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The Incredible Shrinking Man
Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten)
The Incredible Shrinking Man Fri, Apr 28 | 2pm | TMT
Autumn Sonata ( Höstsonaten ) Sat, Apr 29 | 2pm | TMT
After a radioactive fog descends upon a couple while boating, Scott Carey (Grant Williams) starts to notice he’s getting smaller. When medical experts confirm he is shrinking, his life is upended as he adjusts to his miniscule new reality. Using state-of-the-art special effects and maintaining the terror of Richard Matheson’s 1956 novel, this science fiction classic uses the metaphor of diminished size to analyze the decreasing influence of masculinity in 1950s American society. Inspired since childhood by Jack Arnold’s film, Almodóvar used similar imagery for The Shrinking Lover , a short within Talk to Her (2002), to infer a male nurse’s sexual exploitation of a comatose female patient. DIRECTED BY: Jack Arnold. WRITTEN BY: Richard Matheson. WITH: Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent. 1957. 81 min. USA. B&W. English. 4K DCP.
“Did you see Autumn Sonata ? It’s about a great pianist and her mediocre daughter. A story like ours.” This painful dialogue from Almodóvar’s 1991 film High Heels draws a straight line to Ingmar Bergman’s final film made for theatrical exhibition. This heartbreaking melodrama about a classical pianist (Ingrid Bergman) who reconnects with her estranged daughter (Liv Ullmann) is existentially profound, overwhelmingly emotional, and deeply affective. Autumn Sonata is Ingrid Bergman’s final film, who closed her career working for the first and only time with director Ingmar Bergman with a performance that earned her a seventh and final Acting nomination. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Ingmar Bergman. WITH: Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman. 1978. 99 min. West Germany/UK. Color. Swedish. 35mm. New print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
Eyes without a Face (Les yeux sans visage)
Eyes without a Face (Les yeux sans visage) Fri, Apr 28 | 7:30pm | TMT
Georges Franju’s tragic film about a young woman whose father attempts to restore her face after an accident that he caused leaves her horribly disfigured has been cited as an influence by filmmakers as distinct as Jesús Franco, John Carpenter, and John Woo. Itself inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein , Eyes without a Face finds its most contemporary visual homage in Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In (2011), with the indelible plastic mask worn by actress Édith Scob throughout the film providing Almodóvar with the visual styling of his heroine. DIRECTED BY: Georges Franju. WRITTEN BY: Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac, Jean Redon, Claude Sautet. WITH: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel. 1960. 90 min. France/Italy. B&W. French. 35mm.
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