Films Week of Tuesday, October 1, 2024-Monday, October 7, 2024
Tamara de Lempicka Through May 26, 2025
Capturing the glamour and vitality of 1920s postwar Paris and the cosmopolitan sheen of Hollywood celebrity, Tamara de Lempicka infused her paintings with a brilliant sense of fashion, design, and the …
22 Mar Sat / 2025
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The Wages of Fear (Le salaire de la peur)
7 p.m.—9:30 p.m.Yves Montand stars as one of four men hired to transport a nitroglycerine shipment over a treacherous South American mountain route. As they carry their explosive cargo, each bump tests their courage, their friendship, and their nerves. The result is one of the greatest thrillers ever made.
23 Mar Sun / 2025
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The Blond Boy from the Casbah (Le petit blond de la casbah)
3 p.m.—5 p.m.Growing up in war-torn 1960s Algiers, Antoine Lisner discovers a profound fascination with cinema. Revisiting the place as an adult, now a filmmaker, he remembers emotional moments of his youth, spent between school, friends, and his Jewish family.
27 Mar Thu / 2025
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Vishniac
7 p.m.—8:45 p.m.Vishniac follows photographer Roman Vishniac from his early years in czarist Russia to his emergence as a Modernist photographer in Weimar Berlin, as well as his journeys across Eastern Europe before WWII and his family’s dramatic escape to America in 1940.
28 Mar Fri / 2025
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The One Man Band (L’homme orchestre)
7 p.m.—8:30 p.m.A woman joins a ballet group whose manager forbids his dancers any distractions outside of dance. Little does he know she has a son in Italy, and the troupe goes to great lengths to create an explanation for the boy’s existence.
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Hibernatus
9 p.m.—10:30 p.m.After he is awakened from a 65-year cryogenic freeze, a man’s relatives plan an elaborate ruse on their long-lost relative so as not to shock him with contemporary reality.
