Film Forum · IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES
IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES Pages & Showtimes 1. Thursday, July 16: 9:50 ONLY (1976, NaGisa Ôshima) In 1936, restaurateur Tatsuya Fuji and maid/ex-prostitute Eiko Matsuda pursue their lovemaking obsessions to the sadomasochistic limits. Based on the headline-making Sada Abe case, this was the first hardcore/explicit work from a major director, although the final act is a male-cringe inducing ...
Film Forum · THE UNTOUCHABLES and SUGARLAND EXPRESS
Wednesday, July 29 THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987, Brian De Palma) Kevin Costner’s Eliot Ness goes all out to bring down Robert De Niro’s Al Capone, assembling an incorruptible team, with Sean Connery (Oscar, Best Supporting Actor) as the Irish cop who teaches him the facts of Chicago life and the elaborate shootout on train station steps (an homage to Eisenstein’s Potemkin) an action highlight ...
Film Forum · 10 RILLINGTON PLACE and THE BOSTON STRANGLER
Friday, July 24 10 RILLINGTON PLACE (1971, Richard Fleischer) “What happened to the women at 10 Rillington Place?” queried the ads. Two guesses. In 1948, Welsh blue collar worker John Hurt and wife Judy Geeson, lodgers upstairs from mild- mannered John Reginald Christie (Richard Attenborough) and wife, already have trouble making ends meet when Geeson discovers she’s in the family way ...
NED KELLY and THE TRUE STORY OF JESSE JAMES - Film Forum
Approx. 99 min. 35mm. 2:20, 6:10, 10:00 THE TRUE STORY OF JESSE JAMES (1957, Nicholas Ray) The bullets fly as James Brothers (Robert Wagner’s Jesse and Jeffrey Hunter’s Frank) and their gang run into surprising resistance from the irate citizens of Northfield, Minnesota– and then flashbacks begin, in a ballad-like portrait of a man who ...
Film Forum · STAVISKY
STAVISKY Pages & Showtimes 1. Sunday, August 2: 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 (1974, Alain Resnais) Real-life saga of con man Serge Stavisky, whose rise to French moguldom, and scandalous 1934 fall, nearly brought France to civil war. Resnais’ most straightforward work, with three generations of Gallic superstars — Jean-Paul Belmondo as Stavisky, Charles Boyer (Best Actor, Cannes), and cameoing Gerard ...
Film Forum · REVERSAL OF FORTUNE and THE KRAYS
The actual twin Kemp brothers of Spandau Ballet as the Kray brothers, dreaded titans of crime in London’s East End from the 50s and 60s, moving effortlessly from elegantly tuxedoed hosting of posh night clubs to sword-in-the-face murder — but ultimately it’s love of mum Billie Whitelaw after all. Approx. 119 min. 35mm. 2:50, 7:30
Film Forum · MEMORIES OF MURDER
MEMORIES OF MURDER Pages & Showtimes 1. Saturday, July 18: 4:50 2. Saturday, July 25: 4:40 (2003, Bong Joon-ho) 1986, the last year of dictatorship: and even the arrival of a Seoul detective can’t keep Song Kang-Ho’s hayseed cops from alternating between farcical incompetence and boot-stomping coercion as the strangled female corpses pile up. Based on Korea’s first actual serial killer ...
Film Forum · THE FRENCH CONNECTION
THE FRENCH CONNECTION Pages & Showtimes 1. Saturday, August 1: 3:00, 5:10, 7:15 (1971, William Friedkin) Traffic problems in Brooklyn, as Gene Hackman’s Popeye Doyle (based on legendary cop Eddie Egan) car-chases a killer-bearing B train, after being schnookered by Fernando Rey in a cross- midtown shadowing topped by a classic subway door jamming. Multi-Oscared recreation of a legendary drug ...
THE MATTEI AFFAIR - Film Forum
THE MATTEI AFFAIR Pages & Showtimes 1. Saturday, July 25: 12:30 2. Tuesday, July 28: 2:40, 9:10 Subheadline: New 4K Restoration (1972, Francesco Rosi) It’s only a quick plane ride home by private jet; so why do Enrico Mattei’s friends keep begging off? Rosi’s cine-inchieste (film investigation) of Gian Maria Volonté/Mattei’s turbulent life …
THE WRONG MAN and BOOMERANG! - Film Forum
THE WRONG MAN (1956, Alfred Hitchcock) Returning at dawn to Jackson Returning at dawn to Jackson Heights, Stork Club bass player Henry Fonda finds himself trapped in a classic mistaken-identity case. Shot in ruthlessly restrained semi-doc style on the locations of the actual case, with harrowing sequences of Fonda’s booking and arraignment, and memorable innocent-to-guilty dissolve. Approx ...