathaway's rarely seen drama, about a feud between two Appalachian families and their struggle with the advance of industrialization. Paramount's designers rejected Becky Sharp's experiments in favor of subtlety and careful modulation. Preceded by La Cucaracha (1934, 20 mins. RKO. 35mm print from the UCLA Film & TV Archive. Pictured.) Designed as a color demonstration, the first live-action film shot in full Technicolor is a musical-comedy-melodrama about jealous nightclub performers. |
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 Sunday, November 18
2:00 p.m.
CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON
FIST AND SWORD / TWO BY ANG LEE
2000, 119 mins. 35mm. Wang Hui-link, screenwriter of Lust, Caution, collaborated with Ang Lee on this international blockbuster starring Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh, and Ziyi Zhang. The film garnered four Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film, Cinematography, Art Direction, and Music.
 4:30
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THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR!
1938, 12 mins. Restored 35mm print. Directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley. Boldly breaking with restraint to create this rousing adventure movie, Warner Bros.' top-budgeted film of 1938 starred Errol Flynn as Robin and Olivia de Havilland as Marian, and had the most complex use of Technicolor to date.
 6:30
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SLIGHTLY SCARLET
GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR!
1956, 99 mins. RKO. 35mm IB Tech print. Allan Dwan's adapation of the James M. Cain novel Love's Lovely Counterfeit, about two sisters (Arlene Dahl and Rhonda Fleming) drawn into a web of urban graft, is one of the few Technicolor film noirs. Cinematographer John Alton brings the 1950s widescreen aesthetic into new, dark territory.
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Become a Museum member today!
Memberships start at $65 for free admission to the Museum galleries and to all regular film screenings, including all films in the series Glorious Technicolor! Members also receive ticket reservation privileges, a 15% discount in the Moving Image Shop, and the opportunity to buy discount tickets to Regal movie theaters. Plus, Museum members receive discounts to special programs including The Diving Bell and the Butterfly with Julian Schnabel in person and Youth without Youth with Francis Ford Coppola in person. Click here
for more information and to join online, or call 718.784.4520. |
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Next week:
'GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR!' HOLIDAY WEEKEND: 'MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS,' 'THE WIZARD OF OZ,' 'SINGIN' IN THE RAIN,' 'GONE WITH THE WIND,' AND 'ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS'
For Thanksgiving weekend, family-friendly musicals on Saturday, November 24, and classic melodramas on Sunday, November 25
ANG LEE'S 'BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN'
Catch Lee's Oscar-winning western drama, November 25
FREE SENIOR MATINEE: 'THE GENERAL'
Buster Keaton's epic Civil War comedy accompanied by live music, November 28 |
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 Featured Shop Item:
'HARNESSING THE TECHNICOLOR RAINBOW' BY SCOTT HIGGINS
Weslyan scholar Scott Higgins draws on extensive primary research and close analysis of movies including Becky Sharp, Adventures of Robin Hood, and Gone with the Wind, to show how the Technicolor films of the 1930s forged enduring conventions for handling color in popular cinema in his new definitive history. $24.95 ($21.20 Museum members). Signed copies available online and in person at the Shop. |
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