Films
Now Playing
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Manhattan Short Film Festival 2023
(2023, 180 minutes)
Brown Auditorium Theater and Lynn Wyatt Theater, DigitalVote for your favorite during this popular compilation of short films. Audiences around the world unite during the same week to see the work of the next generation of international filmmakers.
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Pull My Daisy
Directed by Robert Frank
(USA, 1959, 28 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, 16mmRobert Frank and painter Alfred Leslie codirected this New American Cinema classic featuring poets, artists, and musicians gathering in downtown New York.
- Saturday, October 7, 2023
- 1 p.m.
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Me and My Brother
Directed by Robert Frank
(USA, 1968, 91 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, DigitalBeat poets Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky spring Orlovsky’s brother Julius from a New York psychiatric hospital and take a road trip to San Francisco.
- Saturday, October 7, 2023
- 2 p.m.
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Bebos Girl (La ragazza di Bube)
Directed by Luigi Comencini
(Italy/France, 1964, 106 minutes, in Italian with English subtitles)
Lynn Wyatt Theater, DigitalTwo young lovers find their romance thwarted by the complex politics of postwar Italy. Starring Claudia Cardinale, who earned her first major acting award for her performance, and George Chakiris (West Side Story).
- Saturday, October 7, 2023
- 7 p.m.
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The Facts of Murder (Un Maledetto Imbroglio)
Directed by Pietro Germi
(Italy, 1959, 115 minutes, in Italian with English subtitles)
Lynn Wyatt Theater, DigitalA police detective encounters a cross section of Italian society as he investigates two crimes in the same apartment building in Rome. Claudia Cardinale costars as an employee of a neighbor.
- Sunday, October 8, 2023
- 5 p.m.
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Girl with the Suitcase (La ragazza con la valigia)
Directed by Valerio Zurlini
(Italy/France, 1961, 96 minutes, in Italian and Latin with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, DigitalAbandoned by a playboy aristocrat, a showgirl (Claudia Cardinale) makes do with his younger brother in this moving study of adolescence and class.
- Friday, October 13, 2023
- 7 p.m.
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8½ (Otto e mezzo)
Directed by Federico Fellini
(Italy/France, 1963, 138 minutes, in Italian with English subtitles)
Lynn Wyatt Theater, 4K digital restorationA filmmaker (Marcello Mastroianni), torn between his mistress and his wife and lacking inspiration for his next picture, escapes into memories and fantasies.
- Saturday, October 14, 2023
- 7 p.m.
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Handsome Antonio (Il bell'Antonio)
Directed by Mauro Bolognini
(Italy/France, 1960, 105 minutes, in Italian with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, DigitalClaudia Cardinale plays the unhappy wife of an aristocratic Sicilian (Marcello Mastroianni) who functions with prostitutes but not with her, leading to social embarrassment for the family.
- Sunday, October 15, 2023
- 5 p.m.
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The Magnificent Cuckold (Il magnifico cornuto)
Directed by Antonio Pietrangeli
(Italy/France, 1964, 124 minutes, in Italian with English subtitles)
Lynn Wyatt Theater, DigitalClaudia Cardinale plays opposite Ugo Tognazzi in an engaging lighthearted comedy about a philandering businessman who is convinced his wife is unfaithful too.
- Thursday, October 19, 2023
- 7 p.m.
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The Moderns
Directed by Alan Rudolph
(USA, 1988, 126 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, 35mmA struggling artist crosses paths with his ex-wife and her powerful new husband in post-World War I Paris.
- Friday, October 20, 2023
- 7 p.m.
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Roadie
Directed by Alan Rudolph
(USA, 1980, 106 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, 35mmA Texas good ol’ boy (Meat Loaf) gets a job as a roadie with a raucous traveling rock ’n’ roll show, and soon finds himself celebrated as the greatest roadie of all time.
- Saturday, October 21, 2023
- 7 p.m.
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The Leopard (Il Gattopardo)
Directed by Luchino Visconti
(Italy/France, 1963, 186 minutes, in Italian and French with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, 35mm/DCP restorationThe Prince of Salina (Burt Lancaster) tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.
- Sunday, October 22, 2023
- 2 p.m.
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Good Manners (As Boas Maneiras)
Directed by Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas
(Brazil/France/Germany, 2017, 135 minutes, in Portuguese with English subtitles)
Lynn Wyatt Theater, DigitalA lonely nurse is hired to be the nanny for a mysterious woman’s unborn child, but a fateful night with a full moon changes everything.
- Friday, October 27, 2023
- 7 p.m.
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Once Upon a Time in the West (C’era una volta il West)
Directed by Sergio Leone
(Italy/USA, 1968, 165 minutes, in Italian, English, and Spanish with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, DigitalIn this groundbreaking epic western, a mysterious stranger (Charles Bronson) joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow (Claudia Cardinale) from a ruthless assassin (Henry Fonda) working for the railroad
- Sunday, October 29, 2023
- 2 p.m.
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