A couple of great films are coming to my workplace this weekend. Luchino Visconti's fatalistically romantic 1957 adaptation of Dostoevsky's "White Nights,"Le Notti Bianche is Marcello Mastroianni's first outing as a leading man playing opposite Maria Schell. Also on tap, Jean Renoir's The Golden Coach has Anna Magnani playing an actresswith three men actively vying for her favor. The latter film will be screened on 35mm.
Le Notti Bianche (White Nights) screens Friday, September 27th and Sunday, September 29th at the NW Film
Center's Whitsell Auditorium (in the Portland Art Museum). Click here for more info.
The Golden Coach screens at the NW Film
Center. Click here for more info.
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Wait, you think the titular fish in that film was the villain?! C'mon, people, a shark's gotta eat. It's a matter of life or death and I, for one, don't believe that our buddy Jaws deserved to be hunted down by Mr. Holland and that dude from Blue Thunder just because he had a little snack.
Movie fans in PDX will have a four-day opportunity (beginning tonight and running through Thursday) to check it out at the Hollywood. And, on Friday night, the 99W Drive-In Theater in Newberg will screen Mr. Spielberg's opus on their large, outdoor screen.
Jaws plays at the Hollywood Theatre on Monday, May 14th through Thursday, May 17th. More info on showtimes available here.
The 99W Drive-In in Newberg, Oregon will show the film beginning Friday, May 18th through Sunday, May 20th. It's not yet been listed on their webpage but there is a Facebook event page for those screenings here (you have to "like" the "Friends of the 99W Drive-in" FB page in order to view that link).
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Some might argue, though, that the real star of the film is the train;
its motions and movement drive the story forward throughout the
picture. Hitchcock certainly loved using rail travel as a device in his
films, borrowing their kinetic energy and confined spaces for numerous films throughout his career.
In The Lady Vanishes, the tension is focused around what befell poor Miss Froy (Whitty), where she possibly could have vanished to, given the limited options aboard the train, and--again, due to the confined space--how the threat might extend to the leads of the film.
It's a cracking, suspense-driven voyage and it's only playing twice this weekend, so don't miss out!
Lady Vanishes plays at the Hollywood
Theatre on March 24th & 25th at 2pm. More info available here.
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Like it or not, 35mm projection is a dying form. The rumors of its death have been coming for years now as the digital revolution has rapidly gained ground, at first on film and television production sets, then, more recently, as the majority of theaters nationwide have added (or, in many cases, transitioned entirely to) digital projection for exhibition purposes.
Care for a more local example of this technological shift? One of the Regal Cinemas locations in Portland is abandoning 35mm exhibition forever this week; the last film (read: 35mm presentation) shown there will be a PIFF 35 screening.
But (with all this context building) I'm kind of spinning away from the event that I wanted to highlight: next week, local gem Cinema 21 is hosting what they're calling "a celebration of over a hundred years of celluloid bliss, before it disappears." What this translates to is a double-feature of Billy Wilder's 1944 noir classic Double Indemnity paired with Hammer Productions' 1969 technicolor horror flick Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed.
Tom Ranieri and the gang over at Cinema 21 are offering up their 35mm-centric, double-feature for two nights only, Wednesday, February 29th and Thursday, March 1st. What's more, admission is on them! Yeah, that's right, a FREE, classically-minded double billing at one of the best theaters in town. Be sure to thank them at their very reasonably priced concession stand. Maybe I'll see you in line?
The FREE double feature of Double Indemnity (@7pm) and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (@9:15) runs next Wednesday (2/29) and Thursday (3/1) at Cinema 21. Don't miss out!
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