Apr – May 2022 Film Calendar

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Fantastic Voyage

Sun, May 1 | 7:30pm | DGT

A team of doctors is miniaturized and injected into the bloodstream of a critically injured scientist to save his life, and find themselves battling both the body’s natural immune system and a possible saboteur in their midst. This imaginative science-fiction thriller, directed by veteran filmmaker Richard Fleischer, won Oscars for its Art Direction and Visual Effects, which strikingly depict the inside of the human body.

DIRECTOR: Richard Fleischer.

WRITTEN BY: Harry Kleiner.

ADAPTATION BY: David Duncan.

STORY BY: Otto Klement, Jay Lewis Bixby.

CAST: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O’Brien, Arthur Kennedy.

1966. 100 min. USA. Color. Scope. English. DCP.

The Andromeda Strain

Sun, May 8 | 7:30pm | DGT

Novelist Michael Crichton conceived his first bestselling techno-thriller as a modern-day War of the Worlds , and Robert Wise’s intense and faithful film version is especially timely in the current, ongoing pandemic. When a mysterious illness brought to Earth by a space probe depopulates a small Arizona town, a team of scientists are brought to a high-tech underground lab to investigate the contagion. Nominated for Film Editing and Boris Leven’s striking art direction.

DIRECTOR: Robert Wise.

WRITTEN BY: Nelson Gidding.

CAST: Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson, Kate Reid.

1971. 131 min. USA. Color. Scope. English. 35mm.

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