January 2012 Screenings
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Jan 05 Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries akaSmultronstället (1957)An archetypal Ingmar Bergman film, and one of his best.Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader, 2007
One of Bergman's warmest, and therefore finest films, this concerns an elderly academic - grouchy, introverted, dried up emotionally - who makes a journey to collect a university award, and en route relives his past by means of dreams, imagination, and encounters with others. … It's filled with richly observed …
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Jan 07 Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries akaSmultronstället (1957)An archetypal Ingmar Bergman film, and one of his best.Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader, 2007
One of Bergman's warmest, and therefore finest films, this concerns an elderly academic - grouchy, introverted, dried up emotionally - who makes a journey to collect a university award, and en route relives his past by means of dreams, imagination, and encounters with others. … It's filled with richly observed …
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Jan 19 William Beaudine's Sparrows (1926)The finest film of Pickford's entire career. A beautifully atmospheric horror masterpiece.Elliott Stein, Village Voice
The choice of Sparrows was a singular one for Mary Pickford to make, but no one can deny that she has done the picture surpassingly well. The subject is gloomy, and some of the horrors recall Dickens, yet the darkness is shot through with many laughs. [Mary] is Mama Mollie, a lovely …
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Jan 29 Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows (1955)A masterpiece (1955) by one of the most inventive and recondite directors ever to work in Hollywood, Douglas Sirk.Dave Kehr, The Chicago Reader, 2004
Jane Wyman is a repressed wealthy widow and Rock Hudson is the hunky Thoreau-following gardener who loves her in Douglas Sirk's heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s small-town America. Sirk utilizes expressionist colors, reflective surfaces, …