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30+
Years of Film @ International House
THE
JANUS COLLECTION
Truly
one of our national treasures, American film culture without
Janus Films is unimaginable. Film @ International House is celebrating
30 + years with a selection of titles from Janus’
extraordinary collection, all in brand-new or restored 35mm
prints. Here’s your chance to celebrate their achievements
and to be dazzled all over again by highlights from their incomparable
collection.
Saturday,
May 9 at 7pm
The
Golden Coach (Le Carrosse d’or)
dir.
Jean Renoir, France, 1953, 103 mins, color
The
Golden Coach is a ravishing eighteenth-century
comic fantasy about a viceroy who receives the titular exquisite
golden coach and gives it to the tempestuous star of a touring
commedia dell’arte company. Master director Jean Renoir’s
sumptuous tribute to the theater, presented here in the English
version he favored, is set to the music of Antonio Vivaldi and
built around vivacious and volatile star Anna Magnani.
CLICK
HERE for The Golden Coach Program Notes
Saturday,
June 13 at 7pm
The
Job (Il posto)
dir.
Ermanno Olmi, Italy, 1961, 93 mins, b/w, Italian w/ English
subtitles
When
young Domenico ventures from the small village of Meda to Milan
in search of employment, he finds himself on the bottom rung
of the bureaucratic ladder in a huge, faceless company. The
prospects are daunting, but Domenico finds reason for hope in
the fetching Antonietta. A tender coming-of-age story and a
sharp observation of dehumanizing corporate enterprise, Ermanno
Olmi’s Il posto is a touching
and hilarious tale of one young man’s stumbling entrance into
the perils of modern adulthood.
CLICK
HERE for The Job Program Notes
Saturday,
July 11 at 7pm
CLICK
HERE for 7th Bastille Day Celebration
Alain Cavalier's
Fire and Ice (Le Combat dans l’ile)
Saturday,
August 15 at 7pm
Dillinger
is Dead (Dillinger e’ morto) – Philadelphia Premiere
dir. Marco Ferreri,
Italy, 1969, 35mm, 90 mins, color, Italian w/ English subtitles
After a hard day’s
work designing this year’s gas masks, industrial engineer
Glauco (Michel Piccoli) comes home to a cold dinner, a sleeping
wife and an aloof maid. The answer to his petit-bourgeois boredom?
Prepare a gourmet meal, putter about, and reconstruct an antique
revolver that may or may not have been owned by John Dillinger.
A mind-blowing, multi-layered, and psychedelicized celebration
of anarchy in life and cinema, Marco Ferreri’s unjustly
neglected masterpiece is a cult classic awaiting its cult, anchored
by a stunning lead performance and an amazing pop soundtrack.
CLICK
HERE for Dillinger is Dead Program Notes
Click
Here for The Janus Collection Fall 08 Archive
Click
Here for The Janus Collection Winter 09
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