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Monday, March 11, 7 p.m.
Magnolia (US, 1999)
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson.
Rated: R. Runtime 188 minutes. Cast: Tom Cruise, Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Melinda Dillon, Philip Seymour Hoffman An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness and meaning set in the San Fernando Valley on one random day. In this ensemble drama about the intersecting lives of troubled Californians, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story. |
Monday, March 25, 7 p.m.
Double Indemnity (US, 1944)
Director: Billy Wilder
Rated: TV-PG Runtime: 106 minutes Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather An insurance salesman is seduced by a conniving woman into a scheme to murder her husband and make it look like an accident in order to collect his impressive life insurance policy. Has dialogue ever been more perfectly hard-boiled? Has a femme fatale ever been as deliciously wicked as Barbara Stanwyck? And has 1940s Los Angeles ever looked so seductively sordid? Working with cowriter Raymond Chandler, director Billy Wilder launched himself onto the Hollywood A-list with this epitome of film-noir fatalism from James M. Cain’s pulp novel. When slick salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) walks into the swank home of dissatisfied housewife Phyllis Dietrichson (Stanwyck), he intends to sell insurance, but he winds up becoming entangled with her in a far more sinister way. Featuring scene-stealing supporting work from Edward G. Robinson and the chiaroscuro (strong contrasts between light and dark) of cinematographer John F. Seitz, “Double Indemnity” is one of the most entertainingly perverse stories ever told. |
Monday, April 8, 7 p.m.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (US, 2004)
Director: Michel Gondry
Rated: R Runtime: 107 minutes Cast: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's bizarre love story about a man who has all memories of his girlfriend erased after they break up. Joel (Carrey) is stunned to discover that his girlfriend Clementine (Winslet) has had her memories of their tumultuous relationship erased. Out of desperation, he contacts the inventor of the process, Dr. Howard Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson), to have Clementine removed from his own memory. But as Joel's memories progressively disappear, he begins to rediscover his love for Clementine. From deep within the recesses of his brain, Joel attempts to escape the procedure. As Dr. Mierzwiak and his crew chase him through the maze of his memories, it's clear that Joel just can't get Clementine out of his head. |