32 imposing cast (led by a dazzling Peter O’Toole), and spectacular production value, all under the confident direction of David Lean. The film received ten nominations and seven Oscars, including for Best Picture, Directing, and Maurice Jarre’s symphonic score, highlighted by its instantly classic main theme. Jarre would go on to be Lean’s composer for the rest of their careers, earning additional Oscars for their collaborations on Doctor Zhivago (1965) and A Passage to India (1984). DIRECTED BY: David Lean. WRITTEN BY: Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson. WITH: Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, Peter O’Toole. 1962. 228 min. UK. Color. Scope. English. Rated PG. 70mm.
Portrait of Jason
Portrait of Jason Tue, Apr 11 | 7:30pm | DGT Selected by the Documentary Branch.
On December 3, 1966, documentarian Shirley Clarke and her partner, actor Carl Lee, spent 12 hours interviewing cabaret performer Jason Holliday about his life, in Clarke’s Hotel Chelsea apartment. The end result is a milestone in documentary filmmaking, touching upon such issues as race, sexuality, and the relationship between documentarians and their subjects, as well as introducing an unforgettable personality to the screen. DIRECTED BY: Shirley Clarke. WITH: Jason Holliday, Shirley Clarke, Carl Lee. 1967. 105 min. USA. B&W. English. DCP. Portrait of Jason was preserved by the Academy Film Archive with funding by the Academy Film Archive, Milestone Films, the Toronto International Film Festival, and a Kickstarter campaign. It was restored from the original 16mm fine grain master positive and a 35mm print.
Andrei Rublev
Andrei Rublev Tue, Mar 28 | 7:30pm | DGT Selected by the Production Design Branch. There is little known about the life of Andrei Rublev (c. 1360–1430), the Russian painter renowned for his icons and frescoes, but filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky imagines Rublev’s life and world in an epic series of nine vignettes shot in stark black-and-white widescreen culminating in a gripping story about the casting of a church bell, with an epilogue in startling color presenting authentic examples of Rublev’s art. Production designer Evgeniy Chernyaev ( Ivan’s Childhood ) recreated medieval Russia in convincing and vivid detail, adding immeasurable impact to one of Tarkovsky’s most unforgettable works, one of cinema’s great big-screen epics. DIRECTED BY: Andrei Tarkovsky. WRITTEN BY: Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrei Konchalovsky. WITH: Anatoly Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko, Nikolai Sergeyev. 1966. 183 min. Russia. B&W, Color. Scope. Russian. DCP.
Five Easy Pieces Tue, Apr 18 | 7:30pm | DGT Selected by the Writers Branch.
Carole Eastman (using her pseudonym Adrien Joyce) wrote this searing character study about a dissatisfied young man who finds peace neither in the working-class world nor with his affluent family. Eastman had worked with Jack Nicholson on the 1966 Western The Shooting and tailored the role of Bobby Dupea for him, earning Nicholson his first Best Actor nomination. The film also earned nominations for Best Picture, Story and Screenplay (for Eastman and director Bob Rafelson), and Karen Black’s
vivid performance as Bobby’s waitress girlfriend. DIRECTED BY: Bob Rafelson. WRITTEN BY: Adrien Joyce.
In the Heat of the Night Tue, Apr 4 | 7:30pm | DGT Selected by the Producers Branch. Free for Museum Members.
STORY BY: Bob Rafelson, Adrien Joyce. WITH: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Lois Smith, Susan Anspach. 1970. 96 min. USA. Color. English. Rated R. DCP.
The Conformist Tue, Apr 25 | 7:30pm | DGT Selected by the Production Design Branch. Writer-director Bernardo Bertolucci’s internationally acclaimed adaptation of Alberto Moravia’s 1951 novel casts Jean-Louis Trintignant as an emotionally unstable fascist in 1930s Italy planning the murder of his former professor. The first feature film collaboration between Bertolucci, cinematographer Vittorio Storaro and art director Ferdinando Scarfiotti, The Conformist is one of Bertolucci’s most powerful and visually stunning films, with Scarfiotti making use of authentic fascist-era architecture to help evoke the period and the protagonist’s twisted psyche. DIRECTED BY: Bernardo Bertolucci. WRITTEN BY: Bernardo Bertolucci. WITH: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Pierre Clémenti. 1971. 113 min. Italy/France. Color. Italian, French. Rated R. DCP.
Sidney Poitier secured his position as a top star with his electric portrayal of Virgil Tibbs, a brilliant Philadelphia police detective who finds himself teaming up with a small-town sheriff (Rod Steiger in an Oscar-winning performance) to solve a murder in a Mississippi town in this witty and stylish mystery which won the 1967 Best Picture Oscar for veteran producer Walter Mirisch. Norman Jewison was nominated for his effortless direction, and other major collaborators on this quotable classic include composer Quincy Jones and cinematographer Haskell Wexler, with writer Stirling Silliphant and film editor Hal Ashby also winning Oscars for their contributions. DIRECTED BY: Norman Jewison. WRITTEN BY: Stirling Silliphant. WITH: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant. 1967. 110 min. USA. Color. English. DCP.
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