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The Emigrants
Sun, Jan 16 | 7:30pm | DGT
Liv Ullmann received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in this epic film, the first in a diptych by Oscar-nominated director Jan Troell. Based on the novel of the same name by Vilhelm Moberg, The Emigrants stars Ullmann opposite fellow screen legend Max von Sydow as a couple from Southern Sweden with their sights set on crossing the Atlantic to a better life in the American Midwest. Troell’s sensitive depiction of the ruggedness of 19th-century rural Småland, combined with Ullmann and von Sydow’s soulful performances, make The Emigrants a powerful testament to the human spirit.
DIRECTOR: Jan Troell.
CAST: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Svenolof Bern.
1971. 191 min. Sweden. Color. Swedish. DCP.
Eve’s Bayou
Mon, Jan 17 | 7:30pm | DGT
Samuel L. Jackson gives a subtle and charismatic performance as Louis Batiste, a respected doctor and patriarch in 1960s Louisiana in Kasi Lemmons’s evocative small- town family drama, the actress’s debut feature as a writer-director. The focus of Lemmons’s story is 10-year-old Eve (Jurnee Smollett), whose growing suspicions of her father’s infidelity turns her family’s life upside down; the excellent supporting cast includes the legendary Diahann Carroll as a mysterious fortune teller.
DIRECTOR: Kasi Lemmons.
CAST: Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield, Debbi Morgan, Jurnee Smollett.
1997. 109 min. USA. Color. English. 35mm.
Print courtesy of the Kasi Lemmons Collection at the Academy Film Archive with special thanks to Cotty Chubb.
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