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Jan 28-29-30: Rashomon at 5:00 & 7:00 / Seven Samurai at 1:00 & 8:45
Rashomon (1950)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
In Japanese with English subtitles
1 hr 28 mins
Brimming with action while incisively examining the
nature of truth, Rashomon is perhaps the finest film
ever made about the philosophy of justice. Through
an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa
reveals the complexities of human nature as four
people recount different versions of the same story:
the murder of a man and the rape of his wife. Starring
Toshiro Mifune in another commanding performance,
Rashomon revolutionized film language and
introduced Japanese cinema to the world.
Seven Samurai (1954)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
In Japanese with English subtitles
3 hr 27 mins

In Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” (Shichinin no
samurai), sixteenth-century villagers   hire  the eponymous
warriors to protect them from invading bandits. This
gripping three-hour ride is one of the most beloved movie
epics of all time.

Feb 4-5-6: The 400 Blows at 5:30 & 9:30 / Jules et Jim at 3:30 & 7:30

The 400 Blows (1959)
Directed by François Truffaut
In French with English subtitles
1 hr, 40 mins.
François Truffaut sensitively re-creates the trials
of his own difficult childhood in The 400 Blows,
the film that marked his emergence as one of
Europe’s most brilliant auteurs and signaled the
beginning of the French New Wave.

Jules et Jim (1959)
Directed by François Truffaut
In French with English subtitles
1 hr, 45 mins.
Hailed as one of the finest films ever made, legendary
director François Truffaut’s early masterpiece “Jules and
Jim” charts the relationship between two friends and the
object of their mutual obsession over the course of twenty-five years.

Feb 11-12-13: The Seventh Seal at 5:30 & 9:20 / Wild Strawberries at 3:45 & 7:30

The Seventh Seal (1957)
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
In Swedish with English subtitles
1 hr, 37 mins.
Much studied, imitated, even parodied, but
never outdone, Bergman’s stunning allegory of
man’s search for meaning was one of the
benchmark foreign imports of America’s 1950s
art house heyday, pushing cinema’s boundaries
and ushering in a new era of moviegoing.

Wild Strawberries (1957)
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
In Swedish with English subtitles
1 hr, 32 mins
Professor Isak Borg (Victor Sjöström) is forced to face his past in the film that catapulted Ingmar Bergman to the forefront of world cinema. Tackling difficult questions about life, and thought-provoking themes such as self-discovery and human existence, the film is often considered to be one of Bergman’s best films.

Feb 18-19-20: Summertime at 5:30 & 9:40 / Touch of Evil at 3:15 & 7:30
Summertime (1955)
Directed by David Lean
1 hr, 40 mins.
In David Lean’s visually enchanting
“Summertime”, Katharine Hepburn plays a lonely
American spinster whose dream of romance
finally becomes a bittersweet reality when she
meets a handsome—but married—Italian man
while vacationing in Venice.

Touch of Evil (1958)
Directed by Orson Welles
1 hr, 52 mins.
In Orson Welles’ classic film noir, Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh play a newly married couple caught up in a whirlwind of police corruption surrounding a crooked police captain named Hank Quinlan (Welles.) One of the last films Welles directed in Hollywood, Touch of Evil is considered one of the best noirs ever made.

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