The Blair Witch Project (1999)
ONGOING SERIES BRANCH SELECTS WEDNESDAYS | 7:30PM
Branches of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences represent distinct disciplines of moviemaking. Working with members of the Academy branches, the Academy Museum presents a weekly series that offers a one-of-a-kind journey through film history. Each week a different branch selects a film that represents a major achievement in the evolution of moviemaking and its unique disciplines. Notes by Robert Reneau.
El Conde ), whose use of 16mm elegantly evokes 1950s America. DIRECTED BY: Todd Haynes. WRITTEN BY: Phyllis Nagy. WITH: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Kyle Chandler. 2015. 118 min. USA. Color. English. Rated R. 35mm. The Leopard in 4K Wed, Jun 12 | 7:30pm | DGT Selected by the Costume Designers Branch. Free for Museum Members. Luchino Visconti directed this epic drama about the family of a 19th-century Sicilian nobleman (Burt Lancaster) and their reactions to their tumultuous times. Based on the book by aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Visconti’s film combines novelistic detail with exquisite cinematic craft, including a romantic score by Nino Rota and the golden-toned cinematography of Giuseppe Rotunno. Costume designer Piero Tosi, a regular Visconti collaborator and a five-time Oscar nominee, received the film’s only nomination. Tosi went on to receive an Honorary Award from the Academy in 2013 as “a visionary whose incomparable costume designs shaped timeless, living art in motion pictures.” DIRECTED BY: Luchino Visconti. WRITTEN BY: Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Enrico Medioli, Massimo Franciosa, Luchino Visconti. WITH: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Serge Reggiani. 1963. 186 min. USA/ Italy. Color. Scope. Italian. Rated PG. 4K DCP.
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Carol in 35mm Wed, Jun 5 | 7:30pm | DGT Selected by the Cinematographers Branch. A young sales clerk (Rooney Mara) finds herself in an unexpected relationship with a sophisticated older woman (Cate Blanchett) in director Todd Haynes’s achingly romantic drama, adapted by Phyllis Nagy from the groundbreaking novel by thriller specialist Patricia Highsmith. The film earned Oscar nominations for the heartfelt performances of Blanchett and Mara, Nagy’s deft screenplay, Carter Burwell’s subtle score, Sandy Powell’s vivid costumes, and the cinematography of three-time nominee Ed Lachman ( Far from Heaven,
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