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ONGOING SERIES BRANCH SELECTS EVERY TUESDAY | 7:30PM
Breathless Tue, Mar 14 | 7:30pm | DGT
Branches of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences represent distinct craft and professional areas of moviemaking. Working with members of all 17 Academy Branches, the Academy Museum presents a weekly series that offers a one-of-a- kind journey through film history. Every week, a different Academy branch selects a film—from silent cinema to contemporary films—that represents a major achievement in the evolution of moviemaking and its unique crafts. Notes by Robert Reneau.
WITH: Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie, Lucien Frégis. 1958. 116 min. France. Color. French. DCP.
Breathless Tue, Mar 14 | 7:30pm | DGT Selected by the Film Editors Branch.
Jean-Luc Godard dedicated his game-changing thriller to the American B-movie studio Monogram Pictures, and this tale of an American student who falls for a Parisian thief is not only one of the defining films of the French New Wave but one of cinema’s most influential films. Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo’s career-defining performances made them icons of cinematic cool, while Raoul Coutard’s striking black-and-white, hand-held cinematography captures the chaotic elegance of the city of lights. The film editing of Cécile Decugis—a filmmaker and activist in her own right— incorporated groundbreaking techniques, such as jump cuts, that forever changed the way cinematic stories are told. DIRECTED BY: Jean-Luc Godard. WRITTEN BY: François Truffaut. WITH: Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Henri-Jacques Huet, Liliane David. 1960. 90 min. France. B&W. French. DCP. Lawrence of Arabia Tue, Mar 21 | 7:30pm | DGT Selected by the Music Branch. Free for Museum Members. This epic look at the adventurous life of T. E. Lawrence is widely considered the gold standard of biographical cinema, with its unusually intelligent script, breathtaking cinematography,
Mon Oncle
Mon Oncle Tue, Mar 7 | 7:30pm | DGT Selected by the Costume Designers Branch.
Groundbreaking actor-filmmaker Jacques Tati’s inimitable comic character, the lovably awkward Mr. Hulot, made his second feature film appearance in this madcap classic, which won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. In Tati’s first film released in color, Hulot finds himself at odds with the high-tech suburban home of his beloved young nephew. The witty costumes, which supply their own distinctive visual humor, were designed by Jacques Cottin, who performed similar duties on Tati’s equally iconic Jour de Fête (1949) and Playtime (1967) . DIRECTED BY: Jacques Tati. WRITTEN BY: Jacques Tati.
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