Double Feature
$9, $6 Students, Seniors, Members
$2 service fee for online purchases
$5 for the second film only with no advance purchase
7:30 DON'T LOOK NOW
9:30 PERSONA
(1966/b&w/83 min.) Scr/dir: Ingmar Bergman; w/ Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson.
Emerging from a serious illness, the great Ingmar Bergman created a film that ranks among the simplest and most enigmatic ever made. An actress who mysteriously ceases speaking is put in the care of a nurse who responds to the silence of her inscrutable patient with a stream of compulsive talk, by turns confessional, self-pitying, aggressive, and cruel. Are we watching two similar-looking Swedish women or two faces of one woman? Bergman attempts nothing less than to deconstruct the self, to go through the mirror and behind the mask-the persona-to pose fundamental questions about reality, the image, performance, and cinema itself. With its outstanding performances, intense probing close-ups, white-on-white decor, and film-within-a-film stylistics (at a moment of high emotion the celluloid appears to burn from the center outward), Persona is an aesthetic triumph and an enduring masterpiece.
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