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Our October City Lights In a time when blockbusters mistake "bigger" and "louder" with
"better", silent films are becoming passé. Few children (teenagers
especially) have any desire to watch a black-and-white movie, let alone
one in which the characters don't talk. It's a pity, because those who
refuse to view silent films are denying themselves a source of great
pleasure. There's an indefinable magic associated with exploring this
arm of cinema, whether it's in absorbing the spectacle and virtuosity
of Battleship Potemkin, seeing the nightmarish images of Nosferatu or The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, or experiencing the marriage of potent drama and high comedy in City Lights.
For those who wish to introduce a friend, child, or loved one to the
vast library of silent films, City Lights is a masterpiece
starting point. Few movies leave as lasting an impression, and anyone
who dismisses the silent era after viewing this treasure deserves all
the Godzillas and Wild Wild Wests that he or she can inhale. For reviews of "City Lights", please click here. The Lady Eve
Directed by the great Preston Sturges, The Lady Eve stars Barbara Stanwyck as Jean Herrington, a sly con artist aboard a transatlantic ocean liner who happens to run across Charles Pike (Henry Fonda), a snake expert returning from a year in the Amazon jungle. Since Pike is the wealthy and shy heir to a beer fortune, he seems like the perfect target for one of Jean's cons, but as she deceives him she finds herself falling in love. One of Sturges's most hilarious comedies, The Lady Eve is a romantic comedy masterpiece with two of Hollywood's biggest stars at the top of their form. For reviews of "The Lady Eve", please click here.
The Rules of the Game
There are about a dozen genuine miracles in the history of cinema, and
one of them is Jean Renoir's supreme 1939 tragi-comedy "The Rules of
the Game".
Renoir's masterpiece -- expertly reconstructed and digitally restored after being cut to shreds and then lost for years -- echoes in films such as Ingmar Bergman's "Smiles of a Summer Night" and Robert Altman's "Gosford Park". It is a love roundelay that's also the most complex, astonishingly varied and brilliant of all ensemble comedy-drama films, a tale of frantically criss crossing amours, set to the music of Mozart, Saint-Saens and Chopin, in a form that switches freely from farce to romance, satire to tragedy. You can see "Rules of the Game" now in the best version ever since the film's first, tumultuous release in 1939--and you should. No other film has a final effect quite like "Rules." One walks away from it drained and exhilarated, after experiencing a whole world and seemingly every possible emotion in a few swift golden hours. For reviews of "The Rules of the Game", please click here. Home / Location / Membership / Poster / Comments / Contact /
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