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Nashville Tue, May 23 | 7:30pm | DGT Selected by the Casting Directors Branch.
Director Robert Altman and screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury created one of New Hollywood’s definitive epics as they imagine five days in America’s country music capital on the cusp of a presidential election. Told through 24 principal characters, each role is distinctively cast and performed in the classic Altman tradition. The actors performed their own vocals and wrote many of their own songs as well, and Ronee Blakley and Lily Tomlin were nominated for their supporting performances, Altman was nominated for Best Picture and Directing, and Keith Carradine won Original Song for “I’m Easy,” which he performs in the film. DIRECTED BY: Robert Altman. WRITTEN BY: Joan Tewkesbury. WITH: David Arkin, Barbara Baxley, Ronee Blakley, Lily Tomlin. 1975. 160 min. USA. Color. Scope. English. Rated R. DCP.
Shaft
Shaft Tue, May 2 | 7:30pm | DGT Selected by the Music Branch.
Richard Roundtree is “the cat that won’t cop out when there’s danger all about” in this 1971 classic, which helped to establish a new era of African American cinema and won an Original Song Oscar for the unforgettable title theme by Isaac Hayes, also nominated for his Original Score. Photographer-turned- filmmaker Gordon Parks directed the lively mystery, in which Shaft hunts for a gangster’s kidnapped daughter in authentically gritty Manhattan locations. DIRECTED BY: Gordon Parks. WRITTEN BY: Ernest Tidyman, John D. F. Black. WITH: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John. 1971. 100 min. USA. Color. English. Rated R. 35mm. Don’t Look Now Tue, May 9 | 7:30pm | DGT Selected by the Film Editors Branch. An architect (Donald Sutherland) travels to Venice with his wife (Julie Christie) to restore an ancient church after the couple suffers a devastating personal tragedy, and soon find themselves embroiled in a dangerous mystery. Director Nicolas Roeg and cinematographer Anthony Richmond render the off-season Italian city as a perilous labyrinth, and Graeme Clifford’s dazzling editing makes Sutherland’s psychic dislocation startlingly vivid, as well as cutting together one of the most erotic love scenes in cinema history. DIRECTED BY: Nicolas Roeg. WRITTEN BY: Allan Scott, Chris Bryant. WITH: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania. 1973. 110 min. UK/Italy. Color. English. Rated R. 35mm. Print courtesy of BFI Distribution. The Conversation Tue, May 16 | 7:30pm | DGT Selected by the Sound Branch. Francis Ford Coppola wrote and directed this unnerving paranoid thriller between production of his two Godfather films, with Gene Hackman as a San Francisco surveillance expert who accidentally uncovers evidence of an imminent murder. Few films have featured sound as such a key component of their storyline, and three-time Oscar winner Walter Murch ( Apocalypse Now , The English Patient ) served as both supervising film editor and sound mixer, working in both capacities to build remarkable tension. The film earned Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Coppola’s original screenplay, and Sound (Murch, Arthur Rochester). DIRECTED BY: Francis Ford Coppola. WRITTEN BY: Francis Ford Coppola. WITH: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest. 1974. 113 min. USA. Color. English. Rated PG. DCP.
Grey Gardens
Grey Gardens Tue, May 30 | 7:30pm | DGT Selected by the Documentary Branch. Free for Museum Members.
Edith “Big Edie” Bouvier Beale and her adult daughter “Little Edie,” two relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy, were living in a dilapidated mansion in East Hampton, New York, when they became the subject of this one-of-a-kind documentary from directors David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer. The combination of the Beales’ indelible personalities, the evocative setting, and the film’s high-wire mixture of dark humor and pathos has made this picture a classic, inspiring an HBO movie (with Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore as the Beales) and a Tony-winning musical. DIRECTED BY: David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer. 1975. 94 min. USA. Color. English. Rated PG. DCP.
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