Films

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Pull My Daisy

Directed by Robert Frank
(USA, 1959, 28 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, 16mm

Robert 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.
Me and My Brother

Directed by Robert Frank
(USA, 1968, 91 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, Digital

Beat 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.
Bebos Girl (La ragazza di Bube)

Directed by Luigi Comencini
(Italy/France, 1964, 106 minutes, in Italian with English subtitles)
Lynn Wyatt Theater, Digital

Two 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.
The Facts of Murder (Un Maledetto Imbroglio)

Directed by Pietro Germi
(Italy, 1959, 115 minutes, in Italian with English subtitles)
Lynn Wyatt Theater, Digital

A 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.
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, Digital

Abandoned 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.
8½ (Otto e mezzo)

Directed by Federico Fellini
(Italy/France, 1963, 138 minutes, in Italian with English subtitles)
Lynn Wyatt Theater, 4K digital restoration

A 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.
Handsome Antonio (Il bell'Antonio)

Directed by Mauro Bolognini
(Italy/France, 1960, 105 minutes, in Italian with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, Digital

Claudia 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.
The Magnificent Cuckold (Il magnifico cornuto)

Directed by Antonio Pietrangeli
(Italy/France, 1964, 124 minutes, in Italian with English subtitles)
Lynn Wyatt Theater, Digital

Claudia 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.
The Moderns

Directed by Alan Rudolph
(USA, 1988, 126 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, 35mm

A 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.
Roadie

Directed by Alan Rudolph
(USA, 1980, 106 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, 35mm

A 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.
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 restoration

The 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.
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, Digital

A 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.
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, Digital

In 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.