Screenings in February 2010

Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961) CALGARY CINEMATHEQUE MOVIE POSTER
Not just a defining work of the French New Wave but one of the great, lasting mysteries of modern art, Alain Resnais' epochal Last Year at Marienbad has been puzzling appreciative viewers for decades. Written by radical master of the New Novel Alain Robbe-Grillet, this surreal fever dream, or nightmare, gorgeously fuses the past with the present in telling its ambiguous tale of a man and a woman (Giorgio Albertazzi and Delphine Seyrig) who may or may not have met a year ago, perhaps at the very same cathedral-like, mirror-filled château they now find themselves wandering.
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961) CALGARY CINEMATHEQUE MOVIE POSTER
Not just a defining work of the French New Wave but one of the great, lasting mysteries of modern art, Alain Resnais' epochal Last Year at Marienbad has been puzzling appreciative viewers for decades. Written by radical master of the New Novel Alain Robbe-Grillet, this surreal fever dream, or nightmare, gorgeously fuses the past with the present in telling its ambiguous tale of a man and a woman (Giorgio Albertazzi and Delphine Seyrig) who may or may not have met a year ago, perhaps at the very same cathedral-like, mirror-filled château they now find themselves wandering.
w/ 'Film School' lecture & discussion
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Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989) CALGARY CINEMATHEQUE MOVIE POSTER
To Celebrate Black History month, The Calgary Cinematheque is pleased to present a twentieth anniversary screening of Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing. Lee's racial and political filmmaking bent is given the full treatment with this simmering exposé of racial tensions in a New York City neighborhood one scorching summer day.