Double Feature
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$5 for the second film only with no advance purchase
7:30 THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL
9:20 SECRET CEREMONY
(1968/color/109 min.) Scr: George Tabori, based on the novel by Marco Denevi; dir: Joseph Losey; w/ Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow, Robert Mitchum, Peggy Ashcroft, Pamela Brown.
Though less political and more psychological than Luis Buñuel, Joseph Losey shares a jaundiced view of human nature, and his films abound in destructive relationships and sadistic characters. In Secret Ceremony, a mad young heiress coerces a streetwalker whose child has drowned into being her mother and takes the woman home to play house. A gothic premise deserves a gothic setting, and Losey found one in an abandoned 1896 art nouveau mansion in London's Kensington, tiled in peacock blue and emerald green and filled with dark wood, leaded glass, De Morgan mosaics, and Pre-Raphaelite stained-glass windows. As the secret ceremonies of the film unfold in an increasingly twisted and lethal fashion, Losey, critic David Thomson noted, "uses the interior setting as an extension of character and finds a unique suggestibility in the spaces and shapes within a house."
Friday | Saturday |
January 19 7:30 pm The Lady from Shanghai 1948 9:15 pm Bunny Lake Is Missing 1965 | January 20 5:00 pm The Wizard of Oz 1939 Family Series 7:30 pm Mulholland Drive 2001 |
January 26 7:30 pm The Exterminating Angel 1962 9:20 pm Secret Ceremony 1968 | January 27 5:00 pm Alice in Wonderland 1951 Family Series 7:30 pm Rosemary's Baby 1968 |
February 2 7:30 pm Orphée (Orpheus) 1950 9:20 pm Les Yeux sans visage (Eyes without a Face) 1960 | February 3 5:00 pm Sherlock Jr. 1924, The Scarecrow 1920, The Play House 1921; Dir: Buster Keaton Family Series 7:30 pm Céline and Julie Go Boating 1974 |
February 9 7:30 pm Stairway to Heaven aka A Matter of Life and Death 1946 9:30 pm Pennies from Heaven 1981 | February 10 7:30 pm Eyes Wide Shut 1999 |
February 16 7:30 pm Point Blank 1967 9:15 pm Blow-Up 1966 | February 17 7:30 pm Woman in the Dunes 1964 |
February 23 7:30 pm Don't Look Now 1973 9:30 pm Persona 1966 | February 24 7:30 pm Vertigo 1958 |
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Added by kiracle on January 21, 2007